Posted on 06/23/2002 3:09:30 AM PDT by stlnative
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From: MOUSTAPHA ABACHA
Satellite Telephone: 00 871 762 919 XXX Satellite Facsimile: 00 871 762 919 XXX
Dear Sir,
I am Moustapha Abacha, the second surviving son of the late General Sani Abacha.
We hereby acknowledge the receipt of your mail to my mother with thanks,
May Allah reward you greatly for your decision to assist us in this mutually beneficial transaction;
My mother has insisted that I deal with you directly at this crucial stage in this issue rather than the family lawyer.
As my mother has rightly informed you,we are seriously in distress as all our saved money abroad totaling over Us$700M has been confiscated by the Nigerian government.
If you have been following my family's profile in the news lately, you would have read all this things up.
I wish to inform you at this time that my mother will be reaching you based on the fact that she would really want to establish a relationship based on mutual trust and understanding.
So many people have disappointed us home and abroad, even people who benefited from my fathers regime have all bitten the finger that once fed them,
that is why we had to throw caution to the wind and trust you a stranger who we had never met all our lives.
Dear Friend,
as much as we recognize that a lot of wonders happen these days, you do not have to doubt the authenticity of my mothers mail to you, because we are really oppressed, and we need the assistance of a God fearing person and a good natured man like you to help us clear our funds from a security company, and bank it up for us while we make arrangements to travel and join you up once the surveillance on us is reduced.
For security purposes, I shall be coordinating the Business transaction as tight security is presently placed on my mother, we cannot afford to Lose the only remaining US$40.30 Million, of all that my father left for us. At the moment, the funds are in a security company and were deposited As African Artworks in some luggage. As soon as we are sure that we can trust you,we shall go ahead to send you the Certificate of deposit and the luggage numbers and security code numbers.
For the purpose of security and confidentiality, I would require that You and I proceed with this business with telephone and fax communication, as I would not want to discuss this transaction on The Internet for security reasons.
So I would suggest that we conduct this business through telephone and fax communication, while my mother will be reaching you via e-mail as security agents bug her telephone line.
As, as soon as I hear from you through my Satellite Telephone numbers and email Address as above, I shall furnish you with the whole details of how to Finalize the transaction and other information you might require or other things you might need to know and also you should be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free and success guaranteed.
There are documents backing the legitimacy of this transaction that will convince your bank or any other bank that might doubt the authenticity of these funds.
Also I will send you more information and other information you might require via fax immediately I hear from you on my telephone.
I look forward to your urgent response, as my mother and the rest of the immediate family genuinely need your help.
Truly Yours,
MOUSTAPHA ABACHA
Yes, it can hurt. A significant fraction of the email on the internet is the Nigerian scam. The FBI knows all about it already, and they have much more important work to do. If everyone who received one of these reported it to the FBI, the important tips would end up lost in the maelstrom.
The info is not needed because there won't be any prosecutions. The trails lead to places like Nigeria, Liberia and the Ivory Coast, where such scams aren't against the law. Let the FBI work on counterterrorism instead.
Probably 80-100 million people have gotten this e-mail or something like it. And the FBI knows all about the Nigerian scam, and nothing in the e-mail is going to be the key to cracking the case. Whatever poor agent is saddled with looking at your report of this e-mail has already GOTTEN this e-mail, probably, on his or her home computer. And there's very little they can do about it. Reporting it will just contribute to the sort of information noise that causes the NSA to record a conversation and translate it several days later.
You are most probably aware that for centuries great herds of naugas roamed freely across the Great Plains. Having no enemies, these beautiful little animals were very beneficial to the environment and greatly helped farmers in the areas where they live.
Then, the furniture manufacturers began harvesting the poor little naugas for their hides. As we became an information processing society rather than actually producing something tangible and our state and federal goverments increasingly grew in size, more and more offices have been created.
(Remember how every new president looks us in the eye and very solemnly promises to decrease the size of the White House staff and government, in general... yadda, yadda, yuck, yuck, yuck.)
This has massively increased the demand for naugahyde, especially by overseas companies who strip the poor naugas for waiting room furniture coverings and then eat the little naugas raw.
You can do something! YES, YOU!
Please, we need your help. CLICK HERE, NOW!
Get off your apathy! You might as well do something useful today. It will only take a minute or two. And, you'll feel so much better you'll pass this on to your FReeper friends...
After their blood is drained it makes a wonderful sauce.
Perfect over spam.
Accordingly, I created a banner to hoist to the top of the mast that says in LARGE LETTERS:
HIDE THE NAUGUAS !!!
Fred complains from his vantage point on the water skis, it reads:
!!! SAUGUAN EHT EDIH
And his family would be happy to give me 10% of that money if only I would give him my bank account number so he could transfer all 8.5 million to it, to get it out of his country. (Oh, yes, I immediately gave him my number...sure...)
Fred oughta be able to read Gaelic...
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