[Ragin1]

Nigerians. They have so much they can't even give it away.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Can you say "4-1-9"?

[Former Proud Canadian]

I get about one of these a week.

[TomGuy]

That poor guy. He's been trying to give away that $$$ for at least 7 years. Where I used to work (1995-97), we'd get 2 letters a year from him.

[ken5050]

Give me Miss Cleo's Psychic Friends phone number..that'll make him happy

[ArmchairWarrior]

DURING THE LAST MILITARY REGIME OF GENERALABDUL SALAMI ABUBAKAR

"Salami"?? LOL!

[otterpond]

Someone should teach this guy how to invest. That $25MM hasn't grown at all since the mid 90's.....

[mdittmar]

FYI:Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud in Internet Fraud and Email Scams

Guess there's one born every minute.

[JoeMomma]

Ah yes .. the old Formula 419 ...

[pocat]

WOW! THIS MUST BE LEGITIMATE, BECAUSE IT IS TYPED IN ALL CAPS. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THESE TYPES OF EMAILS ARE ALWAYS TRUE.

[Gore_ War_ Vet]

Please Sir, my seester is very seek and needs an operation if you could just find it in your heart to help out I'm sure that God hill heap neverending blessings on you.

P.S. Cash only please

[Joe Bonforte]

This must work on somebody or the Nigerians would not keep on doing it.

Why are the vast majority of these scams done by Nigerians, I wonder? You'd think there are a lot of other nationalities that would try this. But the only ones I've ever received have been from Nigerians.

[MarkWar]

>HONESTY AND YOUR ABILITY TO KEEP IT SECRET AND KEEP OUR OWN SHARE SAFE WHEN THE MONEY HITS YOUR ACCOUNT IS WHAT MATTERS. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE PERFECTLY UNDERSTAND AND CO-OPERATE WITH ONE ANOTHER TO ENSURE THAT THIS BUSINESS IS SUCESSFULLY CONCLUDED.

You know, in a way, this is actually good advice for keeping a marriage together, let alone an international mail fraud scam...

Mark W.

[Great Dane]

Ms Cleo comes to mind, anyone stupid enough to fall for this, deserves to get ripped off.

[general_re]

You know, I'm jealous - maybe I wanted Nigerian oil money, but I never see these. All I ever get are stock "tips" for companies I've never heard of, and every once in a while I get an invitation to try products guaranteed to, uhhh, enlarge certain parts of me....

[Hank Rearden]

My favorite passage:

WE ARE LEFT WITH THE BALANCE OF US$25.5 MILLION DOLLARS AS THE OVER INVOICED AMOUNT, WHICH WE HAVE DELIBERATELY OVER-ESTIMATED FOR OUR OWN USE, BUT UNDER OUR PROTOCOL DIVISION, CIVIL SERVANTS ARE FORBIDDEN TO OPERATE OR OWN FOREIGN ACCOUNT

So they're criminal enough to supposedly steal $25.5M, but law-abiding enough not to open a foreign account surrepticiously.

More gifts and wisdom from Mother Africa. Our foreign aid welfare pays off.

[B4Ranch]

Forward the email to your Congressman and tell him, "Here is where to get your money to build the ...... that we have been "needing" for so long." No need to raise taxes.

[RWG]

I replied that if contract papers were prepared and sent I would give them to my lawyer to review, but yes I was interested. Nothing ever came back.

[BansheeBill]

This has to be about the 40th time I have seen one of these types of supposedly Nigerian emails, posted on Free Republic. It's almost as common as the "I Am A Bad American" repeat post.

[Plexus]

P.S. I FORGOT TO MENTION: SUSAN KEISTER *FAILED* TO RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL AND WITHIN WEEKS HER PARAKEET DIED.

MICHEAL HIMMELFARB IGNORED THE E-MAIL AND WAS STRICKEN WITH A REALLY BAD CASE OF DIARRHEA.

BUT GENE POOLE *DID* RESPOND AND HE GOT $$17,000,000.OO ( SEVENTEEN MILLION U.S. DOLLARS ) !!!!!

SO YOU **MUST** ACT NOW !!!!

[Plexus]

P.S. I FORGOT TO MENTION: SUSAN KEISTER *FAILED* TO RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL AND WITHIN WEEKS HER PARAKEET DIED.

MICHEAL HIMMELFARB IGNORED THE E-MAIL AND WAS STRICKEN WITH A REALLY BAD CASE OF DIARRHEA.

BUT GENE POOLE *DID* RESPOND AND HE GOT $$17,000,000.OO ( SEVENTEEN MILLION U.S. DOLLARS ) !!!!!

SO YOU **MUST** ACT NOW !!!! BEST REGARDS MALLAM ADAMU YUSUFF VICE CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD COMMITTEE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION. (DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES).