FROM PETER UGO
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA
LOME -TOGO

TELE. 00 228 911 85 97 OR

011 228 911 85 97

PLEASE REPLY WITH THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS
confidentialus30@yahoo.com



ATTN, PLEASE

I AM PETER UGO THE AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA

I am writing following the impressive information
about your profile through the website your
capability and reliability to champion this
opportunity. In my department, we discovered an
abandoned sum of 20 million US dollars (twenty million
US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in September,1992 in a plane crash.
Since we got this information about his death, we have
been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim
his money because we can not release it unless
somebody
applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking and financial
policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed
next of kin or relation died along side with him in
the crash leaving no body behind to claim the
money. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and
other officials in my department now decided to make
this business proposal to you and release the money to
you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and we don t want this money
to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills. The
Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after long pirod, the money
will be transferred into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that
the customer was a foreigner and an indegine cannot
stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed
that 25% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 5% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during this transaction and 70 % would be for
me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues
will visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the Bank as relation or next
of kin of the deceased indicating your private,
telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where the money will be
remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to
you by fax or e-mail the text of the application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is 100% hitch free and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You
should contact me immediately as soon as you receive
this letter. I decided to contact you as you have
products of interest in your part of the world where
we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples
awareness as we are civil servants. We can conclude
this operation within ten banking days. Please
keep this very confidential. Contact me for more
information, all confirmable before you apply if you
want.May God be with you. Trusting to hear from you
shortly for a detailed information which are
confirmable before you can make up your mind to
apply.Peace and love always,

Best regard
PETER UGO

I get that e-mail at least once a year or more.. This one is a little different, but same concept. Actually I recall seeing something like this many years ago when I first got online.

It is a rather old nigerian bank scam that used to be sent via snail mail, but thankfully variations of this email is now spammed to everyone and their dog at least once a week. I wonder if people actually read this and think to themselves, "Wow! Someone dies and this guy wants to work out a deal for his $20 million! What luck I have!" :rolleyes:

It's a common scam. What happens in most cases in the money is transfered to the account, then they have you send it back or whatever. The problem is you send it before it clears, and it bounces, so you're out the money.

I heard talk about this scam on the radio maybe a week or two ago. Sometimes they will ask you to send money, for some sort of expenses or other. Most often what they really want is all your bank account info, once they have that, they raid your account.

There is supposed to be a rather new one floating around now too, supposedly from an American soldier in Afghanistan. Seems on one of the raids he was involved in a large amount of money was found and now he needs some way to move the money back to the States but can't send it into his own bank account because it is a military credit union account and will be noticed... something like that.

Lots of creative writers out there, and a lot of silly people. Radio thing I was listening to said the loss to people from variations of this scam was in the billions of $$.

Google 'The Nigerian Scam'

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=the+nigerian+scam

Happy reading :) Actually this is one of the oldest scams on the net and still going strong. It even predates the internet as it used to be mailed to people instead.

Greg Moore

Originally posted by akashik
Google 'The Nigerian Scam'

Happy reading :) Actually this is one of the oldest scams on the net and still going strong.

It's very adaptable, they also used to fax those out before they discovered they could reach a vast pool of suckers for almost nothing by using email.

(vaguely to the tune of the 12 days of christmas)

On the twelfth day of Internet use, my inbox gave to me...

12 enlarge your penis ads
11 spams for herbal viagra
10 credit card offers
9 free cell phones
8 stock recommendations
7 cookie recipes
6 chain letters
5 vi-ru-ses
4 lame forwarded jokes
3 nigerian scam letters
2 offers from Amazon
And 1 email from "a friend".

I have noticed over the past 5 weeks or so that I am getting these almost on a daily basis.. anyone else noticing this? has anyone ever actually called the numbers listed in these emails? i mean do you think this is a huge setup with operators and everything or just a one man deal?

This is one of the largest scams on the internet.

However, usually this letter comes from Nigeria,
In Nigeria 66% of the national trade is from fraud,
most of that fraud is from 1 single type of letter sent out to other countrys via snail- or email, they say they need to use your account to transfer money or some equivelent and they will let you keep some, my friend received one and we contacted the FBI, they told us they have a special division just for these letters. This is just one alike that, but also, if you still do, dont accept any orders from nigeria ;]

Yep yep, I got one from the Daughter of the King of the Republic of Congo. Quite hilarious I think.

I often receive such spam but I remember this issue was raised long time back and tim greer posted a long reply on it.

I wonder how people believe these scams.

Dear friend, I am Mrs. Sese-Seko widow of late president Mobutu Sese-Seko of zaire? now known as democratic republic of congo (drc). I am moved to write you this letter, this was in confidence considering my present circumstance and situation. i escaped along with my husband and two of our sons Theophilus and Basher out of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Abidjan, cote d'ivoire where my family and i settled, while we later moved to settled in morroco where my husband later died of cancer disease. However due to this situation we decided to changed most of my husband's billions of dollars deposited in swiss bank and other countries into other forms of money coded for safe purpose because the new head of state of (dr) mr laurent kabila has made arrangement with the swiss government and other european countries to freeze all my late husband's treasures deposited in some european countries. hence my children and i decided laying low in africa to study the situation till when things gets better, like now that president kabila is dead and the son taking over (joseph kabila). one of my late husband's chateaux in southern france was confiscated by the french government, and as such i had to change my identity so that my investment will not be traced and confiscated. I have deposited the sum Thirty Million United State Dollars(us$30,000,000,00.) with a security company , for safekeeping. The funds are security coded to prevent them from knowing the content. what i want you to do is to indicate your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money on our behalf.acknowledge this message, so that i can introduce you to my son (Theophilus) who has the out modalities for the claim of the said funds. I want you to assist in investing this money, but i will not want my identity revealed. i will also want to buy properties and stock in multi-national companies and to engage in other safe and non-speculative investments. May I at this point emphasis > e the high level of confidentiality, which this business demands, and hope you will not betray the trust and confidence, which i repose in you. in conclusion, if you want to assist us , my son shall put you in the picture of the business, tell you where the funds are currently being maintained and also discuss other modalities including remuneration for your services. for this reason kindly furnish us your contact information, that is your personal telephone and fax number for confidential purpose. Best regards, Mrs Sese-Seko

:confused:

The sad part is people buy into these scams and send their life savings only to get nothing in return. I read a recent article about this "Nigerian 419 Scam" as it was called stating that in some instances, people did meet up with the scam artists only to be killed. Again, why people believe that they are just lucky enough to be given millions of dollars is beyond me...

Originally posted by OKIHost
I have noticed over the past 5 weeks or so that I am getting these almost on a daily basis.. anyone else noticing this? has anyone ever actually called the numbers listed in these emails? i mean do you think this is a huge setup with operators and everything or just a one man deal?

I just called the number listed in the first post by Synthetic.

It is a recorded message in French... I can't understand a word of it except for "merci" at the end :P

--Shaun

Originally posted by Phoenix
On the twelfth day of Internet use, my inbox gave to me...

12 enlarge your penis ads
11 spams for herbal viagra


Yes I get those from Nigeria and South Africa often. Thanks god that it is done by email now and people see it is a scamsince they receive 10-20 of those :rolleyes:

BTW: Sorry for asking this but has anyone ever had their penis successfully enlarged by on eof these ads? Not that I have a problem :rolleyes: but just curious + thinking of getting old(er) one day :cartman:

hahaha this thread is great.

Originally posted by hostnet
hahaha this thread is great.

True where else can you read "penis enlargement" TWICE in a single thread.... oh wait, now it's THREE times :blush: :D