FINALLY - I got a nigerian email scam

ArmyofHarmony

I've been waiting a long time but they've finally found one of my emails and have decided to try and scam me

copy if email if interested

FROM THE DESK OF MR LARRUTY COKER
NIGERI ANATIONAL PETROLUEM
COPORATION,
LAGOS NIGERIA.
Tel:+234-802476-2411

Attention Sir/Madam

After due deliberation with my colleagues, I decided to forward this
proposal.We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer the
sum of Twenty Million United States Dollars(US$20,000,000.00) into
his/her account.

This fund resulted from an over-invoced bill from
contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my ministry and
the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries.

The
contract has been executed,commissioned and the contractor waspaid the
actual cost of the contract. we are left with
the balance
ofUS$20,000,000.00 as part of the over-invoiced amount,which we
havedeliberatelyover stimated, for our own I am contacting you to be
ourcustodian for this fund.

1. 20% for you (Account Owner)
2. 70% for
us
3.Your phone/fax numbers oreasy communication.

As you may want to
know and to make you less curious,Igot your addressfrom adverts, in
business directory that protrayed your
establishment in good light. I
am the Secretary of the Contract Awarding Committee (CAC)of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation {NNPC).This transaction is
verymuch free from all sorts of RISK and TROUBLE from my Government. we
have been exercising patiencefor this opportunity for so long and to
most of us this is a life time opportunity we cannot affford to miss.

To get this fund paid into your account, we have to present a
PaymentInvoice from a foreign establishment like yours.With this
invoice, we will seek approval to transfer the fund within 14 banking
days through the APEX BANK to your designatd Bank Account.I andone of
my colleague involved in this deal will come to your country to arrange
for our share upon the confirmation from you that the money has been
credited into your nominated Bank Account.

Consequently upon your
acceptance of my proposal,kindly confirm your interest by revert mail
to the above e/mail address It will surprise you why we choose you and
trusted you for this transaction. Yes, we believe that good friends can
be discovered and business like thiscannot be realized without trust.

This is why we have decided to trust you for this transaction. we are
looking forward to doing this transaction with you.Be further informed
that everyone's interest and security had been considered before
youwere contacted. So be rest assured and feel free to go into this
transaction with us. But let honesty be our watch word throughout this
transaction andyour prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Best
Regards,
Mr Larruty Coker
Click to expand...

The email subject says ***SPAM*** in it though, is this something that squirrelmail automatically adds in ? Its been sent to my university email account.

I need to think of a good way to scam him out of money if this is for real.

Any ideas what to do with him?

Noxis

I can forward you a few if you want? I get roughly 2 - 3 thousand emails a day.

ArmyofHarmony

Nigerian scam emails?

I get hundreds of basic mortgage spam...insurance etc...

well, most my current email accounts get no spam... my hotmail one which i use for MSN gets hundreds

yahoo and gmail are doing a good job

m3csl2004

just list an ipod or an expensive mobile phone on ebay and say you ship internationally

jesta

i wish i had an email from a nigerian scammer noone ever emails me
i wanna make some money

ArmyofHarmony

How illegal is it to scam a scammer?

Personally, it should be legal!

Dave

. . . because two wrongs make a right?

hybrid

Got got one of these...

Dear Beloved,

I am wife of Sacked Deputy President of South Africa,
Mr. Jacob Zuma.

It is out of desperation that I am sending you this
mail. My Husband and I need your assistance in
fronting for us as owner of funds that are his which
might come under investigation soon if the fund's
ownership is not changed soonest. As my Husband's
finances are increasingly becoming the source of
investigation by our distractors. The source of these
fund's which my Husband earnings would not validate,
will further sink him into the cesspool dug by our
enemies.

It is because of the dire strait we find ourselves
that we resolved to reach you and ask for your
assistance in this matter.

We are averse to letting those we know here into this
deal because we are no longer sure of who our friends
are. You will be handsomely rewarded if you choose to
help us partnerhip in this project.

I will be expecting to hear from you and will disclose further
details to you upon your response.

Do well not to disclose the contents of this mail to
anyone.

Best Regards,
Zingina Zuma.

Click to expand...

I replied back if they wanted any tea or biscuits i could send them that.

PinkFloyd

I've had the above one

I dont get too many on my hotmail account. Get loads of my gmail one, even though I dont use it.

aardvark

i read a case of a guy who decided to 'out scam' the scammer - i can't remember where i saw it but he got a few thousand pounds and gave it to charity - the scammers were so greedy they fell for it.

Chronos-X

Here's one of the buggers..

Trixxy

My fave was the one where a Nigerian astronaut needed money to return home after he was stranded on a space station.

Wish I'd saved it...

GDad

I don't know if I'm just being thick, and obviously since it is a scam email it's not exactly likely to make much sense but still surely 70% and 20% doesn't make 100% right?

Berserker

Trixxy said:

My fave was the one where a Nigerian astronaut needed money to return home after he was stranded on a space station.

Wish I'd saved it...
Click to expand...

LMAO - would have loved to have seen that one.

Even Brazil can get an astronaut there and back.

Trixxy

Berserker said:

LMAO - would have loved to have seen that one.

Even Brazil can get an astronaut there and back.
Click to expand...

fear not, google to the rescue...

Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA

Dear Mr. Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.

Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
[email protected]

http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/

Click to expand...

wedgie

How does anybody fall for any of these scams? I have to assume that some people are falling for them otherwise they would not exist.

Mellownatts

No one ever emails me.

Log in or Sign up

FINALLY - I got a nigerian email scam

Wise Guy

Joined: 15 Feb 2006

Posts: 1,872

Location: hell

Banned

Joined: 26 Jul 2003

Posts: 6,348

Location: Surrey

Wise Guy

Joined: 15 Feb 2006

Posts: 1,872

Location: hell

Hitman

Joined: 17 Jun 2005

Posts: 621

Location: Sheffield

Mobster

Joined: 19 Dec 2004

Posts: 3,884

Wise Guy

Joined: 15 Feb 2006

Posts: 1,872

Location: hell

Mobster

Joined: 30 Oct 2004

Posts: 4,937

Location: Sacramento CA

Wise Guy

Joined: 18 Nov 2003

Posts: 1,312

Location: Newcastle

Capodecina

Joined: 21 Sep 2005

Posts: 14,269

Location: Bradley Stoke, Bristol

Sgarrista

Joined: 2 Jan 2005

Posts: 8,069

Location: leeds

Banned

Joined: 3 Mar 2003

Posts: 5,001

Location: London ;()!

Wise Guy

Joined: 20 Oct 2002

Posts: 1,454

Hitman

Joined: 18 Oct 2002

Posts: 597

Man of Honour

Joined: 4 Nov 2002

Posts: 15,451

Location: West Berkshire

Wise Guy

Joined: 20 Oct 2002

Posts: 1,454

Sgarrista

Joined: 18 Jan 2005

Posts: 8,538

Hitman

Joined: 14 Feb 2006

Posts: 547

Location: Leeds, W Yorks.

Useful Searches