email scam going around?
WTF is this about? I just received this in the email. Take care out there.
[quote]To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: URGENT PROPOSAL
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:39:06 -0600
From:Mr.Wilson Bala
Nigerian National Pet.Corp.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Attn
resident/Ceo.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we are using the
only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership
in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
I am a member of the Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee
in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)Sometime ago,a contract was awarded to a
foreign firm
in NNPC by my Committee.This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M.U.S.Dollars.
This was done deliberately.The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the
project.We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any
Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into,you will be entitled to 20% of
the money,70% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum
to cover any upfront or out of pocket expenses that may be incurred by all parties during the
course of this transfer,both locally and international expenses.In order for us to commence the
transaction i would require the following: -
1.Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
2.Your bank name,address and account details.
The above information would be use to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the
release of the money and onward transfer to your account.It does not matter whether or not your
company does contract projects of this nature described here.
The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other
companies.More often than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major
contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.
We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank Of Nigeria,as well
as the Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and
transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal.Therefore,
when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all
documents used from all the concerned Government Ministeries for 100% security.
We are ordinary Government workers and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime
opportunity to get rich.
We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us,before the present
Government start Auditing all Government owned Parastatals accounts.
Please contact me immediately through my email addresses whether or not you are interested
in this deal.If you are not,it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to
carry out this deal.But where you are interested, send the required documents
aforementioned herein through my confidential email address([email protected])as time is of
the essence in this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Wilson Bala.<hr></blockquote>
[ 03-08-2002: Message edited by: Randycat99 ]</p>
[quote]To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: URGENT PROPOSAL
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:39:06 -0600
From:Mr.Wilson Bala
Nigerian National Pet.Corp.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Attn
resident/Ceo.STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we are using the
only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership
in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
I am a member of the Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee
in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)Sometime ago,a contract was awarded to a
foreign firm
in NNPC by my Committee.This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M.U.S.Dollars.
This was done deliberately.The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the
project.We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any
Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into,you will be entitled to 20% of
the money,70% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum
to cover any upfront or out of pocket expenses that may be incurred by all parties during the
course of this transfer,both locally and international expenses.In order for us to commence the
transaction i would require the following: -
1.Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
2.Your bank name,address and account details.
The above information would be use to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the
release of the money and onward transfer to your account.It does not matter whether or not your
company does contract projects of this nature described here.
The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other
companies.More often than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major
contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.
We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank Of Nigeria,as well
as the Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and
transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal.Therefore,
when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all
documents used from all the concerned Government Ministeries for 100% security.
We are ordinary Government workers and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime
opportunity to get rich.
We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us,before the present
Government start Auditing all Government owned Parastatals accounts.
Please contact me immediately through my email addresses whether or not you are interested
in this deal.If you are not,it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to
carry out this deal.But where you are interested, send the required documents
aforementioned herein through my confidential email address([email protected])as time is of
the essence in this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Wilson Bala.<hr></blockquote>
[ 03-08-2002: Message edited by: Randycat99 ]</p>
Comments
I've gotten about five.
My favorite at the messages that start out with "Re:" Like I'm not going to remember what emails I just sent out
Go to one of the email hoax sites and confirm that it's a hoax. Use google to find on of those sites if you can't remember.
<a href="http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html"; target="_blank">http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html</a>;
<a href="http://www.google.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.google.com/</a>;
Reply to everyone that got the email. Say something like this.
"This email is a hoax. It's confirmed at this site. ... Do not forward this email on to other people. Besure to confirm email are not hoaxes by checking this site first. ... Bookmark this page. Please do not forward hoax email. It only make the problem worse."
Don't be nice about it.
BTW we just got almost the exact message by fax at work this week. They're busy!
I wonder how many bank account numbers these scammers have been able to get?
<strong>How come the authorities can't just track down the source of the email and nail'em?</strong><hr></blockquote>
it's so simple to fake email headers through an exploited server you could do it <a href="http://logik.accesscard.org/caem.html"; target="_blank">right now</a>.