..awkward...spam email.. lol

[krnjason]

Attention:Your Concern

My Dear Friend,

This communication to you is strictly confidential, with due respect. Sorry
at this perceived confusion or stress you may have receiving this letter
from me, Since we have not known ourselves or met previously. Despite that,
I am constrained to write you this letter because of the urgency of it.By
way of self introduction

I am Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha, wife to the late Nigerian Head of state,
General Sani Abacha who died on the 8th of June 1998 while still on active
service for our Country. I am contacting you with the hope that you will be
of great assistance to me, I currently have within my reach the sum of 24
million U.S dollars cash which I intend to use for investment purposes
outside Nigeria.

This money came as a result of a payback contract deal between my husband
and a Russian firm in our country's multi-billion dollar Ajaokuta steel
plant. The Russian partners returned my husbands share being the above sum
after his death. Presently, the new civilian Government has intensified
their probe into my husbands financial resources which has led to the
freezing of all our accounts, local and foreign, the revoking of all our
business licences and the arrest of my First son. In view of this I acted
very fast to withdraw this money from one of our finance houses before it
was closed down. I have deposited the money in a security company with the
help of very loyal officials of my late husband. No record is known about
this fund by the government because there is no documentation showing that
we received such funds. The consignment was kept on an "OPEN BENEFICIARY
MANDATE" with the Security Company to avoid detection, seizure or diversion.

Due to the current situation in the country and government attitude to my
family, I cannot make use of this money within, thus I seek your help in
transferring this funds out of the sub-African region. Bearing in mind that
you may assist me, l have decided
to part with 20% of the total sum.

Please kindly reply through this email address: mabas101@mixmail.com with
your letter of acceptance and your willingness in assisting me to receive
the fund,also include your Physical Address, personal telephone and fax
numbers.

Your URGENT response is needed.

Regards,

Dr. Mrs. Mariam Abacha.


this is what i got in my spamsection... kinda wierd aint it? O-o?

[waheed]

Ive had a couple of emails like those a few years back. Its just to con people out of their money. I usually just delete such emails.

[lordsmurf]

Standard 419 scam written in Engrish.

[Faustus]

Yeah the Nigera spams/scams are a classic. Delete, ignore.

I was actuall happy when I got my first, it was like being part of a club or something.

[abc-123]

I can't believe these are still being sent.

Here's the website of a guy who scams the scammers. Some of these are really funny to read and they all have the same intention.

Don't get greedy. Click this link: http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/

[AlecWest]

Some Nigerian Scams (aka 419 scams) are more creative than others. I got one last week that is a variation to this one:

http://tinyurl.com/agyor

On it's face, it appears to just be a variation of the scam. But, in this case, the name of the person supposedly sending the email (Xu Guojun) is a real-life renegade banker who, with 2 other partners, embezzled about $480 million from a Bank of China branch and fled to the West. He's been caught ... but is currently free and fighting extradition back to China on (ahem) "humanitarian" grounds (they execute embezzlers):

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=116002&cat=World

FWIW, I complained to the usual people ... Yahoo.com (where the mail originated) and eChina.com (where his "maildrop" for replies was). Yahoo responded saying they closed down his account for fraudulent activity. eChina didn't respond at all. But (evil grin), I did one more thing.

Considering all the people who lost their entire life's savings to Enron execs and other corporate thieves, I suspect most victims would "welcome" capital punishment for the perpetrators. I have a friend who, while not losing his shirt, did lose a huge chunk of money in that debacle. So, on the "off chance" that this email might be genuine (who knows, desperate criminals sometimes do stupid things), I sent a copy of the email with headers to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.

[glockjs]

all i gotta say is karma is the mother of all bitches. i feel sorry for people that fall for this crap, but then again if you're that stupid.....