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Subject: Fw: OT FW: Nigerian Scam Letters
From: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:48:28 -0800
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        cooperation
   Date:

        Fri, 09 Mar 2001 18:18:45 -0800
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         abba40@onebox.com
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         slick1patrick@netscape.net



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  FROM: Abba Abacha
  Lagos, Nigeria.

  I sincerely hope that this letter will not come to you as an
  embarrassment
  but rather a surprise since we neither knew each other before now nor
  have had any previous correspondence or contact.

  I am Abba Abacha the son of the late head of state of Nigeria, Late Gen.
  Sani Abacha. You might have heard a lot about the changes that have taken
  place in Nigeria since the demise of my father. After his death, we were
  faced with a lot of problems from both within and outside. We have been
  experiencing a lot of embarrassing moments; our family's accounts has
  being frozen all over Europe and America while our passports have been
  seized by our country's government and we are not allowed to travel out
  of the country. I cannot begin to recount what we have lost since this
  problem started but it is worth billions of dollars, which I am sure
  you might have heard of. It is all over the international press and on
  the internet; even, most recently they have started putting my family
  members in detention and we don't feel the country is safe for us
  anymore.

  However, over the past few days we have been holding series of family
  meetings and we have decided to salvage what we can out of this mess
  before it is too late. So, I have been mandated by my family to look
  for a trustworthy and competent foreign partner through whom we can hide
  some funds. This we intend doing by using the partner's account to
  receive
  the funds on our behalf. It is in the partner's account we shall be
  transferring
  the funds in batches starting with eight million dollars (US$8 million).
  We have devised a means to get these funds to the nearest possible place
  to you in a defaced currency form by a securities company as photographic
  materials. This is where we solicit most for your assistance.

  Your remuneration will be discussed and worked out on hearing from you,
  your willingness to assist us in receiving this funds for us until we
  are able to travel again. After this we will start the process of
  transferring
  the funds abroad. I will then inform you our means of moving these funds
  out of this country. I want you to understand that this mail is out of
  desperation for fear of losing all we have. So, we are willing to work
  out a very good deal with you if you accept to help, with you being duly
  compensated at the end of this project . Also bear in mind that this
  transaction will not take more than seven working days to conclude once
  you signify your full interest.

  For security reasons, your first response should be addressed to my
  mailbox.
  However, subsequent correspondence should be forwarded to our family
  lawyer, Chief J. K Ajayi whose telephone and fax numbers will be provided
  in due course, for him to give you the complete picture of how we intend
  to go about it. Please, feel free to ask questions on any area not clear
  to you so that our attorney can address it accordingly.

  I look forward to your urgent favourable response.

  Best regards

  Alhaji Abba Abacha


  NB: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND ME YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER SO THAT
  MY FAMILY LAWYER WILL CALL YOU AND YOU CAN THEN DISCUSS BETTER AS I
  CANNOT
  CALL YOU OVER THE PHONE FOR FEAR OF MY PHONE BEING MONITORED BY MY
  GOVERNMENT.
  I CAN ONLY COMMUNICATE WITH YOU VIA EMAIL. THANK YOU.




  --
  abba abacha
  abba40@onebox.com - email
  (678) 353-2300 x1507 - voicemail/fax



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) 2000 Netscape, All rights reser
-----Original Message-----
From: Hall, Phillip <Phillip.Hall@msfc.nasa.gov>
To: Roadsters (E-mail) <Datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>; Roadsters (E-mail
2) <Datsunroadsters@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: OT FW: Nigerian Scam Letters


>Sorry to hit the list with these, but I figure if the Gov takes these
>seriously we should too.
>
>Phil
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MSFC Activity Notice
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:54 AM
>To: MSFC Activity Notice
>Subject: Nigerian Scam Letters
>
>
>The "Nigerian Scam"
>
>Strategic intelligence has identified that West African organized crime
>groups have for many years conducted a type of fraud against individuals
and
>companies commonly known as "advance fee".   It is also known as the 4-1-9
>fraud after the penal code in Nigeria that makes it illegal.  These groups
>also carry out highly organized housing, social security and other grants
>frauds. The profits from these crimes are often used to finance drug
>trafficking, where the same middlemen transport drugs from source to
>consumer countries.
>
>'419' letters are distributed by postal mail, by facsimile (fax), and
>primarily in recent months through e-mail channels.  In a typical '419'
>(advance fee fraud) letter, the author purports to be a senior government
or
>central bank official who has managed to over-inflate a contract,
generating
>a personal profit.  In return for help in smuggling the money out of the
>country, the recipient is offered a percentage, usually between 10% and
30%.
>At first no money may be requested but once a victim has been drawn in,
>requests are made for funds to pay legal and administrative fees.  Victims
>have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases.
>
>These e-mail letters have been received in increasing numbers at MSFC in
>recent months.  If you receive a '419' letter at MSFC either in hard-copy
or
>electronic form, DO NOT REPLY TO THE LETTER, but retain it and contact the
>MSFC Information Technology Security Coordinator (ITSC) Steve R. Jones at
>telephone 544-4373.   You may be asked to forward the letter to the ITSC
for
>inclusion in Center submittals to Federal officials.

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