For some I have been receiving email of the attached variety, proposing "moving funds out of Africa." The actual details may vary, sometimes it is a "professional guy" sometimes a "member of the royal family" or some other "dignitary." What is this crap? Looks to dumb to be a con game, but you can never overestimate human stupidity. Any thoughts?
wojtek
At 07:21 AM 8/8/2002 +0000, Engr. Aminu Abacha wrote:
>DEAR SIR
>
>IT IS BASED ON INFORMETION I GATHERED ABOUT YOUR
>COMPANY PROFILE THAT I AM PLEASE TO CONTACT YOU FOR A
>BUSINESS VENTURE OF MUTUAL BENEFIT AT THE END OF IT
>ALL.
>I AM ENGINEER AMINU ABACHA THE SON OF THE LATE HEAD OF
>STATE OF NIGERIA GEN. SANI ABACHA WHO DIED ON 8 OF
>JUNE 1998.
>BEFORE MY FATHER’S DEATH HE PROPOSED TO SET UP A
>SAW- MILL INDUSTRY IN ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE. A
>RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT PROGRAM HE PLANNED IN MY NAME
>ON BEHALF OF HIS NUMEROUS COMPANIES THROUGH ONE OF
>HIS BEST FRIENDS ALASANE DRAMANE QUATTATA AN
>OPPOSITION PRESIDENT LEADER AND FORMER PRIME
>MINISTER DURING THE LEADERSHIP OF FELIX HOUPHOUET
>BOIGNY OF BLESSED MEMORY. HE WAS ALSO UNDER SECRETARY
>TO THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) IN
>1993/1994.
>HOWEVER AFTER THE DEATH OF MY FATHER IN 1998 I
>SETTLED IN ABIDJAN IN HONOR OF ALASANE DRAMANE
>QUATTARA WHOSE POLITICAL AMBITION WAS TO BECAME THE
>PRESIDENT OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF COTE D’IVOIRE
>TOWARDS THE DEMOCRATIC ELECTION OF OCTOBER 2000.
>UNFORTUNATELY THING WENT WRONG AS THE FORMER MILITARY
>JUNTA OF ROBERT GUEI REFUSED HIM THE RIGHT TO
>PARTICIPATE IN THE ELECTION DUE TO SOME POLITICAL
>HATRED AND SENTIMENTS. HE ATTEMPTED TO FIGHT FOR HIS
>RIGHT BUT WAS FORCED OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AS A RESULT
>I WAS ALSO MANDATED TO RETURN BACK TO NIGERIA.
>FOLLOWING THE RECENT COURT RULING ON 12 JULY 2002 TO
>RELEASE MY ELDER BROTHER MOHAMMED AND ALL OUR FAMILY
>TREASURE SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY, I
>THOUGHT IT WISE TO CONTACT YOU FOR A POSSIBLE
>TRANSFER OF THE FUND BUDGETED BY MY LATE FATHER FOR
>THE SAW- MILL INVESTMENT INTO YOUR NOMINATED ACCOUNT
>FOR AN INVESTMENT PURPOSE IN YOUR LINE OF BUSINESS.
>THE FUND AMOUNTED TO US$16.5 MILLION AND IS
>DEPOSITED IN ONE OF THE SECURITY COMPANY. NOTE THAT THIS FUND IS MY
>INHERITANCE ACCORDING TO MY FATHER’S WILL
>I WILL APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD ASSIST ME IN THIS
>REGARD TO MOVE THE FUND OUT OF OF THE SECURITY COMPANY TO YOUR COUNTRY
>FOR A JUDICIOUS USE. PLEASE DO NOT
>HESITATE TO CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY FOR MORE
>INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR INTEREST/ MODALITIES ON
>PERCENTAGE RATIO. ALSO YOUR QUESTIOS/SUGGESTION WILL
>BE APPRECIATED.
>I REQUEST THAT YOU FORWARD TO ME YOUR FULL NAMES ,
>TELEPHONE/FAX AND BANK INFORMATION TO SPEED UP
>ACTION.
>FINALLY DO NOT FORGET TO KEEP THIS INFORMATION SECRET
>AS THE GOVRNMENT OF NIGERIA HAVE NOT ACTED ACCORDINGLY
>TO THE COURT ORDER TO RELEASE MY BROTHER AND OUR
>FAMILY TREASURE.
>EXPECT TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON
>
>
>BEST REGARD
>ENGINEER AMINU ABACHA