I finally got a couple of those spams about some Nigerian bureacrat needing help to launder money out of the country. I remember my dad getting one of these in the real mail at work years ago. I wonder if these scams actually work. Are people really that dumb, or are these mostly joke spams now?

Oops, it was supposed to be CONFIDENTIAL. Oh no!

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 02:27:38 +0100
From: kevinnmadu@eircom.net
Reply-To: kevinnmadu@mail.com
To: kevinnmadu@eircom.net
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL

NIGERIAN NATIONAL  PETROLEUM  CORPORATION

>From The Desk of: DR. KEVIN NMADU

DIRECTOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION (NNPC)

CONFIDENTIAL


Dear Sir,

URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL

Through some discreet enquiries from our foreign mission, you and your
organization were revealed as being quite astute in private enterpreneurship,
one has no doubt in your ability to handle a financial business of considerable
amount which will form the bedrock of an extensive business partnership in due
course. In folding the proposal. I want to count on your status as a respected
executive of our company to believe that you will handle it with utmost secrey
and confidentiality it deserves.

The business involves the remittance of US$41.5M ( Fourty-One Million Five
Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars only) to your bank account from the Central Bank
of Nigeria. The money accrued through delibrate over-invocing of old projects
executed for the Government by some foreign firms. I and few officials here
have worked out a scheme to benefit us along with any foreign partner who
obliges us the materials and channel to push out the fund, our idea being to
come over thereafter to share the fund with whoever assist us.

Please get in touch with me immediately through my email address and attention
the undersigned. This email address is my confidential email address.
For your participation in realising this transaction 20% will be for you 70%
for me and other officials and 10% for any expense we may incur ( both parties
) during processing for the transfer to your nominated bank account.

I am awaiting your response most urgently and be rest assured that this
transaction is 100% risk free, as there is no risk involved on both sides.

Thank you and God bless.

Yours sincerely,                                                                

DR. KEVIN NMADU.

I got another one a few weeks ago. This one needs some line breaks to increase readability.

Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:25:07 GMT+1
From: tayeowens taye 
To: tayeowens@caramail.com
Subject: PARTNER NEEDED(TAYE OWENS)

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CONFIDENTIAL 5 Yusuf Adejo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
IFax:13094231956 FROM: TAYE OWENS. ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/C.E.O. Dear
Sir/Madam, I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good
health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as
contained in this letter. Before going into details of my proposal to
you, I must first implore you to treat with the utmost confidentiality,
as this is required for its success. My colleagues and I are senior
officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria^Òs Contracts Review Panel
(CRP) who are interested in diverting some funds that are presently
floating in the accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria. In order to
commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance to enable us
transfer into your nominated account the said floating funds. We are
determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this quarter of
2002. The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military
regime in Nigeria, government officials set up companies and awarded
themselves contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various
ministries and parastatals. The present civilian government set up the
Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of
payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel, to
review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed
outstanding amounts. My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum
of these funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of
Nigeria ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for
our own purposes. However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants
and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these funds in our names or
in the names of companies that are based in Nigeria. I have therefore
been mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to
look for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer
the sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five hundred thousand U.S.
dollars). That is why I am writing you this letter. We have agreed to
share the money to be transferred into your account,if you agree with our
proposition as follows; (i)25% to the account owner(you). (ii)65% for us
(the panel officials). (iii)10% to be used in settling all expenses (by
both you and us)incidental to the actualization of this project. We wish
to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock
markets and other business till we are ready and able to have access to
them without raising any eyebrows here at home. Please note that this
transaction is 100% safe and risk- free. We intend to effect the transfer
within fourteen (14) banking days from the date of receipt of the
following information through the ifax number stated above:Your
Company^Òs name, address,telephone and fax numbers. The above information
will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively.
This way, we will use your company^Òs name to apply for the payment and
backdate the award of the contract to your company. We are looking
forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost
confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of
this letter using the above ifax number;it is an America Internet Fax
number it was acquired for the purpose of confidentiality.You can also
reach me on my alternative email: acctmin@exclusivemail.co.za I will
bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear
from you. Best regards, TAYE OWENS.

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