Nigeria detains over 500 fraudsters
David Bromage
> Nigeria's agency against economic and financial crime said on
> Monday that it had detained more than 500 suspects and seized
> property worth more than $500-million from suspected fraudsters.
At last! Hopefully they got the moron who has been sending me around 100
emails per week.
> "Presently we have over 500 suspects in custody, seized assets
> and recovered properties worth over $500-million with over 100
> cases at various stages of prosecution," agency chairman Nuhu
> Ribadu told a seminar.
FROM THE DESK OF MR NUHU RIBADU
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION
LAGOS, NIGERIA
Dear friend,
I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust to enable my
colleagues and I carry out an urgent business opportunity in my
department. My name is Nuhu Ribadu, and I am the chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) in Nigeria.
In June 2004, a total of US$500,000,000 (FIVE HUNDRED MILLION US
DOLLARS) was siezed from citizens of my country in a wide ranging
investigation. Because this amount is derived from the execution of
foreign activities, there is no way the money can be paid locally.
That is why I contacted you so that we can do the project together for
our mutual benefit. We have concluded every necessary arrangement to
transfer this amount to a foreign account as the final phase payment for
the said operation. What we need is your bank account into which we can
deposit the money and after we shall come over there to share the money
with you.
We sincerely need an honest person to work with and have agreed to share
the money in the following percentages, 70% will be for us who will
effect the transfer and 30% will be for you whose account is used to
secure the funds. There is no risk involvement because applications
will be made to the concerned Federal ministries and parastatal with
official approvals given by officials of the Federal government before
the Central Bank of Nigeria will be officially empowered to wire the
funds to your account by telegraphic transfer.
Everything has been arranged and I will send more information about the
business transaction to you as soon as I hear from you. For obvious
reasons, please keep the proposal top secret and highly confidential.
Kind regards
Nuhu
Adam
> http://business.iafrica.com/news/331660.htm wrote:
>
>> Nigeria's agency against economic and financial crime said on
> > Monday that it had detained more than 500 suspects and seized
> > property worth more than $500-million from suspected fraudsters.
>
> At last! Hopefully they got the moron who has been sending me around
> 100 emails per week.
DEAR SIR
I AM AN ALLEGED NIGERIAN FRAUDSTER IN JAIL. I HAVE US$9,000,000,000 IN
A SECRET BANK ACCOUNT WHICH I CANNOT USE FROM THIS CELL. I WILL SEND
YOU 70% OF THIS AMOUNT WITHIN TWO DAYS OF GETTING BAILED OUT BUT I NEED
$500,000 TO MAKE BAIL.
REGARDS
NUHU
Seth Goldin
THESE FRAUDSTERS ALWAYS USE COMPUTERS WITH THE CAPS LOCK KEY BROKEN SO
THAT THEY ALWAYS TYPE IN UPPERCASE AND IT IS HARD TO READ SO I WANT TO
PUNCH THEM EVEN MORE THAN JUST FOR WASTING MY TIME PRESSING THE DELETE
BUTTON IN MY INBOX.
-- S.
Let's just remove all computers from Nigeria.