This scam is back. FW: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Paul
I have recently over the last month been receiving a lot of Spam mail (along
with several of my friends whom use bigpond). This came through this
morning. I think it is worth repeating warnings about these cons in the
monthly bigpond newsletter/email.
Cheers Paul
--
Experience has taught me that the thick headed cling to their stupidity as
if it was a giant bag of gold.
Ms. Duh, aka 'picky'
------ Forwarded Message
> From: "Fred Abu" <fr...@aol.com>
> Reply-To: hbu...@lycos.com
> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:16:41 -0700
> To: pbu...@bigpond.com
> Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL
>
> From: fred Abu
> Tel:234-80-33329085
> Lagos-Nigeria.
>
> Attn:President/Ceo.
>
> STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
> RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,
> FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
>
> I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we
> are using the only
> secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign
> assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
>
> I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and
> Monitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
> Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my
> Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M. U. S.
> Dollars. This was done deliberately.The over invoicing was a deal by my
> committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money
> which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we
> expect you to provide for us.
>
> SHARE: -
> For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be
> entitled to 20% of the money, 70% will be for me and my partners while 10% has
> been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be incurred
> by us during the course of this transfer,both locally and international
> expenses.
>
> I would require the following: -
>
> 1. Your company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers.
> 2. Your bank account and address where the money will be remitted.
>
> The above informations would be used to make formal applications as a matter
> of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account.
> It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this
> nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the major
> contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not, big
> trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and
> subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.
>
> We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank of
> Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that
> all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign
> partner to assist us in this deal.Therefore,when the business is successfully
> concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used
> from all the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security.
>
> We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a
> lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to the
> overseas Accounts for us, before the present Democratic Governmentstarts
> Auditing all Federal Government owned Parastatals.
>
> Please contact me immediately through my tele number whether or not you are
> interested in this deal.If you are not,it will enable me scout for another
> foreign partner to carry out this deal.But where you are interested, send the
> required documents aforementioned herein through my
> above tel number or email address (hbu...@lycos.com), as time is of the
> essence in this business.
> I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Mr.Fred Abu..
>
Claude
"Paul" <pbu...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:B8F6D3A7.D625%pbu...@bigpond.com...
Bob Peters
people killed.
Best to delete that one untouched if you get it.
Bob Peters
--
http://www.bobpeters61.com
Of course I fear terrorism, a fraction as much as I fear totalitarianism.
http://www.bobpeters61.com/political/MBA.html
Is this what "MBA" has come to mean? ;-)