Funny E-Mail Of The Day: 7/18/01

[Lud]

From: "Dr. Yinka Yusuf", yinkayusuf@[deleted]
To: [email protected]
Subject: VERY URGENT INFORMATION

Dr. Yinka Yusuf
Lagos, Nigeria.
Fax: [deleted]

Attention: president/CEO.

Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

Firstly I must solicit your strictest confidence in this subject. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. A member of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (N.E.P.C.) who was part of the federal government delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your particulars to me. I have decided to seek a confidential operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all the parties and hope that you keep it top secret because of the nature of the business.


Within the ministry of petroleum resources where I work as a director of engineering and projects, and with the co-operation of four other very top officials, we have under our control as overdue contract payments, bills totaling Thirty One Million United States Dollars, which we want to transfer to a foreign account, with the assistance and co-operation of a foreign company to receive the said funds on our behalf or a reliable foreign individual account to receive the funds.


The source of the fund is as follows: during the last military government here in Nigeria which lasted bout eleven months, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves various contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries. The present civilian government is not aware of the atrocities committed by their predecessors and as a result, we have a lot of such over invoiced contract payment s pending which we have identified floating at the central bank of Nigeria ready for payment. However by virtue of our position as civil servants, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I was therefore delegated as a matter of urgency by my colleagues to look for an over seas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of US$31,000,000.00 (THIRTY ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) hence we are writing you this letter.


Since the present civilian government is determined to pay foreign contractors l debts owed so as to maintain an amiable relationship with foreign governments and non-government financial agencies. We have decided to include our bills for approval with the co-operation of some officials of the federal ministry of finance (F.M.F) and the central bank of Nigeria (C.B.N). We are seeking your assistance in providing us with a good company account or any other offshore bank account into which we can remit this money by acting our main partner and trustee or acting as the original contractor. This we can do by swapping of account information and changing of beneficiary and other pertinent information to apply for payment. By this act, we would be using your company information to apply for payment, and prepare letters of claim and job description on behalf of your company. This process would be an internal arrangement with the departments concerned.


I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, your share as compensation will be us$6.2 million (20%), us$21.7 million (70%) for us and us$3.1 (10%) for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.


The business itself is 100% safe, provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is not m hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.


Please fax your response to my confidential fax number [deleted] to indicate your willingness in assisting us. I will bring the complete picture of the transaction to your knowledge when I have heard from you.


Thanks for your co-operation,


Yours faithfully,
Dr. Yinka Yusuf

[This message has been edited by Lud (edited 18 July 2001).]

 

[nicholas421]

darn it lud, you blew it by sharing this top secret info with us!

 

[scottjua]

Damn....sounds just like a scam that some people tried to pull on me once. Althought the difference was that my experience was in person and they actually had a mound of cash to show me.

Crazy

 

[Sig]

That's nuts. LUd you realize that if this guys is for real, he is prbably going to get killed. You should have humored him and said that you were interested just to see how far you could take it without doing anything. ALthough that probably isn't wise, but sure would be interesting.

 

[SigEpUCI]

Hahahah i got the an similiar email a few days back.

dear sir,
We are a front-line stock –brokering firm in West
Africa, engaged in business finance consultancy. Among
or clients are certain highly placed officials in the
Federal Republic of Nigeria who are interested in
transferring huge amounts  of money  to overseas
countries for investments in profitable and viable
ventures. 

We need your professional business assistance in 
receiving into our account and investing money 
amounting to US$65,500,000.00 (Sixty five Million,
Five Hundred  Thousand United State Dollars only). 

These money according to our Client was accrued from
over –invoiced (inflated)  Turn Around Maintenance
Contract Awarded by our  Client while holding key
position in the federal military Government of
Nigeria. The proposed funds are correctly floating in
the Central Bank of Nigeria suspense account waiting
to be  transferred overseas. Please note that our
Client is a retired Military General  and as such
would wish that this transaction be handled with
utmost confidence.

The reason for seeking to transfer these money
overseas arise from the fact that the baton of
political power in Nigeria has been shifted from the
Military to the democratically elected government and
his cabinet, thus relieving the Military from power
absolutely. Our Clients are apprehensive of their
future and would therefore wish to get the transferred
to a reliable overseas business partner for viable
investment. 

My Clients have unanimously agreed to compensate you
with 20% of the total sum of US$65.5 Million if you
are willing to render us your professional assistance 
in transferring and investing this money 5% for any expensis localy/
internationaly 20% shall be
for GREAT SECURITY & FINANCE LIMITED.  The remaining
55% shall be dully invested. All necessary
arrangements required for a speedy conclusion of the
transaction are in place with top officials of the
Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of
Nigeria. Your main responsibility would be. Assistance
in receiving this money through your bank account,
investing of same in worthwhile ventures you consider
to be profitable and viable. 

We are absolutely positive  that this arrangement will
be of mutual benefit to both of us and think that it
is of utmost importance that  you get in touch with
us, through the  E-mail address:
[email protected] to enable us discuss the
matter further. 

We trust that this will be the beginning of a lasting
business relationship, I await for your urgent
response as soon as you get this massage . 

Yours faithfully, 


morris eze

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[hejo]

Originally posted by SigEpUCI:
Hahahah i got the an similiar email a few days back.

Gee and all I ever get is all porn stuff!

 

[Edo]

Hey at least Porn is fun to look at.
That letter just made my head hurt.

 

[Ryoma]

This is a classic scam that amazingly seems to still ensnare people (what's that they say about fools and their money?). It was well covered last year or the year before on one of the news magazines - 60 Minutes, I believe.

 

[ScienceofSpeed]

The funny thing is that they do not know what 20% of 65.5MM is. You'd think they would get it straight ;-)

-- Chris

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