This next email is kind of interesting as it from some moron claiming to be Chief Accountant/Internal Auditor of the Contract Award Committee( CAC ) of the Nigerian National Petroleum in Nigeria, as if coming from Nigeria wouldn’t set off alarm bells?
Anyway it’s pretty well a generic email directed at a his / her type recipient. Strange that he doesn’t know the sex of the person seeing as how he claims that he got the “address from adverts in the business directory that portrayed your establishment in good light.” Yeah right.
From Dr.Rex Lawson Uke
Dear Sir/Madam,
REQUEST FOR AN URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
After due deliberation with my colleagues, I have decided to forward to you this business proposal. We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer the sum of Twenty Million Five Hundred thousand United States Dollars ($20,500,000) into his / her account.
This fund resulted by way of gratification from a contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my Ministry and this bill has been approved for payment by the concerned Ministries.The contract has since been executed, commissioned and the contractors company, paid off. We are left with the balance of US$20.5M which was given to us by the company for influencing the contract in their favour amidst heavy competition from rival companies. But under our protocol division, civil servants are forbidden to operate or own foreign accounts this is why I am contacting you to be our custodian for this fund.
As you may want to know and to make you less curious, I got your address from adverts in the business directory that portrayed your establishment in good light. I am the Chief Accountant/Internal Auditor of the Contract Award Committee( CAC )of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).This transaction is very much free from all sorts of RISKS and TROUBLE from my government. We the N.N.P.C. Officials involved in this deal have put in many years in service to this Ministry.
We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and to most of us this is a life time opportunity we cannot afford to miss. You need not to worry about the responsibilities of transferring this fund into your account, for all the administrative steps needed for the transfer of this fund into your designated bank account will be done by me. I and my colleagues have agreed to COMPENSATE you duly if agreement is reached by both of us. I and one of my colleagues involved in this deal will come to your country to arrange for our share, upon the confirmation from you that the money has been credited into your nominated bank account.
We have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum, where 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses (Internal and External) between in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance to other account in due course. Consequent upon your acceptance of this proposal, kindly confirm your interest by, your indication by revert Telephone to me of your sincere and serious interest will enable me fax you the PROCEDURE FOR OPERATION. If my line is busy, please keep trying you will surely get through.
NOTE: In the event of your inability to handle this transaction please inform us so that we can look for another reliable person who can assist in this respect. It might surprise you why we choose you and trusted you for this transaction.
Yes, we believe that good friends can be discovered and business like this can not be realized without trust. This is why we have decided to trust you for this transaction. We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you. Be further informed that every ones interest and security had been considered before you were contacted, so be rest assured and feel free to go into this transaction with us.
But let Honesty and Trust be our watchword throughout this transaction and your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Thank you and God bless.
Best Regards,
Dr.Rex Lawson Uke
Again, it’s just phishing for personal information so that it can start the next leg of the campaign to rob you blind. This is another of those bullshit emails that you should delete immediately.
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What a load of BS, for sure. When you see the word ‘Africa’ that is good enough reason to head for the hills anyway.
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Why stop at Africa, there are scam artists all over the world. Have to admit they’re pretty stupid using Nigeria as the origin of the email
i am soooooooooooo tired of that one,,just wanna make me a millionaire just like that, huh? hahahahahah :jittery_tb:
There’s someone contacting me for my products by the name of Mr. Phillip Kalu and he said he’s a very good friend of the head of Contract Award Committee from their Ministry of Interior.
He said that for the contract to be done we must give some ‘gifts’ to the head of the CAC. He said that the Federal Ministry of Interior is interested on buying our products in quite a lot of amounts.
Do you think it’s kind of BS too? Please inform me..
Thank you very much
Sounds like BS to me Ronald.
My best friend came to me today saying she got this, :drunk_tb:
She was scared if the message she got was going to do anything to her computer.
(sorry if i maybe not have made it clear, but she got the same email from above)
does anything happen… at all?
Nothing happens as long as she doesn’t reply to it. Just tell her to delete it and everything will be fine.
Do warn her though that if she ever does get a similar one with an attachment not to open it as that could damage the computer.
i forgot to also add… how did they get her email? she’s freaked out by that too, since she doesn’t own a business of any kind.
Usually they send it out to random addresses which is another reason why you should never reply because if you do they then know they have a legitimate address.