From: HEAD OF OPERATIONS FIRST BANK NIGERIA PLC (HQ) LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA ATTENTION: It is my humble pleasure and trust, I write this very important letter to you, considering your capability and reputable of assisting us in understated business proposal, trying to know if you can be of help,irrespective of the fact that we didn't know each other before or have met for the first time in life, I came across your contact via international profile in my earnest sarching for a truthful/honest person to handle this business with us. Firstly, I must solicit your strictest confidentiality in this transaction,this is by virtue of its nature as being top secret and confidential.I am Dr.Richard Bayo, Head of Operation Unit., First Bank Nigeria Plc (HQ) Lagos Nigeria. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make some one whom you didn't know for the first time to feel apprehensive, but be assured that all will be well with every involved persons at the end of this business as it is risk free. THE PROPOSITION : A FOREIGNER, MR. THOMAS PETER CREEK (AN EXPARTRIATE ENGINEER, who has a domiciliary Account with this Bank, FIRST BANK NIG. PLC (HQ) foreign operation dept., MR. THOMAS. P. CREEK is an oil merchant / contractor with Federal Government of Nigeria for many years, but for about 3 years now from 1999 his account was dormat without saving more money or withdrawing from the account as it use to be, because of this development his account officer MR. ALFRED CHUKWU reported the matter to me as the head of the dept., upon this report that I conducted a personal investigation by sending MR. ALFRED to the address submitted by MR. THOMAS as of the time he opened the said account with us to know the cause or reason of everything before the matter will be made known to the bank in general, but pity he came back with a report to me conforming that MR. THOMAS died some time in 1999 in a ghastly car accident in Port-Harcourt Nigeria Oil heart city. Leaving in His account US$26.8m cash. Now I have informed the bank authorities and board members about this matter and after many meetings they resolved that I should contact the relatives or next of kin on behalf of the bank, hence is in my dept for them to file a letter of claim, but all effort by this dept to contact any of his relations or next of kin prove unsuccessful, the embassy of his country has tried without success and write me on behalf of first bank suggesting that the fund being shared to THE RED CROSS, CHILD CARE TRUST or MOTHERLESS BABIES HOME and AIDS ORGANISATION IN AFRICA. In order to prevent the bank from diveting this fund as unclaimed fund or sharing it as said by the embassy which I know they will not do I and my colleagues MR. ALFRED CHUKWU being MR. THOMAS account officer,the bank lawyer, P.R.O. Officer and the administrative Manager now seek your assistance for you to stand as the next of kin / relation of MR.THOMAS P. CREEK in claiming this US$26.8m. All the documents to enable you cliam this fund will be carefully provided to you to submitt for the work out of this claim.If this is acceptable to you, kindly contact me through my private phone: +234-8033025573 also forward to me your telephone, fax,mobile number, your bank detail, your full home address for easy communication as more detail will follow up. We will be also happy to hear / know from you, your percentage, immediately this fund is being remitted into your account.Note that high degree of trust is required from you, not betrayal. Thanks and Best Regards, Dr.Richard Bayo THANKS, BRUCE
How come all Nigerian scammers are doctors it seems ? Gawd.....if they'd heard of malpractice they'd change their title....don't you think ?
This is one of the funnier things I have read about the Nigerian scam. Some people have taken to playing with them and documenting what all they do. The guy who wrote this is hilarious. And as an added bonus there is a picture of his "wife" half naked. http://spl.haxial.net/nigerian-fraud/
www.419eater.com Great forum to follow up on some guys who mess with the scammers. Some of the pics are insanely hilarious.
Bruce: if you really want to muck with the guy reply as follows; "I'm sorry, but $26million is about 1 week's pay in America. If you have any friends with some real money, please have them get in touch with me. I make $ 1.4billion a year, and I am a janitor (I clean floors.) keep this in mind." Of course, the king is here. http://www.419eater.com/html/stev_ebe.htm He scammed the scammer. In all seriousness, it's sad these people work so hard to bilk people. I'd like to say their efforts should just be spent in legitimate enterprise, but that'd be applying this country's oppertunity environment to another country I've never visited.
I spoke with a person who played with the scam for fun. They are clever to not ask for your money up front. They have attorneys fax letters, personal calls, and send Fed-Ex packages etc...all without asking for any money. Eventually they try to spring the trap: We have to draft the papers to give you your money. All we need is 5K. Of course they cannot take the 5K out of the millions they are going to give you. They will still run after you, even after you have declined their generous offer of trading 5K for millions. LOL
I wonder if anyone has ever fallen for this? I think we should send similar scam letters to Nigerians.
Clax..... A very wealthy (well apparently not any more) Royal LePage real estate franchise owner in your neck of the woods lost $500K CAD to these guys a few years back. It was on CTV's "W5" show a year ago.
Mr. Plunder Myknuts Techpointsystems IT suppliers. "We don't just take IT to the top - We take IT up the arse."
Mr. Plunder Myknuts Techpointsystems IT suppliers. "We don't just take IT to the top - We take IT up the arse."
Ralph.....heh......no I don't.....but, he was willing to show his face on TV during the episode I watched.....apparently the Royal Bank of Canada stopped him before it was too late and he sent even more money overseas or for that matter.....went there himself. How could someone be so naive ?