FROM: ENGR. SADIQ YUSUF

ATTN: DEAR FRIEND,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

First, I must solicit your strictest confidentiality in this transaction.This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top secret'. You have been recommended by an associate who assured me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending business transaction requiring maximum confidence.

We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said trapped funds. The source of the fund is as follows:

During the last Military Regime here in Nigeria, the Government Officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in their various ministries. The present Government set up a Contract Review Panel and we have identified alot of inflated contract sums which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment. However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of the panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we could transfer the sum of US$21,320,000.00 (Twenty-one Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand U.S Dollars). Hence we are writing you this letter.

We have agreed to share the money thus;

1. 20% for the Account owner (you)

2. 70% for us (The officials)

3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.

It is from our 70% that we wish to commence the importation business. Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date of receipt of the following information by E-mail:

1. YOUR FULL NAME

2. YOUR COMPANY NAME AND ADDRESS

3. YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS

The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your companys name to apply for payment and re-award the contract in your companys name. We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this proposal using the alternative E-mail address below ONLY. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I shall have heard from you.

Yours faithfully,

Engr. Sadiq Yusuf.

N.B: PLEASE RESPOND ONLY THROUGH THIS ALTERNATIVE EMAIL ADDRESS

It's also known as : The Nigerian Money Scam

In other words. Do not reply.

Please Mr. Siphis, I emplour you note to lisen to theese Phantom person. I am bagging you to lisen 2 me. We do in face need and outlit four us to depose our monies. My peopels are in need. I have recently descoverd that there is more mony that i will depose in youre account. The refised amont is 70 bullion US American dollars. Plese take this monies to be deposed in youre bank. All I need is youre social secure nomber, youre bank accont nomber, youre date of birthing, youre mothers maden name, youre address and youre credit card nombers. With this informations i well deposits the 70 bullion into youre account.
Thanking you, and i remane yours truely, Muomba Mumboca Abbue, Chief of the Fucawi Tribe Of Nigeria

By the way as an added cultural notation on how my tribe got its name:
One day, long ago as legend has it, our ancesters were lost and when they happened upon a stranger in the woods our leader asked. "where the fu** are we?" From then on we were known as "The Fucawi"

@ J6P

I can imagine the disappointment...

I know phantom, but that was almost 4 weeks ago

Awww. I wanted that money

My idiot wife bit this one, only they claimed to be a dying millionaire. She actually gave them our phone number! They wanted her to go to some country by herself and get the money. When he called I talked and told him that I would have to meet with him first....and we never heard from him again.

I told her to not trust everything see gets in a email. She also LOVES the work at home scams, and has blew away a few hundred on them.

gonzowalker, your wife doesn't sound like an idiot to me. She sounds like a kind, soft hearted person that wants to get ahead in this competitive world. I would be willing to bet that if you ever hit the lottery for mega bucks, she would spread the wealth among family and friends. Just a guess on my part.
But you can make her aware of an old saying that is correct about 99.999% of the time and that is: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." This world is full of scam artists whose total time is spent on thinking of ways to part the innocent from their hard earned cash. While we can rarely out think them we do have the power to say "NO".

I stand corrected.