The Nigerian Scam

[Bamboo Grove]

I've been receiving these quite a lot lately. And it's not from Nigeria necessary. But for anyone who still doesn't know what these are a word of warning, they are total scam. Never answer them, you may end up losing your money.

Dear sir,
CONFIDENTIAL
Compliment of the day!
With the good reference made of your esteemed personal/office by the
chamber of commerce here in Accra Ghana, I hereby wish to commence talks with you on a high confidential level.
I am Billy Bangura presently a political refugee in Accra Ghana the son
of the former MINISTER OF FINANCE of SIERRA LEONE, MR THAIMU BANGURA a gold dealer.
During the recent crisis in my country, my late father was captured and
killed by the rebels who accused him of mis-appropriation of funds and
embezzlement.
Shortly after his death, I and the rest of the family escaped to
Ghana-West Africa region for safety.
He [my late father] left some document with me indicating consignment
deposit made with a security company here in Ghana before his death,
which the content US $50M {Fifty Million United States Dollars}.
I and my family are soliciting for your personal assistance with top
arrange and to receive this money on behalf of my family and ensure that the money is utilized wisely in a country of stable Economy like your country. The purpose of the money will be for a viable investment after we have collected
the money from the security Vault Company. The box was deposited for
safe-keeping and your assistance is required because our status as
political refugee does not permit us to handle large sum of money here, and you will also be excepted to provide us with information on investment opportunities in your country. We do not wish to contact any of my late father's business comrades/partner because we do not know who exactly caused his death.
I and my family reason of contacting you is for your co-operation for
you to assist the family in the removing of the fund out of the security
company in your favour and ours as well. Moreover, to help us use the fund carefully for investment. All the necessary document are at my reach. With confidence in you as a trust-worthy person to act in good faith! I will introduce you to an attorney as my father's foreign partner who will assist you with legal proceedings.
Since your particulars will appear on every vital document as the owner
of the fund this transaction will attract 30% for the assist you are
rendering.
I look forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Billy Bangura.
[For: The Family]

[Guess]

Interesting, brother Robert is making a similar ple. Try http://www.sierra-leone.org/

To quote

.........it became more and more obvious to the RUF fighters in the bush that the very same politicians whom had created the circumstances that led to the RUF's rebellion were again manipulating the populace so they could restart the corruption cycle once more.

These politicians included THAIMU BANGURA, the APC man who first taught the youths of Sierra Leone that thuggery and violence was an acceptable means to political power.

It was Mr Thaimu Bangura who first slit opened the stomachs of pregnant women during the Timbo-Bangura APC Elections in Sanda Town. He did this to assume political power.

And from an independent source.

In July 1999 Kabbah and RUF leader Foday Sankoh signed a peace agreement outlining a transitional government that included several RUF members. Later that year the UN established a peacekeeping mission to help monitor the peace process and oversee the disarmament and demobilization of RUF forces. RUF rebels clashed with UN forces in the spring of 2000 and Sankoh was imprisoned after attempting to flee Freetown. After months of resumed fighting, the government and the RUF signed a ceasefire in November 2000. The ceasefire held throughout 2001, allowing UN peacekeepers to disarm tens of thousands of RUF fighters. The disarmament program was declared a success in January 2002. The Kabbah government also secured the UN’s help in establishing a war crimes tribunal, similar to those for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to try Sankoh and other rebels for alleged human rights abuses.

[buksida]

I've been receiving these quite a lot lately.

This crap has been floating around the internet for the past 3 years or so, delete them all.

[Bamboo Grove]

Actually more than 3 years, I remember Ol' Bernard Trink warning about them more than five years ago. It's just that I've received more of them recently than in some years now.

[dr dave soul monsta]

I get them all the time just deleat the bleeders , there was an image attached with mine a photo of Judith whoopie dooo
I actualy responded to one once to take the mick

i gave them a old mobile phone number that i had doing niothing low and behold i recieved a call at 3 am with some dude telling me who he was and he was calling for siera leone and he we had to arrange the deal quick ,,strange i thought and asked why do you have a Thai mobile number ! he then hung up !

From: Judith [mailto:jkolo8@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE !!!



With due respect and humility, I write you this letter which I believe you would be of great assistance to me. I got your contact from the world trade centre (W.T.C) here in Madrid. I am Mrs. Judith Kolo the wife of Mr. Brandi Kolo of blessed memory. My husband was assassinated by the rebel forces loyal to Major John Paul Korma. Before his assassination, he was the director general, National Gold and mining corporation of Sierra Leon. My husband was one of the main classes of people targeted by the rebel forces in Sierra Leon. In the course of the revolution in the country, prominent people were hijacked from their homes to unknown destination. My husband was hijacked and was killed by the rebels. Two days before his death he managed to sneak out a written message informing me that he deposited sum of ($15.500, 000USD) fifteen million five hundred thousand Dollars. He instructed me and my only son to move out of Sierra Leon immediately before the powerful Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) forces intervened which eventually resulted to a brutal civil war.



I and my son managed to escape to Spain with the help of an air craft pilot and we are now temporary residing in Spain as asylum seekers. In order to avoid people raising an eyebrow over the Hugh sum of money, I decided to meet the security company where he deposited the money. Be informed that the real content of the money was not disclosed to the security organization and we do not want them to know this under any circumstances rather we deposited the fond and other family valuables property included(Gold). Please we want you assist us claim this fond from the security company. However, due to our status here in Spain we are unable to invest the money here in Spain because we are be denied in business world. We therefore need your assistance by coming here to claim this money and move it to your foreign Bank account.



Maybe you will be required to open a non residence Bank Account in any Bank of your choice here in Spain and get the money deposited in the account, there after you order the Bank to transfer the money to your account overseas. You shall also source for good investment for us where we can invest the money wisely. We have it in mind to establish a rewarding investment and good relationship with you.



Concerning the money, we are prepared to give you a reasonable sum of 35% of the total money and 5% would be mapped out for any expenses incurred in the cause of this transaction, and then 60% will be for me and my son.



If you are willing to assist us, you can also reach me and my son through this email address: help_judith@handbag.com, for more information to enable us proceeds towards concluding all arrangements regards to the fund. No other person knows about this money apart from my son and I. Please keep it very confidential.

If you dont mind view my photo.

Here is the information of where the fond is deposited,

Security name: LIBERTY SEGUROS SL,



Email: liberty.seguro.sl@cieux.zz.com,

TEL: 0034-695 616 308, Fax: 0034654-222-644,

Address: Plaza Espaqa NO: 5, 28054 Madrid Spain



We await your urgent response.

Regards,
Mrs. Judith Kolo.
basically the scam is they send you a load of e forms to fill in along with a signature for your account asking you to fax them back and empty it after forging you signature on inter banking withdraw funds forms

[Guess]

[quote="dr dave soul monsta"]

From: Judith [mailto:jkolo8@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE !!!


In order to avoid people raising an eyebrow over the Hugh sum of money,

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No other person knows about this money apart from my son and I. Please keep it very confidential.

Promise I won't tell a soul.
[quote]

Well I am off to Spain to set up a bank account.

[Guess]

strange i thought and asked why do you have a Thai mobile number ! he then hung up !

From: Judith [mailto:jkolo8@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE !!!

That is possible if someone phoned you from abroad with a calling card. I doubt if there is Thai involvement here. Of course it is always possible that they have agents in Thailand but I doubt if they would call at 3:00 AM.

Good idea that about the unused mobile phone. They might suddenly realise that the scam is costing more than it is worth.

[dr dave soul monsta]

no it was a thai network mobile number Mr Guess and the goon did actualy wake me up at 3 am

[linktolinh]

Can you believe that my BF invested in this kind of scam? I warned him several times to stop it but when I met him he started it up already. He strongly thought it's something real. They exchanged emails everyday, calling on phone every weeks, talking about an agent in London can took over the amount then trasnfer it to to Lebanon/ Nirgeria bank or something like that, they (or my BF) transfered money to a bank in London, and he even flew to London few times.

It's unbelieveable stupid. All of the man emails to my BF written in CAP LOCK and I tried to play Spy to understand what was really happening but I didn't sucess because I'm basically not a spy.

Finnaly after he ran into so much troubles and lost quite a big amount of money, he stopped. I was nearly invite him out for dinner to cerebrate then.

I don't know why on earth there is still people believe in this craps??? abd i can not believe I love one of them!!!

[Heebio]

This is a billion dollar industry. The lads, or Mugus, as they're known, are very uninventive and 99% of folk see right through their shite, but there's always one. They send so many they're coining it.

I set up a false email address and left a few messages on some well known online guestbooks. Within a week I had over 250 of the buggers spinning me some nonsense. And they're not all from west Africa, quite a few from eastern Europe and the ex Soviet republics....and one or two from Thailand. They're all over.

There's a site for baiting these b'stards and it can be a lot of fun...but very time consuming.

Guess....sounds right up your street.

[Guess]

..and one or two from Thailand...

So maybe, if I read the good Dr's implications correctly, there could be Thai involvement. I would bet though that the Thai addresses are West African or ex-soviets living or visiting BKK. There is plenty of them in Nana and I have even seen some dodgy looking ruskies here in Hua HIn. Pattaya is heaving with the tossers.


There's a site for baiting these b'stards and it can be a lot of fun...but very time consuming.

OK Heeb what is it. I am all up for scamming the scammer.

Guess....sounds right up your street.

I hope you are joking here, I am probably the most honest person you will ever meet. Lend me 100,000 baht and I will prove it to you.

BTW, where are you at the moment? I mean what country, not you address.

[Guess]

no it was a thai network mobile number Mr Guess and the goon did actualy wake me up at 3 am

You have been up to Palu-U again for the FEB with double mushrooms again haven't you?

[Heebio]

Aye, they prob operate out the Grace hotel coffee shop. Place is crawling with mafia par Russki.

I'm freezin my arse off in Scotland mate....more's the pity.

I'll PM you that site, it kinda requires a certain anonymity if you get into that game.

[Guess]

I'm freezin my arse off in Scotland mate....more's the pity.

You poor sod. It is 3:34 in the morning right now and it is still 77 degrees.

[Rob W]

Hi people Im new to the board and coming to HH at the back end of this monthand still trying to get accomodation!! and one got a tent????
Anyway after reading about the scam emails, i thought you might like this guy .http://www.quatloos.com/brad-c/directory01.htm

Rob