the Nigerian Scam..... 


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We have all heard of the Nigerian Scam where they ask you help to launder money they have stolen from their Govt…. well when I received one I thought I would see  how they worked and how good they were at handling problems raised by their victims!

Here is a series of emails that went back & forward for about three days till he slipped of the hook…. In retrospect I could have played him better but it was a interesting three days!

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 From Nigeria, May 2001

 I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as our  oversea agent in order to actualise this transaction. The deal in breif is  that the funds with which to carry out our proposed investments in  your  country is presently in a coded account in the Nigerian apex bank and we need  your assistance to transfer the funds to your country or any safe account outside your country in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you  before we can put the funds into use. For this you shall be considered to have  executed a contract for the ministry. The contract sum of which shall run into US$15.4 Million of which your share shall be 30% if you agree to be our overseas agent.
 Your area of specialisation does not matter in this transaction, all that is  required of you is a safe account and your willingness to assist us acquire  estates in your country. And it carries on…

 DR. ALI KOKO.

 I Replied

 I  would love to help you launder the money that has been stolen from your government. Unfortunately however I am being placed in to bankruptcy for bad debts of 64 million American dollars so I am not sure if you would be interested in doing business with me. I await your comments.

Regards
Ivan

From Nigeria

Dear Ivan,

Thank you for your prompt response. Frankly, we are apprehensive to proceed with you since you say that you are already in deficit of about US$64Million as at now, but this is not the issue here, if you can guarantee the safety of our funds when they arrive your possession, then we are prepared to proceed with you. It is your competence and trust that matters to us and not your financial state. Let me know your decisoin, so i can forward to you the details of how we intend to transfer this funds out safely to your destinaion account that you will provide us.
Once again, our sincere appreciation for your response.

Regards,
Dr.Ali Koko.

I Replied

Thank you Dr.Ali Koko, very much for your positive reply. You don't know how re-assuring his is for somebody to have faith in you in these troubling times.

I must admit I am a little concerned as to how I will be able to help you as the Inland Revenue who claimed I owe them 5 million have frozen all of my accounts and the other day when I tried to open a bank account in a very small bank where I thought funds may be safe I was denied a account.
Evidently the IRD has notified every bank in New Zealand.

They have seized my passport and this is where I wonder if you can help me.
Can you supply me a Nigerian passport under a false name? If you can I will be able to travel to Australia or Singapore and opened another account where I can hide some of my existing funds and then I will be in a position to help you if we act fast. I will be using Australia as my first stepping-stone to Europe where hopefully I will be able to hide from the a authorities and enjoy a little bit of freedom with the money that I have hidden and with the funds you will be supplying.

I  look forward to your positive reply and advice as to where I will send the photographs for my new passport. I must thank you in anticipation you are in giving me a lifeline for which I will be eternally grateful .

Regards
Ivan

From Nigeria

Dear Ivan,

I doubt if I will be able to get a false passport for you. But there may be other options available to us . I have a contact in London who may be able to assist, but I know it is likley to be expensive,
(second attempt to get money) but i will let you know once i speak with him. My position in government is too sensitive for me to try any thing that i cannot substatiate officially. perharps, you may have to open a domiciliary account with the Central bank Of Nigeria as a contractor, so that once we secure the clearance of the funds release to your credit, the funds can be transferred to this your account where your are the sole signatory. This will give us time enough to know how we would work out everything, since then the funds will already be under your control. Please, consider the options above and let me know what will be more suitable for us.

Below is details of the already laid down modalities for bringing this project to success including an application form . Now you may have to fill in any existing account of your whether frozen or not. This will make us put in the application for the funds release and secure the approval papers , then subsequently, you will notify the paying authorities of either your need to open an account with them or you want to redirect the funds to a new account that you will provide. On paper, the funds are for you as beneficiary, so you can issue instructions on how you want this handled.
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However, I have discussed your response with my colleagues, and with our  acknowledgement of you rapparent understanding of the need for strict privacy in the transaction of this magnitude, we make bold to give you the details of the perfected modalities for the projects prompt realisation 100% risk free and timely.  As top government functionaries who are about to retire and take active role in the next political dispensation/democratic election in my country, we have to keep this transaction strictly confidential so as to protect our future political career and personal integrity.  We hereby reassure you as the originators of the pending project that if you follow our instructions religiously, accordingly and promptly, the project will be 100% completed in at most 5 to10 banking days from the receipt of your requirements. Under our perfected modalities for a prompt finalisation of the project, it is absolutely risk-free and fail-proof.  We realise the necessity of confidence and trust as reposed on us all as partners, being necessary for building the solidarity disposition to be maintained by us in the furtherance of the prompt realisation of our desire.
In total recognition of this spirit, we  guarantee to you, that neither your interest nor that of your company will  be brought to odiom by reason of this project.  You can count absolutely on this as we will not let you down.

Your Requirements.  To meet with the total guarantee given above, it is absolutely essential for us to officialise the process of the funds transfer, making it take the semblance of a transfer of contractual payment for a contract, which under our modalities will be officially perceived to have been executed by your company for the FEDERAL MINSTRY OF WORKS AND HOUSING (FMWH), while the very nature of this project as an organised deal, will remain in our(partners only) exclusive knowledge.  Please do not let us down.To formalise the project, we are sending along with this email message, A SPECIMEN APPLICATION FORM needed for officializing the project, towards perfecting our modalities for the funds transfer. As a contract payment you should fill out this form properly, date it, sign it and despatch it to us promptly by fax, on my confidential Tel/fax.-234 1 7597514  This will enable us officialise the project. Or you could also send via email.  Keep the original safely as they may ultimately be needed at the instance of the project finalisation 

Once more, there are no risk involved at all as this is a completely confidential transaction. We are presently handicapped because we lack a viable partner who has a foreign account and is ready to financially assist us in finalizing this urgent business, this is due to restive laws of the Federal Civil Service of Nigeria which forbids us  government workers from having foreign accounts.  By virtue of our position(By Tender Board/Contract Awards Review and Payment Approval Committee) it is ordinarily and exclusively our duty to validate all payments of contractual moneys to contractors for contracts executed for all Federal Statutory Corporation of our past Federal Military regime.  Under our modalities for prosecuting this project to a prompt finalisation, it is our intention that upon receipt of the duly typed Payment Information From you, we shall validate the claim, make a customary writing report, that your company executed a contract for the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing (FMWH), and it is by virtue of the contract, entitled to the payment of theUS$15.4Million that we want to transfer.  This report will validate the bonafide of your claim and confirm you as the contractor beneficiary of the funds and therefore entitled to an allocation of an Exchange Control Approval number for the release of the US$15.4 Million, by the Federal Ministry of Finance, and subsequent remittance of the funds to you rnominated bank account (for us all) by the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN), which is the banker for all Federal Statutory Corporation in my country and paying bank All the Federal Ministry of Finance does after our validation report is to issue the final Exchange Approval Order Number as a bureaucratic satisfaction of contractual funds release procedure.  In effect, once the Contract Awards Review and Payment Approval Committee has validated a claim, the Federal Ministry of Finance is bound to approve same, this is why we have an unflinching confidence in the safety of
our arrangement. The transaction will be a Bank to Bank affair.  From the foregoing, you  are therefore able to appreciate why we have hammered on the absolute necessity of our maintenance of confidentiality of the project and the transfer even after we have disbursed the money after arrival in your account.

Finally, we will  want you to guarantee us the following:

1) That you  will keep this transaction totally confidential?

2) That you are satisfied with your share of the funds?

3) That you will remit our portion of funds as soon as they arrive your account except by further instructions on how should invest it?

Once again, thank you very much for your expressed willingness to assist in this project. I urgently await the completed application form to enable me commence action here timely this week.

Regards,
Dr.Ali Koko.

I Replied

Dr.Ali Koko....
I have NO bank account that the IRD have not ceased so I am not sure how I can receive any money.

If you are not able to help me with a passport I am sorry I can not help you get your money because of the above reason.

I am most disappointed ....I really expected you to be able to help me....


Regards
Ivan

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From Nigeria

Dear Ivan,

You should not sound dissapointed,  because there is no reason to. Do you require I lie to you about what I can do to make you happy instead of telling you the presice staet of things here?  I needed to make adequate enquiries first, before i can confirm categorically if it is possible or not. I can arrange a passport for you after all! I spoke with the special assistant to the ( Internal affairs minister) and he is willing to assist, but this is going to cost money.  (confirming that it will cost me money)
He has not specified as at yet since today is public holidays here and nothing can be done. He will let me know first thing in the morning once work resumes here.

Please, Send 4 (coloured passport)(THUMB PRINT AT THE BACK OF THE  PASSPORT) to the address provided below, so my personal assistant can pick it up for me and as soon as i get clearance from my contact here about how much it would cost you, I will let you know, so you can also forward the money through (western union) to my assistant as well for me to process everything.

With his influence, it can be arranged within a week from the date of receiving the passports and money from you. You know it is not possible for a foreigner to own my country's passport just like that. He wants to do everything with top government connections.

MY ASSISTANCE NAME AND ADDRESS;


          MR ANTHONY UKE
          58,EKEWHAN ROAD,
          LAGOS.

I await to hear from you. Once we can have this done successfully, then you can move and assist us in making sure this project is completed succesfully.
Please, do not let us down.

Regards,
Dr.Ali Koko.

I Replied

Dr.Ali Koko...
Do you not understand.....I am Bankrupt...... the IRD have frozen ALL of my assets..... I have a little bit of cash hidden away but if I try & send a money order all of that will be seized as well.   My only hope is for you to send me a passport SO I can help you with the money you want me to launder and I can only do this is I creep out of the country with a assumed name and carry the money with me to open a account in this name in another country..... THEN I can receive this $15M US you want me to launder.

Until that happens I can be of NO help.  So unless you can supply me a passport under the name of Basil Jones-Smyth we are  wasting out time.... I do not need to point out it was YOU that approached ME asking for my help...... if you will not do something to help me then we might as well forget all about it!

Regards
Ivan

From Nigeria

Dear Ivan,

You sound as if I am obligated to help you? We have just knon each other for less than 120hrs and you are making me doubt your credibility. Why should you not find any way possible to send the funds when I know presicely what it will cost us here to procure a passport for you. If it is something I can handle, because you are going to play a very major role in our fimilies happiness in a short while from now when we successfully complete the transfer of our funds to your credit.

I will see if I can handle things on my own here, otherwise unavoidably you will have to send the funds
(another try) (you can use anybody to do this for you) through western union to my assistant as earlier specified in my previous message.

This is the position from here and my final resolve on the issue.

Regards,
Dr.Ali koko.

 At this point of time I should have given him another carrot just beyond his nose so he could have come back on another path, but I came on strong so the fish got away!

I Replied

Of course you are obliged to help me Dr.Ali koko....

It was you that wrote to me asking MY help to scam the money out of your country and I was offering you a way of doing this.....if you do not wish to avail yourself of this offer then it is no problem to me..... I am no worse off that before I received your email.

You ask for peanuts to arrange a passport to allow me to open a account in another country so YOU can send the money.....with this continual request for money for a passport that you keep on coming back to makes me doubt if you have any money at all, as a person in your position that can arrange a scam of US$15mil, a fake passport should be a piece of cake.

Before I am prepared to do anything more You will need to produce two things
1. A passport as I requested at no cost to me so I can help you with your transfer of the money
2. irrevocable proof thro banking circles that the money exists and is in your control

Regards
Ivan

NO REPLY

Dr.Ali koko.
Have I upset you?   ....why have you not replied?  .....would a bank account in England be any help ....someone will set one up for me....

Regards,
Ivan

NO REPLY I wonder why …….was it something I have said?


Others offering money

Lady Maryam Abacha, wife of Late General Sani Abacha,ex-military head of State of Nigeria who has USD4.3 Million overseas…. Such a small amount when you consider the others on this page

Mr  John Koffi
Manager Credit & Account Dept,
Ecowas Bank Lome.
Republic Of Togo.
Offering 40% Of $10.5mllion

Dr. Idowu Kof
Mmanager Bill and Exchange
International Bank Of Africa
Lome- Togo.
Offering 40% of US$18.5 m dollars

 Mr. Ugo Mobutu & Mr.Peters Mobutu.is in on the act as well The Son Of The Late President Of The Federal Republic Of Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko,{Now Republic Of Congo,
Offering Commission By Negotiation of US$21.5m 

Colonel,Prince Jam Gomez, Director Of Logistic Department To The Late Dictator Laurent Desiree Kabila, Of The Democratic Republic  Of Congo[ D. R. C.] Central Africa
Offering 25% of US$26 Million

Alex Ndoma, Auditing And Accounting Unit. Foreign Remittance Dept. Union Togolaise De Banque Lome-Togo. Tel: 228 903 75 89.
Amount $US25.5M offering 30% and a extra 10% for expenses

Kuffor Ansar is a Ghanian and has Stolen $25,000,000.00 From His Boss All You Have is to go to Ghana and help him dispose of it I guess he will promise to pay well! Several million I would guess

Olawale Daniels, Falomo Office Complex Ikoyi Lagos Has stolen US$21.5m an placed into a Safe Account. It Has Been Agreed That The Owner Of The Account Will Be Compensated With 20% Of The Remitted Funds, While We Keep 70%, And 10% Will Be Set Aside To Off Set Expenses Phone Me And If I Do Not Say"Good Luck", That Means You Are Not Speaking With me

MR. Wilson Damilo. Petroleum (Special) Trust Fund, Contract Award Committee, National Secretariat, Victoria-Island, Lagos-Nigeria.
They overshot the contract sum by USD18 Million. So are
Offering 30% of $US18M

Mrs jessy . Makenze has USD 16,000,000.00 (sixteen millions united states dollars) in a bank here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. That the money for was went meant for his cocoa business he wanted to invest in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.

FIDELIS ALOYE, a member of the Presidential Task Force on Oil Spillage Clean-up. Has US$38 million of which you can have 25% if you help him

Moses Kabila in Madrid, Spain has US$30M(Thirty Million United State Dollars) from smuggling and sale of Diamond and Timber when his father was the head of state
he is offering only 20%

Mrs. Sese-Seko widow of late President Mobutu
Sese-Seko of Zaire? has us$18,000,000,00.) from the Billions her husband had wants your help no mention of % offered

Laurent Mpeti Kabila (Jnr) the second son of Late President , of Democratic Republic Of Congo has US $165m. AND I repeat AND some thousands carats of Diamonds total value $200m. He says you will be entitled to 5.5%, but he counts on your honour to keep his secret, SECRET. That is pretty good $11m better than you can do with ones of the other names on this page; Now you will promise me you will not tell anyone now will you!

Dr. Usman Jaffer. has in a "deceased account" of the Union bank US$32, 624, 000 that he would like to send to a reliable person, let me know it you would like to be that person.

Madam Kate Vilam The Wife Of One Time Minister Of Transport And Aviation in Liberia ( Dr. Thomas Vilam) Who Was Poisoned To Death By One Of His Close Political Colleagues, but has in a Bank account US$17 000 000 She Promises To Offer You 15% Of The Total Sum And 5% For Any Expenses all she wants is your 1. Telephone Number, 2. Fax Number, 3. Bank Account Number

DR.ILOBAH BENE, Director UNION BANK, Lagos-Nigeria.
Says Australian Engr.Johnson Creek, was killed leaving US$10.5m in a account. No next of kin. Want someone to stand in as distant relative, your share 30% of US$10.5 million, 60% for them and 10% for miss expenses. Good money IF YOU CAN GET IT, he says it is risk free

Lord Benson Group Of Companies the M.D V.Akpaka, of 117 Mission Rd Off Abeke Rd Sapele, Delta State, Nigeria. Writes asking for "Request For Partnership / Information About Your Company". If you can believe that someone of any worth uses Yahoo for email you deserve to looks all of your money

Mrs. Sarah K. Bright, Tel : (225)07-53-13-61, Avenue 16 Rue 42, Cocody Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire. she is the wife of late Chief Paul Moses Bright from Sierra Leone. She seeks your assistance to transfer $15;500.000 now in BIAO BANK Abidjan Cote D'Ivoire. Please as you shown your willingness, Forward to us your full name, address and Tel/ Fax numbers. She offers 10% AND PLEASE, tell no one as to her whereabouts.

Ismalia Mohammed want to swindle from Union Bank Of Nigeria Plc US$32, 624, 000) and wants your help and wants you not to keep the money!

These names are all offering more of above, Mr.Chilex Aladu, Mr. Tunde Williams, Dr Usman Mallam Sani, Dr. David Azuka, Dr.Martins Ubeki, Buwire Tanko,

The letters are still arriving thick and fast with new names that are the sole beneficiaries or managers of Banks, Govt dept, you name it they think of it.

If you read this page and still get TAKEN you deserve to lose you money and you have proved the old adage that a fool and his money are soon parted.....

Of course if you are determined to give away lots of your money just send a bankers cheque to my address made out to my favourite charity, just use the initials C.A.S.H. I will make sure it is put to good use, and I will send you a picture of me at the six star hotel in each wonderful location around the world.

if it is to good to be true it probably is!

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