The Mugus are back at it again...
I am surprised to see these idiots still using this scam:
FROM: MR JAMES UBANAH.
Dear Sir,
I am sending you this private email to make a passionate appeal to you for assistance. Kindly accept my apology for contacting you this way and forgive me if this is not acceptable to you. My name is James Ubanah ; I am an auditor at one of the Nigerian Banks.
On Tuesday, 19 January, 1999, one Dr. Paul Brown a foreigner, made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit, valued at £10,550,000.00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) for twelve calendar months in my Bank Branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his company that Dr. Paul Brown was aboard the Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. After further investigation, it was discovered that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin proved abortive. On further investigation, it was discovered that Late Dr. Paul Brown did not declare any next of kin or relatives in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work here in our Bank. The total sum, £10,550,000.00 is still in my bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it.
In accordance with my country's banking laws and constitution, at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money will revert to the Government treasury if nobody applies as the next of Kin to claim the funds. Consequently, I shall present you as a foreign partner to stand in as the next of kin to the late Dr. Paul Brown. Upon acceptance of this proposal, I shall send to you the National Bank Plc "Next of Kin Payment Application Form" as well as detailed information on how this transaction would be carried out. We shall employ the services of a solicitor for the drafting of the LAST WILL & TESTAMENT of Late Dr. Paul Brown and to obtain all other relevant papers in your name for the necessary documentation for payment approval in my bank headquarters in your favour. The money will be shared in the ratio: Sixty percent for me and my colleagues, thirty percent for you and 10% would be set aside to offset all expenses in course of the transfer.
I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law as I and my colleagues will use my position to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. Please be informed that your utmost confidentiality is required. Should this proposal meet your interests respond back via my email me at: .
Awaiting your response.
Respectfully yours,
Mr. James Ubanah
Posted by David A at January 19, 2006 08:30 AM
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Comments
i lived in nigeria for a year and a bit.
man, what a sad sad place.
80% of the population live in dire poverty - $1 a day.
on the walls of some houses/properties people have written 'NO 419 - this property is not for sale'
nigeria changed my thinking alot, i now appriciate my (birth)privlages much more. I wonder by what miricle i wasnt born into poverty like that - and sometimes it makes me question religion/god
way off topic i know, just wanted to share that.
love you all
Posted by: datsun at January 19, 2006 12:47 PM
Thanks for sharing that Datsun. I know a few Nigerians myself, and it is a small, small minority that are engaged in 419 scams. Sad that such a beautiful country has become known more for this than for its beauty as a country, or that of it's people.
Posted by: David Anderson at January 19, 2006 02:43 PM
I work for an agency(World Vision)that has a field office in Nigeria and the poverty is so wide spead. Anybody that would want to because rich this way is evil & sick. They should be living in the same conditions.
Posted by: Brian Wieland at February 13, 2006 12:40 PM
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