This one is a slight variation on a theme.

Here the writer claims to be British, living in Dubai. His wife and children died a few years ago, and he has changed his life values from making money to helping the poor.

How very noble!

Needless to say there is a problem. The poor chap says he his dying, and that he cannot access his money ($15m) as he is in hospital.

He needs a piece of divine help, why do they always bring God into it?

Therefore he wants me to access the money and distribute it as I see fit. I may of course charge whatever expenses I incur.

There of course is the "hook", by which he baits the stupid and dishonest, the temptation to steal all the non existent money.

It beggars belief but some peope actually fall for this.

Lord bless you too Fred!

Mr.Fredrick Anderson
Dubai(UAE)

Attention,
Dear friend,
greetings to you in the name of our heavenly God.
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the
temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into
your mind; but please, consider it a divine wish and
accept it with a deep sense of humility. My name is
fred anderson . I?m a 65 years old man. I am British
living in Dubai (United Arab Emirate). I was a
merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai. I was
also married with two children. My wife and two
children died in a car accident six years ago.
Before this happened my business and concern for
making money was all I lived for. I never really
cared about other values in life. But since the loss
of my family, I have found a new desire to assist
helpless families. I have been helping orphans in
orphanage/ motherless homes. I have donated some
money to orphans in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon,
Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany and some Asian
countries. Before I became ill, I kept $15 Million
in a long-term deposit account in a finance/security
company . Presently, I?m in a
hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for
oesophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to
talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a
few months to live. It is my last wish to see this
money distributed to charity organizations. Because
relatives and friends have plundered so much of my
wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the
agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any
of them. Please, I beg you in the name of God to
help me collect the deposit and the interest accrued
from the company and distributes it
amongst charity organizations. Use your judgement to
distribute the money and feel free to reimburse yourself when you
have
the money for any cost you
incur during the process of collecting and
distributing the money to charity organizations. .
I?m willing to offer you a reward If you are willing
to help; please reply as soon as you can. May the
good Lord bless you and your family.
Regards,
fred.Anderson

I am sure this person wrote to me before. Anyway he claims to be the son of the ex President of Congo, Kabila.

Much like any fairy story, there is a wicked step mother who murdered her husband and $21M.

All I have to do is pass on my details etc.

Sorry chummy, no chance but "God bless"!

NO.10 BURAWAYO STREET
JOHANNESBURGE,
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL:+

ATT: DIRECTOR/CEO.

URGENT ASSISTANCE.

I know you will be surprise to receive this but do please consider it a request from a suffering family in serious need of your humble assistance.My family had to bring before you this proposal because we sincerely hope you will be reliable to assist us.

Anyway,my name is WILLIAM KABILA,I am the son to the Second wife of the assasinated President of the Democratic Republic of Congo ,late Laurent Kabila.My Mother got your contact information through a family friend who works with the South African chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Six months before the assasination of my father,he had used my name to deposite in a metal box the sum of Tweenty one million five hundred thousand United States Dollars [US$21.5m] in a vault of aprivate security firm in Johannesbourg,South Africa.The security company does not know the actual content of the box deposited with them since my father declared it to be precious metals.

This money was to beused for his second tenure election campaign bid but unfortunatly,his own personal aide assasinated him in a palace coup on the early hour of January 16th 2001.Since my father's death,my step mother has continued to be extremly mean and discriminatory to us in the family scheme of things because his son, Mr.Joseph Kabila,now rule as president.

She has even arbitrarily accused my mother of having masterminded our father'sassasination and all sorts of groundless accusations. As a result of these,I decided to move my family to South Africa. Right now,I am staying with my family here in johannesbourg as a refugees. I have nowdecided to divert this money for our own personal usebut we would want to get it transferred out side the continent for our onward investment purposes.We do notwant to invest here due to the volatile and sensitive status of the region.

As an international partner,I genuinely solicit that you kindly help me and myfamily transfer this money into your country through your personal or your company's bank account for safekeeping pending my immediate arrival for onward investments,which we are goingtorely on you heavily to help us materialize.This money will be paid into your account asa contract fund through a prime local bank here in johannesbourg.

We have resolved to offer you[20%] of the money for your assistance and 5% isset aside to offset every expenses you made by both side.
The rest will be for investments in your countr yor anywhere you might suggest.Further discussions will commence when we here from you but do not forget the absolute confidentiality.

Kindly contact us on the above contact numbers.

Thanks for your co-operation.God bless.


Best Regard,

WILLIAM KABILA.

I received this one from the "auditor general" of a bank (if he is an auditor it must be legit, right?) four times today.

He claims to have come across a bank account containing $12M; the owner, who used to run a diamond company, is dead.

The "auditor general" wants to get his hands on the money, ie he wants to steal it, and needs my help to do it.

Let us be clear about this, those people that fall for this are knowingly taking part in a theft.

I repeat what I have said before, I have no sympathy for those that are so stupid and dishonest that they fall for this type of scam.

The writer of this email claims that I am the only person he has contacted.

If that is the case why has he sent me the same mail four times?

From The Desk of Mr. John Okoh,
Auditor, Eco Bank Plc.
Email:

Re: Transfer of ($ 12,000.000.00 usd}Twelve million dollars.)

Dear Beloved,

I have decided to contact you is respect of a business transaction. We want to
transfer to overseas account ($12,000.000.00 usd) twelve million united states
dollars)from a prime bank in Africa.

My name is Mr. John Okoh, the auditor general of Eco Bank Plc. during the
course of our auditing, i discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the
bank in 1998 and nobody has operated on this account again.

After a thorough research, i discovered that the owner of the account Mr. Allan
p. Seaman, a foreigner, and an industrialist died in motor accident since 1998.

Nobody knows about this account or any thing concerning it except you and me.
the account of Mr. Allan p. Seaman had no beneficiary and my investigation also
proved to me that he was until his death, the manager of diamond safari Nig.
[LTD.]. I will like to start the first transfer with five million [$5,000.000]
which when transferred successfully, we shall re-apply for the payment of the
remaining rest amount to your account. the total amount involved is (usd 12 m)
twelve million united states dollars.

I am contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a
local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can be
approved to a foreigner. this money is in us dollars and the former owner of the
a/c Mr. Allan p. Seaman is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved
into a foreign a/c.
i am revealing this to you with the belief that you will never let me down in
this business since you are the first and only person that i am contacting for
this business.

Send to me your private telephone and fax number, including the full details of
the account to be used for the deposit should you be interested in this
proposal.
Note that the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who
has correct information of this account, which i will give to you. upon your
positive response, i will use my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals for onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate
clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 25% of the total amount,
70% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have
incurred during the process of transferring.

Please reply to my private email address if your are interested in working with
me: ()

I look forward to your earliest reply .
yours truly,
Mr. John Okoh.

These scam letters now purport to come from anywhere other than Nigeria.

This one, which I got htree times yesterday, claims to come from Hong Kong.

The writer says that he has access to $28M, being the bank account of a dead oil consultant.

The writer offers to share 20% of the account, if I put myself forward as the next of kin of the dead man; ie he wants me to commit a fraud.

These letters used to pretend to offer the chance to help someone out of a bad situation; now they just offer the recipient the chance to steal someone else's money.

I have not that much sympathy for people who are stupid enough to fall for the "bleeding heart" letters, as their deisre to "help" is in fact motivated by greed and stupidity.

However, I have nothing but contmept for those people who fall for "steal a dead man's bank account" letters.

At the end of the day, if these spurious bank accounts existed (and they don't), those that fall for this scam are knowingly stealing (or at least think they are) someone else's money.

In my opinion, You deserve evrything you get.

MR.WANG QIN
HANG SENG BANK LTD.
DES VOEUX RD.BRANCH
CENTRAL HONG KONG
HONG KONG.
24/3/2003

ATTENTION:

I am Mr.Wang Qin, credit officer of Hang Seng Bank Ltd,
sorry if my English may not be well composed but I have a confidential
business proposition for you.
I honestly apologize and hope I do not cause you much embarrassment by
contacting youthrough this means for a transaction of this magnitude,but this is
due
to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.Furthermore,due to
this i
ssue on my hands now,it became necesary for me to seek your assistance, and it
is
imperative for me to know your opinion.

On June 6,1998, a British Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese
Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr.Smith Lawrence made a numbered time (Fixed)
Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US 28,000,000.00 (Twenty-eight
Million
Dollars only) in my branch.
Upon maturity,I 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
contract employers, the Hong Kong Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Smith
Lawrence
died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he
died
without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Smith Lawrence
did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including
his
Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US28,000,000.00 is still sitting
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. According to Laws of Hong Kong,
at the expiration of 5(five) years,the money will revert to the ownership of the
Hong
Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in
as the next of kin to Mr. Smith Lawrence so that the fruits of this old man's
labor
will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials.This is simple,
I
will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the
attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you
in pla
ce as the next of kin.We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting
and
notarization of the WILL
and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration
in your favor for the transfer. A bank account either a new one or existng one
in any
part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of
this mon
ey to you as
the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be pai
d into your account for us to share in the ratio of 78% for me and 20% for
you and 2%for any expenses Incurred in the course of the transaction.

There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be
done by the attorney and with my position as the credit officer guarantees the
successful execution of this transaction.If you are interested,please reply
immediate
ly.You may reply to my email box,

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant
documents that will help you understand the transaction.

Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy
communication. You should observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured
that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall
require
your assistance to
invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your reply.

Thanks and regards.

Mr.Wang Qin.

This odious individual claims to work for a bank. He claims that a customer, who died in a plane crash, left $38M in a bank account.

Without any of the normal pretence, our spammer here gets down to the nitty gritty straight away; he wants to steal the money, and split it with a foreigner.

Needless to say he needs my bank account details etc.

Shrivel up and die you odious little man!

Attn: The President /ceo

Dear,

By way of introduction I am Mr.Idris Umar working in the credit and accounts
department Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Lagos, Nigeria. I write you in respect of
a foreign customer with Domiciliary A/C number 6402356789. His name is Engineer
Joseph Schultzman. He was among those who died in a plane crash here in Nigeria
during the regime of late General Sani Abacha.

Since the demise of this our customer, Engineer Joseph Schultzman, who was an
oil merchant/contractor, I have kept a close watch of the deposit records and
ccounts and since then no body has come to claim the money in this a/c as next
of kin to the late Engineer. He had only $38.5mllion in his a/c and the a/c is
coded. It is only an insider that could produce the code or password of the
deposit particulars. As it stands now, there is nobody in that position to
produce the needed information other than my very self considering my position
in the bank.

Based on the reason that nobody has come forward to claim the deposit as next of
kin,I hereby ask for your co operation in using your name as the next of kin to
the deceased to send these funds out to a foreign offshore bank a/c for mutual
sharing between myself and you. At this point I am the only one with the
information becauseI have removed the deposit file from the safe.

By this doing, what is required of you is to send an application laying claims
of the deposit as next of kin to the late Engineer. I will need your full name
and address,company or residential, so that i can computerize them to tally with
next of kin column in the certificate of deposit. Finally I want you to
understand that the request for a foreigner as the next of kin is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and for that reason alone a local
cannot represent as next of kin. When you contact me, then we shall discuss on
how the money will be split between us. Please revert back to me via
()

Trusting to hear from you, I remain

Respectfully yours,

Mr. Idris Umar.

Well I am a lucky fellow! I seem to have won yet another lottery.

This time it is run by some Italians, and is called "Millenium"; note to the organisers, there are two "n's" in "Millennium".

I seem to have won $500K and $250K, and I didn't even know that I had entered!

However, as with the other lottery scam I received on 3 March, there seems to have been "a mix up with the winning tickets".

This means that I will have to prove my identity, no doubt this involves me having to hand over my bank details.

Don't fall for this one ladies and gentlemen, it is a con.

Millenium Global Email Lottery
22 Viale Roma
Venaria
10100 Torino
Italy.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
Ref Number: 75997/378-9947
Batch Number: 40035611223-MGL/2004
Sir / Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the
Millenium Global
Email Lottery programs held on the 23 of January
2004 Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number 976509526174-2986
with Serial Number
9778-248Drew lucky numbers 4-9-6-6-9-89-20 which
consequently Won in
the 1st category with another lucky winner, you both
have therefore
been approved for a lump sum pay of US$500,000.00
(five hundred thousand
United)
States Dollars).US$250,000.00 (200 hundred and fifty thousand
United States
Dollars) for each winner.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that
you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has
been processed
and your money paid out to you. This is part of our
security protocol
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this
program by some
participants.
All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn
from over 200,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual
email addresses
and
names from all over the world. This promotional
program takes place
every
three year.
To file for your claims, please contact our FIDUCIARY
AGENT in Italy,
for your Winning claims and Processing on telephone number

(Contact Officer- Robin Hills (Northatlantic Security/finance
SRL)
Please, be aware that our Paying Bank will effect
Payment Swiftly upon
satisfactory report, Verifications and validations
provided by our
processing Agent that would be designated to your
file.
Remember, all winning must be CLAIMED not later than July
2004. After this date all unclaimed funds would be
included in the next
stake.
Please note that in other to avoid unnecessary delays
and complications
remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence.
Futhermore, should there be any eventual change of
information please
inform our Agent as quickly as posible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff
and thanks for
being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anyboby under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.Members
of the affiliate agencies are automatically not
allowed to participate
in this program.
Yours truly,
Dr Hendall Dickson
Games / Lottery Coordinator.
Millenium Global Email Lottery
Central Europe Zone.

Here is rather a jolly tale from a chap calling himself Mark Escrupolo Masilag junior.

He claims to be living in the Philippines, but originally comes from Iran.

Needless to say there has to be a dead body, he uses his father's corpse as bait. However for good measure, and in bad taste, he links it to the recent earthquakes in Iran.

He scoured the net looking for a reptuable person, and found me!

I am, so he believes, God fearing. Therefore an ideal chum for a business relationship.

His poor dead father, fearing war in Iran, sent all his money ($28M) to Holland.

Now I can help him in this "once in a lifetime opportunity" (whenever I hear these words I instinctively reach for the sick bag).

Rather amusingly, he advises me that there are many frauds about and one can never be too careful; quite so!

Rather oddly, despite the fact that he claims to live in the Philippines, his email address is South African; how very odd!

The phrase "wouldn't touch with a barge pole comes to mind".

Hello,
Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I
am Mark Escrupolo Masilag (junior) from Philippines
(The only surviving son of late Sir Mark Escrupolo
Masilag)

I came to know and pick on you in my Private Search
for a Reputable Person to handle this Confidential
Transaction. The only reason I am contacting you, is
that I have gathered that you are a God fearing person
who would not take advantage of my situation.

My late father was a crude oil consultant based in
Iran until his unfortunate death as a result of the
earth quake disaster that just occurred in Iran
killing thousands of people which include my father
and my mother I was fortunate to have been in TOMATU a
village thousands of kilometers away from where my
parents lived on a school escortion.

As I write this mail I am still very much in shock and
pain on what has happened to my parents. My reason of
contact you is that before my fathers death every year
he moved all of his profit made for the year from
Iran to Holland just in case there is any war in Iran
so he would be sure he would have money to fall back
on when he goes back to Philippines, the total amount
of this funds as we speak is US$28 million.

I have been in contact with this security firm via
mail as that is all I have for now they have said that
in other for them to be able to release the funds I or
the MARK ESCRUPOLO MASILAG FAMILY representative must
come to their office in Holland to sign the funds
release document before they can release the funds.

Please all I want from you is to act as the ESCRUPOLO
MASILAG FAMILY personal representative sign the funds
release document and have the funds transferred into
your account I would be willing to share the money
with you 50-50 if you can do this to help save my soul
from this poverty I am facing now.

I would completely understand if you do not want to
help me out in this transaction even though it is of
mutual benefit, with the high rate of fraud going on
around this days one can never be too careful, but I
would be willing to send you my personal social
security card of Philippines so you can be sure this
is for real and you stand to change your life if you
take this life time opportunity to make some money.
Pleas reply to my private mail box ..

For refence to what I have said,the relevant webpages
about the earthquake can be viewed:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/30/iran.quake/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/29/quake.iran.doomsday.reut/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/29/us.iran.quake/index.html

Mark Escrupolo Masilag Jr.

URGENT HELP!!!

I received this fine literary masterpiece today, this time there are no diamonds or even a rotting corpse.

This gentleman claims to be involved in the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas company, in fact he claims to be the chief accountant.

He and the Auditor General no less, definitely a sign of an honest enterprise, wish to use my bank account to place a "whopping" (his words) $20M in.

They, being top civil servants, cannot open a foriegn bank account; of course not!

Well that would resolve my issues with my underperfroming endowment policy! (see The Endowment Diary)

As usual it poses no risk to me at all. How reassuring!

NIGERIAN LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS
LAGOS CENTRAL OFFICE
LAGOS-----NIGERIA
ATTENTION:

RE: TRANSFER OF US$20.500,000 (TWENTY MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) TO A
SAFE ACCOUNT

I wish to intimate you with this proposal in my
capapcity as Chief Accountant and in full agreement
with the Auditor-General of this company (Nigerian
Liquified Natural GAs). We scrutinised all records and
the accounts of awarded and executed contracts of this
company (NLNG) during the previous military regime,
since the inception of democracy in Nigeria and
carefully uncovered and mapped out a whopping sum of
USD 20.5m which we want to transfer into your account
as the beneficiary. It might interest you to know that
the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas came into full
working capacity during the beginning of this current
civilian government at a working assets capital of USD
3billion and will definitely gulp more USD 2 billion
on the completion of the fifth part. You can
authentically apply for supply if it interests you to
be our client with full guarantee from me.

The money US$20.5m has been approved for payment by
this company, NLNG, the Federal Ministry of Finance
(endorsed by the Accountant General of the Federation)
and to be paid by the Apex BAnk of Nigeria under
contract number, NLNG/FGN/FMF/CBN/B2517/99.

As top civil servants, we are not authorised to
operate foreign bank accounts hence our decision to
use your account in full trust and confidence to
transfer this money outside Nigeria. We have accepted
you as our foreign partner and will regularise and
update the approvals to reflect you as the true
benefiaciary of the contract sum USD 20.5m (twenty
million, five hundred thousand US dollars only).

Moreover, it is pertinent to note that it is not risky
and does not require much engagements since we have
taken care of the deal in full capacity. We have
resolved to negotiate the percentage which you will be
offered for your assistance when we finalise on the
deal with you.

If you are interested in this deal, please contact me
through my email address above for more lively
information. Remember to give me your phone and fax
lines through which I can send you approved documents
for your perusal.

I am anxiously waiting for your response with hope
that you will understand the confidential nature of
this transaction.
Yours faithfully,

MR IKEM

I received this work of literary fiction yesterday; subject line titled rather oddly "Divine".

This chap claims to be a farmer from Zimbabwe, his father was murdered in a "gruesome" fashion along with a few others.

He has $14M; and, rather oddly, claims to be living in Germany.

I am offered two options; take a percentage or go into partnership.

Don't think so matey!

HELLO,
I WISH TO BEGIN BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION,
I AM JAMES UGOMA, THE FIRST SON OF THE LATE EGOH UGOMA, ONE OF THE
FORMOST
BLACK FARMERS IN ZIMBABWE WHO WAS MURDERED IN THE LAND DISPUTE IN MY
COUNTRY.
BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER, HE HAD TAKEN ME TO JOHANNESBURG IN SOUTH
AFRICA, TO DEPOSIT THE SUM OF US$ 14.5MILLION (FOURTEEN POINT FIVE
UNITED
STATES DOLLARS) IN ONE Â OF THE PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES, AS FAMILY
VALUABLES, WHEN HE REALISED THE LOOMING DANGER IN ZIMBABWE.
THIS AMOUNT WAS MEANT FOR THE PURCHASE OF NEW MACHINERIES AND CHEMICALS
FOR
THE FARMS AND ALSO FOE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW FARMS IN SWAZILAND.
THIS LAND DISPUTE STARTED WHEN PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE INTRODUCED A NEW
LAND REFORM WHICH HAS PARTICULARLY TARGETED AT THE RICH, WHITE FARMERS
AND
A FEW BLACK FARMERS WITH MY FATHER INCLUDED.
THIS RESULTED IN THE GRUESOME KILLING OF RICH FARMERS (MAINLY WHITES AND
FEW BLACKS) AND THE UNLAWFULL POSSESION OF THEIR PROPERTIES BY MUGABE'S
WAR
VETERANS,UNDER THE DISGUISE OF FIGHTING FOR THE INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY.
IT IS AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND I FLED THE COUNTRY WITH MY FAMILY, TO THE
EAST OF GERMANY WHERE WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING POLITICAL ASYLUM (REFUGEE).
I HAVE DECIDED TO SEEK FOREIGN ASSISTANCE, AS THE GERMAN LAWS PROHITBITS
ASYLUM SEEKERS FROM OPARATING BANK ACCOUNTS OR INVOLVE IN FINANCIAL
TRANSACTIONS OF ANY KIND.HENCE THIS LETTER TO YOU.
ALL I NEED IS A TRUST WORTHY PERSON IN WHOSE CUSTODY I SHALL ENTRUST THE
ABOVE SAID AMOUNT AND HELP ME WITH INVESTMENT OPPORTUNTIES.
THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS, FIRSTLY, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO HAVE A PERCENTAGE OF
THE
TOTAL AMOUNT FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE OR GO INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH ME FOR
PROPER
INVESTMENT OF THE MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY.
WE SHALL DISCUSS IN DETAILS WHEN YOU REPLY. I AWAIT YOUR REPLY, WHILE I
IMPLORE YOU TO MAINTAIN THE ABSOLUTE SECRECY REQUIRED TO ENSURE A SAFE
AND
HITCH FREE TRANSACTION.I SHALL FURNISH YOU WITH MORE DETAILS ON REQUEST.I
WISH YOU THE BEST IN LIFE (GENERALLY) AS I AWAIT FOR YOUR POSITIVE
RESPONSE.YOU CAN REACH ME ON THIS SAME E-ADDRESS.
YOURS ,JAMES UGOMA .

A real live princess has written to me today, it is like something out of a fairy story isn't it?

She has $27M, her father was a king, the usual dead body, she wants to invest it blah blah..

It is of course 100% risk free!

She claims that she is a Christian, and that God directed her to me; I rather suspect it was in fact the spider that her web search engine uses.

I am afraid dear princess, for you the ball is over; I will not be taking you up on your ever so kind offer.

Good day
A CRY FOR HELP,I am writing this letter in confidence believing that if it is the wish Of God for you to help me and my family, God almighty will bless and Reward you abundantly. My family and I are true Christians and worship's God truthfully. I got Your contact through Internet during my research on some one who could Help us. I am a female student Of University of Nigeria, Lagos. I am 22 yrs old. My fathers died earlier two months ago and left my Mother I and my brother behind. He Was a king, which our town citizens titled him before his death I was a Princess to him and I and my brother are the only people who Can take Care of his wealth now because my mother is not literate enough To know all my father’s wealth behind. He left up to USD 27.350 000.000.00 million dollars with a security Company, and I don’t know how and what I will do to invest this money Somewhere in abroad, so that my father’s kindred will not take over what Belongs to my father and our family, which they were planning to do Without my present because I am a female as stated by our culture in the Town. That is why I felt happy when I saw your contact which I strongly believe that by the grace of God, you will help me secure And invest this money. I thereby need your help in bringing the box Containing the money out from the security company, based on your reply I Will furnish you with more details on how we can proceed. I am ready to pay 10% of the total amount to you if you help us in Securing this money and another 10% interest of Annual Income to you, for investing this money for us, which you will strongly have absolute Control Over. If you can handle this project sincerely and also willing to assist me In lifting this fund, kindly reach me and I will let you know the next Step to take towards actualizing this transaction as quickly as Possible. Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk free. I look forward hearing from you soonest. Yours sincerely,

Princess

I'm a lucky fellow, I have just been informed that I have won $1M in a lottery that I have never entered!

The email, full of spelling mistakes, says that I must keep it secret; as there has been some form of mix up.

I assume that they will require full proof of my id; ie bank details, signature etc etc....dream on guys!

This is just another form of the Nigerian scam, this time coming from the Netherlands.

SYNC INTERNATIONAL
SWEEEPSTAKE LOTTERY NL

WARRDENSTRAAT221B
1053
AS AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS

TEL NO:0031-630-817-558
FROM:THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
REF:DDS/200118308/004
BATCH:128/2203/KJJS.
S.C.F.N:WGK/7890423/BA.

ATTN:CEO

We are pleased to inform you of the release today the 27th Feb 2004, of the SYNC
INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMS held on the 27th Jan
2004. Your company name attacted to the ticket numbers 664-75600545-1788 with
serial number 5358/04 drew the lucky numbers 8-111-27-30-34-4441,which
consequently won the lottery in the 2 category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of us$1million in cash
credited to file DDS/200118308/004 .this is from a total cash prize of
us$15million share the ten international lucky
winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS.

Your funds is now deposited with our security department to your name ,due to
the mixed up of some numbers and names,we ask that you keep this winning a top
secret from the public notice until your clamins has been processed and your
remitted to your account as this is apart of security protocol,to aviod double
claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from the
30,000 company names and 20,000 individual names from all over the world as part
of our international promotions program,which we conduct every 4 year.we hope
with a part of winning ,you will take part in our end of year stake us$50million
international lottery.

TO begin your claim,please contact your Claim Agent,VAN DER HOOK,foreign service
manager FOREX TRUST AGENCY AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.
, for
processing and remittance of your cash to a designated account of your choice.

Remember,all winning must be claiming not later than March 16th 2004,after this
date all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to aviod unneccessary delays and complications,please remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your
agent.Furthermore,should there be any change of your address,do inform your
agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all members of our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Warm Regards,
RENEE ALEX

FOR SYNC INTERNATIONAL.