spam note about big bucks

[Mike Arman]

>From: Eric_R_Kissell at whirlpool.com
>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:31:14 -0400
>I just received the following Nigerian money scam spam note:
>RE: TRANSFER OF US$10,500,000.00 AMERICAN DOLLARS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT
>From: richardogbaru at tiscali.co.uk
>Dr. Richard Ogbaru
>Abuja - Lagos.
>They offer me 20% of the $10.5M for letting them use my account for the
>transfer.
>How does one of these scams work with $10.5M? If I was stupid enough to



What they expect is for the sucker (who they hope will be one or more of
us) to fixate on the $2,000,000 (20%) they'll get essentially for no effort.

After the mark has spent the $2,000,000 several times over in his mind (new
car! new house! new bike! new Rolex! etc.), they start the sting . . .

"The money is on the way, but we need to bribe one minor official so he
will stamp the last paper - please send $100 (or a cheap Seiko, etc.) and
all the money will be arriving very soon!"

Seiko sent, hold breath, ohboyohboyohboy I'm gonna be rich!

"We are ready to send the money now, but the official's superior wants to
be "remembered" too" - and you can't send his boss a Seiko, it needs to be
a Breitling, as befits his station . . .

This goes on until the mark either runs out of money or gives up, many,
many bribes later. BTW, bribes are non-refundable . . .

Unfortunately, this particular scam seems to work, or they would have
stopped sending the faxes and e-mails long ago.

Lotta people have lost a lotta money on this - do a google search on
"Nigerian 4-1-9 fraud" - it is a REAL eyeful!

(By the way, "Dr." (right) Richard Dogpoo is a cheapskate - the number is
normally $30,000,000 or so . . . )

Best Regards,

Mike Arman