Here's a totally stupid e-mail that many people get


My Dearest,

I am highly compelled upon strict recommendation, to write you this very
urgent and confidential letter. I do hope my letter will not embarrass you
since I had no previous correspondence with you. Please all replies should
be through my private email box (mrsfatimabacha@myself.com)

I am sending this proposal with due sense of humanity, responsibility and
with few awareness that you will give it a sympathetic attention. I regret
the inconvenience it may cause you based on the condition that we have not
met before.
I am Mrs. Munirat Fatima Abacha, the wife of Mohammed Abacha, son of the
late head of state of Federal Republic of Nigeria - General Sani Abacha.I
am contacting you in view of the fact that we will be of great assistance
to each other like wise developing a cordial relationship.

My husband along with his late father and top officials of their past administration
has been accused of looting several Billion United States Dollars from the
Nigeria Government. The current attitude of the present government towards
my family has indeed made life quite unbearable for us. Fortunately, Mohammed
my Husband has Eighteen million and Six hundred thousand and United States
Dollars(US$18.6 million) cash, which he intended to use for investment purposes
overseas. This money is kept in a private security company. This money was
deposited for safe keeping in the security vault of a freighting agency
here by my husband preparatory to being air lifted abroad for investment
purposes before his arrest leaving a clause that it could only be claimed
by an expatriate partner. It is only my husband and myself that know where
the money is kept.

Due to the current situation in the country concerning government?s vendettas
towards my family, we seek your assistance to transfer this money out of
Nigeria for the purpose of investment as intended by my husband. Note that
my family is currently being probed by this present government for alleged
involvement in misappropriation of public funds during my father-in-law's
regime. Towards this effect, an embargo restricting my family members from
traveling or carrying out financial transactions without their express permission
is in force.

Right now, my husband (Mohammed) is under arrest and is being detained in
connection to the above and other activities of his late father. However,
I have an arrangement on how to freight this money to you after receiving
some assurances from you of the safety our own share and that you will only
take the commission that we will offer you. This money personally belongs
to my husband and he intends that it still be used for investment.

The freighting company to be used has now been introduced to me and as soon
as we receive your readiness to assist us receives this fund we shall formalize
the deposit documents in your name and reach an agreement with them to air
lift the consignment for your pick up. Bearing in mind that your assistance
is needed to transfer this fund, we propose a commission of 15%(Fifteen
Percent) of the total sum to you for the expected services and assistance

Ha! The email was probably all in CAPS. I've received hundreds of these. When I first started receiving them I sent fairly nasty replies back to them, but that only resulted in me getting blacklisted and I started receiving four or five times as much Nigerian scam mail afterwards for a couple of months before going back to normal levels. The sad thing is that some people have gotten sucked into this scam. You can find stories about these things through Google.

I wonder how many people are going to check their e-mails after reading the initial post, I'm gone their, now.

another variant I just received

Dear SIR

I have received good and vital information about you and decided to write this message to solicit your advice and your humble confidentiality concerning this project which I consider very beneficial eventhough I have not seen you in person but due to the recommendation I received about you,it became imperative to have made me write this message without hiding anything from you since I know that I will surely meet with you in person before the conclusion of this project.

I am chukwu felix, a pilot attached to the United Nations Aid Commission.In my capacity, I have served in several countries on humanitarian basis as my past posting was in Iraq.

In the course of carrying out my task, I came in contact with a bank manager of a prominent bank in Iraq. This manager eventually became my close friend. He however sought my assistance to help him move some large sum of cash to Europe because of his intention to flee the country and seek political asylum as war in Iraq was eminent.I was successful in moving the cash sum of $ 25m (Twenty five million dollars) which is now with a security company in Europe. I concealed the cash tagged "DIPLOMATIC" and moved it together with my personal belongings in our United Nations aircraft in one of my trips to airlift and evacuate United Nations aid workers at the heath of the war by America and Britain against Saddam.

Unfortunately, I have made efforts to locate this bank manager which has been unsuccessful. By venture of my tight schedule as a pilot, I don’t always have time at all to continue tracing the manager, I fear he might be dead since he has not contacted me in spite of having my contacts.

Because of my position as a United Nations pilot I don't want anything that will make people to raise eye-brows on me which may cause investigation on me. Now the security company has sent a routine notification to my forwarding particulars to come and collect the deposit which I kept in their custody. Because of these reasons I decided to contact you as I have received a good recommendation about you to assist and cooperate in order for you to stand as the owner of the property. Advice me on how we can use your account to receive the deposit for an investment purpose in your country.

The sum of $25,000,000US is still sitting in the security company without bringing any interest. I have never gone back to the security company to ask for the money until I was contacted last week to come for claim but I don't know anywhere to send the fund because the fund is so large. Also I was thinking that the bank manager who trusted me and hand over the fund to me would have come for the collection of the fund. Unfortunately, the bank manager has not turned up till now.

That is why I am asking you to use your professional idea to check the area or how we can handle this project to avoid me loosing this fund to the security company because according to the European law, at the expiration of certain months, the property will revert to the ownership of the European government if nobody applies to claim the property. But now, the security company has contacted me for claim, if I don't make a wise move, the fund will be forfeited to the security company or the European government. Personally, I am a Christian and would not want to do anything that will not please God that is why I have decided to make a token donation of 20% of the fund for humanitarian work for God.

Truly speaking, I will be happy we invest this money as follows:

40% for investment in your country as partners. 20% for humanitarian work for motherless people/needy.20% for me and 20% for your time and your presence which you

will render on the cost of receiving this fund.You may respond through my alternative email: mnh_mnh11@yahoo.com

I expect your urgent response.

Best regards,
chukwu felix