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20 October 2008 Blog Home : October 2008 : Permalink

What is Nigerian for Chutzpah?

I'm sure my readers are only too well aware of the Nigerian 419 email scams where you are offered the chance to gain zillions if you'll just help this poor widow/orphan/accountant stash some of her husband's/father's/client's loot since the poor man has recently died.

Most of these emails to me go directly into the great bit-bucket in the sky without my reading even the subject line, but I do on occasion check my spam folder to see if something has been misclassified as spam and needs rescuing. Hence now and again I click on an email just to see what exactly the sender is trying to sell/how he is trying to scam me. This one, I thought, was a very ironic email.

SCAMMED VICTIM/BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENT CODE:06654

Our Ref.EBN/UN/FRN/O6654

Attn:Sir,

Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (₤200,000,00) Beneficiary.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654:(₤200,000,00)

This is to bring to your notice that I am
delegated from the United Nations to
Eco bank Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims the sum of Two Hundred
Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (₤200,000,00) each, you are listed and
approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get back to us as
soon as possible for the immediate payment of your Two Hundred Thousand Great
British Pounds Sterling(₤200,000,00) compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations,I want you to know that during the last UN
meeting held at Abuja,Nigeria with the president, MR. PRESIDENT, ALHAJI UMARU
MUSA YAR'ADUA (GCFR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. It was alarmed so much
by
the rest of the world in the meeting on the lose of funds by various
foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world
today,in other to retain the good image of the country,the New president of
the country is now compensating 100 victims of this operators Two
Hundred
Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling (₤200,000,00) each,Due to the corrupt
and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria,the payments are to be paid by Eco
bank Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by the
World Bank and National Westminster bank London/Bank of Scotland.

According to the number of applicants at hand,23 beneficiaries has been paid
,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more left to be
paid the compensations of Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling
(₤200,000,00)each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in
Lagos Nigeria as one of their victims of the operations,you are hereby warned
not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so
ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both
options you
choose;

DRAFT PAYMENT
WIRE TRANSFER
ATM CREDIT CARD PAYMENT

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.

Send a copy of your response to our official email at:
[email protected]

APPROVED BY ,

Mr.Ban Ki-moon.
Secretary-General

His Excellency,
Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'adua (GCFR)
President Of The Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Alabi Samson Adebowale
Director,Eco Bank Compensation
Payment Unit.

Oddly enough I do not think I shall try and avail myself of this generous compensation offer.