Most ridiculously elaborate Nigerian money scheme ever

Alyssa

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Ok, I just had to pass this one on. What an elaborate story!

From: "Yobo William" <princewilliams3@worldbusinesslink.org> Add to Address Book
To: princewilliams3@worldbusinesslink.org
Subject: From Prince William,
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:52:06 +0000


Dear Sir/madam,

This letter might surprise you because we have met neither
in person nor by correspondence, but I believe that it
takes just one day to meet or know someone either
physically or through correspondence.

I got your contact through my personal search, you were
revealed as being quite astute in private
Entrepreneurship, one has no doubt in your ability to
handle a financial business transaction.


However, I am the first son of His Royal Majesty Pepple
Y. William, the traditional ruler of Bonny province in the
Oil rich area of Rivers state in Nigeria. I am making this
contact to you in respect of USD45, 000,000.00 (Forty Five
Million United States Dollars), which I inherited from my
late father.

As You may be aware that my country is the third largest
oil producing country in the whole world. My father is the
ruler of the richest community in Nigeria. My community
produce 5.8% of the total annual Oil production in Nigeria
and 0.5% of the Dollar value of each barrel is paid to my
father as royalty by the Federal Government to our
community. In his position as the royal head and chairman
of the Bonny Oil trust fund.


Foreigners often refer to his kingdom as the Gas/Oil Land.
This is because the island floats atop one of the largest
gas and oil deposits anywhere in the world. This explains
is why the island is home to several Multinational oil
companies, such as Shell, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron and one of
Nigeria's most expensive ventures in recent time, Nigeria
Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG), these companies also
offers my father a lot of gratifications as the royal
father of the kingdom where they operate.

Some of this money was accumulated from royalties paid to
my father as compensation by the Oil firms located in our
area, for hampering Agriculture which is our main source
of livelihood. Unfortunately my father died from
protracted diabetes. Before his death secretely he willed
the sum of USD45, 000,000.00 (Forty Five Million United
States Dollars) and he safely deposited this money in cash
into a consignment and kept it in the custody of a
security company without the security company knowing the
content.


I have the certificate of Deposit and any information you
wish to have as a proof to show for it.

My problem actually started when my stepmother said that
the next king must be her son instead of me as the heir
apparent to the throne. I am the first son of my father
but my stepmother has used her position and influence to
convince some members of the council of elders that my
biological mother was not properly married to my father
because my mother is not living in the palace due to some
problems within the family before the death of my father.
This action by my step mother is just a bid to deny me of
my right, which I challenged. In the process there was
confusion that divided the communi ty into two factions.
This led to a revolution by the youths and women who are
solidly behind me. Consequently, my international passport
was seized just to stop me from traveling outside the
country.


Now I need help. I need someone who will claim the fund my
father deposited with the financial security company and
deposit it in his/her personal account pending when I will
be free again. Please, help me to salvage the only hope of
survival that I now have of which my step mother and the
children do not know about this money.


I am in need of help to safe guide this money so as to
settle down and fight for my rightful throne. Right now, I
am in hiding and I do not want this money to stay much
more in the security company because I don't want to incur
extra cost on the deposit since I don't know how long my
problem will last.


If you can help me in this my time of need, I will give
you 20% of the total sum, while 80% will be kept for me.


I look forward to your helping me.


Yours sincerely,


Prince Yobo William
 

JeffM

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Apr 20, 2004
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Have you seen this place www.419eater.com - They tell you what to do with these things and at the same time have some fun playing head games with them. There's some really funny stuff up there.

Jeff
 
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syoung

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i just got this one today... Russian this time!

I am MR. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA,the personal accountant to
Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest person in Russia and owner of the
following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil
Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial
institution with its branches all over the world).
I seek your partnership to accommodate the sum US$423M for us.
My Boss got arrested for his involvement on politics in financing the
leading and opposing political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which posed treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president before he was reelected On March 14, 2004.
You can catch more of the story on this websites
<http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html>
<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/10/18/041.html>
<http://www.mosnews.com/money/2004/10/18/yuganskneftegaz.shtml>
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/9950187.h>
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<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3753804.stm>
<http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/18/news/international/yukos.reut/>
<http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041017-064951-5424r.htm>
<http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2004/10/18/ap1595717.html>
<http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_496642.html>
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/112302/1/.html>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28041-2004Oct12.html>
The fund (US$423M) in question was approved by the Government of Russia for payment of various YUKOS OIL contractors/suppliers to prevent them from loosing the money they invested in the numerous contracts they executed for the above firm.
The Government had already concluded plans to freeze all the accounts
in my boss name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) both corporate and personal and have on the 18th of October 2004 decided to sell off the assets of all Yukos Oil corporation at a give-away amount to pay the allege taxes which the company owed the Russian Government.refer to the website again.
Everybody in the world know that this is a political vendetta to ensure that Mikhail Khodorkovsky comes out of detention as poor and broken man and his companiesare liquidated, that if he is not eventually sent to jail for tax evasion.
The Accountant General of YUKOS OIL (who is also my
partner in this transaction) and I have decided to raise a memo stating that YUKOS OIL owe contractors the above amount which was finally approved for payment after some deliberations. Actually, we have paid all our contractors both local and foreign because they agitated for their payments when they heared that my boss was arrested and might eventually be jailed by the Russian Government.
YOUR ROLE:
I will present you/your company as one of the contractors we are
owing so that you can stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum or part of the fund according to your financial strength or the
strength of your company. I will arrange for the documentation which
the payee bank will need to transfer the sum to you. The transaction
has to be concluded before as soon as possible. You will be rewarded
with 10% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner
on this?
If this proposal is acceptable to you, Please send me your direct and
private, telephone and fax number and email address to enable me
furnish you with more information as we intend to conclude the transfer within 14 working days.
N/B:DO MAKE DIRECT CONTACT TO ME VIA THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:
IMAEVA LIOUD@NETSCAPE.NET <http://uk.f258.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=LIOUD@NETSCAPE.NET&YY=17491&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>

Regards
MR.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA
 

cmoore207

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It seems like these things are getting more and more common, especially on a smaller scale (ebay seems to be having a rash of such scams). That just says to me that there must be morons out there who still fall for these things. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to use the internet.
 
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NorCalDiscoII

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MR. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA - that's a female name... I call BS :D
 
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syoung

Guest
these scams date WAY back to long before the internet too- they used to send these by teletype. I had a friend whose dad ran a shipping company and they relied on teletype worldwide- they got these same things. Then later as fax machines got popular, they did the same scam and worded it so it looked like a mis-addressed fax that people could exploit.