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The following emails have be sent to me over time and, as a result, prompted me to start this page up! The emails are all written along the same lines, with variations of the same thing.

The emails claim that if you fax, phone or email them with your bank details or whatever, you can claim your money or you'll receive a share of money. These are scams and should just be reported and then ignored.

However, we all know that there are some very stupid people in this world who will fall for these (because they are greedy, gullible or whatever) so I have omitted the postal addresses, email addresses, faxes, telephone numbers and names - in place is the * symbol for each omitted character.

All spelling and grammer mistakes were made by the authors of the emails.

I have a heap of other emails to add to this page when I find the time.

FROM : el Gordo Lottery (**************[email protected])
T0 : [email protected]
SUBJECT : CONGRATULATIONS
DATE : Fri, 5 Oct 2001

EL GORDO UK SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY
n.l
** *** **** ROAD
LONDON SW S32
LONDON ENGLAND
FAX: 44-**********

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: EGS/**********/**
BATCH: 14/****/***
ATTENTION: RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 3RD SEPTEMBER, of winners of the EL GORDO UK SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/ INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 14TH AUGUST 2001. Your company, attached to ticket number 025-****-****-***, with serial number ****-05 drew the lucky numbers 13-**-**-**-**-**, and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,200,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO. ***/**********/01. This is from total prize money of US$20,400,000.00 shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 25,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe and North America as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with a Finance and Security House insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent; JOHN SMITH, FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, GLOBAL CROSSING, LONDON,ENGLAND. TEL: 44********** FAX: 44********** For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 5th SEPTEMBER. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

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

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

Sincerely,
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
EL GORDO UK SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.

FROM : ALI BEKO (*******[email protected])
T0: [email protected]
SUBJECT : URGENT
DATE : Thu, 27 Sep 2001

5 ***** ***** Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos.
FAX: 15*********

Dear Friend /partner,

Compliments of the season.

I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained in this letter.

Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first implore you to treat with the utmost confidentiality, as this is required for its success.

My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria's Contracts Review Panel (CRP) who are interested in diverting some funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

In order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into your nominated account the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this quarter of 2001.

The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime in Nigeria, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries and parastatals. The present civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed outstanding amounts.

My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for our own purposes. However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names of companies that are based in Nigeria.

I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer the sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five hundred thousand U.S. dollars).

That is why I am writing you this letter.

We have agreed to share the money to be transferred into your account, if you agree with our proposition as follows;

(i) 25% to the account owner (you).
(ii) 65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 10% to be used in settling all expenses (by both you and us) incidental to the actualization of this project.

We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other business till we are ready and able to have access to them without raising any eyebrows here at home.

Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free. We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14) banking days from the date of receipt of the following information through the fax number stated above:Your Bank's name, Company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers and the account number into which the funds should be paid.

The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way, we will use your company's name to apply for the payment and backdate the award of the contract to your company.

We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above fax number, it is an America number it was acquired for the purpose of confidentiality . I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you.

Best regards, Ali Beko.

Reply to *******[email protected]

FROM : UMAR (****[email protected])
T0: [email protected]
SUBJECT : BUSINESS PROPOSITION
DATE : Thu, 17 Aug 2000

DR.CONFIDENCE UMAR
EMAIL: ****[email protected]
FAX # :234 1 *******

URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, which is of mutual benefit.

This is by virtue of it's nature of being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence of your ability, and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this great magnitude.

We are top Officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria.

In order to commence this business, we need your assistance to enable us transfer funds into your account. As members of the Contract Review Panel set up by the Government of Nigeria to review all contracts from 1983 to the present, we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment.

By virtue of our position as Civil Servants and members of this Panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names, in this regard I have been delegated by my colleagues of the review Panel to look for an oversea partner into whose account we would transfer the sum ofUS$21,320,000.00 ( Twenty -One Million, Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars) hence we take the liberty to write you.

The money will be shared as follows:-

1. 20% for the account owner
2. 70% for us (The Officials)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses.

Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk free, and the whole process will take between 7 to 10 working days from the date of receipt of the following information by Fax : 234 -1-*******, Your Company's signed and stamped letterhead with a transcribed "Text" which we would send to you upon receipt of your reply with a letter of interest.

The above information will enable us write letter of claim, and Job description by using your Company name to apply for payment for the above stated amount.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above Fax number. Detailed information of this pending business transaction will be sent to you as soon as I hear from you.

Yours faithfully,

DR. CONFIDENCE UMAR

NOTE: PLEASE QUOTE THIS REFERENCE NUMBER(**/*/**/**) IN ALL YOUR RESPONSES.....

FROM : Mrs N*** J****** (***********[email protected])
T0: [email protected]
SUBJECT : URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED
DATE : Tue, 9 Oct 2001

PERSONAL AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

DEAR,

I am Mrs. N*** J******, an Ivorien widow with an only son I*** J******. My husband was the chief security officer to the ousted president Henry Bedie of C�te d'Ivoire. During the over throw of 24th December 1999, my husband was among the people that were killed by the military.

Since after his death, I ran away with my only son.

Dear, may I introduce this business proposal to you with reference to an introduction and good recommendation made of you and your esteemed firm by your country's trade directory through your country's chamber of commerce. I do hereby wish to ask for your assistance in urgent business transaction that requires absolute honesty and secrecy.

The former president (BEDIE) gave him US 25.000.000 Dollars (Twenty five million US Dollars) cash in US 100.00 dollars bill stacked in a box when he got information that the militaries were planning to over throw him. Immediately my husband was confirmed dead, I made away with this box with my only son so that we can not be reached by Mr. BEDIE. I have really been waiting for a more suitable time and opportunity like this to contact you concerning this transaction.

Right now, the money is in a safe place, I deposited it with a security company for safe keeping. I am using this opportunity to seek for your assistance to move this money to your country, to be invested on behalf of my only son.

For this business to be concluded immediately, all you need to do is to arrange to meet with me and my son where this box is been lodged, open an account in your name, pay in the whole money after clearing and transferring it to your chosen account.

We can't do that on our own because we don't have account else where, moreover, we don't have any business to cover-up that is why we needed your assistance.

I am ready to offer you 30% of the total sum and give you the full power to manage the remaining 70% on be half of my son.

Contact my son I*** J****** where we are currently staying in a sister's house in LOME TOGO. This money we deposited it in the best security company in LOME - TOGO.

Upon conclusion of arrangement, we shall forward to you the certificate of deposit, and the phone and fax numbers of the security company for confirmation.

However, E-mail my son at this immediately you receive this e-mail message or through his e-mail address:i******[email protected]

Please I want us to finish this business as quickly as possible.

Yours faithfully
MRS N*** J******

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FROM : Dr Andrew B*****
T0: 92 E-mail addresses including mine
SUBJECT : proposal
DATE : Thu, 6 Dec 2001

Dear Sir,

I have been instructed by my colleagues to look for partners who can assist us execute an urgent business transaction involving huge profits and international cooperation.

We are interested in the importation of Solar Panels, Agricultural equipment and computer accessories. We need a foreign partner who can assist us with the transaction involving US$21, 320 000.00, which has been set-aside in an escrow account. We have resolved that a negotiable percentage will be your commission for participating in this transaction on our behalf and any other assistance you may give in this deal. A percentage will also be set aside from the entire sum to settle any expenses we may incur in the cause on these transactions.

My colleagues and I are civil servants and as such, it is not possible for any of us to operate a foreign account directly; hence we are soliciting your support. We propose to finalize the transaction in ten working days.

If this proposal is accepted please respond to us via e-mail to enable us provide you with the detailed modalities for the successful completion of the project. I would also suppose you�d prefer a voice contact which requires sending your telephone and fax numbers to facilitate the various processes.There is no risk involved we just need an international contact.Moreso,it will be of great importance you provide me with your telephone/fax details,so we can have a more detailed conversation regarding the whole project.

Finally, if you are not interested in this proposal, I apologize on behalf of myself and my colleagues for any inconvenience.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Andrew Biriye

Ps: Please kindly respond via my private and confidential e-mail address: ab****[email protected]

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FROM : e*****@************.com
T0: My mothers email address
SUBJECT : ASSISTANCE
DATE : Tue, 12 Feb 2002

FROM: MR W****** S*****
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
w********@yahoo.fr

Hello

BUSINESS CO-OPERATION / ASSISTANCE

I hope you will not be embarrassed receiving this mail as we have not had previous correspondences on this. I decided to contact you based on the clearance and assurance we received from our trusted contact who linked you up to us.

My name is Mr. W****** S***** a Sierra leonean. My father is a causin to former Sierra Leonean president J***** S***** who was removed from power in a military coup d'etat. My father Dr. B****** S***** was the Director General in the ******** of ******* ********* during the reign of President J***** S***** as President.

When the military coup was executed, the President and some members of the Cabinet escaped into exile, but my father who was attending a conference in the western part of the country at the time was arrested and publicly executed among other office holders by the military.

After the execution of our father, we have no alternative than to go into exile in Conakry, Guinea, with Miss T*****; My sister; N*****: my brother and our mother S**** who died a year after due to heart attack resulting from the shock of the crisis in Sierra Leone, and my father's death

Before my father's death, he had made some savings for us in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire. He had succeeded in depositing a total sum of Ten Million USA Dollars ( US$ 10.M) disguised as personal effects and deposited with a Security Company in Abidjan as property of his foreign partners, for safe keeping. The management of the company does not know the real content of the cargoes because my father bribed the junior staff at the cargoes department to receive the cargoes unchecked. The original copies of the Diamond / Gold license belonging to my father was also in the cargoes deposited for safe keeping. I and my sister; T****** has relocated from Guinea to Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire because of the war situation in Guinea now.

We have also located the security company where the cargoes was deposited because I have all the relevant documents covering the cargoes and the whole transaction. Now we want to present you to the security company as our father's foreign partner who owns the cargoes. You should help to claim the cargoes from the security company, invest the fund in your country or else where in real estate or other profitable joint ventures.

You should also help to move us abroad to take possession of the fund after it is cleared . You should also help to locate interested Diamond merchants who will lease or buy the Diamond / Gold license. I expect you to tell me what should be your commission for rendering these services and assistance. Your business specialization is no hindrance to the successful execution of this business.

The business is risk free as I have all documents and the company does not know the contents

Kindly reply through the above email address if it is convenient for you to assist and what are your conditions.

Regards W****** S*****

NB:PLEASE CONTACT ME ON THE ABOVE E-MAIL