From: Sam Sloan ISHIPRESS COM> Date: 13 apr 2001 Subject: Re: money laundering I just want to explain (or perhaps I should post this on my web site): This is "The Old Nigerian Scam". I received my first letter like this one in 1992 when I was in Japan. In that instance, the author said that the Government of Nigeria had allocated $18 million to build a petrochemical pipeline in Nigeria. All I had to do is send him my bank account number and he would send me the $18 million and then I was to deposite 55% in his bank account in Switzerland and keep the other %45 for myself. I responded to this letter and afterwards I received telephone calls from Lagos, Nigeria almost every day for the next month. It was not the same person always calling. Apparently, my number had gotten around and different groups were offering me better deals in competition with each other. When I got back to America, I found an article in the business section of the New York Times entitled "The Old Nigerian Scam". The scam is that after you agree, they tell you to fly to Nigeria to meet the person who will give you the $18 million. After you get there, they explain that you have to pay this government official, who is a general, a small bribe of a few hundred dollars. After you pay the few hundred dollars and wait a few days for the money, they tell you that there is another general and you have to pay him a few thousand dollars. And so on. One British firm paid over one hundred thousand dollars in supposed bribes before realizing that they had been taken. There was a US State Department release about this. They said that in some cases the unwitting bribe-giver when he refused to pay more had been arrested for attempting to bribe a government official. Then, he had to pay more money to get out of jail. The Nigerians have obviously updated with the new technology available and are sending these letters out by bulk e-mail on the Internet. Sam Sloan At 09:06 PM 4/12/2001 -0400, Hans Geuns-Meyer wrote: >I just got the same mail. It's the most idiotic spam mail I ever received. >Perhaps only members of Shogi-L should be allowed to post here (I assume >that Sulemanaba Aba alias Capt Eteki Sese Seko is not a member). Pieter, >what do you think? > >Hans > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marc Marian" SHOGI DE> >To: TECHUNIX TECHNION AC IL> >Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:07 PM >Subject: money laundering > > >> Dear shogi friends, >> >> sorry for bothering you with some non-shogi-information, but I think its >> important. >> A few minutes ago, I have received an email to my following address: >> "marc.marian shogi de" >> I have ONLY published THIS address to the shogi list. Hence, I suppose >> there are more members of the shogi list who have received or will >> receive the email which begins like this: >> >> (inside quotation marks) >> "Betreff: BAKO >> Datum: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:00:35 +0100 (BST) >> from: ikel awke yahoo co uk> >> to : marc.marian shogi de >> >> FROM: CAPTAIN ETEKI SESE SEKO >> >> Dear Sir, >> I am captain Eteki Sese Seko, a brother to the late >> President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire now Democratic >> Republic of Congo (DRC). I got your contact address >> from a Broker who was commissioned by.........." >> >> ... >> >> I announce that this is a fake and a well-known attempt of money >> laundering. The only goal is to abuse a person opening a private bank >> account which is safe for illegal transactions. >> Please, do not answer this email and delete it. So do I. >> >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Marc Marian >> shogi.de > >