From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 29 2002 - 17:24:11 PDT
In the message "[Micronet] Funds Investment", dated 2002-07-29,
williams T wrote:
>I am Barrister Williams Falana a member of Nigeria Bar
>Association (NBA). ... The sum of USD48M (Forty eight Million
>United States) was lodged into one of the leading private Banks
>here in the Country by the late Head of State (GEN.SANI ABACHA)
>this money was lodged in security vaults / boxes. ...
To point out what may be obvious: this is an out-and-out scam.
As the US Secret Service writes at
<http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml>:
>Unfortunately, there is a perception that no one is prone to enter
>into such an obviously suspicious relationship. However, a large
>number of victims are enticed into believing they have been singled
>out ... to share in multi-million dollar windfall profits. ...
>Indications are that [this type of fraud] grosses hundreds of
>millions of dollars annually [from victims] and the losses are
>continuing to escalate.
There is a Web site which collects and even categorizes these
so-called "scam letters" at:
http://Internet-Fraud.com/internet-fraud/nigerian-scams.htm
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
P.S. The link to the Internet-Fraud.com site above is courtesy of
Mimi Mugler of IST-WSSG.
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