Oh please. It is really curious. I worked for some time in Togo in a small internet-cafe. Over there I've heard a lot of things and I saw really a lot of emails passing through which were quite the same as this one. Many nigerians who pretended to have arrived to flee from Nigeria with an amount of some million US-$ in their case and that they are now looking for someone in Europe or America to transfer this money into a safe country, promising 10% of the money to the person who would help them. It was about 50 mails like this per day to business-men and even priests. The idea behind this is that the victime opens an account in the 'save country' and communicates the account-number and password to the person in africa. Of course you need to pay a little amount of money transfered to the account just to open it. Now, instead of transfering the big amount of money to the account, they just take of the little sum of money out. Unfortunately there are quite a many of naive peoples. So please Odili, stop your very very old cheat and don't fill up some usefull mailings-list with your tales! Marco -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: odili williams [mailto:odili_williams400@yahoo.co.uk] Gesendet: Montag, 5. November 2001 23:49 An: odili_williams400@yahoo.co.uk Betreff: ASSISTANCE.... FROM: MR. ODILI WILLIAMS E-MAIL: odili_williams400@yahoo.co.uk BUSINESS PROPOSITION: Dear Sir / Madam, I know this will reach you as a surprise, need not to worry as we are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance / partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit. I work in the Auditing Department of the First Atlantic Bank, Lagos-Nigeria, which I have served as an auditor and accountant for eighteen years. Presently I am the head of the Auditing Department. It is the tradition of the First Atlantic Bank to audit all dormant accounts at least once in five years. During the course of this exercise, it was discovered that an account containing the sum of USD$18.5 Million (Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) belonging to a foreign businessman, Engineer Peter Heindrich, who died five years ago in a ghastly air crash involving a Nigerian carrier, ADC Airline, is yet to be collected as none of his relatives has come forward for the claim. At this discovery, the auditing department then reported its findings to the Board of Directors, who after series of meetings has no choice other than to follow the Federal Government of Nigeria directive on unclaimed funds. Nigerian financial law clearly states that “if an account remains dormant for a period of five years, six month notification should be given to the account owner after which the fund will be declared UNCLAIMABLE and then transferred into a trust fund solely operated by the Federal Government. In other similar circumstances, there has been cases where funds transferred to the Federal Government Trust Fund were either misused or stolen by senior government officers. This will definitely not be any different since the same government who could not account for the previous funds are still the same people hoping to manage this one. Having this in mind, myself and four other top management staffs of this bank has decided to secretly scout for any foreign businessman who will assist us in the transfer of the said sum. If you agree to work with us as a team, we will furnish you with all that is required for the transfer to be effected while you will stand as a cousin / next of kin of late Engineer Peter Heindrich. The First Atlantic Bank is quite ready to hand over the fund to anyone who can come forward with proofs of genuine relationship with the deceased. My colleagues and I have access to the archives of late Peter Heindrich, we will provide you with all that you need to know. Also since we are working at top positions here at the bank’s head office, endorsing approvals in your favour will not be a problem as long as our direct involvement in this transaction is not mentioned to anybody. We heard from some reliable sources that some members of the board of directors are working to see that the fund is declared unclaimable because the First Atlantic bank stands to retain for itself the interest that may have accrue for the five years period the money was dormant. We on our part really want to trace any relative of the deceased but time is not on our side since the six months notification as stated in the constitution is fast eating up. At the successful transfer of the fund to your account, you will retain for yourself 30% of the total amount, 10% of the total amount shall be set aside to cover all expenses that may be incurred during the course of transfer. My colleagues and I shall retain the balance 60%. I wish to on behalf of my colleagues state categorically that this transaction is 100% risk free as long as you stick to our instructions. If anything goes wrong along the line, it can be easily traced to us since the file of the deceased has been termed classified by the bank. Myself and my colleagues (who are also involved in this deal) are among the privileged few who has any knowledge about the fund. Bearing this in mind, we have therefore put in place all machinery that will bring this transaction to a successful completion. This we can 100% guarantee. If this proposal is okay by you and you do wish to take advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you, then kindly get to me immediately through my confidential e-mail as stated above . Please provide me with your most confidential telephone and fax numbers where I can reach you immediately. Awaiting your urgent response. Yours truly, MR. ODILI WILLIAMS. NOTE: THIS TRANSACTION SHOULD BE TREATED WITH UTMOST CONFIDENTIALITY. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com