Ah, Abacha’s are a dime a dozen these days. Not to rain on your parade or anything, but the better (and rare) ones have a satellite phone number attached. If you really want some, set up a spoof account, then google “mugu guymen” and a bazillion guestbooks will be listed. Look for “MUGU GUYMEN! I DEY HERE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”, as those are 419ers telling other 419ers to piss off, this is their board. Put your spoof name and address in about five or six guestbooks, and your box will be full within a week. Gah-ron-teeed.
What a slut that Maryam is. She wrote to me with a very similar offer on May 27, 2002. (However, that seems to have been before she was dehumanised.) She offered me a cut of $15 million, though, so it seems she’s been able to get her hands on some of the loot in the meantime.
On the other hand, I’ve also received two e-mails from Miriam Abacha, also a wife of Sani, which are more similar to the one you received.
I also got an e-mail from Sunirat Abacha, who is the daughter-in-law of Sani.
Also a letters from Barrister IJEWELE EGO, lawyer for the Abacha family. Plus one from Mr. Steve Akosa, a former special adviser on Petroleum to the late president, and from Dr. Jerry Williams, his former Energy Adviser.
Plus more than 50 other offers from folks in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, South Africa, the Philippines, Haiti, etc.
If you really liked the e-mail you got, I’d be happy to forward your address to all of these guys.
Ha! I see your Dr. Miriam Abacha (well actually both a “Dr.Mrs.Maryam Abacha.esq” and a “Dr. Mrs. Munirat M. Abacha” in the same letter, plus a “Dr. (Mrs.) Mariam B. Abacha (GCFR)” in another one), and raise you:
[ul]“Senator Fred Brume, of the Delta state central senatorial district of Nigeria,”[/ul]
[ul]“Senator Luisa Pimentel Estrada, the first wife of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (former head of state and President of Philippines).”[/ul]
And last but not least:
[ul]“PRINCE JAMES MOKOBA the Crown Prince and Heir apparent to the paramount ruler of Idemili local kingdom,”
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Bosda, be careful, because most of these letters are scams. I got a similar letter promising me $12 million if I would go to Nigeria to help them move their money out of the country. Well, expenses mounted up naturally with unexpected needs for bribes and bail and by the time I was finished I only netted $5 million. So watch yourself.
Damn! I had a spoof account with about 200 letters in it (I was tracking them by IP and phone number at one time) but I let it go, so I don’t have any others to play.
I did make a guy wait for me at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, though.
The last one I got pertained to be from the troops in Iraq. Apparently they had looted one of Saddam’s treasure palaces and needed help getting all the bullion and jewels etc out of the country…
Yes they do. Quite a few don’t think, can’t see the ridiculousness, have no critical skills, or are just flat out greedy. Quite a bit of money goes to these 419ers, making them wealthy in their country, or live very comfortably in Europe. A lot of English-speaking people around the world take these guys on to harrass them, waste their time, probe the theft ring etc. to try to bring them down.
Ooooooo they had these guys on ‘Scambusters’ on TV a few weeks ago. They met the 419er’s in Amsterdam, pretended that their contribution was buried in a park and sent them chasing around the park with a treasure map drawn by the 9 year old son of one of the crew members. Very funny!
I know the Nigerian letters are scams…but just this week, I got business proposals from China, Korea, and the Ivory Coast asking me to help them move money out of the country. So, while all you suckers lose your shirts to Nigerian crooks, I’ll be livin’ large on my ill-gotten Chinese, Korean, and Ivory Coastian cash.
