# Nigerian scam: now with Testemonial! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357 "2003-12-21T20:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357/1 "2003-12-21T20:00:03Z")
Just found this in my mailbox: > [@](#): > > From: Dr.Goronyo Baba… > > Satellite Tel: Note:Do not send emails.You can contact me directly on the new tel.number or by sending me a satellite message stating your telephone number and email address contact on this number just > given to you using the link online below. > [http://www.iridium.com/..there](http://www.iridium.com/..there), you will see send a satellite message to my sat.tel.number- 881-631-410-574 > > Attn:President/C.e.o. > > Strictly Confidential & Urgent Business Proposal. > > Re: Transfer Of Usd $21,500.000{Twenty - One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Us Dollars Only. > > I am a member of the Federal Government Of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.P.C). > Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in the Petroleum Trust Fund (P.T.F.) BY MY COMMITTEE. > > This contract was over invoiced to the tune of us$ 21.5Million Dollars. This was done delibrately. The over - invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. > > We not want to transfer this money, which is in a suspense account with the P.T.F. into any oversea account, which we expect you to provide for us. > > Share: > > 60 % of the money would be for my partners and I. > 30 % of the money would be yours, for providing us with logistics, which, would include a safe bank account, where we shall facilitate funds transfer into, as soon as documentations are concluded over here. > 10 % of the money has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that might be incurred during the course of the transaction, (both local and international expenses). > > If interested in assisting us, please contact me via my secured satellite tel number- 881-631-410-574, specially procured for this project, using the text message… > > It may interest you to know that a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, President of Crane International Trading Corp., of 153 East 57th St., 28th floor, N.Y.10022, Telephone: 212-308-7788 and Telex: 6731689. The deal was concluded and all covering documents, forwarded to Mr. Miller to authenticate the claims. Once the funds were transferred, Mr. Miller presented to his bank, all the legal documents and remitted the whole funds to another bank account, and disappeared completely. My colleagues and I were shattered, since such opportunities are not easy to come by. > > Please, if you are interested in assisting us carry out to the fullest capacity, this transaction, we would require the following information from you which would enable us make formal application to the various ministries / parastatals, for the release and onward transfer of the money to your account. > > 1.Your Full Name, Company’s Name, Address, Telephone and Fax Numbers. > 2.Your Bank Name, Address. Telephone and Fax Number. > 3.Your Bank Account Number and Beneficiary Name - You must be the signatory. > > Please, note that we have strong and reliable connections at the Central Bank Of Nigeria and other Government Parastatals, hence assistance in this regards, would not be a problem. > At the conclusion of this transaction, we shall use same contacts to withdraw all documents used in the course of this, to avoid any trace whatsoever that may ever arise, to you or to us, now and in the nearest possible future. > > It might also interest you to know that we are mere civil servants who do not want to miss this opportunity, hence, we want this money transferred out, as soon as possible, before the newly democratically elected government ever think of making enquiries as regards the various activities of the past military government. > > Kindly contact me as soon as possible, whether or not you are interested in this deal, so that whereby you are not interested, it would give us more room to scout for another partner. But if you are interested, kindly contact me via above email, telephone or fax, so that we can swing into action, as time is not on our part. > > I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. > Yours Faithfully, > > Dr.Goronyo Baba. > Send me your email address and tel.numberif interested for re-verification that you actually received this mail. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357/2 "2003-12-22T05:35:22Z")
haha - what fun to see this just after reading a thread in Gen Q. regarding a possible discovery of a new and really nasty creature. I hope a cite isn’t needed for an off-the-cuff remark like that, 'cos I could not _bear_ to try to fetch it - honest, guv, I’ve been rebooting this comp every 5 mins as it is. AND the namsters seem hungry today - eating my attempts at wit and wisdom. Well, I bet you’re proud to be one of the first recipients, **Jeff Olsen** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357/3 "2003-12-22T07:48:24Z")
Aren’t you glad you’re gonna be a millionare? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357/4 "2003-12-22T13:43:09Z")
Phone number is disconnected… DANG the bad luck! ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357/5 "2003-12-22T14:44:43Z")
Dunno about the rest of it, but I sure want one of those “suspense accounts” mentioned a few paragraphs in. It’s about time they made banking exciting again! ---
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nigerian-scam-now-with-testemonial/220357/6 "2003-12-22T18:07:46Z")
Just as a matter of interest I am at present ant-scamming these guys. I have 4 of the dipsticks well and truly hooked and gagging for my money. I am Stephen Hawkinge Paulus von Kayserck (ex WW2 German officer of high rank) The Rev. C. Litoris Nelson Muntz. I am not doing this alone, my associate, an American doper is assisting in this anti scamming under the names Sister Angelica of the Mission of the Engorged Phallus Lisa Simpson Eva Braun ( A German lady cruelly bereft of her husband) A. Einstein (Asst to Mr Hawkinge) Oh 'tis jolly fun playing with these buggers, getting them to run to and fro from one bank to another looking for the cash I have ‘wired’