Check out this crazy scam I received in my e-mail

[slbpsi63]

Dear Sir,First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in the transaction. Tointimate you further, we are top officials of the new civilianadministration Committee on Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), who are interestedin the importation of goods into our country with funds, which are presentlytrapped in my country. In order to actualize this dream, we seek yourassistance to transfer the said-trapped fund into an interest bearingaccount which you have absolute control over in your country or a thirdcountry other than Nigeria.The new civilian administration of General Olusegun Obasanjo (rtd) set-upthis committee specifically to review all contracts awarded/executed for thePetroleum Trust Fund (PTF) to determine their propriety and relevance in thelight of the country's current economic and political realities. We haveidentified a lot of inflated contract fund that are presently floating inour Apex Bank. At this moment we have worked out modalities withinourselves, and some acquaintances at the Apex Bank, the Central Bank ofNigeria (C.B.N.), to divert the sum of US$42,000,000.00 (Fourty-two millionUnited States Dollars) only, for our personal use. However, by virtue of ourpositions as Civil Servants and members of the Trust Fund, we cannot acquirethis money in our names. Consequently, I was delegated by my colleagues as amatter of trust to look for an overseas partner into whose account we cantransfer this sum of money, hence this letter to you.Furthermore, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total sum intoyour account for disbursement. Your areas of specialization is not ahindrance to the successful execution of this transaction and the accountrequired for this project can either be PERSONAL or COMPANY account whichyou have total control over. Needless to say, the trust reposed on you atthis juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 15% ofthis sum, 80% for us officials while 5% shall be set aside for incidentalexpenses between the parties in the course of this transaction. You musthowever note that this transaction is subject to the following terms andconditions: -(a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence(b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy andconfidentiality.(c) That the funds would be transferred to an account where you haveabsolute control over.Note that everything however dep! ends on your response to conditions A andC above.Modalities have been worked out to the highest level for the immediatetransfer of the funds within 14 working days subject to your satisfaction ofthe above stated terms. Our assurance is that your role is RISK FREE. Toaccord this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual security ofthe funds, the whole approval procedures will be officially and legallyprocessed with your name or the name of any company you may nominate as thebona-fide beneficiary.Once more, I want you to understand that having put over 23 years in thecivil service of my country, I am averse to having my image, and careerdented. This matter should be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency.Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include thistransfer in this batch of payments to foreign contractors as payments isusually carried out on quarterly basis. Contact me at(demolarasaq@zwallet.com) immediately you receive this mail so that we canproceed with this transaction at once, providing me with your own privatetelephone number in your response so that I may call you and we can thendiscuss better and I will then also bring you into the complete picture ofthis transaction. It is very important that you do this please. Thank youvery much and I await your urgent response to this message. I will advicethat you treat this mail as urgent and important as this is a serious matterand should be handled as such. God bless you immensely and thank you.I await your urgent response to this mail.Yours faithfully,Dr. Demola Rasaq. If I don't post again after this it's because they decided to kill me for not keeping this confidential. Yeah I'm gonna contact someone becasue they want to give me 42 million dollars. And I get to keep 15%. But I have complete control of the money??? WHATEVER. I had a good laugh reading this.

[Sub-Vibe-R]

Always be carefull when it too easy money!!!!

[Frosty]

We can report these to the RCMP. For you try the FBI. I got a number of these before I changed my email address.

[Herb]

It's an old scam. It's had it's roots in regular letter mail ages ago known as the "Nigerian Letter Scam", and has migrated to e-mail. I get several variations of this scam spam sent to me at least 3 times a month.Anyone who solicits your private information, ie: credit card, bank info, Social Insurance Number/Social Security Card, etc. for "your benefit" is usually a scam.My advice is that any unsolicited e-mail that sounds incredibly fantastic should best be ignored and be deleted.

[slbpsi63]

Trust me I ignored it I just never seen it before. I was laughing at the letter especially this line ), who are interestedin the importation of goods into our country with funds, which are presently trapped in my country. . I should play along and then back out right when they think they have me. Should I post their response?? Let me know

[MadBill]

Wow!I've been hearing about this one for years, but I never saw it before! Apparently there is even a corporate version, because my employer recently sent around a warning about it. Hard to believe anyone's gullible enough to bite, but I guess if you send out 100,000 or so letters and just a couple of suckers take the bait, you've got a successful scam...