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Re: re spam: Assistance



Everybody gets these letters. See <http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/>.
Also, <http://www.rantsinyourpants.com/spam_scam_contest.htm> is amusing.

   ---Terry

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Terry Abraham   Special Collections, University of Idaho
<http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>


On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Lesley W. Brunet wrote:

> Did anyone else get this strange letter?
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Lesley W. Brunet/MDACC on 08/26/2002 10:04
> AM ---------------------------
>
>
> "Mrs. Mairo Al'mustapha" <mairo25@myself.com> on 08/24/2002 03:44:00 PM
>
> To:   lwbrunet@mail.mdanderson.org
> cc:    (bcc: Lesley W. Brunet/MDACC)
>
> Subject:  Assistance
>
>
>
> Mrs. Mairo Hamza Al'Mustapha
> #12, Alhaji Sheu Danbaba Avenue
> Off Airport Road
> Kano State
> Nigeria
>
> I have decided to write to you to help me because I can no longer cope with my
> problems on my own. I need you to help me in the name of Almighty Allah, the
> beneficent and merciful. I know you can assist me if only you are prepared to
> understand. I am very much interested in you and your nationality and would like
> to trust you and work with you.
>
> I am Mairo Hamza Al' Mustapha, wife of detained Major Hamza Al'Mustapha, the
> Chief Security Officer to late General Sani, a past Head of State of the Federal
> Republic of Nigeria. Since the death of the said Head of State, my husband has
> been incarcerated and is presently facing trial for the crimes committed by his
> administration. He is being punished for the crimes of the office he occupied.
> The charges against him are so much that I greatly fear for his life.
>
> Since that time my family has been subjected to several persecutions by the
> government of the day. All my husband's money and properties have been
> confiscated and his bank accounts frozen. I have also  made numerous attempts to
> travel out of the country with the money my husband kept in our country home,
> but it was seized before I could conclude arrangements. This actually gave me
> serious psychological problems.
>
> As a result of these problems, I decided to tactically move some of the funds
> through my  trusted lawyer, Barrister Morris Eze and deposited it with a Finance
> and Security House here who in turn moved it to their head office in Europe. We
> did this without the knowledge of the government. These funds are in a total of
> USD$18.0m (Eighteen Million United States Dollars) sealed in security boxes and
> kept in a deposit vault.
>
> Presently I cannot travel out of the country because the government has since
> confiscated my passport and also because my husband needs my support at his
> ongoing trial for the malicious allegations against him for the crimes committed
> by his office and administration.
>
> It is in the light of the above that I am compelled to solicit for your kind
> assistance in helping me claim the funds from the security company in Europe and
> keep same safe for me in a good business investment.  l  know you would wonder
> why l  am not soliciting for assistance from well placed  Nigerians, it's really
> sad. You see, all my husband's 'friends' whom we have asked for assistance
> absconded
> with our money, later returned and used it to win the gubernatorial election in
> my country and are now powerful and untouchable figures. Deceit, hatred and
> greed are the order of the day in Nigeria. This disgraceful act by Nigerians has
> made it necessary for me to seek foreign assistance.
>
> For your assistance, I hereby authorize you to deduct 10% of the $18.0m after
> you have claimed the money from the Finance and Security House. This shall serve
> as your commission; please note that all expenses that you may personally incur
> in the process would be returned to you as soon as you have claimed and cleared
> the consignment from the Finance House.
>
> Since I am constantly watched by Security agents and my movement is somehow
> retstricted, I have directed my lawyer, Barrister Morris Eze to handle this
> business with you. If you should find it in your heart to help me, please email,
> phone or fax your response directly to him on Telephone number +234-803-7200-944
> or fax number +234-1-759-3888. His email address is: lawyereze@mail.gr and he
> will direct you on how to collect the funds from Europe for safe keeping.  Also
> enclose your telephone and fax numbers to enable him send you an agreement that
> you must sign as an assurance for me that my family's money would be well taken
> care of by you.
>
> Once again, I want to appeal to you in the name of the God you serve to
> sincerely and honestly render this assistance to me and to also treat this
> information with utmost confidentiality as I would not want the funds to be
> confiscated by those in authority because that would be the final shock of our
> lives.
>
> Kindly include your fax number to enable us fax the relevant documents with
> which you shall proceed to claim the cionsignment from the Finance House in
> Europe.
>
> Thanks in advance for your co-operation.
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Mairo Al'Mustapha
>
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