Monday, May 28, 2007

How to Become a Millionaire - Nigerian Style

I receieve the e-mail below at my office e-mail.

ATM CONTRACT RESOLUTION UNIT
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTIONPANEL ON CONTRACT PAYMENT)
IKOYI-LAGOS NIGERIA

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
ATTN: BENEFICIARY,
THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT WE HAVE VERIFIED YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT WHY YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.
SECONDLY WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT YOU ARE STILL DEALING WITH THE NONE OFFICIALS IN THE BANK YOUR ENTIRE ATTEMPT TO SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO YOU. WE WISH TO ADVISE YOU THAT SUCH AN ILLEGAL ACT LIKE THESE HAVE TO STOP IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR PAYMENT SINCE WE HAVE DECIDED TO BRING A SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM. RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ARRANGED YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTER ASIA PACIFIC THAT IS THE LATEST INSTRUCTION FROM MR. PRESIDENT, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (GCFR) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. AND THE UNITED STATES FBI.THIS CARD CENTER WILL SEND YOU AN ATM CARD WHICH YOU WILL USE TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, BUT THE MAXIMUM IS TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY, SO IF YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND THIS WAY PLEASE LET US KNOW BY CONTACTING THE FOREIGN OPERATIONAL UNIT OF AFRI BANK NIGERIA PLC, CARD PAYMENT CENTER MRS. CARO OGO ON HER EMAIL ADDRESS:caro_ogo004@yahoo.se Direct Openfax: +234-803-592-5403, AND ALSO !
SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
1. YOUR FULL NAME
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD 4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT USD5.3MILLION AS FULL PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2006/2007. ALSO FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YOU HAVE TO STOP ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR OFFICE(S) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT. FOR ORAL DISCUSSION, CALL AND EMAIL ME BACK AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR FURTHER DIRECTION AND ALSO UPDATE ME ON ANY DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ABOVE-MENTIONED OFFICE.
NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-822) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.
REGARDS,
Dr ken Nnamani
ATM CONTRACT RESOLUTION UNIT
(Federal Republic of Nigeria)

Amazingly there are Malaysians who have fallen for this e-mail scam, black money etc. Sheer greediness makes a a normally intelligent person stupid!.

I have been having a sore right knee since last Sunday's NB-Pacesetters 15km. The hilly route has certainly not done any favours to my right knee. I didn't run for four days until Friday when I ran 6.5 km. My right knee was very sore after that.

During the weekend I had to reduce my mileage and I only ran 3 km on Saturday and Sunday.

2 comments:

CP Waterman said...

Hi Tan Sri,
I'm getting similar mails every day now so must be getting VERY rich soon. hehe
Anyway, about your knee pain i don't know if you had tried glucosamine & Chondroitin ( a food supplement derived from crab & lobster, i mean their shells!)for joint health & rheumatism.
I've nasty upper back pain ( sign of getting old) and I'm taking them now and it seems to help.

http://www.biovea.net/product_detail.asp?PID=259

Take care!


H2O
Paris.

Anonymous said...

Hi, I got a similar email too from Nigeria saying that I've just inherited USD2mil because my relative died in a car crash but to claim that money I have first to deposit some amount bla bla bla. But these scams make wonderful subjects to daydream about, yes? Imagine being USD2mil richer overnight! :-)