[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> bomboclat: netstrike communicate

["Michael Gurstein" <mgurst@vcn.bc.ca>]

This scam has been around for quite a long time.

I first received one of these in an air mail letter from Nigeria in about
1984.

At the time I was curious and checked it out with a friend who had been with
the Canadian Embassy in Lagos and he mentioned that it was well known even
then, in Embassy circles, and he told stories of the unwary following up by
visiting Nigeria and being robbed of their passports (and occasionally their
lives) even on the trip from the airport.

I concluded from the address on the letters I received that the "perps" had
picked up a bunch of advertising brochures in the Canadian Embassy and were
blanket mailing to all the folks whose mailing addresses were listed.

The scam was structured in exactly the same was as the one's I'm now getting
on email--including the curious diction and the creation of a story-line
that is both plausible (what we guess is happening in notably corrupt
countries like Nigeria) and bizarre (getting this kind of invitation out of
the blue).

Mike Gurstein

----- Original Message -----
From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>
To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 12:00 AM
Subject: <nettime> bomboclat: netstrike communicate
>
> (I started receiving business proposals from Nigeria about half a year ago
> and immediately started collecting them. I get around five a week. The
> funny thing is that they are all different if you have a closer look at
> them. The scheme might be the same but stories are really diverse. Some
> spam researchers have looked into the IP addresses of origin and found
> that most of the e-mails are sent from Nigerian ISPs. Does anyone have
> more information about this phenomena? Mail nr. 13 comes from an
> Australian list called LINK in which Bob Bain explain a bit of the
> background of the Nigerian Scam. Enjoy. Geert)
>
>
> 1.   BUSSINESS PROPOSAL
> 2.   ASSISTANCE
> 3.   Private and Confidential
> 4.   STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
> 5.   Request for transfer
> 6.   ASISTANCE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
> 7.   FUND TRANSFER
> 8.   APPEAL FOR HELP
> 9.   AWAITING A REPLY
> 10. ASSISTANCE NEEDED
> 11. TRANSFER OF USD45M
> 12. Assistance
> 13: Re: [LINK] Nigerian scam
>
> 1. From: "peter moses" <petermoses2002@37.com>
> To: <geert@xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 1:18 PM
> Subject: BUSSINESS PROPOSAL
>
> ATTN: geert lovink,
> Sir,
>
> RE: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION
>
> I am DR. peter moses Director of Procurement and Contract Award with
> Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of the Federal Republic of
> Nigeria.  I got your contact from the Foreign Office of the Nigerian
>


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