Many times a day my email inbox is filled with emails
stating that I am the beneficiary of some amount of
money...or that I am the winner of a lottery I have never
heard of...or that my name is on a list of upaid invoices.
I am afraid that many people are like I was when I received
a letter from Nigeria addressed to a Mrs. Cathy Palmer at
my address. This letter arrived many times and finally
when these letters continued to come to my address I
decided to open to see what was so important. The Mrs.
Palmer was married to an Attorney General of Mississippi so
the letter stated. After much inquiry I learned that Mrs.
Palmer was, in fact, the widow of a late Assistant Attorney
General of Mississippi. It was at this point that I was so
curious that I decided to answer the letter which had
included an Email address.
After I sent an email to the address in the letter I soon
received another telling me of a Dr. Ahmed who had been a
close friend of the Attorney General. Upon learning of the
death of the AG Dr. Ahmed told me of the purpose of his
contacting the AG. It seemed that Dr. Ahmed was a high
government official in Lagos and had control of a large sum
of petroleum US dollars which was the result of the failure
of the Petroleum Commission of Nigeria. The total amount
of this sum was $8.5USD of which he was willing to give me
ten per cent if I would only help in getting this money out
of Nigeria.
After many emails back and forth I told Dr. Ahmed that I
would be willing to assist in the transferring this fund to
my bank account in the US. This was an attempt to catch
Ahmed in his own scheme.
I was issued many official documents complete with Nigerian
Letter Head and seals of the Government of Nigeria.
It was not until I carried all the documents I had received
to an attorney who told me of the scams coming out of
Nigeria and that I should be cautious.
The last correspondence I had with Ahmed was when he told
me that it would require a fee of $4800.00 to be paid in
advance of transmitting the funds to America. It was at
this point that I told Ahmed that I was not interested.
Ahmed became upset and began screaming about how much money
and time he had spent in trying to get the money out of
Nigeria. This was a conversation over the telephone which
Ahmed had begun using with a secret code when I would
answer the phone and a secret code I would utter when he
answered.
If you know of anyone thinking of entertaining the thought
of entering into any of these scams please let them know
that these scams have been going on for years and only
those who almost were caught up in them really know that
they are nothing but scams.
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