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WATCH OUT!!

This is a warning to anyone on the Internet who receives any e-mail 
containing any or all of the following statements, or words approximating 
them:

An address following this very official-looking format:

FROM: *******
TEL: 2663-1-29854386
LAGOS - NIGERIA.
ATTN: President/CEO.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL FINANCIAL PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND 
US DOLLARS ONLY).

Or alternatively this very friendly format:


This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not 
yet met.

Then may follow a real sob-story, containing some of the following 
information:

My name is ****, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been diagnosed 
with prostate and esophageal Cancer.

I am a single mother with five children, and since my husband died/was 
murdered, I have no way in which to utilize the money that is in my care.

Also included will be a very feasible reason how the money came into the 
writer's possession, such as:

My name is ****, son of the previous ruler of Nigeria, Mr/King/Sir ****, and 
he left x million (this is normally an astronomically high figure, sometimes 
in the 60 million mark or more) before he died/was murdered and I need 
someone to assist me in removing the money from the military dictatorship 
which rules Nigeria now.

As well as these, there will be a very tempting offer, taking more or less 
the following form:

On actualisation, the fund will be disbursed as stated below.
1. 30% of the fund will be for you as beneficiary
2. 5% for reimbursement to both parties for incidental expenses that may be 
incurred during the course of the transaction.
3. 65% of the fund will be for me and my colleagues which we intend to 
invest in your country with you as my partner.


I am very rich.

This business proposal we wish to intimate you with is of mutual benefit and 
it's success is entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a high level 
of confidentiality as regard this transaction.   (Basically, don't tell 
anyone else about this!)


.the last of my money which is the huge cash deposit that I have with a 
Financial Firm Abroad.

Also note the following:
I will need your name, your address and your bank account number so that we 
may forward the money to you.

Wow!   30% of the huge amount comes to you!
WELL, DON'T DO IT!!!   This is the normal form of an e-mail scam which has 
being going around for more than twelve years, and was perpetrated by some 
people, thought to be from Nigeria, and which so far, through their crooked 
dealings, draining unsuspecting dupes' bank accounts, has netted them 
somewhere in the region of $700,000,000, and they are heading swiftly for 
the billion mark.
I know many of you who read this will already be aware of the scam and will 
probably think I am a dope for putting it up.   But I assure you, there are 
people coming on the Internet every day who are innocents to the slaughter. 
Please don't flame me, as I feel very strongly about these scams.
If you have just joined the Internet, and have received such an e-mail DO 
NOT BE TEMPTED to take them up on it.
Remember the old adage; if it sounds too good to be true, then it very 
probably is!

Thank you.