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Nigerian Scams

Below is one of many Nigerian scam emails that we have received in our inbox. This is provided for your entertainment as well as to give you an example of what these scams look like. If you have received one of these email messages (and odds are you have or will receive many of them) simply delete them from your inbox. They are scams, designed to con you from your hard-earned money.

Barrister Michael Alexandria.

Email: (censored)

Dear Friend,
 
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This by virtue of its nature  as being  utterly confidential and TOP SECRET. I got your contact in our search for a foreign  partner who has the  Ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude  involving a deposited fund of my late  client which required maximum confidence.
 
I am Barrister Michael Alexandria (Esq) a solicitor. I was the Personal Attorney to late Henry  Williams an oil  merchant/contractor with CHEVRON PETROLEUM COMPANY. On the 21st of April 1999, my  client, his wife and their  only daughter were involved in an automobile accident and  unfortunately they lost their lives.
 
Before my Client died, He had a huge fund deposit valued at US$9,000,000,00 Dollars in a Citi  Trust Bank Ltd.  As his personal Attorney, I am in possesion of all legal documents which shows  the entire transaction between  him and this Bank in relation to this fund deposit. Consequently,

the Bank mandated me to look out for any of his extended family relatives to stand in as the next  of  kin/beneficiary of this fund deposit.
 
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my clients extended  family  relatives, but to no avail. After many unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his  relatives over the  Internet, but this attempt was equally unsuccessful.

Unfortunately, today 8th day of September, 2004, the Citi Trust Bank Ltd. gave me an ultimatum of Ten working  days to provide the next of Kin or have this fund confiscated. This is why I have  contacted you to render  assistance in repartrating the money and properties left behind by my  client, before they will be confiscated  or declared unserviceable by this bank.
 
Since I have been unsuccesful in locating the relatives for over two years, and coincidentally  you are from  the same country, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin/beneficiary  of late Henry Williams  fund deposit with this Bank for our mutual benefit. For your assistance,  you will be adequately compensated  with 40% of the total sum. 55% will be for me, and 5% will be  set aside to offset all incidential expences  that might be incured in the cause of this  transaction. e.g phone call, payment of tax if so required by your  government etc. This  transaction is 100% risk free as I have all necessary legal documents to back up all our  claims.

I guarantee you that the entire transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that  will protect  you from any breach of the law,as all documents/affidavit that will be required by  Citi Trust Bank Ltd. before  the release of the fund will be procurred legally from the federal  high court of justice.
 
All I require from you is honesty and cooperation. Please realise that the confidentiality of  this arrangement  must be maintained from now, and even after the successful complition of this  transaction,to enable us see  this deal through. If you will assist me, Please contact me via my  private office box  (censored) for details.
 
Thanks and God bless.
 
Best regards,
 
Barrister Michael Alexandria.
 
N.B. Please indicate your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication in this mutual  transaction to my  private office email box (censored) .Please acknowledge  the receipt of this letter  using the above email address; I will bring you into the complete  picture of this pending project when I hear  from you.


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