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.

Mr.Dan Musa.
Lagos-Nigeria.
Private phone: (censored).
Reply to:(censored)

Dear Sir,

I know this will come to you as a surprise but never mind, I got your
contact in my search for a reputable and trust worthy person/Company,
who can stand confidently with me in this successful business
arrangement. Before I proceed, I will like to introduce my humble self
to you.I am, the Auditor General of a Government Accredited Oil Company
here in Nigeria. Certainly, the prompting of this letter to you is
anchored on my strong desire to solicit your sincere understanding and
co-operation in this transaction that would certainly boost the
financial stand of both parties involved when completed. As a matter of
fact, We want to transfer to overseas (US$ 152,000.000.00 USD) One
hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars) from the Oil
company's operating Bank account here in Africa,

I want you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up
a new Bank A/C immediately to receive this money, even an empty account
can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to
me
till the end of this important transaction, trusting in you and
believing in God that you will never let me down either now or in the
near future.In all honesty, during the course of our auditing I
discovered a floating fund of the above mentioned amount in account
opened with the bank in 1990 and since then, nobody has operated on
this
account again, after going through some old files in the records I
discovered that the money in the account was mapped out for the
refurbishment of the Oil Company's Machineries. Meanwhile, Mr. Magnus
Leon, the President of the Oil Company was the only signatory to the
account, but unfortunately he died after a brief illness in 1993. And
no
other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, and
the account has no other beneficiary. And my investigation proved to me
that Mr. Magnus Leon, until his death had wanted to siphoned that money
into his personal account in New York hence he did not disclose the
operating devises of the account to the Board of Trustees.

I am only contacting you in this regard, based on the fact that you are
a foreigner because, this money can only be approved to any foreigner who
can present all documents that will prove that he/she is the Next of
Kin/Beneficiary to the account base on the fact that Mr. Magnus Leon
the owner of this account is a foreigner, and the money can only be
approved into a foreign bank account.

Therefore, if you are capable of handling this transaction with me,
lets make the necessary arrangement for the hitch-free transfer of this
money to any safe bank account that you may nominate, on a share
percentage bases.We will start the first transfer with Fifty Two
Million
USD [$52,000.000] upon the successful actualization of the first
transfer, without any disappointment from your side; we shall re-apply
for the payment of the remaining amount, to your account. However, we
shall sign a binding agreement, to bind us together as partners in this
regard.I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will
never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently
and indicate your sincere interest, so that I can inform you on the
modalities already mapped out for the hitch-free transfer of the money
out of Africa here.

I will require your direct phone and fax number for easy contacting you
I need your full co-operation to make this work adequately. Upon your
positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and
Willing to meet up with the instructions of the top bank official that
is deeply involved with me in this business, I shall commence actions
immediately to process the payment of the money in your favor as the
beneficiary.With my influence and the position of the bank official we
can transfer this money to any reliable foreign bank account, which you
can provide.I am looking forward in anticipation to hearing from you
soon as possible.

Yours truly,
Mr. Dan Musa
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