Scams Out of Nigeria

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 responding to the letter through the email address that was included I soon was in receipt of many emails telling me of the large fund that I could participate in if I only would help get this fund to America. 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 wanted me to assist him in transferring a fund of $8.5 million USD to America. I wanted to catch Ahmed in his own trap because I was sure that he was a crook and his proposal was a scam.

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. When I told Ahmed that I was not interest on the telephone he began angry and started screaming that he had spent much money and time in trying to help me with the transferring of the fund. 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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