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The 3rd Annual Nigerian
EMail Conference
“Write better emails. Make more moneys.”
I am Mr. Laurent Mpeti Kabila, a senior assistant leader of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone.
I present to you an urgent and confidential request: I request your attendance at The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. This is an excellent opportunity to meet your distinguished colleagues, learn new marketing techniques, and spend your hard-earned money. Attending this conference demands the highest trust, security and confidentiality between us.
Dates: November 7 – 9, 2003
Location: Abuja Sheraton Hotel & Casino
Registration Fee: $995 per person
Like most Nigerians, you’re probably finding that it’s increasingly difficult to earn a decent living from email. That’s why you need to attend the 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference.
“This conference is an investment in your future. Learn to take advantage of modern technology, and make a great deal of money with very little effort. If you have any question, please contact me and I will send you a proposal that may be of interest to you. I await your response by return while assuring you that the transaction is absolutely risk free.”
- Dr. Collins Mbadiwe
Preliminary* List of Events
As in the past, this conference has something for everyone.
You will hear presentations by some of the world’s leadingNigerian Email businessmen and businesswomen.
Following are just a few of the
many events that are scheduled.
Breakfast Kickoff Session:
Your choice: A hard boiled egg, weight loss tips or two slices of white bread and a cricket. let’s face it the food sucks, so use this time for intermittent fasting, you know it makes sense.
Keynote Address:
Dr. Hamza Kalu’s adds some historical perspective in his keynote address: “From Postal Scams To Email Scams: We Have Come a Long Way Infant Child.”
Debate:
Attend a lively debate between Lady Mariam Abacha and Mr. Godwin Oyathelem. Topic: “The effectiveness of using all UPPERCASE characters.” will guitar tips help with my emails monies
Practical Discussion:
Mallam Mahmud Abacah answers the question, “Are 10 million emails a day too many?”
Competition:
Other countries are now adapting our business. Is this a threat or an opportunity?
Tech Session:
Mrs. M Sese-Seko reveals valuable secrets in her session titled, “Those Pesky Email Headers”
Commerce:
Find out how banking systems throughout the world operate — with special emphasis on money transfers and how to sell house fast.
Our loans and credit card paper,on mis sold ppi premiums
Linguistics:
Damn, spam, scam, sham. And more rhymes in the “sticks and stones” category.
Telecommunications:
Soliciting via cell phone text messaging: Can it work?
Accounting:
The taxman he’s a comin’: Keeping good and accurate records.
Open Discussion:We will resume last year’s high-spirited discussion of unionization, including we buy any house health benefits.
Workshop:
Grammatical errors: What’s the optimal number? guitar scales can you master the fretboard while doing email ?
Statistics:
Dr. Kayode Naiyeju presents his ground-breaking research: “Analyzing response rates using analysis of variance: That pesky R-squared value,” as published in The Nigerian Journal of Applied Statistics.
Economics:
A round table discussion: Is email now Nigeria’s top export?
For Newcomers:
View an entertaining PowerPoint presentation that describes how to get anything goes diet started in this lucrative business, with no initial investment!
Hand-on Session:
Experts critique your emails, and offer valuable tips.
* The actual schedule of events and participants depends on various trial outcomes and extradition hearings.
Accommodations
The Abuja Sheraton Hotel is an elegant 5-star hotel in the heart of the new capital of Nigeria. For more information, click here. Only 575 rooms are available, so make sure you register early!
Amenities* include a bar, a barber shop, running water (hot AND cold), free parking, and a free newspaper (except for weekends).
Imagine yourself sitting in this modern conference room, surrounded by enterprising businessmen like yourself.
Spouses are invited, although they may not attend the conference sessions. Spouses must spend the day in their hotel room watching TV (two channels are available, and one is not cartoons).
* Restrooms are available in the hotel. Please use them.
From Past Conferences…
“My business has increased by 45%, and I am now experiencing an 89.4% ROI” – Mariam Abacha
“It was a genuine pleasure to meet other honorable business persons such as myself.” – Isa Ahmed
“The presentation on P.T. Barnum was especially helpful.” – Farouk Bakoh
“The hotel was very, very upscale. The running water was a nice touch! – Dr, Collins Mdadiwe
“I am pleased. I got many new email addresses as a direct result of this most valuable conference.” – Aku Chukwu
” I was all over the shokz guide the whole time ”
“Now I know how to respond when someone refers to my business as a scam.” – Franklin Dimmoh
“I AM FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT USING UPPERCASE LETTERS MAKES MY WRITING MORE EFFECTIVE.” – Mr. Ibrahim Ahmed
” I used Intermittent Fasting at breakfast and lost 4lbs, my mind was clear for making internet monies awesome ”
“The free daily newspaper was very good to receive, but it is not come on Saturday.” – Mrs. Mabel Mamumbi (my kidney disease is getting better, but I am still a widow)
Register Now!
Registration is via a confidential money transfer.
Send your bank’s name, account number, your name, address, telephone number, and fax numbers. Please note again that this transaction is strictly confidential and as such should be kept secret. Be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free.
Kindly send the requested information (in complete confidence) to:
Nigerian EMail Conference
c/o Abuja Sheraton Hotel Abuja
Ladi Kwali Way Abuja, NG PMB 143
Fake bank site part of Nigerian scam
Well-known Internet con gets more elaborate
By Bob Sullivan
April 17 — They’re certainly persistent. Another flavor of the well-known Nigerian scam has popped up, this one even more elaborate than the familiar e-mail solicitation. The scam appears to target former recipients who were initially drawn in by an e-mail offer, but abandoned the scheme half-way through. To ease potential victims’ fears, scam artists have set up a fake online bank, and even deposited funds into a bogus account there. One pair of victims has reportedly lost $100,000 to such a fake bank scam. And now, thanks to a private citizen who did a little sleuthing of his own, here’s a chance to see it in action.
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, “Bill” played out the con with e-mail suitors who offered him a percentage of $45 million for helping move it out of Nigeria. Bill cut communications with the solicitors, as many potential victims do, when they requested some up-front payment. He forwarded all e-mail correspondence to the U.S. Secret Service, and figured that would be the end of it.
But on April 9, Bill — who requested that his identity be withheld — heard from his suitors anew. A writer identifying himself as Larry Peters was eager to meet Bill’s “long overdue contract payment.”
“I crave your indulgence not to treat it as one of those ‘HOAX’ letters you do receive,” Peters wrote.
And the good-will proof?
“The welcome relief is that you are NOT to pay a cent UPFRONT. Please be informed that your outstanding payment will be paid through ONLINE BANKING which will be given to you on your response to this e-mail.”
Sure enough, when Bill wrote back, he was directed to open an account at AlliedTrustCompany.com, supposedly an online bank. Two days after opening the account under the pseudonym Joseph Cipriani, a $45 million deposit was reflected on the bank’s Web page.
The bank setup is sophisticated, requiring a user name and password to access the account information. But a careful Web user would notice that surfers are quickly redirected to a site located at VOSN.net, a small Internet hosting company.
THE REAL SCAM
The account application process is thorough, and at first Bill supposed he was merely the target of an identity theft scheme. But four days later, the real intentions of the scammers were revealed.
The money is sitting in the Allied Trust Company account but cannot be transferred yet, wrote someone calling himself Michael Edwards. First, the Financial Transaction Reporting Agency Of North America (FinTRAN) must be satisfied that the money is “clean.” There is no such agency, though the U.S. Treasury has a similar-sounding division called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
A “North American Certificate of Circulation” will supposedly be enough assurance to clear the money. But getting the necessary documentation from the mythical agency will cost $9,600, Edwards wrote. And, perhaps anticipating Bill’s next question, Edwards continued:
“We then asked if there any way we could be authorized to temporarily unfreeze the account to enable withdraw at least the required amount to cover the cost of getting this document but the appeal was refused.”
Edwards’ appeal to Bill came about a week after he was first contacted by Peters, and as the con wore down, Bill once again planned to share his e-mail exchange with authorities.
The people behind the con are indeed brazen. When Bill mentioned offhand in an e-mail that he didn’t know what he would do with the money he was set to receive, the con artist suggested sending a laptop computer to him as “some form of compensation.”
And while Bill wasn’t taken in by the fake bank, other people have fallen for similar schemes. Two Canadians lost $100,000 to Nigerian con artists after they were taken in by a fake bank site that mimicked a major British financial institution, the BBC reported in October.
RELOADING
It is noteworthy that con artists appear to be revisiting old potential victims.
“I am as certain as can be that they are targeting people who had at one point been in their process,” Bill said. “The e-mail address they contacted me through is one I created and used only to communicate with them earlier.”
C.A. Pascale, who runs the 419 Coalition against the Nigerian scam, said “re-victimization” has long been a common tact for the con artists. The number 419 refers to the relevant criminal code in Nigeria that’s broken by the con artists.
When someone loses money to the Nigerian scam, the victim will often hear from another con artist claiming they can recover the lost funds. And those who contacted con artists once or twice before ditching them are very likely to get a fresh pitch later on, he said.
“We here call it ‘Reloading’ after a term used in the timeshare sales industry, where the resort marketing people go back over their list of ‘ups’ who did not buy and develop a marketing ploy or strategy to get them back up to the resort for another go at them,” Pascale said. “People who have heard once from a 419er are most likely going to hear from 419ers again. They will either hear back from the same group with the same tale, or from the same group using a different tale. Or, an individual in the group will ‘branch out’ for himself, tell them that the original group just didn’t have the juice to get the job done, but he does.”