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Chaos Project #1 |
Me and Mr. Momodu |
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On September 24 2002, a message arrived in our mailbox from an individual calling himself "Shaka Momodu". His tale of woe is reproduced below, but in short he required the assistance of a helpful foreigner to access US$25.5 million dollars left in a bank account by his recently-deceased father. What 'Mr. Momodu' really hoped was that we would fall for his little scam, believe that we were going to reap a hefty share of his massive imaginary fortune, and soon be willing to part with various account setup fees in order to claim our prize. After that, he probably hoped that we wouldn't wise up to his little scheme until he had extracted further fees from us - such is the nature of this particular crime. What he didn't know, what he couldn't know, was that as well as being aware of Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud scams, just two weeks before his message arrived we had learnt of the increasingly-popular pastime of scammer baiting. We were not simply 'ready' for him. We had been waiting.
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From: "SHAKA" <shakamomodu@caramail.com>
To: [our real mail address]
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:34:49 -0700
Subject: HELP
Dear Sir,I hope this email meets you well, My late father left with me
US$25.5 Million Dollars(Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars),
I need a honest foreigner who will assist me and finance this money so that
i never have to look
for money again in my life, I am on only 20yrs old and i
want to invest in real estate, housing, buying of cars, banking,
Import and Export and other types of profitable investment.
If you need to know my late father was the minister of finance
and he was killed some months ago, i am the only boy in my family
and i got your name while searching on the Internet, will you help?
For all your effort and help and advice, i will gladly give you 30%
of the total amount, since you will be the one in charge and in control
i cannot cheat you. The money is in a domicilary account. Due to my age
and huge amounts ! policy i cannot claim this money as the next of kin.
I am young and do not have so much experience in this type of business
so whatever you decide i will do. I need your help in transferring the
money out and into your safe account, where it will be safe! My confidentail email is
shakamomodu@caramail.com, when you reply please leave your confidentail
phone and email and i will surely get back to you.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours truly,
Shaka.
Follow the links above to see the various ways in which we responded to Mr. Momodu.