COLLINS S. ABU, aka AHMED COLLINS, or whoever:

From:    collins2002 ahmed [collins2002@caramail.com] 
To:    collins2002@caramail.com  
X-Originating-IP:    [64.86.155.149] 

[ 64.86.155.149: TELEGLOBE, MONTREAL - SPOOFED? OR THE LADS ARE
HANGING OUT IN MONTREAL, WHICH COULD VERY WELL BE ]

Subject:    #CONTRACT# 
Date:    Sun, 06 Oct 2002 04:05:13 GMT+1 

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS NIGERIA
EMAIL-coll2002@mailsurf.com
5TH OF OCTOBER 2002

ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO


STRICTLY PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL 
I am MR.Collins S. Abu, the bills and exchange Director at 
the Foreign Remittance Department of the Central Bank of 
Nigeria. -- la la la --- We discovered abandoned the 
sum of US$37,400,000.00 (Thirty seven million four hundred 
thousand unitedstates dollars) in an account that belong to 
one of our foreign customers,an American late Engr.ben 
daniel (Junior) an oil merchant with the federal government 
of Nigeria who died along with his entire family of a wife 
and two children in Kenya Airbus (A310-300) flight KQ430 in 
November2000.

[ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ONE BEFORE, REFER TO THE 
DEAD BANK CUSTOMER PAGE: www.scamorama.com/bankcustomer.html ]

Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his 
next of kin to come over and put claims for his money as 
the heir -- yeah yeah yeah --- 
agreed to make business with you release the total amount 
into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came 
for it or discovered either maintained account with our 
bank, other wisethe fund will be returned to the bank 
treasury as unclaimed fund.

-- yeah yeah -- 30%for you as foreign partner and 70% for us the 
officials in my department. --- yeah yeah ---
immediately indicateyour interest --- uh huh --
enclose your private contact Telephone #, Fax #, full 
nameand address and your designated banking co- ordinates 
to enable us fileletter of claim -- blah blah --

-- and so on and so forth --

MR.Collins S. Abu

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  Date:    Sat, 5 Oct 2002 21:11 EST 
  From:    JAMES T. KIRK
 

Hello, Mr. Abu, it is wonderful to be doing business with you!

My name is James Kirk with phone#202-406-5850 and fax#202-406-5031.

Company: Utopia Planetia Fleet Yards

Company Address: 33601 Lyon Street, San Francisco CA 94123

I look forward to receiving this money!

-James
 
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COLLINS:

X-Originating-IP:    [64.86.155.149] 
From:    "collins abu" [coll_ab2002@hotmail.com] 
Subject:    I Have Began! 
Date:    Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:01:15 +0000 

My Dear Brother James,

I thank you very much for replying positively to my proposal.

First of all, I want to let you know that I have resolved to be 
straightforward with you and I am hoping that by so doing, you will 
reciprocate my good faith. As you can see, I am referring to myself as "your 
brother" because I believe you and I need to build trust for each other 
because of the amount of funds involved.

Also, I want to have peace of mind at the time when you will have control 
over the funds until I come over to take back control of my own 70 percent 
share. In deed, I shall be needing your guidance to invest my 70%.

Secondly, we must keep the transaction confidential. I am sure you have 
understood my position by my first email. Therefore, every information about 
the transfer must be kept confidential until you receive the funds in a few 
days time. As you can see, I have moved the transaction from my old email 
address, which is known by my assistants, to this new one, all to ensure 
complete confidentiality. Please, send all your messages to me to this 
present address.

Now that you have replied, I want to let you know the true source of the 
US$37,400,000.00. In truth, I am the one that personally credited the funds 
into the account belonging to late American, Ben Daniel. Although Mr. 
Daniels had an account with us in the Central Bank, but he only had the sum 
of US$3,740.00 (Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and Forty Dollars only) in his 
account as at the time he died.

On seeing that I could use late Ben Daniel's account to transfer funds, I 
began crediting the account with funds until it rose to the sum of 
US$37,400,000.00. I sourced the funds from the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), 
which was a government Trust Fund Account, being managed by the
former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari until the new 
democratic government stopped their operations. I was directly in charge of 
winding up PTF's accounts. In deed, the PTF had over US$5 Billion at the 
time it was wound up giving me opportunity to make this plan for the future 
of my family.


This morning, I have gathered necessary materials together and filed the 
claim for the funds on your behalf. This is to position you as the surviving 
cousin and business partner of late Ben Daniels so that the Central Bank can 
transfer the funds to you. I am being careful in all that I do. All that I 
laid out are to ensure that you receive the funds legitimately, legally and 
without any possibility of questioning by the
government in this country or at your side. Remember that I am a government 
official and no one expects me to have these funds on my own. That is why I 
have made these elaborate plans to transfer the funds.

Kindly send me your telephone and fax numbers so I can call ou for voice 
discussion and send you the related documents once they are approved. My own 
telephone number is 00234-803-3068-230.

Your brother,

Collins.

Note from Captain Kirk:
/* I think the scammer copied in a message to someone else 
he was trying to scam right here.*/

Dear Robin,

I thank you very much for replying positively to my proposal.

[ EXACT SAME LETTER, TYPOS AND ALL!]

Kindly send me your telephone and fax numbers so I can call ou for voice 
discussion and send you the related documents once they are approved. My own 
telephone number is 00234-803-3068-230.

Your brother,

Collins.

[ OK THAT SHOWS A CERTAIN LACK OF QUALITY CONTROL
  ON THE PART OF THE LADS, BUT CAPTAIN KIRK PLAYS ALONG ]

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JAMES T. KIRK:

  Date:    Mon, 7 Oct 2002 9:03 EST 
  To:    coll_ab2002@hotmail.com 
 
Hello again Brother Abu:

Here is the information:

phone#202-406-5850 and fax#202-406-5031.

I prefer to recieve faxes because the fax machine in my office 
is privately located, but my wife might pick up the phone and 
be curious as to what is going on.

- James

[ CAPTAIN KIRK INFORMS US THESE ARE PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS 
FOR THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE ]
 
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COLLINS:

X-Originating-IP:    [192.116.110.157] 

[ 192.116.110.157: GILAT SATCOM, ISRAEL -- SPOOFED?
SOMEHOW WE DOUBT THE LADS ARE HANGING OUT IN ISRAEL ]

From:    "collins abu" [coll_ab2002@hotmail.com]
Subject:    progress! 
Date:    Tue, 08 Oct 2002 11:53:05 +0000 
 
I thank you for your email.

I proceeded as I said I would and I had good success with all that I set out 
to do. I have successfully presented an application on your behalf asking 
Central bank to transfer the funds to you. Following the plan I made and the 
things I wrote, I presented you to the bank as the surviving cousin of late 
Ben Daniels. You are supposed to have contacted my department here in the 
bank and after discussing with you, I agreed to act as an unofficial 
consultant to your family in order to help file the application for the 
transfer of the funds to you.

The difficult part would be facing the staff and anwering questions at our 
legal department which  will come up this afternoon. Once that is over and 
they accept the application, then we would have realised the goal.

Now that things are progressing, it is time for us work more closely 
together so that the goal will be realised without delay. I am willing to 
listen to any suggestions you may wish to make as we go along. I shall send 
you the related documents by fax once they are signed. My number again, is 
00234-803-3068-230. You can call me.

Your Brother,

Collins.

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COLLINS:

My Dear Brother James,

I thank you for your email.

I proceeded as I said I would and I had good success with all that I set out 
to do. I have successfully presented an application on your behalf asking 
Central bank to transfer the funds to you. Following the plan I made and the 
things I wrote, I presented you to the bank as the surviving cousin of late 
Ben Daniels. You are supposed to have contacted my department here in the 
bank and after discussing with you, I agreed to act as an unofficial 
consultant to your family in order to help file the application for the 
transfer of the funds to you.

The difficult part would be facing the staff and anwering questions at our 
legal department which  will come up this afternoon. Once that is over and 
they accept the application, then we would have realised the goal.

Now that things are progressing, it is time for us work more closely 
together so that the goal will be realised without delay. I am willing to 
listen to any suggestions you may wish to make as we go along. I shall send 
you the related documents by fax once they are signed. My number again, is 
00234-803-3068-230. You can call me.

Your Brother,

Collins.


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COLLINS AGAIN:
 
X-Originating-IP:    [192.116.110.157] 
From:    "collins abu" [coll_ab2002@hotmail.com]
Subject:    Fax Transmitted! 
Date:    Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:59:43 +0000 


My Dear Brother James,

I have transmitted the two letters by fax to you. As you can see,I am 
required to swear an oath before the commissioner at the court and pay about 
$25,750 for the activities and approvals the court will give. Once that is 
completed, the funds will become legally yours and will be transferred 
within 24 hours.

Now, I only have $24,990 in my savings account (even after they added the 
interest due today). I don't know what to do to make up the money so I can 
pay them tomorrow at the court and get the process completed.

I want you to call me to let me know you got the faxes.

Your Brother,

Collins.

 
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JAMES T. KIRK:

Date:    Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:12 EST 

Collins, clearly I should be able to help you pay the remaining $760.  
Is there a Western Union or other similar money transfer location in 
your area?

- James

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COLLINS:
 
X-Originating-IP:    [192.116.110.157] 
From:    "collins abu" [coll_ab2002@hotmail.com]
Subject:    Brother, Thanks! 
Date:    Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:41:54 +0000 

My Dear Brother James,

I thank you for your email and am very grateful for your kind consideration 
to support me.

I rushed over to my bank to withdraw the savings. They insisted I leave a 
balance of 100 dollars and this led to some arguement at the bank. At last, 
I left 90 dollars. I had to exchange the money from our Naira to US dollars 
and then moved over to the court.

I demanded to see the court accountant himself before paying to the cashier. 
The Accountant (Mr. Peter Umah) was very cooperative. He did not authorise 
me to pay in the 24,900 as first installment, but also for you to send to 
the balance to the court by Western Union.

I have transmitted the official Receipt from the court by fax to you. But 
the balance remaining to be paid is now 850 dollars instead of 760 dollars. 
I am sorry that I could not get the whole money out from my savings account. 
I tried my best.

Mr. umah (the Accountant of the high court) instructed that the 850 is to be 
sent to them by Western Union as follows:

Mr. Peter Umah
Room 202
Justice Complex,
Lagos- Nigeria.

Mr. Umah said I must come along with the following information to enable 
them access the 850 dollars from the Western Union office here: Name and 
Address of Sender and Control Number as stated on the Western Union transfer 
form.

Kindly send me an email with the above information so I can go back and hand 
them over to Mr. Umah.

Once again, thank you very much for being supportive. We will surely sit 
down and discuss many things once I come over.

I remain,

Your Brother,

Collins.

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JAMES T. KIRK LOWERS THE BOOM:

Subject:    RE: Brother, Thanks! 
Date:    Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:30 EST 
From:    j13moh 
To:    coll_ab2002@hotmail.com 

Collins:

Thank you for faxing all these documents to 202-406-5031.

If you had been more vigilant, you would have realised that 
202-406-5031 is actually the fax number for the United States 
Secret Service Advance Fee Fraud Reporting Agency, often used 
for reporting Nigerian Scams.

I believe that the Officials there will have a good time laughing 
at these documents and then using them to track you down so that 
you can go to jail.

Please see the following page for more information:
http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml

- James Kirk


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COLLINS DEMANDS AN APOLOGY:

X-Originating-IP:    [212.96.2.80] 

[ 212.96.2.80: COMMUNICATION TREND NIGERIA LTD, LAGOS
THIS IS MORE BELIEVABLE ]


From:    "collins abu" [coll_ab2002@hotmail.com] 
Subject:    I Demand An Apology. 
Date:    Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:41:14 +0000 
  
My Dear Brother James,

I feel sad that you have not only deceived me but also exposed my deal to 
your secret service. Why did you do that without verifying who I really am.

I am sure your secret service will be surprised to know that I am real and 
nothing close to a scammer. You have wronged me and I demand an apology from 
you!

Your Brother,

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