Venditoris: Beware of Scams

How’s this for timeliness. Fast on the heels of the letter of Feb 19, comes the following missive apparently from a “World Class” Banker in Nigeria with lots of money to “give” away!

(Give me a break-it was not even addressed to me, but rather to the person sending it, how unique..er.. quaint..er..dumb!).

There are so many of these scams floating around Internet Space, that we have created a new posting category - YANL, or Yet Another Nigerian Letter.

If anyone can think of a more humorous term we could use..in mixed company, that is. We’d be interested in using it.

Perhaps if we ridicule these enough and poke fun at them, the unaware public will begin to recognise that the joke is on them if they reply to such garbage.

Heard any good Nigerian Letter Jokes lately, like the “>Brad Christian’s Porcine Princess story?

Here it is quote-unquote

“Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:17:37 +0530 (IST)
From: “Robert Duke” <robertduke@gala.net>
To: robertduke@gala.net
Subject: Acknowledgment

OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN DUE PROCESS AND FOREIGN PAYMENT MANAGEMENT BOARD.
OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL.

RE: YOUR DELAYED CONTRACT PAYMENT.

Firstly, I want to assure you that I can guarantee the immediate payment of your contract sum to you without further delays.

In a brief introduction, I AM THE CHAIRMAN DUE PROCESS AND FOREIGN PAYMENT MANAGEMENT BOARD with the OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

My office is vested with the sole duty of verifying and approving/monitoring every international inheritance/contract payment transactions above USD$1 MILLION coming out of Nigeria .

And presently your payment file has been referred to my desk for final ratification and recommendation from the Presidency, for payment to your nominated account. This is in line with our constitutional payment policies.

However, I write you personally outside my official capacity to inform you on my findings concerning the delay in the payment of your contract sum.

Based on my proper review of your payment file, I am aware of several reasons behind the delay in your Payment, which has probably cost you a lot of money.

But I want you to know that I will assist you to redeem your due payment without further delays.

Yours truly,

Robert Duke”

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