Dr Rimi Umar of Nigeria scamming anyone else here?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

My wife just got this e-mail. I read elsewhere here that there are some scams to transfer money illegally this way....

Dr Rimi Umar.
Plot7 Ahmedu Bello Way,
Ikoyi, Lagos.
Nigeria.
Tel: + 234 1 776 4558
America Internet Fax: [phone]
Alternative Email: - [e-mail]

PLEASE TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

Good day and compliments of the season. I would like to firstly, send to
you the best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly
through my proposal as Contained in this letter. Before going into details,
I must first implore you to treat this with the utmost confidentiality,
as this is required for its success.

This is to seek your cooperation as my foreign partner and your assistance
to enable me own property and invest in the stable economy of your country.
Accept my apologies if this mail does not suit your personal or business
ethics

My name is: Dr Rimi Umar; My colleagues and I are senior officials of the
Federal Government of Nigeria's Contracts Review Panel (CRP). By virtue
of our positions, we have access to funds specifically US$15.6M and we are
interested in transferring this funds that are presently floating and lying
idle in a suspense account at the Central Bank of Nigeria.

We solicit for your assistance because our Laws forbid us as Civil Servants
from opening or operating foreign accounts. The source of the funds came
as a result of over invoiced contract payment during the last military regime
in Nigeria, wherein government Officials set up companies and awarded themselves
and their cronies contracts in various ministries and parastatals. In a
bid to clean up and also please the International Monetary Fund (I.M.F.)
who we are working in partnership with to sanitize the economy, the present
civilian government set up the contract Review Panel, which has the mandate
to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree setting
up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are
being owed outstanding amounts. My colleagues and I have finished our terms
of reference and have left with us US$15.6M, which is presently floating
in the Central Bank of Nigeria and ready for disbursement.

However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this
panel, we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names of companies
that are based in Nigeria. I was therefore mandated, as a matter of trust
by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into
whose account we can transfer this sum of US. $15,600,000.00 (fifteen million
six hundred thousand, U.S. dollars). This is why I am writing you this letter.

We have agreed to share the money to be transferred into your account, if
you agree with our proposition as follows;
(i) 20%to the account owner (you).
( ii) 70% for us (the panel officials
(iii) 10% to be used in settling all expenses incidental to the actualization
of this project.


We sincerely hope you will be able to provide us with an account into which
we can transfer these funds. You can open a zero account for the purpose
of this transaction. We also hope that you will also find time to help us
with good investment opportunities with good returns as we wish to invest
part of our share in your country. Please note that this transaction is
100% safe and risk-free.

We intend to affect the transfer within Ten (10) banking days from the date
of receipt of the following information from you_-: Your Bank's name, Company's
name, address, telephone and fax numbers and the account number (You can
open a new account if you so desire) into which the funds should be paid.

The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description
respectively. This way, we will use your company's name to apply for the
payment and back date the award of the contract to your company. We are
looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your
utmost confidentiality in this transaction.

Please do try and reply me through my alternative Email: ( [e-mail])
for more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you.

Best regards,

Dr. Rimi Umar.

[libbygurl]

1. Nigerian scams'v'been around for several years now. All bogus. Ignore and

block if you can. Why anyone would share his or her bank account info with complete strangers still boggles my mind.

[pnorman]

2. I've received over 200 of that type of scam, in the past year and a half.

They're known as Nigerian Scam, although they aren't always from Nigeria. I have several, allegedly from the Phillipines. they're variants of what's known as The Spanish Prisoner Swindle. And that goes back to Elizabethan times.

pnorman

[cosmicaug]

3. It's a scam?

It's a scam?... Oh, shit!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Get them all the time

on my yahoo account. I've gotten so I can tell its a Nigerian scam without even opening them. I just mark them spam and yahoo boots them out.