My first Nigerian Email...

Driver8

SallyForth wrote: »

I just did! Wow some of the baits read better than a good book, how wonderful to see these people get a taste of their own medicine.

What i would recommend is the, The road to Chad/Darfur thread. The guy who did that one is brilliant. He had 3 guys running around Africa after non existant money. One guy had to fly to Germany to get to Khartoum, sold his car to get there too. Absolutely brilliant. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If you search the archives and read some of the bait's you will be creasing yourself laughing. one was started the other day but a mass mail bait, loads of them bait the same bloke at once. By the time they will have finished with him he won't know what day of the week it is.

Paul_Varjak

cassie55 wrote: »

I received this one - I am really concerned actually – this poor man has been stranded in space for 18 years. I think we should have a whip-round. :rolleyes:

Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home
Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA)
Plot 555
Misau Street
PMB 437
Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA


Dear Mr. Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 18-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.

Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
tip @ nasrda.gov.ng

www.nasrda.gov.ng/

Absolutely brilliant, did you write it yourself?

moonrakerz

missingink wrote: »

Is there anywhere to forward this sort of thing to for investigation or anything?

I tried to forward a very sophisticated one to my bank's fraud dept - their server bounced it as "spam" !!