p2pnet.net News Feature:- Is it just us or is there a huge increase in Nigerian-style 419 scam-spam?

We’ve been noticing a major build-up. Yesterday alone, for example, we had 11 “right now I have only about a few months to live” and “I got your information through my personal search on the internet, hence I decided to seek your cooperation, due to the sensitivity of this transaction and my commitment as a lawyer” emails, as well as three ‘We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners" ‘Lotto’ con-mails.

Also, it looks as if the [at] and [dot] solution doesn’t work any more. Our scam-spam was addressed to jon[at]p2pnet[dot]net with the [at] and [dot] properly replaced.

Below, FYI, are samples.

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Department Of Minerals & Energy,
Pretoria, South Africa.
From: Engr. Fikile mabuti
Personal/private email: engr_fikilemabuti@excite.com,
fmabuti@excite.com

Fax:+27 73 811 3975,9
Fax:+27 11 507 5379
Tel: +27 73 811 3974

Attention: President / C.E.O

I am Engineer ENGR. FIKILE MABUTI, Director of Project, South Africa Ministry of Mineral & Energy Resources. I am making this contact with you based on the committee’s need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer.

First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction / business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected and honest person to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and confidentiality. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.

My colleagues and I used our official position to influence the award of a contract to a foreign company based on a gentleman agreement that a certain percentage of the total contract value will be given to us. The foreign contracting firm has executed the contract and the contract amount paid less

US$20.500,000.00 (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars).

Which represent the percentage which we agreed should be given to us Since the present Government is determined to pay foreign contractors all debts owed, so as to maintain good relationship with foreign governments and non-government agencies, we intend to include our bills for approvals with the Department of Finance.We are seeking your assistance to enable us claim the money since as civil servant we are not allowed to operate foreign accounts. Details shall be worked out in line with this to enable us claim the money without the slightest problem. I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction your share as compensation will be US$5.125m (25%), while my colleagues and I receive US$13.325m (65%) and the balance of US$2.5m (10%) for miscellaneous expenses that may be incurred by either party The business is completely safe and secure, provided you treat it with utmost confidentiality. It does not matter whether you/your Company does contracts, as transfer of powers will be secured in favour of you/your Company. Also, your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction.We have reposed confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint us.

Kindly notify me by email at : engr_fikilemabuti@excite.com, fmabuti@excite.com sending your secured telephone and fax numbers for further details upon your acceptance of this proposal.

Thank you in anticipation of your co-operation.Regards,

ENGR. FIKILE MABUTI

Return-path: <hfjmbbqacr@ebay.com>

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From: "engr.fikile mabuti" <fikilemabuti@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Suspected Junk Email] hello
To: jon <jon[at]p2pnet.net>
Reply-to: "engr.fikile mabuti" <fikilemabuti@hotmail.com>
Message-id: <20050321225337.5E62862B83@p2pnet.net>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=qzsoft_directmail_seperator
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-priority: Normal
Delivered-to: jon[at]p2pnet.net
Original-recipient: rfc822;p2p@shaw.ca

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Dear Sir/Ma,

My name is SALIM IBRAHIM a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live, according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.

I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that God has called me, I have willed and gi*ven most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends.

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so and I have decided to give also to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan; they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them.

The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of (Twenty million five hundred thousand U.S dollars) that I have with a finance/Security Company abroad. I will want you to help me collect this consignment and dispatched it to charity organizations.

I have set aside 20% for you and for your time.

God be with you.

SALIM IBRAHIM

NOTE: Please do get back to me through any of this email address: ibsalim@netscape.net or ibrahimsalim@tsamail.co.za so I can give you the full details about the funds.

Return-path: <ibrahimsalim1@yahoo.com>

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:51:29 +0100
From: "Mr.Salim Ibrahim" <ibrahimsalim1@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Suspected Junk Email] very very urgent
Sender: "Mr.Salim Ibrahim" <ibrahimsalim1@yahoo.com>
To: jon[at]p2pnet.net
Message-id: <20050321205055.659A35F3F4@p2pnet.net>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.503 (Entity 5.501)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Priority: 1
Delivered-to: jon[at]p2pnet.net
Original-recipient: xxxx

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Dearest One,

REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER TO YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,permit me to inform you of my desire to ask you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what I’m about to tell you.I’m Angela Thomas(19) i,m the only daughter of Late Mr.& Mrs.Joseph Thomas. My father was a very wealthy Oil Marchant here in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. My mother died when i was a baby.

Before the death of my father on Sept. 2004 in a private hospital here in Abuja, he secretly called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Five million United State Dollars USD ($5m) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks in Lagos. He told me that he used my name as the next of Kin in depositing the money.He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friends here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside my country,Nigeria) that willl assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank with the view of my making use of it for investment purposes after my education carrier here.I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose. Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept yo stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not to discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me in investing it. But if you still want a percentage, i i am willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance.Please tell me if you feel the percentage I offered is not ok by you.

As soon as I receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, I will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as I want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over. I shall also send my picture to you and shall also need yours too.

No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please I beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as I believe that those that killed my Daddy are still after me. Please reply me through my email box.

Thanks and God bless you .

Best regards,

Angela Thomas.

Return-path: <angelathomas@zipmail.com.br>

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From: angelathomas@zipmail.com.br
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=20=20NEED=20=20YOUR=20=20URGENT=20=20ASSISTANCE=20=20PLS=2E?=
To: angelathomas@zipmail.com.br
Message-id: <423E7F0600002B3A@www.zipmail.com.br>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
Delivered-to: jon[at]p2pnet.net
Original-recipient: xxxx

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THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
HOLLAND HEAD OFFICE
BURDENSTRAAT 21B,
2053 DS AMSTERDAM,
HOLLAND.
www.freelotto.com

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION.CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 19th March, 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year’s Annual Free Lotto Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 1,000,000 Us Dollars (one million Dollars) only. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your Reference number and batch numbers:

1, Email ticket number: ticket number175420658766483

2, BATCH: 427901527-Dg43

3, the file Ref number: 232/656/4509

4, lucky numbers 8-16-18-23-31-45

5, lotto code number: FL09622Holland

Please contact the under-listed claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

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Advocate Dr John Peters
Telephone number +31 -626 448 919
Fax: +31-847-371-493
Email: bejesbejesnl@netscape.net
Bejesbejeslaw firm
21B EGGERRST RAAT NN 102
AMSTERDAM, N.L

For processing and remittance of your cash to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all winnings must be claim not later than March 27th 2005, after this date, unclaimed funds will be returned to the International Lotto, you should contact advocate Dr john peters about the claimant procedures, send your fax and telephone to Advocate Dr John Peters, this will enable his office to send the claims application form (A4) to you the Beneficiary.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform the advocate Dr John Peters as soon as possible. Dr John Peter is responsible for the processing of your approved file to the bank for payment.

Congratulations once again, from all members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotions prgram.

Once again congratulations.

Sincerely,
Sophia Halendale
Promotions Manager
The Lotto Company
Holland & Europe.

Return-path: <tourfreelotto@netscape.net>

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:10:27 +0100 From: "Mrs.Sophia Halendale" <tourfreelotto@netscape.net>
Subject: [Shaw Suspected Junk Email] YOUR EMAIL WON THE LOTTERY
Sender: "Mrs.Sophia Halendale" <tourfreelotto@netscape.net>
To: jon[at]p2pnet.net
Message-id: <20050321171026.6312962B5A@p2pnet.net>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.503 (Entity 5.501)Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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Original-recipient: xxxx

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