Dear Funsho,

Sorry for the late answer, but I have just been through the worst week-end in my life. As you know, I was going to Sct. Petersburg, and everything went according to plan until I landed there. I had been chatting with a nice fellow on the plane, and had promised to carry one of his bags through the customs because he was handicappet and we were going to the same hotel. That was a BIG mistake, because I was stopped in the customs, and it turned out that his bag contained drugs. And the man, whose name I didn't have, was nowhere to find. To make a long story short, I was arrested, and was first released when I managed to get in touch with the American Embassy this morning.

Back to business. I have contacted mr Galadima, and will keep you informed about this.

Yours most truly, ...

And the letter to the bank:

Att: Dr. J.B. Galadima
=================
Regarding the release of the US$10,000,000.00 to my bank account, I understand that I have to sign the Fund Release Documents.

I am planning to come to Nigeria next week. Will that be convenient for you?

Are there any documents that I should bring?

Regards,

From: For Trans Dept <for_trans_dept@financier.com>
Sent: October 4, 2004
Subject: Re: Foreign Transaction Department

Foreign Transaction Department

Attn: Miss Young
4th October, 2004

Dear Madam, We are in receipt of your mail thus, it is very important to have your flight itinery therefore, you should scan your flight schedule and send it to this mail box as an attachment.

Furthermore, you will be required to identify yourself,Copy of your International Passport and other claim documents.

We await your flight schedule.

Yours faithfully,

Dr. J.B. Galadima

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 5, 2004
Subject: Re: Very Urgent

Dear miss young

Compliments of the day to you. I am in receipt of your mail and I am very sorry for what happened. I thank God that you got out of it. Please you have to be very careful next time.
Meanwhile, have you heard from Dr. Galadima ? Please if you have not,endeavour to get in touch with him to enable us conclude this transaction in good time.

I am waiting to hear from you.

Best regards.

Funsho

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 6, 2004
Subject: Re: What is the situation?

Dear Miss Young,

Compliments of the day to you,

I expected your mail, any way, what is the situation for now? have you been able to conclude with Dr. J.B Galadema?

In fact, you must call me on my direct line234-8034444918, i need to hear your voice, each time i call your lince always in answering machine, please you ensure to provide a mobile phone to enable me to communicate with you at any time.

Wait you call

Funsho

Now its time to negotiate the fee:

Dear Funsho,

I think we have a problem. I cannot raise the $850 after what happened in Sct.Petersburg. I have only got $593 left. You will also have to come up with some money.

Mr Galadema also says that he wants "other claim documents". What does he mean?? Will you send them to me?

Yours truly, ...

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 7, 2004
Subject: Re: Final Stage

My Dear Friend and Partner,

Compliments of the day to you.I am in receipt of your mail. The claim documents were the documents that the attorney submitted to the Contract Award Department and to the Finance Ministry. Therefore,send a mail to the bank and tell him that the Claims Documents have been submitted already to the above named parastatals by your attorney in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, concerning the fees, I have spent so much to bring this transaction to this final payment stage but as it is now we are partners so we have to work cooperatively to acheive success. The lawyer was at the bank to confirm the fees and the Director gave him the payment instruction which is stated below;They said that the payment should be made by Western Union Money Transfer;

Western Union Payment Instruction.
The payment should be attentioned to the Account Officer with the following details;

Mr. Jude Oyeacho
# 22 Marina, Lagos
Nigeria.

Text Question : Purpose
Text ANswer : Courier

You should proceed to Western Union Office and send $550 to the above details and mail the payment details to the bank. You should also send a mail to the bank informing them that the balance of $300 will be paid by your lawyer here in Nigeria.

Please do let me know once the money is sent to them so that the lawyer will forward the details for the $300 to the bank as well.

I await your mail soonest.

Best regards.

Funsho

What if another scammer has a better offer?

Darling Funsho,

something unexpected has come up. I have received a mail from

Charles Soludu
Executive Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria
Tel 234-803-439-9504
Email cbn_paymentoffice@walla.com and cbnexecutivegovernor@hotmail.com

He says that he is going to pay me $32,7 mio if I pay the expenses, which is only $500. This amount is much bigger than our deal, so I dont know what to do. I am tempted go for his money first, and then we will have no problem in our deal. But I dont know if I can trust him. Will you use your contacts in the bank to advise me?

Hope to hear from you soon, ...

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 13, 2004
Subject: Re: Please Follow the Previous Instruction From me

My Dear Friend and partner,

Compliments of the day to you. I am very sorry with what happened, this means that we have to be very careful now that we have come to the final stage of our transaction. You should disregard that mail because we do not have any business with Charles Soludu because he is not responsible for our payment. I believe it is a mischief to distract you and divert our funds. As you can see, the amount that was indacted by him is far above what was approved for us,you should delete that mail from your mail box.

However, to prevent such from happening we have to expidite actions by acting fast based on our previous arrangement to join resources together to conclude this transaction. Please go ahead and send the US$550 so that we finalise the whole arrangement.

The money should be sent with the information that was mailed to you in care of Mr. Jude Oyeacho. I suppose you have all the details in the mail I sent to you earlier.

I await your mail soonest.

Best regards.

Funsho.

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 15, 2004
Subject: Re: Final Stage

Dear Miss Young,

Compliments of the day,

As i explained to you in my last that charles is no body and no account you should follow his instrction rather he is there to monitor and to fined out information from you, please don`t ever send any mail to him, as matter of fact, he want to get information about our project and moreover the amount that Federal Government approved is $10,000:000:00 dollras which will be transfered to your account.

Meanwhile, the lawyer was in the bank this morning to fined out if they have transfered the money to your nominated bank account, but unfortunate that you have not done the necessary thing base on our earlier arrangement, please you should endeavoure to send the money through western union money transfer as you have been instructed by the bank, you should attention the payment in the name of jude Oyeacho to enable them to proceed.

You expect my call,

Thanks have a nice day

Funsho

Don`t forgert that i love you.

Both Funsho and Charles Soludo claim to work in CBN:

My dearest Funsho,

I am getting rather confused. You tell me that I should not contact Charles. Charles tells me not to contact you. Are you both working in the bank, or are you not?

Anyway, I have been told that people that tries to cheat you, also will send you a false picture. I think that the picture you sent me was real, but to prove that, I will ask you to send me a new picture where you are holding a sign with your name.

I hope this will get our business back on the track.

With love, ...

At this time a new scammer, Walter Obasanjo, sends me a fax, where he wants to send me $10m, which is the same amount that Funsho is talking about.

You can read the story about Walter Obasanjo here.

Meanwhile Funsho is becoming impatient.

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 19, 2004
Subject: Re: I Need To Know Your Position

Dear Miss Young,

Good day to you. I got your mail and I do not understand what you mean by holding up a sign or photograph. I do not have time for such. This is not a childish transaction, this involves alot of money and we have gone a long way in this transaction and the delay so far is not healthy for this transaction. If you can not handle it then let me know so that I can look for another person that will assist me in realising this transaction.Afterall you also have so much to benefit. I am really upset with the whole thing. We have been at this point for over a week now.

Apart from the fact that I have spent so much on this transaction, I have made alot of sacrifices and you dont seem to understand that. Please let me know your stance, I can have an attorney draft a change of ownership and grant us Power of Attorney to change account where the funds will be transferred and look for somebody else.I am begining to be worried that if these funds are transferred into your account we might have problems with you with the way you are handling things.

Regards.

Funsho.

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 20, 2004
Subject: Not Happy

Dear Miss Young,

Compliments of the day to you,

I have not heard from you so far, what is the situation? i finally made contact with lawyer and he confirm to me that the bank are willing to transfer the money to your account.

However, am not happy the way you are handling this transaction, i beleived you got my last mail and you have to act fast to response to it, because i have spent money to the leavel it is right now, meanwhile, you should able me tell me if you are want us to continue with our business or you want to sendto me a Power of Attorney to get some bode eals.

I wait your response before i proceed.

Thanks

Funsho

The following day I introduce Walter Obasanjo to Funsho:

Dear Funsho,

I am sorry if you are worried. I am getting rather confused.

The bank faxed the attached letter to me, in which they inform about the $10 mio that have been released.

What worries me the most is the last paragraph, where they forbid me to talk to anyone about this moneytransfer. I dont understand why this strict secrecy is necessary.

Please advise me what to do now.

Yours truly, ...

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 22, 2004
Subject: Re: Not Happy

Dear Miss Young,

Compliments of the day to you,

I received your mail, i wonder why you have been delaying this transaction, any way, as matter offact, your fund has not been realeased, remember that am the person that introduse you to this business and you must keep to my instrucytion, because i need my persentage also at the end ofthis transaction, therefor, you ever contact the bank again, they have already fine out some information from you that is the most reason why they came to know how much was involve in this business, if you could remember then, they could not percify the exact amount that was involved.

However, the lawyer was in the bank yesterday and they confirm to him, that the earlier arragement has to be done before the can transfer your fund to your account, meanwhile, i told you that you should stop any communication you have with this people, am telling you the trueth that forget them and follow my instruction so that the bank can transferyour fund to your account.

Nevertheless, you should endeavour to send the money as you have been instructed by bank through western union money transfer, with the name of Mr. Jude and i believed you have all the information to sendthe money, kindly send to me the information to western once you send the money.

Best regards

Funsho

Its time to end this story. Funsho keeps insisting on me paying the fee. I'm stuck.

2 days later I answer:

Dear Funsho,

How are you today? I'm fine, but I must admit that I dont understand what is going on in our little business. I just received the attached mail, that confirms that my money from the bank is on its way, but you tell me in your mail that it has not been released yet.

Anyway, you should not be worried about your 25 percent. As soon as I receive the boxes, I will open an account for you, and transfer your 25 % as well as any other expenses you have had during this transfer. Please inform me of your wifes name, and whether you have any preferences to which bank I should open an account for her.

For your nformation, I am going to Spain next week, but you should be able to contact me as usual.

With love, ...

----- Original message -----
From: "special payment" <presidency02@presidency.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:41:53 -0500
Subject: Re: cargoes despatched

Dear Sir,

We wish to inform you that your consignment that contained your funds have finally letf nigeria today with Dilomat -Campell Smith ,to be arriving in your country and delivered to you within 3-4 days. The keys and the other documents were padded with the boxes and put inside another box with dialock key numbers as a new system, so as to enable you have your funds accordingly . As I had told you earlier, that 0.1% of your contract amount should be deducted for payment of all charges and taxes levelled against your contract claim. This 0.1% deducted was judiciously used that way and paid all the taxes, changes and levies that hindered you from collected this your funds for a long time now.

However, after paying all taxes, the money for the expenses remained US$15,000 to take charge of shipping the two silver boxes that contained your money. Of course, your funds were packed into two giant iron silver boxes at the foreign current operations department of our Apex Bank; the boxes were locked with keys, well sealed and covered with forms before forwarding to the Diplomats for onwards to the straight forwarders for weighing at the Air Port.

And on getting to the airport for weighing, we found out that each box weighed 100kg/US$100. Then the two boxes weighed 200kg and cost = US$20,000 thereby remains balance of US$5,000 to complete this payment. As your consignments were tightly locked and sealed, and also for security reasons of your funds. I cannot open them at the public to take out the balance of US$5,000. Therefore there is nothing I could do rather than to lobby with the weighing officer and give him US$500 out of my own purse as a tip-up for him to under weighs your consignments. Note that the weight declared to shipper is 150kg instead of actual weight which is 200kg.

Anyway, my happiness now is that your consignment/cargo/funds has been shipped, to be deliver to your address and take note of its information.
Total Weight of the Boxes = 200kg
The Dial Lock Key No. for box A1 = 5534
The Dial Lock Key No. for box A2 = 8176
Airway Bills Nos. = 1663348994
Bill of Lading Nos. = 8754

It was accompanied by a Diplomat -Dr Campell Smith. Note that it is films and films materials that were declared before the customs for security reasons of your funds while the true actual contents were money, and it was sent through the help of CAMPELL SMITH. Please, keep the entire contents of the boxes very secret and confidential and let the true contents which is raw cash dollars in use, only known by you. And under normal circumstance you should let anyone know the true content of your cargo till it finally delivered to your address and deposited to your bank account accordingly.

. And do not hesitate to contact me immediately you have received this mail

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully

DR. Walter Obasanjo
CHAIRMAN (PTF)

Normally Funsho answers within 24 hours, but this time it took him 3 days:

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: October 27, 2004
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: cargoes despatched

My dear Miss Young,

I got your mail for long,

Notwithstanding, i advice you to follow the instruction of the bank to enable them to realease your fund to your account, as i told you earlier that this people got all the information about this transaction through you, i told you to stop any communication you have with any person but you would not undertstand, now you need my advice.

Ana way, my advice to you is forget this people because they are not Government officials, however, the arragement is still intact, you should to send the money to bank in other to realease your fund.

Please my dear Miss Young, if you know you can`t send the money for the fess, please kindly send a Power of Attorney to enable me to get some body eals that will complete this project.

Thanks

Funsho

From: funsho nnpc <funsho_nnpc2004@yahoo.com>
Sent: November 10, 2004
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: cargoes despatched

Dear Miss Young,

Compliments have you received your fund?

Please do let me know the situation.

I waitr your response

Funsho

More than a year later, on February 2006, I receive this from C.S.

From: Mike Uka <info@mikeukachambers.org>
Sent: February 14, 2006
Subject: From: Mike Uka Chambers

From: Mike Uka Chambers.

Lagos - Nigeria

Attention: Sir/Madam.

Please bear with us for making the initial contact through e-mail. But my partners are insisting for a meeting in order not to fall into wrong hands again. I am Barrister. Mike Uka , the personal attorney to Mr. Milan Oconnor from your country but base in Nigeria and works with Mobil Petroleum Company in Nigeria as Purchasing Director/Manager.

Mr. Milan Oconnor and his family were among the people that lost their lives on Jan 29, 2002 as a result of Bomb explosions in the City of Lagos Nigeria, you can confirm it from here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/1787000.stm

The reason why we contacted you is because, the Bank where our client (Mr. Oconnor had an account before his death valued at  US$10.5 Million Dollars have issued us a letter to provide his relative whom will receive his money or they will include it on their Bank Profit for the Year 2005.

Since then, Our Chamber has made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of his relatives, but this was unsuccessful. After the unsuccessful attempts, we decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail.

Since we have not been able in locating his relative for the past Four (4) years, we are in search of a well-trusted foreigner, whom I shall front as one of Mr. Oconnor's relation so that I will order the bank to pay you the Fund then I can come over to your country for the sharing of the Fund with you equally.

It may interest you to know that last Ten years ago, a similar transaction worth of US$4.5 Million was carried out with one Mr. Isaac Kim, the President of Traine International Trading Corporation at No. 135 East 57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10022.

After the agreement between both partners, the money was duly transferred into this account only to be disappointed on our arrival in New York, and we were reliably informed that he was no longer on that address while his telephone and telex numbers have been reallocated.

This time around we need a trustworthy person to do business, so if you can prove yourself to be trusted in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share if this US$10.5M is transferred into your account.

If this proposal is okay by you, then reply urgently and send me the following information's such as (1) Your full name and address, (2) Your age and occupation, (3) Your direct, cell and fax numbers. Kindly, treat as very important and strictly confidential, I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free. I look forward to your response.

This business will be concluded within seven working days on receipt of your acceptance letter.

Best Regards,

Barrister. Mike Uka

Senior Partner, Uka Chambers