Later.....

Once again I've received one of those silly emails stating that I'm going to get gazillions of dollars from Africa. I used to delete them, then one day decided to send an email back to the idiots.. I simply wrote, "you've made me laugh, thanks!" Thinking that no more would come my way.

I read in the Woolamaloo Gazette http://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/ how the writer handled it. In England you can send the email to some Internet police and they did something about it. Here in the States you just delete them.

Here's the email in all of its idiocy.

Subj: Mr.Emannuel Kuta
Date: 1/13/2004 6:35:43 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: kuta1@fsmail.net
To: kuta1@fsmail.net
Sent from the Internet (Details)




From The Desk Of:
Mr. Emannuel Kuta
Union Bank Of Nigeria plc.
Victoria Island Branch Lagos.

Dear Sir/Madam,
first, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as been utterly confidencial and top secret. Though I know that all will be well at the end of the day, I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction as I feel that you may have the ability to handle such transaction.

Let me start by introducing myself to you, I am Mr.Favour Adimabuah an Accountant with Union Bank Of Nigeria plc. Lagos. I came to know about you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidencial business transaction.

The preposition:

A foreigner, Late Engr. Dahlig Mitchell, An Oil Marchant/Contractor
with the Federal Government Of Nigera until his death in Korean Air flight 801, which Crashed in Guam on August 1997, banked with us here at Union Bank P.L.C Victoria Island Branch and had a closing balance of US$20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) which the bank unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next of kin of the late beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for Arms and Ammunition at a Military War College here in Nigeria.


Fervently, valuable effort were made by the union bank to get in touch with any of the Mitchell's family or relative but proved to no avail. it is because of the perceived possible of not being able to locate any of the late Engr. Dahlig Mitchell's next of kin (he had no wife and children) that the management under the influence of our chairman and Members Of The Boards Of Director, retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared Unclaimable and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further Enhance the course of war in Africa and the World in General as stated in the our Financial Constitution that any unclaimed deposited fund after five years be converted.



In order to avert this negative development, I now seek your permission to have you stand as the Next-Of-Kin Of Engr . Dahlig Mitchell so that the funds US$ 20.5M (Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) would be released and payed into your Bank Account as the Beneficiary Next Of Kin. All Documents and proves to enable you get this Fund will be careful Worked out and more so we are, Assuring you a 100% Risk Free Involvment. your share stays while the rest will be for myself and my collegue for Investment Purpose in your Country.





If this Proposal is all right by you then kindly get back to me by e-mailing me via this this e-mail address, thanking you in anticipation of your cooperation.


Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Emannuel Kuta
(accountant union bank plc)

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Please don't tell me anyone's fallen for this.

On a brighter note, I've actually done some work for the book proposal....After looking at the damn thing for so long, I'm beginning to believe that it's not that bad. I just have to relax and make sure I stay in one spot long enough to write the rest of it.