I want to write an Outlook rule to automatically delete those Nigerian scam emails. I get about 30 of them every day, so I need to identify common elements between them that Outlook can look for.
They all come from different email addresses, have different subjects, are from different people and refer to different countries/organisations/reasons as the source of the millions of USD they want to transfer into your bank account.
I imagine everyone else here gets these emails, so if we could come up with a decent Outlook rule, we could all use it. The difficulty is that I don't want to delete legitimate emails, and since I get a lot of press releases, requests for help, offers for business arrangements and partnerships etc., the criteria for identifying these spam emails becomes a little harder.
Here are a couple of the ones I've received so far today:
They all come from different email addresses, have different subjects, are from different people and refer to different countries/organisations/reasons as the source of the millions of USD they want to transfer into your bank account.
I imagine everyone else here gets these emails, so if we could come up with a decent Outlook rule, we could all use it. The difficulty is that I don't want to delete legitimate emails, and since I get a lot of press releases, requests for help, offers for business arrangements and partnerships etc., the criteria for identifying these spam emails becomes a little harder.
Here are a couple of the ones I've received so far today:
Dear Friend,
You may be surprise to receive this email since you do
not know me. I am the wife of the late president of
Democratic Republic Of Zaire,President Mobutu Sese
Seko, ( now The Republic of Congo under the leadership
of the son of Mr.Laurent Kabila).
I presume you are aware there is a financial dispute
between my family ( THE MOBUTUS)and the present
civilian Government. This is based on what they believe
as bad and corrupt governance on my late husband part.
May his soul rest in perfect peace. As you might have
heard how a lot of my husband bank account in
Switzerland and North America have been frozen.(The
Swiss froze a US$2.75 million villa on Lake Geneva)
How did he get so rich? Well, for example, when the
German company OTRAG was looking for a place to test
satellite rocket launchers, Mobutu gave them a chunk
of his country as big as Belgium. The fee was $50
million, which Joe(mobutu) simply deposited in his
personal account. He managed to the money coming in
and sales of raw resources going out. , he was simply
in control of the mining concessionaire. In 1978, the
Gecamines write him a check for the entire year's
export sales ($1.2 billion).
Following the above named reasons, I am soliciting for
your humble and confidential assistance to take
custody of Ten Million United States Dollars ( US$10
000,000.00 ), also to front for me in the areas of
business you desire profitable.
These funds have secretly been deposited into a
confidential Security Company,where it can easily be
withdrawn or paid to a recommended beneficiary.The
funds will be released to you by the Security
Company,based on my recommendations,on that note, you
will be presented as my partner who will be fronting
for me and my family in any subsequent ventures.
We have decided to give 20% to you, if you are able to
help us claim this consignment. We have also decided
to give you any money spent on phone calls or
traveling expenses in the course of this transaction
at the end of the transaction.Please, I need your
entire support and co-operation for the success of
this transaction, your utmost confidentiality and
secrecy is highly required, due to my family's present predicament.I sincerely will appreciate your willingness to assist us as soon as possible.I will want you to contact my son who is presently in the refugee camp in the Netherlands under the united nations refugee camp in Netherlands.All correspondence must be addressed to madamsese@netscape.net and you can also call him on this telephone number +31-625 386 617 for more information on how we can proceed in this transaction. Please indicate your interest by sending your telephone and fax number to him
I sincerely will appreciate your acknowledgement as
soon as possible.
Best regards,
Madam Mobutu Sese-Seko
YOU CAN CHECK OUT MORE DETAILS OF MOBUTU AND FAMILY
FROM BELOW WEB PAGES
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/Mobutu.asp
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0197738.html
Please endeavour to reply through my personal email address below:
madamsese@netscape.net
Mr Frank Mboma
Tel:31-615315691.
Fax:31-645940198.
email:frank_mboma@yahoo.com
Dear sir,
I got your contact in search for an honest,Godly and trustworthy foreign partner to assist me transact a rather very lucrative but confidential business.Let me also introduce myself,I am Mr Frank Mboma Special Assistance on security matters to the former president of Liberia Mr.Charles Taylor,who was forced into exile to Nigeria on 11 August 2003 after he handed over power to his Vice president Mr. Moses Blah. I am presently on exile in the Nedernland on errand.Following the international Criminal Court demanding him for war crimes,I wish to solicit your assistance to handle this urgent and confidential business which involves US$55.000.000.00(Fifty-Five million dollars)cash deposited in a security company in Nederland. The deposition of this fund was made with a very strong written agreement and signatory under a security code with my name as the beneficiary,and was registered as containinig photographic materials the money was for purchase of ammunition for the war with the rebels. The first and second phase of the money has been utilized with the arrival of the last consignment of ammunition which was seized by Nigerian troops on peace mission in Liberia.Since i have every relevant document to this deposit,being the one that signed the deposit papers. Now that our regime is no more and the Nigerian Bar Assocation(NBA)informed Nigeria President Gen.Olusegun Obasaungo that the International Criminal Court recently issued warrant of arrest against president Charles Taylor for for Crime and Genocide. I intend to invest this fund in your country,due to stability of your economy. I have resolved to give you 15% of the total sum for your assistance in getting this fund moved out from the security company for investment. However,this can be negotiable I cannot claim the fund by myself due to the fact that the financial regulations in europe do not permit me to own
such fund.I do not want to do anything that will jeopardize this,as it remains my only hope.however,if you are ready to assit me i will give you more details on the way forward. Please send me your confidential Telephone and Fax numbers for easy communication. AS await your urgent reply your absolute trust and confidentiality is highly solicited for.
Reqards,
Mr Frank Mboma.
Citibank Switzerland
16, Quai General - Guisan
P. O. Box 3946
CH. 1211 Geneva 3
ATTN: Sir,
RE-CREDIT OF $50,000,000 INTO YOUR ACCOUNT
I am Engr Ali More, the Controller Electronic Wire Department of Citibank Geneva in Switzerland. By the virtue of my position and authority in the bank, I control the foreign payment Allocations of Foreign depositors, the instruments of multi-national corporation s and African Governments.
The crux of this mail is to intimate you of an existing opportunity to benefit from the ENRON windfall descritly and secretly. As you know, ENRON was the biggest American Energy Company that was worth several billions of dollars in cash and assets. However, it was declared bankrupt in the year 2001 for failure to meet her financial obligations to investors. But before, the bankruptcy declaration was passed against ENRON; my office was able to secure the investment made by one of the African leaders (Late Mobutu Sesesekou) of the Congo Democratic Republic (Zaire).
The Late Sesesekou who died in Exile in Morocco in 1998 invested the sum of $50,000,000 in ENRON through Citibank Geneva and placed the management of the investment directly under my office. When he died the investment was not reflected in his will since he died in exile under serious political pressure. When I understood that all the assets of the former African dictator were being seized by the successive government of The Late Joseph Kabila, I decided to apply to ENRON to withdraw the principal amount of the investment ($50m) and deposited it into Special Trust Account with my bank to avoidbeing detected by the government. This was completely achieved. Now that ENRON has collapsed all the traces of the investment have been wiped out from our system and theirs. Since there is neither a record of the previous investments in ENRON nor the source of the funds, the sum of $50m has continued to remain in the Citibank here in Switzerland as a free, floating and redundant fund.
To avoid undue exposure of the availability of the sum, I have masterminded it's movement into a special vault within the bank where clean and approved funds awaiting to be paid are usually deposited.
Now I am soliciting your partnership in transferring the ownership of this funds to your organization. The modalities are that I will present you or your organization as the original beneficiary of the investment funds. This move is necessary because as long as the funds remain in Citibank nobody will benefit from it. It will be another case of lost investment in the world's prime banks. Besides our bank has a policy of repatriating unclaimed funds to African foundation in USA where it is in turn used to ship arms and ammunition to Africa to fund wars which further destabilize the fragile continent. I personally consider this practice immoral and oppresive. This has actually motivated me to seek an alternative means of securing the funds under the name and investment of another reputable company.
The nature of your involvement will entail presenting your company or yourself as the beneficiary of this funds through an investment made by the late dictator in your company brokered by Citibank Geneva. The details of how you will go about this will be given to you as soon as I receive your favourable response.
In the mean time, I have concluded on a rewarding share of the entire sum as your commission for your assistance. I have arranged the necessary underground works to ensure that the funds is credited into your bank account within 14 banking days from the day we receive your favorable response.
Kindly contact me by my e-mail(engralimore@terra.es) address to enable me furnish you with the details.
Respond urgently.
Yours sincerely,
ENGR ALI MORE.
From: Engr Lucas Philips
Sango Power House,
Marina
Lagos
pls reply to this email address lawyerpeters@neworleans.com/phili@702mail.co.za/lawyerpeters@702mail.co.za
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP- TRANSFER OF
US$16,500,000.00
I am Engr Lucas Philips a director in the project and planning department of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), I head a seven man Tenders Board Committee in charge of contract award and Payment approvals. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account. There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of Multinationals in the power industry in favour of the (NEPA) among which were;
1) The expansion of Power line network within Nigeria for power distribution.
2) Contract for Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of various Gas Turbines in the country.
The original value of of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced in the sum of Sixteen Five million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$16,500,000.00) which has recently been approved and now ready to be transferred. However the companies that actually executed the aforementioned contract have been fully paid and the projects officially commissioned.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount into your account for 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 in you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 35% of the transferred sum, 5% shall be set aside for any incidental expenses during the course of this transaction, you will then be mandated to revert the balance to us in due course.
You must however NOTE that this transaction is subject to the follwing terms and conditions; our conviction of your transparent honesty and dilligence, that you must accord this transaction with utmost confidentiality and secrecy. Modalities have been worked out at the highest levels of the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Nigeria and the Presidential Task Force on Contract Payment for the immediate remittance of the funds within 10 -14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above terms. Our assurance is that your role shall be totally risk free . To accord this transaction the legality it deserves, and for mutual security of funds, the whole procedures shall be legally processed with your name or any company you may nominate as the bona fide final beneficiary.
Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 20years in the Civil Service of my country, I am very much averse to having my image and career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency. Kindly expedite immediate action as we are well behind schedule to enable us include this transfer in the two batch of the 2004 year contract payments.
Best Regards
Engr Lucas Philips
ATTENTION: DEAR SIR/MADAM
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
I know that you will be surprised to receive this message.please consider this message as a request from a family in dire need of help.
I am MRS MARY JACOB from LIBERIA, the wife of Brigadier PETER JACOB.
I got your contact through the South African Chamber of commerce here in Johannesburg {S.A.C.C} regarding your trustworthiness.
My purpose of contacting you is to help me out of my difficult condition in view of my husband's death.I need your assistance to help me to transfer some money out of south Africa into your personal or company's account.The amount involved is {US$11.000,000} ELVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS.
My late husband was in charge of arms purchasing for LIBERIA arms forces and he generated this money in the course of purchasing arms for LIBERIA armed forces.
He deposited this money with a private security company here in south Africa in cash and i assure you that nobody knows about this money except my two sons and me.
All i am asking you is to assist us to trasfer this money out of south Africa for investment purposes.
The reason being that I and my two sons are living in south Africa as political asylum seekers and the financial laws of south Africa do not allow asylum seekers certain financial rights,hence I shall be very grateful if you can assist us.For your efforts,
I am prepared to offer you 35% of the total money while 5% will be set aside for local and international expenses incurred during the course of this transaction.
As soon as you get this message, Please reply this immidiatly Please the assurance i will always give you is that this transaction is 100% risk free, as i do not want anything to happen to this money.
Finally,if you are not interested,I will like you to always keep the confidentiality of this transaction.
Best regards,
MRS MARY JACOB
