Be Aware - The SANI ABACHA Fraud (Scam) !!

These rogues get connected with people via email very seriously, and try to get you caught in their trap. And this has happened to some of my friends already; thus I'm doing this as a social service to make the whole internet/email community aware of it, if you still aren't.

* I Will be known as "Marine" throughout this document.

* I'm a person from "South Asia" (not interested in revealing anything else).

This whole thing began in December 2003 when I first got an email from an unknown person who described herself as "Hajia Maryam abacha" the wife and widow of the late Major General Sani Abacha, the late former Head of State, Federal Republic of Nigeria...

[] first email :

[][] next email :

From: "Hajia Maryam abacha" <hajia_maryam1@fsmail.net>
To: "marine" <marine@****.com>     << not my real address> >
Subject: Thanks for your positive response.
Date: ***** Dec 2003 21:40:04 +1100 (CET)


Dear marine,

Thank you very much for your brief, but straight forward mail.

All the modalities of the transaction would be explained to you in details by my eldest son Alhaji Abba, whose information are below as all that is actually required of you is to act as the said legal beneficiary of the said consignment (trunk boxes) that was deposited in the name of GREEN FIELD AGRO ALLIED INVESTMENTS LIMITED which was used by my late husband in other not to allow my family name to come up in any way connected to the consignment and it was also lodged as family treasures as all the legal documents that would authorize you to act, the CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT are all in our possession as that is all the family has now and its being guided with all we have.

ALHAJI ABBA ABACHA
EMAIL: abba_a_K@yahoo.com
2348033433476.

Please do reach him as soon as you can to enable him brief you of all that is required.

Please do get back to me on each developments as he would also be the one to inform you of the outcome of the family meeting as regards the discussion on the percentage that would be accrued to you for your assistance at the end of the transaction.

Once again my entire family say thank you and would at this point make it clear that we would be as transparent as we can in dealing with you as regards this transaction.

Maryam.

Now enters the character called "ALHAJI ABBA ABACHA" (wonder whether it was really another person....lol). Also should mention that at this time I inquired of how they got my Email address as anyone curious would do. And this guy replies ...

Good day,

I must honestly express the feeling presently of my family towards your disclosing your willingness to assist my family in these endeavor do pray that Allah grant both parties especially you as blessed is the hands that is actually rendering the assistance, we are indeed grateful.
During the meeting which was suppose to come up yesterday, but ending up coming up this morning after our Islamic prayers, my mother informed me that you did ask just not too long in your recent mail to her how she got your email, you see Mr. marine, I do the surfing on net and happen to come across your email while surfing the net as it was made known to me that we actually do need a foreign assistance to get the said transaction on motion, thus I ended up making it available to my mother Hajia Maryam who is just too aged, she is 65yrs old now and actually cannot be involved in too rigorous activities anymore unlike when she was still the first lady of my country and pretty younger than she is now, hope you do understand and hope your questions has been answered.
marine, this was the outcome of the meeting this morning as it has just been completed and felt it too wise to inform you of its outcome, it was unanimously agreed by all members of the family to deal with you one, provided you can be trusted and would not give us out, it was also agreed that 20% of the total sum of the USD38.6M would be accrued to you at the end of the transaction for your assistance when the said funds are now in your custody and have been processed from the security company, while we would get 70% of the said funds which you would be putting in a trustee account for us as we do not intend bringing back funds into the country as we would want your expertise to find out a very viable business we can invest in and would yield profit in no sooner time, with also a favor of looking for a very large and a little expensive house my entire family can retire to once all have been completed and the ban on our movement lifted by the government which we believe very soon, living us with the remaining 10% which would be for any miscellaneous expenses we both would incur during the process of this transaction while dealing with the security company in Amsterdam, as there are unaware of the contents of the trunk boxes in their possession.
My family will want to know if you would be able to make yourself physically available to deal with the security company in Amsterdam as that is actually what we want as we cannot afford to allow any complications due to your not being present there physically as this funds is all we have left and all we have documented claims to as not too long ago, exactly two weeks the Nigerian government sent delegates to Swiss banks on talks on how to get some of the funds starched by my late father in Swiss banks released to them, this particular funds was to the tune of USD$600M but the outcome of the meeting with the Swiss banks have not been disclose to the general public up till now, guess their mission was not fruitful.
I would crave you do send down your full contact details to enable the said lawyer whom would be assisting in preparing the said documents for claims of the said consignment be able to start work on this,

FULL NAME :...............................
PHYSICAL ADDRESS....................
TEL/FAX LINES:.............................
COUNTRY:.....................................
OCCUPATION:...............................

You can as well send it to him after you must have sent it down to me with you just mentioning that you are contacting on behalf of Alhaja Abba Abacha, his details are below

LAWYERS NAME : ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.
EMAIL: usman_co@mail2lawyer.com

I do plead that you take the said percentage we are willing to give to you at the end of the transaction as that is all we can give now considering our financial state.
Would definitely find time to call you myself.
Thanks and may Allah bless you and your family.
Abba.  

Got an email from maryam, shortly ....

Dear marine,

Hope all is well with you and as instructed by me, my son Abba has told me he has reached you.
My regards to your entire household.

Maryam.

I wasn't reluctant to reply either. and asked them whether this is something of a joke since I have read about this sort of fraudulent stuff on the net...

Mr. marine,

I am very happy with the content of your mail as I have been wanting to inform you of all these as soon as I am able to have your full attention, and now I will be as straight and as open to you as regards my family business endeavors ok.

If you do read time Europe magazine often, you would see that two weeks or there about and even on cnn/bbc it was internationally heard that our government did send a delegate consisting of about twelve individuals including the foreign affairs minister to see how they can come to a compromise with Swiss bank officials to release USD600,000.000.00 Million of funds my late father starched away in Swiss banks while in office as the governments even have plans to incurcate these funds to the next year budget of President Olusegun Obasanjo, although the outcome of the discussion has not been known, so friend if we do not have a deposit of any sort some were in a security company containing funds, I would not nor my mother Hajia tell you they were, as now even my late fathers associate who is the only insider we do have in government informed us again that individuals in the government sector who are aware of such deposits made by my late father have started contacting individuals abroad to help them with the consignment as they believed as soon as they release my elder brother Mohammed who also just got married he would be able to lure my mother into disclosing and forwarding the legal documents to claims to them but till now my family have decided that since our financial state is dwindling we would definitely not let go of the documents, that is for that, but do have in mind also that the insider made us know that some upright governments officials have started a propaganda to make people aware of this fact thus the website you people are presented with but we still get report that my family names are still being used out there by unscrupulous element and we pray to Allah that they get cut.

Please you have to understand with my family as you happen right now to be our only hope as we do think you right for you to haven taken time to think over it before writing back tells to a great extent the kind of individual you are and this is just who my family would want to deal with a straight forward person as individuals also have pretendered to want to help but they end up having the notion of duping us of the consignment from the beginning when they were contacted, s o my family begs in the name of Allah to please do not let us down as we wont in any way let you down too.


As regards funds we do have provision for this even if we both cannot come up with the charges the security company would definitely want us to pay for processing charges ok and do know that we could send down to you pictures of myself and the entire family if we can also use this to solidify the trust we request of you..

My mother Hajia Send her regards and do know that you can trust us as regards this business endeavor.

Our greetings to your entire family.

Abba.

hmmm... now I know who were these "unscrupulous elements" he was talking about..

After this I replied stating that I wouldn't be able to present myself physically in Amsterdam and also my profession (the IT field) & country..

Dear marine,
I would say I am most pleased at your email and its contents as it does spell out a lot about yourself, which we have perceived from the unset as its only a man with your kind of attitude that could actually handle an endeavor of this nature.
As regards being in Amsterdam were the said consignment are, would be of no such problem if the said lawyer whom I did ask you to contact does consent on this as I believe he would be in a better position to act in this regards.
Its quite nice to know that you are a ***** developer and maybe that would be the nature of a business we would invest our own share of the said funds in ok, do advice on this as we actually do need a viable business we can actually invest in that would yield us a lot of profit soonest and also I would ask on behalf of my entire family if we can entrust you to help us also when the said funds are in your possession look for a very large and little expensive house my family can relocate to as soon as all is well and the ban on our movement is lifted which I believe very soon, although it all depends on you as we would want you to intimate us in your next mail if <<my country>> is a good country to reside in please.
I believe we can move ahead with the transaction now and would crave you do send down as earlier requested your details to the lawyer as I believe you still have is contact and discuss at length with him as per the issue of traveling down to Amsterdam as I believe you can sort that out with the finance firm ok.
Thanks again and I do look forward to your mail.
Extend my sincere greetings to your family members.
Abba.

So , I sent my details to him not revealing everything though, and they tried to contact me via phone as well. I wasn't able to answer..

Then in 2004 (new year) I get a mail as follows.. now he refers to me in my real name...

Dear marine,

Compliments of the new year to you and your entire family as I do hope that you did have a splendid one with your folks, as even we the Muslims did thanks Allah for a new year wish we strongly believes would bring to us lots of good tidings in our endeavors.

I am very sorry for not to have reached you ever since, sorry I did not tell you about my mother Hajia ill health as I thought it was not important, but you should know now as she has been suffering from an hypertensive attack since we lost my father and was stroked by one before the year ended last year and we had to give her all the needed attention, although she is still under intensive care, the doctor assures us that all will be well.

Called your phone number today and spoke to a lady ,but due to the very poor connection we could not talk much as my name was not even dropped as while doing this the connection did cut off, I believe she must have told you, do not worry as I will make sure I do call you as soon as I can to brief you about all modalities and get to know ourselves even more, better still here is my mobile number as you can also reach me anytime of the day 23480-3343-3476.

The lawyer Abubakar Usman Esq will be contacting you as soon as possible as I was able to send down your full contact details to him to enable him start the processing soonest, please when he do contact you do intimate me so as to keep me abreast of all happenings.

Thanks again and my family would appreciate if you can tell us an European country we can reside in quietly without much problem, but still we will actually want to come over to <<my country>> before proceeding to any other place, and also we do not have a problem if you would prefer a web related business ok, so far its one you can manage and you also do posses enough acumen on it.

My regards,

Abba.

Now it's time for another character to enter, "abubakar usman esq" the lawyer. Note that this guy types in CAPS.

While all this was going on one day the person who calls himself "Alhaji abba" called me in the morning, and he did sound pretty Nigerian though we weren't able to talk much since the line got cutoff.

It was at this time that I got to know that one of my friend had gone through the same procedure , thus ending up with nothing at the end. And another person that I know very well also informed me that he got the same sort of email session going until these guys had asked for money in order to make him rich (the said consignment ...lol).

But now then I had to decide, and me being the type of person who enjoys eccentric stuff decided to proceed furthermore and see what happens....

Date: *** Jan 2004 05:00:23 -1800 (PST)
From: "Alhaji abba abacha" <abba_a_k@yahoo.com>
Subject: Thanks for your mail.
To: "marine" <marine@****.com>
CC: mminika11@yahoo.com <<note this carbon copy>>


Dear marine,

Thanks for your mail.
Mine over here is very ok.
I apologize if II could you late yesterday as I am calling from Nigeria and it was like ten in the night in my country as I have been preoccupied and could not make the call during the day, I have noted your personal mobile number and you also have mine so you can reach me as well too.

Do inform me as soon as the lawyer Usman Esq gets across to you.

Thanks again for everything and I believe we shall achieve a lot together this new year financially and I would use this medium to inform you to please keep this transaction as confidential as possible as my family would prefer all being achieved before we blowing our trumpets.

My sincere regards.

Abba.

I certainly got the trumpet blowed when I saw that CC (carbon copy) field in the email sent to me. After all this is supposed to be a highly confidential transaction right?? So the best possible guess for me was that while mailing this same letter to many, the guy forgot to remove the above mentioned address from the CC field.

Then he suddenly sends another bluffer..( just to make this whole drama closer to real life ;) )

Subject: Urgent.
To: "marine" <marine@****.com>

Dear marine,

Please I would want you to initiate a password for all our mail correspondence as I am using a public cyber cafe to send you mail ever since and feel some one might have gotten to my email box.

Please advice.

Abba,

Dear marine,

Thanks for the mail and am glade to know that we are proceeding as you said the lawyer has contacted you which simply means we are moving forward with the transaction.
As per the password there is no problem as I have changed my password to another one to enable me alone to asses it ok.

How is your family  and hope all is well with you people over there in <<my country>>.
My family do extend our warm regards.

Abba.

this is getting boring now...but wait, I suddenly got an attachment (the certificate of deposit).

DEAR SIR,

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SEND YOU THE DOCUMENTS VIA EMAIL
ATTACHMENT, BUT IT CANNOT LOAD FROM MY COMPUTER, IT
SEEMS AS IF THE BROWSER IS LOW. I AM NOW SENDING IT
VIA A YAHOO ID.

KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT VIA OUR OFFICE EMAIL.

ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

<<<<certificate of deposit attached>>>>

He could have been straight forward in saying that he uses a yahoo ID to send Images. I also got the power of authority as an attachment too.

Date: ***** Jan 2004 03:08:07 -1800 (PST)
From: "safe keeping" <official_files2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: POWER OF AUTHORITY
To: marine@****.com


DEAR SIR,
FIND ATTACHED IS THE POWER OF AUTHORITY.
KINDLY CONFIRM RECEIPT.
USMAN.

<<<<power of authority attached>>>>

Sani Abacha must be rolling in his grave by now (If these are real).
below are the two images : (click on them to download the larger versions) :

      (Certificate of Deposit)                (Power of Authority)

Please note that I have intentionally edited the two images where it contains my information. There's a lot of investigation you could do about these two documents. As an example the Certificate of deposit didn't contain the bottom part of it and, the words seem to be type setted on a background of a crushed paper.

DEAR SIR,
YOU CAN CONTACT THE OFFICE IN EUROPE, AS I WOULD WANT THE GLOBAL SECURITY OFFICE TO COMMENCE WITH THE RELEASE OF THE CONSIGNMENT TO YOU AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

IN YOUR DEALINGS WITH THE SECURITY COMPANY INVOLVED, IT WILL BE ADVISABLE FOR YOU TO ALWAYS MAKE REFERENCE TO THIS CONSIGNMENT NUMBER, GSFC/AX/4364/LG/.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO CONTACT THE OFFICER IN CHARGE AND ENQUIRE FROM HIM THE NECESSITIES FOR THE RELEASE OF THE CONSIGNMENT TO YOU. ALSO IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO REMEMBER THAT THE SECURITY COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW THE TRUE CONTENT OF THE CONSIGNMENT AS IT WAS DECLARED TO CONTAIN ART EXHIBITIONS, HENCE CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN NOT TO REVEAL THE TRUE CONTENT, THAT IS WHY I HAVE SAID YOU SHOULD ALWAYS MAKE REFERENCE TO THE CONSIGNMENT NUMBER.

I HAVE JUST SENT THE CERTIFICATE VIA MY YAHOO ID, PLS' CONFIRM.
I WANT YOU TO IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE AGENT IN CHARGE VIA THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS TO NOTIFY YOU OF THE MODALITIES FOR CLEARANCE OF THE CONSIGNMENT. THEIR EMAIL CONTACT IS: gsfc@europe.com. ATTENTION THE LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE.

I WILL AWAIT YOUR CONFIRMATION AND RESPONSE.

I REMAIN OBLIGED.

ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

ATTN: MR. marine.

DEAR SIR,

THANKS FOR YOUR MAIL. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO INFORM THE OFFICE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED TO CLEAR THE CONSIGNMENT QUOTING THE NUMBER, AND THE DEPOSITOR WHICH IS GREENFIELD AGRO-ALLIED COMPANY.

THAT YOU WISH TO KNOW THE MODALITIES FOR THE RELEASE OF THE CONSIGNMENT TO YOUR LOCATION. AS SOON AS YOU GET ANY FEEDBACK FROM THEM, LET ME KNOW. I ENVISAGE THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME DUTIES TO BE PAID FOR THE CLEARANCE BUT THIS SHOULD BE VERY MINIMAL.

I DO NOT KNOW IF THE OFFICE HAVE AN AGENCY IN YOUR COUNTRY, IT WOULD REALLY MAKE THINGS EASY FOR YOU AS YOU MAY NOT NEED TO TRAVEL FAR. ALSO INCLUDE THAT YOU WANT EXPRESS SERVICE SO THAT THEY CAN PAY ATTENTION TO OUR FILE.

I WILL AWAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU ON ANY OUTCOME OF EVENTS, AS WE THE MEMBERS OF THE NIGERIA BAN ASSOCIATION FEELS RIDICULED BY THE RECENT HAPPENINGS IN A STATE IN NIGERIA, SO BEEN A SENIOR ADVOCATE, WE HAVE DECIDED TO CONFRONT THE CHALLENGES WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, MY SCHEDULE FOR NOW WILL BE A LITTLE BUSY, BUT I WILL MAKE SURE I CRATE TIME FOR THIS VENTURE.

I REMAIN MOST OBLIGED.
ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

Subject: URGENT PLS'
Date: **** Jan 2004 10:14:46 -1800

DEAR SIR,

WITH REFERENCE TO MY LAST EMAIL, I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO RECEIVE UPDATE FROM YOU WITH REGARDS TO THE LETTER I ASKED YOU TO WRITE TO GLOBAL SECURITY OFFICE IN EUROPE.

KINDLY UNDERSTAND THAT I WOULD WANT US TO EXPEDITE ACTION ON THIS TRANSACTION AS TIME IS ON ESSENCE TO ME PRESENTLY. MY COUNTRY WILL BE EMBARKING ON A NATIONWIDE STRIKE BEFORE THE END OF THIS MONTH, AND I HAVE EXPLAINED TO YOU THAT THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION WHICH I AM A MEMBER IS EQUALLY SPEARHEADING THIS STRIKE TO FORCE THE GOVERNMENT TO REVERT TO THE FORMER PUMP PRICE OF FUEL.
I HOPE YOU HAVE CONTACTED THE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE AS I HAVE INSTRUCTED.

I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOUR MAIL ON THEIR RESPONSE SO THAT WE WOULD MEET THEIR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE CONSIGNMENT TO YOU.

I REMAIN MOST OBLIGED.
ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

Subject: Re: attention : Director in charge
From: gsfc@europe.com 

OUR EMAIL NOW IS :gsfc@mail2agent.com

THANK YOU.

[][] next email :

From: "Global Security Finance Co" <gsfc@mail2Agent.com>
To: marine@****.com
Subject: REF. CONSIGNMENT NUMBER: GSFC/AX/4364/LG/
Date: **** Jan 2004 12:17:17 -1800


MR marine Doo.<<my name>>
<<my address>>,
<<my address>>.

DEAR SIR,

THIS OFFICE IS IN RECIEPT OF YOUR APPLICATION DATED **/01/04 FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR CONSIGNMENT. DUE TO THE BULK OF CONSIGNMENT PRESENTLY AWAITING SHIPMENT, WE HAVE TO WORK ON FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS, THOUGH THIS IS NORMAL WITH OUR EUROPE OFFICE MOST JANUARY.

SINCE YOUR CONSIGNMENT IS MARKED, UNDER SAFE KEEPING AND NOT REGULAR SHIPMENT, THIS OFFICE HAS CONSULTED OUR SAFE KEEPING DEPARTMENT WHERE YOUR CONSIGNMENT IS PRESENTLY LYING INTACT.

YOU HAVE REQUESTED FOR SHIPMENT OF THE CONSIGNMENT TO YOUR LOCATION IN <<my country>>, THIS WILL BE DONE AFTER THE CLEARANCE OF THE CONSIGNMENT WITH OUR SAFE KEEPING UNIT, BEFORE YOUR CONSIGNMENT CAN MOVE TO THE DELIVERY UNIT FOR ONWARD DILIVERY TO YOU.
IN LINE WITH OUR REQUIREMENT FOR CLEARING AND PROCESSING OF CONSIGNMENT IN OUR CUSTODY, YOU ARE THEREFORE MANDATED TO FORWARD TO OUR OFFICE THE FOLLOWING:

1) A COPY OF YOUR VALID INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT FOR IDENTIFICATION.
2) A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT AS ISSUED BY OUR OFFICE FOR SAFE KEEPING OF YOUR CONSIGNMENT.
3) PROCESSING FEES OF 3200 EUROS, PAYABLE TO OUR OFFICE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

THE ABOVE WILL ENABLE US PREPARE THE AIR WAYBILL THAT WILL BE SENT TO THE DELIVERY UNIT TO ENABLE OUR DILIVERY UNIT CONVEY YOUR CONSIGNMENT TO YOUR LOCATION.

YOU ARE ADVISED TO FURNISH US WITH THE ABOVE PROOF FOR WORK TO COMMENCE ON YOUR CONSIGNMENT.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,

MR JOHN MILLER.

[][] next email :

DEAR SIR,

WITH REFERENCE TO MY LAST LETTER, I DID INSTRUCT THAT YOU CONTACT THE OFFICE IN EUROPE FOR THEIR REQUIREMENTS IN SENDING THE CONSIGNMENT TO YOU.
I STILL AWAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU. I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN EXPIDITE ACTION ON THIS, AS WE ARE LIKELY TO GO ON A NATION WIDE STRIKE HERE IN NIGERIA VERY SOON.
I REMAIN MOST OBLIGED.

ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

Did I mention that the global security office guy typed in CAPS BOLD letters? anyway, He's meant to be a different character, lol.
I forwarded the response from the Global security office to the lawyer Usman, with some lies. first I told him that I don't have an international passport, and also that I'm not able to raise such an amount at this moment (now that's not a lie).

[][] next email :

Subject: WHERE DO WE STAND.
Date: **** Jan 2004 10:25:02 -1800


ATTN: MR marine.

DEAR SIR,

THANKS FOR YOUR MAIL. I AM SURPRISED THAT YOU SAID YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT, AS THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. YOU MAY ASK THEIR OFFICE IF THEY WOULD ACCEPT A DRIVER'S LICENSE, I PRESUME YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THAT.

REGARDING THE MONEY FOR THE CLEARANCE, I CANNOT RAISE THAT MUCH FROM THIS END, I WILL HOLD A MEETING WITH CO PARTNERS OF MY LAW FIRM TO SEE IF THEY WOULD ALLOW ME TAKE SOME FUNDS FROM THE COFFERS OF OUR FIRM'S ACCOUNT. BUT I WOULD PLEAD WITH YOU TO EQUALLY TRY TO RAISE SOME MONEY FROM YOUR END AS I CANNOT GAURANTEE THAT MY LAW FIRM WILL PERMIT ME TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT NEEDED, CONSIDERING THE LOOMING STRIKE ACTION THAT MAY CRIPPLE THE NATION IF IT IS EMBARKED UPON BY LABOUR IN MY COUNTRY.

I WILL AWAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU TO KNOW IF A DRIVERS LICENSE IS OKAY FOR IDENTITY, AND ALSO TO KNOW HOW MUCH YOU CAN READILY PROVIDE.

I REMAIN MOST OBLIGED.

ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

In other words, he was trying to make a compromise as to whether I could be cheated for something less. That amount is mentioned below.

[][] next email :

Subject: UPDATE PLS'
Date: **** Jan 2004 19:47:37 -1800


DEAR SIR,

SEQUEL TO MY MAIL, HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT THE SECURITY OFFICE TO CONFIRM IF THEY WOULD ACCEPT A DRIVERS LICENSE FOR IDENTIFICATION?
MY CO-PARTNERS, ARE RELUCTANT TO RELEASE FUND TO ME, THEY HAVE ONLY PERMITTED 1500 EURO, KINDLY LET ME KNOW HW MUCH YOU CAN BE ABLE TO GET PLS.

I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOONEST, YOU MAY CALL ME AS I CANNOT GET THROUGH TO YOUR MOBILE PHONE ALL DAY, MY DIRECT NUMBER IS:+234-803-3343258.

I REMAIN OBLIGED.
ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

Ok, so it's 1700 euros expected from me. And no, I'm not that sort of an idiot to take the risk either. So this is where I decided to put a stop to this thing, though I got a few emails after that too.

[][] last emails :

DEAR SIR,

I AM YET TO HEAR FROM YOU REGARDING OUR DISCUSSION VIA EMAIL. KINDLY FURNISH ME WITH UPDATE FROM YOUR END AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I WILL AWAIT YOUR CALL.

I REMAIN OBLIGED.
ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.
+234-8033-34258.

DEAR SIR,

I HAVE SENT SERIES OF EMAIL TO YOU, WITHOUT A WORD FROM YOUR END. I SINCERELY HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YOU.
KINDLY FURNISH ME WITH UPDATE PLS'
I REMAIN OBLIGED.

ABUBAKAR USMAN ESQ.

Oh yes, I'm fine and doing very well cos I didn't get caught in the trap!!
But there may be hundreds or thousands going/gone through something similar, which is a very unique method of Internet based fraud or otherwise crime (whichever describes it best).

I hope this has been useful to someone and expect comments and similar encounters you have faced. I'm hoping to publish them on this same site (with your consent of course), and also to respect & protect your privacy at the same time.

Thank you.

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