22 January 2005

New Version of the Nigerian Scam

Opened my email today and found this:

CHRIS CALDWELL & CO
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATE
CONSULTANT; OPERATIONS
LONDON
ALTN EMAIL;caldwellXXXXX!!!@hotmail.com
22/01/05

Attention:Sir/Madam,
RE: Business Proposition
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As a legal consultant,I have a very urgent and confidential business proposition towards engaging your service as Manager of a large volume of fund for investment purpose. If this proposal is acceptable to you, please get back to me, so that we can work out a remuneration for your participation in the transaction,and also let you know on how we hope to acheive this objective.

Please reply and as well send your personal data, telephone and fax numbers respectively for further contacts.

The minimium statutory age requirement is 35 years.

Thanking you in your esteemed response.

Yours Faithfully,
Chris Caldwell (Esq)

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It came from a Yahoo! address and was addressed & cc'ed to its sender under the subject line: INFORMATION.

I'll give it credit for being creative. However, one would hope that a presumably well-heeled Brit would know English a little better than that.

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