Re: [acid-jazz] REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

From: icehouse@RedShift.com
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 18:44:27 CEST

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    I have been collecting these letters for my own amusement and I have about
    21 at this stage. They all have the same basic premise with variations
    revolving around the amount of money they intend to "share" with the
    people who are lucky enough to try and work with them and also around the
    actual mechanism. It is known as the "nigerian" scam and the banks and the
    Fed are aware of it but apparently some poor shnooks have been parted from
    some of their savings anway. This is the third one I have received
    purporting to be from a confidante of Mrs. Abacha, most of them claim to
    be representatives of some unfortunate person, usually a middle-aged
    Westerner, who was killed in some kind of accident, car or plane crash,
    often they are mining engineers because this is supposed to introduce some
    sort of believability into the scheme. Exactly what this person hopes to
    gain from taking on the entire acid jazz list is quite beyond me, perhaps
    he wants some suggestions for the music he will listen to when the
    authorities finally catch up with his ass! This is not the first one we
    have received on this list either. I suggest he listen to:

    1/. The Herbaliser - A Mother(for your mind) one of my favourite
    Herbaliser tracks, very funky!
    2/. Grantby - Timber - good music for a car crash
    3/. Troublemakers - The whole disc is a kind of soundtrack and it could be
    applied to this kind of situation
    4/. King Sunny Ade - Synchro System - good fat beats and riddims for West
    African crooks!
    5/. Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry - Seven Seconds - The hip-hop version

    Anyone else got any suggestions for the good doctor?

    leslie/The Power of Pound 

    --
from Leslie Shill 

    drbol_ahmed@asorock.com wrote:
> No. 300 Bol Ahmed Way, LAGOS - NIGERIA 
> STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL 
> ATTN: President/ C.E.O 
> 
> 
> I am the Chief Medical Doctor and close confidan of Mrs. Maryam Abacha,
> the former first lady and wife of the late Gen.Sani Abacha, the former
> head of state and commander in chief of the armed forces of the Federal
> Republic of Nigeria. S
> 
> She (MRS. M. ABACHA), has as a result of the trust and confidence, she
> has in me mandated that I search for a reliable and trust worthy foreign

    > partner, who will help receive some funds which she had in cash totaling

    > US$35M (Thirty Five Million United States Dollars only) into a 
personal, 
> company or any reliable foreign bank accounts within or outside your
> country. Since the death of her husband the present government has been
> saizing all the family properties as all their personal and family Bank
> accounts within and outside Nigeria have all been frozen by the Nigerian

    > authorities. (I would refer you to the website of Weekly Tell magazine:
> WWW. TELLMAGAZINE.com of November 23, 1998 page 25,and another edition
of 
> TELL WEEKLY  MAGAZINE of October 11 1999, Page 10 captioned the tyrants
> son, for further information About this money and the ABACHAS) 
> 
> This money in question has however, been clearly moved in defaced form
> and Deposited with a security company that has branches in Asia, Africa,

    > Europe and various parts of America. It may also interest you to note
> that she (MRS. ABACHA) and her family have, Since then inception of the
> present democratic government, been placed Under partial house arrest,
> with their international traveling passports seized.Thus we seek your
> assistance to help clear the money from the security company into your
> account, she has promised to give you 30% of the total sum. 
> 
> Note that this transaction involves no risks what so ever, as you will
> have no dealing with my country, Nigeria. 
> 
> Rather you will deal directly with the Security Company, which is based
> where the money is right now. 
> 
> Let me have your confidential Tel/Fax numbers in your response to this
> proposal. I shall let you into a complete detailed picture of this
mutual 
> beneficial transaction when I have received your anticipated positive
reply. 
> Reply to this e-mail address: drbol_ahmed@asorock.com or give me a call:

    > 234-80-23325603
> 
> This matter should be treated as urgent and 
> Confidential!) 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> DR.BOLA  AHMED 
> drbol_ahmed@asorock.com
> 
>

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