Nigeria Re-Brands To Shed Chaotic Image

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua is hoping a new patriotic slogan emblazoned on T-shirts and baseball caps can restore self-confidence and overturn its battered reputation. "Nigeria: Good People, Great Nation," is the new slogan. "At international airports, in trains, in shopping malls, and almost everywhere, every Nigerian is a marked person," Dora Akunyili, information minister and self-styled chief image maker said at the launch of the re-branding campaign this week. Considering what's going on around them they could have also chose, "Nigeria: We won't force you to eat your family" or "Nigeria: No, we're not the place with all the genocide."

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[nazsco]

request for urgent business relationship

first, i must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and 'top  secret'. i am sure and have confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a  transaction of this great magnitude involving a pending  transaction requiring  maxiimum confidence.

we are top official of the federal government contract review panel who are interested in imporation of goods into our country with funds  which are  presently trapped in nigeria, good people, great nation. in order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said  trapped funds.

the source of this fund is as follows; during the last military regime here in nigeria, good people, great nation, good people, great nation, the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries. the present civilian government set up a contract review panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the central bank of nigeria, good people, great nation ready for payment.

however, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our  names. i have  therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of  the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would  transfer the sum of us$21,320,000.00(twenty one million, three hundred and twenty thousand u.s dollars). hence we are writing you this letter.  we have agreed to share the money thus; 1. 20% for the account owner 2. 70% for us (the officials) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses. it is from the 70% that we wish to commence the importation business.

please,note  that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commence the transfer latest seven (7) banking days from the date of the receipt of the following informatiom by tel/fax; 234-1-7740449, your company's signed, and stamped letterhead paper the above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. this way we will use your company's name to apply for payment and <nobr>re-award</nobr> the contract in your company's name.

we are looking forward to doing  this business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transation. please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above tel/fax  numbers. i will send you detailed information of this pending project when i have heard from you.

yours faithfully,

dr clement okon

note; please quote this reference number (ve/s/09/99) in all your responses.

*damn /. and Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.*

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[v1]

I know the first thing I think of when I hear nigeria is "phish". Not genocide or anything else. Which is funny I think, not sure why nigeria was such a popular phishing site awhile ago, maybe their bank structure etc and lack of policing locally made it safer for them? Nowadays when I do see the random phish it's from a random location - I think their rep has gotten so bad that way that even the suckers realize random email from nigeria is a phish.

Baboons and Hyenas

[conureman]

Oh my.