I have received these letters and have copied and pasted them to the Las
Vegas FBI.
Would you like to read them ?
I can copy and paste here also. Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Hall, Phillip <Phillip.Hall@msfc.nasa.gov>
To: Roadsters (E-mail) <Datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>; Roadsters (E-mail
2) <Datsunroadsters@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: OT FW: Nigerian Scam Letters
>Sorry to hit the list with these, but I figure if the Gov takes these
>seriously we should too.
>
>Phil
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MSFC Activity Notice
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:54 AM
>To: MSFC Activity Notice
>Subject: Nigerian Scam Letters
>
>
>The "Nigerian Scam"
>
>Strategic intelligence has identified that West African organized crime
>groups have for many years conducted a type of fraud against individuals
and
>companies commonly known as "advance fee". It is also known as the 4-1-9
>fraud after the penal code in Nigeria that makes it illegal. These groups
>also carry out highly organized housing, social security and other grants
>frauds. The profits from these crimes are often used to finance drug
>trafficking, where the same middlemen transport drugs from source to
>consumer countries.
>
>'419' letters are distributed by postal mail, by facsimile (fax), and
>primarily in recent months through e-mail channels. In a typical '419'
>(advance fee fraud) letter, the author purports to be a senior government
or
>central bank official who has managed to over-inflate a contract,
generating
>a personal profit. In return for help in smuggling the money out of the
>country, the recipient is offered a percentage, usually between 10% and
30%.
>At first no money may be requested but once a victim has been drawn in,
>requests are made for funds to pay legal and administrative fees. Victims
>have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases.
>
>These e-mail letters have been received in increasing numbers at MSFC in
>recent months. If you receive a '419' letter at MSFC either in hard-copy
or
>electronic form, DO NOT REPLY TO THE LETTER, but retain it and contact the
>MSFC Information Technology Security Coordinator (ITSC) Steve R. Jones at
>telephone 544-4373. You may be asked to forward the letter to the ITSC
for
>inclusion in Center submittals to Federal officials.
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