Nguessan Nelson

or N'guessan Nelson.

His spam letter:

Dear Sir,

I hope this correspondence of mine meets you in good health.

I am Mr. N'Guessan Nelson, I am on the employment of one of the leading
banks. I am writing to seek your cooperation for investment partnership in
your country. I shall provide the funds for the investment.

I will give you full details of my investment proposal on receipt of your
acknowledgement of this correspondence.

I await your response in earliest.

My regards,
Mr. N'Guessan Nelson

His Proposition:

Dear Sir,

First of all, let me fully introduce myself. I am Mr. N'Guessan Nelson ,

I am working at one of the leading banks in Ivory Coast, West of Africa; l

am the director of the Accounts Department. I am writing to ask for your

cooperation to enable both of us take advantage of a good opportunity that is

at my disposal at the bank for investment purpose. I found your contact details

on the internet while l was doing a search, so l decided to contact you to seek

your cooperation.Please before going any further, l want you to know that this

proposal is serious and its not a joke. So l advise you erase any doubt you

might have about my proposal, my intention is genuine. I want you to give me

your total support and l promise you will not regret doing so. Here is the details

of my proposal:

There is this anonymous fund totalling 6.500.000 Million -DOLLARS that

has been floating in a suspense-account for some years now. The money was

part of huge funds the government made available to the bank for onward

payment of arms and ammunition ordered by the government at the outbreak

of the civil war that is now over. The former bank director who was an ally

of the country's President, was the one handling the purchase of arms for the

President. In doing so, he syphons some of the money for his own personal

aggrandisement. But this very amount remained in the suspense account

because the former director died before he could transfer the money to his

foreign bank account.

In view of this, l have decided to look for a foreign partner that can provide a

foreign bank account for me to transfer the money to for investment purpose.

This is the reason why l have contacted you; I want you to be my partner in

this deal so that l can transfer the money to you for us to go into investment

partnership. You will get 30% of the money for your cooperation; I will also

take 30%, the balance 40% will be set aside for a joint investment that will be

owned by both of us. Please note that this is not one of those internet mails that

tend to seek for people's bank accounts in order to steal money from it. For the

purpose of this deal, you can open a new bank account with little or no money

in it. All l need in order to execute this deal, is a foreign bank account.

It will please you to know that there is no risk involved in this deal, as soon as

the transfer is effected to your nominated bank account and you confirm to me

that your account has been credited, l shall at once delete every information

concerning the transfer from the bank computer system, so as to erase traces of

the wire transfer. Then l shall travel to meet with you in your country for the

sharing of the money as agreed.

You might be finding it difficult to come to terms with my proposal, but l tell

you this today; If you where in this part of the world where l happen to come

from, you will not let this opportunity pass you by. In this part of the world,

there is no welfare or any other form of government support for the citizens.

Here in Ivory Coast, over 45% of the population live below poverty level, no

good pension package. Imagine after putting in over 30 years of your active

life working for the government, you have no house of your own to retire to

as a pensioner. What l am about to do is not only going to better my life now

and after retirement, but also to guarantee better future for my children and

relatives.

If you finally decide to cooperate with me in this deal, here is how l intend to

professional execute the deal:

The 6.500.000 Million -DOLLARS is currently in a suspense account among

other funds; wire transfers are never effected from suspense accounts.

Suspense accounts only holds funds for which decision on what to do with the

money has not been reached by the bank. To enable me transfer the money,

the money has to be deposited in a current account; and thereafter, the account

owner will have to give wire instructions for the funds to be transferred.

Now you might be wondering who is going to provide the current account into

which the funds would be deposited before transfer can be effected. For my

safety and dignity, this deal requires 100% secrecy and confidentiality, l can

not seek such service from anybody locally here in this country. There is this

current account that have been dormant for about 4 years now, the account

owner has long since depleted the account, leaving it with the opening balance.

The owner of this account have stopped operating the account; this is the

account l am going to use.

Being the head of the accounts department, l can easily change account

information in our customer data base. So to secure a current account for this

purpose, l will use the said dormant account. All l have to do, is to delete all

the personal information of the account owner and replace them with your

personal details; thereby temporally making the account yours. When l have

successfully replaced the account information with your details, l will then

credit the account with the 6.500.000 Million -DOLLARS.

The next step marks the conclusion of the deal; in this final stage, l will send

you a specimen of an application requesting wire transfer and account closure.

Your reason for requesting account closure is because of the unending political

crises in the country. Usually, as an account owner, you must be physically

present at the bank to complete this process which involves the signing of all

the documents pertaining to account closure and wire transfer instructions.

But asking you to come down to this country will not be a good idea because

there is a photograph on every account. Here at our bank, account owner's

photographs are password protected. The password is of two combinations; the

first half of the password is entered by the Head of Accounts Department (this is

me); while the other half of the password is entered by the account owner. So to

delete an account photograph, the account owner and I must be present to enter

the password. For this reason, asking you to come down here will jeopardise

our success in concluding this transaction since l do not know the other half of

the password.

The only way you can do the signing of the documents without encountering any

problem, is using the services of a lawyer here in Ivory Coast. The lawyer will

have to make the submission on your behalf and sign all the necessary papers

pertaining to account closure and wire instruction. To enable the lawyer do

this on your behalf, you will have to send the lawyer a written special power

of attorney that will give him legal right to act on your behalf. When we get

to this stage, l shall send you a specimen of the Power of Attorney so you can

transcribe it and send to the lawyer. You don't have to worry about this, l shall

guard you through the process.

When l send you specimen of the application, all you need to do is to transcribe

the application on official paper, have it duly signed and send it to the lawyer

that will make the submission. When the lawyer contacts the bank submitting

your request, the accounts department will be referred to for validation. As

you already know, the accounts department is my department, so l will handle

the validation process. On giving my approval, your lawyer will be invited to

complete the process of funds transfer and thereafter closure of the account.

When all this is done, the remittance department will then effect the wire

transfer to your nominated bank account as stated in your application.

When the money is finally transferred to you and you inform me of the presence

of the money in your bank account, l will then delete every traces of the

transaction from our bank system. When l have finally erased all traces, l will

then put in application for retirement and thereafter travel to meet with you for

onward sharing of the money as agreed.

To enable me carry out the first phase of this deal, which is replacing the

account information of the dormant account with your personal details, you will

have to send me the following information:

Full name:

Contact address:

City:

State:

Occupation:

Tel #:

Fax # (if any):

This correspondence contains full details of the execution of the deal, and

if you follow my instructions correctly, the transfer will be effected to your

nominated bank account within 7 banking days from the day the lawyer submits

the application on your behalf. If you have any question in respect of the

execution of this deal, please do not hesitate to ask. Again, l know that in your

country, the banks will ask you for the source of the money. I also took that into

account, and for this reason, l will provide documents to show that the money

is for investment from a would-be foreign investor who has decided to go into

partnership with you in your country.

Thank you once again for your readiness to execute this deal with me; and l

promise that you will not regret doing business with me. The only thing you

will have to promise me, is that you will not mention this deal to a third party.

Because you telling somebody else about this deal, can jeopardise our success

in executing this deal. So please keep this deal to yourself until the money have

been transferred to you.

Best regards,

Mr. N'Guessan Nelson

Then inevitably when the attorney he referred comes into the game, he'll ask for a retainer of $4850. Nelson will say he's broke, ask his friend in Paris to send the barrister $2000, and ask the victim to contribute $2850

A trick they use is to have the attorney send 2 attorney to the bank to ask for the amount in the account which of course will be the same amount Nelson supposedly transferred to the dormant account plus alleged $3500. The attorney is Nelson's accomplice, of course. If the victim sent the $2850, he'd never see them again nor any money wired to his account.

Added quotations. (BW)