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Do you believe a real Senator would send me information about a money payment from a Yahoo Freemail account?

Hardly likely!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr David Mark <markmrdavid74@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008/12/19
Subject: PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
To:

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: markmrdavid74@yahoo.com

- Dear Beneficairy,We have the pleasure in informing you of an approval obtained the President Alhaji Umar Musa. The Senate Committee on Contract/Inheritance Payments to pay the entire amount owed and due to you in settlement of fund. We have noted with concern the wrongful withholding of your long overdue payment by a syndicate of corrupt public officers who made several unsuccessful attempts to divert your funds into their private accounts overseas. This discovery was made recently by a report submitted to my office by the President and the Senate Committee for the Review of Foreign Debts.Based on this approval, we have already credited the entire sum in you favor to our remittance department, Please, kindly reconfirm the following details of yours, Your name in full, contact anddress and nationality, a copy of your identification, your telephone and mobile number occupation, age,sex and your Banking informations.the Receiving Bank details to crosscheck with what we have in our records to avoid wrongful Fund Transfer.On behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, we regret all financial losses you may have incurred in the past as a result of official misconduct and we wish to record here our appreciation for the great patience exhibited by you and members of your company in waiting for this payment. Congratulations! please contact me in my private E-MAIL;(mrdavidmark_300@yahoo.co.jp) Yours truly MR DAVID MARK Senate Presedent Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

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Reading this message you get the impression it has nothing to do with 419 or African scam e-mails. But you would be wrong!

The point to note here is that the language and and technical knowledge needed to understand what this fellow is talking about, makes the target market (for want of a better name) very, very small.

Now it could be a bona fide offer, but I very much doubt that and here’s why:

1. Paul Adams, if that is his real name, uses a Colombian Yahoo freemail account.
2. His telephone number is a Nigerian cellphone
3. Where on earth does he get so much rail scrap from?

So this has all the Hallmarks of a typical 419 scam email. And after all the stories I have heard from friends and colleagues who have done business in Africa and especially Nigeria, I would recommend just scrapping this email! (pun intended

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR .P.ADAMS <mrpaul0189@yahoo.com.co>
Date: 2008/10/22
Subject: Re- Purchase of Used rail scraps r50/65
To:

¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo!
Ahora puedes escribirme a:mrpaul0189@yahoo.com.co

Mr.Paul Adams.

- Dear Sir, We are direct end seller and capable of delievering your required quantity to your destination port at the stipulated time of 30-45 working days. The price of the rail is $150.00per mertic tons to any destination port of the world and our contract is based on Letter of Credit/Telegrahic Transfer 100% at sight at buyers destination port. Also note there is no problem with the shipment of your intial order and we believe and hope everything will work successfully and this will be the beginning of our long term contract with you and we usually invite any potentials buyers for physical inspection of the product before signing the hard copy contract/ purchase form. Below here is chemical compostion for your preview. Commodity: used Rails Specification: Used Rails (R50-R65) 100% Rail Track Composition: Non-Metal inpurties total 1% (One Percent)or less - no Radiation Chemical Composition Mn: 0, 60-1, 05, = C: 0.54-082, = Si 0.18-0, 42, =S: 0.04 max P: 0.35 max, = Cr: Residual =As: 0.01% max of mass share. One price for quantities of 20,000MT to 30,000MT Used Rail at $150.00per/MT CIF ASWP Our Quality Policy provides seven point guarantee: 1. No Deposit Required 2. 2% Performance Bond given for the activation of non-operative DLC or RLC for Charter Party Shipment. 3. Physical Inspection of the Scrap before you open your Letter of Credit. 4. 20′ and 40′ container shipments arranged (CNF Basis) for 1000 mt per month and above 5. Charter Party Vessel Shipments arranged (CNF Basis) for 12500 mt and above. 6. Initial Trial Shipments are welcomed. 7. Long Term Contracts Available (up to 100,000 mt per month for 12 months). I wait for you response and contact informations Best Regards, Mr Paul Adams +234-807-444-3478

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