Alot of you have posted about Scam email regarding Nigeria....I got this one and thought it had an interesting twist...so I've posted it here.

Best regards, Patricia Subj: urgent/confidential Date: 5/7/01 9:18:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: mariamaac@yahoo.com (Mariam Abacha) To: tfcvp@aol.com ATTN: Patricia Greenway Dear Sir, Good day and compliments. This letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine the future and continued existence of the entire members of my family.

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr.

(Mrs.) Mariam Abacha, the wife of the late Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who died on the 8th June 1998.

My ordeal started immediately after my husband’s death on the morning of 8th June 1998 and the subsequent take over of government by the last administration. The present democratic government is determined to portray all the good works of my late husband in a bad light and have gone as far as confiscating all my late husband’s assets, properties, freezing our accounts both within and outside Nigeria. As I am writing this letter to you my son Mohammed Abacha is undergoing questioning with the government. All these measures taken by the past/present government is just to gain international recognition.

I and the entire members of my family have been held incommunicado since the death of my husband hence I seek your indulgence to assist us in securing some funds. We are not allowed to see or discuss with anybody. Few occasions I have tried travelling abroad through alternative means all failed.

My late husband has eighty million US Dollars ($80,000,000.00) USD specially preserved and well parked in trunk boxes of which only my husband and I knew about it. These packages are been deposited with a security company here in Nigeria without them knowing the contents of the packages, because it was declared as photo materials and other personal effects. It is packed in such a way to forestall just anybody having access to it. It is this sum that I seek your assistance to get out of Nigeria as soon as possible before the present civilian regime finds out about it and confiscate it just the way they have done to all our assets.On your consent, e-mail via the under listed contact immediately for further discussion and clarification. Bearing in mind that you may assist me, l have decided to part with 15% of the total sum. Your URGENT response is needed. All correspondence must be through e-mail:

musabello123@hotmail.com for confidentiality. All correspondence is for the attention of my counsel: Dr. Musa Bello.

May Allah show you mercy as you do so, Yours faithfully, Dr. (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha (MON)

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Received: from rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (rly-zd05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.229]) by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 May 2001 21:18:09 2000 Received: from web14303.mail.yahoo.com (web14303.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.79]) by rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (v78.27) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 May 2001 21:17:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20010508005953.68582.qmail@web14303.mail.yahoo.com>
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From: Mariam Abacha <mariamaac@yahoo.com>
Subject: urgent/confidential
To: tfcvp@aol.com

>Alot of you have posted about Scam email regarding Nigeria....I got this one
>and thought it had an interesting twist...so I've posted it here.
>Best regards,
>Patricia
>Subj: urgent/confidential
>Date: 5/7/01 9:18:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>From: mariamaac@yahoo.com (Mariam Abacha)
>To: tfcvp@aol.com
Mariam Abacha can do better than a Yahoo email account, even under current circumstances.

It is interesting that this variant of the scam has returned to its roots.

This variant reverts to the original "Spanish Prisoner" variety of scam, from which the Nigerian scam letters were originally derived.

Whoever reverted it back to the original appears to be a connoiseur of the classical form of the scam. How amusing.

And funny, from the headers, it is actually sent through a dialup of AOL in Mexico. How about that.

Here's the significant line:

>Received: from web14303.mail.yahoo.com (web14303.mail.yahoo.com
>[216.136.173.79]) by rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (v78.27) with ESMTP; Mon, 07 May
>2001
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >21:17:50 -0400
If you haven't already you should send it to the TOS Cops.

>And funny, from the headers, it is actually sent through a dialup of AOL in
>Mexico. How about that.
Are you sure ? Looks to me like the evidence is that it was sent via a dialup in France. Look at the headers again. At the very bottom of the headers, you can see that the message was sent at Mon, 7 May 2001 17:59:53 -0700 (PDT) from a machine called 216.72.110.151 (no hostname) which is routed to by Opentransit - a France Telecom brand name - so it is probably the IP address of the French dialup. We can see that the Yahoo mail machine named web14303.mail.yahoo.com was used to parse the message typed on the web page and send it outwards.

Since it was going to an AOL address, the yahoo machine sent the message forward to an AOL mail relay - rly-zd05.mx.aol.com, after about 20 minutes. "mx" does not necessarily mean "Mexico"; it's probably a reference to MX records (giving an indication of the function of that machine). It went from there to air-zd04.mail.aol.com, 20 seconds later, which is probably the mail server AOL use for holding on to messages until they're collected. After that, it was received less than half a minute later by the recipient with the AOL account, indicating that tfcvp@aol.com was online at the time the message was received.

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