Corneliu Armeanu nearly looses $10,000 to Nigerian scam artist

First Letter from Near Victim

We received the following dispatch March 11, 2002

From Corneliu Armeanu [actual near victim]
The United States
cornelarmeanu@aol.com

To whom it may concern;
On December, 15 2001 I got an email from Nigeria signed by Muhammed Abacha, the son of the Late President of Nigeria, General Sanni Abacha. He porposed me to hold an international transaction, to go to a foreign country, to open a bank acount in my name and after that to transfer his money, the sum of 23 MILLION DOLLARS into my bank account and then to transfer the money to my country to invest in Business. He assured me that he decided to give me 15% by total sum. I sent to him a letter and after that I got another letter signed by his "lawyer", Mr. Tijani Sule Yusuf.
NOTICE:
The First Letter signed by "Abacha" was sent from Email Address: y.tijani@eudoramail.com
Also the 2nd Letter signed by "Tijani" was sent from the same Email Address: y.tijani@eudoramail.com!!!
***
By the beginning I learned and I suspected that this is a SCAME but I continued to be in connection with Tijani Sule Yusuf for three months because I wanted to gain all information I needed from him.
Now I have a lot of mails I recieved from him and from his follow-worker who live in AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands.
His name is Prince Kamara, alias Prince Peter and his Email Address is: princekamara2001@yahoo.com
Also, I asked to my daughter who live in Romania to into in this "business" and I put her through in contact with them. But, they had no ideea that all mails "signed" by my daughter I wrote myself and I sent to them from my computer but from her email address!
I even "prepared" a schedule flight on March 07 2002, the date when my daughter will fly to Amsterdam to meet Mr. Prince Peter.
We assured them that we have money on hands to pay the Fee to the Security Company, in fact to Prince Peter.
They asked us to have ready at time of transaction the sum of $10.000
It is a very long and very interesting and unusual story and I cannot show here all facts because this take more space and long time writting and reading.
All I ask to Greaterthings.com is:
Please post the Original Message
I recieved from this individual
Tijani Sule Yusuf
to be known Around the World.
Below is the 1st letter I got from Nigeria, from him.
If you want, I can send to you all leters I got from Nigeria and from Amsterdam too.
I'm already contacted the INTERPOL concerning this scame.
Nobody can stop these CRIMINALS?
Please publish the letter and put it in a special frame wit the title:
Beware of TIJANI SULE YUSUF from LAGOS, Nigeria,
one of the most dangerous artist scame

Subj:Re:urgent
Date:12/15/01 3:07:32 AM Pacific Standard Time
From:    y.tijani@eudoramail.com (tijani sule yusuf)
Reply-to: y.tijani@eudoramail.com
To:    cornelarmeanu@aol.com

From: Mohammed Abacha

Sir,

I am Mohammed Abacha from the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, I am the son of Late General Sanni Abacha,
the former President of Nigeria.

Actually, I don't know you and have never seen you
before. But I got your contact from my private search
and sincerely believe that you are reliable and
capable of handling international and confidential
transactions like this.

Generally, I have all the vital documents that cover
the USD$23,000,000 (23 million dollars) deposited by me to a security
company in a foreign country before I was
incarcerated which I would fax to you upon request.
Infact, I need you to come down to the foreign country
to open and account on your name where this cash will
be lodged and finally transferred to any of your
nominated private or company account in your country.

Note that this transaction demands the highest degree
of trust and confidence between us as you are aware
that most of my family's properties and accounts have
been frozen by the present Civilian Government.

Moreover, it is risk free in the sense that I have
taken proper care of all formalities regarding to this
transaction for you assistance and cooperation. I have
decided to give you 15% of the total sum involved 5%
mapped out for any miscellaneous expenses that we may
incur during the process of transferring   this cash
to your country.

Hoping you will respond to my call to assist me in
investing this cash because I would like to invest 30%
into your business.

Please do send me your reply immediately you receive
this message for me to expedite actions in taking the
cash from the security company.

I am sending you this email based on the little time I
have because my family's movement is being restricted
which is against our fundamental human right.

Do not bother to contact me as all my family's lines
in this country are all bugged and my family security
has been violated. Hence for this reason, I have
chosen to write you through this free email service.
My lawyer, Barrister Tijani Yusuf is handling the
execution of this project. So reach him on this e-mail:(y.tijani@eudoramail.com).

Thanking you in Advance for your anticipated
co-operation.

Best regards,

Mohammed Abacha.

Second Letter from Cornelius

----- Original Message -----

From: Cornelarmeanu@aol.com

To: sterlingda@greaterthings.com

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:36 AM

Subject: From Corneliu Armeanu

Hello Sir!
I really appreciate your prompt response at the message I sent to you, also for your service to publish on your site my comments and the letter I got from Nigeria three months ago. Fortunately for me because I am a vigilant person, I do not lost any money. I just callected a lot of information from Tijani Yusuf and Prince Peter, alias Prince Kamara. The last two weeks they urged my daughter to go to Amsterdam. I played with them a great game. They denied to disclose the address of Security Company from Amsterdam. Then, I asked them the original Certificate of Deposit. Except a few letters I sent from email address an under my own signature, the rest of emails sent to them I signed with my daughter name because she said: My father is nat able to fly to Amsterdam and, I decided to take this transaction on my behalf. They understood the all mails recieved was sent by my daughter without my consent. But they had no idea that all these letters I prepared myself from her Email Address and sent to them. Mt her father (me) was an officer in army and finally she changed her mind and will ask my help and she said that we will travel together to Amsterdam, and she will ask her partners from Amsterdam to providing us two guns and... in the event that Mr. Prince Peter try to do something wrong... my father shoting him! Tijani and Peter the last week called her several times to go to Amsterdam! Also, Tijani tried again and sent a new letter signed by Muhammed Abacha and please her: In the God name and his merciful, please go to Amsterdam and help me to clearing the consignment.
So, you see... here are ony few facts of information I gained from them. Also, I hold a faxed Certificate of Deposit and a Power of Attorney. I have any skills to make a difference between a genuine document and a faked document. I don't want to waste your time now... I have more to say...
You asked me to cancel the accounts of y.tijani@eudoramail.com and princekamara2001@yahoo.com! How can I do? These addresses are their email addrsses used to mail us, not mine! My hope is that in a day these bad guys will punished for their Advance Fee Fraud scam.
Again I want to say thank you for your cooperation. If you have some idea, please guide me where to send all information to put them under investigation?
Sincerely,
Corneliu Armeanu
Seattle, WA - U.S.A.

Sterling's Reply

I would like to request that you stop calling these people "prince" such and such. They are no princes. Those are contrived titles to impress you.

This scam has been around for around a decade. If the FBI really wanted to clean it up, they would. I'm guessing there are some dirty politicians getting kick backs. Last I heard this scam was generating huge sums of money (billions of dollars?). The FBI does warn of the scam, but that is for show, to make people think they are trying to stop it. It's like the drug war. The greatest perpetrators of the drug war are dirty politicians.

I wasn't asking you to delete the accounts, I was sending you a copy of correspondence I sent to yahoo and eudora asking them to terminate the accounts (if they haven't already done so).

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