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Thursday, November 7, 2002
11:48 - Okay, now what?

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I just got the following e-mail:

From: "NELSON DANDY" <nelsondandy44@eircom.net>
Date: Wed Nov 6, 2002 8:00:54 PM US/Pacific
To: m_s2002uk@hotmail.com
Subject: URGENT HELP
Reply-To: <nelsondandy33@mail.com>

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
> From: MR NELSON DANDY JNR.
> E-Mail :nelson_dandy20022000@yahoo.com
>
> ATTN: THE DIRECTOR /CEO.
>
> Dear Sir,
> URGENT ASSISTANT
>
> You may be surprise to receive this kind of message
> from me since
> you do not know me personally and we have not met
> before. The purpose
> of my introduction is that I am MR. NELSON DANDY

hello mr. nelson dandy i don`t know who r u but i can
help u on certain rules of my own made see u r
investing some heavy amount in my account i don`t mind
but the govt will mind certainly so i bhave more than
4 accounts if ur relly interested u can contact me i
want 100% of bank interest than only iam reddy for
agreement.
> JNR, the first son
> of DR.NELSON STEVE DANDY, who was recently murdered
> in the land
> dispute in Zimbabwe. I was furnished with viable
> information from the
> world trade center here in Amsterdam-Holland and
> decided to write you. Before the
> death of my father, he had taken me to Spain to
> deposit the sum of
> THIRTY FIVE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
> STATE DOLLARS ONLY (USD$35.5M).In a security
> company, as if he has foreseen the looming danger in
> Zimbabwe.This money was deposited in a Box as Gold
> and Diamond to avoid much demurrage from the
> security company. This amount was meant for the
> purchase of new machines and the chemicals for the
> farms and the establishment of new farms Swaziland.
>
> This land problem came when the Zimbabwe president
> MR ROBERT MUGABE introduced a new land act that
> wholly affected all rich farmers and some few black
> farmers. This resulted to the killing and mob action
> by Zimbabwe war veterans and some lunatics in the
> society. In fact a lot of people were killed because
> of the land-reformed act of which
> my father was one of the victims. It is against this
> background that I and my family who are currently
> staying in Amsterdam decided to keep the money in
> Madrid Spain,since the Law of the Netherlands
> prohibits a refugee (asylum seeker)to open any
> account or to be involved in any financial
> transaction of this magnitude. As the oldest son of
> my father, I am saddled with the responsibility of
> seeking a genuine foreign account where this money
> could be transferred without the knowledge of my
> Government who are
> bent on taking everything we have got. The
> Netherlands Government seems to be playing about
> with them.I am faced with dilemma of investing this
> amount of money in Netherlands for the fear of going
> through the same experience in future since both
> countries have similar history. Moreover, the
> Netherlands foreign exchange policy does not allow
> such investments from asylum seekers. As a
> businessman,whom I have entrusted my future and my
> family in his hand, I must let you know that this
> transaction is risk-free. If you accept to assist me
> and my family, all I need you to do for me is to
> make arrangement to make a trip to Madrid Spain so
> that you can
> non-resident account which will aid us in
> transferring the money into my account you will
> nominate in your country or elsewhere. This money I
> intend to use for investment.
>
> I have options to offer, first you can choose to
> have certain percentage of money for nominating your
> account for the transaction, or you can go into
> partnership with me for a proper profitable
> investment of the money in your country. Which
> options you choose, feel free to notify me please,
> contact me with the above E-mail address or call me
> briefly with the above telephone number and I will
> call you back for more details on the subject. I
> implore you to maintain the absolute secrecy require
> in this transaction.
>
> I wish you the best of luck.
>
> Thanks and God bless.
> Sincerely yours
>
> MR. NELSON DANDY (JNR.)

It's either:

a) Someone replying (in full dupe mode) to a Nigerian Scam Letter, who somehow managed to get my e-mail address as a Bcc: recipient; or

b) A bizarre variant on the NSL in which it's engineered to appear like someone replying to the NSL in full dupe mode. Perhaps to attract unsuspecting do-gooder recipients of the reply into e-mailing the poor sod who appears to be falling for it, to warn him off. For the purpose of-- what, I don't know. Harvesting a single working e-mail address? Seems like an awful lot of work and social engineering.

One possibility assumes immense moronicity in the people involved. The other assumes a quite astonishing level of Machiavellian plotting and espionage-type forgery.

And these days, thanks to Klez and friends, I honestly don't know which is less plausible.

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