[UA] The Spanish Prisoner

[John Tynes]

>The Spanish Prisoner is an old con-game that involves having a sister who
>has the ability to get money in this country but needs to get here from
>Spain to do it.  You front money for the opportunity to get a return.  You
>get nothing.

Ah, synchronicity! No sooner does the Spanish Prisoner make an appearance 
on the UA list than I receive the following email:

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>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:09:05 +0200 (CEST)
>From: =?iso-8859-1?q?rose=20Osuji?= <roseosuji at yahoo.fr>
>Subject: Urgent Business Proposal
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>From:	roseosuji at yahoo.fr (rose Osuji)
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>
>             Rose Osuji
>          Magistrate_Chambers
>Tel: 00 228-06-05-11
>e-mail: roseosuji at yahoo.fr
>
>The President,
>
>I am Rose Osuji, a legal practitioner and holding the retainership of the 
>late Nigerias Head of State, General Sani Abacha. I am making this contact 
>based on a reliable recommendation given to me by Mr. Earnest Uke while in 
>Lome, Republic of Togo. Based on my long years of retainership with the 
>Abacha family, I have the instruction of the wife, Mrs. Maryam Abacha to 
>write you this message:
>
>Since the assumption of power by the present civilian government in 
>Nigeria, the entire family of late General Sani Abacha has known no peace 
>at all. The present government has set out plans to liquidate the estate 
>of the late General. The Federal Government has confiscated all known 
>property of the late General in Nigeria. They have equally frozen all the 
>familys bank account here in Africa and abroad. The first surviving son of 
>late General Abacha, Muhammed Abacha is presently standing trial on a 
>framed charge of conspiracy and murder.
>
>All these victimization and many more have left the surviving siblings of 
>General Abacha and his wife in a very desperate situation in the battle 
>for survival.
>
>In view of this experience and in order to avoid being put into worse 
>jeopardy, Madam Maryam Abacha has decided to entrust her family money 
>under the care of an obscure foreigner for safekeeping.
>
>Like I stated above, the family bank account of late General Sani Abacha 
>has been frozen and the money and the property seized by the government. 
>Madam Abacha acting on tip-off withdrew as much money as she could before 
>the freezing of her account and kept it in cash, very well disguised to 
>avoid  being detected by the agents of the government. The money will be 
>put under your custody and under conditions to be agreed upon by Madam and 
>yourself. Madam would be very pleased to discuss directly with you upon 
>your acceptance to assist her. The first batch of US$10,000,000.00 will be 
>handed over to you as soon as this agreement is concluded. However, you 
>should undertake to make the money available to her on demand as a primary 
>condition to the commencement of the transaction.
>
>Upon your acceptance to assist, you will take as compensation 30% of the 
>gross total.
>
>Please do treat this matter as very urgent and highly confidential.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you soonest.
>
>Rose Osuji
>
>
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