PLEASE HELP

It's an E-Mail Emergency
 


November 12, 2002

Today ... today alone, I received four
... count'em ... FOUR ...
e-mailed letters, desperate pleas from Mr. Abba Abacha of Nigeria.

I was distraught.

I can usually ignore one, but not FOUR.

So I wrote him back.

>Subject:   PLEASE HELP ME AND MY FAMILY

>FROM:   ABBA ABACHA
>              KANO, NIGERIA.

REPLY
FROM:     CATHY CATACHA
                JUMPINLAKE, ALABAMA,
                UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA
                WESTERN HEMISPHERE, PLANET EARTH.



>Dear Friend,

Yes Good Buddy,

>I am contacting you on behalf of my family, and l
>strongly solicits your assistance in the name of the
>Almighty Allah.


You have come to the right place. He told me you might be in touch.

>I am Abba Abacha, the son of the late General Sani
>Abacha, a past Head of State of the Federal Republic of
>Nigeria.


And I am Cathy Catacha, the daughter of two non-governmental blue collar workers. However, as the niece of a man who once ran for city council, I can relate.

>Since my father's death, my entire family has been
>under immense pressure from the present Government
>of Nigeria, to make available the funds in my father's
>possession.


Still? There are funds still in your dead father's possession?

>As a result of this, my family has lost over billions of
>dollars, which my father left behind for his family.


Over billions? Sir. My country could have used that money. Or maybe they did? Bombs cost money.

>Immediately after my father's internment, my mother
>made numerous attempts to travel out of the country
>with the funds my father kept in his country home,


Gad. She must be worn slap out. How much does a billion weigh? I mean in your country. As the daughter of non-government blue collar workers, I know what a billion weighs in this country.

>but all her efforts were frustrated by the government of
>the day.

Yes, I can relate.

>This gave my mother a lot of psychological problems.

I understand. I am myself, as a result of government actions, suffering psychological problems. As a matter of fact, good hard cash is also my medication of choice.

>As a result of these failed attempts, l decided to
>tactically move some of the funds to a security
>company: this l succeeded in doing without the
>knowledge of my country's Government. The funds are
>in a total amount of US$42,000,000.00, and sealed in
>trunk boxes but I want to start with US$15,500,000.00.


Boy I sure would like to know how much that weighs. In your country.

>I have made arrangements with the Security Company
>where l lodged the trunk boxes, to help claim the trunk
>boxes to my would be destination (your country).


MY Country? Man, have you been in those trunks with the money for the past year? Do you not realize we are at WAR? That your trunks (minus the contents, if you get my drift) could end up in the bottom of a deep well, along with both me and you??? This process in my country is called "detainment". The other name for this process is "security".

>At the moment, I cannot travel out of the country,
>because my country's Government is holding on to my
>International Passport. 

I see. You are perhaps misinformed. You cannot get into this country with an International Passport. You need a passport issued in Saudi Arabia.

>It is in view of this, l have decided to solicit your
>assistance in the dispensing of these funds in a
>destination/location nearest to you. Remuneration is
>open to negotiation.

No sirree bobbba abba dabba. No can do.

>I appeal to you in the name of almighty Allah, the
>beneficient and the merciful, to sincerely and honestly
>render us this assistance, l know you would wonder
>why I am not soliciting for assistance from well placed
>Nigerians, it's really sad. You see, all my late father's
>friends whom we have asked for assistance absconded
>with our money. This disgraceful act by Nigerians has
>made it necessary for us to seek foreign assistance.

Sir, my advice to you is to put what you can in your pockets and get the hell out of dodge. As soon as my government takes care of Iraq, they're going to need another country to complete the evil axis. I believe, from your description of the disgraceful actions of your fellow countrymen, Nigeria could well be just the type of country they're looking for. Go. In the name of Almighty Allah, go now.

>Please, we implore you to treat this project with utmost
>confidentiality, as we would not want our family name in
>further trouble.


Oh you _have_ been in a trunk smelling too much money dust. We are at WAR. E-mail is not a confidential, secure, private mode of communication. The FBI should be zoning in on you even now.

>Thank you for your anticipated assistance. Please, you
>can send your response to my email address and I will
>get back to you immediately.


Go man. Go now. With Allah's blessings.

>Yours faithfully,

>ABBA ABACHA


Sincerely,

Cathy Catacha
 


©   Cathy Henderson 2002