[LCM Articles] Hariri gets turned into Nigerian spam

[Ayah Bdeir]

I received this by way of the media lab mailing list... It is too funny...

- Ayah Bdeir
Master's Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences
Computing Culture Group
MIT Media Lab
http://web.media.mit.edu/~ayah

-----Original Message-----
From: hariri200 at orbis.org.mx [mailto:hariri200 at orbis.org.mx] 
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:10 PM
To: mike.m.bogdanowicz at intel.com
Subject: From: Mrs. Nazek Audi Hariri.



Greetings to you, with warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings,
and I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising
this contact might seem to you as we have not met personally or had any
dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its
importance and the immense benefit it will be to you. After careful
consideration with my children, we resolved to contact you for your most
needed assistance in this manner. I duly apologize for infringing on your
privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as I make this proposal
to you as a person of integrity. First and foremost I wish to introduce
myself properly to you. My name is Mrs. Nazek Audi Hariri, mother of five,
my husband Mr. Rafik Baha al-din Hariri a very successful businessman and
proficient politician in Lebanon. Though I was involved in some of my
husband's business, which was very vast and successful. My beloved husband
was among those killed in the massive explosion that rocked central
Beirut's fashionable seafront district, on his way back from Lebanon
parliament on 14th February. 2005
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When my husband died, I was contacted as next of kin by a private security
firm in Europe to come forth to claim the consignment with the Certificate
of Deposit and claim a safety deposit my husband has in their Vault in his
name. I discovered a Certificate of Deposit for the safety deposit with
this private security firm, and other documents relating to the safety
deposit in a book. The safety deposit, which is a trunk, is stocked with
hard currency (US Dollars) totaling $8,000,000 (Eight Million US Dollar),
which was generated from cash payments from his business associates.
Though I knew my late husband was politician and the money was reserved
for May election campaign.
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This has came as a shock to me and my children, and we have decided to
have this fund invested immediately in commercial and residential
properties in abroad as well as profitable ventures, now that the US Govt.
has ordered Syria Govt. to leave and not to intervene in any Lebanon
affair and we don't know what is going to happen, hence we sincerely
propose to you to render us your most needed assistance in this regard. If
you agree to render us your assistance, your role in this project will be
to act on my behalf as a trustee to receive the safety deposit containing
the funds from the Security firm. Though I believe this transaction should
be based on mutuality, a family associate, who is a diplomat, will protect
my family's interest, and I have informed him that I am locating one of my
husband's business associates (you) to handle the funds and pending till
the crisis in Lebanon will die down, the part of services the diplomat is
required to render is to assist you in claiming the consignments from the
terminal of the security company and to set up a transit domiciliary
account in your name in one of the prime bank he has contacts to carry out
the exercise through the back door.
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The purpose of the account is to enable you deposit the funds for further
transfer into your nominated bank For your reliable assistance, we are
offering you 20 % of the funds. I thank you in advance as we anticipate
your assistance in enabling us achieve this goal. On hearing from you, I
will forward your contact to the diplomat who will be representing us, and
also give you his contact for both of you to communicate and proceed with
the transaction. He will be working with you for a mutual conclusion of
the process and I look forward to a long lasting business relationship
with you. As you may understand, due to my husband sensitive position in
the present government, it is not safe to communicate with me via phone or
fax. Please all your correspondence should be forwarded to diplomat who
reside in London-UK

Name: Mr. -----, Tel: +---, +--Mobile No: --- Fax: +-- and I will
like us to keep this way, for the safety of this transaction. Whether or
not you are interested in assisting us. This will enable us make
alternative plans, in the event of non-interest on your part.



With warm regards,


MRS. NAZEK AUDI HARIRI.
PRIVATE EMAIL:hariri_200 at latinmail.com