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Originally posted by Greg:
Patrick,

Hello again.

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how one alters reality is secret in the magic circle,as in juju circles,so im not at liberty to explain,hence the appology. --Patrick

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I conclude from your statement above that you know how to alter reality, and could explain, if it was permissible. Tell me, have you altered your own reality lately? and if reality is altered, is it in fact still reality, or is it a figment of one's imagination. Can you at least elaborate on this? or is it also secret?

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hello AGAIN greg. i hope this sentence will help you:I SEE! SAID THE BLIND MAN.

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Originally posted by Tijani:
Greg,

Abeg no mind di amugbo wey ogogoro andi ganja don scata im brain. Na yeye man dey talk like Patrick O. Yeye dey smell! Me I know tay to tay say di amugbo andi ojoro jaguda na 419 man. As Olopa don dey kpafuka im piple for Festac Town wey go yonder for Okoko.

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LAGOS, NIGERIA -- In Festac Town, an entire community of scammers overnights on the Internet. By day they flaunt their smart clothes and cars and hang around the Internet cafes, trading stories about successful cons and near misses, and hatching new plots.

Festac Town is where communication specialists operating underground sell foreign telephone lines over which a scammer can purport to be calling from any city in the world. Here lurk master forgers and purveyors of such software as "e-mail extractors," which can harvest e-mail addresses by the million. Now, however, a 3-year-old crackdown is yielding results, Nigerian authorities say.

Nuhu Ribadu, head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said cash and assets worth more than $700 million were recovered from suspects between May 2003 and June 2004. More than 500 suspects have been arrested, more than 100 cases are before the courts and 500 others are under investigation, he said.

The agency won its first big court victory in May when Mike Amadi was sentenced to 16 years in prison for setting up a website that offered juicy but phony procurement contracts. Amadi cheekily posed as Ribadu himself and used the agency's name. He was caught by an undercover agent posing as an Italian businessman.

This month the biggest international scam of all -- though not one involving the Internet -- ended in court convictions. Amaka Anajemba was sentenced to 2 years in prison and ordered to return $25.5 million of the $242 million she helped to steal from a Brazilian bank.

President Olusegun Obasanjo is winning U.S. praise for his crackdown. Interpol, the FBI and other Western law enforcement agencies have stepped in to help, police spokesman Emmanuel Ighodalo said, and Nigerian police have received equipment and Western training in combating Internet crime and money-laundering.

Experts say Nigerian scams continue to flood e-mail systems, though many are being blocked by spam filters that get smarter and more aggressive. Nicholas Graham of America Online Inc. said Nigerian messages lack the telltale signs of other spam -- such as embedded Web links -- but its filters are able to be alert to suspect mail coming from a specific range of Internet addresses. Also, the scams have a limited shelf life.

In the con that Internet users are probably most familiar with, the e-mailer poses as a corrupt official looking for help in smuggling a fortune to a foreign bank account. E-mail or fax recipients are told that if they provide their banking and personal details and deposit certain sums of money, they'll get a cut of the loot.

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NA WAH!!

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STICKS AND STONES break my bones,YOURE words only disgust me .haveaniceday

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if the youth of nigeria,were given a bit of weed to smoke ,MAYBE,they wouldnt roam the streets killing igbos,as my discription of its effects points to a soothing effect rather than a destructive or violent one.

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you and tijani,keep on harping on about my drug habit,yet this is a crime punishable by death in nigeria,so when i playfuly explain the GREAT feel,AT LEAST,im not under the thumb of those of you who want to dictate to and control others.

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Originally posted by Greg:
Mebiafran,

I'm pretty much done. I like Patrick's personality but can't understand his reasoning, so it's on to other things.

I just happen to be home from work today which is why we can exchange posts in real time. BTW, je me souvien le chose dequel j'ai promis et je le faisai ensuite, peut-etre ce fin de la semaine quand j'irai voir ma famille.

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PEACE at last in 419 forum,it was worth the struggle!! haveaniceday

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An Internet relationship with a Nigerian man has resulted in trouble for a Culpeper woman.

Culpeper town police evacuated three apartments and closed Highview Court for more than two hours yesterday after the unidentified middle-aged woman reported that two suspicious boxes that had been ordered by the man were in her possession, according to Detective Richard Brooking.

Brooking said the woman had been receiving Instant Messages from the Nigerian for some time and the two had developed some type of long-distance relationship. The man then had an American firm send two boxes to the woman, which she was supposed to forward to him in Nigeria, Brooking said.

When the boxes did not arrive in Nigeria in a timely manner, the man began sending Instant Message threats "that involved her well-being as well as the well-being of others," Brooking said.

The woman then apparently became suspicious about the contents of the boxes and alerted police, Brooking said. Investigators blocked off Highview and evacuated the woman's apartment and two others about 10 a.m.

State police bomb dogs were called in, but detected no explosives in either box, Brooking said. When the packages were opened, they turned out to contain electronic-recording equipment from a legitimate manufacturer.

Police are unsure just why the Nigerian man wanted the equipment shipped to the Culpeper woman before being sent to him but they suspect it was part of some type of scam, Brooking said.

They are also unsure whether the Nigerian man or anyone else had paid for the recording devices. The equipment and the question of what to do with it were left with the Culpeper woman.

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The federal investigation that led to raids last week on the homes and offices of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of New Orleans seems to have focused on possible African business dealings, as well as a company that lists Jefferson's wife as a director, according to a person who has seen the search warrants.

The warrants also indicate that federal investigators are particularly interested in the connections between Jefferson and a small technology company, iGate Inc. in Louisville, Ky., the source said. The company was one sponsor of a weeklong, $16,312 trip Jefferson made to Africa last year, records show.

The company associated with Jefferson's wife is The ANJ Group LLC. Records on file with the Louisiana secretary of state's office list the group's manager as Andrea G. Jefferson, 1922 Marengo St. Records connected to The ANJ Group were among items sought by federal agents, according to the source who saw the search warrants. The exact nature of The ANJ Group's business was unclear Friday.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity and who declined to provide a copy of the warrants, said there was "a decidedly foreign flavor" to the list of materials sought by federal agents in their raids last week on Jefferson's homes in New Orleans and Washington, his car in the capital, and the office of his longtime accountant and campaign treasurer in New Orleans.

Nigeria and another African country unspecified by the source are mentioned in the search warrants. The warrants further specify that the agents sought correspondence and e-mail between Jefferson and named foreign nationals, the source said. The source declined to comment on what the agents might have seized in the raids.

When asked about the international character of the items and contacts, Mike Fawer, Jefferson's attorney, said he "could not confirm or deny it." He noted, however, that he would "not be surprised" if overseas dealings emerged as the investigation's main thrust.


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Jefferson, an eight-term Democrat who is scheduled to return from Brazil this weekend after wrapping up a weeklong trade mission with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and local business leaders, has been a peripatetic representative. He is co-chairman of the congressional caucuses on both Brazil and Nigeria, and in that capacity has made numerous trips to those countries.

The source who had seen the search warrants said Nigeria seemed of particular interest to federal agents, and Fawer and others have said repeatedly that the prosecutorial nexus of the case -- Alexandria, Va. -- indicates investigators are looking into Jefferson's activities in or near Washington, D.C., not in New Orleans.

"I do get some sense from the inventory lists of what was taken that the investigation has nothing to do with anything that happened down here," Fawer said, repeating his belief that the raids have the appearance of a sting. He declined to offer specifics on the inventory lists.

But Fawer said his review of the limited paperwork available does not clearly identify Jefferson's Nigerian ties as the heart of the case. Fawer said he plans to meet with Jefferson after he returns from Brazil, and will file motions next week for copies of the affidavits that federal authorities used to get judicial approval for the raids.

"I know that Bill has traveled to Nigeria several times," he said. "And I know that there were business transactions he was familiar with there and in other African countries. But it's not clear to me, based on what I know now, that those are the focus of the investigation."


Trade missions

Jefferson traveled to Nigeria, the small neighboring country of Sao Tome and Principe, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea on a privately financed trip in February 2004. According to his disclosure report filed with the clerk of the House, Jefferson led a business delegation "to explore general investment opportunities and the African Growth and Opportunity Act," legislation that promotes increased trade with African nations.

The Kentucky firm iGate was one of four corporate sponsors of that trip, records show. In a 2004 edition of the Lane Report about high-tech Kentucky businesses, iGate Inc. is listed as a privately held firm that facilitates high-speed data services and includes among its clients American Express and the Department of Defense. In April 2004, iGate and the Port of New Orleans were corporate sponsors of a trip that sent two Democratic representatives to Brazil, although Jefferson did not participate, records show.

Vernon Jackson, chief executive of iGate, has contributed at least $4,000 to Jefferson, according to campaign finance reports. The reports also show a Sandra D. Jackson, who lists the same Kentucky hometown as Vernon Jackson and her occupation as homeowner, contributed another $4,000.

Correspondence between Jefferson and Jackson was specified as an item sought by agents in their raids, according to the source. Jackson did not return several phone calls left at iGate's corporate office.

In addition to iGate, Jefferson's trip was paid for by Project Consulting Services, an engineering consulting firm in Metairie; Verizon; and Leth Energy Inc., which is now called Global Environmental Energy Corp., according to Jefferson's disclosure report.

Global Environmental has headquarters in the Bahamas, but has a New Orleans office that filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year. At least one of last week's warrants sought documents related to Jefferson's dealings with a company called Global Energy and Environmental Services LLC, but it was unclear whether they are the same firm, according to the source.

Refinery in Nigeria

Global Environmental recently announced plans to develop a new refinery in Nigeria with a processing capacity of 70,000 barrels a day. The company said the work would be done with Sahara Petroleum Exploration Corp., a subsidiary of Chasewood Consortium Ltd.

Noreen Wilson, listed as sole officer and director of Global Environmental Energy Corp. in the company's May bankruptcy filing, said that although the company helped pay for Jefferson's 2004 trip to Africa, it did not send a representative. She said Jefferson has "always helped" U.S. firms interested in investing in Africa, but "has never asked for anything in return."

George A. Obiozor, Nigeria's ambassador to the United States, said Friday he knew nothing about a possible U.S. investigation into Jefferson's activities related to Nigeria.

As they have since the sweeping raids and subpoenas came down Aug. 3, federal authorities on Friday refused to discuss the matter. Lawyers familiar with the investigation said the decision to secure the search warrants from the federal 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, rather than have them signed by a federal district judge, reflected the Justice Department's intense concern about keeping its legal maneuvering secret. The lawyers said they think federal officials dodged the district level because one of Jefferson's daughters, Jelani Jefferson, is a clerk for U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon.


Accountant mum

Jefferson's Poydras Street accountant, Jack Swetland, has remained incommunicado. He is said to be a financial guru in Jefferson's political and personal domains. In addition to handling campaign finances for Jefferson and his daughter, state Rep. Jalila Jefferson-Bullock, D-New Orleans, Swetland has managed campaign finances for District Attorney Eddie Jordan, a Jefferson protege, and does accounting for a variety of Jefferson projects, according to people who work in Swetland's office and New Orleans lawyers familiar with his work.

The ANJ Group, managed by Jefferson's wife, is among the firms for which Swetland serves as registered agent, according to records on file with the Louisiana secretary of state's office.

The agents who burst into Jefferson and Swetland's world Aug. 3 at about 7 a.m. weren't on a fishing expedition, Fawer said. The search had a narrow focus, and the agents seemed to be looking for the same things at all locations, not seeking different items from each of the venues. The source who has reviewed the warrants noted their "substantial and striking specificity."

Fawer has said the warrants authorized seizure of e-mail and paper correspondence and specified by name the Jefferson correspondents of interest to investigators.

Fawer disputed rumors since the raids that agents left Jefferson's Marengo Street home with a large amount of cash, perhaps as much as $500,000, and that they had timed their raids out of concern that in his then-impending trade mission to Brazil, Jefferson was providing himself an opportunity to move the money out of the country.

"That's just nonsense; it's not true," Fawer said. "I can't tell you there was no money seized, but it is not true that sums like that were taken either here or in Washington. I don't believe the money was in the six figures."

The warrant for Jefferson's house authorized seizure of currency "in excess of $100." Fawer described the language as boilerplate, though another lawyer familiar with federal cases said it was odd to see a cash listing in a white-collar case.

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From: "idris omanu" <idris_omanu@hotmail.com>
Subject: URGENT.
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:17:47 +0000

Dear friend, TOP SECRET!


I know this may come as surprise and sceptic to you. I am one of the officials in the Energy management board, in Burkina Faso. We had a
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The project has been executed, you can check on the website. www.SONABEL.BF. But, the main issue of contacting you is to intimate you that during the award of this contract, a few of my colleagues and l, had inflated the amount of this contract and the OVER- INVOICED is being safeguarded under our custody.

However, we have decided to transfer this sum of money, $35.5million USA Dollars out of this Country for disbursement. Hence, we seek for a
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If you are capable to handle the transaction without hitches and flaws, then we have confidence in the deal, and a risk free transfer from our side. Please, make it TOP SECRET and avoid every channel of implicating us here thereby endanger our career. Therefore, if you will not be able to handle it, please hold on your peace for our sake we are public servants.

I pray to God for his providence for a smooth transfer, so that our retiring soon or later will be a better and blissful retirement life, as such we are very cautious towards actualising this noble venture. It can also be a once in life opportunity for you, because l know that we going to see face-face, preferably come down to Burkina Faso and verify on my claim on the said amount of money in the bank. Besides, to discuss business and investment in your country at large, and thereafter sit together to decide on the means of transferring.

If this picks your interest, please do contact me immediately through this email address for more details and for easier communication.

Best regards,

MR IDRIS MANU.

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Subject: Last Chance To Participate In The Ecobank Nigeria PLC Share (noreply@empathon.com)
From: Ecobank Nigeria Public Offer Helpline via Empathon <noreply@empathon.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 12:58 pm
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Dear Investor,

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In Favour of: Ecobank Nigeria PLC Account 121001614150

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FROM : Master lbrahim quattara
MISSIONARY QUARTERS
PLATEAUX ABIDJAN
FOR URGENT ATTENTION
EMAIL lbrhmquattara@yahoo.com

Dearest One,

With regard to your reputation and co-worshipper of God who will not disappoint me nor deny me in faith, I am directing this letter of assistance to you. I am Master lbrahim quattara the son of Mr Christopher quattara from Republic of Zimbabwe really in dear need to get somebody who will safe guard the interest of me and my treasure. Briefly, my father Mr Christopher
quattara was a Gold and Cocoa merchant who based in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire and had a branch