Beware of these guys... He thought I was some sort of an easy target but I had a little fun with these guys. This is the inquiry I got.

Subject Inquire about Football Boots

From Federal Ministry Of Sports 


Recipient Mr. Daniel Chan

Date 2008-12-23

Content Kindly let me introduce myself as Damisa Sango, The new sport minister in Nigeria. My ministry is currently looking for suppliers of football boots and other sport shoes to be used at the forth comming National Sport Festival, tagged KADUNA 2009. We would be needing 320,000pairs of this product and your best price would be appreciated. If your price is acceptable, we would award your company the contract for this supply and subsiquent supplies. Awaiting your response.

Yours Faithfully,

Damisa Sango.

Sender

Name Mr. Damisa Sango  

Email sportminister_ng@yahoo.com

Telephone 234-70-25115885

Fax 234-70-25115885

Country/Region Nigeria

Website

 Sender's IP Address 41.219.*.*

Sender's IP Location Nigeria

 

This is my reply to him

Dear Mr Sango,

 

Thank you very much for your inquiry.  We are very honored to have such an inquiry from the Sport Minister of Nigeria himself.

 

There are a few things I would like for your to clarify.

 

You stated that your phone number is as follows:

Telephone 234-70-25115885

Fax 234-70-25115885

 

As I know your ministry is located in Abuja and for the area code... I find it very weird

 

I thought Mr Sani Ndanusa  was confirmed as the new sport minister on December 18. Did he leave his post as Nigeria's Sport Minister after 5 days?

 

In any case I will be sending your contact details to the Nigerian Embassy here in China for clarification.

 

Rgds

Daniel

Quoting from [Merlion]:

Below are the email exchanges between us.

fromSports Minister <sportminister_ng@yahoo.com>
reply-tosportminister_ng@yahoo.com

to Daniel Chan

dateThu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:20 AM

Dear Mr Daniel Chan,

Greetings to you and I commend you for being a smart and competent businessman. Truely I am Damisa Sango Jr, the personal assistant/corresponding officer to the new minister.I am also new at this Job and it is the minister that gave the mandate to search for any company that can supply these products.Hope you will understand, but to be on the safe side, you can go ahead and contact the embassy, i am sure you will eventually get the same result or informations. After you get the info please do not hesitate to get intouch, I would love to work with you.

Thank you for putting me on my toes.

Your faithfully

Damisa Sango.

 

fromDaniel Chan <XXXXXXXXX@gmail.com>
tosportminister_ng@yahoo.com

dateFri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:29 PM

subjectRe: Inquire about Football Boots

mailed-bygmail.com

hide details Dec 26 (5 days ago) Reply

Thank you very much for you commendation Mr Sango.

 

I don't know who you claim you to be. You mentioned in your inquiry that you are the sport minister and now you claimed to be Mr Daminsa Sanga Jr the personal assistant/corresponding officer to the new minister.

 

We would like to do business despite there being many scammers in Nigeria. But in all we are always on our toes and do not take things for granted. There may be loads of scammer working from in and around Nigeria but that does not mean all inquiries are from scammers.

 

We have a policy of asking our buyers especially if they are from government organization to send us a scan copy of their official documents - name cards, passport and official appointment letters from the ministry so that we can make clarification with the Nigerian Embassy here in China.

 

We would really appreciate if you could submit to us a scan copy of your name card and passport to us.

 

Warmest Regards

Daniel

 

fromSports Minister <sportminister_ng@yahoo.com>
reply-tosportminister_ng@yahoo.com

toDaniel Chan

dateFri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:29 PM

subjectRe: Inquire about Football Boots (HXSC 002Y)

mailed-byyahoo.com

signed-byyahoo.com

hide details Dec 26 (5 days ago) Reply

Hello Mr Dan,

I understand how you feel, but I must get the permsision from the minister before sending any information to to you ,as I do not want to make any other mistake again. Whatever happens, I will respond asap.

regards,

sango.

Well, he disappeared and I have not heard from him again

This scam attempt is really so poor that it can deceive only certified idiots. A minister in any country would have at least an own .gov e-mail address... and how come that your e-mail address is known to the sports ministry of Nigeria????


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