The
Godfather: scammer upsets the mafia.
This scammer tried an unusual variation of the 419 routine. He needed capital to develop rich mineral deposits in Nigeria (honest). As the minerals he lists (albeit poorly spelled) are all industrial minerals, with the uses he describes, my guess is he has picked up a trade journal somewhere. As we shall see, his knowledge of the subject proves to be rather limited. As one who has some earth science training I could not resist this bait, I also laughed as he struggled with terminology he did not understand, and tried to impress with terminology no self-respecting geologist would use.
I
speak hardly a word of Italian, but I guessed nor would he, and I was right.
My characters are all named after various Italian foods. My comments are in bold, the scammer’s messages are
in italics.
From:
atiku_alli101@guju.net
Date:
May 2004
Tel:
234 80 56405763
Fax:
234 80 56405763
Subject:
Proposal
Dear sir/Madam
My name is ATUKU ALLI-a seasoned geologist of nigerian descent with about 20yrs
working experience with many reputable geophysical firms. I am 43yrs
old and a native of yoruba.
IN the course of my job as a geologist i stumbled into a place called
"IGUE" in edo state of nigeria,it is undoubtedly a land
naturally endowed with lots of precious solid mineral in abundant supplies.The
locals of this place do not happen to know the vast potentials of these
minerals, a vast majority of them are illeterate people,which has goaded
me into establishing a solid mineral industry.
These minerals include:"CALCITE,DOLOMITE,FELSPAR,BARRITE,BENTHONITE,KAOLIN
E.T.c. quite frankly these minerals happen to be in very high demand here
in nigeria & other countries,companies never cease to place demand for
them locally,the irony is people do not know just how lucrative this business
can be, so many products can be manufactured from these minerals,products
like:petroleum addictives,marble,tiles,ceiling boards,paints,rubber
carpets, toothpaste,glass, cement & for drillling.
I have already put a machinery in place for the smooth establishment of a
state-of-the-art industry,the land wherein these materials are contained has
been bought but the factory equipments still has not been acquired.The
excavation process is going on as i speak to you now,these minerals cannot
be used in their solid forms,they have to be crushed into powdry form or
chippings-that brings us to the need for the cheap factory equiment call
the"PULVERIZER"&HAMMER-CRUSHER".These are the two major
equipments for this factory&their costs are on the high side.
I have already notified my bank of my intentions & they have indicated
profound interest in loaning me money to buy these equipments(pulverizer &
hammer-crusher) but they insist on seeing the raw materials on ground.The
excavation process is continuing in order to unearth these minerials after
they will be blasted with explosives from the deep layers of the
soil.
Having said all this,it is clear that this venture would be very profitable
& rewarding,i have invested so much here on my own to make the
neccesary leap i need,but i would need a partner with whom we can jointly
continue because i am almost running out of funds & more fund is
needed to carry on.I would appreciate a partner who is GOD-FEARING &
dedicated to join me in establishing this industry,you might find it
neccesary to come down here & see things for youself(the pace of work &
materials acquired so far)for the avoidance of misconceptions, i would really
like that,i look forward to hearing from you soon so we can
speedily commence work.may GOD bless you.
ATIKU ALLI.
“GOD-FEARING”?
I am an atheist! He has
definitely chosen the wrong man.
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Saturday, 7 August 04
Subject:
Mining proposal
Dear
Mr Atiku
Your message about minerals
in Nigeria has come to me. First
please forgive my English not good. I
am from Sicily, Italy. I speak
Italian. I live in England only
little time. I use dictionary to
help write this to you. I am name
Pizza Pepperoni. I am from business
family. We famous for food and
restaurants. Many good Italian food
named after my grandfather, uncle etc. I
want to move into other business. I
find commodities for clients. I
have client looking for very rare mineral.
It name “dilithium”. It
very valuable. Have you dilithium?
My client from big federation. They
want much dilithium. If you have
big supply of dilithium I use family money to begin a mine.
Then we supply dilithium to federation for many moneys. If you interested please reply.
Grazie
Pizza
Pepperoni
For
the benefit of those who are not “Star Trek” fans, dilithium is the
fictitious substance that controls the anti-matter/matter reaction in the warp
core reactor of the starship “Enterprise”.
As “Star Trek” has such a great following there are even spoof
entries for dilithium on mineralogical databases on the web.
Will Alli realise this?
From:
atiku_alli101@guju.net
to Pizza Pepperoni.
Date:
Monday, 09 August 2004
Subject: URGENT
Good
day Pizza Peppperroni, I got your mail.i promise to be loyal and faithful to you
if we can work together as one with one mind.The mineral Dilithium is very
expensive to get but it can be fetch out from the site but it will include much
money.which i will need your assistance .But for others like the white gold is
available now in stock ,Kindly tell me in what ever way you know we can go about
this but as i am concern we can get it .i await to hear from you immediately.
Thanks. Alli.
Well,
fancy that! He has dilithium!
And it is very expensive to get. Of
course it would be, wouldn’t it?
From:
Atiku Alli to Pizza Pepperoni.
Date:
Tuesday, 10 August 2004
Subject:
Good day
Dear
pep, i want to inform you once more that i am willing to work with you on the
establishment of our private mine .Please i will like also make known to you
that Dilithium is well available to get.and also since you are sugesting that we
should be buisiness partner in setting up a mine i will want you to clear me
about this.Will you be in sicily why we are setting up the mine or if you will
come down to nigeria so that we can see and really get aquinted with
ourselves.and also i will like to bring to your notice that if we can set up the
mine it can also lead to the supply of other solid minerals that are of higher
demands to all federation too.if you understand what i mean i can send to you
the project report of how everything will start.i stand to hear from you .
Thanks Atiku Alli
Yes,
he really does have dilithium, honest!
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Tuesday, 10 August 2004
Subject:
Dilithium mine
Dear
Mr Alli,
I thank
you for your kind response. I thank
you also for making your messages short. I
take me long time with dictionary make English become Italian! I take English lesson each week but am not good student.
First I
explain myself. Until now my
business is food. Finding
commodities for clients is new for me so I like not go too quick.
Also, I need be caution with new partner.
Friend tell me he had business offer from Nigerian man, but he use false
name and not real. Forgive me.
I not say Nigerians bad. I
not want to insult your honour. However,
I must be careful. I need proof you
are Mr Atiku Alli, and not another person who use that name.
Have you passport, or something official with photo of you and name?
Maybe driving licence or identity card.
Perhaps you send me picture of this with your name and photo.
Also, because passport etc. can be made false, send separate photo of you
holding sign which say a password I give you.
Then if passport photo and photo with password are same I know you are
real. Then you are my brother and
we do business. Please tell me if
this is possible. For password I
suggest: “IMA PLONKER.” It is common little blessing in Sicily. Photo must be good quality.
Use jpg, but not with compression.
Yes, send
me please the project report. My
client have specification for quality of dilithium.
I find it for you. Dilithium
very rare. I search many months for
to find it. It used in “high
technology” use. Please have you
sample he could examine? Quality
very important.
Grazie
Pizza
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Thursday, 12 August 04
Subject:
DEAR FRIEND
Good
day pizza, i understand how you feel in dealing with someone you havent met
before ,i will do exactly as you said to proof i am Atiku alli and also a real
solid mineral dealer,i will send to you in my next mail my ideal card of a real
geologist and also a photo holding the sign like you said .I WILL LIKE YOU TO
SEND THE SPECICIFICATION YOUR FRIEND HAS FOR A REAL QUALITY DILITHIUM, THANKS
ATIKU ALLI N.B please always try to reply me immediately.
I
promptly replied to this with a short note saying I was not a technical man so I
was copying what my client had to say about dilithium.
I said I hoped Mr Alli could understand it better than I.
Regrettably my covering message did not save automatically but I still
have a copy of the copied message from my “client” from the Federation.
Here it is:
Dear
Pizza,
Good to hear from you again.
Hope all’s well with you, your lovely wife and the little bambinos.
I trust you enjoyed the haggis hunt in Scotland.
My chief engineer would have loved to join you but was too busy working
on our warp engines to be in a position to take time off. This brings me to the subject that is of mutual concern to
us. As explained in our last
meeting, our new state of the art warp drive depends on dilithium.
This is the only substance that can safely combine matter and anti-matter
into a stable stream for injection into the warp core chamber.
The
dilithium crystal becomes the focal point where the matter/anti-matter injectors
fire. The crystal combines and
refracts the beam into the warp core. It
is simple for the deuterium ions to “channel” through the crystal, provided
it is very pure and exactly aligned. The
problem is the anti-deuterium. Its
ions have the opposite charge (negative) which means that it does not behave
like deuterium and so (under the same conditions) could collide with the
dilithium nuclei with violent exothermic consequences.
Why this does not happen is down to the unique properties of the
dilithium lattice. By means of high
frequency excitation the material can be made porous to anti-matter, allowing
this to be channelled and focused also.
As
dilithium only forms in the extraterrestrial environment the only source for
many years was certain types of meteorite.
As these were very rare the substance was more expensive than diamonds! It is only with the recent discovery of dilithium deposits in
ancient impact basins that it has been possible to procure enough of the
material to permit its use in prototype reactor designs.
Even so, at around $200 a gram it remains an extremely precious
commodity.
Federation
scientists have pioneered the use of dilithium to facilitate matter/anti-matter
reaction and believe this to be the next generation technology in space travel,
energy generation and weaponry. Already
we have successfully built warp drives for satellites, space probes etc., and
have developed a miniaturised reactor for use in phasers.
The material will be of major strategic importance in the future and the
Federation is willing to invest considerable capital in securing a reliable
supply.
As
dilithium has a strong, and distinctive, energy signature probably the easiest
way to prospect for it is by means of a tricorder.
Simply walking over a deposit taking tricorder readings at regular
intervals should allow a rough delineation of the deposit’s dimensions and
grade (assuming no interference from duridium or magnesite).
Of course, to actually obtain samples, would require excavation and
processing of many tons of rock.
The
natural product is generally quite pure. The
only contaminant to watch out for is the closely related trilithium. This is dangerously unstable, and in the warp core
environment can lead to powerful and uncontrollable power surges as it
decomposes. We require dilithium
refined to 99.95 % purity, minimum, with a specification for trilithium of less
than 10 ppm. Whilst natural
crystals are sometimes of sufficient quality to function in the warp core,
nowadays we generally grow them in the laboratory from the powdered natural
material using a process developed by my science officer, Mr Spock.
I hope
this clarifies things for you. If
you require any more data do not hesitate to contact me, but I will be away
visiting the Romulan frontier for the next few weeks.
I’ll try and get you a bottle of Romulan ale but, owing to the current
trade ban, it will take some effort. Should
be fun!
Live
long and prosper
Jim
“Star
Trek” fans will recognise all this, will Alli?
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Friday, 13 August 2004 (Saturday Alli’s time)
Subject:
Re: dilithium specification
Good
day pizza I got the mail sent to me written by your client.i really love the
mail because it explain everything about the validity of a delithium,as you can
see it is normally use for high electronical devices which improves the high
method of science and technology.so what i really want you to know is that it is
not officially use in nigeria that leads it to be more expensive to excavate
like i said in my previous i belive your client mail explains it more clearer
and understanding for you to know what am about to go in for you as a means of
transacting buisiness with you .Dilithium is very capital intensive to be
excavated which involves the buying of explosives to bring out the rocks from
the ground where you can get it plain and pure. What i will like you to put to
my understand are you ready to assist me firstly in that aspect of more fund to
put the forces in motion for explosion and excation.please reply me immediately
so we can start work .mind you i will still like you to expect my photo . thanks
Atiku alli.
Nope,
he’s definitely not a Trekkie.
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Friday, 13 August 2004
Subject:
Business
Dear
Mr Alli,
Buon giorno!
I thank you for your quick reply. I
am happy you understand my client. I
do not! I am businessman, not
scientist. Yes I am very wanting to
get dilithium. It early to say how
we go yet. You said you had project
report. I like it to see please.
Also, have you “certificate of analysis”, or sample (much better)?
I have
some idea how we go. I think not
good to spend too many moneys too quick in case maybe dilithium not much there,
or not much good. I can put small
moneys in to get enough dilithium for to test and for Federation to see and
test. I need know how much you
think necessarys. I go up to 80,000
Euro, but prefer less.
If can get
sample, maybe half kilogram, then Federation will buy at price of approximately
$200 per gram. If this is quality
good, then we make deal with Federation. Either
we sell mineral rights to Federation for millions, or we make deal - they
provide big moneys (millions) to make mine big, but we have only share in mine. Maybe
10 %. At this stage they will want
send their geologists to examine deposit. We
be equal partners.
I let you
do all things necassery in Nigeria. You
organise mineral rights, employ men, buy machine etc.
However, I must ask you something favour please.
Like many businessman, I not like for to pay tax.
I keep deals like this secret and away from authorities.
Then no tax to pay! You
agree to this? Do you prefer Euro or Dollars?
Please
remember, I must have proper identifications by photograph of you before we go
with this deal. I wait now for your
photographs. Please they must be
exact as I ask, and very good quality jpg (no compression) so I can examine them
closely. I go no further until I
see these. This very importment.
I do nothing more until this is done.
Ciao
Pizza
80,000
Euro in cash should whet his appetite, but how will he manage a sample of
dilithium?
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Sunday, 15 August 2004
Subject:
Good day
Good
day pizza i am glad you are rightly on the same line of understanding on what
this transaction is all about with me .also glad that you wish to know whom you
are about to transact buisiness with by means of sending my official identity
card and also a photo with the sign written on it.i have take my scarning
maching to where it can be prorperly repair because it has been giving great
diffulties all this days of no operation .please stay cool and God bless you
,and i assuring you that by next week you will get it as planed ,and also i will
bring to your notice that i have started with the project report which i belive
that by next week also will be ready to see. Thanks Atiku Alli N.B PLEASE I HAVE
JUST BE INFORMED THAT THIS SITE I AM USING WILL SOON BE SHUT DOWN BY AUGUST 31st
YOU CAN CHECK TO SEE YOUR SELF www.guju.net .I MIGTH CHANGE TO ANOTHER SITE
BETTER ANYTIME FROM NOW,SO DONT BE CONFUSE WHEN I USE ANOTHER SITE AND EMAIL
ADDRESS IN CONTACTING YOU
I
check guju and sure enough, it is about to go off-line.
I need his new e-mail address ASAP as I have plans for him.
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Thursday, 19 August 2004
Subject:
PROJECT REPORT ON DILITHIUM
DEAR
PIZZA
BELOW IS
AN ATTACHMENT OF THE PROJECT REPORT ON DILITHIUM.WRITTEN
WITH MY LETTER HEADED PAPPER.
THANKS
What
a laugh this give me! He has
clearly done a Google search on dilithium and found a few spoof entries.
Did he not get suspicious about it enabling faster than light space
travel? Apart from duridium (more “Star Trek” jargon) the
minerals are genuine, but not found in the associations he imagines.
“Tricorders” of course, are pure “Star Trek” fiction.
He must have been very grateful for all the guidance I gave him with the
letter from my “client”. A real
geologist, prospecting for real minerals, would talk about the various
geophysical and geochemical methods used, extraction and processing techniques,
and the geological environments in which the mineral might be found.
This guy has not got a clue.
He
also sent this
business card but it has clearly not been printed out and scanned as he suggested it
would be. It looks cobbled together
on a computer.
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Thursday, 19 August 2004
Subject:
MY PHOTO WITH THE SIGN
DEAR
PIZZA,
BELOW IS
MY PHOTO IN MY MINING SITE.
THANKS.
Looks
like he works in a quarry, or has access to one.
This may explain his superficial knowledge about industrial minerals.
The pictures are rather overexposed.
I want better.
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Friday, 20 August 2004 (but received Thursday)
Subject:
Re: Business
Hello
pizza i hope you receive all i sent to you in a good condition ,i likely await
to hear from you with a quik response how your family and buisiness i do hope
all is well with you take good care of your self till i hear from you. Aiku Alli
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Thursday, 19 August 2004
Subject:
Re: Business
Dear
Mr Alli,
I thank you for the things
you send me. I happy with project
report. Thank you.
Photos interesting and I see sign – and bless you too!
Good to see you have already a mine.
I hope it very big success for you.
What is it produce?
I hope you
not become offended if I say photos need be better.
I appreciate you take time and troubles for to assure me.
I thank you for this. Photos
at mine are overexposed. Too much
bright sunshine. Maybe better if
made inside, or not in bright sunlight. Also
I need to compare face in photo with sign, with face in identity photo.
Not easy if person in photo with sign far away from camera.
Can you please make photo with sign with you closer to camera, but sign
still to be seen. Not too bright. Also, have you official identity, like national identity
card, or passport? This best
identity, better than geologist card (which I think attractive design).
Best way is one good jpg of official identity/passport, and separate to
this, one good jpg with one good photo close to camera with sign.
Please
accept my many apologies for extra troubles.
I must need be 100 % certain, then you my brother.
When done, perhaps I bring you little present for your troubles (my
cousin marry into Rolex family!).
Do not
worry about Federation. They have
good reputation for honour, not like Ferengi.
Simple solution is not tell them where dilithium is (they not even know
which country). Only when we have
proof of good deposit then we have them sign legal document for to protect our
rights.
I like
deal in cash. Is this good for you?
Prefer Euro. 500 Euro notes take not much space in suitcase.
Customs never see. I do this many time. Can
get dollars but take longer and take more space in suitcase.
Prefer very much Euro.
I am away
this weekend for business. I return
back start next week.
Grazie
Pizza
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Wednesday, 25 August 2004 (I actually got it on Tuesday)
Subject:
Fw: front of my drivers licence
this
is my
drivers licence.and it's
given only
by the
government
federal republic of nigeria.
we do not
have national
identity card yet
but our
drivers licence
stands for
that.
also take a lookat
the back o the
drivrs licence.
The
scratches across the card do not help. A Nigerian friend suggested that it could have been used as a
swipe card, there being a magnetic strip across the back of the licence.
There are problems with this driving licence, the head looks rather large
in relation to the body, the signature does not match that on his business card
and the date of birth makes him a lot older than 43.
I decide to save these problems until later.
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Tuesday, 24 August 2004
Subject:
dis pics. are clearer
the
last picture
where not
clearer so
i had to send it again.this
one now
is clearer.God
bless you.
This
is the best of 3 similar pictures he sent.
Yes, he is definitely a plonker.
To: Atiku Alli
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Tuesday, 24 August 2004
Subject:
Now we do business
My
dear brother Atiku,
I thank you much for your
pictures. Please forgive me for the
trouble I make for you but you know what dangerous world we live in.
I like your pictures. You
are good man, now we do business.
Because
business complicated it best I meet with you in Nigeria.
Not to worry about language. I
get yesterday new “Universal Translator” from Vulcan.
It very advanced technology with “voice recognition software”.
You speak to it in English. It
speak to me in Italian. I speak to
it in Italian. It speak to you in
English. It not work good on
telephone, but it work very good “face to face”.
You need
tell me how much moneys you need for start work to get first sample dilithium. I bring it you. How
you prefer? Euro best.
Bankers draft? Cash? Please
tell. Also, where can we meet?
Is best meet in hotel near airport in big city – easy to get to.
Maybe Lagos? I wait with
enthusiasm your reply. I hope also,
you find soon new e-mail address. God
bless or in Sicilian dialect, “Ura plonker!”.
Pizza
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Wednesday, 25 August 2004
Subject:
how soon are you coming
good
day pizza,how
was your
trip?hope fine. i
really like
your idea. let
me answer
your questions.first
i will
prefer lagos city
which
you earlier
say,i will
prefer cash
in euro
since the
value
is better
than dollar
in nigeria.and
final let
me know how
soon you
are coming
so i
can arrange time
from that from my
thight schedule.
thanks.
atiku
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Wednesday, 25 August 2004
Subject:
Coming to Lagos and photo of me.
Dear
Atiku,
I have tight schedule also!
It very busy time of year for me. Also
my secretary left to marry Italian boy called Fellatio month ago and never come
back so I do all work myself. I
advertise now for new assistant. Interviews
next week, but I have little essential job week after (week that start Monday
6th September). Is that week good
for you? Also it give me time to
make arrangements for money. How
much you need? Is 80,000 Euro (160
notes of 500 Euro each) enough? Can
you find, please, good hotel in Lagos? There
is a Sheraton there. Business
friend stay there last year, very good. Only
need one night, I not have time to stay long.
Please can
you find new e-mail address soon? Guju
stop before I go to Lagos. If
problem I need be able to contact you.
When you
tell me which week good for you I look for flight booking and give you time
arrival. You see me at airport.
You can hold sign with my name. Also,
I give you here my picture (only one I find, all others in Palermo now) which is
from charity event at local church recently.
Local newspaper give it me. This
help you recognise me at airport.
Ciao
Pizza
I
send him a picture of Al Pacino.
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Thursday, 26 August 2004
Subject:
Reply from atiku
Good
day pizza,
i
now have a new e-mail address on a new site
that am now using to send to you(atiku_alli101@fastermail.com).
next
week will be convinent for me,what about you?anyway just send me the day
and date when you can come and i will squeeze time to meet with you at the
airport as planned.
please
for easy recognision, if you can put on green suit and shoes also a green hat
will be easy for me to spot you from the crowd because my eyesight is not too
good.
sheraton
hotel will be good for you.and is also close to the airport.i will arrange for a
room for you.
what
is needed for work to start immediately,cost of hiring of machines like
bulldozer,tricoder,mini machines ,payloader e.t.c are expensive here in
nigeria.like hiring of the tricoder machine for a day is about 1400euro if
the is coverted to euro.and this will be needed for quite some time in
other for us to get samples of dilithium and also explosives will be needed in
large quantities to blast rocks and this explosives are expensive.and also cost
of labour and mobility.and the cost of acquiring mineral rights of the sites i
will be working on. due to my estimation in euro,about 88,000euro will go
a long way in getting good samples of dilithium after i've converted it to my
currency.
A
green suit, shoes and hat? Who is
baiting who here? At least we now
know how much a tricorder costs, why can he not spell it right?
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Thursday, 26 August 2004
Subject:
6th of september
Hello
Pizza,
I now understand what you meant by week after 6th of september that is when i
believe you will be chance to book your flight like you said and its also good
for me too.please kindly send me the date and time of your arrival and also the
name of the flight you are coming with in other to ease looking for you.
thanks
i await to hear from you with an immidiate reply.
Your Brother,
Atiku Alli.
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Thursday, 26 August 2004
Subject:
Meeting
Dear
Atiku,
Yes, the week that begins
with the 6th September is most good for me.
I look for airplane soon and tell you when this is done with flight
number etc. I hope you joke about
green suit and hat. I respectable
businessman, I always dress in dark suit like one in photo.
I do have white suit given me years ago (I still fit in it also!) but I
feel embarrass in it – too bright. I
think I easy to see. I think not
many 6’ 5” very tall Italians at Lagos airport.
If you stand with sign with my name I find you quick.
We discuss closer to time.
I very
busy and go away next few days. I
try make booking first but may not able. Do
not be worry if not have contact from me for few days.
Also, it give me time to organise money.
I take 90,000 Euro. Little
extra will help pay you costs for hotel booking etc.
Ciao
Pizza
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Friday, 27 August 2004
Subject:
good day my brother
Good
day pizza,
I was only joking about the green suit.no responsible
businessman
That week
is also okey by me.i will start making chance for that
week.don't
bother wearing the white suit just put on what is okey by you.me and my son will
hold the sign and you can spot us as far will know the time of arrival of the
airplane.ura plonker.
ciao
atiku
I
asked my Nigerian friend about green being a lucky colour.
His reply was, “Bollocks!”. Who
is Alli calling a plonker?
From:
Pizza Pepperoni
To:
Atiku Alli
Date:
Wednesday, 01 September 2004
Subject:
Date to come to Lagos
Dear
Atiku,
Buon giorno!
You make me laugh. I wear a green tie for you, but a dark suit.
Is Monday 6th/Tuesday 7th September good for you?
There is British Airways flight arrive 18:45 Lagos.
Flight number is BA 0075. Good
time to go to hotel and discuss business over dinner.
Flight home next day leave late at night 23:15.
Gives time in morning if need it. If
not I go look at Lagos for little holiday before flight leave.
I have money ready now. Also
will find more technical documents about dilithium and the finding of it, and
the separating of it from the rock to make it pure.
These I bring for you also.
I see you
try to learn Italian! Ciao is
right, but “plonker” blessing not. It
actually not Italian but local dialect. For
“Ima” and “Ura” it depend on nationality of people who say it.
For us I always says to you “Ura” because I Sicilian, you friend who
is not, you always says to me “Ima” because you not from Sicily but friend
of one who is.
Please
tell me quick if this time is good for you.
Only a few seats left on first class.
If it good for you I make flight booking.
Please, as I not speak Italian, and I have no more secretary, can you
book room at Sheraton for one night? I
pay you when I arrive. Grazie
(Italian = thanks). Ura plonker.
Ciao
Pizza
From:
Atiku Alli
To:
Pizza Pepperoni
Date:
Thursday, 02 September 2004
Subject:
arrival to lagos
Goodday
Pizza,
yes,that
is good for me.just send me the actual date and time of arrival.please
endeauvor to pray before flight takes off.i and me son will hold the the sign of
your name at airport so you can easily spot us.i will also be at the look for
you with your green tie and black suite.
i will
make hotel reservation for you at
sheraton as you said.don't bother about refunding the money to me.is my
obligation to takecare of you when you come to my country as is also your
responsibility to takecare of me when i come to italy anytime.
let me
know the time of arrival when you make final bookings so i can
start preparing to go to lagos because lagos is quite far from where i am
now.how long will it take to get to nigeria?and what's the meaning of buon
giorno?
ciao
atiku.