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Strange things appear to be going on in the 419 community at present. one Dr Paul Okoro kindly sent an email advising of yet another once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come by a substantial amount of cash.
The missive was mostly formula 419, and sent from the near-obligatory Tiscali email address:
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
I am a top government official with a statutory corporation and member of an abhor committee set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to review contract awarded by past administration. In the course of identifying, scrutinizing and recommending for the payment of all valid contract executed, we discovered a huge sum of money amounting to USD41.5M (Forty One Million five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) on grossly over invoiced contract already awarded and executed for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Having cleaned the AUGEAN STABLE we intend to transfer the balance of USD41.5M presently floating in our apex bank of Nigeria to our own benefit and advantage.
Perhaps a look at hyperdictionary.com will offer another explanation for this mysterious turn of phrase:
AUGEAN
(Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
{Augean stable} (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
Yup, that just about sums it up, although we very much doubt Dr Okoro has really been taking the Mr Muscle to the particular accumulation of corruption and filth in which he, and his fellow oxen, wallow.
Still, it's good to see some effort has been made to advance the 419 email with an injection of classical references. Where will this creative explosion end? - quotes from John Donne or perhaps the first advance fee fraud haiku? It's a delightful prospect.
The missive was mostly formula 419, and sent from the near-obligatory Tiscali email address:
REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE
I am a top government official with a statutory corporation and member of an abhor committee set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to review contract awarded by past administration. In the course of identifying, scrutinizing and recommending for the payment of all valid contract executed, we discovered a huge sum of money amounting to USD41.5M (Forty One Million five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) on grossly over invoiced contract already awarded and executed for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Having cleaned the AUGEAN STABLE we intend to transfer the balance of USD41.5M presently floating in our apex bank of Nigeria to our own benefit and advantage.
Perhaps a look at hyperdictionary.com will offer another explanation for this mysterious turn of phrase:
AUGEAN
(Class. Myth.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
{Augean stable} (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.
Yup, that just about sums it up, although we very much doubt Dr Okoro has really been taking the Mr Muscle to the particular accumulation of corruption and filth in which he, and his fellow oxen, wallow.
Still, it's good to see some effort has been made to advance the 419 email with an injection of classical references. Where will this creative explosion end? - quotes from John Donne or perhaps the first advance fee fraud haiku? It's a delightful prospect.