Nigerian Scammer 2.0

Barely a few weeks after my post on being authentic, I received this rather amazingly researched scammer email into my Azione Capital email; this scammer actually checked up on who I am in contact with, in this case Puay Hien from the Singapore Entrepreneur Network Meetup group, and crafted out a rather incredible story of which I am about to share with you in its full glory.

Do pass this information around on the Nigerian Scammer 2.0 so that others would not fall prey to these nefarous people.

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:17:10 +0100
From: "Pauy Hein Lee"
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME

Hello ? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain.
I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $ 950 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management, I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1050 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $2000 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i need your help.i have decided not tell my family so that they will not be worried.when I return I will tell them and they will understand.
I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as i return home.You need to transfer the money through Western Union to the address below

Name:Puay Lee

Adress:Marbel hotel and suite room 6

City:Lagos

Country:Nigeria

Zip code:23401

After you make the payment send me the details as follows

Sender's name

MTCN in 10 digits

Amount of money sent?

Secret question and answer e.g who is it for?

Answer:Puay Lee

Please reply back to my alternative email puayheinlee@aol.com because Gmail here in Africa is very bad.I will be waiting for your reply soon. Am counting on you for this.

Regards,

Puay Lee