I am  trying to find out if Kenneth Briggs died on april 21,1999 he
was with the shell development company in nigeria,I heard he was
killed in a car accident on above date along with his wife and three
children it happened on the Sagamu Express Road..can you verify this

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Request for Question Clarification by leli-ga on 30 May 2003 01:05 PDT

Please forgive me if I am on the wrong track here, but I can't help
wondering if this accident is related to a financial proposition.

Unfortunately, there is quite a history of emails and letters from
Nigeria about unclaimed money waiting for the right person to 'unlock'
it. It's not unusual for this to be linked to stories of tragic
accidents.

Letter 3 on this page is an example of a request for bank details
based on the story of a whole family dying in a crash:
http://www.internetfraudservices.com/nigerianscam.htm

Apologies if this irrelevant to you. Please let us know if you would,
indeed, like further research done into Kenneth Briggs and his family.

Regards - Leli


For your interest, here are some previous questions from Google
Answers customers about scams connected with Nigeria:

http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=40045
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=40042
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=27185

And one answer mentions this scenario:
"A gentleman with the same surname and his family have allegedly been
killed in a road accident in Nigeria.
He left a large sum of money in the hands of his lawyer.  His lawyer
has failed to find descendants who might inherit the money.  He offers
to let me have a large proportion of this money if he can keep the
rest! He has asked me for the number of my bank account."
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=119015

Hello.

I can verify that it never happened.

It's a scam.

The internet is littered with examples of the Nigerian scam letter
about an oil executive dying on april 21,1999 along with his wife and
three  children  on the Sagamu (or sometimes Sagbama) Express Road.

Here are just a few of the scam letters (with different names):

 "I am the personal attorney to Mr.George Zilli a national of your
country, who used to work with shell development company in Nigeria.
Herein after shall be referred to as my client.
On the 21st of April 1999, my client, his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along sagbama express road. "
source: quatrocantos.com
http://www.quatrocantos.com/lendas/nigerianos/udumego_prince_obika.htm

"I am the personal attorney to Mr. Kenneth Evangelista a national of
your country who use to work with Shell-development Company in
Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my client.
On the 21st of April 1999, my client, his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along Sagamu express road.
All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.
On the 21st of April 1999, my client, his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along Sagamu express road."
source: quatrocantos.com
http://www.quatrocantos.com/lendas/nigerianos/udumego_prince_obika.htm

"My name is Tunde Hassan a Solicitor and the personal Attorney to the
Executive Director of an oil company from your country, who worked in
conjuction with an Oil company in Nigeria to execute a contract which
was
awarded to them.Here in after referred to as my Client.
On the 21st of April 1999,my client,his wife and their
three children were involved in a Ghastly motor
accident along Sagamu Express road"
source: Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery
http://www.potifos.com/fraud/2002-06-22.html

For dozens of other examples, see the results of this Google search:
Google: "Sagamu Express Road"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Sagamu+Express+Road%22&btnG=Google+Search


More information:

US Treasury: 
Financial Crimes Division
Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
"OPERATION 4-1-9"
http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/financial_crimes.shtml#Nigerian

FBI: Nigerian Letter Scams
http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/strategy/nls.asp

Nigerian Fraud Email Gallery
http://potifos.com/fraud/

search strategy: "sagamu express road"

I hope this helps.

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Request for Answer Clarification by bell69-ga on 30 May 2003 07:55 PDT

Hello Again,
     Thank you very much for my answer


Rosemarie Briggs

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 30 May 2003 09:01 PDT

You're welcome. I'm glad that I was able to help. Thank you.
-juggler

Well of course this was not the answer I wanted,lol I want to be
rich...But I thank you so much for showing me this was a scam before
the guy asked for money..they say if it sounds to good to be true and
it did sound just too good to be true...Bless you !

That's one huge car crash pileup!!

that said, some have ended up going to nigeria for the said scam and
have ended up being killed.  It's serious business, for every 10,000
or so that realize it's a scam, you have 1 or 2 that take the bait and
keep it quiet then find out they are in troubled waters or financially
liquidated.

Ok, I have found enough answers,I'm satiflyed please no more