When faith and trust of India's youth is a memory for me

I have completely lost faith in this country, its youth and its future. Yes I am referring to the next superpower called India. The way we are moving now – in tandem with all the primitive methods – I am unable to fathom the modernisation and educational levels.

Not that I am better off nor do I represent India's youth the way Chetan Bhagat does that I am expressing my opinion. Not that the India envisaged by Modi and his Free Public Relation fans in social networks that I subscribe nor oppose to. Not the mute and deaf undeterred and stagnant India Congress and BJP envisages that I can ever think of nor do I want to even in my wildest dreams. 

But a country that is run by scoundrels but inhabited by intellectuals. Yes, this is  deliberate and pun is intended. I will explain how. Politics is not a common man's job. If I want to clean up a place, get rid of problems around say half a kilometer radius, it is impossible for me. So how on earth am I going to get into any type of politics. So it will always be run by people who are more capable and smart than me. Let them do it. In the middle of last decade, I thought of a resurgent India where the youths of this country will put apart the riddles of Hinduism, revoke regional chauvinism, create social awareness and march ahead with what Amitabh Bachan shouts on the promos of KBC – Sirf Gyan hi aapko aapka haq dilata hai.

Well, I think he is preaching it at a wrong time. Today these same issues which I thought will be a thing of the past are its peak. People with biggest gyan are flirting with impractical thoughts and even impregnating it within themselves championing activism that can only end with a big Aryabhatta discovery. 

So much have been written about Anna and Ramdev that if I write anything again, Google will stop SEO of these two words for ever. But allow me to put two sentences. These two people are asking for moon is an understatement. I dont understand why the educated youth of this country cant realise that corruption is a human problem deep rooted in culture and not a government issue. Why they subscribe to Anna View that it can be switched off like a television remote is what has put me to deep shame. Second is black money. I scratch my head on this demand without a possible method. There are somethings black money cant buy. For everything else there is Baba and Anna. 

It is more of a joke on this country that precious time and policing energy is wasted on utopia. If I live up to my grand children, I will make sure I tell certainly use this as a sleeping pill for them the way toddlers are made to listen to Ba Ba Black Sheep. Thank you for your patience to read the often repeated things about Anna and Baba. Let's come to the real point now.

I thought, I am odd among the big thinking society but when I shared this with some like minded people, I realised, they have exactly the same way of thinking. I may be wrong because the data that I relied on mostly comprised of Social networking updates where the so called big intellectual minds stay. The villages and people with real intellect may have got missed from my radar for which I am expressing my regret. There could be some hope left in these places, I really dont know.

How far we can go in maintaining a Colony?

Last night, a meeting was called by LH (the place where I stay and proud of it) Members to discuss the roadmap ahead. It resulted in chaos and ultimately no one knows what we should do next. This has happened because a two year contract by the builder to maintain the property ended and they have posted their interest to continue if everything is in the same order as before.
Many of us are too much inclined towards the past and not seeing the future. Most of the members are interested in the nitty gritties of previous years and unable to fathom the grave situation ahead of us if we need to keep the place well maintained.
The only question we should ask from the previous accounts is the amount of Transfer Fee which is shown as a meager amount. The rest was part of the purchase cost and we need not dwell into it.
Ideally Pacifica should have formed a Managing Committee of the so called Service Society consisting of members of LH and ask their consent as to who should manage the facility. Now there is a peculiar situation. We pay a monthly sum but we still cant have a say in it. We employ people to look after the facility but we cant control them. We pay from our nose but we cant see its proper utilization. This is completely against the logical wisdom.
I still would like Pacifica to manage the facility but as a contractor not as a boss of the members. Ideally all the money collected should go into this Co-operative society and all service contractors should be paid by cheque signed by the chosen members of LH and not Pacifica.
But this is not what we are discussing. We are more concerned with taking grudge against people. One person who has two cars but one parking and was told to park the second car outside was heard saying we should get Pacifica out. Just because it serves his purpose. A few others were screaming as if some major accident has taken place. And most of the members, without realizing this personal grudges, are succumbing to unwarranted mercies.
We still have people who do not adhere to the basic code of conduct but talk as if they are the biggest disciplinarians. Now a days all sundry are entering the gate and all guests are welcomed inside by the members to bring their car and park anywhere they like. Members themselves who doesnít have additional car parking are enjoying parking anywhere at the cost of those who paid for it. 
As members it should be our responsibility to take care of the place where we live, and not the builder. If Pacifica is interested to keep the upkeep, we are pretty happy about it but the methodology should be logical. Now who will listen this?
I think we have a notion about our professional abilities. All humans have this and even I am no exception. Last nights tu tu main main was a classic example of this. 
But even if we are at the echelons of where our professional capabilities are, we may not be able to do something that doesn't come into our forte. We have CAs, Doctors, Journos and other professional people and this, perhaps, seems to be the nagging problem in coming to a consensus.
I don't have an iota of idea where this will go. But my only suggestion to the newly formed Block Committee is to see this problem in a pyramid manner. The biggest issue should be solved first followed by smaller ones.
In the midst of this, we should also thank Pacifica to have done a good job in the upkeep of the place. The entire debate is how to keep this intact, which is a compliment to the builder. Today we have a few groups - one which supports the builder, one which doesn't have a voice at all and a group which just don't want Pacifica to be in any matters. To make matters worse, a counter circular not to attend last night's meeting was also circulated - which goes against the basic ethics of democracy. Whoever has done that should have come and aired their voice openly.
All these groups works separately. It is sad that such a small number of people (perhaps 100 or less considering a majority are tenants) can't agree on simple things. Let's not make this as an individual issue. Everyone have a right to object but then majority prevails.

Development lies in the eyes of the beholder – not developer

Development is a word that has been used extensively by many political leaders to their own advantage. I stay in a state where we are served development for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In fact it is savored as fried snack too along with cutting Chai.


Development is a word that I compare to Beauty. It lies in the eyes of the beholder and never the developer. When I move around the state in my car, I take pride in having great roads. But then I go beneath and see tragic stories of development and people who have been displaced due to development of big projects. So in short every development comes at a cost. Now who am I to value this cost as long as I am a beneficiary of this development.


In UP, development has a different meaning. People of this largest Indian state are watching helplessly as the democratically elected Chief Minister is erecting her statues all over. This is more of inferiority complex issue than anything else. Mayawati is asserting herself as someone more powerful and valuable to the state than any other leader. In a state that is horribly divided by caste and religion, this assertion helps her to be a messiah among a set of people who have never tasted development. She wants her Dalit identity to be transformed into a powerful tool that can beat any caste or creed. If it has cost millions to make these statues, there is another blunder that is going on. Election Commission has ordered these statues to be covered. This will cost millions more.


Along the Ahmedabad roads in Gujarat, I walk in the middle of vehicles. Even the most posh areas with western style of development do not have walking paths. So what development are we talking about? And as I go further I see helpless citizens relieving themselves wherever they find space. I tried once to scold a man who took shelter behind a tree to relieve himself. He stopped his activity for a while and asked me if I can find a loo anywhere so that he can pause his current activity and resume if I help him in finding one.


The real disgraces of this development are its side effects. We define development in terms of big road, bigger buildings, bigger malls and not the quality life we should be living. Today how many children walk to school? Development has taken place so suddenly that a section of people have not been able to match with its pace. They felt they have been left out of this development. Their brains worked overtime to find out the reason why this was happening. They got quick answers when CAG mentioned an astronomical figure as the kickback A Raja has taken for telecom spectrum. Their blood boiled as they thought their share of development and progress was snatched from them on a single stroke. As the frustrations grew, entry of anti graft crusaders and civil activists helped it fuel the fire. It gave much needed tonic and everyone joined the bandwagon without realizing what they were protesting for.


The one disgraceful word ‘corruption’ became the rallying point. I watched in shock and dismay as people gathered in thousands to protest against an unknown enemy waging a war against unknown people in unspecified locations. They uniformly gave the name ‘corruption’ to every evil that we are facing today.


People who invented this terminology also brought out solutions and they called it Lokpal. The government, faced with mounting criticism and a silent PM, quickly brought its own version of this. Today, the entire campaign has got fizzled out because the people who were behind this campaign had more to hide than to reveal. 


The campaign could not sustain its steam not merely because of the people involved but because the main protagonist – corruption – was nowhere to be seen. After much deliberation, people realized a protest or two cannot remove this evil. They saw their own neighbours and friends – those who feed the corrupt with corruption capsules – were in the forefront of all these protests. 


So what has corruption to do with development – the topic which we began this discussion? In fact it has. I will illustrate the correlation. A posh bunglow owner asked one of my lawyer friends to file a stay over a proposed demolition of his parking space- which he admits has been encroached upon. He is of the opinion that since he has used it for the last 15 years without any problem, why this sudden move by the civic body to widen the road and cut the portion where he keeps three of his five cars (the rest two are on roads outside). I was a witness to this conversation between the lawyer and the client. As I always pokes into unnecessary things, I intervened and asked for his pardon if anything that I speak hurts him.


I told him the story of hundreds of thousands of tribal who stayed hundreds of thousands of years at a place where they never bothered to have a document or a panchayat receipt. They believed the land was owned by them and all of a sudden a group of people with well dressed attire on beacon led vehicles comes to their land and asks them to vacate. They refuse but in return are shown court orders which they never understand. They are forcibly vacated and a dam is built in that place. No one knows the whereabouts of those people. The labourers you see around at construction sites could be their second or third generation. People who owned large tracts of land are homeless with no fault of theirs. The fruits of their pain are directly poured into your kitchen tap and named as Narmada Water. You praise political leaders forgetting the sacrifice these people gave. He had no remorse and instead asked me if I was a Maoist or friend of Arundhati Roy and Medha Patkar – Gujarat’s sworn enemies.


The lawyer got a stay for him but it lasted a few months. Today all his five cars are parked on the road. Coming back to the main topic of development, I ask myself whether it is my fault not to see the fruits of development to my benefit and instead ponders over things that are not relevant. Or have I chosen a path where I confront everyone and take a stand to what I believe is reasonably correct. Development for me is human development and not a Gurgaon style of development. A nation can mature only with human development. The rest are just byproducts.


From Random Notes – Binu Alex

Can you enforce Dress Code for believers?

This morning as I attended the Church, I was amazed to listen to an order by the Diocese Archbishop. Among others, it mentioned a dress code for worshipers. While it was not clear what to wear, jeans and T-Shirts were clearly in the negative list.


Ashley E. McGuire, the editor-in-chief for altcatholicah.org says the way many people dress to mass in the US is completely offensive. “Strapless tops, cleavage, skirts that hardly cover the derriere, shorts, tracksuits, cut-offs. Tank tops.  Midriffs. Minis. How this became acceptable is a mystery. How to change it, is not.”


But this is not the case with the Church in Ahmedabad, especially Orthodox Church truly orthodox in many ways than one. Here people come with everything covered. I for one, regularly use T Shirt and Jeans. Not because it is one of my favourite nor do I look like a star in this attire but more because it is more comfortable than the formal ones that I wear for all the other six days.


Indians are not very akin to a dress code that the Vatican has. It prohibits anyone from entering a holy place wearing Shorts/skirts above the knee, • Sleeveless shirts, • Shirts exposing the navel, • Shirts for women that expose cleavage. But these are conveniently forgotten by all Catholics, especially in the Konkan region. They face a major issue of Religion Vs Culture.


In defense of the dress code, Ashley writes “let’s not forget, Jesus also flipped tables in a rage when he saw his Father’s house disrespected. He also reminded us in a parable that the man who showed up to a royal wedding not wearing the proper attire met a dreadful fate. Jesus was clear throughout the gospels: What you wear matters. He went to his own death in a garment so fine that men gambled for it.”


But when did this practice of advocating dress code in Orthodox began? I presume I have not heard any order since I seriously started attending Church. I would consider this as the biggest insult to my identity if anyone in this world directs me what to wear in my place of worship. 


Moreover how would you stop tones of perfumes, silk clothing, plucked eyebrows, gold watches, gold rings, gold ornaments, hairs straightened (list is long) from being transported to Church? My good friend at Tailor’s Point, one of the up market boutiques for men showed me an Italian Shirting costing Rs 17000 per meter. This means a shirt piece would cost almost 40,000. Wearing it is not a sin but poor souls like me wearing a T Shirt worth Rs 300 is a sin.


The Pentecostal Church, famous for picking up bits and pieces from Bible to justify their point of view, is the biggest offender in this saga. They don’t wear gold or any other ornaments. But each of them has a Rado or TAG Heuer. Their weddings are one of the costliest in terms of dress materials and food items but yet claim they are closer to God by not wearing ornaments.


If I argue this with any of the Pentecostal members, they will open the Bible in a split of a second and show me Genesis 35:2 which says – “Let us not allow the worldly, wrongly and wickedly dress fashion to be one of the gods in our lives. We need to cleanse and change our garments.”


And with absolute no knowledge of Bible, I will be left speechless. And since they are smart with Bible, they will further flip to Timothy 2:9-10 or Matthew 5:28. They will certainly show me the basic tenets of their faith - All Christian women should not wear the garments that pertain to the harlot – taken in bits and pieces from Proverbs 7:10; Isaiah 47:1-5.


While it is fair to call upon the believers to dress simple, putting pressure on them to wear what the priests and bishops like is undemocratic. 


When I see animal activists of Hindu Fundamentalist parties limiting their protest against killing of animals to only cow, I wonder what Goat, Chickens and Buffalloes have done to them. In a similar way I was wondering what sin has Jeans done to the Church to ask for its overall ban.


The first and the foremost, to me, is that almost all criminals wear Jeans. They are also favourite dress for hippies and rascals and all non-believers. More so Jeans is called "breeches" in Exodus 28:42.


Not wearing a Jeans and T Shirt is not a sign of modesty. One has to go overboard to make Clergy understand what the purpose of clothing is. It remains the same as mentioned in Genesis 3:7 even thousands of years after Adam and Eve realized it. In fact clothing is meant for covering the body, not revealing it and this is what the entire quotes from Bible also meant. But when twisted, these scriptures can mean anything. Jeans and T Shirts also serves the same purpose that the Clergies are calling for with other type of dress codes that we are no longer naked and unashamed.


I follow what my conscience says and I am pretty sure that it is not only Biblical but also social. There is a famous saying in Hindi by Habib Jhalib which goes like this 


ऐसे दस्तूर को, सुभ ए बेनूर को, मैं नहीं मानता मैं नहीं जानता




And I am an ardent fan of this unsung poet.

Voice of dissent can never be tolerated in a democracy

Voice of dissent can never be tolerated in a democracy. Confused? Believe it or not, this is the reality in India. You cannot talk to Medha Patkar and then live in Gujarat because she has fought for some ‘unwanted tribal’ depriving the enterprising people of Gujarat the most precious water from Narmada. You cannot voice your opinion against the large scale industrial loot in the name of economical growth because it will deter foreign investors from coming to India. 


You should be as superman to read any piece by Arundhati Roy because she is a right wing labeled left wing terrorist. You cannot enjoy M F Hussain art because his drawing had hurt somebody somewhere and no one remembers who these people are. You cannot say anything against the religious tourism subsidy being doled out for no reasons to a particular community because it will have major repercussions including cold blooded murder. You cannot object to the actions of a particular chief minister of a state for his role in a sectarian violence because a decade has passed and it is time to forget and forgive and also because he is the darling of masses and a prime ministerial candidate. 


There are other exceptions too. You cannot offer a rose to your lover because a particular Sene has objection. You have to put the local language on your shop because a particular party doesn’t understand Hindi or likes Hindi speaking people. Anti-Hindi south Indian parties indulge in similar but more dramatic activities down south. January 1 is not your new year because there are parties around the globe. Inter religious relation and dialogues have become the biggest taboo. Dating and courting is out question and same sex relations cant even be a thought process.


The biggest of all these is the Kashmir issue. Because it is not debated well, no one knows what the issue is especially the youths. What they know is a piece of land under Indian occupation which is being snatched forcibly by Pakistan. Beyond this even those who hit Prashant Bhushan may not know.


In the process of curtailing freedom of expression, we have curtailed the knowledge acquisition process of an entire generation. No youths want to know or debate any controversial issue because it will label them as right wing or left wing or pseudo secular or a terrorist. Universities and colleges have stopped open debates because it could turn into ugly war. Friends from different religion and caste is a thing of past. Many Hindu youths studying in posh schools have never met a Muslim in their entire life and vice versa with Muslim students.


Where is this leading us to? Make no mistake, we are going to face anarchy – in true Rajnikant style.


And still we castigate our doubts over Saudi Arabia, Iran and other so called conservative countries? At least they accept what they are doing. We don’t.

Story of a social network traitor

Binu Alex
Post August 16, 2011, two types of India emerged. Nationalists and Traitors, thanks to Bush doctrine. If you give good TRPs to the roaring televisions, high traffic to social networks like Facebok and Twitter, put Anna’s picture on your Facebook profile, have a candle vigil and have your kids put up a good demonstration in front of television cameras, you are a crusader against corruption, a true patriot. Or else……..

Suddenly all political leaders have become caricatures. Baba Ramdev, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Anna Hazare, Kapil Sibal have all figured and interestingly not a single BJP leaders are in this list. Not a single soul made even a slight remark of Gujarat High Court asking the government of Gujarat why it has not appointed a Lokayukta despite its instructions. Convenience is the key to escapism.

I have some 300 odd friends on my Facebook and 99 per cent of them consider me as a traitor because I don’t support this. This is my story, story of a traitor, a social network traitor.

I don’t support this because I know this is not going to end corruption. I also know very well that corruption is not a temporary phenomenon that can be eradicated with a protest or fast. It is a disease and the best way to eradicate it is to clean the channels, which makes corruption so easy to develop and spread. I have been with some of the most corrupt people for ten long years in one of the most corrupt government departments in this country. It is easy to be corrupt in any government department. But it takes real courage to be straight and non-corrupt just like the current movement. It is easy to join a protest and flow with the stream. It takes courage to take a stand. I take a stand and I am out of contention for best Indian patriot.

Today we have an unprecedented nationally telecast, emotionally charged carnival running across the country written and directed by TRP hungry televisions’ well fed journalists who demonstrates live on TV each and every action of the main protagonist. They bring kids from around the ground and asks questions which an average TRP giving viewer would like to hear and feel proud of the movement. There are mimicry artists like Kumar Vishwas to keep the public busy. There are bhajans, orchestra, doctor visits and everything that can beat the best running soap opera.

So when I add myself to the countless number of people into Facebook with my own opinion, I immediately get response in different forms. Almost all of them painting me as a traitor – a social network traitor. According to them, by not supporting Anna, I am encouraging corruption. And what are they trying to do after eradicating corruption and bringing back the foreign stuffed black money back to India? They are going to have a big bash. Here is one observation :

“My dear frnds, If all black money comes back to India then Beer 8Rs Vodka 20Rs Whisky 35Rs ...Wine 45Rs Champagne 55Rs Soda 1.25Rs Atleasttt now support Anna... :-)..”

The entire movement has become a joke and still a majority of Indians still do not understand the underlying danger behind this. Their arguments are simple. ‘You can be wrong, but the entire country cant. See how they have marched in millions in support of this cause and you are the lone man standing.’

So much so that the most vocal critics of media who used to abuse the television channels just last week back are now putting rose petals on their TV. The opportunists they are, the chauvinism they show is unbearable. India has become a convenience store where you do whatever you like at whatever cost to the exchequer or the unity of the country.

I was going through a message put up by the Modi bête noire, Sanjeev Bhatt that said “Corruption has its own motivations and is self-perpetuating. No Ombudsman, howsoever powerful or no Law, howsover stringent can effectively deal with corruption untill we thoroughly study the phenomenon of corruption and eliminate the very conditions that breed and nourish it.”

I fully agree with this. But the biggest problem here is execution. How can you wash a man who is laced with corruption from tip to toe? Is it through another bill? Thanks to Raja and Kalmadi, India has found a new hero in Anna Hazare. The team behind this Gandhian simple person is cultivating Anna to be the alternative to the current disposition, creating a myth that introducing the Lokpal will eliminate corruption in the country despite the fact that two of the Anna Team were once government officials.

Arvind Kejriwal worked for Income-tax, one of the biggest breeding centre of corruption. Kiran Bedi worked for police department, where corruption is next to God. Both of them are very well aware that this bill is not going to change the corruption standards in this country. But this is their chance. Now or never. They are bargaining hard to get this bill passed and also to create a new hegemony where a select few civil activists will run the country from their backyard – without actually going to the people or being elected from any constituency.

I asked myself a question. Have I voted these people to represent me? No. So is this a Lokpal bill or Annapal Bill? But then those people whom I voted to represent never represented me anywhere. This is my grievance and shared by millions of people. This brings to what Arundhati Roy wrote in her article (read here) “This crisis has been forged out of the utter failure of India's representative democracy, in which the legislatures are made up of criminals and millionaire politicians who have ceased to represent its people. In which not a single democratic institution is accessible to ordinary people.”

Knowing very well that this is nothing but a carnival without any result (even taking into consideration that Annapal Bill will be passed without any changes), I have no option but to put my frustrations in social networking sites. But then that brings to the core question about your loyalty to the country.

Today, I am a social networking traitor. I don’t know about tomorrow because there is nothing called tomorrow.

School Reunion – Great memories

Does distance matter in friendship? This was the first point raised when some of us met to discuss the venue of our class reunion. It took us less than a minute to finally say, Damn, how does it matter.

Yes, the crowd at the official second reunion of 1988-89 and 90 batch proved us right. And the fact that the news of this meeting spread like wild fire soliciting calls for invites surprised us and made us to believe that at any level of life, school life is something that people cherish forever.

So when Rajya (Rajeev Agarwal  fondly called) offered his farm house, we had a sigh of relief. Primarily because we had initially thought of a banquet hall which would have become a marriage reception party. We realized people need space and freedom to move around and nothing can prevent people from recognizing each other if such space is provided. Not even the distance.

The farm was almost empty at 7 in the evening. By 8, there was no space to move around.  It was a great sight to see friends hug and then asking each other to identify.

Nowhere on earth you get the freedom to open up as it is with school friends. We will make this an annual event and for this to happen we have now formed a page wherein all your remarks are expected to come. This is where we will interact further.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amrut-School-Reunion/105106792872441?sk=wall

Go to the above link and you will find a Like button. Click on it and you automatically become its member. This page will be displayed on your Wall wherein you can post your comments to each other. Please spread the word and let the classmates come and join this page.

So it was a great meeting acknowledge by one and all. There were many hands behind the success of this event.

Let me thank Manoj Dalal for his unrelenting work of calling up people, Dinesh Agarwal for his valuable time and energy, Rajeev Agarwal for his everlasting openness, Mahavir and Narendra Lunkar for all the support towards making this a grand event. Nikhil Anand towards his great work in preserving this nostalgia in frames. He will be uploading the pictures in a day or two after he comes back from one of his assignments.

A big applause to those who made it to the event. Even a bigger one to the families of these batchmates who came with them and bore the brunt of extended friendship. Of course how can we forget the effort of our esteemed teachers who are happy that the values and belief they bestowed on their students didn’t go waste.

Binu Alex

Craft of Graft

Graft is a word hitherto unheard in India. It used to be corruption. Now this new craft has come to the fore? How and Why?

Earlier there used to be simple corruption. People would take money and give money. Now it has taken a different genre. You can use the style that Reliance uses which is the corporate style, very raw and rural way called Pawar route or athletically using Kalmadi highway. And how can you forget the most modern wireless route of Raja?

Now in general, these are not corruption. They are graft and they need to be treated in a different way. If you have any idea, then please keep it to yourself because it is not going to work in India, the country of grafters.

Anna Hazare Fast? Who are the supporters?

Joining protests is the latest fashion for high society guys and gals. Many think reaching Jantar Mantar is the way to support.
The real beneficiaries of Lokpal Bill are not those who come to support blind folded but those who cannot afford to bribe the babus sitting across the country.

How on earth can you stop the Talati demanding Rs 100 from a poor labourer for paying off his wages which amounts close to the same amount? How can Lokpal Bill change the way Indians think? How can this fast bring sensitivity towards humans?
Indians are known to be insensitive towards each other. Rich doesnt know what poverty is. The industrialists doesnt have an idea how they can help the downtrodden.Indians are known to be insensitive towards each other. Rich doesnt know what poverty is. The industrialists doesnt have an idea how they can help the downtrodden.

How many Indian companies help the Indian poor in education, healthcare and other basic amenities?

New Method to dupe you

New Method to dupe you

The latest mails being circulated to fool innocent guys are getting popular. Thank God the mailing algorithms gives you a warning message too

Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information.  Learn more

Here is the mail reproduced

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION
FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON,
D..C. 20535-0001
NUMBER 206-350-8270
www.fbi.gov/
Date; 03/03/2011.

ATTENTION

We have made our investigation on you. As Federal Commission, we are here to protect your interest and the interest of all the United State citizens as well as this great Nation. You have been investigated as the beneficiary of the said funds that is why you are in touch with the FBI.

Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. We have gone through your Identification record, we have verified a lot of things about you. It has come to the attention of our Money Trafficking Investigation Department, that you have some funds valued at U.S $5,800,000.00 Five Million Eight Hundred thousand Dollar to your name, The said payment is awaiting adjudication and crediting to you from Inheritance 'willed ' from C.B.N REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA precisely. & amp; nbsp; due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Good luck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their
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Name: Rovenda Elaine Clayton: UPS Tracking Number: 873944886796 (www.fedex.com/us)

Note: Everything has been taken care of by the Federal Government of Nigeria, Thace United Nation and also the FBI and including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $150.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $480 but because UPS have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual fee of $420 to $150 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!

To effect the release of your fund valued at $5,800,000.00 Five Million Eight Hundred thousand Dollar you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa incharge of the delivery of your fund with the information below,

Contact Person: Mr. kelvin Williams
Email: www-fbi-gov2011@hotmail.com
Office Address: LAGOS/NIGERIA
NUMBER +234-808-184-8416

You are advised to contact him with the informations as stated below:

YOUR FULL NAME:--------
HOME ADDRESS/COUNTRY:--------
SEX/AGE:------------
TEL:/CELL PHONE----------------
SCAN COPY OF YOUR DRIVING LICENCE------------

Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check)

You are hereby advised  to Contact him through the email address above to enquire from them on how you are going to send the fee to him,the FBI agent the ensure that the delivery of your fund is sent to you within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Faithfully Your's
Robert S.Mueller 111
FBI Director
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with James Richard of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.