November 2003 - FFI - Haskell.org

Assistance
by Tony Joseph 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Dear sir, I represent the members of contract award committe of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). We are in charge of award of various contracts for the Government. We also inspect and vet concluded contracts and recommend companies for payments of already concluded contracts in Nigeria. We have the sum of $25M USD that has already been transfered out of the country with the assistance of a foreign lawyer by a diplomatic means. This funds was deposited with one of the European Banks in Holland in an escrow account ready for remittance as soon as proper applications for transfers are made in your name. I'm asking for your assistance as a foreigner to act as a beneficiary of the funds for our investments purposes in any good areas of your choice, especially real estate and importation. The funds was acquired from gratification from various contractors we have assisted in getting contracts and from over-invoicing. COMMISSION! You will be entittled to 20% of the total funds for your assistance in getting the funds transferred out and assisting us with good investments in your country. If you are interested, contact me immediately via this e-mail to let you know how to proceed with the necessary paperwork and applications to facilitate the remittance of these funds within two weeks time limit. Regards and God bless Tony Joseph

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by blaron＠erols.com 09 Nov '03

09 Nov '03

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THIS IS FOR YOU
by Mr. David Tungay 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Attn: The President/CEO I am Mr. David Tungay, Provincial Director Standard Bank of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June 8, 1999, a foreign Oil consultant/contractor with the South Africa Mining Corporation, Mr. Richard Moss made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$25,000,000.00 (Twenty- five Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the South Africa Mining Corporation that Mr.Richard Moss died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Richard Moss did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$25,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to South Africa Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the South Africa Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Richard Moss so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the Attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits which will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the service of two Attorneys for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world which you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address below. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply via my email:tnugd@tiscali.co.uk Thanks and regards. Mr.David Tungay.

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PARTNERSHIP REQUEST
by GANI ALABI 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Union Bank Plc Nigeria I am the Manager Bill and Exchange of the Foreign Operations Department Union Bank Plc Lagos Nigeria. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number: 142552004/wb/t who died in November 1997 in a plane crash. Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release unless somebody applies for it as the next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. And since no one has come forward to claim the fund for years now, we discovered/realized that that the fund (US$12.8m) the account no: 142552004/wb/t has been abandoned. As the deceased is from your country it will enable us proceed the release of the money to you. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other senior officials in the department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the Next of Kin or relation of the deceased for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to go back into the Federal Government Account as Unclaimed Bill. This is because the banking Law and Guidelines here stipulated that if such money remains unclaimed after five years the money would be transferred into the Banking Treasury as unclaimed fund. It is in view of this, I got your contact through the foreign trade mission after I was convinced in my mind that you/your name could be used as the next of kin to the deceased. The request of a foreigner as Next of Kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer is a foreigner and a Nigeria cannot stand as a Next of Kin to a foreigner. I agreed that US$4.5M of this money/fund will be for you for your involvement, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars will be donated to charity while the rest will be for me and my partners. So upon the conclusion of this transaction and your receipt of this fund, I and two other of my colleagues will visit your country for the disbursement. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer/release of the fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the Bank as a relation or Next of Kin of the deceased. Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you by fax Text of the Application and the next steps to take. I will also not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement as been made for the transfer/release of the fund to you. Note: This transaction is confidential/risks free. As soon as you receive this email, you should contact me at once through the above stated email address. Thanks, trusting to hear from you immediately, Yours Sincerely, MR GANI ALABI

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PARTNERSHIP REQUEST
by GANI ALABI 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Union Bank Plc Nigeria I am the Manager Bill and Exchange of the Foreign Operations Department Union Bank Plc Lagos Nigeria. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank with account number: 142552004/wb/t who died in November 1997 in a plane crash. Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release unless somebody applies for it as the next of Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. And since no one has come forward to claim the fund for years now, we discovered/realized that that the fund (US$12.8m) the account no: 142552004/wb/t has been abandoned. As the deceased is from your country it will enable us proceed the release of the money to you. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other senior officials in the department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the Next of Kin or relation of the deceased for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we do not want this money to go back into the Federal Government Account as Unclaimed Bill. This is because the banking Law and Guidelines here stipulated that if such money remains unclaimed after five years the money would be transferred into the Banking Treasury as unclaimed fund. It is in view of this, I got your contact through the foreign trade mission after I was convinced in my mind that you/your name could be used as the next of kin to the deceased. The request of a foreigner as Next of Kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer is a foreigner and a Nigeria cannot stand as a Next of Kin to a foreigner. I agreed that US$4.5M of this money/fund will be for you for your involvement, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars will be donated to charity while the rest will be for me and my partners. So upon the conclusion of this transaction and your receipt of this fund, I and two other of my colleagues will visit your country for the disbursement. Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer/release of the fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the Bank as a relation or Next of Kin of the deceased. Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you by fax Text of the Application and the next steps to take. I will also not fail to bring to your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain any fear as the whole required arrangement as been made for the transfer/release of the fund to you. Note: This transaction is confidential/risks free. As soon as you receive this email, you should contact me at once through the above stated email address. Thanks, trusting to hear from you immediately, Yours Sincerely, MR GANI ALABI

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ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 13
by Manuel M T Chakravarty 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Dear FFI Folks, Despite my claim that RC12 would, modulo errata, become Version 1.0 of the FFI Addendum, I like to propose another (last!) set of changes. The two changes are the following: (1) The addition of a variant of foreign finalizers that take an extra environment argument that facilitates the emulation of closures in C. This adds two functions to `ForeignPtr'. I propose to include this feature, as it has been discussed on this list before, and has only be omitted due to an oversight by me. (Thanks to Peter Gammie for pointing me to the oversight.) (2) The inclusion of John Meacham's `CWString' and `CLString' routines. However, I propose to make the localised versions (aka `CLString') the default and rename the previous (8bit-based) routines to use a `CAString' suffix, where the `A' stands for ASCII. John proposal has been favourably received on this list and it covers an important aspect of string marshalling quite flexibly with a simple interface. Hence, Release Candidate 13 of the H98 FFI Addendum 1.0 is now available from http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/ Please check sections 5.5 and 6.3, which have been considerably extended. For the second time...I consider Version 1.0 of the FFI Addendum to be completed; no changes except linguistic ones and plain error corrections will be accepted anymore for this version. Cheers, Manuel PS: Both changes have already been discussed with Simon Marlow and Alastair Reid in person. -=- Changes since RC12: * Acks : Added John Meacham * 4.1.5: Bug fix courtesy of Wolfgang Thaller * 5.5 : Added `FinalizerEnvPtr', `newForeignPtrEnv', and `addForeignPtrFinalizerEnv' * 6.3 : Added John Meacham proposal for `wchar_t' support as well localised string marshalling; in particular, this adds `CWString' and `CWStringLen' as well as the `CWString' and the `CAString' family of marshalling routines. In addition, `charIsRepresentable' was added.

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RE: ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 13
by Simon Marlow 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

> I have put RC 14 at > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/ > > including all the feedback on RC13. Please especially have > a look at Section 6.3 (Section "CString"), where some of the > wording changed. The spec is silent on how exactly a Haskell Char is translated to a CWchar, and there aren't any conversion functions ala castCharToCCHar / castCCharToChar. So presumably the expected behaviour is that the implementation does its best to translate between Unicode Char and whatever encoding the prevailing C library is using for wchar. Any sensible implementation will be using Unicode for wchar too, so the translation will be a simple no-op, but the C standard doesn't specify this. Older systems will probably have a locale-dependent encoding for wchar. The GNU C library has a slight bug in this regard, too (see previous discussion). I expect that when we implement the CWString operations for GHC we won't bother with any locale-dependent translations, so the implementation will only work on "sensible" systems. There is a fair bit that is non-obvious here, so I feel the spec ought to say something. Cheers, Simon

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ASSIST
by Prince F.W Bolkiah 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Dear Friend, i got your reliable contact from my father's diary and further explicit investment information about your country from my attorney in new york who has been of great assistance to my family since our departure from brunei due to the human right abuses in my country. I am prince fayad w. bolkiah,former finance minister of brunei, the tiny oil-rich sultanate on the Gulf Island of Borneo. I will save your tome by not amplifying my extended royal family history, which has already been disseminated by the international media during the controversial dispute that erupted between my father and his stepbrother, the sultan of Brunei sheik muda hassanal Bolkiah.As you may know from the international media the sultan had accused my father of financial mismanagement and improriety of us$14.8billion dollars. This was as a result of the asian financial crisis that made my father company amedeo development company and government owned Brunei Investment company to be declared bankrupt during his tenure in office. howevermy father was kept under house arrest,his bank accounts and private properties including a crude oil export refinery were later confiscated by the sultanate. Furthermore during this unfortunate period, I was advised to evacuate my immediate family outside the sultanate to avoid further prosecution from the sultan and his security operatives, but before I could do that I was placed under houes arrest by the sultan and not access to a phone but I have a palm v hand-held computer from which i am sending you this mail. some of the guard here are still loyal to me, so they would be my contact with you if there is any document I need to you to enable you collect the boxes of money on my behalf. Before my in castration, I want ahead to dispatch the sum of five hundred million united states dollars (US$500,000,000.00) in cash under special arrangement into the custody of different private security and trust company's for safe keeping abroad. The money where spited and kept in the following countries in this proportion: US$ 50 million is in Dubai.U.A.E, US$100 million is in Spain, US$ 100 million is in Holland, US$ 80 Million is in south africa and the balance US$ 170 Million is in canada. Hence I seek your good assistance to invest these funds into profitable investment in your country to facilitate future survival for my family abroad. After due deliberation with my aids we have decided to offer 20% of these funds to you as compensation for your strong cooperation while 5% have been mapped out for both local and internation expenses that may be incurred during this dispensation. Please I count on your absolute confidentiality, transparency and trust while looking forward to towards a swift conclusion of this business transaction. Many Thanks & May Allah's blessing remain with you. I remain your sincerely. PRINCE F.W. BOLKIAH

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05 Nov '03

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