Bet you regret deleting all those emails you got from that Nigerian prince.
More than $43 million in U.S. dollar notes was uncovered in an apartment in Nigeria by the country's Economic and Uncut ArchivesFinancial Crimes Commission.
SEE ALSO: Looks like Manny Pacquiao won't fight Amir Khan after all because of a scamThe EFCC announced on Facebook that they had received a whistleblower's tip that someone had been moving bags in and out of the apartment.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Naturally, everyone only had one thing to say about this.
@ctvedmonton I think this is mine, I got a legimate looking email a few weeks back about it. Please contact pic.twitter.com/NAgj6Kdixr
— iwan hughes (@IwanHughes2001) April 16, 2017
@ctvedmonton The guy must've email a thousand people asking for help transferring that money. Was even willing to pay. No one wanted to help. #Sad!
— Patrick McDevitt (@pfmcdevitt) April 15, 2017
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@ctvedmonton Okay, okay, my credit card number is 4053 2311 3441 2211, so please do go ahead and release the funds to my bank account.
— The Ottawa Ross (@ottaross) April 16, 2017
@ctvedmonton Must be the home of the fabled Nigerian Prince we have heard about...
— Notminenotnownotever (@notminenotnow) April 16, 2017
@CNN Maybe I should email that Nigerian prince back, after all 🤔
— Kristina Montesano (@ohthatkristina) April 14, 2017
The news trended after social media users quickly picked up on the fact that the event occurred in Nigeria -- a reference to the many scam emails often sent from a "Nigerian royal figure" soliciting users to transfer thousands of dollars with the promise of a larger reward at the end.
Most of the emails start off with something like this:
I've gotten a lot of spam, but Ive never actually received an email claiming to be from a Nigerian prince, until now pic.twitter.com/7HmirOZdHG
— Alex Gill (@thealexgill) April 1, 2015
According to the EFCC, in addition to the U.S. dollars, $75,000 worth of Nigerian currency and $35,000 in British pound sterling were also found "neatly arranged" inside fireproof cabinets hidden behind wooden panels.
Investigations are ongoing, said Nigerian officials.
Earlier last week, the EFCC uncovered some $817,000 in cash from a market in Lagos, and some $1.5 million at a shopping mall.
Nigeria is ranked 136 out of 176 countries on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index in 2016.
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