I Got Money Comming From Nigeria
DEAR FRIEND,
I KNOW THIS WILL COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE BECAUSE YOU DO NOT KNOW ME .I AM SENATOR, JOHN, EWAH ENOH, I AM THE CHAIRMAN SENATE COMITTE FOR FINANCE HERE IN NIGERIA. I GOT YOUR CONTACT IN MY SEARCH FOR A HONEST PERSON THROUGH ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE IN NIGERIA. I WANT YOU TO HELP ME TO CLAIM THE FUND THAT I MOVED TO EUROPE THROUGH OUR CBN ACCREDITED COURIER AGENT BUT THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKAGE THAT CONTAIN THE $25,000,000.00 WAS NOT KNOWN TO OUR AGENT THE FUND HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY DEPOSITED WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUSION IN EUROPE. YOU DON’T NEED TO MAKE ANY EXPENSES FOR THIS FUND TO BE TRANSFERRED TO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT. ALL I WANT YOU TO DO FOR ME NOW IS THIS GIVE ME YOUR MAILING ADDRESS YOUR PRIVATE PHONE AND FAX AND I HOPE THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU WILL HAVE 30% AND 70% WILL BE FOR ME. MY IDENTITY MUST NOT BE REVEALED TO ANY BODY. FOR SECURITY REASONS OTHER MODALITIES WILL BE DISCUSSED AS SOON AS YOU GET BACK TO ME. YOURS FAITHFULLY, SEN.JOHN E ENOH. senator_john2007@yahoo.co.jp senator_john@live.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, I'm going to be rich |
Bah muling scams. Like we don't KNOW already.
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here are two that came to me:
Barristers' Chambers: DAVID SMITH & ASSOCIATES e-mail: legalchambers.davidsmith@live.com Address: 33 Bedford Row London WC1R 4JH, England PARTNER MANAGING DAVID SMITH & ASSOCIATES LONDON - UK. Attention: On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr. Jurgen Krugger. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the WIL. I wish to notify you that late Jurgen Krugger made you a beneficiary in his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30, 100,000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL. Late Jurgen Krugger died on the 13th of December 2004 and his WILL is now ready for execution after 4 years of thorough investigation of the whereabout of all his beneficiaries. According to him, this money is to support your humanitarian/medical activities and to help the poor and the needy in our society. Please if I reach you as I hope, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time. I await your prompt response and please keep this very discrete and to yourself until the transfer of the funds to you is finalised. Yours in Service, David Smith Esq. Principal Partner. Partners: Aidan Walsh Esq, Markus Wolfgang, John Marvey Esq, Jerry Smith Esq. and CUSTOMER SERVICE CENTER. Ref No,UK/9420X2/68 Batch No 074/05/ZY369 pin no 0147uk WINNING NOTIFICATION LETTER: We Wish to congratulate you over your Email address success in all round internet lottery online promo Which was held in the month of october 2008, Your email address have won you the sum of (£1,000,000.00) One Million Great British Pounds Sterlling. Your claims Require verification: Contact The claims manager office with the details below, 1. Name: 2. Address 3. Age: 4. Sex: 5. Phone: 6. Country. 8.pin no. Name: Mr Robert smirt Tell: +447-0319-179-61 E-mail: fiduciaryclaimsboarduk@live.com Mrs Elizabeth Grether On-Line Co-ordinator uk National Lottery board. |
Dateline did a special once about those Nigerian money emails, and how people have actually believed them and fallen for the scams. Most of the people who fell for these were older, retirement-aged people too. Sad.
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The worst are the people that are looking for a place to live. They find listings online for too good to be true rental amounts and contact the ad owner, who coincidentally is a married missionary who needs someone trustworthy and honest to watch their lovely home while they're overseas (not always Nigeria).
What has really happened is someone has stolen the ad content and pictures from a legitimate rental listing on a legitimate website and created a scam rental listing with a lower asking price. The catch: you have to send a payment by western union or money order to receive the keys. Some people still see the $700 deposit as a small price to pay to move into a beautiful property that might normally rent much higher than that. This applies to long-term rentals as well as vacation rentals. I can't tell you how many times a day I hear about these scams at my job. What's worse is that you would think people have heard it all and are more aware, but people report financial loss every day over this. MORAL OF THE STORY: If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. (I'm sure your grandparents have said this before....) |
Just got another one. Here come the money:
From: The Accountant, First Inland Bank Nigeria Plc Victoria Island Lagos. Dear Friend, My name is Mr. John Gelsthorp. I am the accountant of the First Inland Bank Victoria Island Lagos. I am a Nigerian married with two kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the noble transfer of US$3.800,000.00 (Three Million, Eight Hundred Thousand US Dollars). This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the accountant made as profit during the last year. I have already submitted an approved end of the last year report for the year 2006 and also submitted report of first quarter of this year 2008 to my Head Office here in Lagos and they will never know of this Excess. I have since then, placed this amount of US$3.800,000.00 (Three Million, Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollars) on a SUSPENCE ACCOUNT without a beneficiary. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account. I intend to part with 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer to your nominated bank account anywhere you feel safer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund. If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response. You can contact me via my private email: mrjohn_gelsthorp3@hotmail.com. you can also contact me on my private phone number: 2347082880646. Best regards, Mr. John Gelsthorp |
wow, they are getting more and more blantant
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This American Life did a profile on a couple of guys that bait the scammers into doing all sorts of crazy things- they sent one guy into Darfur and had others video tape themselves saying all kinds of crazy things.
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I took a class in online fraud. Probably one of the more interesting classes I've taken in my life. Anybody get the facebook virus yet? |
Moe...let me borrow $50 from you. I am good for it.
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Apparently you get a message (not a wall post, but an actual message) from a friend saying "look at this video" or whatever, then it tells you to install flash (not really flash! get all your flash updates from THEIR website!) then you're part of a botnet.
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We got a text message the other day from a bank we've never used telling us that our bank card had been deactivated and gave us a number to call....and my mom got an email last week from bank of america thanking her for updating her online account, and wanted her to reply with something...she doesn't do online banking with them, she called them and they said it wasn't form them.....
And I've gotten 3 or 4 facebook virus messages...never opened one because the spelling was all messed up |
Wohoo, the way I'm going, I'll be rich as Warren Buffet.
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SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!! |
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