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With this story, they start off by saying you get the cash card if you pay a “reactivation” fee of 135 US Dollars. Now I’ve seen that somewhere before.

The last message of this kind offered a Cash Card with 850 thousand US Dollars on it. Sure it sounds good, but it’s not very logical, is it?

Looking through the message, it has all of the Hallmarks of typical 419 scam e-mails:

1. It uses only Freemail accounts
2. The sender is a “Reverend”. That’s a title only used for representatives of protestant churches. It’s highly unlikely they would be working for a bank as well.
3. The “Central Bank of Nigeria” is quoted as being the remitter bank.
4. They quote I will be getting an inheritance.
5. And of course, I will be getting millions of US Dollars with no strings attached.

That’s enough to mark it as suspect, I would say.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: officebox01 Gazeta.pl <officebox01@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Subject: From CBN Releasing Of Your Fund To You Via ATM CARD PAYMENT.
To:

From Desk Of Rev.Johnson Uzoma
Dept. International Remittance
Swift Card Payment Center
Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN).

Dear Beneficiary.

This is to notify you that your over due inheritance funds of US$7.5m has been programmed to be paid to you through ATM Swift Card Payment.

Therefore,you should get back to this office with your home or office address and your Phone Number where your SWIFT ATM Card will be dispatched to.

As soon as I receive your information required I will process your payment legally and will issue your ATM SWFIT CARD which your total funds US$7.5M will be loaded on your ATM Card and I will dispatch it to your domain without any further delay.

Finally,as soon as i finish the processing of your ATM PAYMENT CARD i will scan it and forward to you via email attachment while the Original Copy will be dispatched to you through courier service.

Look forward to hear from you soonest and get back to me via email:(officeroom001@yahoo.es)

Congratulation?s.

Yours Sincerely,

Rev.Johnson Uzoma
Director (CBN, IRD, and ATM)
Dept. International Remittance
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Tags: 419scam, Central Bank of Nigeria, Rev.Johnson Uzoma

The proposed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft is not yet a reality, but this does not prevent the African crooks from using the company names for a bogus lottery.

The Yahoo/Microsoft combination has been used quite often in the past as our archives show.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: YAHOOMSN AWARD DONATION <info@yahoomsn.com>
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Dear Beneficiary
To: undisclosed-recipients

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation
Baley House, Har Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom .

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling’s for this month Lottery promotion which was organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE. YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

You are to contact the events manager.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number…………………YM 09102XM
Reff number…………………..YM 35447XM
Winning number……………….DTYFM0988
However you will have to fill and submit this form to the events
manager.

1. Full name…………..
2. Contact Address……..
3. Age………………..
4. Telephone Number…….
5. Sex………………..
6. Occupation:…………
7. State………………
8. Country…………….
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail.

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr Robert Henry
E-mail: eventmanager_henry@yahoo.com.hk

Tags: LotteryScam, Yahoo, MSN, Microsoft

As you can see, just lately the e-mails are repeating themselves. I reckon it’s just too much work to come up with something new.

You can check other Fedex Scam e-mails here

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: jameswilliams jameswilliams
Date: May 21, 2008 12:05 PM
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX DELIVER SHIPPING OFFICE NOW
To:

Atten:Dear Friend,

Hope you enjoyed your easter holly days well with your family, I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft worth of (usd $800.000.00) EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED DOLLARS which my boss left with me before he travelled out,but I did not hear from you since that time. Then with the help of a friend who is a bank manager I cashed the money and deposited it as a BOX containing antique with FEDEX DELIVER SHIPPING COURIER, Cotonou, Benin Republic.

What you have to do now is to contact the Fedex Deliver office here as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you. For your information, I have paid the shipping fee, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the package.

The only money you will send to Fedex Deliver office here to deliver your package direct to your postal Address in your country is (US$150.00) ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY UNITED DOLLARS ONLY, being Security keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, don’t be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $150.00 US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they don’t know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage. You have to contact FEDEX DELIVER SHIPPING OFFICE here now for the delivery of your package with this information bellow:

Contact Person: Mr Nnamudi Malu
Telephone:+229-93-18-76-66
Email Address:(ffedexdelivercompany@excite.fr)

Forthermore, make sure that you reconfirm the following infomation again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

The infomations are:
1)Your Full Receiver Name:
2)Current House/ Office Address:
3)House/ Mobile Telephone:
4)Scan Copy Of Your Passport For Identification:

Contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and as it has been some days now I registered your package with them also remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $150.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.

Do let me know immediately you recieves your sealed box fund.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr James Williams

George can’t be reached by phone because he is away in Japan for the next 6 months. Japan must be really backward, if they don’t have telephones…..

This is just an adaption of earlier e-mails. Funny though, the contact man is in “Ouagadougou”. Doesn’t that sound familiar?

No, he isn’t.

As with all 419 type of scam e-mails, you only have to look at the e-maill addresses from which the messages are sent. Walla.com and Sify.com are freemail providers.

If Capt James Williams really was representing the UN, don’t you think he would be using an official UN e-mail account?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Capt James Willams
Date: May 21, 2008 3:15 PM
Subject: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT.
To:

UNITED NATIONS
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OFINTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA20-A
NEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT

Our Ref:WB/NF/UN/XX027

ATTN: Beneficary

REPLY TO:

RE: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT.

We have been authorized by the newlyappointed UN Secretary General and the Governing Board of the United Nations Monetary Unit to investigate the unnecessary delay in settlement of huge foreign payments originating from Africa, to recommend and approve your claims for payment if certified as genuine.

During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt Bank officials who were tryingto divert your payment into their private accounts.

To forestall this,security for your funds has been organized in the form of your Personal Identification Number (PIN) and your Transfer Access Code (T.A.C). Thiswill enable only you have direct control over this fund. We have also agreed with the relevant authorities that we will handle this payment ourselves (through our London Office) to avoid the hopeless situation created by the Bank Officials. At the moment, we have obtained anirrevocable payment guarantee on your Payment and are happy to inform you that based on our recommendation/instructions; your entire fund hasbeen credited in your favour through ATM Swift Card Payment system.

Therefore if you would like to receive your fund through thisprudent payment arrangement, you are herewith advised to contact : Henry Green ;International Audit unit, United Nations African Regional Office, Nigeria on Tel/Fax: 234 80 3714-5535 orEmail: un.afr.reg@sify.com with the following information for activation and to collect your original payment slip with your ATM Swift Card

1. YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2 PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
4. HOME EQUITY {YES OR NO}

Upon yourimmediate compliance, you will be issued an ATM Swift Card that you canuse to withdraw your fund in any ATM Machine in any part of the world,but the maximum pay out is Fifteen Thousand Dollars per a day, whereas,the total amount earmarked for your beneficiary payment is US$8.3Million.

NOTE: We expect your urgent response to this email to enableus monitor this payment effectively. Once again, send your response andinformation directly to Mr. Henry Green E-mail: un.afr.reg@sify.com for urgent attention.

CONGRATULATIONS.

CAPT. JAMES C. WILLIAMS
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK

There’s not much to say about this one.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: EURO MILLIONS AWARD TEAM <info@emlnoreply.co.uk>
Date: Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS WINNER!!!YOUR EMAIL EMERGED A WINNER OF  £400,000 GBP
To: undisclosed-recipients

EURO MILLIONS LONDON, UK.
PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
WINNING NOTIFICATION

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

We are pleased to announce to you the draw of the WORLD ONLINE E-mail address ballot lottery international program held this Month of MAY 2008 It is yet to be claimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.
This results is today released to you and Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 189 with Serial number 5368/05 drew the lucky numbers:which subsequently won you the lottery in the 4TH category.
You havetherefore been approved to claim a total sum of £400,000 {Four Hundred Thousand  Pounds Sterlings)in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £6,000,000( Six million pounds sterling’s)shared amongstthe(15)lucky winners in this category. All participants for the online version  were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.
This promotion takes place bianually.

1.FULL NAME

2.DATE OF BIRTH.

3.MARITAL STATUS

4.NATIONALITY.

5.OCCUPATION.

6.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.

7.TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Mr Michael Lexington.

Email:michaellexington@myway.com

Tel:+447045-740-682
Tel:+447045-774-311
Fax:+44-7006-016-871

Yours faithfully,
John Bradley

Tags: lotteryscam, Euro Millions, John Bradley

It’s surprising, but there are a lot of cancer e-mails posted here with one thing in common. And that is, the first name is Jennifer.

Just do a search on “Jennifer” and you will see how many have been posted in the past.

Remarkable……

———- Forwarded message ———- 
From: Mrs Jennifer Peters <abogadopedro@ozu.es>
Date: 2008/5/17
Subject: Remember To Read This Mail and Contact My Attorney.
To:

Hello Dear,

My name is Mrs.Jennifer Peters; I am a dying woman who has decided to
donate what I have to you/church. I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for
cancer for about 2 years ago immediately after the death of my husband who
has left me everything he worked for and because the doctors told me I
will not live longer than some weeks because of my health idecided to
WILL/donate the sum of $2 500 000 Two million five hundred thousand
dollars to you for the good work of humanity and also to help the
motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.
I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly and
please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.

Here is the Contact information of my Attorney below:
Orbin Law Firm
Abogado De Justicia
Calle Embajadores,106.2,Madrid,Spain
Notario & Tribunal
Sr Pedro Antonio
Phone/Fax:+34-693-220-723
Email:abogadopedro@aim.com

and tell him that I have WILLED $2 500 000.00
to you and I have also notified him. I know I don’t know you but I have
been directed to do this. Thanks and God bless.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the
task is accomplished as i don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last
wish.
From Mrs.Jennifer Peters.

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Terminal Illness, Jennifer Peters