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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.
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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).
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.
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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
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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:
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……
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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.
A good example of the crooks using 2 major organization’s names to instill a basis of trust and seriousness.
Rest assured, it is a classic scam e-mail…..
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From: pharelljones <pharelljones@o2.ie>
Date: Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Subject: Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European Countries
To: recipients <Undisclosed>
THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
OHCHR, Dalais Wilson, CH 1211 Geneva 10,Switzerland
Senior Human Rights Officer and international payment department
Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European Countries
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT WITH AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Sequel to the meeting we have with all the African country leaders regards to all the payment been owed by the Africa and Europe continents, the Chairman African Union (AU) with that of European Union (EU) have made it known to all the beneficiaries been owed by African and European countries via contract, inheritance, Lottery Winners, during There recent interview with British broadcasting co-operation (BBC) that all the debt been owed by the African and European countries should be paid to them via EU / AU account with the supervision of the International Monetary Fund Unit London UK, which you happened to be one of them.
You are advice to stop any further communication with anybody and contact this office, The International Monetary Fund Unit London UK which the officer in-charge is
Mr. Anthony G. Leach
Email: inlt_monitoringlon@london.com
Tel +44 702 4099344
Fax: +44 870 9134316,
Your above fund has been deposited in your account stated below which was submitted to this office by your representative.
Some petitions we received made it known to us that some beneficiaries have loose all they have achieve in the life time due to the way African and European countries are asking them to pay one charge or the other in regards of their payment.
Be inform that your payment has been transfer into your account provided by your representative Mrs. Susan Wang below.
HSBC NINBO BRANCH CHINA
ACCOUNT NO 90887224091149
ACCOUNT NAME SUSAN WANG
ROUTING NO 64585783
SWIFT CODE: HSBC166349XT
Please contact Mr. Anthony G. Leach immediately for the collection of your International Transfer Payment Advice (Payment Slip Or Telex Copy) to enable you confirm your payment in your account without further delay, he is the only authorized officer in International monitoring fund unit London UK to handle and witness your payment, any other further communication you have out side his office is at your own risk, and you are advice to stop making any further payment to any one without Mr Anthony G. Leach notice because he is the only authorize officer with International Monetary Fund unit London UK via African Union (AU) reserve account under united nations payment gazette .
We apologies to you and your company or family for what it might has cost you in the past without receiving your payment upon the charges and taxes you have paid before.
Get back to us immediately you confirmed your payment in your account to enable us close your payment file with us.
Best regards
Frej Fenniche,
Senior Human Rights Officer united nations Switzerland
Email: un-organiza1@europe.com
This one came in from 2 different e-mail accounts: okey_patrick2@Gazeta.pl and okey_patrick21@Gazeta.pl
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From: okey_patrick2 Gazeta.pl <okey_patrick2@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Subject: CONTACT THEM IMMEDIATELY
To:
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Okey Patrick and I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund transferred. Now I want you to contact my secretary on his email address below and receive your compensation of $950,000.00 us dollarsm from him:
NAME: Mr.miracle chukwu EMAIL:miracle_chukwu77@yahoo.fr
Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information:
Your full name_________________________
Your address__________________________
Your country___________________________
Your age______________________________
Your occupation________________________
Your Phone number______________________
Note that if you did not send him the above information complete, he will not release the cheque to you because he has to be sure that it is you. Ask him to send you the total sum of ($950,000.00 )USD CASHIER’S CHEQUE ,which I kept for you. Note also that I will not be reached by email or phone for now because I am currently away in Japan for investment purpose with my share and I will be busy till about six months time or a year.
Best regards,
Mr. Okey Patrick
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From: <MRS> santaluciaft@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:56 AM
Subject: GREETINGS
To:
I am Adela Martinez, bank manager of Barclays Bank Madrid branch in Spain.
I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you .On June 6, 2003, a British contractor with the Spanish petroleum corporation (REPSOL), Mr. Barry Kelly made a numbered fixed deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$30,000,000.00 in my Branch. On maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent reminder and finally his contract employers, the Spanish petroleum corporation wrote to inform us that Mr. Barry Kelly died from an automobile accident in Berlin, that he died without MAKING A WILL, and all attempts by the British Embassy to trace his next of kin was fruitless.
I therefore, made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Barry Kelly in fact was an immigrant from Bahamas and only recently obtained British citizenship few years ago. He did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank deposit paperwork.
The total of US$30,000,000.00 is still sitting in my bank as dormant Account. No one will ever come forward to claim it, and according to Spanish law after 5years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Spanish Government if the account owner is certified dead. Sequel to this fact, I am looking for a foreigner who will stand as the next of kin to MR.BARRY KELLY. After processing the paper works that will reflect you as the next of kin to our late client you will henceforth become the new and sole beneficiary of the total funds. The total of USD30m will then be paid into an account that you will provide for us in the sharing ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you. There is no risk at all, and all the paper work for this transaction will be done by me using my position and connection in the banks in Spain. And the entire transaction shall be governed by the banking procedures of Spain. You have my words.
This business transaction is guaranteed. Hence you should indicate your interest by replying immediately with your Phone/fax Number or otherwise destroy this letter for my sake and my family.
However if you consider it ok, please observe the utmost confidentiality, and be 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. You can also send your reply to my private email address (adelamartinez002@yahoo.es) Thank you so much and looking forward to receive your urgent reply.
The FEDEX mail has been coming in quite regularly over the last few weeks.
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From: iscolljonas14 Gazeta.pl <iscolljonas14@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:50 AM
Subject: FedEx Diplomatic Delivery
To: iscolljonas14@gazeta.pl
Dear Friend,
I have paid for the delivery of your consignment by the FedEx company Benin Republic. They promised that your consignment will leave immediately they received your re-confirmed informations to avoid wrong delivery. Now contact them with your full informations through their email address (fedexshipping_diplomatic_courier@yahoo.fr
Phone number +229 9394-9986.
Here are the requested informations needed by the Director Of The FedEx Diplomatic Division which they instructed me to email you to provide while contacting them for easier identification when the diplomat arrives in your country:
Kindly re-confirm to them the followings:
Your Full Name: ____________________________
Your Complete Address (Physical Address with Zip Code not
P.O.BOX) :
Name of City of Residence:____________________
Country:____________________________________
Direct Telephone Number: _____________________
Mobile Number:______________________________
Nearest airport:______________________________
Working Identity Card/Int’l Passport:_____________
Ocupation:________________ Position__________
I registered it with the FedEx Courier company in the name of Computer accessories as its content and i didn’t let them know that it contains funds of US$1.500.000.00 because of fear of betrayal.
Yes, the Africans like to use names of African celebrities for this kind of scam message. Charles Soludo is just a very prominent person in Nigeria.
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From: Prof Charles C.Soludo <cbnbanking.org.ng@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:03 AM
Subject: (OFFICIAL NOTICE) IMMEDIATE PAYMENT APPROVAL NOTIFICATION HYELNCOBKU
To: undisclosed-recipients
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
GARKI ABUJA NIGERIA
OUR REF:CBN/IRD/CBX/022/07
ATM SWIFT CARD DEPARTMENT.
DIRECT LINE: +234-8079-673-888
Email:cbnbanking_governorng@ubbi.com
Attention Sir/Madam,
Compliments of the season and God’s blessings from Prof Charles C Soludo, Executive Governor Central Bank ofNigeria.
I was instructed to contact you in this office from the office of the presidency federal republic of Nigeria based on your contract/inheritance next of kin payment that is now awarded/approved and released by the president of Nigeria Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
You are officially informed that your name was discovered as one of the foreign beneficiaries that has not yet received their contract/inheritance fund due for payment.
Now you are advised to respond immediately you receive this important notice to enable immediate processing of your payment which will come to you through ATM CARD PAYMENT. That is the latest instruction from the president. Again, it is my duty to notify you that the total sum of your fund to be loaded in Atm card payment is the total sum of $8,300,000.00 (Eight Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only).
For more details, Contact me on my Direct Email and Call my direct telephone number on:Tel:+234-8079673888.Email:cbnbanking_governorng@ubbi.com
Note that your earlier response to this important notice will enable us to give you the details of your payment.
Get back to me with the following information given below:
Full Name……….
Contact Address…
Direct Telephone Number…..
Age/Occupation And marital Status…
Thanks,
Prof Charles C Soludo
Executive Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Code of Conduct: 0787
Tel:+234-8079673888
Now this one is really interesting. Why would would anyone want to cash in a bank draft and deposit the money with a parcel express company?
(Does he mean UPS?)
At the best, this is a very dubious story.
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From: richard willian <richardwillian@klikni.cz>
Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Subject: NOW CONTACTUPS FOR YOUR PACKAGE
To:
Dear Friend, Greetings!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft worth of (usd $2.500.000.00)TWO MILLION FIVE 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 African clothes with UNITED STATED PARCELCOURIER COMPANY, Cotonou, Benin Republic.
What you have to do now is to contact the UNITED STATED PARCELCOURIER COMPANY as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the package.
The only money you will send to the Courier & Security Company to deliver your package direct to your postal Address in your country is ($125.00 US) ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE 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 $125.00 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 the UNITED STATED PARCELCOURIER COMPANY now for the delivery of your package with this information bellow;
Contact Person: DR. JOSEPH DIKE
Telephone:+229 9303 7800
Email Address: ups_deliveringcompany01@yahoo.fr
Finally, make sure that you reconfirm the following infomation to them 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 NAME;
2.YOUR AGE;
3.HOUSE/OFFICE ADDRESS
4.HOUSE / OFFICE PHONE NOS
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICT FOR IDDENTIFICATION Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $125.00 US Dollars for their immediate action.Do let me know immediately you recieves your package.
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