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and that’s a good reason for a lot of people to want to claim the card offered here.

This one was sent as a mixed Text/HTML mail which doesn’t work on Google. I have posted only the text part so it’s easier to read.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Oceanic Bank <oceanic.bank50@yahoo.ca>
Date: Oct 6, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: YOUR ATM CARD IS READY FOR DESPATCH
To:

I have a new email address! You can now email me at: oceanic.bank50@yahoo.ca

YOUR ATM CARD IS READY FOR DESPATCH

- This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/inheritance payment file and found out that you have not received your fund. Pls be informed that your fund will be realesed to you without further delay thru our ATM card payment system and note ATM Card valued US$9.5Million has been approved in your favor. At the meantime, forward your name, address and direct telephone number to enable us process your payment without delay AND Please do send any form of your identification , Int’t passport, Driver;s License or national ID Card  copy for identification purpose. Rev Don Johnson

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It must be my lucky day today. It’s just unfortunate that this is not for real.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: MR CLARK MORGAN <info@clarkmorgan.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Greetings: Your ATM CARD Payment
To:

Greetings:

This is to officially inform you that ATM card worth  Five hundred Thousand dollars ($500,000.00 USD) has been credited in your favour in bid to compensate you on your contract payment since you are next on our inheritance file for the second part of this fiscal Year 2008, Your personal identification is ATM 2900.

Contact the verification Officer Mr Cody Lampard { info_atmdeliveries_diplomaticcourier@post.ro } with the following for proper verification and claim processing:

Full Legal Names…………….
Delivery Address………
Country………………
Occupation……………
Phone Number………….
Fax Number……………
Age………………….
sex………………….

NOTE:-You are also required to send along a means of Identification which can be a scan copy of your  Driver’s License or International Passport for identification on delivery.

Regards
MR CLARK MORGAN

I would say most people would ask themselves”How did I win this?” and promptly reply asking for details. Of course, that is exactly what this so called “Senator” wants.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ATM CARD OFFICE
Date: Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 2:36 AM
Subject: ATM 622
To:

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
Your Ref:
Dear Beneficiary,
I am very glad to inform you that your email emerged as one of the lucky winners to receive this years award of a cash grant of the sum of $2 million.
In order for the winnings to be delivered to you without stress, we are glad to officially inform you that an ATM Card has been accredited in your favor.Your Personal identification Number is 622.
The ATM Card Value is $2 million.
You are advice to contact us for more information.

FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:
SEX:
AGE:

As soon as we receive the requested information, we will instruct the
courier company to deliver the prize winnings to you.
Regards,
Senator Ashley Davids

Senator Ashley Davids, 419 Scam

Professor Souldo, the boss of the Nigerian Central Bank, writes a
personal message to me? Highly unlikely, I would say.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Date: Sep 5, 2008 2:17 AM
Subject: YOUR PART PAYMENT BY ATM CARD IS READY
To:

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA, (C.B.N)
38 BROAD STREET, TINUBU SQUARE.
PHONE: +234 705 801 9117

ATTN: BENEFICIARY/CONTRACTOR/AWARD WINNER

YOUR PARTICULARS WAS MENTIONED IN OUR JUST CONCLUDED THIRD QUARTER
DEBT SETTLEMENT GENERAL MEETING. A PART PAYMENT OF $150.000 (ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) WAS APPROVED ON YOUR
NAME. THIS PAYMENT HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED INTO AN AUTOMATED TELLER
MACHINE (ATM CARD) POWERED BY VISA AND WILL BE MAILED TO YOUR ADDRESS
BY COURIER SERVICE.

YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY REQUIRED TO RE-CONFIRM AND FORWARD TO MY DESK THE
FOLLOWING INFORMATION’S:

1. YOUR REQUIRED NAME TO BE PRINTED ON YOUR ATM CARD:
2. YOUR PRESENT RESIDENT MAILING ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX):
3. YOUR PERSONAL AND REACHABLE PHONE NUMBER:

WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCIES THE DELAY OF YOUR PAYMENT MIGHT
HAVE CAUSED YOU.

YOURS SINCERELY,
PROF. CHUKWUMA SOLUDO
GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (C.B.N)

Unfortunately, there are enough people around who believe this story too.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Acct. Donald Duke.
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:17 AM
Subject: CONTACT THE ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT OF ECOBANK BANK BENIN
To:

CONTACT THE ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT OF ECOBANK BANK BENIN Greetings Dear Beloved Friend, I want to inform you about my success in transferring your money into an ATM master card to curtail the risk of carrying huge amount of money around. The total amount has been coded into ATM master card; please contact the Bank ATM payment center for more instruction on how to make use of the ATM card to withdraw your money in any ATM machine around the globe. I will be traveling to CHINA for business project with my own share of the total money. Meanwhile, I didn’t forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in transferring the fund despite that it failed us some how. Now you can contact the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT of ECOBANK BANK BENIN on this email(michaelkohnatmpaymaster23@live.com)pn.. +229-9704-6911 they will send you the sum of Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($2.500, 000.00) which is your own share for all the sufferings at that time. That is compensation for all your past efforts I really appreciated your consistency at that time. This card center will send you an ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine around the world, the maximum withdrawal is Ten Thousand United State Dollars per day. Feel free to get in touch with the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and give them direction on where to send the ATM card to you, the only money they will request from you is the activation fee of $99.99, so contact them right away. Do not hesitate to contact the ECOBANK Benin ATM payment department center with the information i gave to you and also re-confirm the following information to them as listed below: 1. Full Name…………………… 2. Current Address……………… 3. Phone Number………………… 4. A Copy of your identity………. 5. Your Nationality…………….. 6 Your pic……………………. Forward the above information to Prof. Michael Kohn, the head department officer of ATM payment center ECOBANK Bank Benin Republic. Phone: +229-9704-6911, Email :(michaelkohnatmpaymaster23@live.com) Please do let me know immediately you receive the ATM card so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferings at that time. I will be very busy in CHINA for the project am going to have there with my partner. So contact the ATM center immediately, they will give you more details of the ATM service. Finally, be informed that I left instructions to the DEPARTMENT to send the ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel free to get in touch with the DEPARTMENT and they will send the CARD to you with out any delay. Best Regards, Acct. Donald Duke.

Donald Duke, 419 scam, ATM card

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.

Oh yes, it was the 135 US Dollar shipment fee for FEDEX.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: markuba9 Gazeta.pl <markuba9@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Subject: CONTACT IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR ATM CARD VALUE $1.500 000 00
To:

My Dear ,

I have contacted my secretary to confirm if you have received the compensation draft cheque of (US$1.500.000) which I issued in your name, but he told me that he could not send it to you because of the courier charges. Now I have called my bank to cancel any payment regards to the draft cheque and then authorized them to transfer the payment into ATM CARD in your name which they did.
As of now be informed that all charges has been paid and the ATM CARD is going to be in your name, but to reactivate the ATM Card you have to forward your current informations as requested below to the bank and the only money you will pay to the bank is US$130.00 for the ATM Card Reactification fee, then they will send you the ATM CARD for your immediate use.
Here are the informations you have to forward to the bank:

1. YOUR FULL NAMES:______
2. Postal ADDRESS:_______
3. PHONE NUMBER:_________
4. CELL NUMBERS:_______
5. EMAIL ADDRESS:________
6. SEX:_____
7. AGE:_____
8. OCCUPATION:________
9. NATIONALITY:________

CONTACT PERSON: Dr.Thomas Akabike Robert
Director, ATM Foreign Operation Dept
ECO Bank Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Phone: + 229 977 247 17
Fax: +229 23 787 601.

Email: (ecobankplc47@yahoo.fr)
Get back to me once you received the ATM CARD ok.

Thanks and God bless you.
Mr markuba.

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

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.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: scott3 robort
Date: May 21, 2008 11:50 AM
Subject: CONTACT ATM DEPARTMENT.
To:

CONTACT ATM DEPARTMENT.

This is to inform you about my success in transfering your money into an ATM master card to curtail the risk of carrying huge amount of money arround.We are the peole that coded this amount of money in the card and we are going to tell you how to make use of it.Presently i’m out of the coutry for investing my own part of the total money .

Meanwhile,i didn’t forget your past efforts and attempts to assist me in moving the cash despite that both of us could not make it.Now contact ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and their email address is(atmpayment_departmentbenin99@yahoo.fr) ask them to send you the sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand us dollars ( $850.000.00 in an ATM MASTER CARD which i kept for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,So feel free and get in touched with the ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT and instruct them on where to send your total share of the money to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive it so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment, i am very busy here investing with my new partner.Remember that you are going to pay a reactivation fee of $90.00 only and it is for the reactivation of your card against it’s expiry before the delivery is made.The reason for the reactivation fee is that the account has been there for a long time while the government was doing serious investigations on the right owner of the money before this conclusion was made.

Finally, I have forwarded instructions to the DEPARTMENT to send the Confirmable ATM MASTER CARD to you, so feel free to get in touch with the DEPARTMENTand they will send the CARD to you without any delay. DO FAST AND CONTACT THEM IMMEDIATELY OK?

Best Regards,
BARR.Robort Scott,

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.

———- Forwarded message ———-
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

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Charles Soludo, Central Bank of Nigeria