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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.

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.

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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).

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