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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "ray frank" <rayfrank102@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rayfrank224@katamail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:16:44 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY.
FROM THE DESK OF MR. RAY FRANK,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT,
UNION BANK PLC,
NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
Permit me to introduce myself to you, My name is MR.RAY FRANK., I am
one of the Senior Managers in the bank I work for (Union Bank, Nigeria
PLC)and I work under the Director of Foreign Exchange Operations
(International Remittance). I am contacting You presently because I need
your urgent assistance in a business transaction that will be of immense
benefit to both of us.
I have the immediate need to transfer some money that has long been
declared "UNCLAIMED" by the chairman and some members of the board of
directors of our bank. The money is the closing balance of one of our
best customers ever, Late Engr. Manfred Marshall, I was his personal account
officer just before he died in the ADC plane crash of 1996 in Nigeria.
Engr. Marshall an American citizen was a contractor with the Federal
Government of Nigeria, he supplied and installed equipment and
his company Creek land Contractors completed some of the best construction
contracts in the country. His closing balance in the Bank, Union Bank of
Nigeria PLC (US$25.Million) has been tagged Unclaimed because no relative of
Engr. Marshall has come forward to make a statement of claim. We have no
knowledge of a next of kin. At this point I trust you can picture what the
situation is like. We have strong proof that the chairman and the board of
directors will keep most of the money for themselves and use it
for their personal use, hence my mission.
My colleagues and my self have made several attempts at locating
persons that could be remotely related to Engr. Marshall and we have
been doing this for about 4 years without sucess,I have presently decided on
moving the money to a foreign account. I am hereby soliciting your
assistance and I will be very grateful if you will be willing to help in
this regard.
We have access to most of what it will take to transfer the money. The
only thing we do not have is a safe account. We will provide you with
answers to all the security questions, which you will have to answer to move
the process towards completion. We will also provide you answers to
questions that only a person related to him will know. You may however not
need to make any appearance; every thing will be concluded on phone and
email between you and the bank [UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC, LAGOS] for your
participation you will get 30%, 5% has been earmarked for the expensesthat
may be incurred on both ends. 65%shall be for my colleague and I.I make this
proposal in trust and in good faith, therefore, if you are interested and
you agree to assist me then contact me immediately you receive this email,
there is a lot more to talk about. If you are not interested, then, please,
do get rid of this email and please forgive me if this message has upset you
in any way.
Thank you and best regards.
Mr.RAY FRANK .,
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