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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.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "Ahmed idris" <ahmedcbnffsd01@telegraf.by>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 21:44:50 +0100
Subject: YOUR FUND AND MY ARRANGEMENT TO ASSIST YOU
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
FACT FINDING AND SPECIAL DUTIES
TUNUIBU SQUARE, LAGOS-NIGERIA
E-mail:idrisahmed.cbnffsd@gmail.com<E-mail%3Aidrisahmed.cbnffsd@gmail.com>
TELEPHONE: 234-808-603-7673
SIR,
MY NAME IS ALHAJI AHMED IDRIS, I AM A DIRECTOR OF FACT FINDINGS AND SPECIAL
DUTIES,I AM NEWLY APPOINTED TO HEAD THE DEPARTMENT IN THE APEX BANK (CBN).
AND I AM A MUSLEM IN NIGERIA.INPURSUIT,I AND TWO STAFFS OF MY DEPARTMENT
FOUND OUT SOME IRREGULARITIES GOING ON, YOUR PAYMENT WITH CENTRAL BANK OF
NIGERIA(CBN),
WE FOUND OUT THAT YOU HAD MET ALL THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS NEEDED TO
EFFECT TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT WITH YOUR BANK .BUT I AM NOT HAPPY THE
WAYS PEOPLE HAS BEEN EXTORTING MONEY FROM YOU ON PRETEXT TO HELP YOU
RECEIVE YOUR MILLION DOLLARS WITH THE CBN.
I WILL ADVISE YOU FROM THIS MOMENT TO DESIST FROM COMMUNICATING WITH THESE
UNSCRUPLOUS ELEMENTS THAT PARADED THEMSELVES TO BE GOOD INNOCENT PEOPLE,I
WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU DID NOT DESIST FROM THIS BAD ELEMENTS THAT
YOU WILL CONTIUNE PAYING YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO THEM AND WITH THEIR
ENDLESS STORIES,REQUESTING ONE CERTIFICATE TO ANOTHER.
I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT SINCE LAST YEARS THIS THEIR FRAUDULENT CHARACTER HAD
STARTED AND NON OF THEM CAN PAY YOU THE SUPPOSED MONEY. NOTE THAT ALL THE
MONEY YOU HAD PAID TO THEM WERE USED FOR THEIR INTEREST/BENEFITS,I
REITERATED THAT YOU SHOULD STOP ANY FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE WITH THIS
UNBELIEVERS,
IT IS A PITY THAT THIS PEOPLE HAD EXTORTED MUCH MONEY FROM YOU BUT I HAD
PERSONALLY INTRODUCED A DEVICE THAT CAN BE POSSIBLY USE TO PAY YOU ALL THIS
MONEY WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DOCUMENTATIONS,BUT IT MUST BE KEEP SECRET BECAUSE
I WANT TO USE THE METHOD THE FOREIGN CURRENCIES DO CAME INTO THE COUNTRY,IT
WILL BE ARRANGED THROUGH DIPLOMATIC PREFERENCE CARRIAGE SHCHEME.I WILL FIRST
DESPATCH TWO BOXES THAT WILL CONTAINED $10M AND OF $100 BILLS TO YOUR
PRIVATE ADDRESS AND AFTER RECEIPT OF THE BOXES AND YOU CONFIRM THE CONTENTS
FROM YOUR BANKERS,
I WILL SEND TO YOU ANOTHER BATCH BUT I WILL ADVISE THAT YOU WILL NOT LET ANY
BODY TO KNOW ABOUT THIS METHOD TO AVOID PEOPLE EYESBROW.I HAD ARRANGED WITH
THE COURIER COMPANY,THE COMPANY AGREED TO DESPATCH THE BOXES BUT I DID NOT
TELL THEM THE ORIGINAL CONTENTS BECAUSE THE COURIER COMPANY,S DO NOT CARRY
PHYSICAL CASH FOR DESPATCH,WHAT I WILL DECLARE TO THEM AS THE CONTENTS OF
THE BOXES IS SENSITIVE FILMS AND FILM MATERIALS ,SO THAT THE COMPANY WILL
NOT REQUEST FOR PHYSICAL INSPECTIONS BECAUSE THE FILMS DOES NOT REQUIRE
SUNRAYS OR CONTACT WITH AIR.
I WILL FINALLY CONCLUDE WITH THE COURIER COMPANY WHEN I RECEIVE YOUR GO
AHEAD ORDER ,KINDLY STOP ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION WITH THESE PEOPLE AND DO NOT
PAY ANY MORE MONEY TO THEM OR TO THOSE CALLED THEMSELVES BANK OFFICIALS,
I WILL FURNISH YOU WITH MORE INFORMATIONS AS SOON AS I RECEIVED YOUR GO
AHEAD ORDER,THAT YOU WILL COMPENSATE ME AND MY COLLEAGES WITH THE SUM OF
$500,000
AWAITING YOUR REPLY
BEST REGARDS
ALHAJI AHMED IDRIS
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