Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, specially those who don't know have no idea, I would like to introduce to you The 419 Nigerian Scam, the most well known advance-fee fraud in the internet world. It is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.
The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter, fax, or Telex. The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software made the cost of sending scam letters through the Internet low. The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code (part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating") dealing with fraud.[6] The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
You might have thought its an old issue being it in existence for quite sometime now but then the need to inform the public on this scam is still a must since not everyone knows about it and the increasing number of reported victims all over the world are strong grounds for me to raise alarms. If you only know the number Scam of emails I receive, you would really be concern about it since they might be hundreds of people out who were also sent with the same letters and might be preyed to this. This is still very active, PLEASE BE AWARE everyone.
This all started when I posted my email address on eBay.ph as reference for inquiries about the item I'm selling, this made my email address part of their active list, I should have not posted my email address on eBay, please don't do this folks, you don't want to wrestle with scam emails everyday, don't you?
Anyways here were some of the emails I receive..
ei52005@eircom.net
FROM DR.SHAKE WADRAGO,
ATTN: FRIEND,
A CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL TREAT AS URGENT
Good day and compliment of the season.I deem it vital to contact you for a
business proposal based on my position as the accountant General of the bank of
Africa Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso .
During my QUATTERLY AUDITING/ACCOUNTING ,I discovered in a DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT
favouring a foreign customer , the floating sum of US$15,000,000 (fifteen million
Us dollars).
During my investigations on the abandoned sum, I discovered the owner as a GERMAN
citizen named Mr.ANDREAS SCHRANNER who died in a plane crash with his entire
family and subsequently there is no next of kin to his account .Visit the web-
site as posted dated . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Based on these factual statements, plus the available facts and figures in the
bank archive ,we stand on a vantage point to putting up a claim on the fund.
This providential mission is hinged on the fact that, it is only a foreigner that
can successfully claim this fund since the late depositor was a foreigner
himself.
What you are required to do implicitly is to put up an application to the bank as
his nominated next of kin by his extended family in GERMANY which is a workable
approach because you will stand by the power of such nomination as his cousin
resident in where you are today to claim this fund into your account for both of
us.
Any question, information that may Be required by the bank during the process of
the reclamation will be forwarded to you on demand as to ensure that this venture
is successful. It is highly confidential and risk free by virtue of my position as
an insider in the bank.
Finally, I shall give you 30% in respect of your assistance to get transferred
this fund into your account oversea.I will release to you a detailed information
covering the abandoned fund on your urgent reply.
DR SHAKE WADRAGO,
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barr_equityandjustice1@hotmail.com
ALAN CHUA & CO.
NO 16C MEDAN ANGSANA 2
BANDAR BARU AYER ITAM
11500 PENANG
Good Day,
I am BARRISTER ALLAN CHUA, an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine, who
hereinafter shall be referred to as my client, died as the result of a heart-
related condition on the 11 November 2001. His heart condition was due to the
death of all the members of his family in the Gulf Air Flight Crashes in
Persian Gulf Near Bahrain Aired August 23, 2000 - 2:50 p.m. ET as reported
on:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/23/bn.08.html
I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my
client before it is confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where
this deposit valued at EIGHTEEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS. ($18,200.000.00 USD). is lodged. This bank has issued me a notice to
contact the next of kin, or the account will be confiscated.
My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present you as the next-of-kin
and beneficiary of my named client, so that the proceeds of this account can
be paid to you. Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon
percentage.
All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin will be
provided. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this
transaction through.
This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
many breach of the law. If this business proposition offends your moral
values, do accept my apology.
I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to
keep this matter extraordinary confidential, whatever your decision, while I
await your prompt response. Please contact me at once to indicate your
interest.
Email : alancosultantfirm@yahoo.com
Thanks,
Barrister Allan Chua,
(Attorney at Law)
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oqpsm@eircom.net
With Due Respect,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of African development bank (ADB). I crave your indulgence as i contact you in such surprising manner. But I respectfully insist you read this letter carefully as I am optimistic it will open doors for unimaginable financial rewards for both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of Thirty Five Million US dollars (US $35m) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plan crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along with him at the plan crash leaving nobody behind to come for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you so that the money could be released to you as the next of kin for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and i don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as "unclaimed fund". The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 35% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me.
There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
I need a capable and able person who will handle and manage this fund because it is not a small amount of project. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Philip Themon.
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB.
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Please be guided friends, this are fraud letters who would asks money from you, run your bank accounts down and can even threatened your life. If you receive this type of letters, never ever replied to them, ignore them at once.
Feb 18, 2009
The 419 Scam
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