New take on Nigerian scam

[OpaDC]

I occasionally peruse my junk mail for the sometimes humerous offerings. The one just really tickled me. Kind of long.

Should be titled "We sory we stole you from money, so let us give back to you more" (yes I had a hard time making up a title and then writing it so wrong)

OFFICE OF THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY
COMPENSATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT
INITIATIVE OF CANADIAN GOVERNMENT/UNITED NATIONS.
SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS 2009.

ATTN: SIR/MADAM,

REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/PHBPLC/06654/08 ($3.5Million USD)

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED
NATIONS INTERNATIONAL FRAUD MONITORING UNIT, I wish to notify you that
the Canadian Government has been authorized to pay out to 50 innocent
victims of the widely know internet scam called Advanced Fee Fraud aka
(419) the sum of US3.5m (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
Only each).You have been listed and approved for this payment as one
of the scammed victims.

On these faithful recommendations, we want you to know that during the
last U.N. meeting held at Abuja, Nigeria, as it has come to an
alarming proportion based on reports from different victims, some of
these victims have almost lost their lives, families, properties, and
friends.

The most alarming aspect of the issue was on the amount money lost by
these various innocent individuals to scams artists operating in
syndicates all over the world today,and in other to compensate
victims,the UNITED NATIONS Body in conjunction with the newly elected
government in Nigerian has agreed to pay 50 victims 3.5Million each in
accordance with the UNITED NATIONS mandate imposed on the government
to help eradicate this evil and corruption practice.

Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the
payments are to be made payable only by a finance company in
Toronto,Canada under funding assistance by the UNITED
NATIONS.Benefactors of this compensation award will have to be first
cleared and recommended for payment by the Canadian
Government,according to the number of applicants at hand, 11
Beneficiaries has already been paid so far, over a half of the victims
are from the United States, We still have an outstanding of 39 scam
victims left to be paid. Other victims who have not been contacted can
submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible
Consideration.

We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get a response
from you on how you intend receiving your compensation payment. Send a
copy of your response and payment code listed below to our remittance
officer Mr.James Kessler through the details stated below.

SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE: FGN/PHBPLC/06654/08

Amount: $3.5Million Dollars

E-mail: isaacstanford1@hotmail.com

You are required to forward the following information listed below
immediately;

1) Your full name and residential address

2) Your direct phone number

3) Your file reference number

4) Your nominated account details where your funds will be transferred into

5) Your Picture

You are required to forward the above details to the payment officer
to know that you are a true beneficiary to the fund as we await your
immediate response.

Kindly, adhere strictly to this instruction thereby helping us to
avoid payment irregularity

Yours Faithfully,

Alhaji Baba Gana Kingibe
Secretary
Office of the Presidency,

[LCHIEN]

these guys must have nothing better to do all day than to make up these letters and send them to potential scam victims. Oh, yeah that's right. They don't.

[Uncle Cracker]

Heck, I was "selected" by three different government representatives this week alone. Total $$ coming in is a little over $20mil. Still haven't seen any of it, though (checking my mail every day).

[SARGE..g-47]

I don't think there is such a thing as "new take" on Nigerian scams. I have about heard them all. They have contacted me about 4 times about my uncle Tom who had an unfortunate auto accident in Nigeria and his entire inheritance is waiting for my response. Each notification over the course of a year had Uncle Tom's tragic accident and departure on a different date.

I think Uncle Tom must have been a cat with nine lives and I still have 5 more notifications to delete. I wish Uncle Tom would just take public transportation as he seems to be a p*ss-poor driver.

[shoottx]

If you have the time and inclination here are some folks who really get even with the scammers. Sit down with your favorite beverage and enjoy the read

http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

[Stytooner]

Here's another that is pretty laughable.




Attn: Beneficiary, This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr. Frank Nweke, Dr. Philip Mogan, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Barr. Derrick Smith, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Larry Christopher, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen, Dr. Philip Mogan, Puppy Scammers is impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During our Investigation, we noticed that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment. Therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in total USD$860.000.00 in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $4000 to $5000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation is involved in this transaction, you have to be rest assured for this is 100% risk free as it is our duty to protect the American Citizens. All I want you to do is to contact the ATM CARD CENTER via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $260.00 only and note that your Approval Slip which contains details of the agent who will process your transaction. CONTACT INFORMATIONNAME: MRS. PAIGE DIANE.EMAIL: pagedav{AT}verizon.net Do contact MRS. PAIGE DIANE of the ATM CARD CENTRE withYour details: FULL NAME:HOME ADDRESS:TELL:CELL:CURRENT OCCUPATION:BANK NAME:AGE: So your files would be updated after which he will send the payment information?? which you'll use in making payment of $260.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram Transfer for the procurement of your Approval Slip after which the delivery of your ATM CARD will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay. We order you get back to this office after you have contacted the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTER and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you. Thanks and hope to read from you soon. ROBERT S. MUELLER, IIIDIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONUNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEWASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with MRS. PAIGE DIANE of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

[BobSch]

As long as there's people gullible enough to fall for these scams, the emails will continue.