Foo - Post your most recent Nigeria scams here :)

I just got one today. This one impressed me, he included two pictures!

"Dear Friend,

Thanks for your mail and for accepting my offer. I apologize for my late reply, it's due to my duty here. Since your last email to me on the month of JUNE, I couldn't reply back because my troops were camping at the road to the jordanian border, that makes it difficult for me to check my mail.

I have finally secure the money as being aggred and have every proof of this transaction only what I need is your assistance in smuggling this money out of Iraq. I am ready now to transfer the money to you. I want you to send your BANK details and YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT PHONE NUMBER to enable me start transferring the money into your BANK ACCOUNT as i cannot leave IRAQ because of the nature of my work.

I will transfer it with the Bank of Baghdad, Iraq. They do International Transfer. I will not send it at once, I will transfer $500,000 each transfer. I will inform you on what to do when i finally transfer the money into your BANK ACCOUNT.

I am giving you all the trust and I believe that with the help of God, we will sucessfully transfer this money out of Iraq. I hope that one day we will meet each other face to face to start a long lasting relationship.

Please do not disclose this deal to anybody as to protect my duty with the US Marine. I attached my picture and the picture of the Money which for your confirmation as you requested.It wasn't easy for me to do that but I had to because you requested for it and to make assurance double sure.

Remember, your share still remains the same 30% out of the total amount of the money. The total amount of the money is $12.8million Dollars.

I will be waiting to hear from you as soon as possible to proceed it the transfer.Please, Do not reply to this email, reply me to my private email address captain_us2@myway.com for security reasons.

Thanks.
CAPTAIN DUKER COLEMAN"

Obviously the image he includes of himself is fake. It is a guy dressed in an army uniform, the picture is so small there is no detail to be made out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKRAjCsid8:D

Just yesterday I got a clever one:
Basically an email with the Bank of America format saying I need to update my banking records (I do not use Bank of America by the way). In fact, this person has a brain. They even spent time making this site:
http://homeopatia.org.co/tmp/.~/.boa/?Secure/AuthService/
unfortunately I think that bank of America has a different URL. Maybe I should try to talk to him by writing stuff into the fields.

Just yesterday I got a clever one:
Basically an email with the Bank of America format saying I need to update my banking records (I do not use Bank of America by the way). In fact, this person has a brain. They even spent time making this site:
http://homeopatia.org.co/tmp/.~/.boa/?Secure/AuthService/
unfortunately I think that bank of America has a different URL. Maybe I should try to talk to him by writing stuff into the fields.
I wouldn't, it'll just confirm your IP to him, assuming they didn't have a 1 pixel tracker .gif embedded in the email and they already captured your IP. If so, beware of port scans, etc to access and hijack your computer to act as an agent for their emails if you have your email popped instead of server base.

Well, being on Linux, I don't think the little files that they would have to inject into my comp to hijack anything works.

Well, being on Linux, I don't think the little files that they would have to inject into my comp to hijack anything works.

and if you used a real email client (such as mutt) you wouldn't have to worry about image exploits and pixel trackers

BTW, I get over 5000 spam emails a day, yes, five thousand, and 99.99999% are sent to my brandon@debian.org email address. I'm not about to dig thru the qmail SPAM directory to find nigerian scams.
me gots some good filters ;)

Thunderbird is pretty nice I think. I have all remote images blocked anyways.
COmcast actually does a fairly decent job of filtering these spams out too. A year or two ago, I was getting 20+ spams per day. Now I get around 2. I check my spam box sometimes, just because I am curious. I am yet to see an email that should have been in my inbox in there. Pretty impressive.

and if you used a real email client (such as mutt) you wouldn't have to worry about image exploits and pixel trackers

BTW, I get over 5000 spam emails a day, yes, five thousand, and 99.99999% are sent to my brandon@debian.org email address. I'm not about to dig thru the qmail SPAM directory to find nigerian scams.
me gots some good filters ;)
Same here, on both 'puters, both Windows and Linux. I keep the image display disabled on any email not whitelisted as well. I know what you mean about lots of spam being filtered, my record for email intake in a day was the last time I was featured on the MSN homepage with my MSN mirror of my blog. I actually started bouncing on a yahoo account because the inbox filled up with requests for weight loss information! With a 4 gig inbox, I started bouncing back apparently when I hit 662000 emails that day! Needless to say, I didn't read them all!:p I don't even know how many spams got bounced! Yahoo I keep server based, by the way due to the sheer volume I can get. That's why I do folders and routing by address to those folders.:D

I haven't gotten a spam email for a loooong time. I just don't give out my email to anyone.

Gmail blocks that crap.

I get plenty of them....the best one ever was asking for help from a "good christian". Please, anyone who knows me knows I do not take up sides in religion....so this fool just annoyed me right there.

I baited him real good for a while. I did a great job at wasting his time having him take pictures with signs like "I love cream of sum yun gai"

I haven't gotten a spam email for a loooong time. I just don't give out my email to anyone.

That's hard to do when your email address is part of a very large opensource organization that prides itself on openness (debian.org)
however, my personal email account that I've had since 1989 (yes, it's that old) only receives 4 or 5 spams a week.

Got a "Ghanaian Scam" one recently:


Dear Friend,

Compliment of the Season.

My name is Mr. Daniel Koffi I am the manager of International
Commercial bank of Ghana Kumasi branch in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
I got your contact when I was searching for an overseas partner to
assist me.

I write you this Letter in good faith; I am 47 years old married with
two lovely kids. I have packaged a transaction that will benefit you
and me as the branch manager of the International Commercial bank
Ghana; it is my duty to send a report to my head office in the capital
city of (Accra Ghana) at the end of each year business. On the course
of last two years 2005 business reports, I discovered that my branch in
which I am the manager made four million five hundred and fifty united
state dollars which my head office are not aware of and will never be
aware of it.

I have deposited this funds on what we call (Fixed) call account with
no beneficiary. As the branch manager of this bank I cannot be directly
connected to this money, so my contacting you to this transaction is to
assist me receive this funds in your bank account and get 30% of the
total funds as your own share.

If you agree to assist me, I will immediately program your full
Information¹s in the computer system here in my own branch as an
account owner in International Commercial bank of Ghana. It will be a
bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the
original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch
so that my head office will immediately order the transfer to your
designated bank account.


If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much.


Thank you in advance as you co-operates with me and God bless you.

Yours Truly,
Mr. Daniel Koffi

FROM: Miss L. B. CHRISTOPHER
MISSIONARY QUARTERS A15
CHURCH ROAD ACCRA GHANA

PLS SEND REPLY TO MY PRIVATE BOX chrr_20006@walla.comDear
respectful one
I feel good contacting you today I have read from your add in Internet
knowing quiet well that this contact will bring a
lasting relationship.With regard to your reputation and co-
worshipperof God who will notdisappoint me nor deny me in faith, I am
directing this letter ofassistance to you.


I am Miss Louisa. Christopher the
only daughter of Mr.Christopher from
Republic of Zimbabwe in desire to
get somebody who will safe guard myinterest,
that of my junior brother
(Louis) and this money.Briefly , our
father Mr. Christopher was a Gold
and Cocoa merchant who based in Lome Togo,
Abidjan cote d'Ivoire, and
had a branch office here in Accra
Ghana.My father was a wealthy
Gold/Cocoa merchant who has business inmany
countries in Europe, America and Asian countries.According to
myfather, my own mother Died


when I was about six years of age, which
meansthat I did not even know
my mother very well.The story is
that myfatherMr. Christopher was
Poisoned to death by his business
associates aboutseven months ago,
and he died in a private hospital
here in AccraGhana.

But when he was about to die, he called us beside his sick
bed and toldus that he deposited the sum of fifty Two
Million Seven Hundred ThousandUnited
States Dollars (US$52.700,000) with a local bank there in Accra,the
economic and administrative capital of
Republic of Ghana.This money waskept for us in my name, his only
daughter. Right now I am a first yearstudent of business management in
one of the University here.My onlyproblem now is that since my father
has been poisoned to death by hisbusiness Associates,
I don't even trust any other person here againincluding my father's
brothers and sisters.Right now, I want you tohelp us
in the following ways:

1I want you to provide a personal / company's bank Account
where thisamount here he deposited the sum of
fifty Two Million Seven Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars (US$52.700,000) into your
account.
2)

You are going to be the manager
of this fund and Also my
personalguardian until I finished my studies.
3)

You are going to procure
admissions for us to continue our studies inone of the known
university in your country.
4) You are going to receive 15% of the
total sum for providing a bank
account for this transfer.
5)

That you must prepare immediately to make a working visit to ACCRAGHANA
here so that me and you can see each other and we can then do
thetransfer at the same time and I will go back with you toyourcountry.


We hope to receive your early response, as it will Encourage us, tostop
establishing further contacts as It regards to his subjectmatters,so
that we will furnish you With a private phone numberwhereyou
canreach us Direct, on receipt of your positive response.For your
information, this place we staying now is a House of a church sisterwho
sawourcondition and Decided to house us for a while.THIS
BUSINESS IS HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL BECAUSE NONE OF OUR LATE
FATHER'SBROTHERS
AND SISTERS KNOWS ABOUT THIS TRANSACTION.Waiting to hear fromyou
soonPls
Send reply to my private email box:

chrr_20006@walla.com
Thanks for
your understanding,
Miss L.B. Christopher

Seems like Ghana is the new Nigeria!

WHAT?!?!?!

These are SCAMS?!?

What's sad is that there are tonnes of people who fall for these scams... Greed and stupidity, something mankind has an unlimited abundance of....

Recently they uncovered a deviation to the Nigeria scam. They were posting ads under a bogus "work at home" company catering to deaf people. IMHO that is an all new low.

funny... just got this today...


MR.PARK HONG
HANG SENG BANK LTD.
DES VOEUX RD.BRANCH
CENTRAL HONG KONG
HONG KONG.

Dear Friend,

I am a potential investor seeking support and suggestions that will enhance my interest in investing in your country with your assistance. I am particularly seeking your favour to help receive and hence invest funds worth $68 Million USD in your personal or company bank account for safety reason.

I am Mr. Park Hong, the Foreign Exchange Credit Manager of Hang Seng Bank Ltd, Hong Kong. I hope I will find you absolutely honorable and reputable to entrust such amount of money to for investment.

The fund in question is presently in a fixed deposit account with my bank. On October 6, 2001, an American consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation, Mr. Smith Lawrence made a (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, in my branch. (The said amount includes capital and interest). Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Hong Kong Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Smith Lawrence died from an automobile accident.

On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a will, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless since he obviously left that column blank in his record with the bank. I have consequently taken total possession of the late man‚s file to avoid attraction because according to the Hong Kong Law, under china's foreign and defense affairs, at the expiration of 6 (six years), such funds will revert to the ownership of the Chinese Government for financing military operations.

I believe that if Mr. Smith Lawrence were alive he would have strongly opposed to the use of his hard earned money to finance war weapons. I therefore want to seek your support to front you as the relation/ next of kin of the late customer to enable me claim and invest the money. If you will assist to help receive the money, it will be paid stress free into an account that you will provide to the bank. Once the money gets into your account, you would be given a share of 20% of the money, while 70% shall be invested for me and the remaining 10% will be used to offset any expenses that may arise thereto.

There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by my attorney and with my position as the credit officer, I guarantee the successful execution of this transaction.

This is my confidential email: pkhong07@yahoo.com.hk. I hope to provide you with a detailed plan of this project upon your response.

Awaiting your urgent reply.

Thanks and regards.

Mr. Park Hong.

Here's the daily scam from my inbox.



Francis David Goodman:
Plot 22 Festac Town
Lagos Nigeria.
Contact Email:francis.goodman2@yahoo.com
Subject Matter: Invitation To Act As Next Of Kin

Dear Foley,

I presume this letter will come to you as a surprise, but as things
unfold,we will know each other better. I will start by introducing
myself to
you.My name is Francis David Goodman a solicitor at law, of the Federal
Republic Of Nigeria.

I am writing in respect of a foreigner Mr Robert Rice Foley, who
happens to
be my client an oil merchant and contractor who perished in a plane
crash of
31st October 1999[WITH EGYPTIAN AIRLINE 990] with other passengers
aboard
.

Since the demise of my client I personally have watched with keen
interest
to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come
to
claim his funds of US$28.5m(Twenty Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollar) and all the relevant documents in the bank has
no
record of any next of kin. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his
name
shall be used as his next of kin so I have contacted you to assist in
repatriating most especially, the money left behind by my client before
they
get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where the huge
deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the Equity Development Bank Plc where the deceased had an
account valued at about Usd28.5 million dollars has issued me a notice
to
provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated.

I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased,I
need
somebody who is trustworthy and willing to assist me get the funds
transfered.Whcih the account which my late client operate is valued at
Usd28.5 million dollars can be paid to you, as my clients Next of Kin,
and
then we can share the amount on a mutual agreed percentage.

All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin
will
be provided. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this
deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law and you
should
endeavor to keep it confidential.

Please get in touch with me (francis.goodman2@yahoo.com)to enable us
discuss
further about this transaction.

Best regards,
Barr. Francis D.Goodman

this was amusing -



Dear Beneficiary,

The Priory Of Sion Society of Edinburgh under the jurisdiction of the all Seeing Eye, Master Nick Cobb has after series of secret deliberations and random ballot as selected you to be a beneficiary of 2007 first quarter foundation laying grants and also an optional opening at the round table of the Priory Of Sion Society.

These grants are issued every first quarter of the year around the world in accordance with the objectives of the Priory Of Sion Society as stated by King Francis Aurthor I in 1815 which is to ensure the continuous freedom of man and to enhance mans living conditions.

We will also advice that these grant funds awarded to you which amount to $350,000.00 be used to better the lot of man through your own initiative and also we will go further to inform you that the open slot to become a Priory Of Sion is optional.

I hope you understood and for more information's on what you are to do to make claims of your grant funds awarded to you, do contact the Grant Claims Office Co-Secretary, Name: Barr. Richard Salter, E-mail: grant_claimoffice@Safe-mail.net, and do send along your personal information‚s (Names, Residential Address,Occupation,Tel/Fax Numbers Sex, Age and Country) for the procurement of the necessary document that will enable you make claims of your awarded funds promptly.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Judith Ernest.
Co-ordinator.
Priory Of Sion Society of Palmerston Place Lane, Edinburgh

Thanks for the scams everyone. Some of these appear to be working already. I'll be able to afford that Santa Cruz in no time. :D

Greed and stupidity, something mankind has an unlimited abundance of....
Why do you think we lawyers have work?

I haven't seen a Nigerian web scam in a while - the spam filter kills 'em. But some years ago, someone got ahold of mine or my wife's credit card number and used it to buy a round trip ticket to Lagos, Nigeria via London, w/open return. :eek: I tried to get someone to care, as I had an evil fantasy of this person being picked up in the Lagos airport and tossed in a Nigerian prison to rot for a few hundred years. :D Nobody gave a hoot - not the credit card company, not the airline, nobody. Then, and only then, did I figure out that the dirtbag probably flew to London and cashed in the rest of the ticket. :(

Oh well, it was a fun fantasy while it lasted. But isn't it nice to know that some of the interest and service charges paid for credit cards goes to offset the costs of lovely people like this?:mad:

Law Chamber Principal Attorney
Dan Bobby & Associates
44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.


Dear Sir/Madam,


Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I
believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact
that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on
your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar
with events.


Well, I am Barrister Dan Bobby, a Solicitor. I am the Personal
Attorney to Mr. Steve Anderson , who used to work with Agip Oil Company
in Nigeria. On the 21st of April 2004, his wife and their three
children were involved in a car accident along Abuja Express Road.


Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident.
Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any
of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives
over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail,
hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind
by my client in a Finance Company. Particularly, the Finance House
where the deceased deposited the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only).


Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the
Next of Kin to claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States
Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official working
days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over
2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of
the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the
fund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House.


Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet
with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share
the money in this order: 70% will be for me, 30% will be for you. I
have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will
make with the Finance House.


All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this
deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.


BEST REGARDS.

Dan Bobby


Principal Attorney


You are needed as a next of kin


URGENT REPLY

Some of my favorite sites have been reading about how people get back at these scammers:

David Lee Roth vs. David Kabila (http://www.geocities.com/jaccountinfo/DavidKabilaScam.html)
http://www.p-p-p-powerbook.com/