NIGERIANS SAY NO TO 419

Good day we are a group of well meaning Nigerians, who have decided that we want to take action against all forms of fraud. It’s no news that a large number of fraudsters are Nigerians hence damaging our international imagine and making it difficult for sincere Nigerian to do their business in and outside our shores.Please join us in this fight, so that together we will win this battle.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

LOTTERY SCAM FROM MICRRROSOFT

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 SOUTHAMPTON ROW BLOOMSBURY LONDON UNITED KINGDOM WC1B 4AR.
REFERENCE NO: 875061725/07
BATCH NO: 505649092/188
WINNING NO: PB8701/LPRC
WINNER: NO17

ELECTRONIC EMAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM

DEAR WINNER,

MICROSOFT CO-OPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORLD LOTTERY (MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO PROGRAMME) CONDUCTED ON:5 TH OF MAY 2009

YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO THIS YEAR’S MSWLL. WITH SERIAL NUMBER 7741137002 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 5-13-33-37-42, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUMS OF $ 1,000,000 (USD ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO: ILP/HW 875061725/07 THIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF $ 25,000,000 USD, SHARED AMONG THE TWENTY-FIVE (25) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.

ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE A COMPUTER BALLOTING SYSTEM THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES, 3,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT (CANADA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATE, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND OCEANIA, AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL "E-MAIL" PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME, WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR OUR PROMINENT MS -WORD USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE.

YOUR FUND (CERTIFIED CHEQUE) HAS BEEN INSURED WITH YOUR REF NO: ILP/HW-475061725/07 AND WILL BE READY FOR TRANSFER AS SOON AS YOU CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT DR SMITH WALKER . YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER, PLEASE NOTE THAT, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER VIA EMAIL OR TELEPHONE AS WE ARE PROMOTING THE USE OF E-MAIL. ALSO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL HIM TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS AND GOVERNMENT TAX PAYMENT THAT IS ALL, AS HE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE. AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY CODE MSW/MAY/XX07 TO YOUR CLAIMING AGENT. THIS IS TO PREVENT SCAM.

CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT OFFICER IN UNITED KINGDOM.
NAME: DR. SMITH WALKER
EMAILdrsmthwalker134@gmail.com
TELEPHONE: +447031975608

NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID MISTAKES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS AND YOUR SECURITY CODE OF MSW/MAY/XX07 IN ALL CORRESPONDENCES WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER. DO NOT REPLY ANY OTHER MAILS LIKE THIS ON NET, AS THEY ARE A LOT OF SCAM ARTIST OUT THERE PRETENDING TO BE US.YOU MAY SEE MAILS LIKE THIS DO NOT REPLY. DO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER, DR. SMITH WALKER IN UNITED KINGDOM. YOU WILL BE ASKED TO PROVIDE SOME DETAILS AND AS WELL LET YOU KNOW THE COUNTRY OF THE PAYING CENTRE AND ALSO TO ENABLE THE OFFICE PROCEED WITH YOUR WINNING CERTIFICATE AND FILE KEEPING.

CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF MICROSOFT CO-OPERATION TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM. OUR SPECIAL THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO ALL THE ASSOCIATES FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD.

SINCERELY.
MRS BETH MOOD


MRS. TAKIYYAH A'ISHAH
(CO-COORDINTOR).

LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;

MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA

Past winners

Saturday, October 16, 2010

fund transfer scam

From Susan&Daniel‏
10:30 AM
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From: Susan Kalon (susankalon018@yahoo.com)
Sent: Sat 10/16/10 10:30 AM
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From Susan&Daniel

Dear Respectful Sir.

Warm greetings to you and your family in the name of God. I am aware that this is not a formal approach in starting a relationship, but as time goes on, you will realise the need for my approach. My email to you will come as a surprise since i don't know you in person. But if this message comes to you out of your wish, i am very sorry. I hope that you will read through this email and understand how difficult things can be for someone in a particular period in life. I introduce my self to you with all faith, trust and hope you will understand to assist us not to betray us at the end.

My name is Susan,i was 20 Years old when my father died 2 years ago in a gold mine in MENDE, Republic of Sierria Leone. He was into legal gold minning,he has succeded in saving the sum of $9 Miilion U.S.D (Nine million United State Dollars.) in (BOA) being one of the prime banks here in Abidjan during his Business on Gold, before he went on a trip to Republic of Cote D‘Ivoire West Africa near by country to our country to save his money for security reasons because of the political problem in our country.

Since the death of our father our step mother has been trying to kill us, she has been given us a lot of problem and she have collected every thing from us and now she still need the deposit certificate to claim this fund but I can‘t give this to her because this is all we have to leave with. I am 22 years now while my brother Daniel is 20 years old of age and we still need to go to school and have a better education and start a new life.

Our step mother knows that our dad has such money but she don‘t know where exactly the fund is been deposited. Right now we are hiding here in Ivory Coast . Our father used my name "Susan Kalon" as the next of kin to the deposited fund. And we ran away with the deposit document, so nobody have access to the money now except me and my younger brother Daniel.

We need help from you to asist us to transfer this money to your country for investment and you will be sincere to invite us to your country without cheating us or doing bad to us on my arrival with my brother, we are willing to offer you 15% of the total sum after the transfer of this fund into your account in overseas. Please mail me urgently to know your stand before we start looking for help elsewhere, you‘re the first person we are contacting in this issue.

Please permit me to ask, can you honestly help us as your own people and can we completely trust you? We are kindly requesting for this vital information from you if you agreed to assist us out of our problem: (1) Your full name (2) Your Personal telephone number. I will also want you to tell me more about your self in your reply to my letter to you.

Thank you and God bless you as you help we orphans. Hoping to hear from you soon. I will be expecting your urgent reply, thanks.

My regards
Miss Susan and Brother.
Email: susankalon018@yahoo.com

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Reasons people respond to scams

Everybody has a weakness, and scammers target this weakness. Furthermore people almost always have a low point in their lives, points were they are in need of more money, love, security and the likes. It’s at this point they are most susceptible to 419 scams.
419ers are coming up with new tricks by the day; these tricks of theirs exploit different vulnerabilities in human behaviour while they apply various deceptive and persuasive techniques to accomplish their task. Reasons why this so called “unprofessional scams” are successful are tied to the following;
Greed-
In the early days of 419, this was apparently the needed prerequisite to falling for such scams. Even today that 419 scams has become over 20 years old, greed is still playing a major role in 419 scams such as fund transfer scams, lottery scams, black money scam, embezzlement scam and investment scam, just to name a few. Individuals, companies or even nations in which greed is inherent in its members to a far greater degree are more susceptible to classic 419 scams. People who would like to make huge sums of money without critically considering the conditions of making such goldmine.

Personalized scam-
419 scams are carried out at a personal level in a bid to make the target believe the offer is unique. Scammers take their time to build a relationship with their targets, in this period of gestation; the scammer notes the key weakness and strength of the targets. Having achieved this the scammer now moves to the aggressive phase-419ers ensure that the scams are well adapted to the needs of each of their targets, putting the strength and weakness of the victim into consideration, hence making it very difficult for the victim to escape as the trust built between the target and scammer makes it even more difficult for a third party to make the victim doubt the authenticity of the deals.

Environmental factors-
Just as in the case of the scammer the environment places a very critical role in the vulnerability of victims to some types of scams. As in cases where the victim grows in an environment where they don’t come across such acts of deceptions, such individuals are dazzled by scams such as the famous wash- wash scam (were some sort of so called rare chemical is used to was out dollar bills). Further more such individuals don’t have any idea about the dexterity of 419ers, failing to note that there are only very few with 6 million dollars in West Africa. Persons who grow up in environments where people are trust worthy and leaders fulfil their promises tend to readily trust others and wouldn’t believe that anyone would want to cheat them.

Cut off principle
Once the scammer has gained the victim’s confidence and has successfully convinced the victim to part with a little money, the scammer would consistently threaten to cut off / call the deal off if the victim doesn’t make a little more payment for phony reason- usually there would be someone to be bribed, some certificates to be acquired, some kind of payments to be made and the list of excuses continues. When the victim is milked dried, the scammer encourages the victim to borrow or use any means necessary to raise the required sum without which the deal wouldn’t sail through. The victim eyes is been focused on the windfall in contrast to the relatively small amount of money they would have to part with, this phenomenon is called “phantom fixation”.
The aim of the scammer is to delude the victim into believing that once the deal sails through, he/she would experience a lifestyle transformation. Having this at the back of one’s mind could lead many a person into commit many crimes in a bid to raise the required “small amounts of money”, which never seizes to end.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!

Attention Beneficiary,‏
From: ATM CARD (atm@cbn.net)
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Sent: Sat 6/26/10 10:25 PM
To:

Attention Beneficiary, Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

un-nest-co fraud

Qualification numbers (154/4456/011).‏
From: UNESCO (info@unesco.org)

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Sent: Wed 6/30/10 10:08 AM
To:


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United Nations Joint Programme.
Division for the Promotion of basic Education
Sector UNESCO 7, place de Fontenoy,
F-75352 Paris 07 SP,France.
Fax: +33 1 45 68 56 26/27
www.unesco.org


Qualification numbers (154/4456/011).

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise,
Please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you following our
official publication of results
of an exclusive list of 47,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual
and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer ballot
search from the internet
as part of our international information technology enhancement programme.
No tickets were sold and Applications were also made by national
governments or international
non-governmental organizations,maintaining formal consultative relations
with UNESCO in your country.
This was held on today wednesday 30th of June 2010 in Paris France.
A Draft of 500,000,00(Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) will be
issued in your name. For Validation Purpose ,
Please Forward The Following Information as Listed Below to our Information
and Payment bureau Officer.

Required Info

Full Names:.
Residential address:.
Tel(Mobile):.
Nationality/Country:.
Age/Sex:.Occupation/Position:
SEND DETAILS FOR VALIDATION TO:
Dr Mariana Patru on: unescopayoutcentre@live.nl or call Tel: +447 045 749
886

Best Regards,
Isabelle Le Fournis,

Monday, June 14, 2010

CONVERSATION WITH A SCAMMER 2

URGENT REPLY NEEDED‏
From: Elisabeth Koffi (elisabethkoffi@gmail.com)
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Sent: Sun 5/23/10 7:03 PM
To:

Dear Trusted Friend,

Greetings to you and your family,in my search for a reliable and responsible person and having gotten your contact through prayers and pains taking efforts via searching i made on the internet on my bed side. I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. My name is Mrs Elisabeth Koffi, I'm a 59 years old woman, I was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai,i was also married with two children.

My husband and my two children where involved in a plane crash in the Dec,25th Before this happened,my business and concern for making money was all I care for,i never really cared about other values in life.

But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families,i have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless,i have also donated some money for humanitarian needs,only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of properties and livelihood people in Indonesia, Haiti, Chile and Philippine due to Storm and Quakes in china and singapore that made peoples desperate in life.

I was moved with great pity and compassion that I decided to make this contribution on assisting people over there or any part of the world like Asia/ Europe and America that might still need any financial help,i have kept (US.6 Million) Six Million United States Dollars, in a long-term deposit in a Finance company.

Presently, I'm in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for Oesophagi Cancer at International Memorial Hospital Benin.

I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few weeks to live,It is my last wish to see this money distribute to victims of earthquakes in and displaced people in Haiti and Chile and other charity organization in the World like i said,i have enclosed for you the Current Photogragh I took below Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness,I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please, I beg you to help me collect the deposit with the help of my Lawyer and distributes it accordingly Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 30% of it to yourself.feel free if you can give me your trust in this transfer that you are going to share this money according to my direction when it gets to you.

Please If you are willing to help,please reply by including your phone number as soon as possible,again I will allow you to communicate with the financial company directly upon the receipt of your reply because I want this project to be completed before the end of this month because am not sure of my life.

Please if you are interested reply my private address
mrselisabethkoffi@msn.com


Best regard.

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:19:53 -0700
From:
Subject: re;trusted friend
To: mrselisabethkoffi@msn.com
I read your email and i really sympathize with your story, please let me know in which capacity i can help. But i would need proof and hard evidence because these days we here all sort of stories and i need you to convince me that this is not one of those scam letters, stay blessed

RE: re;trusted friend
From: Mrs Elisabeth Koffi
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To:

Dear Friend,

Thanks for the reply to my mail message. I am into a great treatment here and I have went to different hospital and they confirmed that i will not survive .I will be having operation next week here in Benin hospital,i dont think if i can survive it. I want you to handle this project and that is why i want to know you the more.
i will like you to answer the following questions to me.


1 Are you married.If yes how many kids do you have?

2.Tell me if the 30% is ok for you to carry on this project of Godly work?
I will send you more details for your kind understanding as soon as i receive your reply. Well as for now my present health condition is very bad and to that am not giving much privilege to speak on phone ,But i will try and speak with you even for a second.

Now I will like to give you more information on what you should do as to get all vital information to clear this fund and make sure it goes into your own account.

I have a lawyer by profession who I have already given some of the vital information before because I was so scared when the doctors pronounce my death. You know what that means. Now I will try to discuss with the lawyer today about you because he is the only one that visit me now at the hospital each day that comes and go.

I will let him understand that you are my late husband brother that we are have been waiting for a long time who will handle all our funds and who will use it to do Gods own work.
I will send his full information to you by the time I confirm your second mail reply. I will also give you the contact information of the BANK were we deposited the funds so that you can contact them by your self through the help of my lawyer here in benin.

The lawyer will have much to help you because I can not move and can not do any more thing as for now only waiting for the day God will call me to glory.

Every information you will need to get this fund cleared from the BANK here in Cotonou Benin to your own bank account will be given to you by the lawyer.

But please what you will do for me is after clearing the funds and into your account, Make sure you never forget to use 70% for Humanitarian service and also the lawyer because he is such a nice man who has the fear of God in him. I will want you to use some part of the money to build a church and to help the less privedged and use the rest of 30 percent for yourself.

Please send your address include your passport copy because the lawyer will use it for the change of name in the bank and will have to make it legal at the high court of Benin.

What you will only do for me is to gather Children of GOD brothers and sisters and pray for my soul because I really know that my time on this earth is over.
I Wait to hear from you as soon as possible to proceed.
Thanks
Mrs Elisabeth Koffi

CONVERSATION WITH A SCAMMER

This is one of the numerous mails some of our contacts send in. This is a series of emails between one of our contacts and a scammer (fund transfer scammer)


Mail 1
From Miss alice kone‏
From: alicekone1@cantv.net (alicekone1@cantv.net)
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Sent: Sun 5/30/10 9:30 PM
To: alicekone1@cantv.net

My Dear ( this addressing has shown clearly that the scammer has no/limited knowledge of who the target is)

My name is alice kone, I am 26 years old girl. I lost my parents and my only brother of 14 years to the war in my country congo. I am lucky that I was taken to this place by one midwife who have families here in Ivory coast. I am staying in a missionary refugee camp in Abidjan,but this place was not comfortable for me.

I would like to appeal to you confidentialy to assist me concerning my late father's company deposit here in Abidjan of $6.5,000,000 million dollars I want to move out of from here because the crisis that started here over years now is still on because of political crisis and there is no sign that it will be well with the country for now.

Also the condition in this camp is not condusive for me i had naver be into this condition before when my late was alive, Can I trust you to provide your informations and a place for me to stay with you in your country? Can I also trust you to care for me and to help me invest this money in your country? will you promise me that the moment this money enterd into your hand that you will not betrayed me?( hear the scammer is trying to turn tables- trying to make the target believe that the sender is more likely to be a victim of this transaction)

If you are willing to help me out please indicate in your next mail to me and let me know so that I will give you the contact of the security company to enable you openup your comumications with the security company officials, when i see your seriousness to assit me in this my critical condition then i will give you the whole document issue my late father, rightnow is still with me and that is my last hope for now. wating to hear from you as soon as possible.


Mail 1 response

I read your story and must tell you i sympathise with your plight, please let me know in what capacity i can be of aid to you, but before you do that you must confirm that you are genuine- i mean i need real evidence because these days we here all sort of things. I need to know if you are genuine!
Mail 2
Dear Massimo,

Thanks for your mail response and for your concern. I write to inform you that every thing about this transaction is legal and genuine as I have the legal deposit document which the security company issued to my later father with me and I am willing to send it to you if can assure me that you are going to handle this transaction confidentially and with the fear of God.

What I need from you is to stand for me as my foreign partner and to receive.
The fund for onward investment with you and assist me in coming over to your country for our mutual investment of the fund in your country. If you are willing to stand and cooperate with me, kindly let me in your next mail by sending me your full contact information so that I give you all the details on how we are going to proceed in this transaction.

Awaiting your response,

Regards,

Alice Kone.
…………………………………………………………………………….



mail 2 response
Dear Alice
Am so glad that you are a spiritual person and i appreciate the trust you repose in me, but as a righteous person i would like to see evidence "no matter how small" of your claims and i would guarantee you that your funds would be effectively managed and i would do all that is necessary to facilitate your coming over to Italy. Personally i am very courteous in dealing with people i dont really know, but in your case something tells me you are genuine, but i would like to see evidence for me to be 100% sure that you claims are real.
stay blessed Alice

mail 3
Dear Massimo,
Thanks for your mail and for your assurance that you are going to manage my money well and that you will help me to come over to Italy for our mutual investment there.
Based on your request, I have attached the legal deposit document which the security company issued to my late father as of proof what I am telling you with my I.d card here.
For your information, I want you to know that my late father deposited the money as family valuables for security reason and the security company does not know that the box contains money.
In your return mail you should kindly send me your full contact information which I will submit to the security company for them to contact you for a way forward. Please you should keep this document very confidential .
Awaiting your response.
Thanks and God bless.

Alice Kone.