419 fraud
The Nigerian
Scam, also known as the "419 fraud", after the number of the nigerian law
for advanced fee fraud,
is started by the 'scam artist' by sending letters similar to the one reported at the buttom of this page,
in which the scammer claims it should transfer incredibly high sums of money, tipically Millions of pounds/Dollars (!!)
in a foreign account and asks for your help. The money was acquired more or less legally by various means,
for instance by over invoicing governmental contracts, and should be tranferred out of Nigeria.
Your assistance is required. Your personal income will be 10-30% of this sum.
Would you believe this? Many people did and payed high prices, including their lives, for that.
The scam goes like this: you accept to act as foreign partner for the scammer. At some point of the money transfer procedure,
something will go wrong and you will be required to pay a sum, even small, to "facilitate" the bureaucratic procedures in loco.
Once you accept this, it becomes difficult to refuse further "little helps",
in the illusion that these are very low sums as compared to the final expected gain.
You enter a circle at the end of which your bank accounts are empty.
In many cases, the victims are requested to travel to Nigeria or neighbour countries to personally intervene in the procedures.
Once the victims are there, it becomes easy to spoil them, kidnapp them or worse.
Some people just disappeared. The financial loss of US in this "business" was estimated in the order 100 millions US $ per year in the last few years.
is started by the 'scam artist' by sending letters similar to the one reported at the buttom of this page,
in which the scammer claims it should transfer incredibly high sums of money, tipically Millions of pounds/Dollars (!!)
in a foreign account and asks for your help. The money was acquired more or less legally by various means,
for instance by over invoicing governmental contracts, and should be tranferred out of Nigeria.
Your assistance is required. Your personal income will be 10-30% of this sum.
Would you believe this? Many people did and payed high prices, including their lives, for that.
The scam goes like this: you accept to act as foreign partner for the scammer. At some point of the money transfer procedure,
something will go wrong and you will be required to pay a sum, even small, to "facilitate" the bureaucratic procedures in loco.
Once you accept this, it becomes difficult to refuse further "little helps",
in the illusion that these are very low sums as compared to the final expected gain.
You enter a circle at the end of which your bank accounts are empty.
In many cases, the victims are requested to travel to Nigeria or neighbour countries to personally intervene in the procedures.
Once the victims are there, it becomes easy to spoil them, kidnapp them or worse.
Some people just disappeared. The financial loss of US in this "business" was estimated in the order 100 millions US $ per year in the last few years.
IF YOU SEE
AN EMAIL SOUNDING SIMILAR TO THIS THEN IGNOR IT DELETE IT DO NOT RESPOND
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(Example)
My Dear Friend,
Pardon me for the mode that I have chosen to contact you, inappropriate maybe,but prompted by utmost need and urgency.Be informed that this is a sensitive proposition for assistance that must be kept between the two of us in confidence. Express your acceptance of this term when you respond.
I am Peter Water the personal accounting officer to Late Mr. John Schelpert , a foreign business man who is formerly residing in the federal Republic of benin. He died in the Iran Air subsidiary Iran Air Tours that killed 199 aboard on February 12, 2003, a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, owned by Iran Air subsidiary Iran Air Tours,crashed after aking off from Tehran en route to Khorramabad.For details :
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/19/iran.crash/ However,he did not leave a Beneficiary to be reached in such event and his bank account has been under the dormant status for more than fifteen months now without any claim for the fund in the custody of the bank and i have received notice as his accounting officer to provide his next of kin to claim the funds valued at 4.5Million Pounds.
The plan is for you to put claim over this fund as the bona fide Beneficiary and signatury to the deceased, getting the required approval and transferring this money to your account has been put in place by myself .Directives and needed information will be given as soon as you indicate your desire to assist us. It will be worth noting that, as far as you have an insiders like me to work with in this very scheme, this is 100% risk free. On conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 50%of he total sum,being your reward for your valued assistance, the remaining 50% will be for myself. I will be mornitoring the whole situation here the Republic of benin until you confirm the money in your account, then i will come to your country for my share . If you can do your part, take your share and keep it cofidential then, respond immediately, sending me your full name, postal address and contact phone number, failure to send these details requested herein when you respond, will indicate your unwillingness to assist in this regard,and will meet with my silence.
Private e-mail:mail112@o2.pl
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Peter Water
Federate De' Benin'el
This is not a joke e-mail, this is regarding to life benefit.
Please do take this message seriously. Thank you
IF YOU SEE AN EMAIL SOUNDING SIMILAR TO THIS THEN IGNOR IT DELETE IT DO NOT RESPOND
or report it to these guys They Are Scambaiters (like to play the scammers at their own game)
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My Dear Friend,
Pardon me for the mode that I have chosen to contact you, inappropriate maybe,but prompted by utmost need and urgency.Be informed that this is a sensitive proposition for assistance that must be kept between the two of us in confidence. Express your acceptance of this term when you respond.
I am Peter Water the personal accounting officer to Late Mr. John Schelpert , a foreign business man who is formerly residing in the federal Republic of benin. He died in the Iran Air subsidiary Iran Air Tours that killed 199 aboard on February 12, 2003, a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, owned by Iran Air subsidiary Iran Air Tours,crashed after aking off from Tehran en route to Khorramabad.For details :
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/19/iran.crash/ However,he did not leave a Beneficiary to be reached in such event and his bank account has been under the dormant status for more than fifteen months now without any claim for the fund in the custody of the bank and i have received notice as his accounting officer to provide his next of kin to claim the funds valued at 4.5Million Pounds.
The plan is for you to put claim over this fund as the bona fide Beneficiary and signatury to the deceased, getting the required approval and transferring this money to your account has been put in place by myself .Directives and needed information will be given as soon as you indicate your desire to assist us. It will be worth noting that, as far as you have an insiders like me to work with in this very scheme, this is 100% risk free. On conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 50%of he total sum,being your reward for your valued assistance, the remaining 50% will be for myself. I will be mornitoring the whole situation here the Republic of benin until you confirm the money in your account, then i will come to your country for my share . If you can do your part, take your share and keep it cofidential then, respond immediately, sending me your full name, postal address and contact phone number, failure to send these details requested herein when you respond, will indicate your unwillingness to assist in this regard,and will meet with my silence.
Private e-mail:mail112@o2.pl
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Peter Water
Federate De' Benin'el
This is not a joke e-mail, this is regarding to life benefit.
Please do take this message seriously. Thank you
IF YOU SEE AN EMAIL SOUNDING SIMILAR TO THIS THEN IGNOR IT DELETE IT DO NOT RESPOND
or report it to these guys They Are Scambaiters (like to play the scammers at their own game)
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