BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams

Subject: BS: Helping 'Our Boys' ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 19 Apr 09 - 08:25 AM

I've had Nigerians , FBI s and all sorts - What about this one I have just received ?

I am SGT Joey Jones, with the US Army in Iraq, we have about 20 Million United States Dollars and we want to move the funds out of the Country. Please respond for further instructions if interested. Your Buddy. SGT Joey Jones.

If any one wants to help Joey , I can let you have the reply address !

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 19 Apr 09 - 12:42 PM

The line from "Prizzi's Honor" says it best: "The Prizzi's have no honor, only money."

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Jun 09 - 04:38 PM

Here's a funny one I got this week.

Please,confirm if you are dead as applied for.This is very urgent.There is a deal now......ATM CARD payment for US$10Million was approved in your name.Reply now for details/Call me with my telephone number [phone]þ
From: Spraci Com,Sydney,,ETALK,zDAGN ([e-mail]) on behalf of Alex Gajira ([e-mail])
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: Wed 6/03/09 9:14 PM
To: [e-mail]

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 11:53 PM

Here's one I got today.


Dear Sir/Madam,

This is Chief Odo Nana,from Effiduase Village in Obuasi, Ghana- West Africa. Actually, I am traditional Chief here in Ghana governing the Village of Obuasi where I have many hectare of land of Gold, inherited by my grandfathers.

We have managed to dig out about this 200 KG which I wanted to use your assistance to sell in your country. I will advise you to look for more buyer because we are try to expand our mining strategy, that means we are trying to purchase a mining equipment which will be more easier after selling this 200 KG We have been selling to people who sell out to foreigners but I have discover that they are cheating us, that was why I decided to look for Direct buyers or foreign partner who will assist me in the selling of the product so that we can go into a long business relationship.

I have made the entire necessary enquiry for the shipment through a legal procedure here in Ghana, I wait to hear from you so that I can send you FCO which will enable us to move ahead. In your reply mail please add your phone number for calling,

My regards to your family.

Cheif Odo Nana.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Oaklet
Date: 28 Oct 10 - 11:35 AM

Oh Cack....if I don't claim my money in 72 hours I'm going to be arrested and jailed for money-laundering by Robert S Mueller the Third.....

Anti-Terrorist And Monetary Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J.Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attention:Funds Beneficiary,

This is to inform you that it has come to the notice of the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) that the sum of $10.5 million united states dollars were

transferred from the central bank of Nigeria to the bank of America here in the united states, bearing your name as the beneficiary.
We did not believe this at first until we saw the transfer, then we had no other option than to place the funds on hold until you are able to prove to us that

you are not a terrorist or a money launderer, by obtaining what is called a diplomatic immunity seal of transfer certificate from the funds originated country.
Note that we have done a proper investigation on this transaction and from our investigation, this funds truly belongs to you and it is not a scam, but we have

instructed the bank of America not to release the $10.5 million to you until you prove the legitimacy of the funds you are about to receive.
As a matter of fact, you will be charged for money laundering and terrorism, if you fail to prove to us that you are not a terrorist or a money launderer by

obtaining the above mentioned certificate from the funds originated country,and if you are found guilty as charged, you will go to jail.
You have just only 72 hours to prove to us you are not a terrorist, failure to comply with our instruction, you will be arrested and detained until this matter

is settled. Meanwhile we have your full contact address which makes it easier for us to arrest you when ever we want to.
We are going to direct you on how to obtain the required document from the funds originated country in our next email to you, and your $10.5 million will be

released to you as soon as the required document is obtained.
Therefore you have been advised to get back to us immediately you receive this email or you will be arrested by the FBI, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

For more information's and quick response, reply back to us through this email address:
YOURS FAITHFULLY,

Mr. Robert S. Mueller, III
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 03:08 AM

THE NIGERIAN SCAM IS DEAD!!!!

(Well at least one of the original ones.)

Nigerian Sentenced in Million Dollar Email Fraud Scheme

TechNewsDaily
updated 10/25/2010 3:48:10 PM ET

A 31-year-old Nigerian citizen has been sentenced to more than 12 years in U.S. federal prison for taking part in an Internet "advance fee" scam and ordered to pay over $1 million to his victims, according to federal authorities.

In this type scam, also known as the classic Nigerian scam, the cybercriminal persuades a victim to pay money (an "advance fee"), usually via Western Union, in order to get a larger sum of money – money that never materializes. The money the victim sends to the cybercrooks also vanishes. Advanced fee scams were the third most common type of scam reported to the FBI last year, according to an FBI report.

In February, a jury found Okpako Mike Diamreyan, who also lived in Accra, Ghana guilty of three counts of wire fraud stemming from the scheme, according to David Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. In addition to his prison term a federal judge last week ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of U.S. $1,021,560.74.

Authorities said they have identified 67 victims of Diamreyan's scheme and conservatively estimate that he bilked his victims out of more than $1.3 million. The case was investigated by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service of the United States Department of Defense.

From approximately August 2004 through August 2009, Diamreyan and others engaged in advance fee scams against a resident of Connecticut and others around the country. As part of the scam, Diamreyan sent a number of fraudulent email messages claiming he had a "consignment" stored in Ghana containing amounts ranging from $11.5 million to $23.4 million.

Using different identities including Prince Nana Kamokai of Sierra Leone, General Odu Kuffour of Ghana, and the Rev. Dr. Richard Camaro, airport director in Accra, Ghana, Diamreyan offered the victims 20 percent of the money if they'd help him transfer the money to the U.S. He even sent the victims fraudulent documents to persuade them that the money existed.

[end quote]

A little more (but not much) at the link.

Somebody might want to check whether the names he used against the prior posts on the subject - but I suppose it's only of real interest to those who bought into the scam.

John

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 10 Nov 10 - 10:32 AM

Regrettably, there are too many people who subscribe to magically thinking that a miracle will occur to make them rich.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Amos
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 09:49 PM

ttn:Reciept,

This Message is from (I.M.F) and Federal Ministry of Finance Burkina-Faso, This is to let you know that After the board meeting held at our headquarters yesterday,Your cheque has been cashed and the first $7,000 was sent today. We have concluded to release and effect your payment through western union $7,000 daily until the $900.000.00 is completed. the information are below:

First Payment has been send : MTCN:73-18-76-73-59 NOTE; this payment was directed to be made available in your name but you have to re-new your Payment file with the Western union as to enable them purchasing your transfer file to prevent illegal transfer before you pick it up.we instructed the western union office to keep sending you $7,000.00 daily until the payment of $900.000.00 is completed, again re-confirm your address to them by avoid sending it to wrong person so that they will be sure;

MTCN:7318767359
Sender Firs Name; William
Sender Last Name: Borner
Track your payment on the website:www.westernunion.com

Contact Person Mrs.Awa Fatou of Westen Union Agency if any problem to enable her issue to you the text question and answer so that you can pick up the amount, below email is her email address: [e-mail] forward her your Telephone number and address so that she will be sure.

TAKE NOTE:that because of internet hackers we ask the Western Union office not to mark the payment paid yet until you re-new and purchasing your transfer file so when track this payment it will show picked up it is from the Western Union office.

view more details about me http://www.imf.org/external/np/bio/eng/ob.htm
Currently IMF is giving out special grant on Economic empowerment program to selected corporate entities and Charitable organizations around the globe for the outstanding role and tangible performance in area of eradicating poverting and industrial empowerment.
Mr Olivier Blanchard,
IMF Grant Unit
www.imf.org
Western Union Tel Phone:[phone]
Regard,
Mr.Olivier Blanchard

---

This is SO clever.    The key is emailing Ms. Awa Fatou at a domain called "gala.net" which is being presented as the correct corporate domain for a "westernunionagent" even though there is a perfectly useable domain "westernunion.com" mentioned in the same email.

Sheeshe.



A

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 14 - 08:23 PM

They're getting more complicated- think this one assumes I've already realised the original emails were a scam.
The US Border Patrol links are genuine, but if you try to contact Michael Fisher directly @qq.com it goes to a website in Chinese characters.


Your Abandoned ATM Card Is Now In My Custody And Ready To Be Dispatched,‏

U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Office of Border Patrol
Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C.
From The Desk of: Michael J. Fisher
Chief of the Border Patrol


Attention: Beneficiary

I am pleased to inform you that your ATM Card worth Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$10.5m) sent from Nigeria as part of your overdue payment/funds was returned to our office last week from Atlanta, Georgia where it was held due to one unavailable document. According to the information reaching my desk today, the ATM Card was returned due to your failure to pay the necessary charges required by the delivery company to enable it pass through the security agency.

However, after due investigation was conducted, I found out that your ATM Card was stopped unnecessarily. Georgia office told us that your ATM Card has no INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY PERMIT that was why you were told to pay huge amount of money which you did not pay. But after further investigation, it was very clear that your ATM Card has the INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY PERMIT attached to it therefore you will no longer pay the money you were asked to pay then. Now the only money you are required to pay is $90 only billed for NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE to clear your file so that you can receive your ATM Card without further delay. Note that the Nigeria customs will process the CUSTOMS CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE and send it to us as soon as you send the money to them to enable us release your ATM Card.

Kindly reconfirm your full name, home address, I.D and direct/cell phone number so that your ATM Card will be dispatched to your preferred address immediately you send the fee to them without any delay. Be rest assured that your ATM card will be dispatched to the address you provided as soon as you send the fee for the document. Secondly, be rest assured that there will be no delay on your ATM card delivery after you send the money and the clearance document is been issued in your name by the NIGERIA CUSTOMS SERVICE AUTHORITY.

For more information about me, kindly visit our website. http://www.cbp.gov/about/leadership/assistant-commissioners-office/border-patrol

You can also contact me here, [e-mail]

Awaiting your timely response with the above stated details.

Regards,

Michael J. Fisher

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Noreen
Date: 12 Nov 14 - 08:25 PM

Oh- that was me, cookieless.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: LadyJean
Date: 12 Nov 14 - 10:33 PM

I run a very small business. Occasionally I get emails from people whose first language is definitely NOT Englilsh asking to see my merchandise, as they have opportunities for me. They go to my spam filter.

A friend of mine's husband is an immigrant. He's lived in this country for more than 40 years, has a master's degree and is fluent in English, especially cusswords.
My friend, occasionally, gets messages, usually on her answering machine, claiming that her husband owes the IRS a lot of money, or there is a warrant for his arrest and if he doesn't pay them, things will get difficult. My friend is a legal secretary and knows this is BS. She has complained to various government agencies. They all say there is nothing they can do. But a scam like this is really despicable.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 08:13 AM

Nigeria! Nigeria! Like thou there is none other!

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: GUEST,#
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 09:54 AM

Reminds me of people who think they won a lottery prize even though they didn't buy a ticket.

""Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

George Carlin

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 05:58 AM

I live strictly by he code "There is no such thing as a free lunch".

Okay, I may have missed out on the odd bona fide free sandwiches but overall I've saved myself a lot of grief.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 08:47 AM

TANSTAAFL. T-A-N-S-T-A-A-F-L. T A N S T A A F L !!!!

(Thank you, Mr. Heinlein.)

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: bubblyrat
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 11:24 AM

I usually reply using my real name ,which is R Solster-Yew .

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Mr Happy
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 12:17 PM

My first language is definitely NOT Englilsh - is anyone's?

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 May 16 - 02:57 PM

I received this message today from Rev. Richard Homes. I get to help Rev. Homes battle "fraudsters," and then I'll be rich! rich! rich!!!!

Dear Email Owner,

This is to officially inform you that we have written to you before
without getting respond from you and we believe that our previous mail
did not get to you therefore we write you again.This is to inform you
that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters and
scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African
Unity (OAU) United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and FBI.We have
been able to track down some scam artist in various parts of African
countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and
Senegal etc) and they are all in Government custody now, they will
appear at International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recovered some
funds from these scam artists and IMF organization have ordered the
funds recovered to be shared among the 50 Lucky people listed around
the World as a compensation. This notice is been directed to you
because your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file
and computer hard-disk while the investigation, maybe you have been
scammed. You are therefore being compensated with sum of $5,000,000
(Five Million, United State Dollars).

Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will
receive a compensation funds, we have arranged your payment to be paid
to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal address with
the Pin Numbers as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $10,000.00 on
each withdrawal from any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all
the funds are exhausted.The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall
be delivered to you .

You are well aware many foreigners have invested thousands of United
States Dollars into Africa transactions in Hopeless Dreams to have
none of them become a reality Right now,as directed by UNITED NATION
AND WORLD BANK (EU), We have agreed with the Nigeria Government that
Five Million United State Dollars Only would be paid to you via ATM
card which is cash-able in any ATM machine in anywhere in the world.
don't forget to reconfirm your following information.


1. Your Full Name:
2. Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card
3) Your Full Address:
4) Your Contact Telephone and Fax No:
5) Your Profession, Age and Marital Status:
6) Any Valid Form of Your Identification/Driven License:

We advice you to stop all the communications with everyone regarding
your payment as we have short listed to deliver to you and now urge
you to comply and receive your ATM Card funds.Thanks for your
understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear from you
today.Please send your reply to our alternative e-mail address as
follows:([e-mail])

Yours in Services
Rev. Richard.G Homes
(HEAD DEPT: Anti scammers program).

Thank you, Rev. Homes, from the deepest depths of my heart.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: JHW
Date: 11 May 16 - 07:45 AM

Nigeria fantastically corrupt says David Cameron

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Megan L
Date: 11 May 16 - 08:06 AM

Our police recently posted on fb about fraudsters who had found a way to appear as a local number. A short time later those very nice microsft people in India phoned me(not a local number)For some reason when I asked"Are you the people our island police have been going round the doors warning us about?" the line went dead they must be having line trouble because they have never called back.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 May 16 - 09:23 AM

my folk club received a message from Tamara16@superdon dot net
'Hello, my dear my name is Kincess Dave & I will like to have an important relationship with you' - alas I don't know what else "Kincess Dave" wrote cos my spam filter gets uneasy if I open something it has placed in the spam folder ...

I just googled 'superdon' & found it was an address on fakemailgenerator dot com - how interesting!
FAQ What is the Fake Mail Generator?
The Fake Mail Generator is a website that allows you to circumvent email confirmations by giving you a one time email address to use. Next time a site asks for your email address, give them a Fake Mail Generator address and avoid the spam that is sure to follow.

next I searched for 'Kincess Dave' & found an address kincess_dave@ (a well known ISP) on 2 anti-spam websites, one mentions Senagal, so maybe this is not a Nigerian scam, so maybe it doesn't belong here.

this is fun! what will I search for next??

nope! get back to work, sandra, stop wasting time.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 27 May 21 - 11:28 AM

These guys don't give up easily. Here's a follow up to one from 2016. I will offer again to go to JFK to pick it up but somehow, I suspect that they won't send directions.

General Secretariat
Thu 5/27/2021 2:38 AM




INTERPOL General Secretariat
200, quai Ronald Noble,
69006 Texas


Attention:

We received a letter of attestation from an attorney representing you in respect to your overdue fund demanding for issuance of letter of Authorization(LOA) from our office to cover the relevant security clearance as demanded by Bank of Settlement where your fund is invested, with the aim of awarding the change of ownership to another person stating that you died in a vehicle accident that occurred in your country where only pictures inscribed with the date of the accident was taken at the scene of the accident was provided as evidence.

On the contrary, the signal, and report gathered from our real-time and a pain-staking investigation carried out with the help of our high-tech infrastructure of both technical and operational support systems aiding us in meeting the growing challenges of fighting crime in this 21st century. It was discovered that your name, identity, and email ware currently used to transfer and invest the total sum of $51,000,000.00 in Settlement Bank of United States and the dividend currently running up to $ 15,000,000.00. We have all the document here to confirm this claim

Now the questions are, how can a dead man be actively involved in fund investment without the presence of the next of kin who is supposed to be the signatory? Secondly, could this lawyer be trying to play a smart one? and lastly but not the least, This office has not at any time been notified either by email or letter by any medical practitioner certifying your deceased state or any document issued by any member of your family or from a registrar of vital statistics that declares the date, location, and cause of your death.


We have tried severally to reach-out to you by sending emails to your address and several attempted calls made, but all have so far proven abortive, hence this office is left with no other option than to send this reminder message to your email ones again, as we would not accept to be held liable for any loss of your rights and fund to a wrong person. If Peradventure you are still alive, do respond with your form of identification for final confirmation without delays, as we have already informed the bank that the real beneficiary of the fund may likely still be alive without even realizing what the lawyer whom so much was entrusted to have been up to.

Best Regards,

Mr. Russell White, For,
Mr. Jürgen Stock,
New Secretary-General of the International
Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
INTERPOL (General Secretariat)
Phone contact;[phone]
E-mail: ([e-mail])

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 27 May 21 - 01:17 PM

This one's a real screamer. Is it my imagination or have the Nigerian scams suddenly kicked into high gear again?

UNITED NATIONS
Thu 5/27/2021 12:33 AM
Attention: Beneficiary,



This is officially inform you that we the Headquarters of the United
Nations in collaboration with the World Bank Group’s and Facebook
company, tagged company and linkedin company google company Yahoo
company,and dating sites, also Gmail company, Hotmail company and all
other email companies has come to an arrangement legally to compensate

110 internet scam's victims, this means is to reward all the citizens
of the United states and all part of Europe including Asia, Australia,
South America and Arab world also some parts of African counties.



After the Board of director's meeting held in world bank your name was
approved to be compensated among the 110 internet scam victims with a
total sum of $950 000.00 Nine hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars,
and it is our pleasure to inform you that we have forwarded your name
to our authorized paying Office.



As a matter of urgency we have instructed the paying office to
immediately facilitate your payment via ATM VISA CARD in other to
avoid delay of your payment.



Meanwhile,We are writing to know if it's true that you are DEAD?

Because we received a notification from one MR. CHRIS LAMBERT of USA
stating that you are DEAD and that you have giving him the right to
claim your funds. He stated you died in a CAR accident. He has been
calling us regarding this issue, but we cannot proceed with him until
we confirm this by not hearing from you after few days. You have to
make sure you get back to us if you are alive.



FULL NAME ; MR. CHRIS LAMBER

ADDRESS ; 1609 Commerce St, Dallas, TX 75208, USA TELEPHONE ; [phone]



you are hereby being advised to contact the paying Office in respect
of your immediate release payment and you are also advised to follow
the instruction of the payment officer in charge to enable you receive
you ATM VISA CARD without any further delay.



contact the payment Office in charge with the contact email address
[e-mail] with the following required information's
below.

(1) Your Full Name

(2) Full residential address

(3)Telephone number



Best Regards,

Mark Malloch Brown

Admin secretary

UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK ORGANIZATION

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 21 - 01:40 PM

I want to write back and confirm that I'm dead...

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Bill D
Date: 27 May 21 - 02:09 PM

You guys have all the fun! I haven't gotten one of those for years. I haven't even recently received a letter from an evangelical 'church' offering me 'free' blessed water and 'free' booklets..if I'd please make a donation to help them...umm...send out more letters, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Jos
Date: 27 May 21 - 02:46 PM

I'm fascinated by the idea of "a pain-staking investigation".

What does that involve, do you think? Garlic? Vampires?

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 May 21 - 03:57 AM

Meanwhile,We are writing to know if it's true that you are DEAD?

I don't get anything so exciting - well, as I delete them without reading them, what I really mean is I don't get any SUBJECT that exciting, maybe it's hidden in the body of the email

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 May 21 - 06:35 AM

i got this one what do you reckon?ASP2021CA #INVOICE
Trash
Amos B Duston
        
Thu, May 27, 4:09 PM (19 hours ago)
        
to nortoncustomer58, bcc: me

Hello Valuable Consumer,

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*The debited amount will be reflected within next 24 to 48 hrs on your A/C statement. *

         

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Expiration Date             :       2 Years from the Date of Purchase

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Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Jos
Date: 28 May 21 - 06:52 AM

In my experience, Norton want money every year, not every two years.

If you are not sure, check who REALLY sent the email. Chances are it will be someone like [e-mail] or [e-mail] - nothing whatsover to do with Norton or whoever it is pretending to be.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 28 May 21 - 10:21 AM

Aha! We get to the crux of the matter. Their fourth email in this series finally asked me to send my information and a good faith deposit. Naturally, I told them to take it out of the money in the package and get back to me.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 May 21 - 10:55 AM

have they replied?

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 May 21 - 12:29 AM

I've finally started a list of the various things I do subscribe to and when they renew each year. Especially with magazines, they seem to send renewal forms about eight months of the year. How do they make any money when they're wasting it on printing and mailing charges?

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 May 21 - 11:29 PM

Not yet.

I got another today from a "Credit Union," telling me my account had been debited $80. I replied that was fine ut could they please send me a printout of the account as I had not received any statements lately. If there is such an account, I will withdraw the money and close it.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jul 21 - 08:18 PM

They're still sending them. This landed in my work email spam filter. For your reading pleasure:




Yukiz Awah
Sat 7/24/2021 2:39 AM
Dearest one


How are you today with hope all is well with you, Please do not be surprised or get offended for receiving this message from me. I am Mariam Guei from Cote d'Ivoire in west Africa also I am the only daughter of my parent Late Mr. Toure Guei. I wish to request for your urgent assistance in my investment plans in your base.

I wish to invest in manufacturing and real estate management in your country. My father was a politician and he is also a very good businessman dealing with gold and cocoa merchants in Accra Ghana and Abidjan (Ivory Coast), he was poisoned to death by his business associates during one of their business trips recently.

Before his sudden death.My father called me on his bedside at the hospital and told me that he has a sum of Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollar ($6.5 Million USD) deposited in one of the banks here in Abidjan Ivory Coast, my father told me that he used my name for the next of kin when he was depositing the fund for security reasons.

My uncle has seized all my late father's properties of which he wants me to provide every other document related to my late father's bank deposit I refused.Now my life is in a very big danger, for this reason I have to look for my safety for my coming over to meet you immediately after the transfer of this money to your account.

Now my uncle is going around Cote D'ivoire, looking for me to collect all the documents that cover this money, my late father told me to never show it to anybody, that the documents are my only hope. Now, Due to political problem in my country and since am the only person left in my family, I seek your assistance in the following ways



1.) To provide a bank account where this money can be transferred into.


2.) To make arrangements for me to come over to your country after the successful transferring of this money into your account, for me to come and further my education because I will continue to study medicine over there in your country.


3.) To help me invest this money in a profitable business since i am under age and do not know anything about business.


4.) To sponsor, transfer this money into your account.


5.) I want you to promise me that you are not going to betray me after the money gets into your account. Please I want to invest this money in a very good business area over there in your country, this money has been deposited for my social security and for fruitful international investment.


My late father has an agreement with the bank that I should provide a foreign partner from any country of my choice that will help me receive this money and I need you to help me provide investment purposes overseas.


I am waiting your urgent reply
Regards
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Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 01:36 AM

Money laundering!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 06:02 AM

Husband found that Ivorian one hilarious. He said it's most likely a man not a woman. I always wonder with these things if anyone nowadays is daft enough to be taken in? Surely we all know by now about scammers and fraudsters online and on the phone?

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 08:06 AM

Unfortunately it is so cheap (or even free) to send out emails or texts that if you send 1,000,000 scams and only 1 of them gets you money (or bank details) then that is a profit.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 08:46 AM

I have an account (no money involved) at http://geograph.co.uk so I can post pretty pics of milestones, fingerposts et al (COVID hobbies!). Their service includes forwarding e-mail blindly, so my address is hidden.

The old "gimmeyourbankaccount" schpiel came via that recently. They are getting desperate to find ways.

Anyone wanting random views of a UK area - Geograph is a location based website. It uses OSGR so if you prefer LatLong go to osgr.mister.red and convert. Links to Geograph and numerous map sites are then targeted to that location including Geograph. Enjoy.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: robomatic
Date: 28 Jul 21 - 02:12 PM

I have often thought that if there was a way to chsrge money per individual email sent, a lot of this problem would go away. Unfortunately it would involve setting up an actual cash account for every single internet member.

But think of it you'd have an account of say $5.00 max. Every email would cost a tenth of a cent. That would be enough for 5000 emails but for the spammers the costs would rapidly become prohibitive.

Again, the internet is not built that way. It would have to be so fundamental to the overall system that there would not be a way around it. So this IS a non-starter, but a lovely coulda shoulda woulda.

Free is usually a mistake.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Jul 21 - 07:19 AM

I expect you're right Nigel. If only one vulnerable or rather silly person takes the bait, the scammer can help him/herself and make quite a bit of money! Evil individuals.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Aug 21 - 01:49 PM

A new twist, Goggle play cards and their serial numbers:

e-mail subject starts Keeping in touch - genuine address. Next two different address see below.

From: rick jordan [mailto:[e-mail]]

Subject: Google Gift Card

Thank you so much. you can get it at any store around you, Total amount needed is £300 google play gift card in (£100 Each denomination 3 cards) I will need you to scratch the back of the cards to reveal the pin include a birthday wish, then take a picture of the back showing the code and have them email to me ASAP so I can forward to her.

Please let me know if I can count on you.
   With regards
              Rick J ordan

note space in name - it was consistent. I have no qualms about publishing his address, because I got another e-mail today from Kathy Harp with the same kind of "need a favor" though this time not the English spelling. I guess I have tired of playing them so I pointed out I was helping her friend, though he has gone silent since I offered to deliver in person.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 12:12 PM

Turned up in my old work email address recently:

Mr.Franck salif [e-mail]

Hello Dear,

I am Mr.Franck Salif. and I work with UNITED BANK OF AFRICA. Please Can you use ATM Visa card to withdraw money at ATM cash machine in your country? I want to transfer money to you from my country; it’s part of money taken by some old politician that was forced out of power.

I will change the account details to yours, and apply for a visa card with your details in our bank, they will send the visa card to you and you will be withdrawing money with it and always send my own percentage of the money, and the money we are talking about is $10.5Million us dollars.

Whatever amount you withdraw daily, you will send 50% to me and you will take 50%, the visa card and the bank account will be on your name, I will be waiting for your information as soon as possible.

Your name..........................

Age...........................

Sex...........................

Country.......................

Occupation....................

Phone number........................


Best Regards.
Mr.Franck Salif.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 23 - 07:21 PM

I'm not sure where this comes from (Nigeria or anywhere else in the world, but the spam filter has a couple of versions of this one):

Hi there!

I have successfully managed to hack your operating system, currently I have gained full access to your device.

In addition, I was secretly monitoring all your activities and watching you for several months.
The thing is your device was infected with harmful spyware due to the fact that you had visited a website with porn content previously.
? ? ?

Let me explain to you what that entails. Thanks to Trojan viruses, I can gain complete access to your computer or any other device that you own.
It means that I can see absolutely everything in your screen and switch on the camera as well as microphone at any point of time without your permission.
In addition, I can also access and see your confidential information as well as your emails and chat messages.

You may be wondering why your antivirus cannot detect my malicious software.
Let me break it down for you: I am using harmful software that is driver-based,
which refreshes its signatures on 4-hourly basis, hence your antivirus is unable to detect it presence.

I have made a video compilation, which shows on the left side the scenes of you happily masturbating,
while on the right side it demonstrates the video you were watching at that moment..?.?

All I need is just to share this video to all email addresses and messenger contacts of people you are in communication with on your device.
Furthermore, I can also make public all your emails and chat history.

I believe you would definitely want to avoid this from happening.
Here is what you need to do - transfer the Bitcoin equivalent of 500 USD to my Bitcoin account
(that is rather a simple process, which you can check out online in case if you don't know how to do that).

Below is my bitcoin account information (Bitcoin wallet):
########gr66nar4xh8yuk944casfenhak5v######

Once the required amount is transferred to my account, I will proceed with deleting all those videos and disappear from your life once and for all.
Kindly ensure you complete the abovementioned transfer within 58 hours (2 days +).
I will receive a notification right after you open this email, hence the countdown will start.

Trust me, I am very careful, calculative and never make mistakes.
If I discover that you shared this message with others, I will straight away proceed with making your private videos public.

Take care and have a good day.

The two copies I'm looking at today come from different names and email addresses but they use exactly the same information about the bitcoin wallet. I crossed out some of the numbers and did a strike through on that information so it isn't usable from here.

Oops! I shared this email with others! :)

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 May 23 - 08:35 PM

Not nice. Sorry to hear that you were subjected to this.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 23 - 10:31 PM

I wasn't subjected to anything! This is a scam email that landed in the spam folder. My computer is just fine, no one should believe this nonsense. The text is shared around amongst scammers.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 May 23 - 04:19 AM

Good. I never read anything in my spam/junk folder. A quick glance about once a week to make sure that nothing important has crept in there, then select all, delete. I'm still on old-fashioned Outlook and I do get rubbish in my inbox a fair bit. The latest one is someone ostensibly trying to sell me a cheap toolkit! They use a lot of different accounts, so blocking often doesn't stop them.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Donuel
Date: 17 May 23 - 09:34 AM

We can all see through the amateur extortion.
But AI is a different matter.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 May 23 - 11:26 AM

I rarely do anything but delete the spam that lands in the folder. I noticed the subject lines on these as being a new flavor of spam (pardon the pun). Most often what is out there are fake delivery attempts for expensive parcels, or the "confirmation" that I supposedly renewed an expensive annual computer service contract. And usually the only reason I open any is to see if they're up to snuff to add to this thread. :)

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 May 23 - 02:25 AM

AI is a terrifying proposition.

Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 May 23 - 07:04 AM

Recently I've been getting new style scams, one or 2 per day & finally, marking them as spam has led to them going straight to Deleted.

All have an attachment, telling me to pay a bill with an American style date. Here in The Land of Oz we write 17/05/2023, not 5/17/2023 & some senders are enormously loooooong (I extend the screen to read that bit, I never open them)

C-ADMIN@(my ISP)Management

[e-mail] Pty Ltd

[e-mail] Pty (my first name & surname)

today's effort was found in Deleted & is a bit boring. Subject - "Due Paystub007987-(my email) on 5/17/2023"& it only from "Petra Co Ltd"


sigh ... I wonder what I've been buying ...