For a long time Nigeria has been the source of a many scams. The standard Nigerian approach has been the letter or email which suggests that the sender is an official of the Nigerian government, has arranged for the theft of substantial sums of money, and wants to the recipient to help arrange a repository for the funds, in return for part.
Here is a copy of the latest email I have received from Nigeria. This is an interesting twist on the usual scam:
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crimes Division.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building, Washington D.C.
Attn: Beneficiary,
This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed and Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Danail Smith, none officials of Oceanic Bank, none officials of Zenith Bank and some impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation agents and EFCC and ICPC. During our Investigation, it came to our notice that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.
So therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in the total amount of $800,000.00 USD which will be deposited into an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw funds anywhere. Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been involved in this transaction, you are now to be rest assured that this transaction is legitimate and completely risk-free as it is our duty to Protect and Serve citizens of the United States Of America.
All you have to do is immediately contact the ATM CARD CENTER via E-mail for instructions on how to procure your Approval Slip which contains details on how to receive and activate your ATM CARD for immediate use to withdraw funds being paid to you. We have confirmed that the amount required to procure the Approval Slip will cost you a total of $200 USD which will be paid directly to the ATM CARD CENTER agent via Western Union Money Transfer / Money Gram Money Transfer. Below, you shall find contact details of the Agent whom will process your transaction from Federal Ministry of Finance:
CONTACT INFORMATION FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE.
ATM CARD CENTER
NAME: DR. HARRISON NGO
OFFICE LINE: +2348061325890
EMAIL: fmffg_0811@live.com
Immediately contact Dr. Harrison Ngo of the ATM Card Centre with the following information:
Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Direct Phone Number:
Current Occupation:
Annual Income:
Once you have sent the required information to Dr. Harrison Ngo he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $200 USD for the Approval Slip after which he will proceed towards delivery of the ATM CARD without any further delay.
You have hereby been authorized/guaranteed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be NO delay once payment for the Approval Slip has been made to the authorized agent.
Once you have completed payment of $200 to the agent in charge of this transaction, immediately contact us back for more investigation for conformation of your ATM card.
Federal Bureau Investigation
Robert S. Mueller III Director, FBI
Contact us at: fbirobert4042009@live.com
I ran into this particular scam several years ago. It is one of the cleverer ones extant. If they can collect $200 from each of a number of people, this will be very worthwhile.
