The Crime Clearance Center - is a fraud too!

One of our readers sent us an e-mail from an official sounding "Crime Clearance Center".

As I read this e-mail I just had to laugh out loud. This story is good! They write that they have caught and arrested a "scamartist" named Dr. Samuel Adebe. I googled the name and came up with at least two entries refering to him.

The first one was a Guestbook entry:
http://maxpages.com/buyahome?pg=Pre+Qualified&emb=10&formname=guestbook&a=List+Data

The second was an entry on a scandinavian website, who correctly recognised him as a Nigerian fraudster: http://www.rongved.com/pivot/entry.php?id=284.

That being the case, the so called "Crime Clearance Center" was correct in their observations, but ....

If this is a real official organisation, why do they use a freemail adress from Bulgaria.com? Dr. Sam has also used bulgaria.com. No contact telephone number?

This story is a good idea if you want people to contact you. Who wouldn't be interested in finding out who's been using your data? Just the same it is a fraud!

Here's the e-mail:

From: "CRIME CLEARANCE CENTRE"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: FROM CRIME CLEARANCE CENTRE

ATTN: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
On behalf the Board of Directors of CRIME CLEARANCE CENTRE am hereby directed to informed you that The legal department of CRIME CLEARANCE CENTRE had arrested ANOTHER Internet Fraudsters and Scam Artist Dr. Samuel Adebe, Age 45, Formerly Staff of West Africa Security Company, a black man from Togo living in Lagos. Dr. Samuel Adebe, Age 45, was arrested In National Branch premises when he was trying to claim your money.

In my investigation as the Head of CRIME CLEARANCE CENTRE Legal Department, I saw your name and e-mail address in Mr. Dr. Samuel Adebefile in one of the ownership documents in his file, as your NAME on the ownership document.

Sir, on behalf of my department we are very sorry and we apologized for the embracement that Dr. Samuel Adebe, as brought to your family name on behalf of our Great Country. As an instruction from the Presidency, WE PLEASE ADVISE YOU TO REPLY TO THIS LETTER IMMEDIATELY WITHIN 24 HOURS FROM THE DATE OF THIS MEMO FOR EASY COMMINCATION WITH YOU AND APPROVAL OF THE PAYMENT OF YOUR MONEY DIRECTLY TO YOU.

If you have any question or for more information about this DEPARTMENT set up to ERADICATE CRIME' you are please WELCOME.

Yours sincerely,
PROGRESS R. JOHN.
CRIME CLEARANCE CENTRE. 23/ NOV; 2004 SIGNED
_______________________________________________________
Free e-mail by Bulgaria.com at http://mail.bulgaria.com

A Princess, would you believe?

This story is the same as all the others, with the difference that the writer is supposed to an educated african princess ... :-)

Just take a look at the grammer and you will see that the person is not all that educated.

>From princess Geena Mensah Palace of King of cape-coast Kingdom,Gold Minning Community,Eastern Region, Ghana
Alternative Email:princess_geena2000@yahoo.fr

Dear Sir,
I am Princess Geena, daughter of HRH King Solomon Mensah, the king of CAPE-COAST Kingdom. I am 25years old and a graduate of Mass Communication. Myfather was the king of CAPE-COAST Kingdom the highest Goldminning area in Ghana.

He was in charge ofreviving royalties from the multi-national goldcompanies and government on behalf of the gold minning producing communities in Ghana. my father suffered stroke and died in Augus t27th last year. But before his death, he called me and told me he has
fourty Million United States Dollars(USD40,000,000.00) cash in his possession, specially deposited in a Security vault company in eroupe. Headvised me not to tell anybody except my mother who isthe last wife of the (8)eight wives that he married.My mother did not bear any male child for him. Which implies that all my father's properties, companies e.t.c., we have no share in them because my mother has no male child according to African Tradition.

Myfather therefore secretly gave me all the relevant documents of the said money, and told me that I should use this money with my mother and my younger sisters because he knows that tradtionally, if he dies wecannot get anything, as inheritance. He importantlyadvised me that I should seek foreign assistannce and that I should not invest this money here in Ghana because of his other wives and male children who happen to be my elders. I am soliciting for your immediate assistance to get a Bungalow for us, where I will live with my mother and two younger sisters andfurther advise me where and how I will invest thebalance money overseas, possibly on products of your company and other profitable ventures. I believe thatby the special grace of God, you will help us movethis money out of eroupe to your country where we caninvest this money judiciously with you. You are entitled to a reasonable part of this money based onour agreement, and God will bless you as you help us.PLease reply through my e-mail as i Look forward to hearingfrom you as soon as possible and also please contact my lawyer via his mail address. [barrister_kenchukwu@fastermail.com]

Thank you in anticipation, and please reply asap.

Best regards
Princess Geena Mensah

An Orphan Donation or just cashing in again?

Running up to Christmas, you can always expect our "fraud friends" to come up with a story with a moral twist.

The e-mail sender purports to be Elisabeth Ahmed. A Christian married to a Muslim. It looks as though they are using actual events (Margret Hassan, a CARE worker held hostage in Iraq) to make up their story.

This poor woman has not only lost her husband, she also has cancer in the end stage! Being a good Christian, she wants to give her family forune to some good christian person to use in supporting orphans. Obviously they are targeting christian communities with this story.

A lot of Christians are wiiling to help charity organisations, especially at this time of year, and with such a lump some of money purportedly availiable for such use, could provoke some good soul to reply. There are a lot of cases where communities have lost thousands of dollars of church and members money, because they believed it was an honest offer and contacted these people. Be warned, it is not so!

Here's the e-mail:

REQUEST FOR AN URGENT DONATION FOR THE ORPHANS

From: Mrs. Elizabeth Ahmed
Address: Calle Fanjul Nº 12 Barcelona, Spain.
Tel.: +34-619-201-153
Email: elizabethahmed@whipmail.com

My dearest in Christ, May God be praised!!!

I am Mrs. Elizabeth Ahmed from Australia. I am married to Zaki Ahmed of the blessed memory who worked with Kuwait embassy in Madrid Spain for nine years before he died. We were married for twenty-seven years without a child, and he died after a brief illness that lasted only four days.

Before his death, he was a very devoted Muslim and I am devoted Christian by birth, and at this moment battling with both cancer and fibroid illness, when my late husband was alive, he deposited the sum of $12.6million dollars (twelve million, six hundred thousand dollars) with an overseas finance and security firm.Presently,this money is still with the finance and security firm.

Recently,my doctor told me that I had terminal illness (cancer) that would last for about the next four months. Though what disturbs me most is my cancer sickness.

Having known my condition, I decided to donate part of my husband's wealth to either a trusthworthy,God fearing and religiously devoted individual or organization that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct thereafter.

I want you to use this money in all sincerity to share it to charity homes and orphanages in your country, to fight against serving humanity which transcends ethnic, tribal and religious bounds. The holy bible and the Koran alike emphasized so much on giving of alms, charity and this common belief and bold step.

I took this decision because it was an instruction from my husband before he died to share this money to charity homes because we don't have any child and I don't want my husband's hard earned money to be misused by people that are not trustworthy. I don't want a situation where this money will be misused hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I know that when I die, I will rest in peace with the most high and the most merciful one if my wish is accomplished before I demise to the higher glory.

Kindly include your telephone and fax numbers where I can call you when responding to this letter. With God, I know that all things are possible and as soon as I receive your reply, I shall give you the contact of the finance and security firm and I shall instruct them to change the ownership in your name, I will also issue you a letter of authority and power of attorney through my lawyer whom I will introduce to you as soon as I receive your reply.

I want you to always pray for me. Please for the help you are rendering to the children of God I will want 10% of the money to be yours. My happiness is that I lived a life of a truly devoted Christian though married to a Muslim, love conquers all.

Whoever,that wants to serve God must serve him in truth and in spirit, please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room for sourcing another trustworthy organization or devoted person for the same purpose.

Until I hear from you my dreams will rest squarely on your shoulders, may the Almighty God continue to guide and protect you. Amen.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Elizabeth Ahmed.

Here's a new Story "Money for AIDS education"

It's unbelievable what ideas are used to trawl for new victims.

I received a notification that I have been awarded a cash grant of 1,2 mio USD to be used for, among other things, "mostly On educating people in provention of HIV/AIDS".

They are using as evidence of their honest intentions the "International HIV/AIDS Organisations" list from thebody.com webpage: http://www.thebody.com/hotlines/internat.html. Which is a "Body Health Resources Corporation" website. As such it is a commercial website and not one of a charity or foundation, which they are trying to suggest.

They also quote a URL from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC website http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/default.htm.

They then go on to say that I was chosen as a recipient in (would you believe it?) a lottery!

As if they are not reaching enough people with the lottery scam ....

Here's the e-mail:

INTERNATIONAL HIV/AIDS ORGANIZATIONS BASE IN SPAIN
http://www.thebody.com/hotlines/internat.html

Contact Address:

PLAZA DE COLON 27,E- 28830 MADRID ESPAÑA. TEL:+34-646-355-087 FAX:+34-657-277-162

Ref No: RRCF/816/185/2004
Batch No: 581-FC7-17-DM

Dear Sir/Madam

Notification of Cash Grant/Donation.

This is to notify you that you have been selected by the Board of Trustees of the above International HIV/AIDS Organization Base in Spain for a Cash Grant/Donation of US$1,200,000; for Business, Economic, Social and Research developments in your community mostly On educating people in provention of HIV/AIDS .
World AIDS Day was first observed on December 1, 1988, after an international summit of health ministers called for a new spirit of social tolerance and a greater exchange of information on HIV/AIDS. Observed annually on December 1, World AIDS Day serves to strengthen global efforts to address the challenges of the AIDS pandemic, which continues to spread throughout every region of the world. http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/default.htm

Participation in World AIDS Day activities grows stronger every year, from small local groups to large community-based and national organizations. Likewise, local, state, and Federal Government agencies sponsor activities and promote awareness of World AIDS Day.

Is giving out One Hundred Million United States Dollars as specific Donations/Grants to 150 lucky international recipients worldwide in different categories for Business development and Social upliftment of their various communities and educating people in HIV/AIDS. Based on the exercise held last month ,for the rememberance of the HIV/AIDS DAY that is coming up on December your name was selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$1,200,000 as charity donations/grants from the International HIV/AIDS Organization Base in Spain in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from over 285,000 companies and individuals from Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, North America,South America and Asia as part our International promotions HIV/AIDS AWARENESS. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your award has been fully processed and your money remitted to your bank account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants
of this program.

You are required to Contact immediately the Finance Co-ordinator, below for the immidiate processing and collection of your Grant with your Full Names,Telephone and Email. Please quote your reference No. and batch No. in all correspondence.
Contact:

Mr Edwardo Haris
Finance Co-ordinator
International HIV/AIDS Organizations
BASE IN SPAIN

Email: edwardo@financier.com
Tel: +34-637-206-646

Note that this Donations/Grants are administered by approved Spainish
Banks.
On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Jonathan Ray
Executive Secretary

NB:PLEASE ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE FINANCE CO-
ORDINATOR MR EDWARDO HARIS:.

Help, I need a guardian!

You certainly cannot fault the creativity of these people. They are coming up with new stories all the time.

This one is quite interesting. It seems to be a spin off of the "new mining methods" which I posted at the beginning of the month.

This time however, the main line is two african girls are looking for a guardian. They are quoted at being 18 and 20 years of age, so the neccessity of a guardian is a moot point.

Just the same, somebody will surely answer to this call!

Here's the e-Mail:

From: Ruth & Janet Mario
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.
Email: ruth_mario15ci@yahoo.co.uk

Dearest One,

REQUEST TO BE OUR GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP US TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,
permit us to inform you of our desire of asking you to be a guardian orfoster parent to us and then help us out in what we are about to tell you.

I'm Janet Mario (18) and have an Elder sister ruth (20). We are the children of Late Mr. & Mrs. John A. Mario. Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we where babies.

Before the death of our father on Sept. 2003 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called us by his bed side and told us that he has the sum of six million two hundred and fifty thousand United State Dollars USD ($6.250,000) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in Abidjan. He told us that he used my sister's name (ruth) as the next of Kin in depositing the money.

He then strongly advised us not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of our choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that willl assist us in the wise investment of the money.We have since left the money in the bank with the view of our making use of it for investment purposes after our education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D?Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards the capture of the commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where we are now.

For this ugly development in this country, we have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late to do that. We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel management. Because of this we are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:

(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as our guardian or foster parent to us, we need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist us invest it. But if you still want a percentage, we are willing to offer you, 20 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Pleas tell us if you feel the percentage we offered is not ok by you.

As soon as we receive your concrete assurance to assist us with our proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, we will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as we want to come over to stay with you parmanently. The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving us information on when the transfer will be over. We shall also send our pictures to you and shall also need yours too.

No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please we beg you to keep this highly secret for our safety, as we believe that those that killed our Daddy are still after us. Please reply us through this yahoo email box (ruth_mario15ci@yahoo.co.uk )

Thanks and God bless you .

Best regards,

Janet/ Ruth Mario
Email: ruth_mario15ci@yahoo.co.uk



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It's my identity .... Hands off

Yesterday I received a letter from eBay International in Switzerland. They sent me access information to a new account which had been set up. The problem was, I have no knowledge of a new registration. I have had an eBay account for a couple of years now and I am also acredited with them, so this new account was more than a surprise.

So I spoke to eBay and they said "Great, it shows our security measures are working!". If I don't confirm the account it will not be activated and nothing will happen. Ok, that sounds good.

So I checked the e-mail address eBay supplied. I also contacted the provider and they confirmed that a new account had been set up on the 10. of November at 11.03 pm. Seeing I usually go to bed at around 10.30 pm, I must have been sleep walking to set it up.

Fortunately, the information the provider supplied has an IP number from the last access time. So with some luck, I may catch the person who wanted to use my identity. I have already reported this to the police and am waiting to hear what they will do.

Apart from it being my identity, this is pretty bad news. Sure it is easy to set up an anonymous e-mail account with a freemailer, all of the 419ers do that. But it is good to hear that it is not so easy trying to get through eBay with false details. Don't get me wrong, eBay has made several mistakes in the past, but it is good to hear that it is not so easy to set up an account without revealing your identity. That can only be good for the online community as a whole.

I will keep you posted on what happens.

Does Bill Gates know he's a sponsor for this?

This just came in a few minutes ago: I am 500.000 USD richer than this morning! By the way you are right, the text was sent double.

One thing about these anouncements, is the fact that these people don't trust the victims they are trying to catch and, they always have some problems with winnig numbers and winners names.

Here's the e-mail:

IDAHO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION.
REF: Number: 908/706/8581
BATCH Number: 396/901/507-Bc48
SECURITY CODE:IDL9076/07110.

Sir/Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the (IDAHO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMME) held on the 28th, october 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 2752/2565/8966/459 with serial number 3573-581 drewlucky numbers 0-90-11-73-61-55 which consequently won in the B1 category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$500,000.00 DOLLARS (Five Hundred Thausand United States Dollars)CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.

This promotional program takes place every four year. This lottery was promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like WEBMASTERS, INERNET SERVICE PROVIDER,IDAHO BOARD OF DIRECTORS. we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year USD5 million international lottery. An approved agent have been apointed to file your claim. You are here by advies to contact the approved agent and apply for non resident claim form to enable the approved agent legalise and Notarize your winnings/funds through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice on your behalf, before your claim file will be submitted to paying out
bank were your winning fund have been deposited and insured with the (ELKO INVESTMENT BANKING)AFFILIATED TO HSBC AND ABN AMRO INTERNATIONAL ONLINE BANKING.

To file for your claim, please contact The Licensed processing company ATLANTIC SECURITY AND TRUST B.V)that will help you on how you will claim your winning amount.Fiducial agent DR.S.BROWN AND O.MAKELEMI VITTAYA SUTTINON & ASSOCIATES AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLAND. TELEPHONE :+0031-615-645-130 Reply Emai(atlantictrust42@netscape.net)

Remember, all winning must be claim not later than one week of receiving the message.

After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

With our best regards
MRS TERESA DESH.
Lottery Co-ordinator.

This promotional program takes place every four year. This lottery was promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like Mr. Bill Gates and the Sultan of Brunei, we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year USD5 million international lottery. An approved agent have been apointed to file your claim. You are here by advies to contact the approved agent and apply for non resident claim form to enable the approved agent legalise and Notarize your winnings/funds through the Netherlands Ministry of Justice
on your behalf, before your claim file will be submitted to paying out bank were your winning fund have been deposited and insured with the (ELKO INVESTMENT BANKING)AFFILIATED TO HSBC PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE BANKING.

To file for your claim, please contact The Licensed processing company (ATLANTIC SECURITY AND TRUST B.V)that will help you on how you will claim your winning amount.Fiducial agent DR.S. BROWN TELEPHONE :+0031-615-645-130 Reply Emailatlantictrust42@netscape.net)

Remember, all winning must be claim not later than Two week of receiving the message.

After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

With our best regards
MRS TERESA DESH.
Lottery Co-ordinator.

N.B:YOU ARE PLEASE ADVISE TO CONTACT DR.STEVE BROWN OF ATLANTIC
SECURITY AND TRUST B.V. FOR URGENT PROCESSING OF YOUR CLAIM ON TELEPHONE
NUMBER OO31-615-645-130.
Reply all Email to atlantictrust42@netscape.net

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Today's lottery prize notifications ...

They are:

OCEAN BLUE Lottery Headquarters: 1 million Euros
Palais Des Nations,
209 Geneva 10,
Switzerland

Prime Lottery International: 2.5 million USD
Km 18, Routen Ven Halbsdanen
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

FROM:LUCKY DAY INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY: 1 million USD
LAAN VAN HOORNWIJCK 55
2289 DG RIJSWIJK,
AMSTERDAM-THE NETHERLANDS.
TEL: +31-623-603-828
FAX: +31-847-300-847

EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL: 1 million Euros
MRS,COMFORT JOSE
Lottery Coordinator Espana

GRAND INTERNATIONAL LOTTO 1.2 million Euros
BURDENSTRAAT 21B
2053 DS AMSTERDAM.

Am I a lucky man!

Code of Ethics .... What's that?

On a daily basis, I must get about 10 to 20 fraud e-mails with all sorts of different stories. Some of the old ones are being combined, such as this one from "Uba Diskman" (It sounds like a Sony, but it isn't)

Uba says he is a manager of the "Bank of the North" in Lagos. He has found an account with a whole pile of Money from James Herbert, who worked as a consultant with (who else?), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Uba says that Mr. Herbert has left over 38 million USD in this account, but unfortunately has died in an accident (no, this time not a plane crash).

Poor Mr. Herbert has no next of Kin and no one has claimed the money up to now. So Uba, honest person he is, is looking for someone to act as heir and has transfered the money to Europe to make sure it is safe. I can tell you now, the money's in Amsterdam, at a security company in a trunk. You can take a look at it there.

So this is where the Ethics come into the story. Uba says that the code of ethics prevents him from owning a foreign account so he can't do the money transfer himself. (I love these stories because they are so logical!)

So this man of ethics, wants you to say you are the heir to the Herbert fortune, go and pick up the money in Amsterdam and share the loot with him.

What he is saying is, let us commit fraud together and profit from this one time opportunity and to hell with the moral aspect.

The problem is, the only one who doesn't profit from this windfall, is you, if you contact him.

Here's the e-mail for you:

Diskman_uba
Victoria Island Branch,
Bank of the North
Lagos, Nigeria.
ATTN: MD/CEO

I am Diskman_uba, Branch Manager with Bank of the North, Victoria Island Branch, Lagos, Nigeria.

I have an urgent and very profitable business proposition for you that should be handled with extreme confidentiality.

On January 6,1998 a Foreign Oil Consultant and contractor with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr. James Herbert by name made a numbered time Fixed Deposit for twelve calendar months valued at US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six Hundred United States Dollars Only) in my branch.

Upon maturity I sent a routine notification in accordance with the Bank policy to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that Mr. James Herbert died from an automobile accident.

On further investigation, we found out that he died without making a Will and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigations and discovered that Mr. James Herbert did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This sum of US$38.6M has been carefully moved out of my bank to a Security Company in Europe for safekeeping.

No one will ever come forward to claim it and according to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 years the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

This prompted us to contact you.We will like to front you as the next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the sum of $38.6 million U.S Dollars that is presently in a Security Company in Europe.

I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and operate foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim the money in the Security Company in Europe.

We have unanimously agreed that 25% of the entire sum would be for you if you agree to take part in this profitable transaction,70% for me and 2 of my colleagues while the remaining 5% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be incurred during the course of the transaction by both parties after the fund has been claimed and lodged in your account.

In the event that you are genuinely interested in the transaction,the following information would be needed from you to expedite action.

1) Your Full Name and Address that would be used to establish you as the next of kin of our late client thereby making you the legal beneficiary of the fund. This would ensure that the Security Company in Europe releases the Consignment/Fund to you.

2) Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers where you can be reached at all time because this transaction entails constant communication.

The transaction is 100% risk free as all modalities has been perfected to ensure the hitch free success of the transaction.

If you are interested, send the requested information via email so that we can proceed and after sending it you call me.EMAIL diskson@pakwatan.com

I await your response urgently.
Regards
Diskman_uba
diskman@mail.vu

By the way, Uba is using 3 different freemail accounts: This message was sent through disndman@yahoo.com. His contact account diskson@pakwatan.com is with a Pakistani portal service and diskman@mail.vu is a freemail service from iqmc.com.

Taking advantage of a unclear situation

After the first Iraqi fraudmails where in circulation, where the Hussein brothers were used to set up a story about transfering family money out of Iraq, there is a new one received today.

This time the story is, because of financial restrictions on money transfers out of Iraq, Ahmed Mujid is looking for a person who can act as a contractor. That way he can transfer cash out of Iraq for investment elswhere.

As usual they are using a freemail contact e-mail address, this time from "ameinfo.com", an Arab portal service based in the United Arab Emirates. The e-mail was sent from Ahmed Mujid [ahmedmujid@yahoo.ie].

Here's the e-mail text:

Dear Sir,

I solicit for my Clients (a group of foreign contractors in Iraq).We are interested in your
collaboration on movement of large sums of funds from Iraq (due to the security cituation) for investment.

The first transaction will be for the movement of about Seven million United States Dollars form an Iraqi bank.

Due to the crack down on Al Qaeda and it's financiers large payment of such can only be authorized by Iraqi Central bank if they are paid out as payment for purchase,to a Foreign contractor or investment.

If you accept to participate in this transaction,we shall then state the terms,conditions and remunerations.

You will also be required to submit to us your full contact;your company or individual name and address,Bank and account that you norminate for the transfer.

For the avoidance of doubt,your norminated account for this transaction should be of zero value(i.e no money in the account),this is to satisfy that no one entertains any fear of giving out information that may lead to lost of money.

Your confidential submission should reach me not later than seven bank working days from date.You can also contact my Clients on investors@ameinfo.com

Thank you for your time in preparing this.

Sincerely,
ahmed mujid.

From Russia with love?

I get the impression that almost any story is a good story, when it comes to fraud online. Most people have heard about the Russian Government jailing Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Yukos Boss, because of tax fraud. There was and is a lot of money involved.

So Liudmilla, (if that is a real name) wants someone to act as a contractor and help to move an alleged 423 Million USD Yukos money. With 10% of that for the promised to the person who decides to contact these people, someone is bound to call.

As you can see it is sent to "undisclosed recipient". I would like to know how many received this one.

Here's the e-mail:

Von: MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA
[mailto:info_kimaeva@techemail.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. November 2004 03:41
An: undisclosed-recipients
Betreff: MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA
Wichtigkeit: Hoch

Dear sir/madam,

I am Ms. KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA, a personal secretary to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with its branches all over the world). I seek your partnership to accommodate the sum US$423M for us.

My Boss got arrested for his involvement on politics in financing the leading and opposing political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which posed treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president before he was reelected On March 14, 2004. You can catch more of the story on this http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html

The fund (US$423M) in question was approved by the Government of Russia for payment of various YUKOS OIL contractors/suppliers to prevent them from loosing the money they invested in the numerous contracts they executed for the above firm. The Government had already concluded plans to frozen all the accounts in my boss name (Mikhail Khodorkovsky) both corporate and personal before I connived with the Accountant General of YUKOS OIL (who is also my partner in this transaction) to raise a memo stating that YUKOS OIL owe contractors the above amount which was finally approved for payment after some deliberations.

Actually, we have paid all our contractors both local and foreign because they agitated for their payment when they had that my boss was arrested.

YOUR ROLE:

I will present you / your company as one of the contractors we are owing so that you can stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum or part of the fund according to your financial strength or the strength of your company. I will arrange for the documentation which the payee bank will need to transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to relocate to American continent and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has to be concluded before as soon as possible.

You will be rewarded with 10% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?

As soon as I get your willingness to comply I will give you more details. Thank you very much

Regards
MS.KIMAEVA LIOUDMILA

Urgent Assistance (From Man of God)

This is one of the worst kinds of messages I know. Under the pretence of being a converted Christian (from Islam, would you believe?), Deacon Fred is selling the old fund transfer story. This time he's trying to catch leaders of christian communities, who maybe have never heard of the 419-scam.

Did I say that Deacon Fred has Leukemia? It looks as though this guy is combining a couple of stories to make it more appealing.

Here's the story:

Dear Brother in Christ,

Thanks for your anticipated response and your willingness to embark on this great service to God and humanity.

I am Deacon Fred martin. I'm married to a lovely wife who is deceased and without children , I worship in Redeemed Christian Ministry, am into export of agricultural produce to europe and Asia. I know you may be surprised to receive my mail but remember the Bible says that the blessings of God comes supernaturally and it is through Divine favour.

After I received instruction from my pastor to use this funds to do GOD'S work, I prayed to God for direction and he has been directing me. I told God that I want a ministry, or honest man who will spend the fund for things that will glorify His name.I came across your address in the internet as I was browsing through a Christian site, I took interest in your ministry, I fasted and prayed over it and the spirit of God directed me to sow in your ministry.

This revelation came after my conversion from a Muslim to a christian. I received Christ and i found out that a sinner has no place in the kingdom of God. I never had rest of mind, I seeked God for forgiveness and he revealed to me that I will only have peace of mind if I serve him with all my substance and he will bless me mightily. It was when I received Christ that I realized the meaning of going to heaven. I need to make heaven, I don't want to perish in hell fire. As my level of Christianity was increasing, i understood that the wealth of sinners are acquired for the just. God opened my eyes to the book of Ecclesiastes 6, verses 1 & 2. Read this scripture and you will understand that there are people in this world that God gave the grace to acquire wealth, yet God did not give them the grace to enjoy the wealth. I happened to fall into the same category now it is the wish of God. When God revealed to me to use my wealth to do his work, I understood that God was testing me like He tested Abraham and other men of God. Abraham needed a child and God asked him to use his only son for sacrifice, Abraham was faithful, he obeyed and God made him father of many nations. I have decided to sow 70% out of the total sum into your ministry, the remaining 30% i will invest into any Christian related business in your country.

This fund, ($37.5million us dollas) is with the security company in ITALY . This security company, is a world wide finance and security company in collaboration with ''Diplomatic Express Courier Services'' that helps in the shipment of valuable goods out of the country through a Diplomatic means, hereby delivering funds packaged in Consignment and delivered to the recipient.

Bro, we need to move this funds out of this country within a short period of time from now, I will need you to immediately send my lawyer the particulars I would request from you, your full name, your full address, your telephone and fax numbers. The funds is already packaged in consignment and declared and classified as family valuables. And ready for shipment and it can also be transfered to you, these information is required by the security company so that they will start up all the necessary process on how the funds will get to you.

Be informed that as soon as this funds is in your possession, You'll hear from me soon by the grace of God (Amen).

Please endeavor to reply me, I am very sick, I have LEUKAMIA cancer of the blood, I only have access to the internet and I want you to act fast because anything can happen to me as am incapacitated by this ailment. Am presently in Europe undergoing intensive medical treatment. I will await to hear from you.

This is the contact of my lawyer,email address barrjodlaw@netscape.net he lives in Italy his name is DAVID JOHN you have to act fast so that u can get this document from him on time.Remain blessed.

Yours brothers in crist; Brother Fred martins

For more of this kind of Fraud-E-Mails take a look at http://www.klaasdevriesjr.nl/boek/bob/

Diamonds are forever

Felix Martins Aku, a nigerian, has a problem.

He is using the idea of posessing a whole pile of precious metals and stones and the need for someone to receive the goods in Europe, to try and find a willing victim who would do the job for him.

Poor Felix cannot get a Visa and time is running out. If he cannot find someone who would help him, his loot goes back to Africa. Great story!

Felix even warns the "victim" that there are costs involved, but we all know, once these "costs" are paid, the money is gone forever.

It runs the same way as every other story which comes out of Africa. The victim, thinking he can help someone and at the same time do himself a favour, gets taken for a ride. No precious stones, no 30% and nobody's interested. And that is a problem!


Here's the orginal E-Mail for you:

PLEASE, SEND YOUR REPLY TO: felixmartinsaku@gawab.com

Dear Sir,

I got your contact through the internet - due to serious searching for a reliable personality. I am Mr. FELIX MARTINS AKU by name a Nigerian.

Sir, I am having 95kg of alluvial lengo 22carat gold and 6kg diamonds of 28,440carats which I managed to escape with during the civil war in Sierra Leone - and was deposited with a security company here in Lagos, Nigeria since 19th of June 2000 till May 2001.

And right now these said precious property (consignments) have been transferred or lifted to Holland through a diplomatic channel by an ECOWAS Diplomat since a week ago and I have not been able to meet up with these consignments due to my refusal of visa. And I have been given an ultimatum by the ECOWAS Diplomat who help me for the transfer of these consignment to London that if on before two to three weeks these consignments is not cleared in Holland they will be returned back the country of origin (africa).

However at this moment I am saddled with the problem of securing a trust worthy God fearing personality whom I can confide in and put these consignments under his care for proper management and investment before my arrival.

And I want to add here that if agreed 30% of the total worth of consignments will be yours minus your total expenses incurred during the clearing of the consignment in Holland. Available are the certificate of deposit bond, laboratory analysis, certificate of export of the consignments from Lagos-Nigeria to Holland which my Attorney/Lawyer shall would sent to you for your authenticity etc.

You are requested to furnish me back on phone +234803 775 9570 or fax: +234803 174 775 9570 email immediately you receive this request to: felixmartinsaku@gawab.com

Soonest I recieved your swift possitive response in this matter I shall forward to you by attachment to this request my diamond photo.

Awaiting your earnest responds.

Regards,

MR. FELIX MARTINS AKU
TEL: +234803 775 9570
fax: +234803 174 775 9570
EMAIL: felixmartinsaku@gawab.com

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Pure Gold ...

Yesterday, I received an e-mail offering me a whole pile of Gold. 500 kg to be exact. At 7000 USD per Kilogramm, that is a real bargain.

The market price this morning is 423,20 USD pro ounce. Converted into metric, that's makes 14,927,69 USD pro Kilogramm! So these people, the "Kalana Council of Elders" are offering the Gold at less than half price!

Seeing they say that the Gold would be transfered to the Netherlands, they will most likely want all personal transactions to be held there. Seeing that most of these críminal groups have their own people operating out of Amsterdam, the scam should run the same course as the others.

Personally I don't believe that this scam will appeal to many people. It is much to complicated for the average person. But someone who works in the industry, might be tempted to react to this "offer".

Here's the E-Mail text, so that you can recognise it:

OFFER OF 500KG OF PURE GOLD
We THE KALANA COUNCIL OF ELDERS, With full legal and corporate responsibility and under penalty of perjury, are ready, willing and able to sell the herein offer under the following terms and conditions:

Commodity-----------------------------Alluvial Gold Dust
Quantity---------------------------------500kg
Quality-----------------------------------22 carats
Purity-------------------------------------93.5% or better
Original-----------------------------------Kalana village, REPUBLIC OF MALI
Price---------------------------------------$7.000 per kg
Monthly supply---------------------------150kg per month for 12 months

The gold dust is taking from the republic of mali and transported to the royal republic of the netherlands at sellers expense.

PROCEDURE
In Netherlands, the gold dust will be tested and certified according to the normal standard procedure for assaying alluvial gold dust.

The assayed, tested and certified material is then sealed in the presence of the buyer or his official
representative, the current owner or his official authourized representative ( hereinafter referred to as the seller).The buyer and the seller must affix their signatures on the seal place on the container,s of the tested, assayed and certified gold dust.

The assayed, tested and certified material will be kept in a vault of the lab till all export document requiers by the government of netherlands are prepared.

Once the above four steps are completed to the full satisfaction of all parties, then the buyer will pay all government export tax, Europe customs stamp Duty Fee and all other neccessary fees and charges requiers by the laws governing gold dust exports in europe. By instructions from the buyer,s the gold dust will be transported to the retained airline in order to transport the material to the buyer,s destination of choice. The frieght is paid and the material taken into the care of the said airline.

Shipment of the dust to the buyer,s destination of choice, will take place, along with all the requisite documents.
It must be understood and accepted by the seller that all payments for duties, customs stamp fees, insurance charges and freight forwading and all other expenses and charges in mali will be borne by the seller.

It must be understood and accepted that all oversea tax, fees and all expenses will be born and paid by the buyer.
The above is for your information recording purposes and necessary action.

Please should you be or have any interested buyer in this offer, please revert immediately with this e-mail address(goldingland@jumpy.it) for further discussion.

Thanks.
Yours Faithfully,
Justice Mike
Gm\ Client Services Manager.

Selling your car online

If you are thinking about selling your car on eBay or another online service, be careful about buyers wanting to export your car to Africa.

This scam is being reported to us on a regular basis. It works this way ...

The "buyer" contacts you and says he will buy the car and wants to send you a cheque. He also wants to pay you a further sum over the price for the car, say 3000 USD.

His intructions are that you present the cheque to the bank and the extra ammount that he paid (the 3000 USD), should be transfered to someone to pay for transport, expences, what ever sounds plausible. The 3000 USD should be paid through Western Union, because that is the quickest way to transfer money internationally.

Western Union offers a very usefull service, you can send money to a person who gets a transfer code and password, so that they can pick up the money from their local office. It also means that when the money has been picked up, you have no way of getting it back if there should be a problem.

The criminals use this method of transfer, because it's quick and easy. You send the 3000 USD to someone your buyer names, but in reality it one of his gang or himself.

Back to the cheque:

So you have given the cheque to your bank and have paid the the money that was was over the price of the car through Western Union. You wait, and you wait ....

Some tme later your bank informs you that the cheque (which was drawn on an african bank) has bounced. Ouch!

Your buyer is not reachable, your money is gone and you still have your car!

There is a further note to this. One reader told me that his bank also reported his case to the police, because they suspected him of cheque fraud.

This one works, because most people have no experience with foreign money transfers and exporting goods. The "criminals" count on the fact that it takes a long time to clear cheques internationally.

In the meantime they have received their money and can set up the scam with new names and e-mail adresses to catch some other unsuspecting car seller!

New mining methods

Although the lottery e-mails are by far the most popular under the scammers, they are trying new methods to try and catch people unawares.

Just last week, one of our readers from the Faroe Islands, told us about an international matchmaker website. There are people from all over the world trying to find partners for marriage. There are also a lot of girls from Nigeria to be found there. I got the impression that of the girls to be found there, many could have been models or beauty queens. The majority were very pretty and had very interesting profiles, such as students, business women, etc.

Anyway, he reported that he got into communicating with one lady, who started telling him the story about a pile of money that she wanted to get out of the country and needed a nice person like him to help her. It was a sum of about 12 million USD and he could have 30% of it (what a coincidence?), if he helped her.

I had a look at the website, but the lady in question had already been removed.

Stay tuned for other new methods which are turning up.

Funny thing happened today ....

As usual I got my portion of scam e-mails today. Around ten of which were lottery winner notifications!

Six of the lottery e-mails came from a person named "John Bentley" from "Nationwide Lottery". He is using two e-mail addresses: lotterycoordinator@nationwidelottouk.co.uk and nationwidelotto.net@sv1.unsitesolutions.com.

He has named a so-called security company named "HERITAGE FINANCE LTD". The e-mail address is dhammond2@heritagefinance-ltd.org. So you can easily recognise them, if you get an message from them.

Contrary to other lottery scams, this person seems to work out of the UK. The telefon number is +44-20-7060-0194.

Now for the funny one ...

A Thomson Kudoh sent me an typical money transfer e-mail. Saying that he was a poor refugee, had lost his family and needed some kind heart who would help him with a money tranfer and investment. The funny thing about it, was that his e-mail address is LOTERIA PRIMITIVA [thomsonkudoh@excite.com].

It looks as though Thomson is getting a bit careless. :-)