Nigerian fraud

Claiming to be Nigerian officials, businesspeople or the surviving spouses of former government honchos, con artists offer to transfer millions of dollars into your bank account in exchange for a small fee. If you respond to the initial offer, you may receive "official looking" documents. Typically, you're then asked to provide blank letterhead and your bank account numbers, as well as some money to cover transaction and transfer costs and attorney's fees.

Some samples of the Nigerian fraud

From: SENATOR CK JOHN <senator_ck_john77@hotmail.com>

UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.

36 BROAD STREET, MARINA LAGOS. NIGERIA.

TELEGRAM: UNION BROAD BRANCH
BIG, STRONG, RELIABLE

TelfaxTEL: 234 803366669 FAX: 234-1-7760759

ATTN:
RE: PAYMENT ON ACCRUED INTEREST OF US$4.2,M

This is to officially inform you that the sum of US$4.2,million u.s has been accrued as interest on your contract sum that was deposited into our bank by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) before the principal sum was withdrawn by our Apex bank i.e. Central Bank of Nigeria CBN to pay some of our local contractors. Now we are ready to pay you this fund by International Certified Bank Draft payable in all International Banks including your own bank.

For your information and advice, you need to hasten up to pick this Draft because from time to time the C.B.N auditors do come to our bank to cross-check our files and our financial update, the earlier you comply with the demands of the delivery of the fund, the faster the action, because the CBN officials wants the accrued interest to be paid to them but we refused and reported them to the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission who have now given us the instruction and mandate to pay you this fund. So you have to do your best to claim this fund as quickly as possible because when they find out that this interest fund is still in our bank they will want to call back the money to the Federal Government treasury.

What we need from you now is any form of your identification for example; your international passport or you’re drivers license, then your direct telephone, Fax numbers and email address for easy communication with your mailing address where this Draft will be delivered to you.

As a matter of fact we don’t have enough time to waste since we have wasted time in contacting you since this incident occurred. So try and comply with the entire necessary requirement for the dispatch of this Draft to your confidential address.

Contact me as soon as possible

Expecting your immediately response.

Yours Sincerely,

senator ck john

Managing Director UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC.

From the desk of RV barrister

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank here. These huge deposits were lodged Particularly, with the "FINANCE BANK NIGERIA PLC" where the deceased had an account valued at about $7million dollars. The bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated.

My name is Sen. Essien.E.Ibok, I am a member of the Advisory Committe on Oil & Gas in the Presidency.I have the sum of US$7.5Millon cash which I secured from the sales and distribution of crude oil and petroleum products worldwide.

I decide to solicit your assistance to secure the fund for our personal use, it is already in the vaults of a Financial Firm abroad, the fund was scheduled to be transferred via diplomatic means to Union Bank of Switzerland UBS) before I advised the diplomats to withheld the fund on transit, please, I want to use a God fearing foreigner (like you) for the transaction.

Hence we can no longer use my name, I hereby solicit that you kindly furnish to me your information (name and address, phones and fax numbers) and assistance to secure the fund in your country. I have to compensate you with 25% of the total fund (us$7.5million) for providing necessary assistance to secure the fund in your country, while the balance I will used for investments (car sales, real estate,manufacturing,agriculture, etc) as you will advice, this transaction is 100% risk free as all relevant details of the fund will be furnished to you on receipt of your reply. Do not hesitate to contact me only on this email address below as the transaction needs urgent attention and must be confidential .

FROM THE DESK OF:
MR. LIU CHAN
BANK OF CHINA
SHENZHEN
CHINA

I am Mr. Liu Chan , Bank Manager of Bank of China, Shenzhen Branch, China. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you.

On November 6, 1998, a British Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation, Lawrence Smith made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Lawrence Smith died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Lawrence Smith did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$30,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Republic of China, at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Chinese Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Lawrence Smith so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin.

We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 90% for me and 10% for you.

There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address above. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please send me your confidential telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply via my email address.

Thanks and regards.

Mr. Liu Chan.

These are scams. If you're tempted to respond to an offer, the FTC suggests you stop and ask yourself two important questions: Why would a perfect stranger pick you - also a perfect stranger - to share a fortune with, and why would you share your personal or business information, including your bank account numbers or your company letterhead, with someone you don't know?

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Nigerian Fraud and a New Chinese Variation

Here are some samples of the type of email, fax or letter you will receive in this well documented scam.

Some samples of the Nigerian fraud

Sell Mortgage, Real Estate Investment, Seller Financing, Private Mortgage Investment, Discounted Mortgage, Hard Money Mortgage, Sub Prime Mortgage, Credit Report

Nigerian Fraud and a New Chinese Variation

Here are some samples of the type of email, fax or letter you will receive in this well documented scam.

Some samples of the Nigerian fraud

Sell Mortgage, Real Estate Investment, Seller Financing,
Private Mortgage Investment, Discounted Mortgage,
Hard Money Mortgage, Sub Prime Mortgage, Credit Report