FBI : Nigerian Bank Scam

Here's another one worth posting. We obviously get tons of these scams every day, but most of them are the same. When we get one which we feel would catch your attention we will publish them here.

This particular scam is a Nigerian Bank Scam where the sender claims to be from the FBI. Don't fall for this hoax.

Here's a copy of the email.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ROOM 4-230, KALANIANAOLE FOB
300 ALA MOANA BOULEVARD HONOLULU, HAWAII 96850-0053
http://www.fbi.gov




Attn: Honorable Beneficiary.


We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of America
have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that you have a
transaction going on as either inheritance payment,Lottery or contract payment
in a tone of Millions of United States Dollars which have been approved but
have not been settled.

    
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /
inheritance file after close monitoring and found out why you have not received
your payment, both on your part and on the part of your debtors.


Secondly, we have been informed that you are still dealing with the non
officials in the bank who are attempting to secure the release of your fund to
you. We wish to advise you that this is illegal and you should stop further
communication with them forthwith because such an illegal act like this can
lead to cancellation of your fund.we have been having so many complains from
people who have been scammed arround the world hence, after concluding in a
meeting with members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we came to a
conclusion that every payment will be made through the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
(CBN). We also concluded on the use of ELECTRONIC ATM  PAYMENT SYSTEM as the
only direct means to pay all beneficiaries.


By this method, your funds will be loaded in TWO BATCHES into an ATM card, and
sent to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of us$5,000. per day
from any ATM machine worldwide, BUT from the financial houses there is no
limit. So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your
following information to the paying bank.


1. Full name
2. Full address (P.O box not acceptable)
3. Phone and fax #
4.Your balance payment
4. Your age, sex and current occupation


Below are the contact details of the PAYING BANK(ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA) in the
Federal Republic Of  Nigeria to whom you will send your information for the
processing of the ATM card as soon as possible:


CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Paul Taylor,
HEAD OF  OPERATIONS,ATM CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM
DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION, ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA. (ZBN)
EMAIL: paul_taylor04@live.com
DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER: +234-8030445305.


The DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION has been mandated to issue out your payments for
this fiscal year 2008. Also for your information, you have to stop any further
communication with any other person(s) or office(s) who claim that to be
established agents using it to defraud innocent people worldwide.This is to
avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.


THANKS FOR LISTENING TO OUR ADVISE


Faithfully Yours,
MR .ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI  Honolulu))
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NOTE: This is a copy of an email we received. In no way do we make any claim that this information is true, nor do we support any of these scammers who purposely lie to try and steal your personal information or money. If you receive scams, please forward to spam@uce.gov

Thanks

Top 10 Internet Scams

We found a nice breakdown of the top 10 internet scams on switched.com. These are general descriptions of the types of scams being used. If you scan through our site you'll find actual copies of emails received from the scammers. This will hopefully better assist you in determining whether the emails you receive are a scam or not. You can read the article by clicking here.


Remember, the best thing you can do is to delete the email if you don't know the sender. And if the sender APPEARS to be from a company you deal with, you are better off to delete the email and go to your vendors website or call directly to determine if the email was real or not. In most cases you will be told the email is spam or a phishing scheme. Also, in many cases the vendor will give you a spoof@____.com address to forward the email to.

Spam Scam Sympathy Spam Scam

Here's a good one for any Dr. Suess readers out there in web land. We labeled this supposed spam scam The Spam Scam Sympathy Spam Scam.......Sam I am.

The email subject catches your attention since you've received so many scams.

Email Subject: Good News to Scam Victims

Enticing subject. Could it be possible that someone has finally caught these scammers and shut down their operation? Is there some new program that blocks all of these scams? Not hardly.

This Nigerian scammer is claiming you get 1 million dollars from the Nigerian Government because they are embarrassed by all of the bank scams which have been committed through their country. Including you...they are giving away 100 victims 1 million dollars.

The Big Question is....Would someone who's been victimized by a Nigerian Bank Scam actually reply to this and get scammed twice? We sure hope not unless they're going for the Darwin awards.

Once again there are grammatical and math errors. While promising 100 people will get the million they later claim 84 have been paid and 20 are left. That's 104. Maybe if you hurry they won't notice the 4 million dollar mistake.

Also, who would believe Nigeria would pay out 100 million dollars? Based on their GDP you would think that amount would be a stretch. Anyway...........

HERE'S THE SCAM EMAIL

CENTRAL BANK/UNITED NATIONS 2008 COMPENSATIONS
                        PAYMENTS DIRECTOR
ATTN:Sir/madam,
SCAMMED VICTIM/1 MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS
CODE:06654 1MILLION  USD.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegate from the United Nations
to Central bank Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1 Million
each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed
victims,get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of
your $1 Million compensations funds.
On this faithfull recomendations,I  want you to know that during the last
UN meetings held at Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of
the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by variouse foreigners to
the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today,in
other to retain the good image of the country,the president of the country
is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1Million USD each,Due to the
corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria,the payments are to be
paid by Central bank Nigeria  as corressponding paying bank under fundling
assistance by the National westminster bank london.

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been
paid ,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 20
left to be paid the compensations of $1Million each.Your particulars was
mentioned  by one of the syndicates  who was arrested in Lagos, Nigeria as
one of thier victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to
communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so
ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal.

For more vital information,please 
visit:http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm
You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options
you choose,ATM
CARD,DRAFT PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS,I shall feed you with further
modalities as
soon as I hear from you.

Reconfirm the following ..
1) Your full Name.
2) mobile Phone
3) Age and marital status.
4) profession,
5} Your Full Address.

Send a copy of your response to
email:cbnunitednations@gmail.com
Yours faithfully,

Rev.Dr.Patrick Azziza

Remember, it's best if you ignore these scammers by banning their ip address.