Venditoris: Beware of Scams

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Here’s a genuine Nigerian Letter, not a Russian, Beninin or Asian imitation, This is a real scam email letter having the words relating to a genuine Nigerian Letter in it.

(YANL=Yet Another Nigerian Letter. There are many more here with seeming infinite variation in sales pitch or appeal that it is phenomenon of the Web!)

Note the lack of an addressee, the fractured spelling of words in English and the preposterous message.

It is what we call a spam hook to catch a fish. The “fish” being someone either too immature or innocent to realize that it not only signals its own intent to catch them, but that there are people either evil or desperate enough do these sorts of things on the Web or in the mail (post).

There are and they do. This is but one of countless examples as you can see by clicking on some of the related links to the right side of the page and clicking on our Category: YANL.

(We have seen estimates that they are raking in Billions of US Dollars per year with such scams; that’s why they continue and vary so much.)

Be wary and extra suspicious of any letter of this type wherever it originates or how you receive it, even if the English is impeccable.

The main key to a scam of any kind is the appeal to your greed and an offer of a benefit just too good to believe. Almost all the time it is, everywhere.

From: “DR TUNDE LEMO”
Subject: IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR OVERDUE FUNDS…
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008
To:

Our Ref: CBN/IRD/CGX/NNPC/000/000
FROM THE DESK OF:DR TUNDE LEMO THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Tel: nnn-n-nnnnnnn
Fax : nnn-nnn-nnnn

RE: IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR OVERDUE FUNDS

After a joint meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), the Senate Committee on Foreign Debts Reconciliation and the Presidential Payment and Implementation Panel on Contract/inheritance funds under Category?? which was addressed and headed by the New Elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’dua,it became imperative to contact you on the subject matter. This meeting was initiated as part of the recent image laundering scheme of the federal government of Nigeria.

During the meeting, so many negative reports were tabled on behalf of our numerous contractors and foreign personels on how unfairly they have been treated and extorted by some corrupt officials who were vested with the authority to pay them their entitlements.The most annoying and irritating aspect of it all is that they could not effect payment to these foreign beneficiaries after subjecting them to so much stress and trauma.

To this regards, this office has been given the SOLE authority by the President and Commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria to handle and release all contract/inheritance funds and you are therefore advised NOT to contact ANY OTHER OFFICE to avoid
further complications in your payment file.This information was published in one of the national dailies in Nigeria on the 1ST of JULY,2008

Every arrangement for the remittance of your overdue funds payment of US$22m has been conluded and the funds will be released within 48hrs banking hours of your response.All documentation to this effect is inplace and we have already prepared your key tested telex (KTT) for your transfer to your bank account. In your file,we noticed that your designated bank account cordinates to be as follows and we want you to reconfirm this information first before remittance.

The bank account is as follows:
UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND, UBS, SA
nn, PALACE DUMANOIR
ACC. # nnn-nnn-nnn-nnn
ABA#nnnnnnnnn.

Kindly re-confirm to me if this is inline with what you have in your record and also re-confirm the informations below to enable this office proceed and finalize your fund remittance without further delays.

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile #.
3) Company name, position and address.
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) Are you a property owner
6) A scanned copy of Working I.d/Int’l passport.

You are to contact this OFFICE as soon as you receive this message on via for immediate remittance of your funds. I apologise on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the delay in your payment, and we promise you that it will never repeat itself again as we are into our new government.Your response should be channeled to my alternate email account at (drt.unde86@hotmail.com)

Best regards,
DR TUNDE LEMO
THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
DIRECT LINE: nnn-n-nnnnnnn