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.

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