Category: scam

  • online dating scam and fraud

    Be careful of online dating site scams and fraud. They are loaded with false profiles that are meant to deceive you and take your money. They cast a large net to catch their victims. Dating scammers place fake profiles on scores of dating sites at once so they can play this game with many people at once.

    Profile Bait.
    How can you tell which profiles are fake? There are a few things you should be suspicious of:
    – 1) The profile picture looks like a centerfold. If the profile picture looks like a model, be suspicious. Of course there are very beautiful REAL people out there on the dating sites, but be aware that scammers steal these types of pictures and use them to suck people in.
    – 2) The person says they are on a business trip in Nigeria. Most of the date scammers (certainly not all) are from this country. Its unfortunate, but in this case profiling is very necessary. Be suspicious!
    – 3) Free account. Since scammers are on several sites it would not be cost effective for them to pay for any memberships on the numerous dating sites they are on, the scammers will only use the free standard membership that most dating sites offer.

    How they get close.
    Once you take the “profile bait” and send them a message, they don’t waste anytime getting close to you. They’ll immediately go after your personal email address. If you have gotten this far, more than likely you will give them what they want. That is were the real deception begins.

    Tell tale signs that you are in contact with a dating scammer:
    – 1) I love you too quick. They will waste little time with building a relationship or finding out more about you. Before you’ve told the story of you, they will say things that are unusually affectionate for someone you just met.
    – 2) Bad Grammar. Many of the online dating scammers have an elementary school level grasp of English grammar. They will have little or no regard for the rules of writing English.

    They will tell you a story of who they are, where they come from in hopes of getting your interest. Then they’ll ask about you. They want to know who you are, what you do, where you are.

    The photo set
    They will typically seal the deal with a set of photos of the same beautiful person you saw on the profile:

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    Ask for money.
    Once the online dating scammer feels they have you, they will begin the second phase of their deception. They will give you some reason that they need money. Reasons I have seen are:
    -They need money for a ticket to come see you
    -Their mother, child, grandparent is dying and needs your help
    -They fell upon hard times and need a few dollars to get them through

    At this point you should be terminating all communications with this person. They will not be satisfied with you purchasing the plane ticket yourself and sending the link, they will want you to wire money directly to them via Western Union using a MTCN, Money Tranfer Control Number.

    With the popularity of online dating, scams and fraud are an epidemic. While I would not disagree that these people are the lowest forms of life, I would say that we (the victims) are at least partially responsible. The reason that they are able to do this over and over is that we are not giving them the same level of scrutiny we would with strangers we’ve just met in offline life. We are so absorbed in our own hopes and dreams of some perfect mate that we eat their BS right up. We are funding their ability to continue to scam people all over the world. It must stop. Do NOT give these people money.

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  • Victim

    Dear Inspector,
    Under false pretended she got money. Her name is Yomi Phillips 546 Ayobo Ave Ayobo Lagos Nigeria. Please help me and contact me with EFCC in Abuja or Lagos. Kind Valdis

  • scam report

    i have bevn chatting with thois girl by name Mavis oteng. she frauded me of a sum of $700,000 for sending me gold but all never came.

  • centralbnk-nigeria@live.com

    CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA

    Plot 33, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Way,
    Central Business District,
    Cadastral Zone,
    Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
    Nigeria

    P.M.B. 0187,
    Garki Abuja.
    Nigeria

    TEL:+234 7053921126

    ATTN: BENEFICIARY (Erwin Jürgensen),

    PAYMENT NOTIFICATIONOF YOUR FUNDS.

    Definitely, I know that this letter will be a surprising one to you. Firstly, I will like to introduce myself formally as Mallam Sanusi Lamido, The New Executive Governor of The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).You are been officially contacted by me today because your Inheritance/overdue Funds were Re-deposited into the “Federal Suspense Account” of CBN last month, because you did not Claim your funds as the rightful beneficiary in our corresponding bank.

    Well known to all, The Central Bank of Nigeria is the mother Bank of all commercial Banks here inNigeria. This morning at about (9:00am Standard Pacific Time) I was alerted by my Secretary that Three men and a Lady were at my Office reception waiting to see me and so I told my Secretary to let them in. To my surprise they were two Canadians and one Nigerian Attorney, and they introduced themselves as (Mr. Tim Parker, Mr. Roland Gulf, both from Canada), and accompanied with them was a Nigerian Attorney with the name (BARRISTER LAMBERT EZEKA). And Miss Hellen Rose.

    Really these men were unexpected by me because their visit was impromptu. I had to ask them why they came to see me in person and they said that they were here to Collect the Inheritance/overdue Bill Sum which rightfully belongs to you, on your behalf. These foreigners actually claimed this beyond reasonable doubts. At this development I asked them who authorized them to come down to Nigeria for the Collection of this Payment and they told me that you asked them to come and collect this funds on your Behalf. Infact this was the biggest shock that this Bank have ever received so far because your Inheritance /overdue funds is still in the “Federal Suspense Account” of CBN, yet you sent these men to come and collect this Funds on your behalf without notifying us.

    We in this Bank do not understand why you sent these men to come and Collect your Funds on your behalf. If actually you wanted them to help you Collect your Inheritance/overdue Bill Sum, at least you should have informed me as the Executive Governor of this Bank..

    They actually tendered some Vital documents which Proved that you actually sent them for the collection of this Fund. Honestly, it really baffles me that you took such decision without my consent.

    Here are the documents which they tendered to this Bank today:

    1. LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION.

    2. HIGH COURT INJUCTION.

    3. RELEASE ORDER

    Actually, these documents which they tendered to this Noble Bank is a clear Proof that you sent them to Collect this Fund for you. Finally, I told them to come back two days time so I could have contacted you and heard back from you and they promised to come back. They also furnished this office with the below contact information including your passport which they stated that it belongs to you to proove their relationship with you:

    Full Name: Erwin Jürgensen

    Full Contact Address: Askaripfad 7, D-81827 München

    Phone: +49-89-4302716

    Fax: +49-89-4304062

    Occupation: Pensioner

    Age: 71

    As the Governor of this Noble Bank, I was supposed to Release this Fund to them but I refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first. Due to the Nature of my job as the governor of this bank, I will not want to make any mistake in releasing this funds to anyone except you whom is the recognized as bonafide beneficiary to this Funds.

    Kindly clarify us on this issue before we make this Payment to these foreigners whom came on your behalf.

    In receipt of this confidential Letter, you are required todirectly, send your reply to this office, and if you never sent this people to this bank to act on your behalf, you are also required to send your full information to me stated below:

    Your full names:…………………………………………………..

    Homeaddress:……………………………………………………..

    ActiveTelephone number:…………………………………..

    Occupation:………………………………………………………….

    Age:…………………..

    Sex:…………………..

    A scan copy of your international passport.

    I await your urgent response.

    Thanks and ALLAH (GOD) Bless.

    OFFICIALLY SIGNED
    Mallam, Sanusi Lamido

    Executive Governor of The Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN)

    TEL: +234 7053921126

  • Nigerian “World Bank” Phishing Scam

    From Mrs Marcy Botha
    World Bank Auditors
    Foreign Affairs
    Africa Regional office LAGOS
    EMAIL:wb_botha@w.cn
    TEL : + 234-80-82094371

    PAYMENT NOTIFICATION/FINAL ORDER ON US$10 5Million only.

    Attn:Beneficiary,

    This is to draw your attention that your fund is still with the CENTRAL BANK OF NIG.which the government Authorized us to effect payment on your behalf., but the only problem now is that we dictated a lot of irregularities involvements attached to your payment file.

    (1) Did you at any time delegate any body not even from your family to claim your fund on your behalf?

    (2) Were you involved in a motor accident?

    (3) Are you aware or related to one Mr. Nicholas Giles and Lawyer

    Please reconfirm and answer the above questions because one Mr. Nicholas Giles in a company of a man who claimes to be your lawyer came to our foreign payment department with an approval signed by the past Central bank govenor Prof Charles Soludo and submitted an application that you Authorized your fund to be paid into the account of UNION Bank OF Switzerland (UBS) with Account number UBS-A943BDG99.then the one you earlier submitted for your payment with a report that you are now paralyzed as a result of the ghastly motor accident you had last month.

    lnfact, after processing the application by (Mallam lamide sanusi) himself which he made it known to us that he came from you, he succeeded in paying all the bank charges that you are supposed to pay so as to make sure that we effect this transfer payment as quickly as possible without any further delay.

    All duplicate copies of his payment receipt is attached to your file. He has made part payment for the cost of transfer and stamps duties and other miscellaneous duty fees all amounting to $9,300.00.to balance us$5,700.00

    The delay in the transfer of US$10 Million is from us now just because we requested for a power of attorney from him, which will authorized him to pursue this pay
    ment and the balance payment.

    He asked for a week so as to submit the documents but up till now we have not received any of the documents from any of you . Why?So please forward us the power of attorney by a return fax or by E-mail:wb_botha@w.cn or by phone call + 234-8082094371 so that we can proceed with the transfer to the order of account given to us.

    Thanks for your co-operation
    MRS MARCY BOTHA
    WORLD BANK AUDITORS
    DIRECTOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS

  • U.N./U.S. Presidential (Barclay’s West African Phishing Scam)*

    ***********SCAM**********************
    Greetings To You,

    On behalf of the OBAMA’S FOUNDATION and UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $450,000.00 USD in compensation of scam victims. This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the OBAMA’S FOUNDATION and UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION and in conjunction with the Central Bank of West Africa. We have been mandated to pay victims of scam the sum of $450,000.00 USD (FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS)each. Your E-mail ID were listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount.

    We are compensating scammed victims as its stipulated in Section B act 4 of United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) guide lines and regulations of ( 08/04/2003 ) you can view this website for confirmation: Kindly click on the link below:

    http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm

    Please, if interested do contact BARCLAYS BANK PLC, West Africa Branch for verification and release of your $450,000.00 USD that we have deposited with the Bank.

    The Account Officer BARCLAYS BANK PLC WEST AFRICA.
    Name: Mr.Peter Kelly
    Email: peter_desk@w.cn

    The account log-in will be presented to you by the bank in order to access the funds before releasing into your nominated bank account in your country. You will transfer the funds into your nominated account on-line as BARCLAYS BANK will provide the necessary information and guide lines needed to carry out this transfer. We have taken care of the cost of transfer (C.O.T) and the VAT. Please if you are willing to accept the funds, do contact the Account Officer of BARCLAYS BANK PLC with the following details:

    You are to fill the appropriate form and submit to the bank.

    [1] Full Names:________________
    [2] Contact address_______________________
    [3] Direct Telephone No: __________________
    |4| Occupation : _________________________
    [5] Age: _____________________

    Yours Faithfully,
    Mr. Colin Powell
    Coordinator.
    OBAMA’S FOUNDATION

  • Beneficiary

    Scam Letter from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D,C. Federal Bureau of Investigation J.Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001 Tel: 203-413-1789 ,< http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/directmain.htm CONTACT INFORMTION Name: Michelle Isaac EMAIL: mrsmichelleisaac@yahoo.com Telephone numbers:+27 730-385-679 I was ask to contact Michelle Isaac of the ATM CARD center With details. Please email me at ytovarsoto@yahoo.com and let me know what I should do with this . Yolanda Soto

  • sandra real or (sandia)

    This Girl got a hold of me through singles.net I was floored by that fact that she came on like a good christain didn’t get any money from but tried she said she wanted to take it to the next step”to hear my voice”Wanted money for a calling card.she sent pics of her self i could post them if like just don’t want any to be taken…for god know what and i guess these are the goats jesus was talking about..

  • ID theft scam or terrorist money scam

    received email from Barr Walter Ashdown lawfirm in UK asking for my personal info to become a beneficiary for one maria johnson. He sent me his ID and on it was a signature that looked like it said Margaret and a photo of what appeared to be a perfect match of a younger Tony Blair!

  • SENATOR David Willi

    SENATOR David Willi
    {L.L.B}M.B.A}. I WANT THE EMAIL TO STOP

    This is to inform you that the central bank of Nigeria in arrangement with the office of the accountant general of the federation and the Presidency, federal republic of Nigeria have resolved to ensure that all beneficiaries whose payments are still pending in different financial institutions of the country receive their payments without any further trouble, prejudice or delay. In furtherance to this course, most payments which emanated from Nigeria but were held in different countries due to one problem or the other have also been recalled.

    This is sequel to several petitions received from many of these beneficiaries against the delay and other forms of extortionist tendencies from Nigeria and in some cases, in collaboration with their foreign cohorts in attempt to release their payments and our investigations on this development through the security agencies have revealed that most of the beneficiaries have actually been subjected to different forms of extortion by unscrupulous individuals and criminally minded fellows who pose as government representatives. It is in view of this that the skye bank Plc has been mandated to make necessary arrangement and ensure that all the genuine beneficiaries can get their payments promptly.

    And to achieve this noble objective, you are hereby advised to shun any further correspondence either by phone conversation, fax, letter writing or email with any other individual, government agency or department in Nigeria as they have been striped of any further role or responsibility in processing and releasing any payment to any beneficiary.

    Note also that any beneficiary who is carrying out any further transaction with any individual, body, official or agency in Nigeria with regards to receiving any form of payment is doing so at his or her own risk as all further arrangements purportedly from Nigeria to pay any beneficiary his outstanding fund is a total falsehood and a calculated attempt to scam the beneficiary so contacted.Henceforth, all payments have been routed to be released to their different beneficiaries by Skye bank plc through a secured ATM card which will be sent to you.

    And to receive your ATM payment card without any further delay, please, contact the Skye Bank immediately for more details. You can reach them through their customer service manager in the person of Mrs. Judith O’ Neal. Her address is: … You can also get in touch with the bank’s admin department directly to process and release your ATM card for your payment. The address of the bank’s admin department is; To process and release your payment to you by the Skye Bank Plc, you will be required to submit the following items listed below to them immediately;

    (1) Your full name and address (NOT P.O.BOX)
    (2) Your telephone and fax numbers.
    (3) Your date of birth and Occupation
    (4) A copy of any of your valid ID cards (Driver’s license or International passport) and
    (5) Your bank’s details.

    Note that the Skye bank Plck has been instructed to effect the release of your payment on proper identification and no other body, individual, government agency, bank or their ilk in Nigeria has been assigned this role any more. You are therefore to contact the Skye Bank Plc immediately with all the required details and request for your payment.

    Yours faithfully,
    Senator David Willi
    +2348057259158
    (seordawilli@live.co.uk) or ( skyecarditcard@gmail.com)