A new twist on the Nigerian scam - LOL!!

[Avery]

I received this email today in one of my anonymous pooning accounts. The crooks are now accusing the crooks of being crooks.

"Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours / Monday to Saturday
Office Hours Monday to Saturday:



Attention:

I am Mr. Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI Director; Robert S. Mueller III. Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot on your personal earned money obtaining transfer documents as requested by Imposters, costing you a lot of money, yet all efforts to receive your overdue payment have been to no avail.

With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we have taken out time in screening through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and in addition, we sent special financial crime investigators from Washington DC to Africa in other to carry out proper investigations after receiving series of reports similar to yours as you are not the only person awaiting the legal transfer of funds from Africa.

Based on the findings of our special financial crime investigators, we discovered that your impending payment is being delayed by Imposters, claiming to be Mr. Lamido Sanusi (The New Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria), Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr. Frank Nweke, None existing officials of Oceanic Bank of Nigeria, Zenith Bank, UK winning Lottery, Andy Lear of Hsbc bank, Coca-Cola winning lottery and Mr. Abdoulie Janneh (UNECA) among a list of others. With the help of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Local Police Force these Impostors have been arrested and necessary legal actions will be taken to bring them to book.

In our bid to transparency, I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to affect the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid reoccurrence of the delay in payment. In conclusion, we came to a final resolution as all the Financial Institutions involved was duly represented. It might interest you to note that MasterCard International have hence been empowered to assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all the financial institutions involved; such as the Central Bank, Zenith Bank, and Legit lottery organizations to immediately commence with the compensation of all the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of their funds.

The first Batch of payment; one million, five hundred thousand United States dollars ($1,500,000.00), Credited to MasterCard Account No. 5148 6547 8940 **** with serial Numbers: 2419*** and Reg. No. MCIMJ: 5148/4172 was approved to be issued to you as a valid international ATM MasterCard accepted in more than a million ATM's, over 210 countries around the World, with a daily withdrawal Limit of six thousand United States Dollars. $6,000.00.

Now your payment will be sent to you by ATM card that will be coming alongside a custom pin which you will use to withdraw up to $6,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your bank account, because the ATM card will be registered with Inters witch. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten on how to use it. Your ATM card would be sent to you via DHL, because we have signed a contract with DHL which should expire by Desember 15th 2012

Reconfirm your delivery information as stated below for the delivery;

Your: FULL NAME:
Your: COUNTRY:
Your AGE:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
Your: CELLPHONE NUMBER:
Your: OCCUPATION:

NOTE: Under normal circumstances, all beneficiaries are mandated to travel over to Africa Regional office valid identification's to sign the release documents in person However, the Finance Ministry insists on you securing a non Appearance Approval Letter so as to Cut-short Traveling expenses and stress of traveling over to Africa. The non appearance approval slip attracts a fee of $180.00 only.

Having said all this, we implore you to expedite immediate action in sending the $180.00 via Western Union or Money Gram. We hope that this is very clear. All modalities for the delivery have been employed already.

A receipt to this effect will be sent to you upon confirmation of the $180.00 fee and the Courier Company will be contacting you too with the Parcel Delivery Information which will include the Package Tracking Numbers to enable you track the MasterCard online till it gets to your nominated address.

CONTACT INFO'S FOR NON APPEARANCE APPROVAL LETTER.

NAME: Mr. Samson Roy
EMAIL:samson.roy1@aol.com

We also advise that you stop further communications with these imposters and forward any correspondence/proposal you receive from them to email to (robertsmueller732@yahoo.com) in other for the FBI to bring justice to does still at large.

Robert S. Mueller III.
FBI DIRECTOR."

 

[foxontherun]

Oh, I got this one. Shared it around the office and we all got a lot of laughs from it.

The phishers are getting sneakier though, some of the ones I've gotten would have caught less computer savvy folks. I had one that was a perfect spoof of a Facebook notification other than the links, suggesting someone was leaving bad comments about a company. A lot of people would click that immediately without thinking.

 

[Oldfart]

The funniest part of this scam email I got was that it was sent by "Mr. Banki Moon" ...

WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
DEBT RECONCILIATION/AUDIT UNIT
United Nations Headquarters,
New York, NY 10017 , USA
YOUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX028 UNITED NATIONS.
Greetings,
We were authorized by the newly appointed United Nation Secretary General, and the Governing body of the United Nations Debt Reconciliation Unit, to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment, recommended and approved in your favor. During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt officials of the Bank and Government regulatory organs in Nigeria who are trying to divert your funds into their private accounts.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in HSBC To pay 50 victims from your country who has being Victims of Internet scam .The United Nations has decided to pay you $2,500,000 USD (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your $2,500,000 USD compensation funds. We have been having a meeting for the past Seven months which ended Three days ago with the former secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.
This email is to 50 selected people that have been scammed or extorted money from because of your contract payment execution in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $2.5 MILLON USD This includes every foreign contractors that may have not yet received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or irregularities etc. We found your email in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed by the United Nations Board of Directors and Trustees from the WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME.
We sent you series of emails in this regards but you did not respond back to us; However, in the course of our routine securitization into our Dispatch Alert, we discovered that the document of your fund is intact and very much available, note that United Nations Board of Director have sign your ATM CARD in the favor of your name and hand it over to REV. MARK BLESS Chief Protocol Officer, Dispatch Unit to fill it, you have to contact REV. MARK BLESS in charge of your ATM CARD, as he is our UNITED NATIONS representative in UNITED STATE and AFRICA region, contact him immediately for your ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF $2.5.MILLION USD, This funds are in a ATM CARD for security purpose. He will send it to you and you can clear it in any ATM Machine of your choice.
Contact information:

REV. MARK BLESS
Chief Protocol Officer,Dispatch Unit .
Email: (revmarkbless1@ymail.com)
Phone Number: +234-8034-170810

As soon as you establish a contact with him, ensure that you provide your present address as below to the contact in other for the Officer to effect the change and Re-direct the parcel to your home address.

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:

We expect your urgent attention to this email to enable us monitor this payment effectively. Most importantly you shall be requested to pay the sum of $150 usd by REV. MARK BLESS as the Delivery fee of your ATM CARD. Once you contact the Office, please request delivery option from him in other to avoid further delay.
Yours Faithfully,
Secretary-General United Nation
BAN KI MOON
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
http://www.un.org/sg

 

[hang5507]

A Canadian author named Will Ferguson has wrote a fictional account called "419" that delves into Nigeria and these scams. It is an industry and people really do fall for it. Its a good read and I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys a good book. It also is very informative as to how these scams are structured and performed.
419 refers to the scam.

Regards

H

 

[lovelydale]

LMAO

That's hysterical...hahha

 

[Aleister Crowley]

play them along ....its fun.....get them going to the bank everyday and getting frustrated...

 

[Larry Storch]

Wow, a Bishop and a brother-in-law who won't soil their hands with money. What are the odds. I read something a while back about a guy who strung some scammer along for a few months. Told the scammer he killed his wife and was going to meet him at the airport with the cash wearing a disguise etc. Really drew the whole sordid affair out. Would be nice to screw with these people.