This web page contains examples of Internet hoaxes and scams being routed around the Internet.
Example #1 - Subject: MESSAGE
Example #2 - Subject: ONLINE A/C PARTNERSHIP
Example #3 - Subject: FROM THE DESK OF EDMOND ZAMFARA.
Example #1 - MESSAGE
DEAR SIR, REQUEST FOR URGENT TRANSACTION, TRANSFER OF US$35 MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS WE ARE SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE TO PROVIDE US WITH AN OFFSHORE ACCOUNT TO REMIT THE ABOVE-MENTIONED AMOUNT. I AM A FINANCIAL CONTROLLER OF THE NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC). THE MONEY IN QUESTION IS NOT RELATED TO ARMS OR DRUGS. IT IS MONEY WE GOT FROM GRATIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTS WE AWARDED TOWARDS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ANALYSIS SUPERVISION AND BEHAVIOR OF THE COMPONENT OF THE EPITOMIZED SYSTEM ALSO SUPPLY AND ERECTION OF THE COMPUTERIZED CONTROL NETWORK. THE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CONTRACTORS AND US IS THAT WE WILL RECEIVE 10% COMMISSION OF THE TOTAL CONTRACT SUM AS GRATIFICATION. THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE CONTRACTORS HAD EQUALLY BEEN PAID REMAINING BALANCE OF THE US$35M, WHICH IS OUR 10% COMMISSION. THIS MONEY IS NOW READY FOR PAYMENT TO AN ACCOUNT YOU WILL PROVIDE THROUGH THE MACHINERIES OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA VIA OUR FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVE SETTLEMENT IN NEW YORK WITHIN (48) BANKING HOURS. NOW OUR PROBLEM IS THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A FOREIGN ACCOUNT AS SUCH AN ACCOUNT IS AGAINST THE CIVIL SERVICE BUREAUCRACY IN NIGERIA. WE THEREFORE DECIDED TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE. WE HAVE TAKEN RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN AND AMBASSADORIAL NATURE OF THE CONTRACT AND HAVE MADE A PERFECT HOMEWORK FOR A HITCH FREE TRANSFER OF THIS FUND TO AN ACCOUNT YOU WILL PROVIDE. YOU WOULD BE ENTITLED TO 10% FOR PROVIDING AN ACCOUNT WHERE THE FUNDS WOULD BE LODGED WHILE 10% IS MAPPED OUT FOR CONTINGENCIES/EXPENSES AND 80% WILL BE FOR MY COLLEAGUES AND MY SELF. WE WILL INVEST OUR SHARE OF THE FUNDS REMITTED IN YOUR COMPANY BY EXPANDING ITS INDUSTRIAL SCOPE. IF YOU CAN ASSIST IN THIS REGARDS, EMAIL YOUR COMPANY'S ACCOUNT OR PERSONAL ACCOUNT WITH BANK NAME, PHYSICAL ADDRESS WITH TELEPHONE, FAX AND TELEX LINES NUMBERS AND YOUR COMPANY'S NAME AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS WITH PHONE AND FAX NUMBER THROUGH THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS. FINALLY, THIS BUSINESS WILL BE CARRIED OUT ON THE FOLLOWING TERMS: 1. THAT YOU WILL PROVIDE AN ACCOUNT WHERE THERE IS FREE BANKING POLICY THAT IS, WHERE THIS MONEY WILL NOT BE QUESTIONED AND TOLL WITH, NOT BE TAXED MUCH. 2. YOU WILL MAINTAIN ABSOLUTE SINCERITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY. 3. THAT OUR SHARE OF THE FUND REMITTED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DISBURSED, AS WE SO DESIRE IMMEDIATELY YOUR ACCOUNT IS CREDITED. IF YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH THE ABOVE CONDITIONS, SEND ME A REPLY IMMEDIATELY BY FAX. NOTE THAT THIS PROJECT WILL TAKE 10 WORKING DAYS FROM THE DAY OF RECEIVING YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS TO THE DAY OF REMITTANCE INTO YOUR ACCOUNT WE GOT YOUR CONTACT THROUGH OUR NATIONAL ASSOCIATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE/INDUSTRIES MINES AND AGRICULTURE (NACCIMA). EXPECTING YOUR PROMPT REPLY. BEST REGARDS, AHMED SULAMAN sulaman3641@y2g.com
Example #2 - ONLINE A/C PARTNERSHIP
SEND YOUR REPLY TO THE EMAIL ADDRESSES BELOW:
bmpinto10@usa.com
I am Tayo Samsudin, Retired Chief Accountant of the
Kenya Central Bank. Kenya is a picturesque East
African Country widely known for its abundance of wild
game, safaris, and Tourism ; which is still a major
foreign exchange earner for the Kenyan economy.
As you are aware, the Central Bank of every Country
acts as the Bankers' bank. However, a few high
networth individuals and corporations routinely
maintained A/Cs with the Kenya Central Bank.
And so, in September 1997, a multimillionaire Oil
Magnate, Ilic Novko from Bosnia/ Hezegovina opened a
time (fixed) deposit A/C in the Kenya Central Bank,
and I was privileged to act as his A/C
supervisor/manager. The opening balance was USD54
million. Unfortunately, the Kosovo crisis claimed his
life and that of his entire family! I spent years
tracing his next of kin but it was a deadend!
A few years before my retirement, I decided to make a
perfect plan to transfer this money out abroad. Using
a complicated system of shortfall deposits, I withdrew
this money and placed it in a holding A/C. The ONLY
problem is that by law, Kenyan indigenes are NOT
allowed to transfer out this volume of money abroad!
There are legal restrictions which will stop any
attempt by me to single handedly transfer this money
abroad...
I therefore need your help! It is simple! There will
be no risk and no illegality involved. All I need is a
willing foreign partner who will agree to help me.
How?
I have concluded arrangements to lodge the money into
an online Bank in Kenya, and from there, the money can
be transferred to any Bank of our choice. But as I
mentioned earlier, I am handicapped because I am a
Kenya national. If you agree to help me, then please
send me your full name so that I can "ESTABLISH" the
ONLINE BANK A/C IN YOUR NAME...That way you will be able
to personally transfer the money out to any hidden A/C
of our Choice, WITHOUT YOU TRAVELLING TO ANYWHERE!
ALSO, YOU WILL NOT SIGN ANY DOCUMENTS FOR ANY ASPECT
OF THE TRANSACTION!
This is how it will work.
Step 1- I will Establish/Activate the online A/C in
your name and lodge the money now total USD55.7million
( inclusive of interests) into the Account.
Step 2 I will give you the Account Access information
which will include :-
(a) Customer Name
(b) Customer ID
¬ Security Code
(d) Account Number
(e) Amount in US$
Step 3 Once you have been given the A/C access
information as per above, you will then be in a
position to wire transfer out all the money to ANY
A/Cs of our choice! AND YOU DO NOT NEED TO GIVE ME OR
ANY ONE YOUR A/C INFORMATION BEFOREHAND; ONLY YOU WILL
KNOW AND USE YOUR CONFIDENTIAL A/Cs DETAILS TO MAKE
THE WIRE TRANSFERS YOURSELF! The best part is that
you will do this using your personal computer, in the
comfort of your home!
I hope this will be an enduring partnership, because
I will need your help to check out investment options
for me; The money will be shared on the ratio of
50/50
If you are interested, please contact me immediately,
giving me your FULL NAMES, TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS ,
and I will get back to you.
Regards,
Tayo Samsudin
Tel - ++ 871 762 127 825
Fax- ++ 871 762 127 823
bmpinto10@usa.com
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Example #3 - FROM THE DESK OF EDMOND ZAMFARA.
FROM THE DESK OF EDMOND ZAMFARA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK -ADB
ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE.
TELEPHONE:+225 07 62 65 65.
ATTN:The
Director,
I am the manager of bill and
exchange at the foreign
remittance department of African Development
bank(ADB). I am writing following the impressive
information about you through one of my friends who
runs a consultancy firm in your country. He assured me
of your capability and reliability to champion this
business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $
15m US dollars ( fifteen million US dollars) . In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his entire family in November 1997
in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
money because we cannot release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of
kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is
therefore upon this discovery that I and other
officials in my department now decided to
Make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next Of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money
to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if
such money remained unclaimed after four years, the
money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and an Ivorian cannot stand as next of
kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me
and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues
will visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the
bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private
Telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where
In the money will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax
or email the text of the application. I will not fail
to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom
Of fear as all required arrangements have been made
for the transfer .
You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
immediately.