Advance Fee Frauds and Email Scams
Mr. Johnson D. Omana (2008)
This is one message from a collection of email scams. We aren’t the source of these messages and we don’t send them! We collect the ones we receive and document them here for the benefit of others. (How do advance fee frauds work?)
If you have been victimized by an email scam like the one shown below you may wish to contact a lawyer or postal inspector in your state or country.
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:20:29 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
From: peoplepc.com
Subject: Re: Payment - ATM
International Credit Settlement
House of Commons UK.
CitiBank Int’l Plc.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
SIR/MADAM
Be informed that your outstanding inheritance funds with the Federal Government are yet to be received due to non-fulfillment of the legal required obligations as approved in respect of your inheritance.
On this first Quarter reconciliation, we discovered that you’ve been dealing with none officials of the bank and agencies on the attempt to secure the release of your inheritance funds. We wish to bring to your notice that we are neck deep to check this gross misconduct by this syndicates who slight down our dignities to international communities. With the combine effort of the United Nation Anti-crime commission to alleviate and redeem the image and past wounds of some foreigners and firms who were defrauded of their money on the course of trying to receive their payment.
The Federal Government is already compensating some individuals and firms with substantial evidence that their money was false fully collected from them. The sanity at present is $100,000 to each of those victims. “This is a secret” We have decided to bring a solution to your own problem. Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center Asia pacific, which is the test instruction by the new elected president of Federal Republic of Nigeria. This card center will send you an ATM card which you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars Only per day, so if you will like to receive your fund this way let us know by contacting the card payment center and also send the following information please:
1. Your full name
2. Phone and fax number
3. Address were you want them to send the ATM card to (P.O box not acceptable)
4. Your age and current occupation
5. Copy of your identity contact person (ID)
Engr: Marcus Douglas.
Integrated payment department.
The ATM card payment center has been mandated to issue US$2,500,000.00 to you as part payment for this fiscal year 2008. Also for your information you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s). This is to avoid any further problem in finalizing your payment. Email me back as soon as you receive this email for further direction in this regard and update me on any development from the above-mentioned office.
Note: that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (289-A1) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center.
(Mr. Johnson D. Omana)
Chief auditor to the president.
