Title: Why Am I So Lucky?
Subject: Internet Scams
Author: Mel Kaye / So You Want To Complain
Location: United Stats, CA, Thousand Oaks
Level of Annoyance (1-10): 8
Complaint Details: This is beginning to really annoy me. My "annoyance level" is climbing daily on this. I am being solicited, almost on a daily basis, by Internet scam artists. At the end of this "complaint you will see 10 email solicitations. I have copied each one in it's entirety, including all misspellings. Apparently I have either won or inherited $112,000,000 (US) and two other inheritances of an undisclosed amount.
Where is it written that I am a chump? I look in the mirror and I do not see "patsy" written on my forehead. How many of the scammers are there? Why can't they be stopped?
I really wonder how many people actually get scammed by them?
I did notice that out of the ten, nine had Yahoo email addresses. Maybe Yahoo should try to monitor this type of scam.
Following are 10 actual solicitations, in their entirety. I have numbered them from 1-10 so you can tell where each one begins and the other ends.
(1)
Dear Friend,
It has been long we communicate last, am so sorry for the delay, I want to Inform you that your cheque of ($1.3Million) Which my boss asked me to mail to you as soon as you requested it, Is Now with the courier Company, And the Name of the Company is GRAYLINK EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY BENIN REPUBLIC.
But due to some minure issue you fails to respond at the Approprete time, and presently the cheque is with them here Waiting for you to Come and pick it or you send them your Address where you want them to delivered the Cheque in Your Country Immediately.
What you have to do now is to Contact them with your Phone Number, your Postal Address, and your Full Name, so that they will not do Mistake when deliverring the check.
Secondly, You have to send to them again, which the company said that it will cost you only $125 to Delivered the cheque to your Destinated Address without delay, Please Contact them and register with them now, because this is the Opportunity for you to receive your cheque.
Only what you will Contact them with is your Phone number, and Address, and full Name to Avoid wrong Delivery, You should also tell the Company to give you the Information and how you will send them the Delivery fee $125 Immediately you Contacted them before the cheque $1.3 Million will be delivered to your Door step.
Below is their contact informations:
Email address: graylinkexpresscourier@yahoo.fr
Contact person name is ( Mr. Chris Bala) Direct Cell........
Please do get back to me as soon as you have contacted the security Company so that i can be able to Addvice you on how your cheque will be Delivered to your Destinated address Immediately.
Regards.
Mr Gabriel
(2)
Hello,
Inheritance Instruction Payment Of $18 Million USD Only
.........................................................
Compliment of the day,HM Treasury office inheritance Probate Dept's write to inform you that we have Bi-Directional Inheritance Instruction Payment codicil Of $18 Million USD Only in your favor as the TRUSTEE to our late Client's Inheritance Estate who died with his only surviving grand son in an air crash with his private jet and we wish to inform you to forward the following details
1.Your Full Name
2.Your Complete Address
3.Direct Telephone Mobile and Fax Number.
4 Your Age
to our office to facilitate the release authorization of the inherited estate payment to you.We await your urgent response and revert back to the front desk officer.
Regards
Peter Robinson
(3)
ATTENTION BENEFICIARY, [ ATM CARD INHERITANCE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.]
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract / inheritance file and discovered reasons why you are yet to receive your payment. It is because of irregularities and complications discovered on your payment file by our technical experts in respect to your contract / inheritance payment requirements which have just been duly rectified.
Meanwhile, we have been informed that you are still dealing with impostors and non recommended officials in the bank. Such acts must stop for security reasons if you wish to receive your payment. Since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem, right now we have arranged your payment through our ATM SWIFT CARD payment this is the latest instruction by our new elected president,UMAR MUSA YAR'ADUA (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria. Has promised to pay all foreign contractors/inheritance depts to those who have not receive their payment with the out going governments,so he has promise to pay without any delay.
Below is the arrangement...
The SWIFT CARD center will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdrew your money from any ATM Machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is ten thousand dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way please do let us know by contacting the CARD payment center managing director PROF PHILIPS EZE on email or call him on his cell phone : (profphilipsezepaymastergene@gmail.com ) and Prof. Chukwuma c. Soludo, Governor Central Bank of Nigeria on email for more information. (profcharlessoludo_gov007@yahoo.fr) And also send the following information to SWIFT CARD center:
1] phone and fax number,
2] address where you want them to send the card through UPS courier service (p.o box not accepted) .
3]Your occupation and Male/female/ age
4] your full name and total amount you are expecting.
Instead of losing your fund.
Please indicate to the card center the total sum you are expecting and for your information you have to stop any further communication with any institution or office until you receive the ATM CARD. Email CBN Governor as soon as you receive this important message on his email address or call him on telephone for more direction on this regards and also update him for further instruction and directives.
Note: because of impostors, we hereby issue you our code of conduct tag number which is (805) so you must have to indicate this code when contacting the card center.
We await your urgent response.
Regards,
MRS CHIOMA SUSAN
Chief Auditor / Secretary
To Governor Central Bank of Nigeria
Mr.Jeff Anthony
Senior Audit Officer
Natwest Bank Group
UK.
(4)
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Jeff Anthony Senior Audit Officer of Natwest Bank Group UK.Natwest Bank London.I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £20.5million British Pounds Sterling(Twenty million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr.Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January ,including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatves 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.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim.It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after eight years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,while the balance will be for me and my colleagues.I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account.Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free.As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalised.We will discuss much in details when I do receive your response.
Please if you are interested in this project contact me for further directives.
Best regards
Mr.Jeff Anthony
PETER WILLIAMS EYO CHAMBERS,
LEGAL PRACTITIONER, PUBLIC NOTARY &
HIGH COURT REPRESENTATIVE
SUITE 202 OMEGA PLAZA, APAPA
LAGOS -NIGERIA
barrpeter_williams50chamber@yahoo.fr
(5)
DEAR SIR/MADAM
I am Barrister PETER WILLIAMS EYO (Esq.), the Personal Attorney to a Foreign Contractor, who worked with a Multinational Oil Firm in Nigeria. On the 11th of September 2001, my client, a American National, late Engineer A.Goins, an oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death Five years ago in a ghastly terrorist attack to American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston, Assachusetts,to Los Angeles, California, crashedinto the North Tower of the World Trade Center with 86 people on board. All occupants of the Aeroplane unfortunately lost their lives.
Since then I have made several inquiries to Several Embassies to locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail. Then I have to contact you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Bank where this huge deposit were lodged. Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about Fifteen Million US dollars(US$15m) has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin, relatives so that the fund left will be transferred or have the account confiscated.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 5 years now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$15 Million can be paid to you and then you and I can share this money. 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as your Government may require. All I require is your honest and co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on your return email the following information for the transfer in your favour.
1, Your full Name
2, Your contact Address
3, Your private phone, mobile and fax numbers for easy communicating for each others.
I await your kind response, Please if you are interested and capable in handling this deal with me, due reply only on my alternative email address for security reasons barrpeter_williams50chamber@yahoo.fr
And
:note that the nurture of this deal needs a very top secrecy.
Best Regards,
Barrister PETER WILLIAMS EYO((Esq)
PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH MY PRIVATE EMAIL:
barrpeter_williams50chamber@yahoo.fr
(6)
Dear beneficiary,
NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID.
This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of the above International charity organization branched in the Netherlands as one of the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, education and business development.
The international registered Foundation is named after over 5 top company owners put together. The charitable foundation was reported by the business newspaper, the Economist between the year to be technically one of the world's wealthiest charity foundation- worth billions of US$ - but its primary purpose is BRINGING INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH AND LEARNING TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY. George Soros is chairman of the foundation/association. Having been rated as the founder and chairman of a network of foundations, the foundation has decided to randomly select email addresses that would benefit from this year's donation/award.
Association of Charity Foundations in conjunction with the European Union is giving out a yearly donation of One Hundred Million United States Dollars as specific Donations/Grants to 50 lucky international recipients worldwide in different categories for their educational pursuit, health care, personal Business development and uplift of their environments.
These funds are freely given to you for your business, educational and personal development and at least 30% to be used by you to develop a part of your environments, as this is a yearly program, which is a measure of universal development strategy, and eradication of poverty.
Please kindly note that you are not the only beneficiary in your country this year and your country is not the only country that is benefiting from this donation, as beneficiaries have been chosen from countries from all continents.
The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will be notable richness amongst many unusual people around the world.
This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen to receive the donation once. Which means that, subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again, so it’s your choice to spend the donation wisely on something that will last you a long time. And please do not bother following up this email, if you have benefited from this donation in previous years.
Based on the random selection exercise of internet service providers (ISP) and millions of Super market cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$2,000,000.00 (TWO Million United States Dollars) as charity donations/aid from the Association Of European Charity Foundations and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. Note that, your email was selected from either the internet, or a Shop's cash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from.
You are required to expeditiously Contact the Executive Secretary below for qualification documentation and processing of your claims, from Monday through Sunday.
On contact with this officer, you'll be given your donation pin number which you will use in collecting the funds.
Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (G-313-321, N-0106) in all discussions.
***********************************
Executive Secretary,
Mr. Arthur stewart
Tel:
Fax:
Email:acfoundation_nl@yahoo.it
**********************************
Please note that this donation/Grant is strictly administered by "European Union" under delegated powers from the UNO. You are hereby advised to keep this whole information confidential until you have been able to collect your donation, as there have been many cases of double and unqualified claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation.
Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective beneficiaries, not later that 7 days after notification, as failure will lead to cancellation and your donation will be reserved for next year’s recipients.
On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulations
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Gordon JUlia
(Foundation officer)
(7)
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE,VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
From the Desk Of:
Prof Chukwuma C. Soludo
Executive Governor
Central bank of Nigeria.
IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT CONTRACT NO: (MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/009)
ATTENTION BENEFICIARY, [ ATM CARD INHERITANCE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.]
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract / inheritance file and discovered reasons why you are yet to receive your payment. It is because of irregularities and complications discovered on your payment file by our technical experts in respect to your contract / inheritance payment requirements which have just been duly rectified.
Meanwhile, we have been informed that you are still dealing with impostors and non recommended officials in the bank. Such acts must stop for security reasons if you wish to receive your payment. Since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem, right now we have arranged your payment through our ATM SWIFT CARD payment this is the latest instruction by our new elected president,UMAR MUSA YAR'ADUA (GCFR) Federal Republic of Nigeria. Has promised to pay all foreign contractors/inheritance depts to those who have not receive their payment with the out going governments,so he has promise to pay without any delay.
Below is the arrangement...
The SWIFT CARD center will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdrew your money from any ATM Machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is ten thousand dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way please do let us know by contacting the CARD payment center managing director DR FRANK WILLIAMS on email or call him on his cell phone : (drfrankwilliams2004/005@yahoo.com) and Prof. Chukwuma c. Soludo, Governor Central Bank of Nigeria on email for more information. (profcharlessoludo_gov007@yahoo.fr) And also send the following information to SWIFT CARD center:
1] phone and fax number,
2] address where you want them to send the card through UPS courier service (p.o box not accepted) .
3]Your occupation and Male/female/ age
4] your full name and total amount you are expecting.
Instead of losing your fund.
Please indicate to the card center the total sum you are expecting and for your information you have to stop any further communication with any institution or office until you receive the ATM CARD. Email CBN Governor as soon as you receive this important message on his email address or call him on telephone for more direction on this regards and also update him for further instruction and directives.
Note: because of impostors, we hereby issue you our code of conduct tag number which is (805) so you must have to indicate this code when contacting the card center.
We await your urgent response.
Regards,
MRS CHIOMA SUSAN
Chief Auditor / Secretary
To Governor Central Bank of Nigeria
(8)
GOOD NEWS
Compensation Head Office
I am happy to inform you about my success in getting your winning funds under the cooperation of a new partner from South Africa. Presently I'm in South Africa for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.
Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to get your winnings despite that failed somehow.
Now contact my secretary in Lagos his name is DR.Paul Brown.
Find below his contact information.
Name: DR.Paul Brown
E-mail: pl_brown1961@yahoo.fr
Phone:
Ask him to send you the total $500.000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US
DOLLARS) certified bank Cheque, which I raised in your favor for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempt in this matter.I appreciated your efforts at that time very much. So feel free and get
in touch
with my secretary and give him your address where to send the draft to you.
Please do let me know immediately you receive the Cheque to enable us share the joy after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment, I'm very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and me are having at hand,finally, remember that I had
forwarded
instruction to the secretary on your behalf to Receive that money. So
feel
free to get in touch with him (DR.Paul Brown) without any delay.
Best regards,
MRS JENNIFER WILLIAMS
(9)
Dear Sir/Madam
My Name is Princess Ugonma daughter of the late HRH King Jonathan Etem King of Eleme Kingdom. I am 29 yrs hold and a mother of A son By Name Tony Etem I am in desperate need of your assistant concerning my family wealth.
My Mother was the first wife to the late King before her painful death. By the virtue of our African culture. When the King dies he is succeeded by the first son. Which is my elder brother Afam Etem But this was not possible because my step mother the Second wife to my Father wanted her own son to become the King. They, My Stepmother and her children conspired and killed my elder brother.
At first I did not know why they hated us that much. I though it was just for the throne which I had always advised my brother to let go but he wouldnt. He will always tell me that I do not understand. Until he almost gave-up the ghost. He told be that The Shell Petroleum Committee Nigeria in the course of Community development and benefits to King of the Oil producing community Deposited Into My late fathers account The sum of $46,000,000,00 ( Fourthy Six Million USD) In one of the Local Banks here In my country Nigeria. He also Gave me the Deposited Slip of the Fund in This Bank. He Told me that this is the main reason my stepmother wants him dead. I ran away with the Document he gave me and went into hiding with my only son whom is that only family I have got.
I need you help I need to start a new life. I want you to help me claim this fund and make arrangement for my son and I to start a new life in Your Country. If you will be willing to help me please do respond back to me
God Bless
Ugonma
(10)
Dearest Friend,
I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund now, I want you to contact my secretary on the information below NAME; Fredrick Gusterson EMAIL; gustersonf@o2.pl Ask him to send you the total sum of Nine Hundred and twenty five Thousand Pounds A CASHIER'S CHEQUE (£925,000.00), which I kept for your compensation CONTACT THE SECRETARY ON this email gustersonf@o2.pl
Regards,
From :Joseph Ansa
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