The concept is that you are sent an "urgent" email and it says you have been referred or discreetly selected somehow. The perpetrator says he/she is an account represntative of some sorts, typically the Nigerian government or other African country. (may also be outside of Africa, there are many copycat scammers) He says there is an excess of unclaimed funds for whatever reason, typically state in US dollars in the tens of millions and that he needs a discreet third party (such as yourself) to transfer and hold the excess amount for whatever reason. Your compensation is typically stated as a large percentage say 30% for your services. Then it is requested you provide personal information to the perpetrator. Most will then say they require some sort of legal fees to free the money up for transfer to your account and will ask you to wire them money. Some victims end up paying thousands of dollars in hopes of gaining the millions promised them. Needless to say that the transaction never transpires and the perpetrator disappears offline once they realize the victim has caught on and quits sending them money. They may also use your personal info to steal your identity. There are many variations of this same concept, but once learned by you they are very easy to recognize. For more info go to Google and type in "Nigerian oil scam".
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Example of such letter:
Atiku Abubakar
Vice President of Nigeria
Contact (abubaka00atiku@yahoo.it)
Dear Dealy,
I got your contact through your country's chamber of commerce and industry as one of the honest business personalities who can be capable to handle my business proposal . My name is Atiku Abubakar the Vice President Of Nig. As you might have heard about the political situation in my country in recent times, you might also have heard my political embattlement with President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. I have been embroiled into political unrest with the President ever since and then i deemed it no longer comfortable to invest my money in my country. Hence this contact with you for assistance. I want to transfer the sum of $75,000,000.00 (Seventy-Five million Dollars) to your care in bits of $38M first and 37$M next due to the volume of the money which i deposited with a finance and security company abroad and it has to be confidential because i don't want the president to know about this. I will furnish you with the details and also introduce you to my personal representative who have taken care of all the legal responsibilities so that you can contact and deal with him directly on my behalf towards the transfer.I intend investing my own share of the fund in Estate management business. You will therefore be furnished with special instructions on how to proceed. We shall enter into deed of an irrevocable partnership bond and agreement which will be drafted upon your acceptance to my proposal. I will be willing to give you 30% for your assistance. While replying please furnish me with your private phone numbers for easy communication. I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. There is no risk involved since you and i the only one who know about this fund apart from my personal representative. Get back to me immediately for details on how to proceed next.through my private email contact(abubaka00atiku@yahoo.it) Have a good day.
Yours sincerely,
Atiku Abubakar
Vice President Of Nig.
(GCFR,MINF,PSSH)
Here is another such letter except the perpetrator says he is from Russia...
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:02:54 -0300
From: brucema03@keko.net
Subject: URGENT PARTNERSHIP REQUIRED!!!
Dear Partner,
I am Mr. Bruce Misamore a personal chief financial treasurer to Mikhail
Khodorkovsky the Richest man in Russia and owner of the following
companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman
CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with it´s
Branches all over the world)
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
I have a profiling amount in an excess of 100,000,000 dollar (one
hundred million dollar) which I seek your Partnership in accommodating for
me. You will be rewarded with 10% of the total sum for your partnership.
Can you be my partner on this?
Already the funds have left the shore of Russia through diplimatic
means to a European Vault Facility where the final crediting is expected to
be carried out. While I was on the process, My Boss got arrested for
his Involvement in politics by financing the leading And opposing
political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and
Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party Led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which
poses treat to President Vladimir Putin Second Tenure as Russian
president. You can catch more of the story on This website:
http://www.supportmbk.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/03/29/58914.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Mikhail-khodorkovsky
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/11/13/51215.html
YOUR ROLE:
All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted
sum and I will re-profile the funds with your name, which will enable
The European Holding Firm transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use
this sum to relocate to American continent and never to be connected to
any of Mikhail khodorkovsky conglomerates. The transaction has to be
concluded within 5 to 10 bank working days, as soon as I confirm your
readiness to conclude the transaction with me.
Contact me via this same email address for further details.
Thank you very much,
Regards,
Bruce Misamore [Mr]
I received this letter sent from Bank of Africa, they even add links of the bank homepage and BBC news about a plan crash where the bank account owners died just to make people think this is for real... WARNING - BIG SCAM!!!
FROM THE DESK OF MR AHMED OMAR.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
BANK WEBSITE:www.bkofafrica.net
Dear Friend,
COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON
I am the manager of auditing and accounting department of BANK OF
AFRICA
(B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we
discovered an
abandoned sum of US$10m dollars TEN Million US dollars) in an account
that
belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. RICHARD BURSON from
Florida,
U.S.A) who died along with his entire family on November 1999 in a
plane
crash.For more informations about the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/502503.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it
unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws 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 now decided to make this business proposal to you,so
that
the money can be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody will come
for
it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed
dormant fund.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained
unclaimed after eight years the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed dormant fund. The request of foreigner as next of
kin
in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe like me can not stand as next of kin to a
foreigner, I agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect
to
the provision of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 60% would be for me.Thereafter, I will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you
arranged,you
must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased
customer with a text of application that i will send to you,but before
i
send to you the text of application form,I will like you to send me the
following informatios
1.NAME IN FULL:................................
2.ADDRESS:.......................................
3.NATIONALITY:................................
4.AGE:..............................................
5.Sex................................................
6.OCCUPATION:.................................
7.MARITAL STATUS:...........................
8.PRIAVTE PHONE NO.........................
9.PRIVATE FAX NO:.............................
So i will like you to send to me those informations for easy and
effective
communication.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of
the application form.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,if only you
are
intrested and ready to help.
Trusting to hear from you.
Yours Faithfully,
MR AHMED OMAR.
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