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[mdittmar]

Internet ScamBustersTM

SCAM: The Nigerian Advance Fee Scheme

[VRWC_minion]

I'll take care of it from here. Just give me your bank routing number and your account number. I will be sure to take care of everything.

[Polybius]

Most of these solicitations are sent to the individual who is the "incorporator" of a corporation, LLP or LLC. They get your name from corporate filings records of the Sec'y of State.

I actually got a snail mail version of this offer in 1998 mailed from Nigeria with Nigerian postage on multi-colored letterhead of the "Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation".

It was addressed to:
"The President/CEO"
"My Company"

When I changed my title to "Emperor", I quit getting them. ;-)

[Eagle Eye]

You mean that this unsolicited email from an unknown person might not be sincere in wanting me to manage their millions?

Next you're gonna tell me that David Spade is really a man.

[Species8472]

Read here: USSS on Nigerian Scams

Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud
"OPERATION 4-1-9"

The perpetrators of Advance Fee Fraud are often very creative and innovative. This fraud is called "4-1-9" fraud after the section of the Nigerian penal code that addresses fraud schemes. Nigerian nationals, purporting to be officials of their government or banking institutions, will fax or mail letters to individuals and businesses in the United States and other countries. The correspondence will inform the recipient that a reputable foreign company or individual is needed for the deposit of an overpayment on a procurement contract. The letter will claim that the Nigerian government overpaid anywhere from $10 to $60 million on these contracts. There is the perception that no one would enter such an obviously suspicious relationship; however, many victims have been enticed into believing they can share in such windfall profits.

Individuals are asked to provide funds to cover various fees and for personal identifiers such as Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and other similar data. Once this information is received, the victims find that they have lost large sums of money. It is hard to pinpoint how much has been lost in these scams since many victims do not report their losses to authorities due to fear or embarrassment.

In response to this growing epidemic, the Secret Service established "Operation 4-1-9" to target Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud on an international basis. Indications are that losses attributed to Advance Fee Fraud are in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Agents on temporary assignment to the American Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, in conjunction with the Regional Security Office, supplied information in the form of investigative leads to the Federal Investigation and Intelligence Bureau (FIIB) of the Nigerian National Police. This project was designed to provide Nigerian law enforcement officials with investigative leads to enable them to enforce their own jurisdictional violations.

On July 2, 1996, officials of the FIIB, accompanied by Secret Service agents in an observer/advisor role, executed search warrants on 16 location in Lagos that resulted in the arrests of 43 Nigerian nationals. Evidence seized included telephones and facsimile machines, government and Central Bank of Nigeria letterhead, international business directories, scam letters, and addressed envelopes, and files containing correspondence from victims throughout the world.
Be very careful!

[LowOiL]

Hey stop with the jokes, I am cracking a gut here...

[Eagle Eye]

Since everyone here has busted my bubbles of wealth, all I have left is my sense of humor.

Hey, Bad Joe, I was gonna make a HUGE donation to FR...honest!

[shaggy eel]

,,, I wouldn't dream of asking you for a small deposit. Very little happens on small deposits.

[Catspaw]

Thanks for the info. After I had gotten a few of these letters, I called the postal inspector & turned the letters over to him. They later stopped by for a statement.

Some fool in our area fell for the scam. They cleaned out his bank accounts. He never got a penny back.

[lonestar]

Hide!

[mlmr]

I received one of those mailbox Nigerian letters last September. I think it is my third.

[Texaggie79]

Mr. T also pities the fool that falls for this lame @$$ scam.

[1L]

When I changed my title to "Emperor", I quit getting them. ;-)

Hmmm. I wonder what "Dictator" would do to them!

[Eagle Eye]

FR was gonna get part of my first million until these guys talked me out of pursuing this great opportunity. Now FR will have to make due on my measly normal donation.

Hmmmm...you think they'd mind a few baggies instead of actual cash?

[Michael2001]

I don't know how they get you. They must have some bots that run e-mails randomly till they hit something that works. Everytime I open up a new e-mail on hotmail it's fine for a few months and then I start getting tons of trash mail (especially porn). The first time, it's just one, then 3 the next day, soon I'm getting ten a day. That's when I stop using it and make a new one.

I checked one just for fun, after about a month where I didn't use it. I had over 200 trash messages.

[Random Access]

Now I need to find one or two savvy managers for all my commission money!

There is a fella named Ken Lay down here who is between jobs at this time.

[Michael2001]

That's hilarious. Did you make that?

[Eagle Eye]

I wonder what "Dictator" would do to them!

'Spose any kind of 'tater would be ok.

[Texaggie79]

Look next to his left hand.