Nigerian 416 scam-mail now online
p2pnet news view | Crime:- Here’s a first —- for me, anyway.
Like everyone else who’s online, I regularly get Nigerian 419 scam-mail.
I used to read some of it for a laugh but it’s become so boring that these days, it’s immediately filed under T for Trash.
But when I was weeding through p2pnet comment posts killing hand-submitted spam, I came across this —- posted as a Reader’s Write.
It’s exactly the same as the kind of garbage that jams up our email folders.
From ricky | yuricky@rocketmail.com | nigeria.gov.ng, it goes >>>
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY IN CONJUCTION WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL BOARD OF TRUSTEE ON FOREIGN CONTRACTS PAYMENT ABUJA.
Website: http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/
Ref: CBN/OHG/00X09/2008.
PH 2348083733327
REPLY TO DIRECT EMAIL
yuricky@rocketmail.com
FROM DESK OF: RICKY (DIRECTOR GENERAL DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICE.
On behalf: PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (GCFR).
Attn: Beneficiary/ContractorSTOP ORDER FROM THE PRESIDENCY:
This is to bring to your notice about the due process of your Outstanding Contractual payment, which was suspended by the Central Bank of Nigeria There by stopping the telex unit to pause the transfer of your contract fund to your nominated bank account.
As a result of this development verification conducted by the Finance Ministry in conjunction with the Debt Verification Panel on your contract Case file has been endorsed for payment awaiting your confirmations.
In view of several efforts already made by us to contact you for the following reasons based on the new account submitted to this office on your behalf:
(1) My Office desks have just received a sworn affidavit from to re-route your payment into a new bank account number as stated: VACAP Federal Credit Union, 1700 Robin Hood Road, Richmond, VA 23220.Account number 32501.of Mr.RAINER HESSE.
The sum of US$25.5m USD. (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only)
(2) Please, confirm to our department if you have instructed Mr. RAINER HESSE to appoint an attorney/agent on your behalf thereby asking that the receive cash call remittance on your behalf.
(3) It has come to our notice that you are being contacted by unauthorized Individuals with respect to your contract payment but unfortunately this office is not aware of your unofficial dealings and warned that it is at your own risk.
(4) Please, also confirm if you have authorized to change your banking particulars to the following particulars stated below:
VACAP Federal Credit Union, 1700 Robin Hood Road, Richmond, VA 23220.
Account number 3250163 also re-confirm your Contract Number, Contract
Amount,Private Telephone and Fax number, your e-mail address, Office or home address so that we can crosscheck it with our file records.
We have decided to contact you for re-verification because we suspected that Mr. RAINER HESSE is trying to divert your money through the sworn affidavit into a new different bank account. You are advised to call me or email back upon the receipt of this mail to enable me advice you on how to go about this matter.
Yours faithfully,
DR.RICKY (DIRECTOR GENERAL DEBT MANAGEMENT OFFICE),
Drector General Debt Payment Office of The federation.
On behalf: PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA (GCFR)
Warning:
This communiqué is from the PRESIDENTIAL BOARD OF TRUSTEE ON CONTRACT PAYMENT upon the advice of the Presidential adviser on Contract are Advised to adhere strictly to directive. Any fund beneficiary who Ignores Instruction will be doing so at his own risk and should not blame the Federal Government Of Nigeria for non-payment of their contract Funds.
Website: http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/
EMAIL; yuricky@rocketmail.com
Is this the new trend? Or an old one?
Has anyone else found Nigerian excreta in comment sections or, perhaps, forums?
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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July 11th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Although it might seem strange that the Office of the President of Nigeria uses a Rocketmail account, many of the Bush Regime ministers used an outside email service, ostensibly to evade the legal requirement that all White House emails must be archived (even though Bush dismantled the automatic email archiving system put in place during the Clinton years).
I still have a few 419 scams mailed to me from the pre-internet days, when sending each one out cost the price of an overseas postage stamp. (they obviously got my name from the state professional licensing register) Getting these scam mails was OK if you were a stamp collector, and it was always a good laugh to pass the letter around to friends. But back then they didn’t just send this amazing offer out to just anyone.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
kinda impressed that the spammer acquired the .gov.ng domain. I always thought global governments had restricted .gov for government use only, and not spam. Guess I was wrong…
July 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Rocketmail=Yahoo
A domain commonly used by 419 scammers.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Nigeria = Scam
They’ve got buildings – i repeat – buildings put together where thousands of people are into one profession : Scamming. This has got a name now : 419 scams
They scam on dating sites, real estate sites, car rental and even on brokerages!!!
I think the whole country needs to be “Disconnected” from internet. Hopefully, they’ll spend more time that way working to fightto get some of the country’s oil riches
instead of conning the good people of the developed world!!
August 31st, 2008 at 6:09 am
My name is Donald, I am a nigerian a true one at that therefore i strongly resent the illustration Nigeria=scam. There may be a lot of scamers here but that deos not mean the whol Country is into it. I read a report today published by cybersource labelling Nigeria as the most fraudulent country on the net and new york as the second on online pament scams. Sites like paypal dont allow nigerians but they allow people in new york why? If for anything i think we have helped online security companies to grow faster and for individuals to get smartter online. Disconecting Nigeria from the net will be a big mistake if even it can be done because the benefits we offer will go whit us. Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa we are HUSTLERS and we get results some may be negative but you most of it is POSITIVE. Blaze4dem@hotmail.com Get to know a true Nigerian email me.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:48 am
OK, I understand where that Nigerian reader is coming from because they get a bad wrap about scams when the largest city in the United States is just as notorious scam-wise. He does hold another valid point that because of recent years and the rise of scamming that stems from that country, companies like PayPal have increased their security measures significantly. I agree that it did help online security companies grow exponentially. In the end, it’s just that once a country like Nigeria has a stigma like that, it’s very hard to erase. Hey, at least it doesn’t have a reputation like Somalia or The Congo: Apparently they both make Nigeria seem like a tropical island next to them.
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