If you are a regular user of the internet, you must have at one time or the other received e-mails offering wonderful ways to become rich. Most of these e-mails are either claiming to offer you partnership from funds stacked away by some politicians who died during a civil war, or some detailing how you are a winner of a raffle draw you never entered for, nor participated in.


Most of these scammers intention is to get your details, particularly bank details in order to defraud you of your hard earned money.


It is a known fact that these internet- fraudsters are getting more sophisticated by the day, they might have hit you before you realized you are being hit.


This page is aimed at enlightening our readers on ways not to be defrauded of their hard earned money. Fraud literally means deception (i.e. the use of deceit, trick) intentionally practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.



We have put together some of these scam e-mails used by fraudsters with the intention of defrauding an unsuspecting internet user.


Here are sample of such mails:


Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division

J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC

James B. Comey,



Attention Beneficiary,



Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo/Mr.Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.



The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).



We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared. Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from Delivery Company website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.





Name: GERALD D. WARNER FedEx Tracking number 875777537332 (www.fedex.com)





To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for

their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $250 Usd only and nothing more as everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $250.00 only.



martin wood (ATM Card Center Director)

Central Bank of Nigeria

Central Business District,

Cad astral Zone, federal

Capital Territory,Nigeria.

ATM Card Center Director martin wood

Email: fbi2@secretarias.com

Phone: +234-810-131-7881



Do contact martin wood of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:



FULL NAMES: __________________________________

DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________

SEX: _______________

DATE OF BIRTH: __________________

OCCUPATION: __________________

TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________

EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________



On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $250.00 via MoneyGram or Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order, after which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee.

ROBERT S. MUELLER,

DIRECTOR

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Phone Number: +1 (646) 776-5465



Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with martin wood of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cybercrime.





Lesson on above mail:

Like this first example, the author’s intention is to disabuse your mind from the beginning from suspecting that he is a fraudster, by making you understand that there are cyber fraudsters, thereby hiding his real intention of wanting to defraud you.


By helping to campaign against cybercrime on his e-mail, he is trying to help build confidence in him so that you can believe he is real.


What to watch out for in scam mails like above:


There is an amount to pay to redeem your prize
Most of the time it is a small amount that the intended victim can easily part with. In this case it is just $250, which the original amount the fraudster is after.
E-mail address: the e-mail address is always the trick they cannot play well, for instance if an official of FBI would send you an e-mail, the e-mail address will have the fbi domain name as the @... but because the fraudster cannot register a domain name that is already registered by FBI, his e-mail address will always have a fault. For example, the email address of the above fraudster is : fbi2@secretarias.com. He has is fbi as the office or sender name and secretarias.com as the domain name, you can easily fault that e-mail by just looking at the e-mail address.




My Name Is Sarah David



How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this mail finds you in an excellent condition of health.



But if you do not remember me, you have received an email from me in the past regarding my late father inheritance multi-



million-dollar business proposal which we never concluded at that time.



I am using this opportunity to inform you that my late father inheritance which was WILL in my name have been concluded with



another Greek Merchant who financed it to a logical conclusion. I thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer



of the funds into your account, due to one reason or the other best to known you at that time.



Due to the effort, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you showed during the course of the transaction, I want to compensate you and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $400,000.00. I have left an international certified bank draft for you, worth about $400,000.00 cash-able anywhere in the world.



My dear friend I will like you to contact my Rev.Christain Bean so that he will send the draft to you without any delay. At the moment, I 'm very busy here in Paraguay South American, trying to invest my money with the help of the Good



Samaritan who hears my cry and assistant in the release of my funds with the bank. Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.



CONTACT: Rev.Christain Bean



ADDRESS: No. Victoria Leisure Park, 13 Ligali Ayorinde Str. Victoria Island, Lagos. Nigeria



EMAIL: revchrisben2@gmail.com



Therefore, you should send him your full Name, telephone number and contact address for his reference and make further arrangement with him on how you want to receive your check.



Thanks you in anticipation for your past efforts and God bless you.



Regards



SARAH DAVID



Rev.Christain Bean



Lesson on above mail:


The sender is not asking for any money yet, because this is just the beginning of the conversation you are going to be having with him/her so long as you venture to reply the e-mail. What to do with this kind of scam or the others is to immediately delete it and don’t think of revisiting the mail again as not to get carried away by the amount, which is very tempting especially when you have not been asked to do anything but just to contact someone via e-mail.



What you should expect if you reply that e-mail is to be asked to pay an amount between $250 and $500 which will be the amount for courier or packaging etc. (That little amount is always what the fraudster is after).



Imagine someone asking you pay a sum of $250 for you to earn $400,000. You can even loan the amount when you know you will be making several thousands of it back!

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