Swindle Alert
A Costa Rican lost
$60,000 (¢24 million) in an internet swindle, when
responding an electronic mail of a company that offered
to help to recover inheritances and fortunes in exchange
for a commission.
The honorary consul of Costa Rica in South Africa,
Claude Charbonnel, advised the ministry of Exterior
Relations the circulation in Costa Rica of that type of
offer promoted by swindlers from Nigeria, who request an
advance from $20,000 to $50,000 to their victims to
cover legal expenses and and a trip, after which they
disappear. The Chancellery did not provide the identity
of the swindled Tico investor, who sent the money to an
account in Miami and from there to South Africa.
This publication is a constant receiver of emails, to
the tune of about 3 per week. Each is slightly different
in the message header and coming from different email
address, but contains the general message. Though this
type of message does not contain any virus or harmful to
the internet user in any way, it is annoying and can
easily be mistaken for a genuine plea for help.
The following is a typical message:
From: "AMIN MOHAMMED
Dr.(Ph.D)" <amin1@ecplaza.net>
Reply-To: amin1@ecplaza.net
To: info@istarmedia.net
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 05:22:11 -0800
Subject: Business Assistance
(A SUBSIDIARY OF NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COPORATION)
PLOT 128 INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, ABUJA-NIGERIA.
SUBJECT: FOURTY EIGHT MILLION (US$48,000,000.00) DOLLARS TRANSFER
ATTN: THE CHAIRMAN/C.E.O
HON.
THANKS FOR A GOOD PIECE OF INFORMATION I GATHERED ABOUT YOU IN MY QUEST TO GET AN HONEST AND TRUST WHORTHY PERSON FOR THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
I AM DR. AMIN MOHAMMED, A DIRECTOR GENERAL WITH NIGERIAN LIQUIFIED
NATURAL GAS (NLNG). I HAVE A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $48,000,000.00 U.S DOLLARS WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER TO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT FOR SAVE KEEP AND INVESTMENT. THE MONEY ACCRUED AS A RESULT OF OVER INVOICING DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND PHASE OF THE NLNG PLANT AT BONNY - PORT HARCOURT. HOWEVER, AS A CIVIL SERVANT IN NIGERIA, WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNT. I WILL OFFER YOU 20% OF THE TOTAL MONEY IF YOU CAN PRODUCE BANK ACCOUNTS WHERE THIS FUND WILL BE TRANSFFERED INTO FOR SAVE KEEP AND INVESTMENT.
IT MAY INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT LATE LAST YEAR, I EXECUTED A SIMILAR TRANSACTION OF THIS NATURE WITH AN OSAKA-JAPAN BASED MULTI MILLIONARE BUSINESS WOMAN- MRS. KONAMI YAMAMOTO WITH PHONE NUMBER:81-9085437498. WHEN THE MONEY WAS EVENTUALLY TRANSFFERED INTO HER BANK ACCOUNT IN JAPAN, SHE SUPRISINGLY SEIZED THE WHOLE MONEY WITHOUT REPARTRIATING MY OWN SHARE. HENCE, DUE TO THIS PAST TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE, YOUR HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY IS OF HIGH DEMAND. HOWEVER, DUE TO STRICT CONFIDENTIAL REASONS, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO REPLY THIS LETTER BY INDICATING YOUR INTEREST. YOU ARE ALSO REQUIRED TO STATE YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS, FAX NUMBER, PHONE NUMBERS IN YOUR REPLY.
I AM EXPECTING YOUR REPLY AND YOUR INTEREST.
THANKS.
YOURS TRULY,
AMIN MOHAMMED Dr.(Ph.D)
Beware of any and all such messaged. And
though there is no way of stopping them, you can simply
erase it. Until the next one!
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