Beware guys one more scam is there about emails giving job opportunities with the leading banks n oil fields in NIGERIA,offering big amount of salaries.....easy trap.
====== From: Mr. SAMUEL UGO (Accountant) WEMA BANK PLC. 112 SURE ROAD LAGOS ISLAND Lagos Nigeria.
Dear,
I am Samuel Ugo an accountant with one of the reputable banks in Nigeria. I am also a Personal accounts officer to Mr.David, from your country who used to work with shell Development Company in Nigeria,Herein after shall be referred to as my client an expatriate Who board a plane from the city of kano to the city Lagos in Nigeria, and unfortunately died with his entire family on Saturday, 4 May, 2002, in plane crash.Let me refer you to the front page of (BBC) World News of Saturday, 4 May 2002,). You can check it through their website at,
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Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but this has proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his similar name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence this mail to you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by Mr.David before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by my bank.
Since we have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you hav
I recevied a email that i have been appointed for a high paid job in Nigerian Oil & Petroleum Firm sending me contract all. When i contacted them with email i was asked to pay US$ 1800/- for Work Permit and Visa to Nigeria. Luckily i enquired with Nigerian Embassy in Riyadh, where i was told to avoid such email as it fake job appointment and offer. Please take note of the same.
RE:Attention about Job Scam
by sridhar sri godugu on Jul 16, 2007 01:29 PM Permalink
same it's happens to me also.... pls..........don;t belive such emails.....
RE:Scam will frighten innocent & new users
by partha bhattacharya on Jul 16, 2007 01:53 PM Permalink
Ignore the mail, if you open it by mistake, after reading the mail, delete it, because being a matured girl you know that nothing is free in this world, why some one should give you money or do you a favor when that person doesn't know you
p.s. I won't ask you pay me for my reply, take care :-)
I also got a mail in my gmail account from a distress 23 year old woman from sudan. The pics she sent was that of a beautiful lady. In the mail she narrated me her plight, how she lost her parents who were govt. officials, in the rebel attack. She told that she was now staying in a refugee camp and currently using one reverend's computer. It was such a joke! she added that her fother enmassed millions of dollars and now she wanted to disperse some to my account because she trusted me and promised that if everything was according to the plans then she would marry me. Because she had found love in me.
RE:me too
by Denis Khan on Aug 02, 2007 12:47 PM Permalink
i received this mail today. 'How are you today?.
I believe that you are doing well.
As for me i am fine here with all hopes to meet with you immediately after the transfer of my money to your position for a better life.
God will bless and reward you for every effort you are about to make to see me out from this horrible prison called refugee camp where i am living today as a result of the untimely death of my parents (may their gentle souls rest in peace)
I will be waiting for your call by 1-3pm my time at the church office located in the refugee camp where i am living at moment with this number (( 221-42-97-757) i thank God for the life of Rev David George the pastor of the church located in the camp where i recieve and send emails to you.
He is like a father to us here as his church assists united nations here in Senegal in taking care of refugees.
When you call tell him that you want to speak with me so that he will send for me from the females hostel to talk with you about what i am going through here.
Here is the contact information of the bank in London where the money was deposited by my late father is as follows,
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC LONDON. NAME OF THE TRANSFER OFFICER IS MR PAUL LEED. TELEPHONE NUMBER IS 44-70-17-02-85-89 FAX NUMBER 44 70-17-02-85-88
Already i have informed this bank about my intention to claim my late father's deposit of which my name appears as the next of kin.
I too received a similar e-mail in Yahoo the mail follows as, with Subject as """An Emergency Help Needed"" from mail id """dvs_murthy@yahoo.com""""----How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain. I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of $ 1550 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management., I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1600 to feed and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of $3500 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means i had been starving so please understand how urgent i needed your help. I am sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I
Last few days i am regularly getting mail from Nigeria regarding some prizes. I don't no what is this. They write me to mention the name, address, contact no. etc............, can you tell me what is this.
RE:same message
by Akshat Mathur on Jul 16, 2007 01:58 PM Permalink
What you can do is click on the button link called "This is spam" next time you encounter such mail. But again you need to do this process each time you get such mail... And what another thig you can do is stop giving you mail ID everywhere.
"...Apparently, he had received a message, seemingly from the Hotmail team, ... He naturally replied to the message in the affirmative and that was enough for the scammers to get hold of his password and hack into his account..."
First of all using Hotmail itself is bad enough. Second, he would have given his DOB, zodiac sign et al in reply to the mail. Hence, he paid the price for the stupidity. Phishing will only get worse.
