How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: World Fund Discovery and Payment Bureau

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

World Fund Discovery and Payment Bureau

Another day and yet more unclaimed money in my name, fancy that!
"Dr McWealth" - what a credible name....

Sent: 10 February 2009
I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: ppwealth_mc23333@yahoo.in- FROM: DR.PETER McWEALTH DIRECTOR: WORLD FUND DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT AND PAYMENT BUREAU.Tel:+44 70457 35084This letter is from World Fund Discovery Management And Payment Bureau newly invented by the World Financial Service Authority United States Of America/United Kingdom.This body was set up to discover an outstanding unpaid fund being owned to Governments or Individuals all over the world through Contract Payment,Inheritance and Lottery Winning Prize Awards.It will interest you to know that we have discovered an outstanding unpaid/unclaimed sum of money in favor of your name and a mandate has been given to this body World Fund Discovery Management And Payment Bureau to ensure that this fund gets to you without any delay. Note that a special payment arrangement has been made to deliver this fund to you through diplomatic means of payment or Alternatively come in person to any of our payment Offices in Europe, America or Asia.You are advised to furnish this office with your contact information to enable us open up communication with you regarding the release of your fund immediately.Reply to drpeter_wealth007@yahoo.com.hk.Yours Truly Dr.Peter Mcwealth Director World Fund Discovery Management And Payment Bureau.

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What is advance-fee fraud?

According to Wikipedia advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer, the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.

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The 419 scam originated in the early 1980s as the oil-based Nigerian economy declined. Several unemployed university students first used this scam as a means of manipulating business visitors interested in shady deals in the Nigerian oil sector before targeting businessmen in the west, and later the wider population. Scammers in the early-to-mid 1990s targeted companies, sending scam messages via letter, fax, or Telex. The spread of email and easy access to email-harvesting software made the cost of sending scam letters through the Internet low. In the 2000s, the 419 scam has spurred imitations from other locations in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and, more recently, from North America, Western Europe (mainly UK), and Australia.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code (part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining Property by false pretences; Cheating") dealing with fraud. The American Dialect Society has traced the term "419 fraud" back to 1992.
The advance-fee fraud is similar to a much older scam known as the Spanish Prisoner scam in which the trickster would tell the scam victim that a (fictitious) rich prisoner had promised to share (non-existent) treasure with the victim if the latter would send money to bribe the prison guards.
Insa Nolte, a lecturer of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries."