How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: Dear

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Dear

From: peter hickman [mailto:hickmanss_037@msn.com]
Sent: 08 April 2009 17:58
Subject: Business,Call Me

Dear

I wish to contact you personally for a business transaction of GBP £30,000,000(Thirty Million British Pounds Sterling) hopefully that you will
respond positively to this offer.

I need a reliable, honest and capable person who will be able to handle this transaction hence I am contacting you, and I believe that you will never turn
down my request.

I am the former Group Risk Director, Halifax Bank of Scotland and currently an Executive Member of Lloyds Banking Group, United Kingdom.

With your sincere assistant and co-operation, we can finalise this transaction,and be rest assured that this deal is worth taking and highly
profitable.

At this moment, I will not issue the details of this transaction until your positive response is granted.

For further correspondence regarding this business proposal, send your response to phickman1953@yahoo.com.hk for more details or ring me on Tel: +44 703 597 8470 for further discussion on this.

Thanks for your attention.

Kind regards.

Peter Hickman
Executive Member
Lloyds Banking Group Plc
Tel: +44 703 597 8470
Email: phickman1953@yahoo.com.hk

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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."