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

Friday, June 26, 2009

Very professional

-----Original Message-----
From: Ikobo Inc [mailto:grant@ikobo.com]
Sent: 26 June 2009 07:45
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Good News

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Our Ref: IKG/NG/ICO
Your Ref:

IKobo is a company that specializes in money transfer through Visa Card. As
part of our commitment in bringing our services to the world, iKobo wishes
to announce to you that your email emerged as one of the lucky winners to
receive a grant of 1.2 million US Dollars.

This fund would be made available to you through an iKobo Visa card which
you will use to withdraw your money in any ATM or visa card outlet anywhere
in the world, the maximum you can withdraw perday is Twenty Thousand
Dollars ($20,000.00). We have concluded plans to deliver this card to you
as soon as possible. If you are interested in claiming your funds, please
contact the Visa card payout center via email (colindav11@yahoo.com.hk)
with the following details:

FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION:
MARITAL STATUS:
SEX:
AGE:

As soon as we receive the above details we shall immediately proceed with
the delivery of your card. You have to stop communication with any other
person(s) or office (s) to avoid hitches in receiving your payment. We look
forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards
Jayson Bauer
Regional Manager
www.ikobo.com

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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."