How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: Double take?

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Double take?

From: MR.Ibrahim Mouss [mailto:jimsu3@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: 08 December 2009 11:57
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION

FROM HEAD QUATER STATION
ZOGBO COTONOU
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE
BENIN REPUBLIC WEST AFRICA
MR.Ibrahim Mouss
Email:inspectorpolice.verifyoffice@yahoo.fr
Telephone Number +229 94405659

Attention Beneficiary;

My name is Mr.Ibrahim Mouss the inspector general of police Benin Republic,This is to inform you that the government of this country Benin Republic are rewarding you the sum of $1.5million dollars as one of the scam victim.

We where able to get your email through those that extort money from you when the police got them arrested , One of them gave us your email address. The president of this country His Excellency Mr.Yayi Boni has sent aside the sum of $1.5million Dollars by Atm Card to send to you through Dhl Courier Company,the maximium amount you will be receiveing each day is $10,000dollar,the Atm Card will enable you cash your fund to any Atm Machine center in your Area,We thereby have made a concrete arrangement with the DHL Courier Company for a safe delivery to your door-step once the beneficiary meets up the demand of the conveyance.Below is your Atm Secret Pin Code (7766), Note that all the deliver fee has been paid on your behalf. But you are to send $350 dollars immediately to our office for the Activation of your atm secret pin code to enable you to withdraw your fund to any Atm Paying Machine Center in your country.So you advice to contact inspector general of police Benin Republic Office immediately with your full information for deliver of your Atm Card and also to enable our office confirm that you are the real owner of this Emaill address to aviod any mistake.

Your Full Name.......
Your Country........
Your City............
Your Telephone Number.........
The Amount You Lost..........

Contact our Office with this information below for more information and for quick deliver of your Atm Card.

Mr.Ibrahim Mouss
Inspector General Of Police Benin Republic
Email:inspectorpolice.verifyoffice@yahoo.fr
Telephone Number +229 94405659
call our office telephone number once you receive this message for more information

Here are some suspect that were arrested

God bless.
Mr.Ibrahim Mouss
Inspector General Of Police Benin Republic
Email: inspectorpolice.verifyoffice@yahoo.fr
Telephone Number +229 94405659
call our office telephone number once you receive this message for more information

FROM HEAD QUATER STATION
ZOGBO COTONOU
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE
BENIN REPUBLIC WEST AFRICA
MR.Ibrahim Mouss
Email: inspectorpolice.verifyoffice@yahoo.fr
Telephone Number +22996898555

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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."