How to get rich quick....or not! Scams and more...: Another investment partnership offer

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Another investment partnership offer

FROM: COL. JOE MARTINS
Address: 60 Bays water Road
London W2 3PS, United Kingdom
TEL: +44-7872248220
EMAIL: coljmartins@hotmail.com

Good Day,

This confidential request should not come as a surprise to you. I am COL.JOE MARTINS, a Liberian National, and currently residing under refugee status in London UK. I was the Chief Security officer to the exiled President Charles Taylor of Liberia. With regards to your trustworthiness and reliability, I decided to seek for your assistance in transferring some money out of UK into you country, for investment.

I will reveal to you, based on the fact that I could rely on you, the height of the crisis that led to my present status as a refugee, I was personally mandated and instructed by The Presidential Committee to create and fully equip a special elite force, to protect the regime against the rebels then, working against the Government. This instruction was very discreet and highly confidential and was backed up with the sum of US$9,500,000.00 (Nine Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash, for purchase of Arms and Ammunition from an independent arms dealer in UNITED KINGDOM.

I brought this fund to UK, where I was supposed to negotiate and purchase the Arms and Ammunition. The negotiation was still in progress when the news came to me that our President has arrested. I then quickly moved the money to a security company with Barclay's bank plc London and I registered as investment fund belonging to my foreign partner from overseas.

This money is presently deposited in a security company in London since then nobody knows my where about which I am therefore seeking this opportunity for your assistance in providing an overseas account where the money can be transfer into, then we can invest it as joint partner, know full well of the investment opportunity because of the 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP but apart from investment I will also give you 25% of the whole amount of money before we go into investment.

I have made all the necessary arrangement on my own side to ensure smooth remittance. However, due to my refugee status I cannot invest here in London. Hence my desire to transfer and invest in your country. With this development I will be pleased to welcome you as my partner in South Africa, U.S.A, EUROPE, SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA and INDIA for investment.

I will provide details to you immediately, as soon as I receive the acknowledgment of this mail from you with all your CONTACT DETAILS, indicating your interest to assist me. You can contact me on the above private and secure telephone number or email above

Best Regards,
COL. JOE MARTINS

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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."