fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: usman uba <usman_6_uba@yahoo.ca>
Reply-To: usmanuba@myway.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:05:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: usman_6_uba@yahoo.ca
From: Dr.USMAN UBA.
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)
Plot 1684, Sanusi fafunwa Street,
Victoria Island,
P. M. B. 15974, Marina, Lagos.
Nigeria.
Email:usmanuba@myway.com
Telephone:234-806-0838230.
ATTN: President/Ceo.
REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First of all, I sincerely pray and hope that this proposal meets you in good condition.Through business inquiries from my local chambers of commerce and industry,you were revealed as being quite astute in private enterpreneurship. Records show your ability to handle a financial transaction of considerable amount, which has formed the bedrock of my present business preposition for a partnership with you. In unfolding this proposal,I want to count on you, as a respected executive to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and confidentiality.I am a member of the Federal Government Contract Review Committee vested with the responsibility to appraise contract claims and makes recommendation to the Government. In 1997, a contract was awarded by the now defunct Military Regime to a foreign firm for the Construction of Heavy Duty Drilling Pipelines Network for the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries and Petro-Companies,which are subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum !
Corporation.This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$31,500,000.00(Thirty one, Five Hundred Thousand USD). This was done deliberately by the then contract arbitrators with the intention of diverting the over-invoiced amount but unfortunately that Government was overtaken by another military coup.In the course of our assignment we discovered that this amount is deposited in an Escrow account with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), our finding, reveal that the original contractor has been fully paid, it is this over-invoiced sum we now intend to transfer into an offshore account you will be providing us. It is pertinent to state here that my country has no reward for hard labour and honesty and the Government has no social or welfare system for the citizenry nor has the Government establish any retirement benefit for retiring civil servants.
Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this junction is enormous, we have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 25% of the transferred sum while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses incurred during the course of the transaction. It is our intention therefore,having your understanding and cooperation to invest our 65% share in real estates and properties pending our retirement when we will be able to repatriate the fund for local investment. I would require from you by returning fax and phone confirmation as a matter of urgency the following:
1. Beneficiary/ Account Name and or Company Name,
Address office and home phone and fax #.
2. Name, Address, Phone and Fax # of your Bank.
3. Account # of Beneficiary, Routing, Swift or
Telex # of your Bank.
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money for onward transfer to your account. It does not matter whether your company does contract projects of the kind described here . The assumption is that your company won the major contract bid and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not, big trading companies and firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.We have strong and reliable connections and contracts at the Apex Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) and the Federal Ministry of Finance and I assure you that the fund will be released and transferred if we get your co-operation to assist us in this deal. As soon as the transfer is concluded we shall,through our contract, withdraw all documents used from all the relevant Government Ministries and parastatal for 100% security.
We are civil servants and we will not want to miss this opportunity. We want this money to be transferred to the overseas. Account for us to safe our life after retirement and those of our children.Please contact me without delay on my E-mail, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me to search for another foreign partner that will assist us.Again we look forward to doing business with you and solicit
for your utmost confidentiality in this matter.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.USMAN UBA.
- usman uba
Anti-fraud resources: