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Faram
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New Nigeria Scam

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One in my office got this in his mailbox and forwarded it to me and some other pople.

Read an laugh:
Con Artist wrote:I AM DR. OSCAR DURU...
I RETIRED LAST MONTH AS THE CHIEF AUDITOR IN THE
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA; AND IN THE COURSE OF MY
ROUTINE WORK, I CAME ACROSS AN INTERNATIONAL FUND
TRANSFER FILE WITH YOUR NAME AS BENEFICIARY.
THE NEXT STEP WAS TO CONTACT YOU TO RECONFIRM YOUR
BANKING COORDINATES, BUT THERE WERE RAMPANT FRAUDS
AND SCAMS INVOLVING ALMOST ALL AREAS OF THE CENTRAL BANK
OF NIGERIA, AND I THEREFORE DECIDED TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY.
IT BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO TRANSFER OUT THIS MONEY FROM THE
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA!

LAST MONTH, I FOUND THE SOLUTION!
USING MY WELL FOUNDED CONNECTIONS IN THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA,
I RAISED A PAYMENT VOUCHER IN YOUR FAVOUR, AND PAID IN THE SUM
OF USD75 million INTO THE MONARCH INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC. ...
THIS MONEY IS NOW DEPOSITED IN YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNT IN
MONARCH INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC; AND I WILL INSTRUCT YOU LATER
HOW TO PERSONALLY WIRE TRANSFER PART OR ALL OF IT TO ANY BANK
OF YOUR CHOICE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!

http://www monarchinternationalbankonline.com

PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY BY EMAIL, STATING
YOUR CURRENT PHONE, AND
FAX NUMBERS, AND I WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITH THE
FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

(1) Customer Name
(2) Customer ID
(3) Security Code
(4) Account Number
(5) Amount in US$

ONCE YOU GET THE ABOVE INFORMATION FROM ME, YOU
WILL BE ABLE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE MENU PAGE OF
THE MONARCH INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC,AND TO
CUSTOMER LOG IN, AND IMMEDIATELY ACCESS YOUR
ACCOUNT/MONEY! THE LOGICAL AND NEXT STAGE IS FOR
YOU TO BEGIN WIRING OUT YOUR MONEY! UNBELIEVABLE?
PLEASE TRY AND SEE!

REGARDS,
OSCAR DURU

Phone: +234 90 505 509
email: antonio3@congomail.com
And the Bank site is a blast Moving gif's and all :D
[img=right]http://hem.bredband.net/b217293/warsaban.gif[/img]

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Post by Frank Hipper »

On the local news here last night, they had an interview with a couple who got duped, and they claimed that people falling for that particular scam were "not stupid". I'm sorry, but giving out your personal information to an e-mail contact IS STUPID!!!! In their defense I suppose I should note that they were promised the difference between two sums, and recieved a genuine rubber cashier's check.....
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Post by NapoleonGH »

ive been getting these consistantly from people claiming to be from a whole host of african countries
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It's called "The Spanish Prisoner" and is basically one of the oldest cons aroud....
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Post by Tom_Aurum »

Yeah, yeah, the real scam is the one where they ask you to come to Amsterdam with a large sum of money, lure you off to a back street and murder you, dumping you in the harbor. Rinse and repeat with any relatives that try and come to rescue you. Oh, and they bribe some customs official so that you never officially came into the country according to records. I think one of Raoul's freinds got an email of this nature once.
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Re: New Nigeria Scam

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Faram wrote:And the Bank site is a blast Moving gif's and all :D
The URL doesn't work for me. Has it been shut down?
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Re: New Nigeria Scam

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Sindai wrote:
Faram wrote:And the Bank site is a blast Moving gif's and all :D
The URL doesn't work for me. Has it been shut down?
Nope I removed the dot betveen www and monarchinternationalbankonline.com

Just cut & paste and add the dot
[img=right]http://hem.bredband.net/b217293/warsaban.gif[/img]

"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus


Fear is the mother of all gods.

Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius
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Post by Sea Skimmer »

Anyone for falls for such things is simply a moron. The worst of the idiots are the ones who fall for the scams that actually mention Nigeria.
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