A Pretty Face
Design is important. Whether we’re talking web sites or kitchens or cars or emails, the way something appears greatly influences our first impressions, and our expectations. This scam email gets that part right, but looking inside,past the fresh new face, we find the same mistakes, the same play on our assumed greed. Follow along, and remember, Scam Flags are in BOLD. I’ve broken it up into 3 sections, with my comments in between…
THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
OHCHR, Dalais Wilson, CH 1211 Geneva 10,Switzerland
Senior Human Rights Officer and international payment departmentDate: 30 /05/08
Kind Attn: Beneficiary with African and European CountriesIMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT WITH AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Sequel to the meeting we have with all the African country leaders regards to all the payment been owed by the Africa and Europe continents, the Chairman African Union (AU) with that of European Union (EU) have made it known to all the beneficiaries been owed by African and European countries via contract, inheritance, Lottery Winners, during There recent interview with British broadcasting co-operation (BBC) that all the debt been owed by the African and European countries should be paid to them via EU / AU account with the supervision of the International Monetary Fund Unit London UK, which you happened to be one of them.
Wow. That last paragraph is one long sentence. Any time I see that I know I’m dealing with a scammer. Not to mention all the little grammar errors tucked away in everything. From missing caps to misspelled words, these people haven’t got a clue how to write English.
You are advice to stop any further communication with anybdy and contact this office, The International Monetary Fund Unit London UK which the officer in-charge is
Mr. Anthony G. Leach
Email: unitednationorga@europemail.com
Tel +44 702 4099344
Fax: +44 870 9134316,
Your above fund has been deposited in your account stated below which was submitted to this office by your representative.
Some petitions we received made it known to us that some beneficiaries have loose all they have achieve in the life time due to the way African and European countries are asking them to pay one charge or the other in regards of their payment.Be inform that your payment has been transfer into your account provided by your representative Mrs. Susan Wang below.
HSBC NINBO BRANCH CHINA
ACCOUNT NO 90887224091149
ACCOUNT NAME SUSAN WANG
ROUTING NO 64585783
SWIFT CODE: HSBC166349XT,
Here we find the typical strong advice to only talk to these guys about everything. I especially like the part about how some people are having to pay for the recovery of their lost cash, a direct reference to the tactics of many of these fake emails. And these guys seem to have a neat little twist: there’s evidently already an account set up by your agent with the money already transferred. All you have to do is claim it. I’m sure if you checked, they would tell you that yes, the cash is there and it’s all yours. All you have to do is contact this guy at the IMF who handles everything. The IMF, Monetary Fund for the Earth. But not enough money for this guy to use an IMF email address.
Please contact Mr. Anthony G. Leach immediately for the collection of your International Transfer Payment Advice (Payment Slip Or Telex Copy) to enable you confirm your payment in your account without further delay, he is the only authorized officer in International monitoring fund unit London UK to handle and witness your payment, any other further communication you have out side his office is at your own risk, and you are advice to stop making any further payment to any one without Mr Anthony G. Leach notice because he is the only authorize officer with International Monetary Fund unit London UK via African Union (AU) reserve account under united nations payment gazette .
We apologies to you and your company or family for what it might has cost you in the past without receiving your payment upon the charges and taxes you have paid before.
Get back to us immediately you confirmed your payment in your account to enable us close your payment file with us.
Best regards
Mr. Frej Fenniche,Senior Human Rights Officer united nations Switzerlan
Email: uonf@mailpanda.com
And yet another epic length sentence. Here’s a hint: if you start feeling lost in the middle and starting over doesn’t help, the sentence is too long. But that’s not all. Besides being wrong about where the UN is located (not Switzerland), they even spelled it wrong. Other than that, more butchering of the English language, confusion with verbs, sentence structure and a completely different email address finish it out as a monumental failure. Still, I thought it needed to be published. Why?
The formatting was superb. There were 2 fonts used, both very common in business style communications. There were 3 font colors, which were used reasonably well. The header was simple and effective, centered perfectly at the top. The entire email was presented very professionally, with bullet sized paragraphs, and even though the grammar was full of errors, the content was presented in an understandable way.
In other words, at least at some level, this thing worked. Don’t fall for it. Even if I found no holes in it grammatically, I would know it was a fake. How? Ask yourself: Who is Susan Wang? And why is there a Chinese bank involved in a joint venture between the AU and the EU? And since when did you actually lose anything to these scammers that anybody would ever repay you for? Do they really owe you any money?
I am Jon, and sometimes I just resort to common sense.
so i take it i did not win 1.5 million!to bad where do i report this? also i think you should put the fraud warning at the top of your listed sites
i recieved an e-mail,from the IMF that i won a certain amount of money but up till today i have not heard from them iwant to know if it is true
I sincerely doubt it.
This is the latest e-mail I received. I might add that this scam has been going on for over 12 months. Everytime I get contacted by apperently different person from a different bank and everytime they ask for money to be sent to them. When that doesn’t happen somebody else wants to help me claim this fund. What you think?
From the Desk of: Mr. Charles Wyplosz, Regional Office for International Monetary Fund 142-146 Stoke Newington High Street , London , United Kingdom . WE THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, wishes to inform you that this is not a child play, we are ready to take you to any length if you failed to proof the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive. As a Federal Commission we are here to protect your interest and the interest of United Kingdom Citizens, and the United State citizens as well as this great Nation. You have been investigated as the beneficiary of the said funds that is why you are in touch with the IMF for a solid proof before the funds will be release to you.
The said funds is now in our custody in your name which has been placed on hold under the custody of the IMF for further verification and proof before releasing the fund to you.
You do not have this document in your files, if you do the fund would not have been place on hold. We did not believe this at first, but when we saw the transfer we had no option than to intercept it and inform you.
We have gone through your Identification record and also the information received from you, we have verified a lot of things about you. It has come to the attention of our Money Trafficking investigation department, that you have some funds valued at U.S $ 22 Million to your name.
With full concern of The IMF and the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) wish to remind you of the consequences of remitting such huge sums of money without complying fully with the provisions of the Financial and Allied Matters Decree 5 as amended in sub-section C (6) of 2003, which stipulates that any monitory transaction been done in the United Kingdom and the United States Of America, must have proper records, which duly guarantees and covers the transaction as legitimate and legally acquired and not criminally or terrorist associated funds. This is due to ongoing terrorist activities/economic crimes on and against the United Kingdom and the United States of America citizens.
Note that with the information’s we have here, the fund in your name here was release from Natwest Bank. To this regard you are to contact the Uk Ministry Of Finance, they will issue you the required document because they are the only people that can issue you the document. Nobody else have the right or privilege to issue you this document unless the Uk Ministry Of Finance.
You are under an observational /Investigation in connection with money laundering. If your funds comes from a legitimate and legal source, the proper guidelines for you to recover the right of transaction is for you to provide the official monitory transaction release document so that your funds will be legally processed and recorded and accounted for and then finally released to you.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONEY LAUNDERING DEPARTMENT) IS HERE to wipe out terrorism, and will stop at no length in doing our duty for the United Kingdom and American people.
You do not have any rights to receive these funds if the documented legal wire information is not complete.
It have come to our notice that you have been dealing with scammers regarding the present transaction in your name, with the power imposed on us as a high Federal Commission, you are hereby warn and instruction to terminate your involvement with any people or individual contacting you regarding this present transaction. The said funds is now in our custody in your name as the beneficiary, your dealings should be channel to this office alone, if we find out you are still communicating with Imposters you will be charge for advance fraud communication by the Federal Law.
We currently have jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal law. So you can see that we can track you down through Investigative programs. We have your address and the evidence and status of your wired funds, so we can arrest you anytime anywhere.
We have done our verification on your FBI Identification Record with our Social Security Number, the only document left is the Origin Of Fund Certificate. Which should be issue to you from the Uk Ministry Of Finance.
On this email:ukfundclearanceagency@yahoo.co.uk
NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice purposes.
WARNING: failure to produce the above requirement in the next 72 hours, legal action will be taken immediately by arresting and detaining you, justificated and if found guilty, you will be jailed…… As terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our community today. The IMF will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulge in this criminal act. FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHEMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAINS IT.
Sincerely Mr. Charles Wyplosz Director of the International Center of Monetary and Banking(DOICMB) London , United Kingdom
I haven’t seen that one yet. Thanks for sharing it with us here.
As always, the key to understanding that these types of things are fraud, what I call ‘fake emails’, is to just think for a moment.
If it sounds too good to be true, you can be certain that it IS NOT TRUE. These scammers are counting on two things: Greed and Fear.
Be rational. Think about it. Would the IMF use a Yahoo email address in the UK? Of course not.
The surest way to determine whether something like this, which pretends to be from the IMF, is to look at their grammar. Maybe you didn’t do so well in school, but you know proper English when you hear it.
Read it aloud, or have someone read it aloud to you. Look at the sentence there at the end. In that sentence alone there is a misspelled word and a bad verb disagreement. Reading it aloud makes it obvious.
The IMF would not make such obvious mistakes.
Thanks again for contributing. You may have helped someone else avoid the scam you discovered.
I received this one today.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Investigation Bureau,
700 19th Street, N.W,
Washington, D.C. 20431 USA
RE: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) OUSTANDING
REMITTANCE
We the International Monetary Fund (IMF) nvestigation bureau Washington, DC in conjunction with some other relevant
investigation Agencies here in the United states of America have recently been informed through our Global intelligence monitoring network that you presently having transaction going on with Bank of Africa (CBN) as regards to Your over-due contract payment which was fully endorsed in your favor accordingly.
Having said all this, we will further advise that you to go ahead in dealing with their Apex Bank (HSBC BANK GERMANY) office accordingly, as we will be monitoring all their services with you as well as your correspondence at all level.
We were also made to understand that a lady with name Mrs. Joan C.Bailey from OHIO has already contacted them and also presented to them all the necessary documentation?s evidencing your claim purported to have been signed personally by you prior to the release of your contract fund valued at about US$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million United States Dollars.),but the HSBC BANK GERMANY did the wise thing by insisting on hearing from you personally before the go ahead on wiring your fund to the Bank information which was forwarded to them by the above named Lady so that was the main reason why they contacted us (IMF) investigation Department so as to assist them in making the investigations.
You are to confirm if you actually sent her. Should in case you are already dealing with anybody or office claiming to be from the HSBC BANK GERMANY, you are further advised to STOP further contact with them in your best interest and then contact immediately the real office of theHSBC BANK GERMANY (HSBC)
only with the below information accordingly:
NAME: Dr. Smith James
HSBC BANK GERMANY FINANCIAL ADVISORY
EMAIL: smithjamexxx @ymail.com
Do contact me as soon as you contact the bank so as to follow up with your payment case and also to investigate related matters.
Best Regards,
Robert S. Miller III
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Thank you, Andrea.
We can see that over time, these guys are getting more sophisticated in their scams. There seems to be a rash of scam emails trying to play on FEAR as well as greed.
Folks, don’t even reply to them. Replying only verifies that they were able to ‘get to you’ in some way, and your email will be sold down the line to the next scammer.
I have written to the complaints board about a Nigerian scam that even went to Spain. I received a mail that another member within the complaints Board by the name of United Nations left me a message as follows:
”
“United Nations” has sent you a message on ComplaintsBoard.com:
Dear
We have receive your complain/Enquiries and please to let you know that this is the right contact to get your winning,I am from the special investigations unit united nations and we have the right office contact to claim your money back,Contact the Email now
Email:specialinvestigationunit_unitednations@live.com
Name:Mr Rasim.
Email them now with your claims to receive your money back/claims.
Management”
So I sent this person the very same e-mail that I wrote in complaints board.
His reply was: This is to confirm your email today from my office,I am pleased to let you know that this is a verY serious matter and we have just confirmed that your winning is true and legal but you are only to deal with this office to help you secure the release of your winning to you,As a matter of urgency you are requested to forward the below information to that your winning can be confirmed for you.
NAME:
Occupation:
DATE OF BIRTH:
YOUR WINNING AMOUNT:
MOBILE NUMBER:
HOME ADDRESS WHERE YOUR WINNING WILL BE DELIVERED TO:
Kindly send the above information for immediate processing of your winning to you and you are advised to stop further communication with any other body apart from this office(UNITED NATIONS INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT).
i WAIT TO READ FROM YOU.
YOURS IN SERVICE
MR RASIM
INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT(UN).+447045797453″
I gave him part of the information without my address and his mail to me was: “Information received,However you are to reconfirm your home address because the information we have is to pay you via BANK DRAFT which will be dispatched to your home address and you will have to cash it from any bank in your country.
Note that you are in a safe hands and will surely recieve your winning funds immedaitely you comply and meet up with all the vital information which will allow my Boss to approve your payment,A tracking number will be issued to after clearification from so that you can monitor the delivery process.
I WAIT TO READ FROM YOU.
YOURS IN SERVICE
MR RASIM
INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT(UN).+447045797453”
I know the above is not proper English – I started doing some surfing on scams and came across your website.
The address used is: 27 St John’s Lane, London EC1M 4BU +447045797453
I cannot get the emblem pasted, unfortunately.
I am just thinking the “damn nerve” of this person – I complained with the intention of seeking help and yes,help came in the form of United Nations indeed. So you see we have these people also listing themselves in complaint groups etc.
I tried warning people about him in Complaints Board but never found such link
What can we do to stop such people taking advantage of innocent people?
I hope the above assist people from being victimised over and over again. Just when they think help is on their doorstep but infact it’s the “devil” disguised otherwise.
INTERNATIONAL FUND MONITORING UNIT
14 Milton Street,
London United Kingdom,
ZC 1 4TY.
Attn: Dr. Khalid Mahmood,
Sir,
This email is coming from the International Fund Monitoring Unit (IFMU) working in conjunction with the International Monetary fund (IMF) to check all transfer of fund across the globe. Before any fund can be claimed, you must have to produce a document called FUND CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE.
This is to inform you on the requirements and procedure as regards the obtainance of the Clearance Certificate also known as the FUND CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE.
We will help you obtain this certificate from the World Court, in the Netherlands and forward a copy to you and the transferring bank for the immediate transfer of your funds into your nominated bank account. It would cost you £2,420.00 for the certificate to be issued in your name. You are advised to make the payment through information as stated below;
WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER
Sender’s Name:
Receiver’s Name: John Wilson
Text Question: What for?
Answer: Clearance
Amount Sent: £2,420
Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN): We await the confirmation of the information’s on your payment.
Destination / Location: London, United Kingdom
You are advised to re-confirm your bank information’s and send us a copy of your passport or driver’s licence for identification.
Be informed that once you make the required payment, do not send the information through the Internet, you are advised to call this office through the number as stated (+447 871 429 878) and give the payment information on the phone which is secure.
We await your urgent response.
Best Regards,
Mr. Paul F. Cunningham
Office of BHC.
London United Kingdom.
THE ABOVE MENTIONED LETTER LOOKS A FAKE, TO SCAM MONEY FROM INNOCET PEOPLE.
I WANT TO KNOW WHEN THESE PEOPLE GIVE THEIR PHONE NUMBERS ALSO, WHY THEY REMAIN OUT OF THE REACH OF LAW.
That phone number beginning with +447 connects to a phone in Kuwait. The law in Kuwait would determine whether or not these guys are breaking any laws, and whether or not they would be prosecuted.
The email you brought us is downright scary. After the 1st clumsy sentence, I only see one obvious error in it.
These guys are getting really good at writing these things.
Which means we have to be better at spotting them. Here’s a good rule of thumb: If you aren’t expecting a huge amount of money to drop into your lap, ignore emails like this. If someone emails you asking you to help scam a fortune, ignore it. If you get an email that seems to good to be true, realize that it is, and ignore it.
i shall like to send another email, which is in connection to the previous one came from london, HSBC BANK (fake).
source of email is
customerservice@hsbconline-info.com
i have also forwarded this email to pishing@hsbc.com
The world’s local bank
HSBC BANK PLC.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE OFFICE.
DATE: February 16th 2009.
ATTENTION: DR. KHALID MAHMOOD,
OUTSTANDING FUND TRANSFER OF £7,500,000.00
We have been directed from the world Bank creditors to effect your transfer of £7.5m to your nominated bank account without further delays.
Be informed that you have some issues that needs to be cleared before the transfer can take effect, therefore you are advised to furnish this office with the aformentioned documents (Fund Clearance Certificate) to ensure that you are the rightful owner and inheritor of the funds.
Upon the receipt and confirmation of the document as stated above, you will be required to furnish this office with your bank details as to where you want your funds to be transffered.
Finally, this office wishes to inform you that on no reason should we be liable for any delay that may be caused by you in the process and receipt of your fund.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Jonathan Hugh Kennedy Crichton
Foreign Operation Dept.
HSBC Bank.
© HSBC Bank plc 2002 – 2009
Beware DR Steve Koffon UK Diplomat Personnel
In the last week I have received several emails claiming I have won huge sums of money and requesting huge sums of money to collect it. I caught 2 of them out and was abused after letting them know I knew it was a scam and was contacting the Federal Police with the emails, 1 of them told me I was just a thief and had stolen the winning ticket anyway.. The last email I received this afternoon claiming to be IMF told me that I was dead and I needed to reconfirm my details and review the attached photo and confirm the body wasnt me. It was a coffin being loaded into a Herse with an American flag on it. I AM AUSTRALIAN
The grammer and spelling has been incorrect in every email, but this last email with the dead body has distressed me so much that I have been unable to walk since this happened as I have Multiple Sclerosis. Can anything be done to stop these people, I am now scared to turn my email on !! Is there anything we can do to catch and stop these people, is there a governing body in each country to deal with these issues ? Can anyone help ?
The second email today claiming from IMFU claiming to be based in London but the email address, begs to differ
Mr. John Ibru a highly placed official of the International Monetary Fund Unit (IMFU) “YEH RIGHT”
IMFU HEAD OFFICE [imfpayment@sunumail.sn]
SOMEONE MUST BE ABLE TO STOP THESE PEOPLE
I was almost scamed again,A email from Monetary Fund ,made me aware right away.It had a yahoo address,I check here ,and I see,Its a scam,If you like a copy of this emails.Let me known,They think Im going to send them a large sum of money now. Thank You Willard Edward Knight M
United Nations Diplomat
Diplomatic roaming number:+233-541-267-623
Dr.Steve Koffon,
UK Diplomatic Personnel.
United Nation International Monetary Funds.
United Kingdom London.
Attn:Anthony Wood,
I am UK Diplomat Dr.Steve Koffon, working with the United Nations International Monetary Funds Agency United Kingdom, I am contacting you here at the London Heathrow International Airport, This is in respect of (2) two consignment boxes worth $25,000,000.00 Million USD. I have being assigned by the West Africa Ghana Presidency to make this delivery to you.
The British Government released these boxes for delivery to their respective beneficiaries, upon investigations conducted, Your Name was found Tagged to this (2) two boxes as the Beneficiary/Receiver it is in this regard that i was appointted to make delivery of your boxes after they where released for delivery.
This is nothing but a major Scam
Un cordial saludo,
Yo también he recibido e-mails donde se anuncia que recibiré cierta cantidad de dinero proveniente de organismos de talla internacional.
Quisiera que se investigara la procedencia de tal información y se denunciara a través de los medios de comunicación su propósito.
Rocío Cárdenas Romero
Bogotá-Colombia
Estoy seguro hay muchos de nosotros a quienes les gustaría hacer lo mismo.
Buena suerte y gracias por venir a Wordout.
Hi I received this email 3rd June 2009
ATTN BENEFICIARY.
THIS IS THE OFFICE OF THE INTERNTIONAL MONETARY FUND LONDON MONITARY CENTRE.
WE THE IMF RECEIVED A SIGNAL OF ALL YOUR VICTIMS FROM THE SCAMMERS IN AFRICA AND ALSO YOUR PAST LOST OF HUGE AMOUNT PAST YEARS.
AFTER GOING THROUGH YOUR FILE WE HAVE TO HAND OVER YOUR FILE TO THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT THAT ARE COMPENSATING ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FALLEN VICTIM IN AFRICA .
THEREFORE THE REPORT WE GOT FROM THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS THAT YOU ARE TO BE COMPENSATE WITH THE AMOUNT OF 1.5MILLION EURO THOUGH THAT YOU MAY HAVE SPENT MORE THAN THAT BUT WITH ALL DUE RESPECT WE ARE APOLOGISING YOU TO KINDLY ACCEPT THIS OFFER AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT COMPENSATION FOR YOUR LOST MONEY.
YOUR ARE TO CONFIRM TO US YOUR ADDRESS WHICH YOU WANT OUR LOCAL BRANCH IN AFRICA TO SEND YOUR CERTIFIED BANK DRAFT CHEQUE THAT WAS ISSUE ALREADY IN YOUR NAME SO THAT THEY WILL SEND THE CHEQUE TO YOU SO THAT YOU CAN CASH YOUR 1.5MILLION EURO IN ANY BANK OF YOUR CHOICE.
AWAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU
MR SMITH HARRY.
SECRETARY TO THE (IMF)
INTERNTIONAL MONETARY FUND
LONDON.TEL / 00447045777721
Thanks Annette! I’m constantly amazed at how poorly some of these scammers do their job. This one is a perfect example of a really messed up attempt. I wonder how many people this fooled… ~jon
goes something like this:
”
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This is to inform you that you have been taken.
PLEASE CONTACT THE (REMITTANCES OFFICER)SIR.STEVE KOFFON FOR MORE DETAILS.
EMAIL ADDRESS: enquiryxxxx (at) live.co.uk
Disclaimer
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This message is intended only for the use of the person to whom it is expressly addressed and may contain information that is confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, reliance on, reference to, review, disclosure or copying of the message and information it contains for any purpose is prohibited. This email is sent without any implied warranty or representation as to the accuracy or completeness of its contents. No one shall be entitled to claim detrimental reliance on any views, statements provided or expressed or to claim that there is a duty to update materials provided or to use care to protect the interest of the recipient. Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received this email in error and delete this email from your system.”
~~ Wow. Straight to the point. Definitely an official scammer. :^)
Thanks for dropping by! ~~jon
I am dealing with the nigerian government. I should be paid by ATM Credit Card sent through DHL but this ATM card was intercepted by the IMF Funds Monitoring & Investigation Unit,103-109 Lavender Hill Battersea,London SW115QL. This IMF London requested me to pay for Security Clearance/ATM Declaration and now for Insurance of my documents and sending of these doc.
Please are these requests genuine or not? I doubt very much.
I received letters pretended officials from different peoples from IMF London with names:
Mr. Roy Smith, Dir. of Operations,call 447031912580
Mr. James Opra, Operations
Mr. Anderson George, Secretary,call 447031912580
Mr.Alex Gibbs, Legal Dept IMF
I have proposed to go myself to pick-up my documents in their office but they refused, giving me the dead line of Tuesday 16th of June to pay the requested fee for the insurance.
Please, could you check urgently the genuine address and details of the IMF London.Thank you very much for your soon informations.
Mr.H.Burki
Thanks for stopping by.
You must understand that the IMF is NOT a government agency. The IMF is a private company, and they have absolutely no authority to “intercept” anything.
The “nigerian government’ you speak of is most likely not that at all. So many scammers pose as the nigerian government that it is a joke. A good rule is this: Never trust anyone who says they represent the Nigerian government.
These emails you are receiving are almost certainly a scam. The IMF email is DEFINITELY a scam.
~jon
I have send all my saving to the Ivory Coast in regards to act as a foreign partner for Mrs Katherine Smith wife of the late Mr Solomon Smith . i have receive letter of affidavit,Clearance Certificate ,Drugs Law ,letter from the prime minister ,to my understanding the Fund Monitoring Unit in London has stop the transaction saying that i need to pay 8.850 pound to get another clearance certificate before the transaction can be transfer to my account,i have spent all my saving doing this and can not get any where.The person at the fund monitoring unit at 103-109 lavender Hill Battersea london SW115QL is Captain David Mills.kindly check out same and inform me via my e-mail.Thanks and GOD bless you. I remain Michael
Michael, this is exactly the way many of these scams work. It’s sad that you’ve sent them all your savings, but the only thing I can recommend you do is stop right now. Don’t communicate with them at all. If they send you another email, delete it without reading it. Scammers operate outside the reach of law and there is nothing you can do to get back the savings you already gave away. No matter how much you send them, they will always say they need more. They will make it look like it’s some completely different person, organization or even country – but you can bet it’s just a small group of guys who are making a good living by stealing from folks like you.
Try to learn a lesson here, and walk away from it.
I have received many such mails. The most recent one is being posted here. Is it not possible to stop these cheats somehow?
Dr.Khalil Bala,
UK Diplomatic Personnel.
United Nation International Monetary Funds.
United Kingdom London.
Diplomatic roaming number(+44 702 4060 812)
Attn:
I am UK Diplomat Dr.Khalil Bala, working with the United Nations
International Monetary Funds Agency United Kingdom, I am contacting you
here at the London Heathrow International Airport, This is in respect of
(2) two consignment boxes worth $25,000,000.00 Million USD. I have being
assigned by the West Africa Ghana Presidency to make this delivery to
you. The British Government released these boxes for delivery to their
respective beneficiaries, upon investigations conducted, Your Name was
found Tagged to this (2) two boxes as the Beneficiary/Receiver it is in
this regard that i was appointed to make delivery of your boxes after
they where released for delivery. I am contacting you now because you
have to pick me up, at your airport to your destination to complete my
delivery to you, all clearance documentation which was used to clear the
boxes presently at London Heathrow international airport i have with me
to complete this delivery.
I will need your information to confirm with the information i have on
file of these boxes after which i will book flight to meet with you in
your closest airport of your destination, below are the information
requested off you.
1. Full Name:
2. Destination House Address:
3. Closest Airport to your destination:
4. Copy of your Drivers /passport for your identification:
5. Your direct Mobile Phone Number:
I have attached to this mail, a copy of my diplomatic passport for your
identification. I await your immediate response within 24 hours.Do email
my office immediately @ unitednations.diplomattxxxx@live.com
Regards,
Dr.Khalil Bala.
UK Diplomat
Diplomatic roaming number(+44 702 4060 812)
Urgent Get Back To Us Within 24 Hours
Is the following a scam operation????
—————————— Özgün Mesaj ——————————-
Konu: Documentation Of Consignment Delivery To Ismail Burhan Turksen
Gönderen: “United Nations Diplomat Service”
Tarih: 21 Ağustos 2009, Cuma, 3:56 pm
Alıcı: bturksen@etu.edu.tr
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UK Diplomatic Personnel.
United Nation International Monetary Funds.
United Kingdom London.
Attn:Ismail Burhan Turksen,
Thank you very much for your prompt response to my email with all
information being required to execute this project,I apologize my delay to
get back to you as I was busy making my travel arrangements.The clearance
documents have being issued to me by the Ghana government and the delivery
has been approved by the HM Revenue & Customs here in Heathrow.
Attached within are the documents I will use in making the final
clearance of the boxes from Heathrow International Airport to your country
and also I will use it to clear the boxes all through my journey to your
doorstep in your country so that I will not have any problem with the
customs when I arrive in your city airport
Please go through them carefully,call me and also email to confirm
that you well understood the content of my email and also you received the
documents.As soon as I hear from you before I can call our diplomatic travel
agent to book my flight immediately for your country.You can reach me on my
diplomatic Roaming number below which I use any where I go all over the
world.
Your fast response a telephone call will be very much appreciated and you
are to provide your direct Telephone Number for means of conversation upon
arrival in your country.
Regards,
Dr.Steve Koffon.
UK Diplomat
Diplomatic roaming number:+233-541-267-623.
!DSPAM:63,4a8e97ef714175611857!
Thanks for sending it in.
It’s hard to say from just this – it appears to reference an earlier communication which you didn’t send in. The country code in the phone number is indeed for Ghana. But the signature, ” Dr.Steve Koffon.” gives this one away for good, even without the earlier information. You’ll no doubt have noticed that the distinguished doctor is the author of the Scam an earlier commenter (see comment #13) was reporting. Looking at this fine example of uneducated bliss, filled with run-on sentences the length of a paragraph, I can say with certainty that it is most definitely a part of a scam.
My advice – delete it and forget it.
~jon
inform you that the World Bank, (WB) and the InternationalMonetary Fund (IMF) in conjunction with the African Union (AU) andEuropean Union (EU) have approved a total sum of US$3,300,000.00(Three Hundred and Fifty Million US Dollars only) for the Settlementof these Debts owed to various beneficiaries at which we are assignedto ensure complete payment to each beneficiary. The amount approved for immediate payment to you is the sum ofUS$3,300,000.00 (Three Million, Three Hundred Thousand United StatesDollars Only).You are advised to stop any further communication with any person orgroup of persons. And contact ( INSPECTOR JAMES BATT ) with thefollowing information’s via email address: 1. Name:2. Address:3. Age:4. Country:5. Nationality:6. Telephone:7. Fax number: Contact person: INSPECTOR JAMES BATTE inspector.batt @gmail.com(link deleted by Wordout) Be informed that your payment has been transferred into your accountprovided by your representative below UNITED BANK OF AFRICA PLCACCOUNT NO 47820758 ACCOUNT NAME MURAT BOZKAYALAR ROUTING NO 2242 Please contact INSPECTOR JAMES BATT immediately for the collection ofyour International Transfer Payment document(Payment Slip Or TelexCopy) to enable you confirm your payment in your account withoutfurther delay. He is the only authorized officer in the InternationalMonetary Fund Unit in Lagos Nigeria to handle and witness yourpayment, any other further communication you have outside his officeis at your own risk, and you are advised to stop making any furtherpayment to any one without your Representative notice because he isthe only authorized officer with International Monetary Fund Unit inLagos Nigeria via AU and EU reserve account under united nationspayment gazette. So you are advice to contact him via email:(inspector.batt@gmail.com). Please get back to us immediately youconfirm your payment in your account to enable unclose your paymentfile with us. Best regards,Sir. Alex AddoSenior Human Rights Officer United Nations Switzerland
Thanks for another example…
~Jon
> THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION
> In Conjunction with the International Monetary Fund
> OHCHR, Dalais Wilson, CH 1211 Geneva 10,
> Switzerland Senior Human Rights Officer and International Payment Dept.
> Contact: Hotline: +234 8033332497 234 7028647266
>
> Kind Attn: Beneficiary in African/ America and European Countries,
>
> Sequel to the meeting we had with the African, America and European
> country leaders in regards to the payments been owed by the Africa
> and Europe continents, the Chairman of African Unity (AU) and that of
> the European Union (EU) have made it known to all the beneficiaries
> been owed via Contracts, Inheritance, Lottery Winners and during their
> recent interview with British broadcasting co-operation (BBC) that all
> the debts been owed by the Africans and Europeans should be paid to
> them via AU and EU accounts with the supervision of the International
> Monetary Fund Unit in London UK, which you happened to be one of
> them.
>
> We wish to inform you that the World Bank, (WB) and the International
> Monetary Fund (IMF) in conjunction with the African Union (AU) and
> European Union (EU) have approved a total sum of US$3,300,000.00
> (Three Hundred and Fifty Million US Dollars only) for the Settlement
> of these Debts owed to various beneficiaries at which we are assigned
> to ensure complete payment to each beneficiary.
>
> The amount approved for immediate payment to you is the sum of
> US$3,300,000.00 (Three Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States
> Dollars Only).
> You are advised to stop any further communication with any person or
> group of persons. And contact ( INSPECTOR JAMES BATT ) with the
> following information’s via email address:
>
> 1. Name:removed
> 2. Address:removed
> 3. Age:removed
> 4. Country:removed
> 5. Nationality:removed
> 6. Telephone:removed
> 7. Fax number:removed
>
> Contact person: INSPECTOR JAMES BATT
> Email: inspector.batt @gmail.com
>
> Be informed that your payment has been transferred into your account
> provided by your representative below
>
> UNITED BANK OF AFRICA PLC
> ACCOUNT NO removed
> ACCOUNT NAME removed
> ROUTING NO removed
>
> Please contact INSPECTOR JAMES BATT immediately for the collection of
> your International Transfer Payment document(Payment Slip Or Telex
> Copy) to enable you confirm your payment in your account without
> further delay. He is the only authorized officer in the International
> Monetary Fund Unit in Lagos Nigeria to handle and witness your
> payment, any other further communication you have outside his office
> is at your own risk, and you are advised to stop making any further
> payment to any one without your Representative notice because he is
> the only authorized officer with International Monetary Fund Unit in
> Lagos Nigeria via AU and EU reserve account under united nations
> payment gazette. So you are advice to contact him via email:
> (inspector.batt@gmail.com). Please get back to us immediately you
> confirm your payment in your account to enable unclose your payment
> file with us.
>
> Best regards,
> Sir. Alex Addo
> Senior Human Rights Officer United Nations Switzerland
Removed all that personal information before I published this. I hope you have not fallen for this scam – and it IS a scam. Don’t fall for it.
~jon
Well, I got in touch with one of these persons I guess, he reached me over my yahoo msg and started to talk to me. The next day he was asking me for my phone number and telling me that he can not live without me, he loves me and bla bla bla, even talking about marriage. Freak! He told me that he was working in Nigeria with the Us Government for 3 months and he will be back to US in December. His name(which I bet is fake) is Alex Gibbs.
I stopped talking to him, he really freaked me out.
Looks like he is looking to get in touch with women and get their information and then probably empty their bank accounts.
I have been instructed by the EFCC to initiate an international clearance form by way of internet. There are so many different kinds I am not positive of the one being asked for. How do I submit the application on line to the EFCC.
I had paid for one such clearance, submitted it to the EFCC and was told it was fake.
What does the certificate actually look like.
Please end in attachment the appropriate form as to deter misconception to redacted@yahoo.com
I seriously doubt that there is any acceptable form. The best advice I can offer is this: ESPECIALLY WHEN NIGERIA IS INVOLVED, DON’T BELIEVE A WORD OF THEY SAY.
If you still choose to waste your money that way, oh well, some folks are just gullible.
~jon
I received this e-mail scam. Can you trace and lock these guys up for good?
The United Nation International Monetary Fund.
Dr.Stephen Koffon Head,UK Diplomatic.
United Kingdom London.
To Your Attention,
I got your e-mail, I am UK Diplomat Dr. Harry Antwerp Working with the United Nations International Monetary Funds Agency United Kingdom, I am contacting you here at the London Heathrow International Airport, This is in respect of (2) two consignment boxes worth $25,000,000.00 Million USD. I have being assigned by the Western European Countries Presidency to make this delivery to you.
The British Government and the Committee On Government Compensation Unpaid/Contract/ Donation released these boxes for delivery to their respective beneficiaries,Your Name was Tagged to this (2) two boxes as the Beneficiary/Receiver it is in this regard that i was appointted to make delivery of your boxes after they where released for delivery.
I am contacting you now because you have to pick me up, at your airport to your destination to complete my delivery to you, all clearance documentation which was used to clear the boxes presently at London Heathrow international airport i have with me to complete this delivery.
I will need your information to confirm with the information i have on file of these boxes after which i will book flight to meet with you in your closest airport of your destination, below are the information requested off you.
1. Full Name:
2. Destination House Address/Phone Number:
3. Closest Airport to your destination.
4. Copy of your Drivers /passport for your identification.
I have attached to this mail, a copy of my ID/ international passport for your identification.
I await your immediate response.
Regards,
Dr.Harry Antwerp.
UK Diplomat.
________________________________
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I won’t track them down and I can’t put ’em in the little room, but I can publish this so maybe other folks won’t fall for their scam. Thanks for the input.
~jon
I am sending an email received which is self-explanatory. Is there any truth in it??????
***QUOTE****
DIPLOMAT DR.HARRY ANTWERP FROM HEATHROW AIRPORT.
Sat, March 27, 2010 10:37:49 PM
From: DIPLOMAT DR STEVE KOFFON
Add to Contacts
To:
DIPLOMATIC [ID] DR.HARRY ANTWERP.JPG (20KB)
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The United Nation International Monetary Fund.
Dr.Stephen Koffon Head,UK Diplomatic.
United Kingdom London.
To Your Attention,
I am UK Diplomat Dr. Harry Antwerp Working with the United Nations International Monetary Funds Agency United Kingdom, I am contacting you here at the London Heathrow International Airport, This is in respect of (2) two consignment boxes worth $25,000,000.00 Million USD. I have being assigned by the Western European Countries Presidency to make this delivery to you.
The British Government and the Committee On Government Compensation Unpaid/Contract/ Donation released these boxes for delivery to their respective beneficiaries,Your Name wasTagged to this (2) two boxes as the Beneficiary/Receiver it is in this regard that i was appointted to make delivery of your boxes after they where released for delivery.
I am contacting you now because you have to pick me up, at your airport to your destination to complete my delivery to you, all clearance documentation which was used to clear the boxes presently at London Heathrow international airport i have with me to complete this delivery.
I will need your information to confirm with the information i have on file of these boxes after which i will book flight to meet with you in your closest airport of your destination, below are the information requested off you.
1. Full Name:
2. Destination House Address/Phone Number:
3. Closest Airport to your destination.
4. Copy of your Drivers /passport for your identification.
I have attached to this mail, a copy of my ID/ international passport for your identification.
I await your immediate response.
Regards,
Dr.Harry Antwerp.
UK Diplomat.
*** UNQUOTE****
Thanks for stopping by with this – to answer your question:
Not even a drop of truth in this.
~jon
Dear Sir,
I have received a dito email in serial NO.30.
pls advice.
Thanks and regards,
J G Kandan
It’s a scam.
~jon