Classiest. Nigerian. Scam. Ever.
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: johabofbn@yahoo.com
The Presidency,Federal Government Officers for Finance,Senate committe on Finacial Matters, Central Bank of Nigeria and Diplomatic Corps met recently on Reports of frauds, Negligence, Errors and others Transactions by Foreigners about Nigeria image abroad.
The outcome of the summit has prompted the Federal Government to empower only our Bank;First Bank of Nigeria PLC to Identify the owners of the funds yet un-claimed and pay them outright with no delay.The Files and all Documents relating to Foreign-Affairs has been handed over to our Bank.
I,John Aboh has been appointed by the Bank,s Management Authority to supervise this exercise. We are now in operation finding the rightful owners of the funds that has accumulated in Nigeria for years.This execise covers all transactions ever had with Nigerians before or at present.
You are among the beneficiaries we have so far discovered. Only your e-mail address is the only contact information we could retrieve for now from the past records of Stake-Holders who have not been cleared for one payments or the other. The Bank is ready to Transfer the money/fund to any country of your choice when you have replied this mail.
I want to help you pull out this fund to your bank account using the easiest and the quickest method, which have not been made known to you before. By this method, you will open a domiciliary account with this bank(First Bank of Nigeria), your fund would be lodged into this dociliary account and your fund will be paid in directly to any bank of your choice.
After the transfer,you will confirm the fund in your bank account within 5-hours same day. No Cost of Transfer(COT) and no stoppage from any Government departments as the transfer will be done within the bank alone and it is very safe.
Confirm to me through this email address:johnaboho@yahoo.com,your
present/valid account coordinates and amount to be claimed so that I do
not transfer your fund to the wrong Bank Account.
Kindly can help us diserminate this information to others who had had any transaction with Nigeria before to please reach us through this email address above with their details of information as the case may be.
Awaiting your quick response.
Yours truly,
JOHN O. ABOH
– john aboh
Getting around the Spam Blockade
There are many techniques to beat spam blockers, and some are obvious, such as add non-spam content to a message as well a misspell words associated with their product, such as
- L0 se Weig ht now!
- Buy C1alis Ch3ap
- Refnance your mortgaqe today.
Here are some ex4mples that caught my eye.
Chase Manhattan must be busy …
I got an influx of these, all different, and all in the same morning.
I wonder if anyone is stupid enough to answer ALL of them.
“Gee, honey, there must be something wrong with my account. They sent me a bunch emails, and I don’t know why they all keep asking me for all my bank information. It must be different departments. I hope I helped them all straighten it out …”
And one of them goes to a web hosting company … I ‘warned them’ someone was using their system for phishing attacks. I wonder if I’ll get a response.
Account security informations !!
Informations??
Bank Phishing Scams
Plenty of these, but never from a bank I actually had an account with …
Clever eBay Phishing Scam
Subject: Message from eBay member
This was to make you think there is a question about something you are selling, or at least to make you question unauthorized use of your account.
eBay and PayPal Phishing Scams
These are one of the most common … I get them all the time.
Amazon.Com Phishing Scams
These come in spurts …
AOL Phishing Scams
I don’t get many of these, maybe because I don’t have an AOL email address …
Interactive Form Spam
I get a lot of spamming of this forum, interactive forms, and in particular guestbooks. It has gotten so bad that I have had to remove all guestbooks from my client’s sites. I will have to build a guestbook that screens by admin approval or by image recognition (human-only test, as most are automated bots).
Here are some examples.