Debunking hoaxes and exposing scams!
Nigerian scams involve offering you a share in a large sum of money on the condition you help them to transfer it out of their country.
I, Benjamin Dell from Malta Oil & Gas Co. Ltd., wish to enter into a partnership with you to build a middle man structure to move 2 million oil barrels. Our commission/brokerage as middle man is between $2 – $3 per barrel so if the target of 2M barrels is met monthly we stand to share $4M – $6M every month for a span of 12 months.
I am Mr. Robert Karofsky from Harlesden. I work for UBS Bank, London. I am writing you about a business proposal that will be of an immense benefit to both of us. I discovered an abandoned sum of 22.3 Million Great British Pounds Sterling in an account that belongs to one of our foreign deceased customers, a billionaire Business Mogul Late Mr. Moises Saba Masri.
This is to bring to your notice that because of the impossibility of your fund transfer through the Money Gram network, we have credited your total of $18.9 MILLON, valid fund into an ATM MASTER CARD and I have paid the re-activation fee and the delivery of the ATM Card To you.
My name is Edward, and I am contacting you for partnership by reason of the significance of your Nationality, which concerns claim/transfer of Approximately 21 Million US D0llars ia a fixed deposit account left by a deceased Boss and Friend for onward sharing between you and I in a ratio to be agreed.
I got your contact in my searching of a good reputation foreign partner to assist me in my late husband properties. He was former district leaders of the diamond city and executive member of the Diamond Mining Association in my region. Before his death, he explained to me that he deposited two trunk boxes contain sum of US$18.2 Million in a Security Company.
Your Email address was selected to claim the sum of $ 2,500,000 USD. in the 2018 United Nations Donation Award. In Order to claim your funds, simply provide the below information details for claim. This funds will be loaded in an ATM Card with your name as the owner and it will be deliver to your house address. Thanks, Garry Lee, UN Claim Agent.
I Stephen Anthony Cobb, from UK, Writing you base on partnership venture requested by my client, Mrs Diezani Alison Madueke ex-oil minister in Nigeria, seeking for a private company or individuals that can manage and invest her funds wisely, she has a huge amount of money in the excess of 95,000,000 pounds (Ninety five millions pounds).
This notification message is from the Federal Reserve Dallas District, Your name is enlisted among the beneficiary whose fund is approved for payment, by the Board the Governors Federal Reserve Bank , and we have been waiting for you to contact us for you to claim your funds of $56 Million dollar. Yours in Service, Robert Steven Kaplan.
Nigerian scammers are busy (machine) translating scamstuff to other languages to post in local Facebook groups. This time they translated a donation scam into Dutch: Mijn naam is Patricia SALVATORE, van Italiaanse afkomst. Gezien mijn gezondheid en de weinige tijd die ik nog in deze wereld over heb, besloot ik om mijn fortuin te schenken aan een betrouwbare en eerlijke persoon die dit geschenk goed kon gebruiken en leiden tot winstgevende projecten.
This is to inform you that International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working with various agencies in different Countries of the World as regards to the current crisis in cyber crime and war related crime. We have recovered Millions of Dollars and are conducting and executing various compensation payments to cyber crime victims from around the World.