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 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.
I am Mrs Jason Startham deaf from USA. I was married to late Engr. John Startham It’s my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country. There is this huge amount of money USD $20,000.000.00 which I inherit from my late Husband. Now i decided to invest these money in your country or any where safe enough outside country for security purposes.
I am Dr. Phillip Henry working with the European Central Bank here in 60640 FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY. I write to contact you over a very important business transaction which will be of our interest and benefit to our both families. I am seeking your co-operation to present you as the one to benefit from his fund of 8,500,000.00 at his death since you have the same name.
I am written this message to inform you that your Fund valued of (US$6.5 Million) was converted into an ATM Card and it was deposited here in our office ATM Payment Center and need to be deliver to your destination, So Please get back to us with your full delivery information to avoid wrong delivery!
Due to the series of serious complaints and allegations from innocent creditors/contractors of the fraudulent and incessant extortions meted to them all over West African states but especially Nigeria, the governments of all ECOWAS states met and through the consortium of West African Central Bank Governors formed the WEST AFRICAN MONETARY INSTITUTE (WAMI) with sole objective of transferring funds to all owed creditors whose funds have long been approved but unpaid.