Urgent Attention...Mr. Ban Ki-Moon

Mr.Ban Ki-Moon, officemmeo8001@att.net	1:18 PM (1 hour ago)
to undisclosed recipients

DEPARTMENT OF INT'L AFFAIRS
(Office of the Under Secretary)
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington D.C.

                                                     28th May,2012

Urgent Attention,


I am Mr.Ban Ki-Moon, Unted Nation Secretary for International Affairs.

Following series of complains from Citizens of the United States as well as
Citizens of Other Countries In Europe over the Discrepancies and fraudulent
ways in which fund transfers are handled by Africans which has made it
impossible for a lot of People to claim their Winning or Inheritance funds
from most African Countries due to frauds and illegal activities, A decision
was reached recently by the United Nation and United States Treasury
Department under the authority of the White House to compel African Financial
bodies (Banks) to urgently release all funds of American,Asia and European
citizens that are trapped in most Banks and Courier Companies in Africa.

(Nice capitalization here.  And fantastic grammar.  As soon as you see Africa in one of these emails...delete it!  Scam, scam, scam.)

It was discovered that some bureaucratic bottlenecks was put by these Banks
and Couriers to make it impossible for beneficiaries to claim their funds so
that they will fraudulently divert those funds to their private accounts.

Consequent upon the aforementioned, I was personally mandated to handle this
matter to ensure that all funds of foreign Citizens and others which are
fraudulently being trapped in African Banks are urgently retrieved and paid to
the actual Beneficiaries under a legal manner. Our team of experts were
delegated to Benin Republic, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana for this task and
we discovered your File NO: BR227/9005666/00 as unclaimed fund. It was
discovered that officials of the Bank has only put up illegal requirements in
order to make it difficult for you to claim your fund.

The United Nation, Department of Treasury has retrieved all Files of illegal
transactions and we will be working under a legitimate arrangement to ensure
that you follow the normal process to receive your fund.

You are requested to Re-confirm the following information to Barr.Godwin
M.B.A.Harry: (email:godwin_mbah@fm.bb )
1. SURNAME............
2. OTHER NAMES................
3. PHONE NUMBER AND FAX......
4. ADDRESS...........
5. AMOUNT TO BE CLAIMED: $12.800,000.00 USD
7. OCCUPATION....................

...............
8. COPY OF YOUR ID.............................  (HUGE red flag here; a copy of my ID?  Well, that would certainly make it easier for you to steal my identity, now, wouldn't it?)

Be informed that the above information will only enable us to make due
confirmation.
We shall ensure that normal process is followed to ensure that your fund gets
to you without delay.Contact Barr.Godwin M.B.Harry who is in Benin Republic as
the Legal Representative to United Nation, Department of Treasury e-Mail
below:(email:godwin_mbah@fm.bb)

Regards

Yet another classic Nigerian scam.  Do NOT provide personal information.  Do NOT send them money.  There IS no fund with your name on it!!!  Remember - if it looks too good to be true...IT IS!

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HELLO...Greetings to you...

	Today's post is another classic scam...There IS no inheritance, and this scammer is not trying to help you...he just wants your hard-earned money. Mr Paul Usman info@lee.com
to undisclosed recipients

Greetings to you,

My name is Barrister : Paul Usman Solicitor.A Personal Attorney to Eng.David,a national of your country who used to work with Agip Development Company here in Benin Republic.On the 6th of April 2009,my client,his wife and their two children were involved in a car accident along Ecowas Road.All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives.  (There lives?  Really?  Nice grammar...)

Since then I have made several inquiries to my late client's embassy to locate any of his blood extended relatives,but this proves unsuccessful,After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family but of no avail,hence I contacted you.  (So, the email was sent to an unknown number of recipients, but I'm the long lost heir?)

I have contacted you to assist in repartrating (Um...re-what-ing?) the money and property left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged.Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $9.4 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next 14 official working days.since i have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3years and some months now,

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same country with my late client,so that the proceeds of this account valued at $9.4million dollars can be paid to you,thereafter you and I can share the money. 48% to me and 47% to you,while 5% should be set aside for reimbursement of any expenses that may incure (Incure, huh?  As in, not cured?  Or did you mean incur but since you don't speak English you didn't know that?) during the process of the transaction or tax as your government may require,I will secure certificate of deposit and other relevant
approval documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make.All I requires is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through.I guarantee that this will be execut (It will be execut, huh?  Sure it won't be executed?) under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect both of us from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by my private email :
paul.usman551@gmail.com
to enable us discuss further.

Best regards,

Barrister Paul Usman.

NB:Pls include to me your private telephone and fax number in your response (Please include to you?  Um...really?  One would think these scammers would at least attempt to use convincingly proper English, but alas...)

 Never ever think that someone is just going to hand you millions of dollars.  Remember; if it sounds too good to be true, it IS!

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WELCOME TO TNT DELIVERY...

Sent from  dtntcourire@yahoo.com.hk TNT COURIRE DELIVERY COMPANY dtntcourire@yahoo.com.hk
to undisclosed recipients  (Hmm...It's my delivery supposedly, but you've sent this to a number of undisclosed recipients?  Curious...)

Offers Shipping Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management and  to  any

where in the world. Company Address: Plot 5,Government residential area
branch(GRA) Way,Ayaboninsa Avenue, COTONOU-BENIN.
Email (dtntcourire@yahoo.com.hk)

Good day to you, this is the second notice we are sending to you in regards
to your atm visa card left here in our office, we notified you about this
few weeks ago but we haven’t heard from you up till this moment.

Many other packages, which we are supposed to deliver together with yours
had already been delivered to their various owners and yet yours is still
here in our company. You can check on our website www.tnt.com track with the
written numbers below and see those whom we have already delivered; they all
have received their shipments in a good condition.

Tracking number:  415459624     ( already delivered )

This is the evidence of the shipments we have already made safely and no
complain.

Today we brought out some packages abandon here in our office, so that is
where we found yours sealed in an envelope. We had to open this all to find
out is an atm card.

Attached to this, is a letter sealed in the same envelope stating that this
card worth the sum $2.6 Million US Dollars also that it has already been
activated for use.

Reading down on this letter, which explains that the pin numbers of the card
will not be giving to any other person but you and it has to be from the
bank Oceanic Bank which issued this card. If you wish to speak with the bank
to acquire your pin numbers, you can reach the bank on with E-mail:
zplc81@yahoo.com  (Yep, that sure looks like an official email that someone at a bank might have...NOT...)
Person to contact, Mr. Mike Odili
The pin numbers will be issued to you by this bank; this will be when the
card gets to you tomorrow. We had a dispute with the (NICON) Insurance
office about your insurance certificate which they demand $155 for that, but
now all has been settled. We are happy to inform you that Your ATM CARD is
inside one of the ENVELOPES we are to dispatch today.

Since you are having it difficult (Having it difficult?  Really?)  to raise the $155 needed, the fee is now
reduced to $55 for you. So you can now send $55 only to receive your CARD. A
tracking number will be forwarded to you upon receiving the fee $55. The
agent will call you once the package arrives in your city then you give him
more directions on how to drive down to your house. You will need to sign on
the papers which he will give to you once the driver reaches your house.
After this, you have to call the bank for your pin# as this can not be send
in a mail to you for some security reasons. Note, you can also change the
pin numbers if so desire for your own safety.

You are advised to send a total sum of $55.00 via western union OR money
gram to the name of our receiving agent below.

Receiver's name_________Anagor lawrence ifezue
Country_________________Benin republic.
City____________________

Cotonou
Text question___________Today
Answer _____________is yes
Amount_________________$55.00

Forward the payment information to us immediately you send the $55 dollars
today. We are waiting your urgent respond so we can move out the card today.

Once the card is dispatched today, you should expect the arrival tomorrow.
So please we advice you stay and wait to receive the card personally because
we won’t like giving it to someone else unless you have an urgent place to
attend (An urgent place to attend?  Wow.  Great mastery of the language here.) then you must drop a written note with whom ever you ask to receive
it on your behalf.

MR. FABIAN OKOYE
E-mail:dtntcourire@yahoo.com.hk
Tell phone

Another classic scam here.  There IS no ATM card.  Only a scammer hoping to get $55 of my hard-earned money.  Remember; never, EVER pay someone to get what's yours.  If there truly is a prize distribution, then there should be NO cost to you.  And, remember to watch for poorly written English.  It's a tell-tale sign of a scam.  IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS!

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Beneficiaries Ref/Payments Code: 06654

BlueDragonfly's comments are always in purple italics...
From: COMPENSATION OF SCAM VICTIM - info@unifran.br
Reply-to: mrsamsteven10@paysandu.com (A completely different address, neither of which looks official in any way, shape or form!)
Subject: BENEFICIARIES REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654

SCAMMED VICTIM/521 BENEFICIARIES REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 $400,000.00 USD
ONLY

This is to bring to your notice that I am a delegate from the United Nations to The IMF (International Monetary Fund) West Africa (Red flag - a large percentage of scams are out of West Africa - specifically Nigeria) Regional Payment Office to pay 521 scam victims $400,000.00 USD (Four Hundred Thousand Dollars only) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount,get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $400,000 USD compensations (...compensations?) funds.On this faithful recommendations (...on this faithful recommendations? Seriously?), I want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the world in the meetings on the lost of funds by various individual to scam artist operating in syndicates all over the world today (...wait...what? I'm not even sure what they're trying to convey here, it's written so poorly.).

In other to compensate these victims, the U.N Body is now paying 521 victims of this operators $400,000.00 USD each in accordance with the U.N .recommendations. Due to the corrupt and in-efficient Banking Systems in Federal Republic of Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by UN officials sitting at IMF(International Monetary Fund) West Africa Regional Payment Office as corresponding payment center under funding assistance by United Nation body (United Nation body? Odd, I thought it was the United Nations...). According to the number of applicants at hand, 284 Beneficiaries has been paid, (Why is beneficiaries capitalized, and why does the sentence end with a comma?)

half of the victims are from the United States, and we still have more 237 left to be paid the compensations of $400,000.00 USD each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message (Translation - don't tell anyone we're trying to scam you by posing as the UN trying to help scam victims...) to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. Secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been Contacted (...more random capitalization...) can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

Send Your Full Name/telephone number/your correct mailing address/country/sex/occupation. (...so you know who I am and that I'm a scam victim...but you don't have any of this info? And, you need to know my gender? What the hell for?!)

To HSBC BANK Representative: Mr Sam Steven (Seriously? Do they think this sounds like a real name???)
Email: mrsamsteven10@paysandu.com
Tel: +2348130448078

Please you are advice (oooh...I'm advice to, huh?) to stop any communication with any person or Body (...got it - don't communicate with any bodies. How does one communicate with a body by email?) that you are currently paying money to due to transaction which you have online with the person.Please let us know right now via email or telephone your present dealing online,so we can help you verify the authenticity of the transaction which you are presently involved in,so you don't get scammed.

Please also send me prof of payment (...prof of payment? Oh, I get it. Send you my financial info so you can protect me...surely you're honest and won't try to help yourself to funds...) in any previous scam.If you still have any,(optional).

I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you. (...feed me with modalities? I wonder of those come with fries...)

Do feel free to call me any time on my telephone number.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Sam Steven
United Nation Representative
http://www.un.org/sg

Predictably idiotic Nigerian scam. Horrid use of the English language, various emails that don't even come close to looking official, and the promise of piles of money. You would think that they'd at least try to write effectively if they're going to try this. I say, keep 'em coming, boys...I have way too much fun with these.

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Evaluation Officer/Staff Support

BlueDragonfly's comments are always in purple italics...
From: Peter werner Agency - recruitment@werneragency.com (Hmm...most people capitalize their own name...)
Reply-to: peter.werner586@gmail.com (A completely different address...odd...)
Subject: Evaluation Officer/Staff Support
NOTE: Please if you are receiving this email for the second time, reply again

Position Title: Evaluation officer /Staff Support
Hours per week: up to 20- 32
Pay Category: Paid

Company Information:

Peter werner Agency,is a full service production and management firm committed to the implementation of technicaland creative improvement in various companies. The services we provide include: evaluation and continuous improvement exercises about our client ( corporate organization) (First clue this isn't legit? The horrendous grammar used by the scammer.)

Job Responsibilities:

There have been reports about lapses in the services of the Management and some of their staffs,the complaints were based on reports which their customers forwarded anonymous Phone calls which were also made to the head office.The Western union locations were reported for evaluation because of Negligence and other reasons. (Staffs? Phone is capitalized? Negligence is capitalized? Loads of improper grammar? Red flags a-plenty here.)

PAYMENT TERMS:
****************************
Your payment would be $250.00 per duty. Also the company is in charge of providing you with all expense money for the shopping and other expenses involved during the course of your assignment.

All the tools you will need would be provided to you with details every week you have an assignment. (Fake mystery shopping scams like this are quite prevalent. You're sent a check, told to deposit it, keep your $250 in this case, and send the balance back via Western Union. Anything - I repeat, anything that asks for money to be returned or money to be sent via Western Union is a scam!)

JOB DESCRIPTION:
****************************
1} When an assignment is given to you, you would be provided details to execute the assignment and in a timely fashion.

2} You would be asked to visit a company or store in your area and they are mostly our competitors as a secret shopper and shop with them to know more about their sales and stock , cost sales and more details as provided by the company then report back to us with report. But anything you buy at the shop belongs to you. All we want is an effective/quick job and reports. (Report back with a report? Still more grammar fails?)

ASSIGNMENT PACKET:
****************************
Before any assignment we would provide you with the resources needed {cash} Mostly our company would send you a check which you can cash and use for the assignment.Then we would be providing you details on here. But you follow all information given to you as a secret shopper. (And here's the scammy part. We'll send you money, you keep your part and send us the rest...the checks sent out are actually fake - you end up sending them money, then being held responsible by the bank for a fraudulent check! Please beware this type of scam!)

You can earn more which involves nothing more than shopping at a number of selected retailers and assessing their customer service and reporting back. The company will like to have your direct contact phone number to enable fast contact/communication.

You are requested to confirm the following Information. (Ok, so I need to confirm it...which means you already have it...but you're asking for it...um...what the....? I'm thinking that if you want to hire me, you should already know who I am, and you wouldn't need this...)

REQUESTED INFORMATION
******************************

**
First Name:
Middle Name:
Last Name:
Address (P.O Box not accepted):
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Telephone:
Fax:
Age: (Side note here - it is illegal for ANY employer to ask your age. Period. This line alone is a dead give-away.)
Current Occupation:
********************************

I will keep you POSTED and i will want you to ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT of any message(s) received by you. (Why is this person screaming the words POSTED and ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT at me? Geez.)

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation in order to start work soon . (Since when is cooperation hyphenated, and why is there a space between soon and the period? Grammar fail after fail after fail!)

Peter werner Agency (Again...a company that doesn't capitalize its name?)

(Never ever accept payment with the condition of returning part of the monies to the employer! I may have a little fun with this one, and respond...I'd love to know why they're asking for my age, when it's illegal to do so. Updates to come, if anything amusing occurs. *evil grin*)

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Business Enquiry

BlueDragonfly's comments are always in purple italics...
From: Shunji Takeshi - yuh5256221@gmail.com
Reply-to: shunjitakeshi@aol.com
Subject: Business Enquiry
Hello,
This is to invite you to an investment opportunity involving a lucrative business proposal for a common interest to share with you. (Seriously? The sentence structure here tells me this person *might* not be well-versed in the English language.)

I am Mr. Shunji Takeshi from Hong Kong. This concerns the transfer of a large amount of money (Here we go...a large sum of money for absolutely no reason...). Everything about this transaction shall be legally done without any problem (If this is a "legal" transaction he's proposing, I'm the Queen of England...). Please endeavor to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.

If you are interested, mail back, through my private Email address, written above, (Ending a sentence with a comma? Sure, that makes it seem even more legit...)

I shall give you more informations (Informations? Funny, I thought the word was information...)about this proposal, as soon as I receive your positive response.

Kind Regards,

Mr.Shunji Takeshi.

(Yet another scammer trying to sound like there's a legitimate large sum of money somewhere with my name on it. The poor writing as well as the different from and reply-to email addresses give it away, too. Remember that old saying, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is? Always sound advice when these emails show up.)

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Greetings please help me.

BlueDragonfly's Comments are always in purple italics:
Subject: Greetings please help me.
From: Barbara Cole bcole@o2.co.uk
Reply-to: bcole013@yahoo.co.jp (Hmm...completely different from the sender's email address...)
I'm Barbara Cole, I'm 15 years old girl (Seriously?) I live in Bolton UK (With a reply-to address at a .jp (Japan) domain?) before my Dad passed away in a car accident 3 years ago, I now live with my step mum in Warrington, My mum died immediately she gave birth to me. My late Dad Mr.Norman Cole was a big business man in UK before he died in a car accident 2007 I am the only child of my Dad, he died 3 days after the accident so he Will all his life savings to me, I have been trying to collect the funds from the bank but the bank MD CEO refused, he said I should present someone old enough so he can transfer the funds to the person that I can’t be in control of the huge amount of funds because I am still a teenage (You're a teenage, huh? Funny, I thought the word was teenager...) and it is against the UK law. (Love the lack of punctuation in this intro.)
I would have told my step mum to assist me in collecting the funds from the bank but she is not a good woman, my Dad warned me about her before he died, now that I live with her I now understand that what my Dad said about her was true, because she don’t give me attention she don’t care if I am alright or not, all she do is to take hard drugs and bring different men to the house (I have never heard a Brit speak like this...I'm pretty sure the English use proper English grammar for the most part...). I don’t want to have anything to do with her. If I get her involved in this she will use all the funds to take hard drugs. All I wish for right now is someone old enough and honest to help me collect my funds from the bank as I am still a teenage (there it is again...she's a teenage...love it!) and it is against the UK law. Why I can't wait until i am 18 years is because what my step mum is doing to me is not fair and i don't want her to Influence (...and the word influence is capitalized why?) me with her bad life style i just wan't to live so i can live a better life.

I know we don’t know each other but please I need your help if you can assist me to collect the funds from the bank I will give you 50% out of the funds, Then you will help me invest my 50% until I am 18 and I will be staying with you or you will get somewhere for me to stay until I am 18 years old. (Money and she's going to live with me? Wow...funny...I don't recall extending that invitation...)

If you agree to help me, I will send you a copy of the Will and my picture so you will know me, and I will send you the contact of the Bank and tell you how much is the funds so you can contact them, and I will inform the bank that you will contact them that you are the person that want to help me. (And I'm positive that the photo will be real...lol)

I will be waiting for your urgent reply so I can send you the contact of the bank and my father’s Will and death certificate.

Please this letter has to be confidential,and I need your 100% trust and loyalty because the lawyer I got involved wanted to made away with the money (...he wanted to made away with it, huh? Not make away with it?), so I told the bank not to transfer the funds to him, I already promised to give you half of the funds so please be honest with me. (Ooh...be honest with you because you're so honest with me?)

If you are interested please reply me (...reply you? Really? Simple grammar, here...or lack thereof...) on my email: bcole013@yahoo.co.jp.
Best Regards
Barbara Cole

This one is downright brimming with cute little red scam flags. If this email was actually written by a 15-year old English girl, then why the hell can't she speak English?!

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