Help Stop Internet Fraudsters

This may not be a new scam, but scam it is and it's new to me: Mrs. Farida Waziri (an actual person, to lend authenticity to the scam) wants me to help fight Internet spamsters and help restore the reputation of Nigeria - the email comes to us from IP address, 62.177.213.246 - Hoofddorp, Netherlands --

Tue, July 27, 2010 7:59:30 PM

Help Stop Internet Fraudsters.
From:
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission <[email protected]>
To:

I humbly believe that you are an educated person coupled with the fact
that you know very much that Fraudsters are everywhere trying to defraud
unsuspecting individuals of their hard earned money.

l am MRS FARIDA WAZIRI. CHAIRMAN Economics and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. We came across
your email address while going through the list of people that have
recieved fraudulent mails from Nigerians.

Per-adventure you fell victim to fraudsters[scammers],and we are looking
for evidence from you so that we can get these people and prosecute to
life imprisonment for tarnishing the image of our country and making
the world an unbearable place. Hence,We implore you to take
precautions.In addition, Stop replying any mails you suspect for the
time been.

Your interest will be highly protected and you may be Compensated
financially if you cooperate with us. We understand that some of these
fraudsters claim to be in London England but be rest assured that we
know they are operating from Nigeria. We implore you to assisit us with
this investigation. We may compensate you with $150,000 for all your help.

Thanks.

Your faithfully,

Signed, FARIDA WAZIRI
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

Take care and beware,
MM!

It's not unusual for scammers to claim to be police, government agencies, etc.
Does the email have another address to reply to? It surely didn't come from [email protected] (Vietnam).

MM, can you provide me the full headers please?

Arnold:
What you see is what I got, but when I hit, "Reply," I got this: [email protected]

MM!

I have moved this post to the appropriate forum.

This is simply a variant of the money recovery scam, in which the scammer is looking for victims who have already lost money, and offers a (fake) opportunity to recoup some or all of the money lost (in this case it is in the form of a "reward" but to the victim it is simply a chance to get back what was lost.

Michael:

Here it is - I've taken the liberty of expunging the "To" name:

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From: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission <[email protected]>
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MM!

Dotti - I don't see that as being the case, but as you will --

MM!

Thanks for posting this, MM.

This is the part that shows it is sent to target previous victims with a fake recovery compensation.

Per-adventure you fell victim to fraudsters[scammers],and we are looking
for evidence from you so that we can get these people and prosecute to
life imprisonment for tarnishing the image of our country and making
the world an unbearable place