Mrs. Eleanor O. Kess - EFCC - [email protected]

[AlanJones]

The above email address is being used by a loan scammer to try and make out that his business is legitimate.

The original scammer goes by the name of

Mr. Paul Stringer
Managing Director,
Norton Finance Nigeria Ltd
[email protected]

When a victim questions his legitimacy, they receive an email from the fake EFCC advising them to go ahead with the transaction.

If the victim questions the "EFCC" and says they've been told that it is a scam they get an email similar to the following.

Hello,

Good morning and thanks for your email. First,i want you to send me
the site and the person you contacted. I must inform you as early as
possible that you have gotten in touch with the wrong anti-scam
organization. These people are liars and scams also and what they do
is to try and spoil the name of real lenders in order to gain trust
for another lender. These people work hand in hand with the lender you
are in contact with. I tell you this because i am an EFCC worker and
many people have reportedly told me that they have contacted the wrong
anti-fraud group and these anti-fraud group ask them to contact a
lender they are already in touch with. But we the real EFCC handle the
case calmly and ensure that the people that realize this quick are
being safe. Norton Finance GROUP is a legitimate company and that is
why i told you to contact them for a loan. The cost is what i told you
that they would need and after you pay what is needed, you get your
loan. I don't like talking too much and if you are wise, you would see
that these people pretending to be scam fighters will direct you and
tell you that the lender you are contacting is real. These people work
along with some lenders. Try and understand this. Many people see that
Norton Finance Group has grown largely in UK and beginning to have
branches in many countries, so they want to tell people rumors and
then spoil their good name.

I am in no way connected to Mr. Paul and if not for you, i would have
arrested him long ago but you suggested we wait and do y....this is
enough for you to know that my intentions and that of Norton Finance
is good. I believe that your heart can direct you to actually know
what is right here and you'll see that i am telling you the plain
truth. If you want to trust them and believe what they say, you can do
as you like but remember my warnings against this people because they
are very trickish and what the lender will offer you will see too good
to be true...that's how you know you are in contact with scams. Good
things don't come too easy so if someone is telling you that
everything you desire in your life will come very easy like a loaf of
bread, then you must watch very well. I told you that Norton Finance
ask a cost....didn't i? I did not hide it or tell you that they will
give you what you need easily. I know many people Norton Finance has
helped and here is their website: http://www.nortonfinance.co.uk you can
check and see for yourself. As a Christian, you should know that it is
written that anything that come too easy, kills to easy!! Don't let
the stress you may have gone through with Mr. Paul to weaken you down
and make you think Norton Finance are scammers...they are not. Why
don't you ask Mr. Alan to tell you the name of the Organization he
works with because some one can't just say he is a scam fighter
without being a worker for any scam organization. Send me all the
details about this web site and Mr. alan okay? and remember, Mr. Paul
is a good man with good compassion, but if you let your mind to think
otherwise, then i must inform you that you will regret it later when
you must have been deceived by these people. The EFCC is a very great
Organization that deals with anything related to financial crimes so i
urge you to listen to my advice.

I called Mr. Paul and he is very angry and says he got your email and
will not reply. He says he wants you to believe whoever you want to
and then when you regret it later, you will learn your lesson that not
all that glitters is gold. But i told him that it has not gotten to
that and if he really wants to help you, he must make you understand
what you don't know. He promised to send you an email this morning
okay?

Just try and sit down properly and think very well.....I am a woman
like you and won't tell you wrong things.

Thanks,

Mrs. Eleanor O. Kess
Operation Director, EFCC

EFCC, Building A Crime Free World !!!!

The website quoted in the email is for a legitimate loan company in the UK and they are in no way connected with the scam.

[AlanJones]

Here are yet more of the lies that the scammer tells to try and convince the victim that he is the legitimate Norton Loans

Dear Valued Customer,

Your mail was well received by me. On getting your email, i was not happy at all. I am not impressed and it surprises me that after all this while, you still do not fully trust me? I decided not to reply to your email because it seems that i have been begging to help you. You need the help and not me and if you need help, you need to be active for it!! I cannot be begging to help you when i know i am of good intentions. If not that the EFCC called to inform me again of this and told me to explain everything to you in details, i would not have replied your email. I always try to call you but you never pick up. What do you take me for? Do you think i am jobless and i don't have other clients to deal with? I am a very busy man and while our transaction was giving problems, i finished another loan transaction this week Monday. I transferred the loan and it was successful because the Woman did what she was told to do and not argue as if you are teaching me my job. People that have gotten loans from us are not wiser or smarter than you are but it wonders me why we are having these problems and that is what i am trying to settle and the next thing is that you are thinking i am a scam?? This is so ridiculous and if not that you are but a kind customer, i would have reported you to your local authorities and you will be served papers for trying to spoil my name and my company's name as well. You contacted the wrong people and they must have told you whatever they told you because they know how legitimate and genuine we are and want to spoil our name in order for you to gain trust for them. I am a man that don't like when somebody i am willing to help start taking me for granted and take advantage of me wanting to help you.

I have had too much of this!!! I keep on getting messages from some clients that some people tell them that we are scams but the trusted ones tell me they don't believe. Norton Finance Group is well established and do not indulge in anything related to cheating people. If i was not serious about you getting this loan, do you think i would still be emailing you? be reasonable and don't just believe whatever anybody tell you. I know you may have gotten the message but i want to let you know that it is from a wrong source. You see, you are not the first person that have told me this. The Board of trustees of Norton Finance Group has reported this issue to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the USA and also the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in UK in order for them to help stop the people that are blackmailing my name. When you get successful with business, many people get jealous and then ind every means to spoil your name. Some people even use the same name as us just to scam people because they know people would trust the name based on our legitimate and genuine business strategy. We recently change our customize business email address ( @nortonfinance.co.uk ) account because we found out that one of our old worker who was no longer working with us hacked into our database account and stole our companies’ details and also he went forward to create his own fake company using my company name. I urge you to try and see this....so many people that know your good deeds will want to bring you down by all means. What i need you to do is to try and trust me or you can send the 350euros to Mrs. Eleanor of the EFCC and let this all be completed once and for all. Proper confirmation has been made from the bank and they said there won't be any charges after this and said that the delay is what we are paying for and absolutely nothing will be needed from you. What i expect you to be asking now is how long it will take for the funds to reflect in your bank account and how sure i am this time....Just give me this last chance and i promise you that you won't be disappointed okay?

Try and make the 350euros available by tomorrow morning so as to enable us finalize this transaction as soon as possible and move on to the next one.

Best Regard,

Mr. Paul Stringer.
Norton Finance Group Nigeria.