by Peta
Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:16 am
Yet another scam designed to extract money from people who have already been scammed. The reply-to email address: [email protected] is a free email address supplied by AOL. The real Ecobank Nigeria would not be using a free AOL email address in official communications. This scam email does not address the recipient. The reason for this is that the email has been sent out to hundreds, perhaps thousands of unnamed individuals in the hope that someone will be desperate to retrieve scam losses.
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009
From: ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC <[email protected]>
Reply-To: ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC <[email protected]>
Subject: RE NOTICE
ECOBANK NIGERIA PLC
SCAM COMPENSATION OFFICE DEPARTMENT
ECOWAS NATIONS/UNITED NATIONS
2009 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
YOUR REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 FOR $500,000 USD ONLY.
This is to bring to your notice that our bank (ECOBANK INTL. PLC) is delegated by the ECOWAS/UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay victims of scam $500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only). You are listed/approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount.
On this faithful recommendations, we want to alert you that during the last Ecowas meetings held in ABUJA (WEST AFRICA), it was accessed/ accumulated of reported cases of fraud that the money lost by various individuals to Africans scam artists operating in syndicates all over the world today is over $239 Million United States Dollars in year 2008 to fraud in USA alone. I
http://www.techspot.com/news/29644-US-Citizens-lost-239 -million-from-Internet-fraud-in-2007.html
In other to compensate victims, the ECOWAS/UNITED NATIONS is now paying victims of such scam $500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only Each ). in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations.
The payments are to be remitted by ECOBANK PLC NIGERIA as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA. Benefactor of this compensation award will have to be first cleared by ECOBANK and confirmed as a victim from Africa Scam before scam payment can be effected. We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response from you, on how you can receive your compensation payment award.
You are to send the following informations to your remittance officer for further verifications.
Your Name.___________________________
Address.___________________________
Phone .___________________________
Amount Defrauded.___________________________
Country.________________________
Send a copy of your response via email or call your remittance officer quoting your PAYMENT CODE NUMBER(ECB/06654).
NAME: Mrs. FELICIA DUKE
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654
ECB/06654 $500,000 USD.
TEL : +2347041097057
Email: [email protected]
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. FELICIA DUKE
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
