by Peta
Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:51 am
A farily standard advanced fee fraud email. The scammer is hoping that the reader will be so blinded by the possibility of getting a share of the $2.7 Million that they'll ignore all the inconsistencies and lies contained within his story. The email address [email protected] gets quite a few results using a google search. Delete or ignore this message if it ends up in your inbox.
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
From: "Dr. Chris Jega"<[email protected]>
Subject: Dear Beneficiary,
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:48:43 +0200
X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name for IP address 196.201.84.93 <- IP resolves to Cote D'Ivoire
To: undisclosed-recipients:; <- Sent to many hidden email addresses
Dear Beneficiary,
Your Visa Card Is Now Ready.
Having reviewed all the obstacles and problems surrounding the transfer of your ($2.7 Million)
Two Million Seven Hundred and United State Dollars and your inability to meet up with some charges
levied against you due to the past transfer options,we the Board of Directors, Bank Of Africa
(BOA) have ordered our Foreign Payment Remittance Unit to issue you a VISA CARD where your
payment will be uploaded. Today, we got the notice that your Payment has been
uploaded into this VISA CARD and also have registered it with (APEX COURIER) And Delivery Company.
For your information, The delivery charges have been paid and they are supposed to
have shipped your packaged (ATM CARD) but they insisted that you must re-confirm to them
your current delivery address to ensure accurate Delivery.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Due to the content of the package, apex courier mandated that before
your package will be shipped, a Stamp Duty must be procured according to the New Shipping
Creed on all packages leaving Africa .The essence of such Document is to ensure a
hitch-free delivery and the amount of the Stamp Duty Fee is $150. When this is done,
Apex Courier will issue you with the tracking numbers for your package before the shipping
commences . Therefore reconfirm your current delivery address. Do not forget that this
$150 is all that you should send to them, the rest of the fees have been paid.
Finally, for security reasons, and considering the huge amount the ATM Card contains,
the package was coded thus,Registraion Ref:apexxx/atm/100.This is the code number that
you will send to the courier company while contacting them, and the courier company is
not aware what the content of the package is. We told them that it contained some very
vital official documents being sent to an offshore staff. Do not reveal the content of
the package to the courier company or any body for security purposes. The information
of the courier company is here-by given below,
APEX COURIER And Delivery Company
Email ([email protected])
Tel:+225 05500918
Please hurry now as your package might incur demurrage if it
stays more than 3 days with apex courier,
Thanks,
Dr. Chris Jega
ATM Department Manager
Bank Of Africa
