Mr. Terry Harrison, [email protected]

Received yet another scam message today, a classical one offering to transfer me some huge sum from Nigeria. It's absolutely obvious though, so I don't know how they planned to fool anyone - first, the English is horrible, it's diffcult to understand sometimes, and second, the person who is supposed to be the sender, is "working" in the Telex Department, whatever it can be - so it looks at least strange that someone from this department is offering to transfer money. And of course, in the end of the email - a mention that I must pay some sum to this "benefactor" in exchange for his efforts. Anyway, here's this stupid message:

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
TELEX / COMPUTER DEPARTMENT
TINUBU SQUARE
ABUJA - NIGERIA
PRIVATE EMAIL: [email protected]


Hello

My name is Mr. Terry Harrison of telex/computer department of central bank of Nigeria. I am sending this private email based on the confidentiality of the transaction. Please, I will like to advise if after going through my proposal and you do not accept it, kindly keep it to yourself.

As of this moment, i am still in service with central bank of Nigeria (C.B.N) and I will not by any means like to lose my job, if you are not interested. I have put in over 23 years in this bank but i do not have anything to show for it. This is just my opportunity to make sure that I give my children a decent training since my government which is corrupt has refused to take care of its responsibility. In
fact I am sick and tired of everything here I need to get out. I found out that you almost met all the
statutory requirements in respect of your payment. Please be equally advised that no security company in Africa can handle your contract payment/inheritance fund with any bank without the instructions of the central bank of Nigeria.

Your problem is that of interest group in the central bank of Nigeria that is supposed to transfer your fund with the approval of central bank. A lot of people is interested in your payment and that explains why you receive emails and phone calls from different people every day. Their whole game plan is to frustrate you in order for you to abandon the contract payment and then, they will be comfortable and free enough to transfer the contract funds into their overseas account.

Their aim and target is not the money you are giving them but to frustrate you. Hence, you have lost trust on whom to believe to be genuine but I can assure you that this may last for years, yet nothing happens.

To sum it up, I wish to assure you that with my position here in the telex department, I can accomplish this transfering your Long Overdue Payment worth the sum of $2.500.000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) into your personal account under five working days, but we have to reach an agreement.

First of all, you have to let me know how much you will give me at the consummation of this deal,so I need you to get back to me as soon as possible.

REGARDS,
Mr. Terry Harrison
Email: [email protected]
phone: +229-67-409-209

It's interesting that the From field in the email shows [email protected] as the sender's address, while the email itself contains [email protected] . Here's the header:

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From: "Mr. Terry Harrison"<[email protected]>
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