Scam ATM Card Payment
Money Transfers
Example - President Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua, Afirbank Plaza, Federal Republic of Nigeria
I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your Winning Prize/inheritance payment.Secondly, you are hereby adviced to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. You will receive an ATM Card from the Swift Card Payment Centre
Dr.James Ofor
Have you received an email from "President ALHAJI UMARU YAR'ADUA" of Afirbank Plaza, Federal Republic of Nigeria, claiming
"I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your Winning Prize/inheritance payment.Secondly, you are hereby adviced to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. You will receive an ATM Card from the Swift Card Payment Centre"
and they owe you money from a "contract/inheritance payment file" or a pyament to "Scam victims" or some other nonsense, and they will send you the money on an ATM card, if you contact "Dr.James Ofor"? Wow! So the president of Nigeria wrote you personally, to tell you that "you are hereby adviced" to stop communicating "with non-bank officials" as this is "an illegal act" and you won't receive your money if you keep doing illegal acts!
"President Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua" is a educated and highly ranking lawyer, banker or government official who apparently can't spell and feels the odd need to randomly capitalize some WORDS (like that)
On what planet does ANY of this make ANY sense? Correct answer: "The Planet Scam"!
Allow us to point out the inconsistencies and how the scam works.
It's a mystery why President Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua named you as a beneficiary or what the "contract" is, but you better reply pretty quickly or risk losing millions from the "contract/inheritance payment file". Also notice that the "lawyer" or official is writing to you from a free email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.); in fact, they typically use more than one different free email accounts.
If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
Scam email from "President ALHAJI UMARU YAR'ADUA":
AFRIBANK PLAZA,
14TH FLOOR
51/55 BROAD STREET,
P.M.B 12021 LAGOS-NIGERIA.
This is to officially inform you that I have verified your Winning Prize/inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your Winning Prize/inheritance payment.
Secondly, you are hereby adviced to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately.
After the board meeting held at my headquarters,I have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, I have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia Pacific, which is the instruction given by me ALHAJI UMARU YAR'ADUA (GCFR) President Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is ($20,000.00) Twenty Thousand Us Dollars per day.
So, if you like to receive your fund this way, please do let me know by forwarding the below details to the CARD PAYMENT CENTRE on this Email:
Contact officer: Dr.James Ofor
Direct tel: 234-8074-224-676
(1).Your Full Name:
(2).Your Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM
CARD:
(3).Your Phone And Fax Number:
(4).Your Total Fund to be received:
(5).Your Current Occupation:
Instead of loosing your fund, please indicate to the Card Centre the total sum you are expecting and for your information you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new development.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Best Regards
MR.ALHAJI UMARU YAR'ADUA (PRESIDENT FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA)
Note: Because of impostors, we hereby issue you with our code of conduct, which is (098) so you have to indicate this code when contacting this CARD CENTRE.
And please let us know about any suspicious calls or emails you receive. We look for patterns so that we can alert the authorities and victims to new scams, before it is too late!
For a comprehensive list of national and international agencies to report scams, see this page.