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Scam Money Transfers: Mr. Michael Osa of CBN

Miscellaneous Scam Money Transfers
Example -
Mr. Michael Osa, CBN
After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally  because I do not have anything against you, but your partners

Did you receive an email from a "Mr. Michael Osa, CBN" who  says "After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally  because I do not have anything against you, but your partners"  The scammer will to get you to cash a counterfeit check or try to steal your identity and get you to send him money, but the text of the scam is so odd, it's hard to imagine anyone falling for it. If this email out-of-the-blue from an unknown foreigner offering to pay you absurd amounts of money for almost no work doesn't strike you as a scam, then you really need to read through a number of the scams on this website and familiarize yourself with their approach.

Mr. Michael Osa, CBN  (not his real name, obviously,) hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune.  If you would like a step by step explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!

Notice (highlighted below) some of the other obvious signs that this is a scam are poor spelling , use of free Yahoo/Hotmail/etc email accounts, proposals that make no sense, etc.:


Scam email:

From: "CBN" < osaworld12@rexian.com

Subject: Our ref: CBN/GO/0FX02/08

Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 00:02:59 +0100

  

Our ref: CBN/GO/0FX02/08

Dear Beneficiary

After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally  because I do not have anything against you, but your partners.

I am the director of wire transfer/telex department of the CBN, some  time in the past your  partners approached me through a friend of mine  who works with one of the ministries here and requested that I assist  them conclude a money transfer deal and we all agreed.

According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge  amount of money which they accumulated through inflated contract awards  and the money has been floating in the (CBN) since the original  contractors/beneficiary's has been fully paid, so they wanted to use your  account to transfer the surplus out of their country. We agreed that once  I do this, they would give me some percentage of the money when I  released the fund to your account. When they saw that i have done that and  your name has been approved among the list of those to be paid, instead  of giving me the agreed deposit of amount, they started avoiding me and  resorted to threats.

I immediately deleted their name among the list of those to be paid  because of my position, and release other contractors/beneficiary fund  without yours.

They became angry the more when they saw that their plan did not work,  and started bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer  the money to you without success. Approvals are free, is it not funny  that a contractor/beneficiary is being asked to pay for approval while  his millions is here with us? I am a hundred percent responsible for  the delay and obstructions because of their breach of contract. If you  doubt what i have just told you, pay any amount they will ask you to pay  now, after a short time they will come up with another reason to pay  again and it goes on and on. Now if you want us to work together, these  are my conditions.

(i). I will have forty percent of the total sum because it is only the  two of us left for now and we will share what ever expenses that may be  incurred.

(ii). You will assist me to open an account in your country or any  other place of my choice where I will transfer in my own share when we  finalize the transaction and you confirm the fund into your account.

(iii) As you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of money if  you continue with any other person, so we will conclude the transaction  with utmost secrecy and confidentialities. 

If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as  possible to let us finalize all the arrangement and finalize this deal  immediately without any further delay. Finally, I have made up my mind to  settle down in California U.S.A, when we finalize this deal and I have  started making arrangement with some estate agent to look for a four  bungalow house for sale. 

I look forward to have a very good business relationship with you now  and in the future.  

Best regards.

Mr. Michael Osa.

Director, CBN 

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