Scam Money Transfers: Tony Elumelu

Miscellaneous Scam Money Transfers
Example - Tony Elumelu - ATM SWIFT CARD
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract 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 contract /inheritance payment.

Did you receive an email from a "Tony Elumelu" who  says "This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract 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 contract /inheritance payment."  Some scams are hard to categorize.  Certainly the scammer will 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.

Tony Elumelu (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.: The line that "this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately" is particularly entertaining. Are they saying that you can continue in this ambiguous "illegal act", as long as you don't want the "inheritance"?  We guess so! Note also the scam website: http://www.diamondbankltd.com/ you can't view it without a logon.  Have you ever heard of a bank, or any other business that required a logon to their home page?  Of course, not... unless you are running a scam from the website.  And who is this "Fred Allen" who sent the email, evemn though it is supposed to be from "Tony Elumelu"?

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Scam email:

From: FRED ALMAN ( jl@cbsdot.com )

Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:48 PM

Subject: ATM SWIFT CARD PAYMENT

ATM SWIFT CARD PAYMENT
YOUR PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
From: Mr Tony Elumelu
Remittance Manager
Zenith Bank Of Nigeria.
Attention:  Beneficiary

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract
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
contract /inheritance payment.

Secondly, you are hereby advice 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 our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your
problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT
CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe,

America and Asia Pacific, which is then instruction given by our president,
Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar Adua (GCFR)
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
($15,000.00) Five Thousand Us Dollars per

transaction. So, if you like to receive your fund this way, $15,000 usd
for you
to withdraw for a day and each transaction is $ 5,000usd minimum which you
have
to withdraw $15,000 usd for one working day

also be informed that the total amount in the  SWIFT ATM CARD is $14.6
million
usd.

(1) Your Full Name :
(2) Your Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM CARD.:
(3) Phone And Fax Number :
(4) Age and Occupation  :
(5) Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:

We shall be expecting to receive your information you have 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 Tony Elumelu
Remittance Manager
Zenith Bank Of Nigeria
Email: zenithdiamond@diamondbankltd.com
+23480-2879-8951
+23480-5895-8210
Fax:1-501-647-0399

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