Friday, June 11, 2010

Nigerian Scam mail is changing tactic!

We used to receive e-mails from Nigerian or some guys who claimed to have huge sum of money to be transferred out of their countries. Or in some cases, they promised some gift/money to be sent to you because you have won it in a lucky dip.
Recently, one woman from Sabah actually sent out RM1.2 million to such a scam. All these con men continue to exist because of human greed and sometimes, unconditional trusting behaviour or sometimes just being naive and didn't use their brain!
The latest scam is in the form of job offer in Shell Nigeria.
One thing common about all these scams is that you must send money first before they will 'deliver" anything. Remember, they always deliver nothing! So be warned... there is no free lunch! Just ask yourself, why should people give you big money or monetary benefits when they don't even know you!
Another thing to watch out for is the poor English and the number of spelling mistakes. If you think you are poor in English and will not be able to detect, just cut and paste the text into MS Words and you will immediately see the number of errors, assuming that you didn't switch off spelling and grammar checking.

Watch out for these people in regard to job offer from Shell Nigeria:
Mr. Cletus Mbieri. His email is recruitmentdepartment@shellcareerng.com (Claim as HR Manager)
Barrister Soloman Nnaji. His email is solo_mon001@live.com (Claim as Immigration Lawyer)
James Uche. His Email is customercare@niconiinsurance.com (Claim as Nicon Insurance agent)

They will ask you to pay for insurance first and requested you to send the following info:
To process for the Insurance policy A, you will have to forward the following information’s to us.

Full name:.....................................................
Address:.......................................................
Nationality:...................................................
Date of Birth:................................................
Next of Kin:..................................................
Address:......................................................
Nationality:..................................................
Date of Birth:...............................................

Money is payable via Money Gram or western union money transfer with the name of the accountant and address below. Forward the payment slip/details to us, to enable us pick the money up.We have explained all intricacies involved in direct bank transfer to your immigration attorney Mr Solomon Nnaji.Send a copy of a valid identity card to us too or the information page of your international passport.

First Name: Chris
Last Name: Chibundu
Address: N0: 20 Bode Thomas, Victoria Island.
City: Ikeja
State: Lagos State
City code: 2341
Question: What for
Answer: ETIP

Once you make the payment send the details that will be used to collect the money to NICON directly and let me know so that i can move over to their office for comfirmation and processing.What you are paying is too small to be transfered through bank to bank as they made me to understand in NICON's office that they give account to big premium payers moreover you will spend more when it comes to using an account because what they will give to you is a brokers account and you will also pay commission on that and also transfer charges moreover it will take 4 working days for the money to reflect into the account.
Solomon

3 comments:

suituapui said...

Oh? I haven't checked my email... But the last time, I think I did not receive any, so let's hope they'll leave me in peace this time around too.

Bengbeng said...

i have learned not to get excited over these internet offers :) or pyramid schemes

Janet said...

Hi William
maybe we know each other 6 years back when I did my internship.

btw, just want to tell you that, many romance scam in Malaysia now too, I know some Sarawakians are the victims, but in the news we only read about those in KL.

they use "love" as the bait, then will send some "expensive" gift and demand money since there are money inside the parcel, then need more money for VAT, then the drama continue on ... some even charge for custom clearance, when the man tried to visit them in Malaysia. you can google all from romancescam.