Nigerian bank scams
I first encountered Nigerian bank scams when I was editor of the West Coast Sentinel at Ceduna, South Australia, in 1993. We didn’t have email in those days and the scam letters came via regular post. I reported one of the early ones to local police.
Email has opened up a new market for these tricksters and I’m sure they’ve pulled a few victims.
In the last few days I’ve had several emails to different addresses from different people saying the same thing …
“I am Barrister JOHN KUNLE (name changes with each email) a
legal Solicitor and I was the Personal Attorney and legal adviser to
Mr.Pitt Gorey , a national of your country, who used to work with Mobil
oil Company Nigeria Plc. On the 21st of April 2001, my client, his wife
and their three children were involved in a car accident along imo
Express Road. All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their
lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to
locate any of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his
family but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to
assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client
before it gets impounded by the security company were my client
deposited this consignment(two trunk boxes). Particularly, the security
company where the deceased had a deposited this consignment valued at
about Thirteen Million United States Dollars ($U.S 13.000,000) has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the consignment
confiscated/impounded within the next ten official working days.”
Cleverly, the message doesn’t say which country Pitt Gorey was a national of. I assume that similar messages have gone to Gorey email addresses around the world.
It’s amazing how these people gain access to private addresses; scary also. They’re obviously very organised.
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