Scam Com: Free Money from Nigeria and the Bank of Scotland

The following scam com example is a scam letter from Nigeria that pertains to giving the scam victim free money as a beneficiary. The money is supposed to go into an account with the Bank of Scotland, apparently for another person. The typical scam communication usually takes place through email. The scam com author tries to get the potential scam victim to respond with personal information. The check scam commences when the victim is sent a check to be cashed. The proceeds of the check are then sent back.

The theme found in this scam communication is that the scam victim is a beneficiary who must contradict another beneficiary to get the free money. This is one of the many deceptions used in the Nigerian scam. Unlike the phishing scam com that uses a fake website, the African scam letter usually states that millions of dollars are waiting for the scam victim.

PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CONTRACT PAYMENT DIVERSION.Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:59 PM From: "ALHAJI BUNU USMAN FAROUK." Add sender to Contacts To: undisclosed-recipients From the Desk of: Alhaji Bunu Farouk.

ATTENTION OF: BONAFIDE BENEFICIARY.

By legislative resolution reached on 10 January 2008 following the complaint and petition received by the Office of the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (ALHAJI UMARU USMAN YARADUA) from foreign beneficiaries over the non-payment of their claims, this presidential commission on fact finding and foreign payment was inaugurated to release immediately all the payment that have received approval like yours.

We are pleased to inform you that we have verified every aspect of your payment and have submitted a written report to the President of Nigeria, the House of Senate and the Federal House of Representative sub committees on Finance and Foreign Payment. We are going to transfer your payment upon receiving your confirmation because we are confused on which account to make the transfer into as we received a Scotland Bank Account details from this man whose passport photograph appeared below claiming to be the rightful beneficiary thereby contradicting your earlier account detail in our data bank.

PLEASE CLARIFY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

(1). Did you at any point transfer your right of ownership to one MR. THOMAS G. HENDERSON , to claim and receive the payment on your behalf?

(2). His claim was backed with a “Deed of Agreement “in his favour thereby indicating the fund destination to the following account. Account name: THOMAS G. HENDERSON, Account No: 01028732 Bank Name: BANK OF SCOTLAND, Swift Code: BOFSGB2S are you aware of this?

You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the legitimacy of the above claim and the reason for such change. In event you did not authorize such claim, please confirm to us immediately by way of application for contract payment stating your authentic account details, contract number and amount for the authentication and normalization through the above E-mail. All letters must be attention to the Chairman of the Commission ALHAJI BUNU FAROUK. You are required to submit this authentication before the transfer will be effected as we are bound to recognize THOMAS G. HENDERSON’S claim and release the payment if we do not receive your submission to this enquiry as quickly as possible.

ALHAJI BUNU FAROUK Chairman of the Commission EMAIL: faroukbunu1@gmail.com

NB: This message supersedes any other message or information in respect to your payment. And Please for your information stop any further communication with any office or person.