The Bank of America Email Scam

Attn: Beneficiary,


Once again, I Mr.Benson Edward the agent in charge of your transaction (EA2948-910) in the amount of $800,000.00 which shall be made payable to you in form of a cashier's check. I write to inform you that I have not gotten any response from you since when I sent an e-mail to you in regards to making payment of $480.00 for the processing of your Bank of America Certified Bank Cashier's Check so that delivery would commence to your designated home address without any further delay. The FBI has investigated this transaction and everything has been arranged, the total sum has been deposited at Bank of America. Once we receive the required fees for processing this transaction, we shall immediately dispatch the check to your home address via United Parcel Services (UPS) or FeDex.
The required fee of $480.00 is for the following reason(s):
(1) Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is Bank of America)
(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee (Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check)
(3) Shipping Fee's (This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your home address and this fee includes Insurance)
The total amount of $480.00 is required to have this entire transaction completed. You are therefore advised to make the payment for $480.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram International Transfer to the following information:
Name of Receiver: John Obi
State: Lagos
Country: Nigeria
Test Question: Who is Good?
Answer: God
Amount to Send: $480.00
Do get back to this office with the following information below after making payment of $480.00 via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram International Transfer
Senders Name:
Senders Address:
Mtcn #/Reference #:
If you are able to make this payment immediately, then your cashier's check will be dispatched in less than 24 hours upon receipt of the payment and you will be contacted with a UPS/Fedex tracking number. Immediately have this done and get back to me ASAP.
Once again, below you will find the names and UPS/FeDex Tracking numbers of beneficiary's like you whom have successfully paid the $480.00 fee and there Certified Check Parcel has been successfully delivered to them. I want you to proceed immediately to make your own payment of $480.00 so I can successfully deliver your Certified Check Parcel to your Door Step as soon as possible.I want you to log on to the UPS/FeDex website on your browser: www.ups.com or www.fedex.com to check and see that the below listed beneficiary's Certified Check Parcel was delivered to them. I want you to know that I shall immedi! ately deliver yours as soon as you
Name : Comroberta Izora Gilbert: UPS Tracking Number: 1Z757F990195914232 (www.ups.com)
Name : Prasad Kamat: UPS Tracking Number: 1Z757F991599025615 (www.ups.com)
Name : Donna L. Vargas: UPS Tracking Number: 1Z757F991598420403 (www.ups.com)
Name : Rovenda Elaine Clayton: UPS Tracking Number: 1Z757F991596606592 (www.ups.com)
Name : Latonya S. Heath: UPS Tracking Number: 1Z757F991597708186 (www.ups.com)
Name : Jimmy Davis:UPS Tracking Number1Z757F991598753563 (www.ups.com)
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Name : Kristina Stark: Fedex Tracking Number : 863648710512 (www.fedex.com)
Note: Do keep this office posted if you are no longer interested in receiving the Bank of America Certified Cashier's Check so that we would keep the Federal Bureau of Investigation posted in order to have the funds in the Bank of America Certified Cashier's Check written in your name confiscated. But if you do not have the required payment at hand needed to make payment do keep this office posted and let us know when payment would be made so that your files would be updated for security reasons.

Regards,

Mr. Benson Edward

Scam

RE: YOUR PAYMENT OF EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND ($800.000.00) VIA ATM CARD Dearest


Friend; This is to officially notify you that we have verified your payment file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not yet receive your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations given to you in respect to your contract payment.

Secondly, you are advised to stop any 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. Note that we have entered into May/June which is the second segment of our foreign payment in this physical year 2009 and you are among of our payment list

After the board of director meeting held last week, 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, Africa and Asia, which is the instruction given by our president, Dr. Thomas Yayi Boni (RB) Republic of Benin. This Card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money from any ATM office in your locations in any part of the world, but the maximum is $1,500.00 per transaction and you can withdraw 3 times par day which is $4,500.00 So if you like to receive your fund this way, please due re-confirm the followings as stated below: 1. Full Name 2. Phone and Fax Number 3. Current Address4. Age and Current Occupation 5. Your Identification Card We shall be expecting to receive your information and 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.

You are advice to contact the department center with below email address and phone number for immediate release of your payment Card to you now


ATM DEPARMENT CENTER

Beware of mails like this

Dear Friend,I know this will come to you as a surprise but never mind, I got your Contact in my search for a reputable and trust worthy person/Company, Who can stand confidently with me in this successful business? Arrangement. Before I proceed,I will like to introduce my humble self To you. I am the Auditor General of a Government Accredited Oil Company here in Nigeria. Certainly, the prompting of this letter to you is anchored on my strong desire to solicit your sincere understanding and co-operation in this Transaction that would certainly boost the financial stand of both parties involved when completed. As a matter of fact, we want to transfer to overseas (US$ 152,000.000.00 USD) One Hundred and fifty two million Unite States Dollars) from the Oil Company's operating Bank account here in Africa, I want you to quietly Look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to Provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank A/C Immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to Receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end Of this important transaction, trusting in you and believing in God That you will Never let me down either now or in the near future. In all honesty, during the course of our auditing I discovered a Floating fund of the above mentioned amount in account opened with the Bank in 1990 and since then; nobody has operated on this account again, After going through some old files in the records I discovered that the Money in the account was mapped out for the refurbishment of the Oil Company's Machineries. Meanwhile, Mr. Magnus Leon, the President of the Oil company was the Only signatory to the account, but unfortunately he died after a brief Illness in 1993. And no other person knows about this account or any Thing concerning it, and the account has no other beneficiary. And my investigation proved to me that Mr. Magnus Leon, until his death Had wanted to siphoned that money into his personal account in New York Hence he did not disclose the operating devises of the account to the Board of Trustees. I am only contacting you in this regard, based on the fact that you are A foreigner because, this money can only be approved to any foreigner Who can present all documents that will prove that he/she is the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the account base on the fact that Mr. Magnus Leon The owner of this account is a foreigner, and the money can only be approved into a foreign bank Account. Therefore, if you are capable of handling this transaction with me, lets Make the necessary arrangement for the hitch-free transfer of this Money to any safe bank account that you may nominate, on a share Percentage bases.

However, we shall sign a binding agreement, to bind us Together as partners in this regard. I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let Me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I Am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently and indicate Your sincere interest, so that I can inform you on the modalities Already mapped out for the hitch-free transfer of the money out of Africa here. I will require your direct phone and fax number for easy contacting you I need your full co-operation to make this work adequately. Upon your Positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and Willing to meet up with the instructions of the top bank official that is deeply involved with me in this business, I shall commence actions Immediately to process the payment of the money in your favor as the Beneficiary With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer This money to any reliable foreign bank account, which you can provide. I am looking forward in anticipation to hearing from you soon as Possible. Yours truly, DR.PETERS ERICKPLEASE SEND YOU REPLY TO MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL ADDRESS ONLY

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