"Scammers often rely on the greed and dishonesty of the mark, who may attempt to out-cheat the con artist, only to discover that he or she has been manipulated into losing from the very beginning. This is such a general principle in confidence tricks that there is a saying among con men that "you can't cheat an honest man." - Scams

This book is about dishonesty - from street level to Cyberworld . It describes the common scams in circulation today and their origins. It shows how each fraud is perpetrated and how the informed reader can avoid or at least minimise their losses when faced with the scenario. If after reading this book you still manage to get scammed, you deserve to be put facing a corner with a dunce cap on your head and whipped with your empty wallet !

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Fw: Business Proposal

Advertisement for a fraud.

------Original Message------
From: Mr.Tan Wong
ReplyTo: tanwong1953@xaut.org
Subject: Business Proposal
Sent: Dec 9, 2012 10:19 AM

FROM:MR TAN WONG
tanwong1953@xaut.org

I am Mr.Tan Wong director of operations, Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong.I have urgent and confidential business proposition involving transfer of $24,500,000.00 that will be of great benefit for both of us. I will give you more details as regards this transaction as soon as you notify me of your interest. Awaiting your urgent reply via my email address (tanwong1953@xaut.org) which is my confidential email address.

Kind Regards,
Mr.Tan Wong


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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Fw: CAN YOU HELP ME?

NO!

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mrs Helen George"<mrshelen@in.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 23:53:44
Reply-To: <msheleng003@gmail.com>
Subject: CAN YOU HELP ME?

GOOD DAY.

URGENT - HELP ME DISTRIBUTE MY $12 MILLION TO HUMANITARIAN.


THIS MAIL MIGHT COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE AND THE TEMPTATION TO IGNORE IT
AS UNSERIOUS COULD COME INTO YOUR MIND BUT PLEASE CONSIDER IT A DIVINE
WISH AND ACCEPT IT WITH A DEEP SENSE OF HUMILITY. I AM MRS HELEN GEORGE
AND I AM A 61 YEARS OLD WOMAN. I AM A SOUTH AFRICAN MARRIED TO A SIERRA
LEONIA.

I WAS THE PRESIDENT/CEO OF OIL COMPANY INTERNATIONAL-AN OIL SERVICING
COMPANY IN JOHANNESBURG. I WAS ALSO MARRIED WITH NO CHILD. MY HUSBAND
DIED 3YEARS AGO. BEFORE THIS HAPPENED MY BUSINESS AND CONCERN FOR MAKING
MONEY WAS ALL I WAS LIVING FOR AND I NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT OTHER
PEOPLE. BUT SINCE THE LOSS OF MY HUSBAND AND ALSO BECAUSE I HAD HAVE NO
CHILD TO CALL MY OWN, I HAVE FOUND A NEW DESIRE TO ASSIST THE HELPLESS, I
HAVE BEEN HELPING ORPHANS IN ORPHANAGES/MOTHERLESS HOMES/HUMANITARIANS. I
HAVE DONATED SOME MONEY TO ORPHANS IN SUDAN,ETHIOPIA, CAMEROON, SPAIN,
AUSTRIA, GERMANY AND SOME ASIAN COUNTRIES.

IN SUMMARY:- I HAVE 12,000,000.00 (TWELVE MILLION) U. S. DOLLARS WHICH I
DEPOSITED IN A SECURITY COMPANY IN COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC AS A FAMILY
TREASURE & ARTEFACTS, PLEASE I WANT YOU TO NOTE THAT THE SECURITY
COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW THE REAL CONTENT TO BE MONEY AND I WANT YOU TO
ASSIST ME IN CLAIMING THE CONSIGNMENT & DISTRIBUTING THE MONEY TO CHARITY
ORGANIZATIONS, I AGREE TO REWARD YOU WITH PART OF THE MONEY FOR YOUR
ASSISTANCE, KINDNESS AND PARTICIPATION IN THIS GODLY PROJECT. BEFORE I
BECAME ILL, I KEPT $12 MILLION IN A LONG-TERM DEPOSIT IN A SECURITY
COMPANY WHICH I DECLARED AS A FAMILY TREASURE ARTIFIARTS.I AM IN THE
HOSPITAL WHERE I HAVE BEEN UNDERGOING TREATMENT
FOR OESOPHAGEAL CANCER AND MY DOCTORS HAVE TOLD ME THAT I HAVE ONLY A FEW
MONTHS TO LIVE.

IT IS MY LAST WISH TO SEE THIS MONEY DISTRIBUTED TO CHARITY
ORGANIZATIONS. BECAUSE MY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS HAVE PLUNDERED SO MUCH OF
MY WEALTH SINCE MY ILLNESS, I CANNOT LIVE WITH THE AGONY OF ENTRUSTING
THIS HUGE RESPONSIBILITY TO ANY OF THEM. PLEASE, I BEG YOU IN THE NAME OF
GOD TO HELP ME COLLECT THE $12 MILLION WHICH I DEPOSIT WITH THE NAME OF
MY LATE HUSBAND AS THE NEXT OF KIN BECAUSE NOW DUE TO MY HEALTH THE
SECURITY COMPANY IS DEMANDING FOR A NEXT OF KIN IN OTHER TO GET THE MONEY
TRANSFERRED IN OTHER TO SEE THAT MY LAST WISH IS ACCOMPLISHED WHICH IS
SHARING THE MONEY AMONG CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS.YOU ARE AT LIBERTY TO USE
YOUR DISCRETION TO DISTRIBUTE THE MONEY AND FEEL FREE AS WELL TO
REIMBURSE YOURSELF WHEN YOU HAVE THE MONEY FOR ANY EXPENSES IN
DISTRIBUTING THE MONEY TO CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS.

I AM WILLING TO REWARD YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE AND KINDNESS.

KINDLY EXPEDITE ACTION AND CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL AT mrshelges@superposta.com
FOR MORE DETAILS.
MAY THE GOOD LORD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?
BEST REGARDS.
MRS HELEN GEORGE
PLZ REPLLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAILBOX: mrshelges@superposta.com

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Fw: United Nations Information Centre:

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mr. Alex J. Richardson"<support@jumptontech.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:39:45
Reply-To: <u_nationofficenig@yahoo.co.jp>
Subject: Re: United Nations Information Centre:

United Nations Information Centre,
Address: 177 Alfred Rewane Road
(Formerly Kingsway Road), Ikoyi
Lagos, Nigeria.
E-mail: u_nationofficenig@yahoo.co.jp

United Nations Information Centre,

My name is Mr. Alex Richardson newly inaugurated United Nations Information Centre here in Nigeria (UNIC), My committee has been mandated and approved by our office in United Kingdom (UN) to recover unpaid debts associated with NNPC contracts, Lottery fund, inheritance fund, loans and grants etc ranging from $1M-$4.2M owed to various beneficiaries and companies across the globe (Asia, Europe, USA, Africa, and Australia) whom has been victimized by hudlooms and also submited the list of the unpaid beneficiaries/companies to the 2 appointed official delivery service for immediate payment of the fund.

This meeting was first held in United Kingdom on the 8th of April 2003. You can view this page for your perusal: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm Assess Code:8911-89-QDR

In the course of our investigation, your email address/particulars were shortlisted among the first fifteen individuals yet to be paid hence this email. However, we received a petition today from Mrs. Joyce Edison stating that you are critically infected by Cancer of the Lungs and that you have few months to live according to the doctor's report so therefore that you have given her the authorization to claim your fund on your behalf and as such your fund should be paid to her as heir apparen. Note: that the Leaders of the (UN) in conjunction with the African Crime fighters has come together to inform the world what is going on now all over the globe and we have recovered over $422 Million Dollars (Four Hundred and Twenty two Million Dollars) from the people which has been apprehended by African Crime Fighters. The reason we are writing you this letter is because of the petition we received from Mrs. Joyce Edison today.

She also said that she is ready and willing to obtain all the procurement of the legal documents for the release of your fund to her as you have instructed, it will interest you to know that she has been held right away for verification purpose because of the elaborate global scam, we decided to contact you once more for confirmation. If after seven working days, no response is received from you it will be assumed that you are ill indeed and as such authorization and approval will be granted on behalf of Mrs. Joyce Edison to claim/receive your fund.

You are advised to reconfirm the below listed information's to enable us facilitate an immediate release of your ATM Master Card to you if you are healthy enough to check your mail.

BY ATM MASTER CARD ONLY.

1. Full Name:____________________________
2. Address:______________________________
3. Nationality:____________Sex___________
4. Age:____________Date of Birth:________
5. Occupation:___________________________
6. Phone:_______Fax:_____________________
7. State of Origin:_______Country:_______
8. Drivers license:____________________
9. Copy Of Your Identity:________________
>
I await your urgent response to this office immediately.

Mr. Alex Richardson
United Nations Information Centre
Address: 177 Alfred Rewane Road
(Formerly Kingsway Road), Ikoyi
Lagos, Nigeria.
E-mail: u_nationofficenig@yahoo.co.jp

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Fw: Call me After a serious thought.


I was told he is an honest man. Why is he trying to fleece me.
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From: "Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi"<slamido432@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 15:21:20 +0100
ReplyTo: <smallamsanusilamidocbnq@yahoo.com>
Subject: Call me After a serious thought.

Office of the Central Bank Governor.
Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (CON)
No.8 (Plot 2704), Colorado Street,
Maitama Abuja.
TEL: + + 234 817626532
E-mail:smallamsanusilamidocbnq@yahoo.com
Attn: Beneficiary.
Dear Sir,
After a serious thought, I decided to reach you directly and personally because I do not have anything against you, but your Nigeria partners.
I am the Governor and the Wire Transfer/Telex department of the central bank of Nigeria, sometime in the past your Nigeria partners approached me through a friend of mine who works with one of the ministries here and requested that I assist them conclude a money transfer deal.
They gave me your name, company's name and bank particulars and told me to put them into our computing system in the lab so that it will appears as if you are one of the genuine Beneficiary/ contractors that have been cleared for payment.
According to them, they wanted to use this strategy to transfer a huge amount of us dollars which they accumulated through inflated contract awards/ Inheritance payment and the money has been floating in the C.B.N since the original contractors/ Next of Kin has been paid so they wanted to use your account to transfer the surplus out of Nigeria. We agreed that once I do this, they would give me us$100,000.00 and give me another us$100,000.00 when I released the fund to your account.
When they saw that I have done that and your name has been approved among the list of those to be paid, instead of giving me the agreed deposit of us$100,000.00, they started avoiding me and resorted to threats. I immediately deleted the transfer code of the fund, which is only known to me because of my position, and release other contractor's fund without yours.
They became angry the more when they saw that their threat did not work, and started bribing other officials to get another approval to transfer the money to you without success. Approvals are almost free is it not funny that a contractor is being asked to for approval while his millions is here with us? Approvals are just $1,100 not $1,500. I am 100% responsible for the delay, and obstructions because of their breach of contract.
If you doubt what I have just told you, pay any amount they will ask you to pay now, after a short time they will come up with another reason to pay again and it goes on and on. They are simply wicked.
Now if you want us to work together, these are my conditions.
I). I will have 30% of the money because it is only the two of us left for now.
2).You will assist my son to open an account in your country or any other place of my choice where I will pay in my own share.
3). as you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of money if you continue with any other person, so we will conclude the transaction with utmost secrecy with the above e-mail address.
4). Note that my telephone number will be given to you as soon as you indicate your full interest to work with me.
5). If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us finalize to that I will fax to you our official kit wire transfer form to complete and I will release the money to your account. But, if you are not interested, I advise you to forget the fund as it will be transferred into our consolidated national reserve.
I am also aware of the fact that, you are still in contact with some uncouples elements that are claiming or purporting themselves as top Government Officials. Even your recent dealings with working with the payment centers in Europe /UK and some other countries of which you have even paid but to no avail. Note that, they have been deceiving you all they want is your money.
You have to stop communication with them or any group of persons that you are in contact with if, you want to work with me to get this problem settled. This is the truth of the matter and why you have not been able to receive this fund.
Best regards,
Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (C.B.N).
+ 234 817626532

Fw: Facts

------Original Message------
From: IMF OFFICE
To: mail@ensap.com
ReplyTo: tsansongs@rediffmail.com
Subject: Facts
Sent: Dec 5, 2012 4:55 AM

Attn: Beneficiary,

We have being authorized by the governing body of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) facts finding department to investigate the unnecessary delay on your payment.

During the course of our investigation, we discovered that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by some corrupt officials who tried to divert your funds into their private accounts.

Since the IMF completed the merger and acquisition process of all pending payments with the state governments involved, it was resolved and agreed upon that all unclaimed Funds should be released ASAP.

Based on these facts, we are happy to inform you that your fund is ready to be credited into your account.

You are therefore advice to contact this office for immediate release of your fund.

I look forward to your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Mr.Tsan Songs
IMF UK Office.
Inquiry: +447937416777
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Fw: Highly Confidential: Hidden/Secret Treasure

Just when you thought it was safe to go out

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mr. Daniels Louise George"<peter@uec88.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 05:14:39
Reply-To: <dan.louise@superposta.com>
Subject: Highly Confidential: Hidden/Secret Treasure

Dear Sir/Madam,
I know that this message might look astonishing to you due to the fact that we have no previous relationship and you are reading from me for the first time but I want you to know that the good things of this life come freely. My name is Mr. Daniels Louise George. I am the H.O.D. Admin Department Bank of Africa Benin. I am contacting you due to some important business on the ground. Last year one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons whose name I will disclose to you when we come into agreement that you are with me, deposited four trunks boxes in our bank through one of his diplomats for safe keeping. The four consignments was registered in my name as the depositor as they did not want anybody to know that the treasures are from the Gaddafi's family. In the consignments after supervision and machine counting was found three of the boxes contains US dollars 100 bills to the tune of US$85 Million (EIGHTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) and the fourth box contains 750 Kilograms of Alluvi
al gold 22 carat.

I need your assistance to relocate this treasures to your country for investments. The Gaddafi's son who deposited this treasure died last year in the midst of the Libya war and his diplomat who brought the consignments died in the hospital after sustaining jaw injury from the rebels bullet. As it stands now no one else knows about this secret treasure except me and as I am revealing it to you. My problem is that our code of conduct and policy does not allow me to posses such amount of wealth and the time of deposit is due and if no one comes up to claim them it will be auctioned by the government as abandoned treasures.

In plight of this I will like you to indicate your interest to assist me secure these properties in your custody for our mutual benefit and we shall share it at the ratio of 60:40 that is 60% for me and 40% for you for all your effort and assistance. I am not a greedy man if we can successfully secure this treasure 60% of it will change my life and that of my family forever. I can assure you that this transaction is totally risk free as the two people who knows about the treasure are all dead (Gaddafi's son and his diplomat)and presently I am the only person who can dictate to my bank who the real owner of the treasures is because I have the authority as the depositor of the treasures so be rest assured that this transaction is 100% risk free.

I hope to read your positive response as soon as possible.

Sincerely Yours
Mr. Daniels Louise George

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Fw: SELFLESS DONATION.

Of course this is Bullsh**
------Original Message------
From: Catherine & Gareth Bull
ReplyTo: gareth.catherinebull@aol.co.uk
Subject: SELFLESS DONATION.
Sent: Nov 24, 2012 12:20 PM

Hello,

My wife and I won the Euro Millions Lottery of ?41 Million British Pounds and we

have decided to donate ?1.5 million British Pounds to 10 individuals worldwide
as our own charity project. To verify,please see our interview by visiting the
web page below:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091124/EuroMillions-winners-Gareth-Catherine-Bull-scoop-41MILLION-lotto-jackpot.html

Your email address was among the emails which were submitted to us by the
Google, Inc as a web user; if you have received our email please, kindly send us

the below details so that we can issue you a valid bank cheque for ?1,500,000.00

pounds in your name or direct our bank to effect the transfer of the funds to
your operational bank account in your country.
Full Name:
Mobile No:
Age:
Country:

Best Regards,

Gareth & Catherine Bull


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