Not too sure how to handle that one! I received this email today
(Aug 21, 2008) and it says that the
EFCC, a Nigerian
body created to catch fraudsters, talked to me before and needs
info about a certain guy whose name is not in existance, etc.
The interesting part is that they used what looks like the EFCC
website, links, email addresses... In other words, it looks like
it is coming straight from the EFCC. So I'm not too sure why he
talks to me as if we had communicated before. I mentioned the
EFCC on my Help Me! page...
So... maybe he needs to be clearer and I'll be able to communicate
with him. Maybe the guy looks at my website all the time. However,
I never contacted any banks other than mine for this and that as
you would normally do...
Then I clicked on a link "how to report fraud", and I found this
page:
Have you been Scammed /defrauded?
Which says that some people are using the efccnigeria.org names
and such to scam/defraud you. So here we are, I got one.
What I do not get is the email address... it is at efccnigeria.org
So I would think that if you do a reply, it will bounce, won't it?
The phone numbers start with +234 which is Nigeria. However, the
rest of the numbers are wrong according to this page:
Head Office
their numbers start with a 9, not an 8 nor 0.
I do not know how the Nigerian system works, and the mobile number
could very well be "correct" (also most certainly not from a gentleman
from the EFCC!)
Anyway... I'll reply since it won't make much difference... 8-)
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We
write to inform you that a letter you sent to Access Bank purportedly written
by one Mr. Herbert Wigwe, who claimed to be the Director of International
Relations with Access Bank of Nigeria Plc and proposed to share the sum
of US$52 million with you is a fraud.
2. Preliminary
investigation conducted in this case revealed that you are dealing with
a fraudster and that there is no Mr. Hamilton Greek who died in Nigeria
and left the sum of US$52 million behind.
3. You
are kindly requested to stop further contact with the fraudster and forward
all email correspondences with the fraudster including the extended headers,
to enable us conclude investigation.