Not too sure how to handle that one! I received this email today (Aug 21, 2008) and it says that the EFCC1, 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?1 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 Office1 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.

4.        Thank you for your usual cooperation, please.

Okoro Chukwunonso
Assistant Detective Superintendent
Cybercrime/Advance Fee Fraud
Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi
Lagos, Nigeria
MOBILE: +234-8036701796
WORK: +234-016635623
EMAIL: cokoro@efccnigeria.org

• 1. a. b. c. The EFCC page does not exist anymore.