This scam just dropped into our email inbox with the subject entitled – GOOD DAY. This particular scammer doesn’t take much time or effort to try to disguise just where they are sending the mail from, as it is readily apparent that it comes from a free Yahoo France email address – god_eze12@yahoo.fr. The reply to is goeze2@yahoo.fr. So like most email-borne scams this one also uses easily accessible free email accounts. If this was really coming from a bank, it would at least use the bank email address.

One of the first things you should do with such an unsolicited offer of money via email is to start checking things for yourself before doing anything that they ask. First, do a Google search for the bank name and email addresses used. In both cases the first few entries are all about this being a scam!

Let’s dig in to the body of the email scam. First thing you will notice (email listed below) is that for someone offering to you $15 million dollars while purporting to be an Accountant at a major country bank that they can’t format their email. Usually anything coming from a major institution is well-crafted and very professional looking. With that said – don’t fall for scams that do just that!

What we see is the usual claim that you can get this huge some of money if you just answer this email with a few details such as your name, phone number and bank details. To suck you in they play the foreign person needed card, as most do. This particular email though doesn’t try to disguise the fact that like most of these scams it originates in Nigeria – “Wema Bank Plc of Federal republic of Nigeria”. Further on they claim they “discovered” this huge amount of money sitting unclaimed since 1997. We are made to believe that after ten years, a bank did not notice such a huge deposit on their books? And now that the accountant has found it, he wants to send some to you while keeping some for himself! Sounds fishy does it not?

Finally, like many recent scams over email, this scammer tries to invoke the word of God to try to impress upon you some sort of relief and trust in them. “I need a truthful and God fearing person,” is what they say in the email. But you can rest assured that the sender of this email is most certainly not being truthful. See the full email below. And if this email comes to you – don’t answer it – just delete it and move on.

This came as a solid block of text – we edited it to make it easier to read through the addition of line breaks. Nothing else has been changed in any way.

I am Godwin Eze,the Accountant with Wema Bank Plc of Federal republic of Nigeria.We discovered an abandoned sum of $15,000,000,00 in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in November 1997 in a motor accident.

The owner of this account is Engineer Steve Moore,a foreigner,And No other person knows about this account or anything concerning it,the account has no other beneficiary and the money involved is(US$15 Million).

so Please reply urgently so that I will inform you on the next step to take immediately.I have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus: 30% for you as foreign partner, 60% for me and 10% for the settlement of all local and foreign expences incured by me and you during the course of this business.

Upon the successful completion of this transfer,I will come to your country and mind our share.Meanwhile,I am contacting you because of the need to involve a foreigner with a foreign account as a beneficiary. Please, I need a truthful and God fearing person in this Business because I don’t want to make a mistake so I need your strong assurance and trust.

To commence this transaction, I require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return E-mail and inclose your private contact telephone number, Fax number, full names and address and your designated Bank coordinates to enable me file letter of claim in your favor to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.

Yours sincerely,
Godwin Eze.