The following is clumsy yet clever attempt to get the recipient of the email to believe that they have been so lucky as to end up with a confidential email detailing the clandestine transfer of money. Which of course if they reply can have a piece of.
This Internet email scam stands out because it mentions Nigeria right in the email itself! Being that most Internet email scams of this type originate in Nigeria, it is a nice twist to come right out with it. That or they couldn’t think of another country to fake.
Notice in the following duplicate of the email the invocation of religion, “and remain blessed.” This is meant to make those on the fence about the whole deal feel a little more comfortable. It doesn”t take a trained eye to notice the attention paid to the word money either. We are to believe that they want nobody to know, yet openly talk about in an email that ends up in your inbox.
The email noted in body of the text makes you try to believe it originated from natsecadviser@ubbi.com when it really came from natsecadviser@gmail.com. No national security adviser is going to be using a free Google email address.
We will reply to the email below and see what the rest of their scam is. We will post any response from the scam artists.
UNOFFICIAL MEMO/STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
From The Desk Of
Dr Abdullah Idris
National Security Adviser to the President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
E-mail; natsecadviser@ubbi.com
Dear Friend,
I am Dr Abdullah Idris,Special adviser to the president Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sequel to the secretive arrangement in regards to the shipment of your contract sum, I wish to inform you that all necessary modalities have been automatically concluded to move the fund from Nigeria to Europe via there stop over unit in Ecowas Cargo Flight With a Diplomatic courier company.
Note carefully that the content of the boxes is “MONEY” but I did not disclose it to the Courier company as “Money”, rather I informed them that the boxes contain Vital “DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS” belonging to my client (that’s you).
Furthermore, the weight of the consignment is 80kg which cost 9,900.00 Euros to deliver to Europe since I don’t have your full mailing address to avoid mistake of delivering. On no account should you disclose the content of the boxes with the Diplomatic Courier Services for fear of betrayal. So do not allow them to know that the content is money.
In the meantime, You should get back to me immediately for more information, so that the shipment documents with the keys can be dispatch to you, also you can arrange with security company for delivery to your address if you cannot go to the designated office in Europe for the claim.
Include your full names, your contact address and your telephone numbers in your reply to this letter to enable us proceed further.
Meanwhile, I will be coming over to your country immediately the consignment arrives in your home/bank for my 40% share.
Congratulations and remain blessed.
Best Regards,
Dr Abdullah Idris