Nigerian Scam: "Ted Turner and the UN Donation" variant
Posted September 29th, 2008 by Murray @ ulblog
Filed under: Email Scams
Tags: 419 scam, advanced fees fraud, nigerian scam
Barry Williams, Lord Magisterial Inquisitor Of The Holy Skeptical Empire (Incorporated), has submitted several more variants of the Nigerian Scam.
From: “Nations Foundation” Date: 28 September 2008 4:38:43 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: United Nations Foundation Reply-To:
United Nations Foundation 18coulibalyosmane Avenue, OUA, Plot 400 Ouagadougou , BF.
Attention: The United Nations Foundation (UNF),would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the Board of Trustees as one of the final recipients of ?3,000,000.00(Three Million GBP) for your personal, business, or educational use to aid the under privilege in your territory /country The UN Foundation was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turners historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities.
The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the worlds most pressing problems, and broadens support for the. U.N .through advocacy and public outreach. The .U.N. Foundation is a public charity and winners are selected without any cinerary,
You are required to contact the Claims Officer below for qualification documentation and processing of your claims. After contacting our office with the requested data, you will be given the bank details contact to obtain your donation pin number, which you will use in collecting the funds. Please endeavour to quote your Qualification numbers (UNF-039455-UNOG) and Amount won in all discussions.
To file Your claims Send listed requirements to Contact African Finance Officer Dr. Roger Bernard
Sincerely Mrs, Julie Hans
Chairman of the Board ?© 2008 UNFoundation, All Rights Reserved
The interesting thing about this variant is that multi-gazillionaire Ted Turner did promise to donate a billion dollars to UN projects, although he did this in 1997, not 1998, and he promised it in $100 million parcels over the period of 10 years.
Either way, it’s very doubtful that any office associated with the UN is going to randomly hand out £3 million for ‘personal, business or education use’. Seriously.
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Barry’s next variant is even more interesting! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more ‘fully developed’ example of a Nigerian Scam before — look at the effort that ‘Simon Yi’ goes to to justify the secrecy and method by which he is contacting us.
Pretending to be a real person, with a real person’s paranoia about the possible consequences of his actions, ‘Simon’ assures us that he will deny any knowledge of the communication if we attempt to contact him through normal channels. ‘Simon’ even mentions that his workplace has a Total Quality Management Policy, which means that his calls might be monitored and this becomes yet another reason why he can’t legitimise his existence through normal methods.
Of course, ‘Simon’ almost certainly doesn’t exist in any real sense. If you take some time to browse the growing Nigerian Scam collection on ULBlog.org, you’ll quickly realise this is simply yet another variant of an attempt to defraud the gullible and innocent.
From: “SIMON YI” Date: 28 September 2008 6:24:14 AM To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE Reply-To:
DEAR FRIEND,
I am Mr.Simon Yi Executive Director of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd, Hong Kong.
An Iraqi named Haider Hanoon,a business man made a numbered fixed deposit of (346,736,899.68 TWD) for 18 calendar months, this is valued to Fourty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war, four years ago (2003). Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response came from him. We later found out that Haider Hanoon and his family had been killed during the war in Gunfire that hit their home at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was.
After further investigation it was also discovered that Haider Hanoon did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time we was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Fourty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration five years six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct HANG SENG BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the procentange 70/30. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit.I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to Haider Hanoon I will then officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.
I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to pro vide them with new opportunities.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for you and also through the email account that i will provide therein in this email. Further more be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner give you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with him during the war and I can not use my relation because its not accepted here in Hong Kong. Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from the time been is your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the next one week.
What you need to understand about this transaction is that I will make sure that it passes through all international banking laws regards to this I will take care of all the expenses and the cost of retaining the service of my Attorney to give the transaction the proper documentation that is required to perfect the finishing. Your only obligation in this transaction will be to set up an offshore account that can accommodate these funds and I will give you more light later once you agree to partner with me. Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through international banking laws and all documents related to this transaction will be sent to you by post for your perusal and trust.
I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting, soon. Should you be interested I will prefer you to send me your FULL NAMES,ADDRESS,OCCUPATION AND PHONE NUMBER.on the email address below.
E-mail:simon.yi33@gmail.com
Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.
I await your response.
Mr.Simon Yi
Thanks, as always, goes to Barry Williams — if you have a minute or two to spare and an interest in matters skeptical, why not bounce over to his blog?
