***International identity theft Scam- Be on the look out for these people
09-02-2006, 08:01 PM
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***International identity theft Scam- Be on the look out for these people
First of I would like to say if the mods can be so kind to make this as a sticky. I am asking because it is very vital that you do so.
I recently recieved an odd strange e-mail from some strange person. There S/N is -fransisca966 on this forum. If you have
been contacted by these crooks, please do not respond to them.
As of now, it didnt take me long to figure out this was an identity theft scam or some way to empty out your bank account. As you will see in my 2nd e-mail, they responded by telling me that they had help picking out 4 people on here to supposedly help with there situation. I dont know who the other person is on here who helped this strange person get a hold of my e-mail. Here is the 1st e-mail that I had gotten from them.
This is a message from fransisca966 at Club240.com | Forums Index (
http://www.club240.com/forums/index.php ). The Club240.com | Forums
Index owners cannot accept any responsibility for the contents of the
email.
To email fransisca966, you can use this online form:
http://www.club240.com/forums/member...m&userid=21711
OR, by email:
mailto:fransisca_dikko966@yahoo.com
This is the message:
From Fransisca Dikko
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire
Please reply to my private email address below:
(fransisca1986_dikko@yahoo.fr)
My Dear,
Greetings !
With due respect I write you this mail hoping that you will lend ear to
my request. I got to your profile in the site in my search for a honest
and trustworthy person who will assist me as my father instructed
before his death, and after days of prayers I decided to contact you. I am
Miss Fransisca Dikko, 22 years ,writing you from Abidjan Cote Cote
d'Ivoire in West Africa.
As the only child of my late parents,I inheritated an important sum of
money from my late father who was a prominent Gold and Cocoa marchant
who died in recent crisis here in Cote d'Ivoire. My mother died when I
was a little child in the year 1986. I wish to request for your
assistance in investing this money in lucrative venture under your directives
and guidiance in your country. I want you to assist me for the transfer
of this sum of Five million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars
(USD5.500,000) to your account in your country hence I will give you
the contact of the bank where the money is so that you can contact them
immediately and discuss with them since I do not know
much about financial issues. I will gladly give you some resonable
percentage from the total sum for your assistance while I pray that you do
not betray me at last. Please it is important you contact me
immediately for more clearification on the next step for smooth conclusion.
Awaiting your immediate response so that i will know my position.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss Fransisca Dikko
NB:Reply to my private email address below for more explanation.
( fransisca1986_dikko@yahoo.fr )
At first I thought this was a joke but then I responded because I was curious. That total sum of a reasonable percentage for assisting them would be 15% out of the 5 1/2 mill would supposedly be 825,000 if I helped her or them out.
Go here for more info: http://419.bittenus.com/
The 2nd E-mail:
Dear Steve,
Thanks for your reply mail which I have just read now with the content well understood.
I am Fransisca Dikko,the only daughter of my late parents.I am 22 years old,still single and have no kid yet.I had just gain admission into the university to study medcine when my father died and because of his death I could not continue with my studies.
I want you to assist me transfer the money that I inherited from my father into your account in your country since my father deposited it in a suspense account for onward transfer into a foreign account,as I have been made to understand by the bank manger that I can not have acess to the money unless it is being transfer into a foreign account.
I then meet a church brother who works in the internet section of the ministry of information and ask him to help me source out some foreign contacts,which he gave me four contacts and I decided to send email to the first contact on the list and that is how I got you.
Once the money is transfer into your account,15% of the total sum of money will be your for your compensation.
I am forwarding to you without delay the contact of the bank where my father deposited this money so that you can contact them today and ask them for their banking procedures on how they will transfer the money to your account in your country.
The contact is as fellows:
BANK OF AFRICA- ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
Tel:+225 06458905
Email:boaico@yahoo.fr
The contact person is Mr Elvis Kone Manager Inter. Remittance Department.
While contacting them, try and let them understand very well that you are contacting them on my behalf , that you are my family friend and you wants to help me transfer this money to overseas for investment purposes. I am attaching to you my picture for you to know who I am and also the relevant document concerning the money to proof the legitimacy of this deal at your request.
Have a nice day,
With love,
Fransisca
She or whoever sent me a bank statement or document. As of this point I saw they were not kidding. So I decided to play along and did some research. I thought I would have a little fun with them. Its called Scambaiting- where you pretend like your interested and you take them for a ride let them do all of the work. in that website that I posted above has a ton of links and stories about there plot to offer a lot of money and lies.
I have uploaded a picture of what the document that she sent to me.
The 3rd e-mail:
Dear Steve,
Hope all is well with you over there.
Hope you are in good health today.
There is no problem,but try and make sure you contact the bank on monday as you have promised,so that the transfer can be concluded before the end of next week.
Yes,the bank opesn on saturdays from 8 am to 12.30pm,you can reach the bank during this period.I will also advise you send a mail to the bank this weekend and call them by monday if you can not call today before the close of work.
Please keep me inform when you have contacted the bank.
Thanks and have a wonderful weekend
Fransisca
They pretend that they care about your well being as you can see. I did some more investigating and was shocked to see how many crooks live in Africa.
Edit: Not able to load picture of document.
I recently recieved an odd strange e-mail from some strange person. There S/N is -fransisca966 on this forum. If you have
been contacted by these crooks, please do not respond to them.
As of now, it didnt take me long to figure out this was an identity theft scam or some way to empty out your bank account. As you will see in my 2nd e-mail, they responded by telling me that they had help picking out 4 people on here to supposedly help with there situation. I dont know who the other person is on here who helped this strange person get a hold of my e-mail. Here is the 1st e-mail that I had gotten from them.
This is a message from fransisca966 at Club240.com | Forums Index (
http://www.club240.com/forums/index.php ). The Club240.com | Forums
Index owners cannot accept any responsibility for the contents of the
email.
To email fransisca966, you can use this online form:
http://www.club240.com/forums/member...m&userid=21711
OR, by email:
mailto:fransisca_dikko966@yahoo.com
This is the message:
From Fransisca Dikko
Abidjan Cote D' Ivoire
Please reply to my private email address below:
(fransisca1986_dikko@yahoo.fr)
My Dear,
Greetings !
With due respect I write you this mail hoping that you will lend ear to
my request. I got to your profile in the site in my search for a honest
and trustworthy person who will assist me as my father instructed
before his death, and after days of prayers I decided to contact you. I am
Miss Fransisca Dikko, 22 years ,writing you from Abidjan Cote Cote
d'Ivoire in West Africa.
As the only child of my late parents,I inheritated an important sum of
money from my late father who was a prominent Gold and Cocoa marchant
who died in recent crisis here in Cote d'Ivoire. My mother died when I
was a little child in the year 1986. I wish to request for your
assistance in investing this money in lucrative venture under your directives
and guidiance in your country. I want you to assist me for the transfer
of this sum of Five million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars
(USD5.500,000) to your account in your country hence I will give you
the contact of the bank where the money is so that you can contact them
immediately and discuss with them since I do not know
much about financial issues. I will gladly give you some resonable
percentage from the total sum for your assistance while I pray that you do
not betray me at last. Please it is important you contact me
immediately for more clearification on the next step for smooth conclusion.
Awaiting your immediate response so that i will know my position.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss Fransisca Dikko
NB:Reply to my private email address below for more explanation.
( fransisca1986_dikko@yahoo.fr )
At first I thought this was a joke but then I responded because I was curious. That total sum of a reasonable percentage for assisting them would be 15% out of the 5 1/2 mill would supposedly be 825,000 if I helped her or them out.
Go here for more info: http://419.bittenus.com/
The 2nd E-mail:
Dear Steve,
Thanks for your reply mail which I have just read now with the content well understood.
I am Fransisca Dikko,the only daughter of my late parents.I am 22 years old,still single and have no kid yet.I had just gain admission into the university to study medcine when my father died and because of his death I could not continue with my studies.
I want you to assist me transfer the money that I inherited from my father into your account in your country since my father deposited it in a suspense account for onward transfer into a foreign account,as I have been made to understand by the bank manger that I can not have acess to the money unless it is being transfer into a foreign account.
I then meet a church brother who works in the internet section of the ministry of information and ask him to help me source out some foreign contacts,which he gave me four contacts and I decided to send email to the first contact on the list and that is how I got you.
Once the money is transfer into your account,15% of the total sum of money will be your for your compensation.
I am forwarding to you without delay the contact of the bank where my father deposited this money so that you can contact them today and ask them for their banking procedures on how they will transfer the money to your account in your country.
The contact is as fellows:
BANK OF AFRICA- ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE
Tel:+225 06458905
Email:boaico@yahoo.fr
The contact person is Mr Elvis Kone Manager Inter. Remittance Department.
While contacting them, try and let them understand very well that you are contacting them on my behalf , that you are my family friend and you wants to help me transfer this money to overseas for investment purposes. I am attaching to you my picture for you to know who I am and also the relevant document concerning the money to proof the legitimacy of this deal at your request.
Have a nice day,
With love,
Fransisca
She or whoever sent me a bank statement or document. As of this point I saw they were not kidding. So I decided to play along and did some research. I thought I would have a little fun with them. Its called Scambaiting- where you pretend like your interested and you take them for a ride let them do all of the work. in that website that I posted above has a ton of links and stories about there plot to offer a lot of money and lies.
I have uploaded a picture of what the document that she sent to me.
The 3rd e-mail:
Dear Steve,
Hope all is well with you over there.
Hope you are in good health today.
There is no problem,but try and make sure you contact the bank on monday as you have promised,so that the transfer can be concluded before the end of next week.
Yes,the bank opesn on saturdays from 8 am to 12.30pm,you can reach the bank during this period.I will also advise you send a mail to the bank this weekend and call them by monday if you can not call today before the close of work.
Please keep me inform when you have contacted the bank.
Thanks and have a wonderful weekend
Fransisca
They pretend that they care about your well being as you can see. I did some more investigating and was shocked to see how many crooks live in Africa.
Edit: Not able to load picture of document.
09-02-2006, 08:08 PM
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this is getting really old everybody on this damn site got one and theres been like 5 threads on this same ****
09-02-2006, 08:11 PM
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Well at least I have the best interest in mind to notify everyone. Some of us may not know about this.
09-02-2006, 08:14 PM
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well i dont think anybody would fall for it
09-02-2006, 08:18 PM
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Lets hope they dont. There or have been real life sad stories and such.
09-02-2006, 08:21 PM
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Has anyone on here posted something like this on another 240 forum. I am sure but not as to sure about seeing it myself posted on there?
09-02-2006, 08:57 PM
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no disrespect and i know that you are trying to do a good deed, but this is an ancient topic. nobody on this site will fall for this. and if they get suckered into it, then they obviously need it to happen so as to learn a valuable lesson in life. thank you for caring about everyone on this forum tho.
09-04-2006, 10:37 AM
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hahahah what if it was true.
and i already got the $800,000.
and i already got the $800,000.
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