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Scamming the scammed

By Mauricio Freitas, in , posted: 26-Jun-2007 12:10

It looks like scamming by sending those "you won the lottery" or "your relative died in a plane crash" is not making that much money these days, so now the story is "you have been scammed, but we are here to repay you":


ECO-BANK PLC
ECOBANK/UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
DIRECTOR

ATTN: SIR/MADAM,


SCAMMED VICTIM/$100,000 BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE:ECB/06654 $100,000 USD.


This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150  victims of scam $100,000 USD (One Hundred Thounsand
Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000 USD compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the last U.N.
meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarming  on the money lost by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to compensate victims, the UNITED NATIONS Body is now paying 150 victims $100,000 USD each in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by Central Bank Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by The Rabo Bank, based in  London UK. for funds remittance.

Benefactor of this compensation will have to be first cleared and recommended for payment by ECO BANK PLC.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States, we still have a pending of 36 compensations left to be paid. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended.  Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS or DIRECT WIRE TRANSFER.

We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response from you.


Send a copy of your response to official email: ecobankplc_nig07@yahoo.es


Yours Faithfully,
IYAMAH SYLVANIUS.
SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE:ECB/06654 $100,000 USD.



Simply hilarious.



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Comment by Richard, on 9-Mar-2008 07:56

I get a good laugh when I'm sent these scams, thats about 10 per week, you have to admit these clowns invest a lot of effort on these scams now if only they would put the same effort to finding a real job and a real life, but I will admit I look forward to the next e-mail scam it makes my day .............


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