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FBI delivery guy detained in Nigeria…needs your help

July 21st, 2009. By AbiK

nigeriascam FBI delivery guy detained in Nigeria...needs your help So that’s basically what landed in my friend’s email inbox last week. I’d just blogged about Consumer Fraud scams and here was this gem. Seems if my friend forks over $500 (via Moneygram or Western Union) these kind folks will ensure he gets $5.8 million that’s just sitting there being detained at a Nigerian airport. Sounds like an email scam to me…

An email scam happens when something like this gets plopped in your inbox—I’m including the whole thing so you see how it works (my comments are in [brackets] ):

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET [sounds important!]

Dear Esteem Beneficiary, [shouldn't that be "Esteemed"?] Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Consumer Fraud, scam
Posted in Emerging Issues | 694No Comments »2009-07-21+21%3A34%3A38AbiK