Has someone offered you a huge sum of money or a valuable consignment? It's a 419 or advance fee fraud - find out how they work, and what to do to be safe.
#8111 by Ralph Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:50 am
I thought the title of this post may get your attention :wink:

Here is another email forwarded to me, this one is essentially a Next Of Kin scam (NOK) you get contacted by a stranger and told you are about to receive a large sum of money from an inheritance, yet strangely, for such a large amount of money involved, they dont even know your name.

The scammers will tell you that they have an ATM card for you which gives you access to your account containing this large sum, there are several variations to this scam, you may be asked to pay huge never ending fees for delivery of said card or you may need to pay for it to be activated, whatever it is you need to do, the bottom line is that you are to send your hard earned cash to somebody sitting on the other side of the world in a stinking internet cafe after having lied through their teeth about every thing they have told you, they have no money and while a person may have died, they certainly didn't leave any money to you, the bankers, reverands, doctors, lawyers and barristers they refer you to are all part of the scam and if not the same person as the original email sender, the yare part of the same group of internet thieves.

As for the "the Digitalis Payment System.", the following link will explain far better than I can, just a fancy line that some scammer thought would make them sound more authentic, Click Here to see the search result


----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Mr Williams Ibru <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2009 2:37:05 PM
Subject: Attn: Beneficiary

Attn: Beneficiary, We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you, your over due contract/inheritance, which you could not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin code through the Digitalis Payment System. We have decided to pay you,without any delay but through (ATM Master Express Credit Card) This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank and Paris Club,due to fraudulent activities going on within the African Region. The World Bank and Paris Club introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our contractors/inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any interference.the ATM Master Express Credit Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE. Reconfirm the following information to us for Security reason. .1)YOUR FULL NAME .2)YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS .3)YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER .4)YOUR PROFESSION we will proceed to dispatch the card directly to your nominated home address to you absolutely have nothing to worry about all we need is your Prompt Response and Co-operation by Gods Grace we will have a successful Transaction. Contact the ATM CARD department with this number +234 807 076 0985 Mr.Ricky Steven CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE. BEST REGARDS,
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