Fake EFCC recovery scam

[Emma Jones]

This is a classic recovery scam, and it's definitely not the EFCC's email address being used.

From: "ANDREW MICHEAL" <[email protected]>
To:
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:54:25 -0500
Subject: REPLY BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE..............


FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

Hello there,
his mail is from the desk of the ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION(E.F.C.C).

It is no longer news that the image of the country has been tarnished by the so called scammers by them ''stealing" your money from you for no just reason.Our mission is to eradicate internet scams from the country and help those that have fallen victims of this get all their money back in full.....The truth is that we need ur help in getting the scammers in jail before we can help you get your money back from them. This is why we employ u to help us and let us help u if you have fallen victim of this sad story by relying this mail. Attached to the mail that you will send to us must include the full name of the scammer, the email address of the scammer,pictures and the details at which u sent in ur money to at western union.....We really hope to read from you in no time....and you can reply to the EFCC manager for more details..
[email protected]
Thanks,
E.F.C.C manager,
Mr.Andrew micheal.o

[ColinWarrins]

Here's a slightly more sophisticated one which posts "success stories" from the EFCC website:

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos-Nigeria.


FROM THE DESK OF: NUHU RIBADU

Attn Please,

Take notice that based on the federal government inauguration of this committee which extended to all Africa countries,Europe and Asia to the rest of the World, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - (EFCC) have combined with the United Nation Anti-crime commission to alleviate and redeem the image and past wounds of our dear citizens and foreign firms who were duped, defrauded, scamed and abandoned by some impostors who indiscriminately use the name of God, Office of governors, Presidency, Banks etc to slight down our dignities to international communities.

Many banks have been in bankrupcy today, Universal firms, Companies due to the activity of these hoodlums,However, investigation have shown that these people have dropped over 500,000,00 clients after collecting their money falsefuly, many committed suicide and others living by the grace of God,We see this country as a treasonable felony and have over 500 convicts at hand, 300 in kirikri prisons while many are still on trail,We still fetch for others who feel they are wise and hope that you will be our friend by giving us more information.

Success Stories:

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?op ... &Itemid=91

Most Wanted:

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?op ... &Itemid=79

Meanwhile, after the international peace talk summit between the United
Nation {USA}, Nigeria, United Kingdom and other countries, in order to
maintain / rebuild our international relationship between Nigeria and
your country among other countries, the Federal government of Nigeria have
now decided to send this message to unlimited end of the world with the
hope of finding all those that have been victimized be these cone men that
unconditionally scamm people out of their hard earn money, so that they
can be compesated after due verification that you have trully been
victimized. In other words you are to respond to this mail, if only you
know and have prove that you have been scammed out of your fund before,
either by means of Next Of Kin, Contract With The NNPC , Lottery or any
other story and upon ascertaining that you have been scammed, you shall
be compesated from the nigeria foreign reserve fund and the money
confiscated from some of these scammers which have been apprehended by the federal government.

In view of this, you are to forward your complains to the complains section and you are advised to give us a detailed information about your involvement with these scammers and how they collected your money from you.

CONTACT COMPLAINS AND INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT :
15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos - Nigeria.
TELEPHONE: +234-1-433-3073
EMAIL: [email protected]

ENDEAVOUR TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING DETAILS OF YOUR ALONG WITH YOUR
COMPLAINS:

YOUR FULL NAMES:...............................
RESIDENCIAL ADDRESS:.....................
OCCUPATION:..........................................
YOUR TEL/FAX NUMBER:........................
MOBILE NUMBER.....................................
NATIONALITY:...........................................
SEX:.......................................................
AGE:...........................................................

As soon as we recieve thses information from you, a swift investigation will commence and at the end we promise that whoever is involved in your plight shall be apprehended and handed over to the government and you shall be compesated accordingly.

This Decision is supported and approved courtesy: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
FUND {I.M.F} , UNITED NATION SECRET SERVICE , EUROPE , AMERICA, ASIA AND THE ECOWAS COMMUNITIES. Thanks for your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

NUHU RIBADU, {Executive Chairman}
Economic & Financial Crime Commission {EFCC}
Motto: No Body is Above the Law

[benjamin]

A variation of the above, this time with a useful list of scammers names (though they are only a tiny example

FROM THE DESK OF: MALLAM NUHU RIBADU,
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN,ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL
CRIMES COMMISSION(EFCC)
(WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE)
CABLEGRAM: NAPTCOR


Attn: Sir/Madam.

RE: FUND ALERT/FINAL NOTICE

Based on our findings in this investigastion department we wish to warn you against some Miscreants, Hoodlums and Touts who go about scamming innocent people by claiming to be who they are not and thereby tarnishing the image of this wonderful country. We were informed that some Hoodlums are contacting you in respect to the collection of your fund which was long approved in your favour with the Central Bank of Nigeria. As a matter of fact we have been on this investigation assignments for some time codedly known to no one but the Presidency and some top government official who are in support of this investigation team to help stop fraudalent activities in this country and as well restore the image that has been tarnished by the obove listed group of people.

Although we have been able to come up with some good result about the people that have extorted money from all our nemerious contractor illegally and I wish to list them so that you will personally indicate them by writting back to us with the name of whom scammed you among them as we want to make sure your payment is routed to you without any further delay and note that we will surely deal and bring to book the names of people below if only you will coperate with us by coindicating correctly any of them.

The names of the Scammers that have been arrested are as follows:

1. Fake Prof. Charles Soludo
2. Chief Joseph Sanusi
3. Dr. R. Rasheed
4. Barrister Awele Ugorji
6. Barrister Ucheuzo Williams
7. Mr. Ernest Chukwudi Obi
8. Fake Mr. Tunde Lemo
9. Mrs. W. D. A. Mshelia
10. Mrs. Rita Ekwesili
11. Mark Obi
12. Dr. Roberth Brown,
13. BARRISTER MUSA WILLIAMS
14. Morgan Ahmed Kuku
15. Dr. Idris Yahaya
16. Dr. Peter Adams
17. Mrs. Joyce Green
18. WILLIAMS SMITH
19. Dr. Yamee Gwomgam

The above listed names are been traced/investigated by the EFCC and some of them have eloped the country and note that if any of them is caught and found guilty he/she we go to jailed for 25 years(twenty five years) as it is under the Degree 47 of the constituition of this bank under the section of criminal law.So we are waiting for you to write us back and inform us if you have received your fund ,so that we can start taking the necessary procedurial steps prior to brigning them to book and having your fund wired into your Bank account as nominated accordingly. Should incase the name of the Hoodlum that scammed you is not listed above, we will advise that you forward to us the his name and his contact so that we can trace them and as well bring them to book.

Note that , as soon as we hear from you we shall send to you the only paying bank that has the right to pay or contact you prior to the Transfer of your fund, which is currently been headed by the Bank Governor. You are further advised to deal directly with them and do whatsoever you are asked to do because that is the only way you will achieve the success in the wire of your funds to you as designated. We applogise on behalf of the President and the people of Nigeria for any delay and lost this must have coursed you in any way and promise that such thing will not occure again in the furture and should incase you are currently dealing with any one of them regarding your fund, we urge you to stop further contact with them as you are taking a very big risk and it might interest you to know that you will never get your fund from them as they have nothing to offer.The hoodlums will continue coming up with expences and thereby requesting for money from you untill you go Bankrupt. Hence, your funds is currently deposited with the above named Bank and in safe hands.

Finally, we are expecting to hear from you today unfailingly so as to enable us serve you better and wire your funds into your Bank account as will be nominated. Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation and understanding.

Frankly Yours,

MALLAM NUHU RIBADU
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN,ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES
COMMISSION(EFCC)

[benjamin]

This is a particularly nasty one because
a) they call you by your name and
b) they tell you not to contact the EFCC through the website. That is exactly what the EFCC site warns about. The reason the person sending the email doesn't want you to contact through the website is because they are scammers themselves - probably the same person that scammed you in the first place - and nothing to do with the real EFCC

The commission has had complaints and also investigated cases where fraudsters impersonated the EFCC Chairman and other employees of commission in order to defraud them. The public should be aware that EFCC does not collect money to receive petitions and does not charge fee from victims to investigate their cases. Emails messages not emanating from our domain (i.e. bearing @efccnigeria.org) should be verified.

The email below is from [email protected] which is a free yahoo email - not efccnigeria.org . This may sound genuine to start with, but you can bet there will be a fee!

(Includes a photo of the real Ribadu stolen from a website)
From: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [email protected]
Date: 4/25/2008
To: xxxxx
Subject: READ ATTENTIVELY (your name)

Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of EFCC

READ ATTENTIVELY (your name)

I AM MALLAM NUHU RIBADU THE EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION KNOWN

AS (EFCC) HERE IN FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.



WE ARE SERIOUSLY FIGHTING CRIMES, ADVANCE FEE FRAUD, MONEY LAUNDRY AND BANKRUPTCY IN OUR COUNTRY KNOWN AS FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND OTHER NEAREST COUNTRY LIKE BENIN REPYBLIC, GHANA,TOGO, E.T.C.

WE GOT HOLD OF A NOTORIOUS FRAUDSTER NAME MR SAMUEL UBAH WE HAVE
BEEN INVESTIGATION AND LOOKING FOR VIA OUR MONITORING DEVICE FEW WEEKS BACK.

HE IS PRESENTLY BEHIND BARS UNDERGOING TRAIL. AFTER LOTS OF INTERROGATION AND BEATING HE CONFESSED ALL THE PEOPLE HE DEFRAUDED LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONAL WITH HIS FRAUDULENT TRICKS OF CLAIMING TO BE GOVERNMENTS OFFICIALS WORKER, LAWYERS AND BANKERS WITH DIFFERENT NAMES AND VOICES ON DIFFERENT TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND EMAIL ADDRESSES. HE ALSO CONFESSED THAT HE USED THOSE STRATEGIES TO EXTRACT BIG AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM ALL HIS FRAUD VICTIMS WITH FAKE DOCUMENTS CLAIMING TO SEND SOME NOON EXISTING MILLIONS OF FUNDS INTO HIS VICTIMS BANK ACCOUNT.

WHILE HE WAS CONFESSING, HE MENTIONED 3 INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS
THAT FAILED TO HIS FRAUDULENT TRICKS OF WHICH YOU HAPPENED TO BE ONE OF THEM.

AND THE 3 PEOPLE ARE BELOW.

(Names omitted as they may be real - your name plus two others to add credibility)

WE ALSO MADE SOME RESEARCH'S WITH OUR BANKING CONTACTS AND ACCESS ONE OF HIS BANK ACCOUNT WORTH $1.2MILLION US DOLLARS.

AFTER PUTTING HEADS TOGETHER WITH MY TEAM, WE CAME UP WITH A FINAL DECISION TO SHARE THE MONEY DISCOVERED IN HIS BANK ACCOUNT AMONG THE 3 OF YOU SINCE PART OF HIS WEALTH WAS EXTRACTED FROM YOU PEOPLE FALSELY AND DUBIOUSLY AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY WE ARE
CONTACTING THE THREE OF YOU ONE AFTER THE ORDER.
WE GOT YOUR EMAIL CONTACT AND PHONE NUMBER FROM HIM AFTER HIS CONFESSION.

WE WANT YOU TO FORWARD TO US SOME DOCUMENTS AND SOME EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE YOU GOT FROM THOSE FRAUDSTERS WHILE DEALING WITH THEM AND IF POSSIBLE SOME OF THE PAPERS YOU USED TO MAKE PAYMENT TO THEM AS IT WILL STILL BE OF MORE LITTLE HELP TO US IN HIS FINAL TRAIL THAT IS FORT COMING IN COURT BECAUSE HIS ATTORNEYS ARE STILL PROVING STUBBORN IN SPITE HIS CONFESSED BUT AS YOU KNOW GOOD WILL ALSO OVER POWER EVIL SO WE ARE NOT AFRAID BECAUSE WE HAVE FISCAL EVIDENCE BUT A LITTLE FROM WILL STILL BE OF BETTER HELP.

OUR WORK IS TO ERADICATE FRAUD COMPLETELY IN OUR COUNTRY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AND AT THE SAME TIME RESCUE VICTIMS THAT WAS FRUSTRATED BY FRAUDSTERS.

KINDLY VIEW THIS PAGE TO SEE THE REAL PERSON THAT DEFRAUDED YOU WITH FAKE IDENTITIES AND FAKE NAMES: http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?op ... &Itemid=59

ALSO KINDLY VISIT THIS PAGE TO VIEW MY PROFILE AND MY ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR IN FIGHTING THOSE EVIL DOERS:

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?op ... &Itemid=31

MOST IMPORTANTLY YOU SHOULD NOT IN ANY WAY CONTACT US THROUGH OUR SITE BECAUSE WE HAVE LOTS OF ENEMIES, WE HAVE ARRESTED MANY PROMINENT CORRUPT PERSONALITIES THAT HAVE MANY PROFESSIONALS UNDER THEIR PAYROLL AND MANY OF THEM ARE INTERCEPTING OUR SITE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET AN INFORMATION THAT WILL ENABLE THEM CHECKMATE US AND HAVE ME OUT OF OFFICE SO IF YOU EVENTUALLY CONTACT US VIA OUR SITE, THAT MEANS YOUR GIVING THEM CHANCE AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO MONITOR OUR CORRESPONDENCE WHICH SUPPOSE TO BE SECRET AS WE RUN SECRET INVESTIGATION AND OPERATION.

CONTACT ME DIRECT ON THIS EMAIL ADDRESS I JUST EMAILED YOU WITH TO AVOID JEOPARDY.

WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE.

REGARDS

DR.NUHU RIBADU
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN,
EFCC. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

[benjamin]

This one that someone has forwarded to me is not a random mass mail, but specifically targetted at people who have been scammed, probably from the original scammer just using a different email address. It just shows that scammers will never let go and will try any means to get more money out of someone - at the same time, trying to stop them from writing to any other scammers. There's a lot of competition between scammers!
This is the clue that the demands for money will start soon:

you will not pay much

If anyone did win a lottery, they wouldn't pay any fees at all. Sadly, email lotteries are all scams as well.

do not reply their e-mail message do not answer their calls, forget about them and think of your future, all we are doing is just to protect you for not been scammed okay.

What they mean there is, don't reply to the other scammers because we want all your money ourselves.

sent to you by Mr.Chika who is now behind bars in jail

This is another ploy - "Mr Chika" won't be in jail, he'll have changed his name to David Uche, with an email address of efccandcrimes at yahoo dot com
There are so many other things wrong with it - ECOWAS have nothing to do with lotteries, good old Charles Soludo, every scammers stock name, the Global Securities Company which doesn't actually exist, the real UK lottery doesn't inform people by email, and it's not possible to win without buying a ticket.

don't be deceived by anybody

Especially not by the sender of this email!

From: Economic Financial
To: xxx
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:03 AM
Subject: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION


The National Flag of Nigeria

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
Lagos Office: Address: 15A Awolowo Road
City: Ikoyi
State: Lagos Country: Nigeria
Motto: No Body is Above the Law
EMAIL:[email protected]

FROM THE DESK OF: FARIDAH WAZIRI

ATTENTION: xxx,

We bring to your notice that we have today concluded our investigation with the ECOWAS and board of directors of the UK Lottery organization including the Global Securities Company also apex bank governor in person of Prof. Charles C. Soludo. After a long deliberation and auditing of the document forwarded to us by you which was sent to you by Mr.Chika who is now behind bars in jail, and after the verification, we discovered that all the money sent to them by you was not recorded in any of the ministry concern.

To this effect, we all agreed that we the EFCC Economic and Financial Crime commission Agency should move into action to apprehend the parties involved in this act and make sure they bring them to book, as your refund payment file has been submitted today to the Bank which is the paying Bank of the EFCC in Nigeria, for further advice on how the transfer of your refund fund will be carried out. Furthermore, you are advised forthwith and for your own interest to stop further communication with the above listed name to avoid any further problems and you should on no account disclose to them this arrangement to enable us the agency carry out the operation to a successful end. You are advised to always forward to us any e-mail you may receive from any of them to this institution.

Yes ECOWAS is a bonefide organization in Africa, but the Man called Dr. Edward and the so called Jessica Scott Brown and Grace Ulhman they are all fraudsters he dose not work in ECOWAS they are all internet fraudsters. Note we want you to know, that all this winning is scam, do not you know that if you have won from any Lottery Organization of this world, you will not pay much to receive your winning price. So to this effect we hereby advice you to stop all conversation with them, do not reply their e-mail message do not answer their calls, forget about them and think of your future, all we are doing is just to protect you for not been scammed okay.

As we promised, and with the effort of the Government of Nigeria also with the agreement we hard with the International Community, all the money which you have lost we shall refund it to you, we will inform you the next line of action, don't be deceived by anybody. Congratulations in advance.

Thanks for your co-operations.
The Secretary To The Chairman For The EFCC
Mr. David Uche

Yours faithfully,
MRS. FARIDAH WAZIRI,
Executive Chairman,
Economic & Financial Crime Commission
Thanks for your understanding.

We are fighting to ensure their is rule of law in the country. We don't want the place to be a haven for criminals.

CHAIRMAN: ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (E.F.C.C).

[benjamin]

Another fake EFCC email

0FFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
14A BONI LANE, NIGERIA
Motto: No Body is Above THE LAW
FROM THE DESK OF:RUBBY COIN

ATTN: name:

Following the recent broadcast of the president and the commander in chief of armed forces of ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES during the visit to the America President Mr. George W. Bush, his speech to the united nation, couple with recommendation and resolution of his last visit to South Africa, British, France and the UNGA United Nations General Assembly in New York), a total sum of $9.8 Billion has been mapped out by the SENATE to settle all outstanding foreign debts owned to contractor and those who transated deals without achieving their aims from 1994 till date.

It has therefore become imperative for us to explore our options for reducing our debt servicing policy to affordable and sustainable levels... On the order of the president as a mark of his reconciliation and image laundering exercise toward sanitizing the battered image of WEST AFRICANS abroad.

I am DR,BRIGHT MORGAN,Chairman Economic And Financial Crime Commission, a committee set up by the ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES under the able Presidents of ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES . The purpose of the committee among other is to investigate, verify and settle all outstanding debts owed to foreign contractors whose payment is overdue. During the last military rulers of WEST AFRICAN STATES, many abnormalities had happened in the many Central Banks and other commercial Banks in WEST AFRICAN where some top official of the Banks collaborate with imposters and abandon our contractor half way with levies and taxes.

Consequently, we received a directive from the office of the president,ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES , ordering the above office to settle all genuine contractors whose debts has been outstanding for a long time now. These are those who has shown sufficient proof regarding the release of their fund, And we wish to inform you that in our record here, your name and contact was found.

But the reasons why your own Transfer has to be delayed is because, there is presently a counter claims on your funds by one Mr. Peter Woo, who is presently trying to make us believe that you entered into an agreement with him, to help you in receiving your fund, in his bank account in China... So here comes the big question. Did you sign any Deed of Assignment in favor of Mr. Peter Woo, thereby making him the current beneficiary with the following account details: Account Name: Indo-China Group Ltd, A/C #: USD114-102-5567-8, Bank Name: Standard Chattered bank, 138-141 1st Floor, Edinburgh Tower, the Landmark, 15 Queens Road, Central Hong Kong, Swift Code: SCBL 11k111.

If you did not sign, nor authorize any body to receive your payment on your behalf, kindly reconfirm to us, your genuine bank account details, to avoid making payment to a wrong person, attempt to divert your payment to a new account without your knowledge may have been done by your local representative with the assistance of some ( Banks ) Officials, of whom most of them are presently under our custody and will face prosecution under section 35A sub section 1-2-4 of the criminal code of ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES, pending on when we finish with our investigation.

This office is glad to inform you that your payment shall be made as soon as this information needed from you is submitted, either by Telegraphic Transfer or by international Certified Bank Draft... We are sorry to inform you that the ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES had made it clear to all foreign contractors whose payment is overdue, to be paid immediately hence all the modality relating to the release of your contract fund had been completed. You are advised to stop any further communication with your local representative(s) any officials (s) department of the Banks or any Government parastatal. This is to forestall new effort towards a diversion of your payment.

This office supersedes every other department in the ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES ,every other banks in WEST AFRICAN STATES and correspondence bank abroad and is thus responsible for the final payment. The consequences of not heeding to this warning would be yours.

Although we have been able to come up with some good result about the people that have extorted money from you illegally and i wish to list them so that you will personally indicate them by writting back because we want to make your payment to you without any delay but we must surely deal and bring this names to book if only you will indicate correctly any of them.

The names of the Touts that have been arrested are as follows:
1)James Carl Lowe in ( U S A )
2) PROF CHARLES SOLODO (FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA.)
3) CHIEF JOSEPH SANUSI
4)DR. AHMAD DENRU
5) MR JOHN PAUL & JOHN CHINEDU (BENIN REPUBLIC)
6)BARRISTER JAMES WILLIAMS.
7) DR. HANZ MUSSA (GHANA)
8)Mr. Ernest Chukwudi Ebi (UNION BANK (NIGERIA) PLC
9)Mr Eric William Deputy Governor - Policy / Board Member
10) Mr. Tunde Lemo Deputy Governor - Financial Sector Surveillance / Board Member (BURKINA FASO)
11)MR CUPPA ACOKA.(TOGO)
12)Mrs. W. D. A. Mshelia Deputy Governor - Corporate Services / Board Member (SENEGAL) etc

The above listed names are been traced/investigated by our team and some of them have elope the country and note that if any of them is caught and find guilty he/she will go to jail for 25 years(twenty five years) as it is under the Degree 47 of the constituition of ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES, under section of criminal law.

So we are waiting for you to write us and inform us if any of the above names have once contacted you in respect to the your fund if yes dont waste time to indicate it immediately, if not still let us know so that we will concel your name.

We applogise on behalf of the Presidents and the good citizens of WEST AFRICAN STATES for any delay and lost this most have coursed you and promise that such thing will not happen again.

Considering the circumstances at hand, you are advice not to accept any fax or telephone calls that does not come from this office. Call me immediately you receive this message for more information or send your reply to this
email : [email protected]

Best regards
DR, Rubby Coin
chairman.
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION
+2348036609090