Email Scam: Central Bank of Nigeria - Rightful Beneficiary

In this email the scammer decides to contact you directly as some Nigerian scammers have apparently been using your information to collect a fund that was supposed to be released in your name. He didn't get paid by these scammers, so he is making the offer to you to collect the fund and pay him whatever you feel is reasonable.

Notice that he says in the message, which is misspelled with poor grammar, that even though he had used your information to secure release of these funds, he does not know who you are!

This is another obvious and feeble attempt to get financial information from anyone who falls for the scam. This is only one version of probably thousands of scams that have made the rounds online.

You may also note the WARNING at the end of the message about the disclosure of this message being STRICTLY PROHIBITED 'under applicable law'

The sad truth of the matter is that these email scams must take in some unsuspecting souls or they would not be so prevalent on the internet.

Below is a copy of one of these Nigerian scam emails that I have copied here verbatim.

NOTE: I have left the email exactly as received to include contact information for the scammer. It is NOT recommended that anyone contact this scammer in any manner. Any contact with these people can expose you to possible identity theft or releasing your personal information such as email address to scammers.

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WHY YOU HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED:

After waiting to hear from you or your Nigeria partners for a long time now. I decided to make this direct approach to you in other not to let itbe as if I have anything in mind against you.I do not know if you have asked yourself why each time the release of this fund is approved, all of sudden, the payment will be stopped or one problem or the other will come up. If you have not asked this question or you do not know,this is an opportunity for me to tell you. Your names were used as a beneficiary of a monetary transaction.

A long time ago, some Nigerian government officials approached me through my dear wife who works with the Federal Ministry of Finance and asked me to assist them conclude a monetary transaction they had with you, they requested me to assist them by removing the original name,company's name and the bank particulars from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) vetting and replacing them with your name and your bank details in order to make you appear as the rightful beneficiary of the fund.

I agreed on condition that they would pay me US$300,000 as soon as your name appears as the beneficiary. I did as agreed and demanded to be paid but these fellows started giving me excuses.They even told me that you promised to send money to me, do you know that up till now, I have not received a single cent from them and have not set my eyes on any of them again. Based on what they did, I decided to stop the release of this fund Because I cannot be denied my right in my own office considering the risk as it might affect my job.Secondly, I knew the source of the fund that you did not in anyway have any monetary transactions in Nigeria, Although I am the only person privileged to know this information and it is a fact.

Why I am making this clear to you is that I can see that you are oblivious of the whole thing they only used your particulars to carry out thistransaction.

Now that I have frustrated their evil plan,I mean to getthis fund in your name for their own use without your knowledge. I want to use this medium to approach you to stand as the rightful beneficiary of this fund since everything was done in your name which no one can alter or mutilate any more.To this effect, I do not need the US$300,000 any longer from you but a good compensation that you think issuitable for me which my spouse will retrieve for me as soon as the fund is transferred into your account. One more thing, I need your assurance that my colleagues in the office will be totally kept out of thistransaction.

I know quite well that none of them is aware of my new approach to you.Kindly contact me on my private Email Address: (dr2lemo@gmail.com ) so that I could give you more information.

Best regards.

Dr. Tunde Lemo.
Deputy Governor Foreign Operation & Inter Remittance Department
(C.B. N)

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Thistransmission may contain information that is privileged,confidential,and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that anydisclosure, copying,distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If youreceived this transmissionin error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the materialin its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format.
Thank you

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