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Cacealmaua nigeriana
Cacealmaua scrisorilor nigeriene si variantele sale infinite dateaza de la sfarsitul anilor ’70 si este probabil cunoscuta de orice politist care investigheaza fraude din lume. In ultimii ani s-a trecut de la serviciile postale obisnuite la posta electronica dar caracteristicile de baza au ramas aceleasi. Singura deosebire este aceea ce infractorii au devenit mai sofisticati in scrierea scrisorilor.
Cea mai simpla forma a cacealmalei implica un destinatar inocent care primeste a scrisoare de la un individ care se da drept o persoana oficiala din guvern sau partener al unei afaceri de stat nigeriene ce pretinde ca a furat sau are acces la milioane de dolari si are nevoie de ajutor pentru a scoate banii din tara. Persoana in cauza nu isi poate folosi propriul cont bancar side aceea cere sa trimita banii in contul destinatarului dupa care va imparti cu acesta 10-35% din bani in schimbul ajutorului oferit. De indata ce primeste numarul de cont acesta goleste contul si dispare cu banii.
La un moment dat victimei i se cere sa plateasca o taxa pentru cheltuieli preliminare, transfer, extinderea creditului, acordarea de privilegii, etc. Daca victima plateste apar tot felul de ,,complicatii” care necesita si mai multe plati pana cand victima renunta, ramane fara bani sau ambele.
Sa aruncam o privire indeaproape asupra schemei pentru a vedea cum functioneaza si de ce are succes:
1. Cererea. Persoana care trimite scrisoarea este:
a) un functionar civil care pretinde a fi membru al unui comitet important sau o persoana ce se gaseste in pozitia de a fi la curent cu un anume caz de coruptie guvernamentala, de exemplu Corporatia Nationala de Petrol Nigeriana (N.N.P.C.);
b) un doctor sau un membru al altei profesii ce da impresia ca respectivul este o persoana respectabila si un membru de vaza al societatii;
c) o femeie deoarece oamenii sunt mai putin suspiciosi cand sunt implicate femei;
d) cineva din Nigeria (de aici vine numele inselatoriei) sau din alta tara din lumea a treia.
2. Ideea. Functionarul civil pretinde ca numitul comitet a incarcat intentionat platile unui contract in valoare de $21,5 milioane. Este nevoie de ajutorul destinatarului si pentru aceasta i se acorda 10-35% din suma totala. Stratagema are succes deoarece vesticii au ideea preconceputa ca exista un nivel ridicat de coruptie in guvernele tarilor in curs de dezvoltare.
3. Momeala. Suma pe care persoana este dispusa sa o imparta cu victima este suficient de mare pentru ca victima sa nu mai aiba nevoie sa munceasca. Confruntata cu o asemenea ocazie care apare odata in viata victima este de obicei interesata macar sa investigheze mai indeaproape.
4. Asigurarea. In scrisoare exista o fraza mentionand ca gratie legaturilor comitetului fondurile pot fi scoase din tara fara nici un risc si ca toate dovezile vor fi distruse.
5. Urgenta. Pentru a grabi afacerea persoana va sustine ca un alt comitet se pregateste sa lanseze o investigatie asupra conturilor comitetului mentionat. Prin urmare este nevoie de o decizie rapida.
6. Pacaleala. Se cere unul din doua lucruri. Cererea tipica include informatii bancare personale cum ar fi numarul contului din banca, numele si adresa bancii si numele contului. Aceasta este suficient pentru ca oricine sa poata goli contul. In unele cazuri se cere sa se trimita bani in avans pentru a facilita transferul banilor in strainatate si eventual antetul companiei la care este angajata victima.
Daca primiti o scrisoare nigeriana cel mai indicat este sa stergeti email-ul. Niciodata sa nu luati contact acesti indivizi. Daca ei va contacteaza pe dumneavoastra anuntati imediat organele de politie.
Iata cateva exemple de scrisori nigeriene aflate in circulatie prin intermediul postei electronice:
Exemplul 1:
My Dear,
I am Mariam Abacha, widow to the former military head of state,late general Sani Abacha, who died suddenly as a result of cardiac arrest.
One early morning, I was called by my late husband General Sani Abacha who at that time was the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the Head of State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he took me around the apartment and showed me three metal boxes of money all in foreign currency.
My husband told me he was to use the money for the settlement of his personal royal guards on his self-succession bid and campaings.
Upon his tragic and unexpected death, the new civilian government has insisted on probing my family's financial resources and has gazettedall our properties. Also, they recently seized all the family known funds abroad with the assistance of the British Government. It is only this money US$60,000,000.00 (sixty million us dollars only) he deposited with the security company vault at Togo (Lome) that they cannot trace because the funds were deposited as an (antiquity) African artwork from Nigeria art gallery, the family intends to use this money for investment purpose to enable the family to start life all over again.
Therefore, the family is urgently in need of a very reliable investor participant that we could en trust with the certificate of deposit and PIN (personal identification number code to help us remove the funds sinceno name were used in securing the vault.
I got your name and contact address from our chamber of commerce and industry office in Lagos, Nigeria. If the proposal is acceptable to you, after getting the money out of the security company vault to your country, my family have agreed to offer you 25% of the total sum for the assistance you rendered to us and bank the family's own part of the funds and assist us in investing (with my approval)in a project as a front from there we can discuss the way forward, most especially now that my eldest son, Mohammed and I are under pressure from the government.
Please kindly reach me by this email, for more details on the logistics and modalities if you are interested in a "partnership" so that we can arrange a meeting in (Lome) Togo at the security company.
Note: I do not need to remind you of the absolute secrecy and confidentiality that this transaction demands. My son Abba will only be the one to tell you when ever it is possible to talk to me. If you are not interested, please kindly reply to me immediately to enable me to search for another interested partner.
Thanks and accept my regards.
Mariam Abacha (Alhaja).
For the family.
Note you can as well call my son Abba on his number
00 228 02 51 33
For more directives.
Exemplul 2:
From the Desk of Kayode Adeyemi.
Union Bank of Nigeria,
Lagos-Nigeria.
Dear Sir,
STRICTLY A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
I am Dr.Kayode Adeyemi, The manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. We discovered an abandoned sum of $15,000,000.00 (Fifteen million United States Dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in November 1997 in a Plane crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund. Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus; 20 % for you as foreign partner, 75 % for us the officials in my department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred by us and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75% we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose your private contact telephone number, fax number full name and address and your designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.
Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature.
I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
Dr.Kayode Adeyemi.
Union Bank of Nigeria.
Exemplul 3:
Attn:President/Ceo.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporatio(NNPC). Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M. U.S. dollars. This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be entitled to 30% of the money,60% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that maybe incurred by us during the course of this transfer, both locally and international expenses. It may interest you to know that a similar transaction was carried out with one MR. PATRICE MILLER, President of Crane International Trading Corp. of 153 East 57th St., 28th floor, NY10022, TEL:(212)-308-7788 AND TELEX: 6731689. The deal was concluded and all covering documents were forwarded to MR. MILLER to authenticate the claim. Once the funds were transferred, MR. MILLER presented his Bank with all the legal documents and remitted the whole funds to another Bank Account and disappeared completely. My colleagues were shattered, as such opportunities do not come all the time.
I would require the following: -
1. Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
2. The bank where the money will be remitted.
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account. It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.
We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank of Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal. Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security.
We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us, before the present Democratic Government start auditing all Federal Government owned Parstatals.
Please contact me immediately through my telephone number whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, send the required documents aforementioned herein through my above telephone number, as time is of the essence in this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Isa Mustapha
Exemplul 4:
I am making this contact with profound interest, having considered you highly reputable and capable of assistance to my understated business proposal after going through a brief profile of your company here in the Ghana International Trade Affairs Commission.
I am Oliver Kabila from the democratic republic of Congo Zaire, son of late Laurent M. Kabila, the former President and Commander in Chief of the Armed forces Republic of Congo Zaire. Presently taking refuge here in Accra Ghana (West Africa) after the sudden demise of my father, following his assassination by his personal body guard on the 16th January 2001. I refer you to the time magazine cover story of the 12th of February.
On trust and in utmost confidence, I am establishing this relationship with you in benevolent spirit as to enhance immediate resolution to an opportunity rightly at hand. In a close door meeting held with my father before his sudden death, he disclosed to me certain facts and secrets about himself and that of my step-brother General Joseph Kabila (I mean the present President of my country). Certain documents was given to me that day by my father regarding which he deposited in a private vault of a security firm here in Ghana. In addition, $168 million US dollars cash in two trunk boxes also in the vault. The $168 million US dollars was to be used to work on leaders of the Ecowas community, enhancing his full support in power. But this aim was not achieved before his death.
The issue of this money has been a secret between my father and I until he died. Therefore, I am taking this as an opportunity to enrich and equip myself to face my secret ambition. As nobody can convince me that my step-brother (Joseph) is not behind the death of my father.
I have since been in this town in pursuance of the clearance of this consignment and I am so far able to clarify/certify all papers with the security company (where the consignment is being kept in a private vault). I have inspected the box but could not open it due to security reasons. Because my father did not declare the content as money but personal effects.
All I need now is a reliable foreign partner with whom I can clear and transfer this money abroad. I have agreed to give a reasonable percentage of the total value of this consignment as your share. You may ask If I don’t have international contacts to assist me on this issue. The answer is yes, but I have an ambition right now and want to live in disguise until my ambition is fulfilled.
I expect your kind urgent response by phone or email: Ibrahimrazaq2@yahoo.com or ibrahimrazaq1@yahoo.com to enable me to furnish you with more details on this business.
Thanks in anticipation.
Oliver kabila
Cell phone: + 233 24260633 (on 24hrs)
Nb: I shall count on your indulgence to please keep this information very secret & confidential. And Please, you should henceforth address me as Mr. Razaq Ibrahim. That is the name I am now using for Security reasons.
Exemplul 5:
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Tonye Green, the chief accountant with Standard Trust Bank . I have a transaction which I think will be of mutual benefit to both of us. In my desire for a foreign partner with whom to do this transaction, I stumbled on your contact from a business directory.
As the head of accounts department of STB, I discovered some amount of money while I was auditing accounts for the 2000 financial year which has been lying there for 6 years.
On further inquiry, I discovered that this money totaling about USD$17Million (Seventeen Million United States Dollars) including accumulated interest belonged to one Mr. Bruno Gonzalez, a Spanish Nationale who lived here and died intestate with no beneficiary. I have successfully secured the money and with the assistance of my colleague, the money has been packaged as photographic materials readyforshipment.
I would need your particulars to enable me prepare documents which will authenticate that the consignment belongs to you and to enable you claim the money. I want to be assured of a safe account where the money will be deposited pending my arrival. This transaction is absolutely risk free with no legal complications, I have made all necessary arrangements for a successfultransaction.
I must let you know that a high degree of trust is required.
You can reach me on thisE-mail:tamugreen@yahoo.com,for further clarifications.
Expecting your timely response
Yours Faithfully
Mr.TONYE GREEN.
