Senator Edward Smith And Mr. William Johnson, Ecobank PLC And Edward Smith Was With The Foreigh Payment Investigative Dept. Huge $19,000 Nigerian scam and how to get money back! Lagos Internet or Nigeria
I was contacted by e-mail by a Senator Edward Smith, Maryland Lagos, Nigeria and he sent me his identification and advised me of an Inheritance of Mike Dugan and that I needed to wire him at various times various amounts of money amounting to around $19,000.00 and that Mr. William Johnson of Ecobank Nigeria PLC needed all of this money in order to process all of the Inheritance Papers, etc.
I did wire the money and kept getting e-mails requests and never received anything back and have been receiving e-mails from Mr. William Johnson of Ecobank requesting that I send him $700.00 more dollars (which I refuse to do and don't have) and take out a short-term $1500 loan for an attorney there to fly to the UK and sign release papers to send my ATM Card programmed with tons of money on it to me and it will arrive by Fed-EX within a day or so. I keep receiving e-mails from him and the UK.
Can you please, please help me to get my money back and help me on what to do here asap.
Janie
Sterling Heights, Michigan
U.S.A.
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Stacey
Dallas,Texas,
U.S.A.
You got taken big time
#4Consumer Comment
Thu, January 15, 2009
I get about 10 emails a day from jokers like this
You just sent your hard earned monies out the window
For future reference - just delete the emails and go on with your life Chalk it up to being a bad decision
Joe
Austin,Texas,
U.S.A.
You will NEVER See your money again! That is a Classic Nigerian SCAM older than dirt!
#4Consumer Comment
Thu, January 15, 2009
DO NOT SEND THESE FAKERS ANY MORE MONEY.
THEY ARE JUST CON ARTISTS WHO LIED TO YOU TO GET YOUR MONEY BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY DO.
DO NOT SHOW UP IN LONDON OR THEY MIGHT DRUG YOU AND SELL YOU INTO THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING MARKET OR SOMETHING!
THIS IS THE CLASSIC NIGERIAN INHERITANCE SCHEME.
DO NOT SEND THESE VERY BAD PEOPLE ANOTHER DIME!
THEY ARE CRIMINALS
I AM SORRY YOU LOST YOUR MONEY BUT THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO,
THEIR COUNTRY WILL NOT PROSECUTE THEM BECAUSE THEY NEED THE MONEY TOO.
Block their e-mails and be glad that you didn't end up being sold as a slave to somebody in Africa or the Middle East.
AND NEVER MAKE THIS MISTAKE AGAIN.
IF IT IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE,IT PROBABLY IS.
IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE A RELATIVE BY THAT NAME, THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE ANSWERED ANYWAY. MOAT CON MEN PLAY ON YOUR GREED.
Robert
Buffalo,New York,
U.S.A.
Sorry but
#4Consumer Comment
Wed, January 14, 2009
I think you're money is GONE, GONE, GONE.
This is a famous scam. What they do is entice you into helping them commit fraud against an estate that doesn't exist. They tell you somone with the same surname passed away with gobs of cash but they can't find an heir.
So they contact you and entice you to pretend you're a legitimate heir to this estate and that the'll split the estate monies with you.
Your problem is 2 fold. One, there was never any estate-it's a scam and any monies you wired to them is GONE.
2. You were complicit in committing a fraud (if there were an actual estate) because you were NOT a legitimate heir to this estate. You're not gonna get much help, if any, from INTERPOL or anyone else as regards to getting your money back.
A co-worker of mine when I worked at an autoparts manufacturer fell for this. He went so far as to FLY TO LONDON to make another installment and go to a bank to get his "bank draft" for the cash. Of course, his "contact" vanished.
He contacted the London police and INTERPOL. Both organizations basically told him "so sad, to bad" and told him to go back home to the U.S.