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Última actualización:
15 Julio 2002
El fraude de las inversiones en Nigeria
A través del correo se ha realizado una de las mayores estafas
mediante Internet y especialmente con la utilización del
correo electrónico.
El asunto trataba de enganchar a los incautos lectores del correo,
pidiendo su ayuda para realizar una transacción donde obtendría
un beneficio suculento.
Según comenta el correo, un militar nigeriano se encuentra
en los Países Bajos con una inmensa cantidad de dinero y
necesita una cuenta corriente para depositarlos. Puede ser la suya.
Las ganancias pueden ascender a un 20% de la suma total.
Miles de personas han recibido estos correos de personalidades
nigerianas o centroafricanas. El Asunto varía entre Proposición
Urgente, Proposición de Inversión Confidencial, Importante
Proposición de Negocios, etc...
Pero no es tan sencillo, antes de recibir los millones de dólares
en la cuenta corriente, se necesita una cantidad para pagar impuestos,
honorarios de abogados, gastos de envío...
Según el FBI, 2.600 estadounidenses han sido víctimas
de este engaño en 2001. Dos individuos perdieron más
de 70.000 dólares cada uno.
Más información: http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/102314206642163.shtml
Algunos ejemplos de mensajes del fraude(en inglés):
ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO
DEAR FRIEND,
I AM MRS. SESE-SEKO WIDOW OF LATE PRESIDENT MOBUTU SESE-SEKO OF
ZAIRE? NOW KNOWN AS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (DRC).
I AM MOVED TO WRITE YOU THIS LETTER, THIS WAS IN CONFIDENCE CONSIDERING
MY PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCE AND SITUATION. I ESCAPED ALONG WITH MY HUSBAND
AND TWO OF OUR SONS BENSON AND BASHER OUT OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
OF CONGO (DRC) TO ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE WHERE MY FAMILY AND I SETTLED,
WHILE WE LATER MOVED TO SETTLED IN MORROCO WHERE MY HUSBAND LATER
DIED OF CANCER DISEASE. HOWEVER DUE TO THIS SITUATION WE DECIDED
TO CHANGED MOST OF MY HUSBAND'S BILLIONS OF DOLLARS DEPOSITED IN
SWISS BANK AND OTHER COUNTRIES INTO OTHER FORMS OF MONEY CODED FOR
SAFE PURPOSE BECAUSE THE NEW HEAD OF STATE OF (DR) MR LAURENT KABILA
HAS MADE ARRANGEMENT WITH THE SWISS GOVERNMENT AND OTHER EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES TO FREEZE ALL MY LATE HUSBAND'S
TREASURES DEPOSITED IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. HENCE MY CHILDREN
AND I DECIDED LAYING LOW IN AFRICA TO STUDY THE SITUATION TILL WHEN
THINGS GETS BETTER, LIKE NOW THAT PRESIDENT KABILA IS DEAD AND THE
SON TAKING OVER (JOSEPH KABILA). ONE OF MY LATE HUSBAND'S CHATEAUX
IN SOUTHERN FRANCE WAS CONFISCATED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT, AND
AS SUCH I HAD TO CHANGE MY IDENTITY SO THAT MY INVESTMENT WILL NOT
BE TRACED AND CONFISCATED. I HAVE DEPOSITED THE SUM THIRTY MILLION
UNITED STATE DOLLARS(US$30,000,000,00.) WITH A SECURITY COMPANY
, FOR SAFEKEEPING. THE FUNDS ARE
SECURITY CODED TO PREVENT THEM FROM KNOWING THE CONTENT. WHAT I
WANT YOU TO DO IS TO INDICATE YOUR INTEREST THAT YOU WILL ASSIST
US
BY RECEIVING THE MONEY ON OUR BEHALF. ACKNOWLEDGE THIS MESSAGE,
SO THAT I CAN INTRODUCE YOU TO MY SON WHO HAS THE OUT MODALITIES
FOR THE CLAIM OF THE SAID FUNDS. I WANT YOU TO ASSIST IN INVESTING
THIS MONEY, BUT I WILL NOT WANT MY IDENTITY REVEALED. I WILL ALSO
WANT TO BUY PROPERTIES AND STOCK IN MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES AND
TO ENGAGE IN OTHER SAFE AND NON-SPECULATIVE INVESTMENTS. MAY I AT
THIS POINT EMPHASISE THE HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY, WHICH THIS
BUSINESS DEMANDS, AND HOPE YOU WILL NOT BETRAY THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE,
WHICH I REPOSE IN YOU. IN CONCLUSION, IF YOU WANT TO ASSIST US ,
MY SON SHALL PUT YOU IN THE PICTURE OF THE BUSINESS, TELL YOU WHERE
THE FUNDS ARE CURRENTLY BEING MAINTAINED AND ALSO DISCUSS
OTHER MODALITIES INCLUDING REMUNERATION FOR YOUR SERVICES. FOR
THIS REASON KINDLY FURNISH US YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION, THAT IS
YOUR PERSONAL TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER FOR CONFIDENTIAL PURPOSE.
BEST REGARDS,
MRS M. SESE SEKO
Asunto: SEEKING YOUR PARTNERSHIP
Dear Sir,
First, I must solicit your strict confidence in this transaction.
I am a highly placed official working for the Federal Ministry of
Science and Technology.
My committe - The Niger Delta Development Corporation(NDDC)-which
is in charge of managing and supervising the disbursement of oil
sales revenues for the Nigerian government.The revenues under our
control runs into several hundred of millions of dollars monthly.My
self and other colleagues in the NDDC are currently in need of a
silent foreign partner with whose bank account we shall transfer
the sum of Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thosand United States
Dollars($49.5m).This fund accrued to us as commission for oil sales
contracts handled under our supervision.
The fund is presently waiting to be transferred by our offshore
fund managers to the beneficiary submitted to us as the funds receiver.
However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members
of the NDDC, we cannot acquire this funds in our name. This is because
as top civil servants, we are not allowed by law of the land to
own or operate bank accounts outside our shores. I have been delegated
as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to look for an overseas silent
partner in whose account we would transfer the fund on trust.Hence
the reason for this mail.We shall be Transferring the money to your
account as an investment we are making with your company.We propose
to sign a silent partnership agreement with you before the funds
leave to your account, as our assurance that you will hold the money
in trust for us.For your support and partnership, please reply me
to negotiate your fees or the percentage you wish to be paid when
the funds arrive your bank account. It is after your fees and expenses
have been deducted from the funds that the balance could be dealt
with, according to our instruction. You must however note that this
transaction, with regards to our disposition to continue with you,
is subject to these terms. Firstly, our conviction of your transparency.
Secondly, that you treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality. Finally and above all, that you will provide an
account that you have absolute control over.
The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and there is no
risk or legal disadvantages either to ourselves or yourself. The
transfer will be effected to your account within ten-fourteen (10-14)
working days as soon as we reach an agreement and you furnish me
with a suitable bank account for the transaction.
I am looking forward to doing business with you and do solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction, Please mail your response to
me.
Yours faithfully,
Kenneth Usman
Lagos, Nigeria.
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR AN URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
After due deliberation with my colleagues, we have decided to forward
to
you this business proposal. We want a reliable person who could
assist
us in the transfer the sum of Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars ($20,500,000). Via International Bank Draft
Cashable in any First World Countries.
This fund resulted from an over-invoiced bill from contracts awarded
by
us under the budget allocation to our Ministry. This bill has been
approved for payment by the other concerned Ministries. The contract
has
since been executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid the
actual
cost of the contract. We are left with the balance US$20.5M as part
of
the over-invoiced amount which we have deliberated over estimated
for
our own use. But under our protocol division, we as civil servants
are
forbidden to operate or own foreign accounts. This is why we are
soliciting your assistance in this manner and regard.
As you may want to know and to make you less curious, I got your
address
from adverts in the business directory. I am the Chief
Accountant/Internal Auditor of the Contract Award Committee (CAC)
of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This transaction
is very
much free from all sorts of RISKS and TROUBLE from my Government.
We the
N.N.P.C. Officials involved in this deal have put in many years
in
service to this Ministry. We have been exercising patience for this
opportunity for so long and to most of us this is a lifetime opportunity
we cannot afford to miss.
We have agreed to COMPENSATE you duly if agreement is reached by
both of
us and I and one of my colleagues involved in this deal will come
to
your country to arrange for our share, upon the confirmation from
you
that the Certified International Bank Draft has been Approved and
Raised
in your favor.
Consequent upon your acceptance of this proposal, kindly confirm
your
interest by Telephone to me, through my Direct Tel No: 234 9 2727201
(Please fax to my American e-fax number which is +1 775-269-7028.Your
indication by revert Telephone to me of your sincere and serious
interest will enable me fax you or brief you of the PROCEDURES FOR
THIS
TRANSACTION. If my line is busy, please keep trying you will surely
get
through.
NOTE: In the event of your inability to handle this transaction
please
inform us so that we can look for another reliable person who can
assist
in this respect as we have mapped out 20% as compensation for your
assistance to take care of your bills locally and internationally.
It might surprise you why we choose you and trusted you for this
transaction. Yes, we believe that good friends can be discovered
and
business like this cannot be realized without mutual trust. This
is why
we have decided to trust you for this transaction. Be further informed
that everyone's interest and security had been considered before
you
were contacted, so be rest assured and feel free to go into this
transaction with us. But let Honesty and Trust be our watchword
throughout this transaction and your prompt reply will be highly
appreciated. Thank you, and God bless. Best Regards,
DR.GARBA UMAR
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