Benin "ATM Master Card"
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:52 pm
I got this in my email today (Monday, Jan. 4th).
If you had to look it up the way I did, Benin is a tiny country on the west coast of Africa, just to the left of (drum roll) Nigeria.
While I like to think that this is my reward for my energetic and generous assistance to an eldery Nigerian widow lady, I also like to think that someone holding ten grand of my money would address me by name.
You'll notice, near the end, an e-mail address (I enlarged it) that misspells BANK and ends in .ir {BTW, the original email had no space between the colon and the left parenthesis - so it generated a frowny face}, and telephone numbers beginning with 229. Can anyone shed light on that???
By the way, I do not have a Master Card. Even if I did, I doubt it could make an ATM machine spit out ten grand for me.
YOUR ATM MASTER CARD VALUED US$10.500.000 IS RE
From: james dekker (dekkerj@bellsouth.net)
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Sent: Mon 1/04/10 6:12 AM
To:
Attention,
To The Owner Of This E-mail,I have contacted my secretary to confirm if you have received the compensation draft cheque of (US$10.500.000) which I issued in your name, but he told me that he could not send it to you because of the courier charges. Now I have called my bank to cancel any payment regards to the draft cheque and then authorized them to transfer the payment into ATM CARD in your name which they did. As of now be informed that all charges has been paid and the ATM CARD is going to be in your name, but to reactivate the ATM Card you have to forward your current informations as requested below to the bank and the only money you will pay to the bank is US$150 for the ATM Card Reactification fee, then they will send you the ATM CARD for your immediate use.
Here are the informations you have to forward to the bank:
1. YOUR FULL NAMES:______
2. Postal ADDRESS:_______
3. PHONE NUMBER:_________
4. CELL NUMBERS:_______
5. EMAIL ADDRESS:________
6. SEX:_____
7. AGE:_____
8. OCCUPATION:________
9. NATIONALITY:________
CONTACT PERSON: Dr.Thomas Akabike Robert
Director, ATM Foreign Operation Dept.INTERCONTINENTAL Bank Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Phone: + 229 93 48 93 66
Fax: + 229 93 47 27 18.
Email : ( intercontinentalbakbenin01@iraq.ir )
Get back to me once you received the ATM CARD ok.
Thanks and God bless you.
Mr Alex kamara.
If you had to look it up the way I did, Benin is a tiny country on the west coast of Africa, just to the left of (drum roll) Nigeria.
While I like to think that this is my reward for my energetic and generous assistance to an eldery Nigerian widow lady, I also like to think that someone holding ten grand of my money would address me by name.
You'll notice, near the end, an e-mail address (I enlarged it) that misspells BANK and ends in .ir {BTW, the original email had no space between the colon and the left parenthesis - so it generated a frowny face}, and telephone numbers beginning with 229. Can anyone shed light on that???
By the way, I do not have a Master Card. Even if I did, I doubt it could make an ATM machine spit out ten grand for me.
YOUR ATM MASTER CARD VALUED US$10.500.000 IS RE
From: james dekker (dekkerj@bellsouth.net)
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: Mon 1/04/10 6:12 AM
To:
Attention,
To The Owner Of This E-mail,I have contacted my secretary to confirm if you have received the compensation draft cheque of (US$10.500.000) which I issued in your name, but he told me that he could not send it to you because of the courier charges. Now I have called my bank to cancel any payment regards to the draft cheque and then authorized them to transfer the payment into ATM CARD in your name which they did. As of now be informed that all charges has been paid and the ATM CARD is going to be in your name, but to reactivate the ATM Card you have to forward your current informations as requested below to the bank and the only money you will pay to the bank is US$150 for the ATM Card Reactification fee, then they will send you the ATM CARD for your immediate use.
Here are the informations you have to forward to the bank:
1. YOUR FULL NAMES:______
2. Postal ADDRESS:_______
3. PHONE NUMBER:_________
4. CELL NUMBERS:_______
5. EMAIL ADDRESS:________
6. SEX:_____
7. AGE:_____
8. OCCUPATION:________
9. NATIONALITY:________
CONTACT PERSON: Dr.Thomas Akabike Robert
Director, ATM Foreign Operation Dept.INTERCONTINENTAL Bank Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Phone: + 229 93 48 93 66
Fax: + 229 93 47 27 18.
Email : ( intercontinentalbakbenin01@iraq.ir )
Get back to me once you received the ATM CARD ok.
Thanks and God bless you.
Mr Alex kamara.