Here Phishy!
Clearing out the e-mail account I've had for 20 years - so it's the one that's been shared around the spammers so much that for every one e-mail that's actually for me, there are 20+ that are the usual enlargement pills & techniques & entire fleets of phishermen...
It almost gave me a nostalgic glow to receive this one though... It's become such a modern cliché, that I didn't think anyone did them any more. But I suppose, in a world where the population is still rising almost exponentially, there's more than one fool born every minute & some of them won't have heard about this old chestnut
Supreme Court of Nigeria
Three-Arms Zone
P.M.B. 308. Garki Abuja
Dear Unpaid Beneficiary,
(SALAMU- ALAIKUM)
This is to inform you that in the course of my investigation as director of the payment verification/implementation committee I came across your name as an unpaid fund beneficiary in the record of the central bank of Nigeria and other banks that are supposed to get your funds released to you. My committee was set up by the payment reconciliation committee to verify and scrutinize all outstanding debts owed to our foreign beneficiaries in accordance with the information received from the United States government and other countries over unpaid huge debts owed to Foreigners.
Having seen your file and my further questions to the officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria and ministry of finance as to why your payment is still pending reveals the rot and corruption in the system. The bank officials told me that the reason why you haven't received your payment is due to your inability to pay for the required charges for transfer of funds to your account. When I asked them why they didn't deduct the said charges from your principal sum, I was given the flimsy excuse that you never authorized them to do so. When I put the question across to them if they ever advised you that such charges could be deducted from your principal fund,the answer I got was no. Now, if you do not tell this beneficiary that such charges could be deducted from his or her principal fund how will he or she know that such options are available for such beneficiaries?
From my investigation I discovered that these bank officials deliberately refused to let the charges be deducted from your principal fund because they want your fund to remain trapped in the bank, while they continue to extort money from beneficiaries under some flimsy excuse. You do not need to pay any money to any official. All you are required to do is swear an affidavit at the federal high court of Nigeria authorizing the bank to deduct all charges from your principal fund and transfer the balance of funds after deduction to your bank account. If you have spent any money in the past in your quest for payment, kindly let me know so that I can follow this up. You can reach me on my phone or email for a directive on how you can get the deduction done as soon as possible and get your payment also.
Yours sincerely,
Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad
Chief Justice of Nigeria
I was, of course, slightly disappointed that it wasn't a Prince, or other member of the Nigerian royal family trying to ship me a fraction of the family fortune, but this was a good enough substitute. Just for shits & giggles, a quick Google search reveals that Mr I.T. Muhammad actually is the Nigerian Chief Justice, so the Phisherman has at least done some homework!!
Naturally then, I immediately contacted him on the supplied e-mail address of united119@gmail.com (no I didn't... don't worry!!)... because of course the Nigerian Chief Justice would have a gmail account for all official correspondence... After all, Trump did most of his business outside of Federal Government channels, so why not Nigerians? I was curious about the e-mail address united 119. First Google result for that was a United Airlines flight from Edinburgh to Chicago back in October 2019 (Aahh - simpler times!!). I'd suspected it was a far more notorious flight than that, so was relieved the Phisherman had a shred of decency... Still not enough for me to take the bait though. Try again another day...
It almost gave me a nostalgic glow to receive this one though... It's become such a modern cliché, that I didn't think anyone did them any more. But I suppose, in a world where the population is still rising almost exponentially, there's more than one fool born every minute & some of them won't have heard about this old chestnut
Supreme Court of Nigeria
Three-Arms Zone
P.M.B. 308. Garki Abuja
Dear Unpaid Beneficiary,
(SALAMU- ALAIKUM)
This is to inform you that in the course of my investigation as director of the payment verification/implementation committee I came across your name as an unpaid fund beneficiary in the record of the central bank of Nigeria and other banks that are supposed to get your funds released to you. My committee was set up by the payment reconciliation committee to verify and scrutinize all outstanding debts owed to our foreign beneficiaries in accordance with the information received from the United States government and other countries over unpaid huge debts owed to Foreigners.
Having seen your file and my further questions to the officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria and ministry of finance as to why your payment is still pending reveals the rot and corruption in the system. The bank officials told me that the reason why you haven't received your payment is due to your inability to pay for the required charges for transfer of funds to your account. When I asked them why they didn't deduct the said charges from your principal sum, I was given the flimsy excuse that you never authorized them to do so. When I put the question across to them if they ever advised you that such charges could be deducted from your principal fund,the answer I got was no. Now, if you do not tell this beneficiary that such charges could be deducted from his or her principal fund how will he or she know that such options are available for such beneficiaries?
From my investigation I discovered that these bank officials deliberately refused to let the charges be deducted from your principal fund because they want your fund to remain trapped in the bank, while they continue to extort money from beneficiaries under some flimsy excuse. You do not need to pay any money to any official. All you are required to do is swear an affidavit at the federal high court of Nigeria authorizing the bank to deduct all charges from your principal fund and transfer the balance of funds after deduction to your bank account. If you have spent any money in the past in your quest for payment, kindly let me know so that I can follow this up. You can reach me on my phone or email for a directive on how you can get the deduction done as soon as possible and get your payment also.
Yours sincerely,
Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad
Chief Justice of Nigeria
I was, of course, slightly disappointed that it wasn't a Prince, or other member of the Nigerian royal family trying to ship me a fraction of the family fortune, but this was a good enough substitute. Just for shits & giggles, a quick Google search reveals that Mr I.T. Muhammad actually is the Nigerian Chief Justice, so the Phisherman has at least done some homework!!
Naturally then, I immediately contacted him on the supplied e-mail address of united119@gmail.com (no I didn't... don't worry!!)... because of course the Nigerian Chief Justice would have a gmail account for all official correspondence... After all, Trump did most of his business outside of Federal Government channels, so why not Nigerians? I was curious about the e-mail address united 119. First Google result for that was a United Airlines flight from Edinburgh to Chicago back in October 2019 (Aahh - simpler times!!). I'd suspected it was a far more notorious flight than that, so was relieved the Phisherman had a shred of decency... Still not enough for me to take the bait though. Try again another day...