I got an email .. is it a scam?

[kas]

Very good site about different emails we get and what kind of scams they are:

scamsurvivors.com/quiz/quiz.html

[kas]

Can you find all the inconsistencies and grammar and spelling mistakes?

LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR FROM YOU


DR KELVEN NKUMA <[e-mail]>

Wed, 1 Sept at 22:16

Good day, to you Sir/Ma.

My Name is SAWYER DOE the young brother to PATRICK SAWYER the Liberian
American Lawyer who died in NIGERIA during the EBOLA outbreak in 2014. My late
brother deposited about 15,000,000 united dollars in one of the banks in
Nigerian.

Since the year 2015 I have visited Nigeria severally to claim my late brothers
money the one he used my name as his Next of kin. my late brother had three(3)
lovely daughters who base and study in the united states of America.

I have filled and submitted all the forms given to me by the CENTRAL BANK OF
NIGERIA, They are now ready for fund transfer but the problem I have now is,
Here in LIBERIA such huge amount of money can't be credited into my personal
account because since the outbreak of CORONA VIRUS the Liberian economy was
heavily affected for that reason the CENTRAL BANK DIRECTOR Of LIBERIA Limited
huge fund transfers.

Therefore, I write to you if I can use your name to claim this money so the
fund can be transfer to your account, we can bargain on your percentage on
telephone conversation. You reach me on my direct line on [phone] or
reply to my direct e-mail: [e-mail]

Sir/Ma, I will like you to forward to me your,

1. FULL NAME
2. HOME ADDRESS
3. TELEPHONE/WHATSAPP NUMBER

I will forward your information to the CENTARAL BANK OF NIGERIA instructing
them to pay the fund into your account. I look forward to hear from you.

yours faithfully
SAWYER DOE

• Name of email owner not the same as the name in the email message itself
• Lists a different contact email in the email itself
• Grammar and spelling mistakes:
  
  • Central is not spelled Centaral
  • "one of the banks in Nigerian" should say Nigeria not Nigerian
  • "visited Nigeria severally to claim" should say several times, not serverally. Spelled wrong and wrong word if adding ly at the end even makes it a word.
  • Bad punctuation and sentence format; run-on sentences.
  • "Sir/Ma" is wrong as it is supposed to say "Sir/Ma'am" if using that as your greeting. Also why would someone who does not know you ask you, a random stranger, to accept all this money into your own personal bank account to help them. Yes, it is a scam. Do NOT give them any private or any of your information at all! You don't know them. Do not trust them.
  
  
• Confusing of which goes first, the surname or the given name. Says his name is SAWYER DOE, brother of PATRICK SAWYER. Who do you know switches their names like that?
• Claims to be a relative of someone in a news paper or official site to give self credibility but it is a lie as PATRICK SAWYER only had a sister.
• Claims he cannot submit money into his own bank account because of the Pandemic yet expects you, a total stranger in a different country, to be able to.
• Does not know your name yet expect you to trust him and trust the email (and the scam).
• Asks for personal information yet he is the stranger who emailed you out of the blue.
• Doesn't use company email but free website emails to conduct financial business.
• His email is inconsistent and gives information that is not important (but may be used in the scam later on).
• What are 15,000,000 united dollars? United Dollars? He did not say USD or even United States Dollars or US Dollars.
• Has all the makings of a typical Nigerian* Scam.

* Note: Not all Nigerians are scammers.


Scammers often claim to need help in moving items of value or money out of their country. Often they talk in amounts in the millions of dollars.
They will ask you to help pay the fees to release it or to cover fines. This is called an "advance fee fraud" or "419 scam".

More info: scamsurvivors.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

[kas]

Scams like this next one reminds me of a comedian by the name of James Veitch who talked about scam emails (This video is NOT spam but educational and funny)

James Veitch video called "Scamalot - The Gold" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9RL4RATwoY

and this one by James Veitch about another scam email on TedTalk




Now for the scam email I got:

Ahmad Ali <[e-mail]>
Bcc: (OMITTED)
Tue., Nov. 23 at 8:26 a.m.
Subject: Greetings

Good day, i am a banker by profession. I am contacting you
independently of my investigation in my bank, i discovered an
abandoned sum of $9.6million dollars, the money belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his supposed next of kin since
July 22, 2003. The money has been here in our bank lying dormant about
19years now without anybody coming for the claim of it. The banking
laws here does not allow such money to stay more than 21years because
the money will be recalled to the bank treasury account as unclaimed
fund.

I need your urgent assistance and support in transferring the fund
into your private bank account,so that we can use it into useful
investments.I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest
relative and next of kin to our deceased customer. That is why
contacted you for a business deal where this money can be shared
between us in the ratio of 40% for you and 60% for me by indicating
your interest i will send you the full details on how the business
will be executed.

Mr.Ahmad

Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
X-Originating-Ip: [209.85.166.54]


NO BANK ANYWHERE will ever give YOU of all people in the entire world money that some random person had in their bank account before they died.