Browse > Home / Discussion Forums / Muhimu: New Nigerian email scam: “Emergency appeal!!!”

Muhimu: New Nigerian email scam: “Emergency appeal!!!”

July 31, 2008



Hello Colleagues,

Please be aware that the Nigerian spammers have developed a new approach, which is hurting may people these days. The only way to defeat this approach is simply for all of us to be informed about their tricks.

It begins with someone sending you an e-mail that claims to have been sent by your email service administrator, to inform you that they are migrating all client e-mails to another server. The email then requests you to send your user-name and password for that purpose.

Once you have sent the information, the impostor quickly changes your password, so can no longer access your account, and then sends out emails such as the one hereunder to everyone in your addressbook. As you can see from the message below, there may be subsequent financial implications for you if any kind-hearted friend actually carries out the request to assist you. And in the meantime, you lose your archive, addressbook, and incoming correspondence.

So be careful and NEVER send your user-name/password to anyone by email. If you must share your details, then use either encryption or SMS. And bear in mind that email system administrators do not require your password in order to carry out their functions. Finally, if you should ever receive an email like the one below, please remember not to panic and rush off to send those dollars.

Apologies to anyone who may receive multiple copies of this posting.

Regards,

DS.


____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _

———— ——— ——- Original Message ———— ——— ——-

Subject: Emergency appeal!!! Please i need your help…

From: <Someone you know @ whatever address.com>

Date: Wed, July 30, 2008 1:08 pm

To: <Your email address>

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——–

Hi,

I am sorry i didn’t inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program

called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of

ducation, the program is taking place in three major countries in Africa

which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad

moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very

intoxicated for me to explain.

I am stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where

my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my

way to the Hotel am staying, I am in a very bad situation here because i

have no money with me. I am now owing the Hotel where am staying the sum

of $900 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon or else they will hand me

over to the Police, i need your help very urgent to enable me return back

home successfully without any harm, I am in a terrible and tight

situation here i don’t even have money to feed myself for a day i have

been starving all this while so please understand how urgent i needed your

help,i want you to help me with the sum of $2,500 USD to sort out my

problems here and leave with the next available flight back home but if

you are not too buoyant enough to send me all the $2,500 USD i will also

appreciate what so ever amount you can afford to send me for now and i

promise to reimburse the money back to you once i get back home without hitch delay.

Kindly look for a Western Union Money Transfer Local stores around you and

send me the money to my receiving information below.Through Western union

i can receive the money faster and safe without any problem here.

Receivers Name: <Sender’s full name>

Address: Limit Motel And Suites, Victoria island ,

City: Lagos

Zip Code: 23401

Country: Nigeria

After you have sent the money email me the western union transfer details

such as:

MTCN

Test Question: To whom?

Answer: <Sender’s First Name>

Amount Needed: $2,500 USD

Thanks for your kind help,waiting to hear back from you with the transfer

information.

Regards,

<Sender’s normal sign-off>

from JamiiForums.com


Related Articles

Written by shy · Filed Under Discussion Forums 

Comments

3 Responses to “Muhimu: New Nigerian email scam: “Emergency appeal!!!””

  1. Reema Islam on November 4th, 2008 2:12 pm

    I have gone through the same situation and my email id has been hacked exactly in the same way. My all friends received exactly the same email requesting them to send the money .But my friends were intelligent enough to tell me about the hacker’s plan. And yes I had to suffer due to my hacked Email Id and I had to make a new one. I just want to know that if you people know all this, why you dont take some action against them or why police does not do anything?

    Such people should be behind the bars.

  2. Pat on November 11th, 2008 1:30 am

    Yes, same happened to a friend of mine. A new kind of spam I hadn`t known yet, some Googling though led me to Jambo Network`s enlightening warning, thanks very much.

    As regards Reema’s comment above, I appreciate the ‘behind bars’ idea but am afraid that a bunch of dollars in a number of countries allow you do do whatever you feel like.

  3. Ippar on August 12th, 2009 4:54 pm

    the same here – email has come from a friend “who is now in Nigeria in distress”!
    I could guess after some minutes of reading it that this is a new type of scam and then found your web site. Thank you for educating people.
    - Ippar 12 Aug. 2009

Got something to say?





Afrigator