Lottery Scam - "Attention Dear Beneficiary - Mrs Charlotte Shelly"
The email message below in which the alleged sender (Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division) claims the recipients are due to receive their overdue payments from overseas, is fraudulent and you should not respond to it with your personal information. The email message is a fake and was sent by scammers. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and sending money.
Remember, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message. And, never send money to anyone who claims that you need to send money in order to receive money.
The Fraudulent Email Message
From: MRS CHARLOTTE SHELLY (info@lee.com)
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime DivisionForeign Payment Department
British General Board & Compensation Reserve Team
GRANTED APPROVAL FROM INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Attention Dear Beneficiary,
This is in regards of your overdue funds which has been pending on delivery due to the involvement of bad officials both governmental and non governmental. Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling,
Contract and Inheritance.
Been a while trying to locate your email,Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Mrs.Gill Marcus of the Reserve Bank Of South Africa, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank Anderson, Stephen Allen, Emmanuel Nnorom,
none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Lamido Sanusi of CBN, Ibrahim Sule, Dr.usman Shamsuddeen, Harry Thompson, Barr. Larry Gold and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation who exist in different part of the world e.g Malaysia, Benin Republic, Ghana, Togo,
United States, Nigeria, India, China and many others.
The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI, British Interpol and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $9,500,000.00(Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000.00 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM).
All documents that will give legal back up to your FUNDS have been made available for your kind perusal, including the International Payment Guarantee Certificate signed by the office of the presidency.
To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the Compensation Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your FUNDS Release Order on your behalf. Everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty.
Contact Barrister Christopher Edward on the following in-formations below,
Barrister Christopher Edward (Compensation Center Director)
ATM Card Center Director Barrister Christopher Edward
Email: christopheredward649@gmail.com
Do contact Barrister Christopher Edward via his contact details above and furnish him with your in-formations as listed below:
FULL NAMES:
DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD:
SEX:
DATE OF BIRTH:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
EMAIL ADDRESS:On contacting him with your details your file would be updated with the necessary information’s, terms & conditions after which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee asides from the $450 for the delivery charges, Telling you to pay for any document is all nothing but lies, I repeat the only money you will have to pay is $450 for the delivery charges as imposed by the Compensation Authorities and the Government on your package.
Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Barrister Christopher Edward of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.
Regards,
MRS CHARLOTTE SHELLY
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND COMPENSATION RELATIONS
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
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