Charles Soludo

 

Fraud.

One out of five!

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
FACT FINDING AND SPECIAL DUTIES
TUNUIBU SQUARE, LAGOS-NIGERIA
TELEPHONE: 234-82867310.

Attn: Beneficiary,

This letter is from the Central Bank of Nigeria, regarding your contract payment, which has finally been approved for payment by the Senate Committee on Foreign Contracts. Your part payment of $14.700,000.00 (Fourteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only has been approved for payment by the Senate Committee of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Last Friday a lady by name Mrs. Laura Burke came to the Bank with a lawyer applied for a change of beneficiary to her name on the same payment. She claimed that you have instructed her to receive the above stated amount on your behalf as your partner and she was asked to provide a sworn affidavit of oath which she had submitted the Affidavit of oath on your behalf.

We are writing to inform you that we cannot make the transfer to her account until you have confirmed that you know her also that we should go ahead and transfer the above stated amount to her account.

The below stated account was forwarded to us by Mrs. Laura Burke of California USA. Wachovia Bank Los Angeles Account number: 9887-676900 Account name: LGMC LLC

We need you to reconfirm that you sent her also that we should go ahead and transfer the above amount to her account immediately other wise, you are required to reconfirm the following information’s to us to process and transfer your funds ($14.7M) being part payment for your contract funds:

Forward as a matter of urgency the following:

(1) YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
(2) YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
(3) YOUR BANK NAME AND ADDRESS
(4) TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER
(5) YOUR BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS, ROUTING NUMBERS ETC.

Upon receipt of your confirmation, we shall proceed immediately to process your transfer and wire the above amount to your nominated bank account and if we do not hear from you till the next 48 hours, we shall go ahead and transfer the funds to Mrs. Laura Burkes account.

We sincerely apologize for the inconveniences this may cause you and we promise to finalize this payment before the next 48 hours.

Thanks for letting us serve you better.

Yours Sincerely,
Prof. Charles Soludo.
Governor
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
charles_gov1@live.com

Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.