Dear Sir/Madam, NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract filepresently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received yourpayment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling theobligations giving to you in respect to your contract payment.Secondly,you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bankas this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receiveyour payment After the Board of directors' meeting held in Abuja,we haveresolved in finding a solution to your problem. We have arranged your paymentthrough our ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTRE inEurope, America,Africa and Asia Pacific,This is part of aninstruction/mandate passed by the Senate in respect to overseas contractpayment and debt re-scheduling. We will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your moneyviaATM MACHINE in any part of the world,and the maximum daily limit isFifteen Thousand United States Dollars($15,000.00) valued sum at FiveMillion United States Dollars {$5,000,000.00}.If you desire to receiveyour fund this way,Kindly re-confirm your (1) Your Full Name (2) Full residential address. (3) Phone And Fax Number You will find below my personal email address and contact telephone number. Name:. Mr.Wesley Peters. Email:wesley_peters09@live.com We shall be expecting to receive your information as you have to stop anyfurther communication with anybody or office. Thanks for your co-operation. BEST REGARDS, Mr. Wesley Peters.

These people make me SO mad!

I often ask myself that very question when coming across 20-50 of these types of emails a day.  Do people actually fall for this stuff?  If yes, then who?

With the "help me, my daughter needs a kidney transplant!", the "you've just inherited a million euros!", and the "your email was chosen for the british lottery!", I become extremely irritated that scum like this have no qualms about stealing hard-earned money from decent people.  You know there has to be a special place in hell for people like that, at least I'd like to think so.

I've been noticing more and more elderly people being duped by these a-holes.  On the news the other night, we had seen where a nigerian man and woman convinced an elderly lady to withdraw large sums of money in return for a new roof, windows, and future earnings from some business venture.  They didn't con her thru email, they conned her by phone and convinced her to meet them in a shopping center's parking garage.  Luckily for her a gentleman overheard what these people were trying to do to her and alerted police.  Police intervened just as the elderly lady was about to make an ATM withdrawl.