Government agencies and high ranking government officials have been the target of previous spam attacks. A new version of the spam e-mail uses the names of FBI officials along with the names of specific units within the FBI.

Fraud Alert: IC3 warning the public to be wary of romance scams in which scammers target individuals who search for companionship or romance online

Amazing. Someone has now devised a way to try and re-scam previously scammed United Nations fraud victims with promises of compensating them for their loss.

More email phishing scams from Nigeria (and the all so honorable Barrister Robert Adams) in an attempt to steal your private information. Don’t fall for it.

Hurry. Act now. Your Gazillions of dollars is just waiting for you. Right. Like we should believe any email coming from Nigeria. Sheesh!

I think Exxon-Mobil makes enough money that they should have a monthly give-away. Unfortunately for us, they’re too greedy to ever let that happen so don’t be fooled by an email scam like this.

Now, I’ve heard of being rewarded for reporting crimes before but one-half million dollars? Now that’s a stimulus package.

I think we can all tell that this is obviously an email phishing scam. If it’s not, then FedEx really needs to look at getting ‘spellcheck’ installed on their shipping computer system.

I think it’s important to say, No one is going to pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to be a technical consultant. Seriously, let’s keep that reality check close by, okay?

Subject: ATTN: YOUR CONTRACT PAYMENT APPROVAL On going through files yesterday, we discovered that your file was dumped untreated ,so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment and please stop communicating with any office now and attention to the appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly .

Subject: From Governor, (Bello Idewu)………From Governor, (Bello Idewu).Under The Present Governor,(Professor Charles Soludo),Executive Director,Foreign Operation Department,Central Bank Of Nigeria…. My colleague here being the accountant of the bank asked me of my opinion since he said that he wish not to open up the said unpaid fund clearly to the present governor, our advanced view was orthodox having considering his position as the only account review officer and (OR) the economic growth in my country, therefore we cannot sit down and watch the fund go away like that.Bear in mind that from the record in files of your outstanding contract payment is $21.3 million dollars (Twenty one million three hundred thousand united states dollars) only.

paulokafor131@poczta.pf.plFROM:Dr Paul Okafor.Central Bank of Nigeria.Tinubu-Square,Lagos Nigeria.Dear Sir/madam,Sequel to the secretive arrangement in regards of the shipment of your contract sum, I wish to inform you that all necessary modalities have been automatically concluded and have left Nigeria to London via your Country today by Express Cargo Flight…. So do not allow them to know that the content is money.In the meantime,I will give you the contact of the Diplomatic Courier Services for you to contact them and know the actual situation, which i will be gveing to you let with Best Regards,the consignment and also give them your address where the consignment will be delivered and then get back to me as soon as possible so that I can give you the shipment document.Meanwhile, I will be coming over to your country immediate The Consignment arrives in your Country for my 50% share.

A fake United Nations email scam to lure you away from your money. Don’t buy into it.

We have this first day of jun, 2007 received a payment credit instruction from the federal Government of Nigeria to credit your account

With great pleasure I Samuel Okafor, working with a bank here in Nigeria as a Manager. I am writing you in respect of a foreign customer (an Oil consultant/contractor with our National Oil & Liquidified Gas Sector)