I recently found this email in my inbox on my yahoo account.
Subject line:
ARREST OF OLGA MALENKOVA/COMPENSATIONS.
Text:FROM:RAVIO KOFIVI
ECOBANK/UNITED NATIONS 2006 COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS
REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 1MILLION USD
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Ecobank Lome-Togo to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get back to as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1 Million compensations funds.
On this faithfull recomendations,I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today,in other to retain the good image of the country,the president of the country is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1 Million USD each,Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria,the payments are to be paid by Ecobank Lome-Togo as corressponding paying bank under fundling assistance by the Central Bank of Nigeria(C.B.N.).
According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 16 left to be paid the compensations of $1 Million each.
Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested working in cllaboration with
Olga Malenkova in Lagos Nigeria as one of thier victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to any body for any reason what so ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal.
For more vital information,please visit:
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose,DRAFT PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS,I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.
Now the interesting thing here is that this woman Olga is a real Russian woman listed on many anti scam web sites. Additionally, I know her. (dont ask). So I was a bit shocked when I read the subject line. Then I realized it was not intended just for me but a typical Nigerian sam letter going out to thousands of others. The assumption I am going to make here is that the Nigerians, at least this one, is going to the the womans black lists, picking a person, and using this persons name in the subject line as bait. Maybe some guy who got scammed sees this name, recognizes it and goes down for the count a second time. Plausible? Nigerians scammers using the Russian scammers as bait because they need a new trick?
