Association Of European Charity Foundations Scam
Posted by gariell on January 28, 2008
It never ceases to amaze me how in the world can my name be chosen from a bunch of grocery invoices. Last I recall my name isn’t on any of those receipts.
Oh! I get it, this must be a scam! A huge organization like the ‘Association Of European Charity Foundations’ with a Yahoo contact address offering me 2 million as a charity donation all thanks to some grocery voucher, give me a break.
From: aecf101@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: CALL TO CONFIRM….
Date: January 26, 2008 7:45:19 PM EST (CA)
To: Recipient List Suppressed
A.C.F.
Amsterdam,NL.
Dear Beneficiary,
This is to inform you that you have been chosen By the Board
of
trustees of the above International charity organization as
one of the final
recipients of a Cash Donation.
Based on the random selection exercise of internet service
providers (ISP)
and millions of Super market cash invoices worldwide, you
were selected
among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of
US$2,000,000.00
(TWO Million United States Dollars) as charity donations/aid
from the
Association Of European Charity Foundations and the UNO in
accordance with
the enabling act of Parliament. Note that, your email was
selected from
either the internet, or a Shop’s cash invoice around your
area in which
you might have purchased something from.
You are required to Contact the Executive Secretary below
for
confirmation.
Your Qualification numbers are: (A-121-637, G-01-06)
**********************************
Executive Secretary,
Mr. Arthur stewart
Tel:+31-626-415-837
Fax: +31-847-375-060
Email:aecf101@yahoo.com.hk
Finally, all funds should be claimed by their respective
beneficiaries,
not later that 7 days after notification.
On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest
congratulations
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Gordon JUlia
(Foundation officer)
January 30, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Seriously, I was apparently selected by a random drawings of email addresses. Hmm, what are the chances that my email would be selected out of BILLIONS of email addresses. It must be my lucky day!
I had some different contact information and I was selected randomly instead of from a Super market invoice, but basically the same letter. And I’m sure a multi-billion donation company is going to have emails with a yahoo domain based in Hong Kong! (@yahoo.com.hk?!!!!) Honestly, anyone that falls for this deserves to have their money taken from them!
January 30, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Joe,
You got it right. Our purpose is to give as much education and exposure of these schemes as possible. If everyone flushed these Emails and didn’t give these scammers the night of day, the poor Ba—— would be out of a “job”. In the meantime, it is a pleasure to expose as many as we can.
February 1, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Geez, I’m just as lucky as you! Too bad they don’t use spell check! Not sure how Hong Kong got my E-mail address, but it must be making the rounds…. all over the world, as I also get E-mails from poor, cancer ridding, old ladies, from Africa. Also from lawyers looking benificiaries to give millions to. And young girls with inheritances in limbo, looking to get adopted. I even created a folder to keep all these requests in (100s)! Sometimes I get ambitious and send a reply back which includes spam fraud info (which looks and sounds real official) from the Canadian RCMP (like C.I.A. or F.B.I.). Along with the warning that their E-mail has been forwarded to the RCMP for further investigation! I wonder why I never hear from them again? har-har-har!
February 1, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Joanita,
I must say that your name rings a great tune. I hope that you have not been using my “undisclosed-recipients” Email address. I have informed the people at Yahoo.hk that some people could be using my address in a fraudulent way.
Heaven knows how many millions I have lost!
Cheers !
February 6, 2008 at 10:34 am
soooo…i didn’t win the big prize…??mmm…for a moment i was so happy..i was deaming what should i do with all those money..did anyone send back that form?? :))
February 6, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Ditto, exact same letter. But what do they want? Whats their angle? They’re not asking anything from us.
Ken
February 7, 2008 at 2:50 am
Ken,
This type of scam falls under what are known as advanced fees schemes. Should you contact these scammers, they will ask for a small fee to cover charges such as taxes or lawyers fees and so on; then guess what? More unexpected fees came up and more money required before the “Jackpot” can be sent. Many people have been scammed out of thousands before they realize what is going on.
February 7, 2008 at 3:01 am
Ally.
Sorry to burst your bubble and yes some people do reply and some do get scammed.
February 7, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I got the same email and knew it had to be a scam. I got a similar one a week or two ago telling me I had 60 million in a bank account at Wachovia Bank and the FBI needed to verify I wasn’t a terrorist before they could release the money to me. Ashame I have no idea who in Nigeria would put 60 million in an account under my name. And the FBI, contacting me by email? are you serious!? God I hope there aren’t too many who respond to these. Come on people!
February 7, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I received this same email and I’m posting one I received from the supposed Robert Muller of the FBI. I would think using the FBI in a scam would be a little dangerous. Nevertheless, noone from Nigeria is going to put 60 million in a bank account for me. Here is the letter I got:
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crimes Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington D.C
Attention: Beneficiary,
This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice, the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), that the sum of US$6,000,000.00 Six Million U.S Dollars has been transferred to an account here in United State Of America in your name. That is why we have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper verifications and proof from you to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund, because the above mentioned amount is a big amount of money, that is why we want to make sure it is a legal money you are about to receive and to verify that you are not involved with any money laundry.
Be informed that the fund have hit an account in U.S Bank, but right now we have ask not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them, unless we ask them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you. Note that the fund is in the WACHOVIA BANK right now, but we have ask them not to credit it to any account yet, because we need some proof and verifications from you before releasing.
So to this regards you are to reassure and proof to us the legitimate of the money you are about to receive by sending to us FBI Identification Record and also Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) to satisfy us that the money you are about to receive is free from Terrorism and money laundry act. You are to forward the documents to us immediately if you have it with you, if you don’t have it let us know so that we will direct and inform you where to obtain the document and send to us for our verification and proof of ownership which after we will ask the WACHOVIA BANK to go ahead in Crediting the fund to you immediately.
This Documents are to be issued to you from the place where the fund was transferred from, so get back to us immediately if you don’t have the document so that we will inform you the particular place and what it will take to obtain it, because we have come to realize that the fund was transferred from the Federal Republic Of Nigeria according to our investigations.
An FBI Identification Record and Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service.
If the fingerprints are related to an arrest, the Identification Record includes name of the agency that submitted the fingerprints to the FBI, the date of arrest, the arrest charge, and the disposition of the arrest, if known to the FBI. All arrest data included in an Identification Record is obtained from fingerprint submissions, disposition reports and other reports submitted by agencies having criminal justice responsibilities.
The United States Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI Identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own Record for review. The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division processes these requests.
An individual may request a copy of his or her own FBI Identification Record for personal review or to challenge information on the Record. Other reasons an individual may request a copy of his or her own Identification Record may include international adoption or to satisfy a requirement to live or work in a foreign country (i.e., Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer, letter of good conduct, criminal history background, etc.)
On October 9, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact (Compact) Act of 1998, establishing an infrastructure by which states can exchange criminal records for no criminal justice purposes according to the laws of the requesting state, and provide reciprocity among the states to share records without charging each other for the information. The Compact became effective April 28, 1999, after Montana and Georgia became the first two states to ratify it, respectively. To date, 27 states have ratified the Compact.
The Compact Council as a national independent authority, works in partnership with criminal history record custodians, end users, and policy makers to regulate and facilitate the sharing the complete, accurate, and timely criminal history record information to no criminal justice users in order to enhance public safety, welfare and security of Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights.
NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice purposes. If you fail to provide the Documents to us, we will charge you with the FBI and take our proper action against you for not proofing to us the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive.
We do await your response so we could let you know of what next to do and continue investigation so that as soon as the Document is presented to this ofice, we would instruct the WACHOVIA BANK to go ahead in Crediting the fund to you immediately.
FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
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February 12, 2008 at 9:41 am
I am so glad I wasn’t the only one to win $2,000,000.00, I would have felt bad that I was it. Thank you for the website. I don’t like it when people try to scam agencies that are non-profit. They don’t make money anyway (duh, non-profit). Anyway this is a great website. Keep up the good work.
February 12, 2008 at 11:09 am
Abcpregnancy,
Thanks so much for your comment and don’t feel too bad about loosing the 2 million. I suggest using an “undisclosed-recipients” Email address. I have made millions with mine. Sometimes it is a lotto, other times grants or inheritances.
However, don’t let anybody know about our little secret, it is one of the clues that I will be including in my new book “How to get Scammed and make a Million in just 24 Hrs.”
Cheers,
Gariell
April 24, 2008 at 4:35 am
Hi everyone.
Thank you for the page.
The prize is now up to 5 mio USD and the address changed to Greece.
The amazing thing is if you ask for more info they reply - see below.
Unbelievable.
—– Original Message —-
From: Executive Sec
Subject: Association Of European Charity Foundations Claims Form !
Attn:
I mr David Palmer wish to congratulate you and formally inform you that you have been
selected to receive the sum of US$5,000,000.00 Five Million United
States Dollars) which is been organized by Association Of European Charity Foundations.
You are to fill in the below form and indicate the method you prefer to recieve your won price.
Full Name Of Beneficiary…………………………………………………..
Address…………………………………………………………………
City/State………………….Country……………………………………
Nationality…………………sex……Country…………………………..
Tel………………………..Fax…………..Marital status…………….
Place of Birth……………………………Date Of Birth………………
Winner E-mail Address………………………………………………..
Next Of KIN
Name: MR/MRS……………………………………………………….
Amount won
In Figure…………………………………………………………
Qualification NO………………………………………………….
PAYMENT ONLY BY ONLINE WIRE
1: ONLINE TRANSFER 2: PAYMENT BY CHEQUE
This process is vital and urgent following the instruction from our clients that all donations
should be claimed not later than 15days from now otherwise your cash donation will be returned
back to its original source which means you have lost your cash award.
Once again accept our congratulations and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Executive Secretary
Mr. David Palmer
Tel:+31645417701
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