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Mageed Yahia Sent Me An Email…

Mageed Yahia Sent Me An Email…

Apr 10, 2024 | My Email Communications, Phishing Email, phishing email without link or attachment

Yesterday I received an email from a person claiming to be Mageed Yahia. He said that he is Director of Payment in the UN Foreign Office. I don't know what is UN Foreign Office, but let us leave it at that. What is interesting however is that though he claimed to be from UN, he used an email that had nothing to do with UN – nextage@nit.ne.jp.  I fail to understand why UN personnel should be sending an official email from a .jp domain? A clear indication that it is a fake email phishing for information to defraud me.

In the email he informed me that my compensation/winning payment was approved today by the Board and Directors of the United Nation Committee on Rewards and Compensation. He did not tell me how much money I would be getting. My email communication with him is reproduced below. My comments on his email are in red.

Email from Mageed Yahia

From: Mageed Yahia <nextage@nit.ne.jp> UN personnel sending email from this email id?
Sent: Monday, April 8, 2024 9:07 PM
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary.</nextage@nit.ne.jp>

Attention: Beneficiary.

I am writing to inform you that your compensation/winning payment was approved today by the Board and Directors of the United Nation Committee on Rewards and Compensation.

You are therefore advised to reconfirm your details to enable the financial department to release your payment to you without delay. Thus, Reconfirm the following:

1.Your Full Name
2. Address:
3. Your Direct phone number:

We look forward to your prompt response via: mageedyahia@aliyun.com (In my experience, a phising email sender asks for reply on another email id. Not on the same email address from whcih the email has been sent. I wonder why? Also it is interesting to note that the reply email domain is aliyun.com – Alibaba Cloud, a Chinese company)

Thank you.
Mageed Yahia.
Director of Payment,
UN Foreign Office

My reply to Mageed Yahia

Dear Mr. Mageed Yahia

Thank you for your email informing me about approval of my compensation / winning payment having been approved by the Board of Directors of the United Nation Committee on Rewards and Compensation.

I don't know what this is for. I did not apply to the UN for any compensation. I also dod not participate in any competition. SO what is this for. Can you please highlight so that I can share my details.

best regards

Sanjeev Sharma

Let us now wait and see what reply I get. 

United Bank of Africa: Email from Kennedy Ozuoka

United Bank of Africa: Email from Kennedy Ozuoka

Nov 23, 2022 | My Email Communications, phishing email without link or attachment

Today, I received an email from a person who claimed to be Kennedy Ozuoka of United Bank of Africa. The email was as usual offering me money that I had been scammed off. I could immediately see that it was a scam email. There were many red herrings in the email. Given below is my communication with Mr. Kennedy Ozuoka. My comments are as usual in red.

Email from “Kennedy Ozuoka” of United Bank of Africa

From: Mr Kennedy Ozuoka <eduardo@world-soccer-academy.com> What is a Director of United Bank of Africa doing with an email with domain world-soccer-academy.com? And who is eduardo? Kennedy Ozuoka's pet name?? This is Red Herring One.
Sent: 23 November 2022 19:14 Email sent after office hours. Woking overtime, eh?
Subject: United bank for Africa. (U.B.A )

UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA –
AFRICA'S GLOBAL BANK
HEAD OFFICE ADDRESS UBA HOUSE

I Am Mr Kennedy Ozuoka the director cash processing united bank for
African the international monetary fund (I.M.F.) in conjunction with
Organization of African Unity (O.A.U) is compensating all the scam
victims with $1.500.000.00USD (Bad English, bad formatting and bad grammer. My antenna was screaming – scam, scam, scam…)

and your email address was found in the scam victim's, the united bank
for African and Federal Reserve Bank has been mandated by the (I.M.F)
to pay your compensation ($1.500, 000.00USD) in cash through means of
diplomatic courier service hand delivery, (More bad English)

Take note that Three thousand united states dollars (usd$3,000) have
been mapped out for all expenses in taxes and other documents that
matters.
Therefore, do forward your home address, direct phone number to this email,
mrkennedyozuokapersonal@gmail.com (another indication that it is a scam email. Note that the email address is different from the email address used to send the message)

Please reply/direct to this email:
mrkennedyozuokapersonal@gmail.com
Mr Kennedy Ozuoka
Managing Director
United bank for Africa. (U.B.A

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Whenever I get such emails, I always Google to see if there are similar emails going around. This time my search for Kennedy Ozuoka took me to a Facebook post by the real Kennedy Ozuoka. He states in the post – It has come to my attention that people claiming to be Mr. Kennedy Uzoka send scam mails to innocent individuals urging them to part with their monies or other…

See the post here

As I have mentioned in one of my earlier articles, I like to understand how the mind of the scammer works. What does he desire? What will he ask for? So I communicate with them.

My reply to “Kennedy Ozuoka” of
United bank for Africa

Sanjeev Sharma 
to mrkennedyozuokapersonal

Dear Mr Kennedy Ozuoka

Many thankyou for your email telling me about the money that is going to be given by you to me because of the scam that I went through. (I have tried to be bad with my English too!)

I thank you and also the MOnetary Fund of the World and the United Bank of Africa for this wonderful thing.

What is this thing about 3000 US dollars that mapped for expenses? You will deduct that money from my payment? That is fine with me.

My address is: (Here the address and phone number have be anonymised)

XX-1234
Locality in Delhi
New Delhi
INdia

My phone number is 123456789

I look forward to receiving the money. Then I'll give you a big party.😍

best regards

Sanjeev Sharma

I now await reply from Mr. Kennedy Ozuoka. Will keep you posted

Email From Stefano Pessina – CEO Walgreens Boots Alliance

Email From Stefano Pessina – CEO Walgreens Boots Alliance

Nov 9, 2022 | My Email Communications, Phishing Email without attachment

Today I received an interesting email from a person who claimed to be Stefano Pessina, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance.  He informed me that he would like to donate to me pwersonally One Million Pounds! At least the figure he mentioned seemed like a million pounds. But you may like to read the email for yourself and comment on it.

My communication with Stefano Pessina to understand his game plan is given below. My comments are in red, as usual.

Email from “Stefano Pessina” – CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance

From: STEFANO <pessina@info.com> (CEO of such a large organisation using public email id???)
Sent: 02 November 2022 22:00 (Email sent on Nov 2, received by me on Nov 9? Something's phishy, oops fishy)
To: Recipients <pessina@info.com> (oh. So he has not wrotten to me directly. I am one of the recepients. So sad. This is a RED heering for phishing emails)
Subject: CONGRATULATION €1,000.000,00 HAS BEEN DONATED TO YOU (Is it thousand pounds or 10 million pounds?)

Hello,

I'm Stefano Pessina, an Italian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist the vice chairman chief executive officer (CEO) and the single largest shareholder of Walgreens Boots Alliance I gave away 25 percent of my personal wealth to charity And I also pledged to give away the rest of 25% this year 2022 to Individuals I have decided to donate €1,000.000,00 to you If you are interested in my donation, do contact me for more information.

You can also read more about me from the link below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Pessina

Warm Regard

CEO Walgreens Boots Alliance

Stefano Pessina

—

This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.

www.avg.com

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My reply to Stefano Pessina

Sanjeev Sharma <xyz@gmail.com>
22:02 (0 minutes ago)
to stefanopessina59

Dear Mr. Stefano

I would like to thank you very very much for the donation that you are giving to me. Thank you man. You are GREAT!!

How did you get to know about me? Also how did you get to know that I needed money at this time? This is just in time for me.

May GOD bless you with all HIS moight.

I read about you and your company. You are supposed to be great and rich and the biggest owner of Walgreens.

Tell me how do I get the donation that you want to give to me?

I am your servant

Sanjiv Gautam

Reply from Stefano Pessina

DONATION GRANT PROCEDURE

STEFANO PESSINA
Wed, 9 Nov, 22:18 (3 days ago)
to me

Dear Beloved,

I appreciate you for writing back to me. Do not be bothered as to why
you have been contacted for this donation, I have done so from a pure
motive. I felt strongly to write to you since you have decided to
contacted me back. I am Stefano Pessina,(born June 4, 1941) an
Italian citizen, chairman of Walgreens Boots Alliance..I may not know you, but I
believe you were chosen by the Holy Spirit to receive my cash grant
donation of €1,000.000,00Euro(one million Euro) and i
believe that Good things happens to
those people who wait and also believe. Be assured you stand no risk
as this is my personal money, for source and verification, you can
read more about me with the below links:

You can see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Pessina

The intention of this email is to be of immense blessing to people.
With my age,(81 years old) I cannot continue to amass wealth without
giving out. I own a net-worth of over $9 Billion. I will want you
to alleviate the level of poverty in your region and also try to
enhance the standard of living of as many people as you can because
that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first
place. This you can also read on Forbes with the below link

https://www.forbes.com/profile/stefano-pessina/#587835cc68dc

I have not very much to spend money on, so I am indulging myself with
such act that will be considered a blessing to others. It is my hope
that as you receive this money it would be of great use to you and
that you can also assist others from it. The way you emailed me, So as
other individuals are contacting in regard of the Donation.. If you
know you are ready to receive the funds of €1,000.000,00Euro(one
million Euro)Kindly confirm readiness by formally
introducing yourself in detail.

Full Name:

Your Country:

Address:

Age:

Occupation:

Cell Number:

Marital Status:

Sex:

Monthly Income.

Your Religion:

What would you do with this money:

There after i issue a letter of authorization to the finance firm
regarding this Donation..Please my Friend, this is my personal
wealth and it doesn't need many formal procedures, and for the sake
that it might seem too easy for you to receive this gift, I would
crave your indulgence not to come back after these donation so that i
can be able to reach other needy. I am doing this as a free-spirit
gift and I made the contact myself to everyone who can see my email.

I will wait for your email to do further.
Warm Regards

Stefano Pessina

My reply to Stefano Pessina

Sanjeev Sharma
to STEFANO

Dear STEFANO

Thank you for your email. I am happy to know that you have decided to donate one million Euro to me. And yes, you are right, I should not be bothered as to why
I have been contacted for this donation by you. As they say, eat mango and don't count the trees. I am sure that you have done this from a pure
motive. Sure, you do not know me, but I too believe that I was chosen by the Holy Spirit to receive your cash grant donation of €1,000.000,00Euro(one million Euro) and I also firmly believe that Good things happen to those people who wait and also believe. And I am a believer.

You are indeed an immense blessing to people. I would pray that you continue to amass wealth so that you can do His Good work. I will use your donation to alleviate the level of poverty in my region and also try to enhance the standard of living of as many people as I can.

I assure you that the money I receive would be of great use to me and I will also assist others from it. I am ready to receive the funds and my details are given below

Full Name: Sanjeev Sharma

My Country: India

Address: ab-abcdef, XYZ Area, New Delhi

Age: 58

Occupation: Service

Cell Number: 91XXX7AA55

Marital Status: Married

Sex: Male

Monthly Income. 1200 Euro

Your Religion: Hinduism

What would I do with this money: I will help the poor and the elderly so that they are able to live a good dignified life.

I will be forever thankful to you for your gift and will not ask for more again from you. I will also use the money that you give to help as many people as possible.

best Regards

Sanjeev

I now await reply from Stefano Pessina

I'll keep you posted about the developments that happens bewteen Stefano Pessina and me. Stay tuned.

 

Rose George Sent Me An Email

Rose George Sent Me An Email

Oct 3, 2022 | My Email Communications, phishing email without link or attachment

Last year, sometime in January I received an email from a person claiming to be Ms. Rose George. She said that she would like to give me $750,000 for some help that I gave her! I do not remember helping any Rose George. But, I guess I have Alzheimer's or Dementia! Frankly I don't remember that as well! Any way, jokes apart, my email communication with her is reproduced below. My comments on her email are in red.

Email from Rose George

From: Ms. Rose George <no-reply@elearnlanguage.com>
Sent: 11 January 2021 12:23
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam]Your bank Check. Merry Christmas !!! (ah! Advantages of an anti-virus. It marks the email as spam – see the Norton AntiSpam in the subject line? Invest in a good anti-virus)

Hello friend,

Did you receive my last email which i sent to you from Thailand? Anyway, the message was to inform you that I have successfully moved the funds to Paris, France. I am using this opportunity to thank you for your great effort, time and concern you showed to help me out, even though we did not succeed following one reason or the other best known to you. (Yes, I know. It is because there was no such effort. At least I don't remember) It was with the help of a French business tycoon who was capable of assisting me in this great venture via a diplomatic means.

For your effort, sincerity, and trustworthiness, you showed at the beginning of the transaction, I have decided to compensate you and show my gratitude with the sum of $750,000. (Wow! If only every sincere  person was shown gratitude of scuh magnitude! The world would be full of good samaratins only) I have authorized my new lawyer who is now also my legal adviser in Bangkok, Thailand to issue you an International certified bank cashiers check which I signed in your favor before leaving Thailand for Paris. I will like you to contact the lawyer for the collection procedure of this international certified bank check, and below is the contact information's of the lawyer:.

(Mr): Richard Morgan
Email: info.richardmorgan28893904@gmail.com

At the moment, I'm very busy here because of the investment projects which I and my new partner are having at hand in Paris France. Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to the Lawyer on your behalf to send the bank Check to you as soon as you contact him without delay.

Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart. I wish you a strong and successful new year.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Regards,

Ms. Rose George

My reply to Rose George

Re: Your bank Check. Merry Christmas !!!

Richard Harris <rh@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Sept, 23:13 
to info.richardmorgan28893904</rh@gmail.com>

Dear Mr. Richard Morgan,

I received an email from Ms. Rose George (God bless her) last year. I was very ill. Practically on my death bed, so to speak because of this stupid Coron virus. But I am a stubborn old man and I am not so easy to kill for a virus. That originated in China. Even quality of their virus is so bad. Huh!

She said that she is giving me some money. I am really thanksfull Ms Rose for her gesture.

So tell me, when are you going to send me the money.

Yours sincerly

Richard Harris

Email to new lawyer of Rose George was sent very late

As you can see, I had sent the email very late. I have so far not received any reply. Maybe they have moved on to new email address.Anyway, whatever happens I'll keep you posted about the Rose George saga.

Godwin Emefiele Approves 27 Million Dollars Payment!

Godwin Emefiele Approves 27 Million Dollars Payment!

Sep 23, 2022 | My Email Communications, phishing email without link or attachment

Last year, sometime in May I received an email from a person claiming to be Dr Godwin Emefiele, the New Chief Executive Officer CEO of Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN). He mentioned that I could get 27 million USD! My communication with him is reproduced below. My comments on his email are in red.

Email from Godwin Emefiele

From: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) <henryboat67@gmail.com> (Why would someone claiming to be Godwin Emefiele, CEO of Central Bank of Nigeria send an email from gmail and that too as ‘henryboat'?)
Sent: 18 May 2021 08:07
To: undisclosed-recipients: (He is offering me 27 million USD and not using my email – classic phishing email addressed to many as undisclosed recepients)
Subject: Attention Beneficiary,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
TINUBU SQUARE, P.M.B. 12194,
LAGOS ISLAND, LAGOS NIGERIA.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT.
CONTRACT #: MAV/NNPC/FGN/MIN/013,
SWIFT CODE: CBNINGLA,
A/C#: 329606=101244=169=678
OUR REF: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/11
PHONE NUMBER:+234-701-945-9583.
(Central Bank of Nigeria email on gmail domain??)
GREETINGS FROM THE BOARD AND MANAGEMENT OF CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA CBN) URGENT RESPONSE REGARDING YOUR FUND APPROVED PAYMENT OF $27,000,000.00 (TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS)
Attention: Beneficiary,
My Name is Dr Godwin Emefiele, I am the New Chief Executive Officer CEO of Central Bank Of Nigeria(CBN), This is to alert you that your name and email address is on the Central Computer among the list of unpaid contractors, Inheritance next of kin, Compensation fund and lotto beneficiaries that originated from Africa (Nigerian Government) Europe, Asia Plus Middle East, Americans) Among the list of individuals you are a beneficiary to receive an inheritance fund payment worth the sum of $27,000,000.00 (TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ) which has been approved by the Federal Government and deposited into our bank for your immediate payment but we need your urgent confirmation to this Bank today because in our Bank there was a presence of One Mr John Norbert of 122 Fitch Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 USA filing an application contrary to your inheritance fund with this Bank. The above mentioned person ( Mr.John Norbert of 122 Fitch Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 USA ) visited this Bank today with a power of attorney given in his favor by you stating that you are dead and you granted him the benefit to process and claim your inheritance fund of $27,000,000.00 (TWENTY-SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ) with this Bank for personal reasons, He further stated that he is ready to pay up every necessary fee involve to complete the wire transfer of your fund into his account that the online account will be terminated while your fund should be wired directly into his own Bank account below in Bank of America immediately.
Bank Name; Bank Of America.
Account Number # 12908576457
Routing Number# 121000358:
Account Name# John Norbert.
The management of this Bank wish to know from you today if you know this man? Your confirmation to the above will be appreciated as we look forward to hearing from you soon if you are still alive before the commence of the transfer of your fund into Mr. John Norbert of 122 Fitch Way, Sacramento, CA 95864 USA provided bank account, As the new CEO of this Noble Bank, I was supposed to Release this Funds to Mr John Norbert today but I refused to do so because I wanted to hear from you first to know if truly you are dead or still alive because due to the nature of my job I will not want to make any mistake in Releasing this Funds to anyone except you who is the Recognized beneficiary to this Funds, therefore, i instructed Mr. John Norbert to come back to this Bank in the next 24 hours for me to make inquiries and further investigations if you are truly dead.
You are advise to quickly call me on my phone number +234-701-1945-9583 and contact me immediately once you receive this email reply to my email address which is (cbnbankofnigeria637@gmail.com) as soon as possible today, As soon as I receive your urgent response to this Bank today that you are still alive I will quickly proceed with the processing of your fund transfer payment into your own account or any other means which you will like or desire to receive your fund because it has been approved for your immediate payment. Thank you for your kind understanding as We look forward to hearing from you in this Bank today.
BEST REGARDS,
DR. GODWIN EMEFIELE,
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO)
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
PHONE NUMBER:+234-701-945-9583.

My reply to Godwin Emefiele

Sanjeev Sharma <ss@ss.com> To:
henryboat67@gmail.com,
cbnbankofnigeria637@gmail.com

Tue, 16 Nov, 2021 at 4:30 pm

Dear Dr Godwin,

Your email is indeed Godsent. I am sorry to write back so late. I was suffering from this bloody virus Coronoa and have receovered now with God's grace.

I have not given any power of attorney to anyone that I am dead. I am alive. He must have known that I was critical and so he went to you. I think he hopped (I can also make spelling mistakes!) that I will be dead soon.

I do not know that man. I hope I am not late is replying. I was not well as you can know.

I would be happy if you can return me my money. Do let me know the ways to do that.

I remain your faithfully

Sanjeev Sharma

I did not receive a reply to this email. However, a new email was received by me sometime later, askimg me if I was Dead or Alive?

Dan Okeke Sent Me An Email Offering 18.5 Million USD!

Dan Okeke Sent Me An Email Offering 18.5 Million USD!

Aug 31, 2022 | My Email Communications, Phishing Email

Below you'll find my communication with one Mr. Dan Okeke who claimed that he was the Executive Director of United Bank for Africa PLC. I googled the name Dan Okeke and found that he was Executive Director of United Bank of Africa till August 2020. Interestingly, I had received the email from the person claiming to to be Dan Okeke in November 2020 – almost 3 months after he ceased to be holding that position.

Why I chose to write to “Dan Okeke” after almost 2 years

I replied to the email only today because I wanted to check the life of an email address of a scammer! Let us see if I get any reply to the email.

Email from “Dan Okeke”

From: unitedbankafrica109@gmail.com <unitedbankafrica109@gmail.com>
Sent: 18 November 2020 14:02
To: sanjeev@emaildomain.com
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam]Dear Friend,

Google forms

Dear Friend,

I wish to use this medium to inform you that your compensation payment of USD$18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from United Bank for Africa have been approved for onward transfer to you via an ATM DEBIT CARD which you will use to withdraw all the USD$18,500,000.00 in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$10,000.00 Only.

In regards to the recent meeting between the Africa Union and the Present United Kingdom Government to restore the dignity and Economy of the Nations, Base on the Agreement with the International Monetary Funds Assistance to help and make the world a better place for all with the sole aim of abolishing poverty. We have been having a meeting for the passed 5 months which ended 2 days ago. The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the Government of United Kingdom and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the Government of Nigeria to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to Foreigners and Compensate all that have lost their hard earned money to the Nigerian Fraudsters.

This email is to all the people that have had an unfinished transaction in any part of the world, the Africa Union have agreed to compensate them with the sum of USD$18,500,000.00 (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems, Contracts Sum, Lottery/Gambling etc. Your name and email was in the list Submitted by our Monitoring Teams of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.

You are advised to acknowledge this message. This funds has been credited in ATM CARD for security purpose ok? So we shall send it to you by DHL delivery Company, UPS, FedEx or by any means of your choice and you can withdraw in any ATM Cash Point Machine Worldwide at the daily limit of $10,000 usd. Acknowledge this message immediately for your ATM VISA CARD Delivery with the following information.

1. Full name: ============================== ========
2. Phone number: ============================== =====
3. Home address for the Delivery====================
4. Date of Birth========================= ===========
5. Your Occupation==================== ==============
6. A copy of your driving license. =================

We are very sorry for the plight you have gone through in the past years. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our congratulations.

Contact E-mail: unitedbankfrica20@gmail.com

Best Regards.

Dan Okeke
Executive Director
United Bank for Africa PLC

Link to Google forms

My heartfelt reply to Dan Okeke

RE: Dear Friend,

Sanjeev Sharma <sanjeev@emaildomain.com>
to unitedbankfrica20

Dear Mr. Dan Okeke

Thanks you sooo much for your email. I am really sorry that I am sooo late in replying. I was unwell. Had got covid and then I was ridden to the bed for a long time as I was very week. My family had lost every hope that I will live. But they say that old bones are strong. And my bones are old but strong. SO I live.

I think I live because I will see 18.5 million US dollars in my account. I will give thumb to all who thought that I had no money. I have so much money with you bank. Thanks you Mr.. Dan. You are GOd.

I will give thank you to you and Goverment of Uniteg Kingdom and NIgeria and Monetary Fund and everyone who is honest.

Tell me how I can get the ATM card. I am healthy and I can come to Nigeria to collect if you want me to do that. I will have the honor of meeting with you also in that way.

Thanks you

Sanjeev Sharma