Nigeria Scam
There are many tactics had been employed, although it has changed over the years, but overall idea still the same. The way it is done is to entice victim by laying the bait (the so called 419 eater). And normally greedy prey will fall victim to this kind of bait, and what worse, it will sink deeper and deeper until no way back (money will be squeezed dry).
In recent case, the scam artist appears in Facebook. The popular social media is the perfect ground for the scammers to lay traps or baits. And one of my friend has been requested to be his friend. The profile of this guy is very good. It portrays clean and honest image and it has been planned quite well in the hope that the prey will be easily taken by his words.
So, the baits are the love , the promises of the travelling around the world, and the millions. The baits are simply irresistible, and too good to be true. Well, victim will be slowly drawn to the trap by setting up some kind of scenario that make it look real. eg. If victim is married, compensation for divorce, children, etc ..
So, this scam artist by the name of Anderson xxxxxx (name masked due to others real good person), will be delivering maybe 4million pound or 5 million pound (amount doesn’t matter, can be any amount that are tempting). Not long after, the so called bank will contact you via email.
Refer this attachment, and initially everything seems nice, just to notify you of the sender intention. But later, when the bank recontact again saying that the transaction is approved. Take a look of this approved document. It will be to submit the processing fee. Initial stage, the payment will be small .. maybe few thousand, but this kind of scam, if you pay , it will make you sink deeper.. it will be after not long, the bank will contact and need further payment to finalize the transaction.
The psychology behind is, you already paid the amount and if you not proceed, you feel like the initial payment will be wasted and all hopes are gone and you will still harbour that feeling to finalize the payment so that you can get that big amount. Decision making will become irrational due to the human emotion. This is the weakness that the scammers want to take advantage of.
Just be with clear mind, and think about it. Anything that requires you to make payment like this, immediately stop doing it. Another thing to remember. Always, check their bank website. If you look at the email attachment website address, it is obviously a fake site.
Look at the web address in the email => http://www.skycapitalbank.page.tl/HOME.htm This website is obviously a fake one as the domain not end with .com or .org or .net which are normal commercial domain. You may check the parent domain page.tl and you will find out that this is a free website service.
And also check the email address. Official from bank or their representatives must use their own bank domain email address. They cannot be using hotmail or others free email.
Follow my instructions, and you will surely escape this scam. Another thing, these scammers are keep updating and perfecting their skills, in the end, it’s our greed that cause us harm. Avoid them like a plague, anything that needs you to come out with the money you just can’t believe it.
*P/S : In my opinion, this scammers is not expert enough to cheat people like this as the website, the email and the form created are just not professional enough and leave a lot of loopholes.
