Beware all Bridegrooms- A New Nigerian Mail Scam is
targeting you
People in India are familiar with "Love Jihadi"
where young women are lured into love and marriage only for the sake
of conversion to Islam and to be recruited to the terrorist activities
against the Country.
Now another interesting marriage proposal
which has hit the e-mail circuit. This aims at men and the bait is from a
23 year old girl living in Saudi Arabia. She has a story that she has
inherited US $ 900,000 (Approx Rs: 4.5 crores) from her deceased mother and
would be available to her only if she gets married.
The girl in distress wants to desperately have a
"Marriage Certificate" and if you can provide her with your name, she is
willing to share 20% of the inheritance money. She even proposes a
convenient means of marriage.. through contract.. probably by exchange of
e-mails or in a Chat room. (Copy of the mail available at the end of this
article).
Surely, a tempting offer to marry a 23 year old which
many would consider irresistible.
There is a catch though, the mother was in Nigeria and
the money has to be taken out of Nigeria. There is also a villain in the
horizon who is already threatening to kill her so that he can enjoy the
property.
It is quite likely that after the respondent spends some
money helping his fiancee to draw the money out of Nigeria, she may
suddenly be killed or the villain may threaten you so that you withdraw
from claiming the money. A great plot better than any of the earlier
Nigerian mail offers.
Recipients of the mail should be wary of even responding
to this mail out of curiosity since even parting personal details which
will be the first step towards consumating the marriage is sufficient to
steal your identity and create problems which can be exploited by
blackmail.
In case you respond further and plan to meet the girl in
Saudi Arabia, probably you would be arrested there for adultery or some
such charge and may never return to India.
Hope Indian youth are intelligent enough to avoid such
traps.
What Should ISPs do?
However, the incident raises one issue of "Due
Diligence" under ITA 2008 at the ISP level. Now that the presence of a mail
from "sweetfaria@inMail24.com"
is known and every sane person will understand that this is an attempted
fraud, there is a duty cast on the ISP to block the e-mail for "Prevention
of Cognizable Offence".
The CERT-IN l has the powers under Section 69A to order
the blocking of this mail and also any outgoing mails to this e-mail
address so that Indian money cannot be lost for such frauds which
ultimately may even fund terrorist or drug activities against the interest
of our country.
The relevant section 69A reads as under:
Power to issue directions for blocking
for public access of any information through any computer resource
(1) Where the Central Government or any of
its officer specially authorized by it in this behalf is satisfied that
it is necessary or expedient so to do in the interest of sovereignty and
integrity of India, defense of India, security of the State, friendly
relations with foreign states or public order or for preventing
incitement to the commission of any cognizable offence relating to above,
it may subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) for reasons to be
recorded in writing, by order direct any agency of the Government or
intermediary to block access by the public or cause to be blocked for
access by public any information generated, transmitted, received, stored
or hosted in any computer resource.
(2) The procedure and safeguards subject to
which such blocking for access by the public may be carried out shall be
such as may be prescribed.
(3) The intermediary who fails to comply
with the direction issued under sub-section (1) shall be punished with an
imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and also be
liable to fine.
Even before such a direction comes forth from
the CERT-In, the knowledge of such mail being in circulation as being
indicated through this article is a sufficient notice to ISPs and if they
donot take steps to stop this particular spam mail, they will be guilty of
not following due diligence. Hope they realize their responsibilities and
act.
Naavi
October 30, 2009
QUOTE:
From: "faaria fayez zafar" <sweetfaaria@inMail24.com>
To:
Date:
Subject: hello dear.
salam
I have been waithing for your reply my dear! listen ,After i went
through your contact;i decided to write to you. My name is faaria
Zafar ,I am 23yr old from Saudi Arabia but was bred up in Nigeria, I
came to Nigeria with my mother Mrs. Bodia Zafar,and we ve been
staying in Nigeria for over 15 yrs now because my mother had worked
in different oil companies in Nigeria.
Her last place of work was NLNG (Nigeria liquefied and Natural gas
limited, bonny)before she died of breast cancer last year. I inherit
Nine Hundred thousand US dollars from my mother which i can only
collect on the condition that I ve gotten married. Actually I would
not like to marry any man because of the way men had treated my
mother.
i never knew my father and she never said much about him ,but I know
that their marriage never work out and she divorced him. Ever since
then, he has never cared about her or me.
I hate him for that. My mother had a Nigerian male friend who never
cares about her feelings but wants her money. now desperate of taking
all her properties in Nigeria, which she had entrusted to him while I
was in school. He is even threatening to kill me if i try to stop his
devilish interest in any way. I hate him very much and will never
like him or any Nigerian Man.
My mother wanted me to get married and we some time quarreled over
the issue; maybe that was why she willed the money on that condition
.I recently graduated from university of Port Harcourt Nigeria and I
think am done with Nigeria and every thing about the country .All I
want is my money to be moved into a foreign account and I will get
out of the country as fast as I can imagine.
I will like you to help me provide a marriage certificate from your
country, which will present you as my husband, an account to transfer
my money and other of your details.
Or probably we can go into contract marriage if you will like that.
After the transfer, 20% of the money will be yours for using your
account, while 80% belong to me.
Please I need an urgent reply, as to send you my pictures, my
international passport and other things to enable
you obtain the marriage certificate.
Thanks for your Assistance! write to me through my private email {faaria23@rediffmail.com}
Regards,
Miss.Faaria Zafar.
UNQUOTE
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