Hi a while ago i got an email from a mr Edward lopez email address edward_lopez20@hotmail.com or edward_lopez01@live.com, and this person ruined my life, i know i should have not believed him, and my family tried to tell me but i was stuburn. This was the first email i got from carloslgarcia@centennialpr.net

Subject: YOUR ATM CARD ($500,000 USD)

Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS BEENATTACHED TO AN INHERITANCE FILE AND YOU HAVE BEEN ENTITLED TO A ATMCARD. Contact for More Information:NAMES : Mr.Edward LopezEMAIL:edwardclaimsunit@hotmail.com Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS BEENATTACHED TO AN INHERITANCE FILE AND YOU HAVE BEEN ENTITLED TO A ATMCARD. Contact for More Information:NAMES : Mr.Edward LopezEMAIL:edward_lopez01@live.com

I think i knew it might have been a scam but my ignorance got the better of me and so i got involved.
I contacted Mr Edward Lopez and i felt like i could trust him calling me a close friend of his and like a sister to him and what not.
This is the email i got after contacting him.

Senate Committee On Appropriation And Finance
28th Floor 51/55 Broad Street ,
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPLEX THREE ARM ZONE
ABUJA, NIGERIA
(OCEANIC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC)


Attn: Sara Paxton,

This is to acknowledge the receipt of the order from the senate house, in respect with the provision act of decree 114 of the 1999 constitution; I am directed to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is correct. Therefore, we are happy to inform you that arrangements have been concluded to effect your payment as soon as possible and in our bid to transparency.

All necessary documents that will facilitate the clearance of your ATM Card in your name has been processed. Your ATM Card contains the following documents:

ATM CARD NUMBER: 6148733187030018
YOUR PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER IS ( For Beneficiary Only, Inside your document )
THE ATM CARD VALUE SUM OF $500,000.00 USD ONLY
MAXIMUM WITHDRAWAL VALUE OF $5,000.00 USD IS PERMITTED ON WITHDRAW PER DAY AND WE ARE DULY INTER SWITCH AND YOU CAN MAKE INTER SWITCH AND WITHDRAW IN ANY LOCATION OF ATM CENTER OF YOUR CHOICE.

The ATM offers a convenient secure and widely acceptable . At the ATM you can do the Following.

CASH WITHDRAWAL:
BALANCE ENQUIRY:
PIN CHANGE:
MINI STATEMENT(LAST 10 TRANSACTIONS)*
FUNDS TRANSFER (BETWEEN CARD HOLDERS)
BILL PAYMENT*
AIRTIME PURCHASE

We have concluded delivery arrangement with GLOBAL SPEED COURIER SERVICES LIMITED NIGERIA, to be fully insured by Nicon Insurance Corporation. In view of this development, you are requested to choose from the options listed below your choice and cost of delivery via Global Speed Courier Services. As you choose from the Option Of Delivery you have to know that you will be making payment Immediately before we can forge ahead with the delivery of your ATM Card to you.

GSCS GOLD (2 DAYS DELIVERY)
Mailing $175.00 00.00
Insurance $100.00 00.00
Vat (5%) $176.00 00.00
TOTAL $451.00 00.00


GSCS SILVER ( 3 DAYS DELIVERY)
Mailing $100.00 00.00
Insurance $180.00 00.00
Vat (5%) $100.00 00.00
TOTAL $380.00 00.00


GSCS BRONZE (5 DAYS WEEK DELIVERY)
Mailing $100.00 00.00
Insurance $120.00 00.00
Vat (5%) $80.00 00.00
TOTAL $300.00 00.00



CONFIRM YOUR INFORMATION BELOW:
RECEIVERS NAME:


DELIVERY ADDRESS:


COUNTRY & TEL NUMBER:


DELIVERY OPTION:




N:B. That Delivery will be made to your address in 48 hours (2 days) after our confirmation of this payment for delivery, as you know that the delivery fee receipt will be used to attached on your payment delivery documents to avoid being delayed by customs.So please do fill and Choose from the Option of Delivery to enable me furnish you with the Information for Payment.

Treat very urgently as we also remind you that your ATM Card is ready.

Congratulations.
Thank you.

All i had to do was pay some fees to get my $500,000 (and these fees were over thousands of dollars but i though it would be worth it.
I would like to note now that another email address that is included in this scam is that of a real bank of nigeria, but although the bank is real i later found out that the email address ebnking-centralplc@live.com was not the banks actual address, i probably should have seen it earlier that the address was a @live.com address which is a free server for anyone to use and no real bank would use a public server. this is an example of an email the "so called bank" sent.


CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC

Dear Sara Paxton,

Compliment of the season as we want to inform you that we have been contacted By Mr.Edward Lopez to give you more time,that you are going to make the required payment within a month or less. We want to inform you that we will be awaitin your payment that will enable us Transfer your Money into your Australian Account. We will want you to always keep intouch with Mr.Edward Lopez either by Email Or Phone till the date given for the payment of $6,300 USD.

Thank you as we await your Payment/Account Information.

Mr. Keith Pitt
CBN Director.

After some time i had some doughts on whether i should have gone into this whole business, and i told edward that i was not sure about the whole thing, and my worries about this being a scam.
Later on i got an email from his "secretary" saying that on the way to delievering my fee, he got into a terrible car accident, (where a photo was sent for proof, which i later found was just a photo of a random car crash from google), and also saying that it was my fault because while driving edward got my email on my doughts of him being a legit person and was apparently disstress by my even considering him to be a fraud that he swirved and crashed braking his collar bone and now needing life threating surgery. Not only that but edward emailed me later saying that he could not deliver the fee in his condition and that his wallet was nowhere to be found and need me to pay for some of his surgery, asking for about $1700 something,
And so feeling bad that it was my fault for his condition i dug into my diminishing bank account and gave him the money.
After a while he then says that i have to pay the fee for my $500,000 again because he did not get it, but i know i had payed for it i had all the receipts for it and everything, so i looked in to this and found the REAL bank of nigeria had not contacted me it was a fake address which edward himself was most likey pretending to be the bank at which he associated with.
I have asked for help from the scam report web sites but they cannot do anything or get my money back because it is from a diiferent country.
SO I WARN EVERY ONE NOW THAT MAY COME IT TO CONTACT WITH THIS EVIL PERSON TO INSTANTLY DELET AND BLOCK HIS EMAIL.
I hope my experience comes to a lesson to anyone that may have problems with believing in scams that are to good to be true as i do.

Sara_Paxton Welcome to4129legal. I am very sorry to hear that you lost money to these crooks!
Thank you for having the courage to post your story, as it will help any others who Google the name Edward lopez. I have put his name up top so that the Google spiders will pick it up and any queries will lead people here!

If any one else gets any emails from this crook Edward lopez then please post them here as well, lets get this crook known!

As you say, sadly you will not get any of the money back, but if it is any consolation, quite a few sites are working hard on these criminals and we are having some success's ! Quite a few are not having it all their own way!

For operational security I cannot say what we are doing, but some of the scammers are now having a very hard time !
Thanks again and surf safe.

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Thought I would just add this e mail I recently received:

STAR MEGA BUCKS AWARD DEPARTMENT
151 Canada Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 5DY, United Kingdom
Batch No: SMBA/2907/444/908/07
Ticket No: 45407
Lucky No: 3-18-40-40-76
Serial No: 51622
Ref No: SMB/WIN/008/07/03/LUK

WINNING NOTIFICATION LETTER

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
balloting sweepstake held on th of 4/9/2009. This is a millennium
scientific computer game in which email addresses were used.It is a
promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore
you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it. You have been approved
for one of the prizes along side four other lucky winners.Your prize is
worth 1,000,000.00 Pounds (One Million Pounds Sterling Only), as you
won in
the forth Category of the programme.

To file for your claim, please contact our verification department:

Mr. Edward Lopez
INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE DIRECTOR
1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 5DY, United Kingdom
Email:claims@9.cn
Telephone:+447035903955

VERIFICATION FORM

1.FULL NAME:
2.SEX:
3.AGE:
4.OCCUPATION:
5.NATIONALITY:
6.PHONE NUMBER:
7.DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION:
8.Batch No:
9.Ref No:
10. How do you feel as a Win.
INDICATE YOUR MODE OF PAYMENT:

**VIA COURIER DELIVERY____________________

**VIA BANK WIRE TRANSFER________________

Good luck from me and members of STAR MEGA BUCKS AWARD DEPARTMENT

Best Regards,
Mrs.Chinonso Ejofor
(Management).
London, United Kingdom