This Satire is based on a genuine fraud attempt, in a new and very professional version of the years old Nigerian Millionaire scam. All photos and the attached contract came from the scammers. If this is your first reading of such scams do some Internet research on Nigerian scams.
Atlanta Center to close Major Contract
For immediate release: Atlanta Center in Healthcare Deal
The Atlanta Center for Policy Analysis,ACPA, a Georgia think-tank, announced today it was close to closing a lucrative deal with an overseas business consortium. The deal to help Force Healthcare of London, transfer funds from US based customers to the UK, will be effective once contracts are signed, with the ACPA acting as a representative for Force in the US.
Center Director, Ronald Pecorry, announced details of the proposed alliance at a press conference in mid-town Atlanta.
"Over the years we have set high targets for revenue growth and overseas expansion and we see the alliance
with Force as recognition of our increased international profile," enthused Pecorry, adding, "It has
nothing to do with our email address showing up randomly on the Internet.
Once we sign the representative contract which they emailed us, we will see a huge
increase in our top
line, with strong bottom line growth also."
Pecorry explained the terms of the deal in detail - Force clients in the US will send checks to the ACPA - these will not be stolen or forged checks - and we will in turn lodge them in the ACPA bank account. ACPA will take a clean 10% commission of the received check and wire the 90% balance to a UK based account.
Mrs. Carolina Evans of Force, who was unable to attend the launch due to a sudden, unexpected, last minute illness, explained via email that, "our
clients in the US pay us in US Checks. But these take weeks to clear, so with help from the ACPA, we will get our money faster. It's
worth it despite the high 10% commission." Mrs. Evans, an honest looking lady, with a lovely smile continued, "we are looking forward
to working with the ACPA and we have given them a written guarantee that none of the checks our clients send to the ACPA will bounce
in the days or weeks after we have received our 90% portion."
"Indeed, in the unlikely event that
some of those checks turned out to be fraudulent and bounce, then we have special insurance to cover Ronald's obligation to pay back the
bank the amount of the bounced check. He might have wired us our money before the check bounced, and the bank will expect him to cover the amount sent to us, but our insurance covers that. We know there are scams out there but this is a totally legitimate business," she wrote with the
heartfelt sincerity one would expect from an attractive Englishwoman.
Pecorry added that, "We have researched Force and we see that the although the emails came from an Internet cafe in Lagos, Carolina assured us that she was on vacation at the time - can you believe her dedication, she even works her vacation."
"We can't wait to get rich," Pecorry concluded.
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