NIGERIAN SCAM EMAIL:

The customer received a cashiers check and thought it suspicious, so the customer placed a hold on his own account for the amount of the check $9,000.  The check came back a week later as a fraudulent item.  As the customer had not wired or Western Union'ed the money as requested - they lost no money.

In the email below see how they instruct our customer to take another check to the bank to get it cashed.  They would be out this money had they sent the "remained balance" to the scammer.

They then received another email which the bank is telling them to ignore.  This is a copy of the contents of the email.  We removed some of the personal information for privacy and legal reasons.  We also sent this email to the Nigerian Embassy - not that we expect anything to happen.
 

Dear Sir,

Thank for your patient and co-operation, I understand that you have been having alot of patient, I tracked with FedEx now and the check will be delivered to you today, Here is the tracking #: XXXXXXXXXX .
 
Please follow this instructions.
 
1. Take the check to any nearest local bank in your area and get it cashed.
 
2. Deduct the amount for your item $3,900 from the $8,000 check that was delivered to you.
 
3. After your deduction, Send the remained balance via MONEY GRAM to my shipper's.: Here is my shipper's information:
 
                                                                      XXXXXX
                                                                      XXXXXX AVE
                                                                      IKEJA, LAGOS STATE 
                                                                      NIGERIA 23401.
 
4. Make sure you deduct the MONEY GRAM charges from the remained balance before wiring it to my shipper's
 
5. As soon as you wired the money, kindly email me back with the MONEY GRAM details such as:
 
Reference #:
Sender's Name:
Sender's Address and Amount Wired:

I will be expecting your respond shortly.
 
Regards.