The Money Laundering Unit warns against online attempts and displays its patterns
Some of the pioneers of social networking sites and personal email owners are trying to set up more than one medium in the Internet space, including receiving messages from anonymous people claiming to have money abroad and wishing to send them to the recipient of the message in return for paying the fees and expenses of transferring the money. The AML / CFT Unit is a warning against these letters on a regular basis.
The Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Unit said on its website that in light of the economic and social scene witnessed by some financial crimes, which are the operations of the monument to which some individuals and entities have been exposed and the consequent losses of great material, the unit warns of the types of monuments that Recently, they have been used to make citizens aware of a set of guidelines for dealing with them and how to avoid being exposed to losses.
The pattern of messages is the Nigerian monument, the first pattern of the monument, which is usually through sending an email from the State of Nigeria, offering the recipient the opportunity to participate in a certain percentage in several million dollars for the assistance of the sender of the message to smuggle from Nigeria, and this scheme to convince the victim to send several Amounts for the sender of the letter under the pretext of expenses.
The Unit stated that some of the victims had been lured to Nigeria, where they had been imprisoned for the purpose of seizing the funds, as well as the large sums lost.
The second is a Ponzi scheme invented by Charles Ponzi (an Italian born and resident in the United States) in the early 1990s, which is carried out through the operations of the monument under the guise of the recruitment of funds, where the victims of the proceeds of large dividends or dividends by investing funds from these victims In a particular area.
The third type is called the "pyramid scheme". This scheme is similar to the Ponzi scheme in using the funds collected from the new victims to pay the profits of the older victims in order to give a suitable legal cover for that scheme , Where it is offered to the person to market or distribute a particular product, and profit is usually generated by the creation of new distribution networks and not from the sale of the same product, and focuses on the sale of distribution networks instead of the product to a point where the presence of other potential investors and then fall Pyramid Marketing.
Regarding the instructions issued by the Unit to the citizens to deal with those messages, I warned against responding to these messages under any circumstances and mistrust any persons who present themselves as government officials in Nigeria or any foreign country and request assistance in the transfer of large funds across borders, Bank account carefully and not sent to anonymous persons.
She added that it is necessary to be cautious of any investment opportunity claiming to generate excessive profits, and always used caution in choosing the appropriate investment field, check the legitimacy of any investment or marketing mechanism before entering, and in the case of the impact of the victim of those messages and funds were transferred abroad From resorting to the competent authorities to take legal action.
(t) Money Laundering (t) Forms of e-Monument (t) Letters Nigerian Monument (t) Ponzi Scheme (t) Pyramid Scheme
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