NFIU Vision and Mission

NFIU Mission and Vision

Like any focused and result driven organization, the NFIU has goals and objectives. These goals are underpinned by the country's AML/CFT Strategy.

Our Vision

To be amongst the leading financial intelligence organizations in the world.

Our Mission

To safeguard the Nigerian financial system and contribute to the global fight against money laundering, terrorism financing and related crimes through the provision of credible financial intelligence.

Our Values

* Professionalism, integrity, fairness, innovation, respect, cooperation & trust;
* Maintain highest ethical standards;
* Fair, flexible, safe & rewarding workplace
* Act with care and diligence in the course of employment;
* Comply with the laws of the land;
* Comply with lawful and reasonable directives given by constituted authorities.

Some achievements so far

* Got Nigeria out the of NCCT List in June, 2006;
* Moved from Observer to Full Membership Status in Egmont Group by 1st Qtr 2007;
* Promoted enhanced quality of STRs submitted by reporting entities;
* Implementation of online reporting system for STRs and CTRs;
* Achieved Increased awareness of FIU activities within designated non-Financial Institutions;
* Seamless exchange of Intelligence Information with FIUs worldwide;
* Contributed to Increased number of ML/TF Investigations and Prosecutions, through qualitative intelligence.

US Delegates NFIU NEW YORK CITY - Verification.RE: Urgent Response did You Authorized Mr.page Liberty to Claim Your Funds

US Delegates NFIU NEW YORK CITY http://www.nfiu.gov.ng/ Attention Beneficiary, With all due respect. My name is Gene Wales one of the US delegates to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) presently in New York disbursing long outstanding over due funds to beneficiaries.please you can view the WEBSITE to confirm http://www.nfiu.gov.ng/ Please,we would want to know if you really authorize Mr.Page Liberty to claim your CONTRACT AWARD sum $35,700,000.000,00 as your next of KIN which has been deposited with the STANDARD CHARTERED BANK,ARIZONA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Please,your prompt response is needed before we shall proceed with the release of the funds through delivery of the ATM CARD,Certified bank draft,Bank to Bank wire transfer or Cash delivery to his location because what we have here is bearing your name as an AFFIDAVIT OF CLAIM has been endorsed on his name and please if you do not authorized him kindly forward your contact details to the standard chartered online banking which their contact information is below here. Your prompt response is needed and have a pleasant day. HERE ARE THE DOCUMENTS HE PROVIDED. 1. LETTER OF ADMINISTRATION. 2. HIGH COURT INJUNCTION. 3. ORDER TO RELEASE. BELOW HERE IS THE AUTHORIZED BANK CONTACT INFORMATION. BANK NAME: STANDARD CHARTERED ONLINE BANKING CONTACT PERSON:MR.DAN SCALAN CONTACT ADDRESS : ARIZONA U.S.A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIRECT PHONE NUMBER: 1( 3475147037 E-MAIL CONTACT: scblinda@hotmail.com E-MAIL ADDRESS: info.customerservice@standardchartereds.org Regards, Mr. Gene Wales

John Ube - Rép : reply

Dear Friend,

This office was contacted by Mr. Scott e. who claimed to be your brother. He promised to pay the needed fee of 70 for the clearance certificate fee and claim the fund as your next of kin. He said that you were involved in a car accident last week and die.

Thanks,

John Ube
+229 687 113 06
E-mail : claudiotoro@tin.it,westernnunions@outlook.com

Green goods scam

The green goods scam, also known as the "green goods game", was a fraudulent scheme popular among 19th-century "confidence games" in the United States. In the typical green goods scam, which bears a resemblance to the modern 419 Scam, the mark, or victim, would respond to flyers circulated throughout the country by the scammers ("green goods men") which claimed to offer "genuine" counterfeit currency, sometimes alleged to have been printed with stolen engraving plates, for sale.

The victim, frequently recruited from areas outside major cities, would be enticed to travel to the location of the green goods men to complete the transaction. After meeting with an accomplice (the "steerer") the victim would be shown large sums of genuine currency - represented to be counterfeit - that was then placed in a bag or satchel, which the victim would be offered the opportunity to purchase at just pennies on the dollar. While the victim negotiated a price or was otherwise distracted, another accomplice (the "ringer") would switch the money for a bag containing sawdust, green paper, or other worthless items. The unwitting victim would then exit, unaware of the switch. After discovering the ruse, it was believed that very few victims would report the crime, as attempting to purchase counterfeit currency was itself a crime and the victim accordingly risked arrest.

Customs chief Biazon, 33 others charged over 'pork' scam

MANILA, Philippines - Presidential ally and Bureau of Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon is among the 34 individuals charged by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Friday for their supposed involvement in the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam. Justice Sec. Leila de Lima said in a televised news conference that those included in the second batch of cases in the pork barrel scam were charged with malversation of public funds, graft and corruption, and direct bribery. Among those charged are seven former congressmen including Biazon, who allegedly got kickbacks from pork barrel funds that were diverted to bogus non-government organizations of suspected scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles, who was also charged again on Friday.

The lawmakers and the amounts of their supposed kickbacks are:

Salacnib Baterina (1st district, Ilocos Sur) - P7.5 million
Biazon (Muntinlupa) - P1.95 million
Marc Douglas Cagas IV (1st district, Davao del Sur) - P5.54 million
Douglas Cagas (1st district, Davao del Sur) - P9.3 million
Arrel Olano (1st district, Davao del Norte) - P3.1 million
Arthur Pingoy Jr (2nd district, South Cotabato) - P7.5 million
Rodolfo Valencia (1st district, Oriental Mindoro) - P2.41 million
De Lima said Biazon, Baterina and Cagas coursed their pork barrel funds to the Philippine Social Development Foundation, Inc. (PSDFI)

She said four more lawmakers should also be charged but they are already deceased. The others who were also charged on Friday include two representatives of congressmen, three heads and seven employees of implementing agencies, 12 state auditors and two presidents of alleged fake NGOs set up by Napoles.

Representatives of lawmakers

Zenaida Cruz-Ducut - former Pampanga 2nd District Rep and agent of Baterina, Biazon, Cagas and Pingoy)
Celia Cuasay - representative of Valencia

Heads of agencies

Alan Javellana - former president, National Agribusiness Corp. (NABCOR)
Antonio Ortiz - former director general, Technology Resource Center (TRC)
Dennis Cunanan - former deputy director general, TRC

Napoles NGO presidents

Mylene Encarnacion - Countrywide Agri and Rural Economic and Development Foundation, Inc (CARED)
Evelyn de Leon - PSDFI

Employees and officials of implementing agencies

Victor Cacal - NABCOR
Romulo Relevo - NABCOR
Ma. Ninez Gaunizo - NABCOR
Ma. Julie Villaralvo-Johnson - NABCOR
Rhodora Mendoza - NABCOR
Francisco Figura - TRC
Marivic Jover - TRC

NABCOR resident auditors

Annie Recabo
Rebecca Aquino
Bella Tesorero
Susan Guardian
Elizabeth Savella
Merle Valentin
Diana Casado
Aida Villania
Laarni Lyn Torres
Herminia Aquino

TRC resident auditors

Jerry Calayan
Sylvia Montes

De Lima said they used four standards in determining who should be charged:

- funds involved are from lawmakers' pork barrel
- lawmakers who used Napoles NGOs as conduits
- based on knowledge of Benhur Luy and other whistleblowers
- supporting documents from the Commission on Audit covering 2007 to 2009

She also explained that the filing of the second batch of cases was delayed since the DOJ tried to cover other periods other than the years 2007 to 2009. Last July, Biazon offered to resign from his post after Pres. Benigno Aquino III berated in his State of the Nation Address the BOC for the alleged incompetence and corrupt practices of some of its officials and employees. However, Aquino did not accept Biazon's resignation offer. Since then, the administration has taken steps to reform the embattled bureau. Biazon is a member of the Liberal Party who ran and lost in the 2010 national elections. He was a part of the senatorial slate by Aquino, then a presidential candidate. The NBI filed the first set of charges last July against Napoles, the suspected scam mastermind, and 37 other individuals for their alleged involvement in the multi-billion peso conspiracy to divert lawmakers' pork barrel funds to fake NGOs and ghost projects in exchange for kickbacks. Five lawmakers were charged for allegedly committing plunder in conspiracy with Napoles and officials of government implementing agencies when they each accumulated more than P50 million through a series of transactions over time through misappropriation, conversion, misuse, and malversation of the cash value of the project cost allocated from the lawmakers’ funds and through their acceptance of kickbacks or commissions. They were Senators Ramon Revilla Jr, Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, former Masbate 3rd district Rep. Rizalina Seachon-Lanete and former Apec Party-list Rep. Edgar Valdez. Former Representatives Rodolfo Plaza, Samuel Dangwa and Constantino Jaraula were also charged for their alleged involvement in malversation, direct bribery, and other graft and corrupt practices: Also charged last September were chiefs-of-staff or representatives of the said lawmakers, heads and officials of three implementing agencies, and several presidents of the NGOs supposedly set up by Napoles. Napoles is currently jailed in Fort Sto. Domingo, Laguna due to the serious illegal detention charges filed by scam whistleblower Benhur Luy, who is also a relative and former employee of the businesswoman. Earlier this month, Napoles testified in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on the pork barrel scam, but she evaded questions and refused to divulge her knowledge on the controversy.

Confidence trick

A confidence trick (synonyms include confidence scheme and scam) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, in the classical sense of trust. A confidence artist (or con artist) is an individual, operating alone or in concert with others, who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty, honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naïveté, or greed.

1 Terminology
2 Stages of the con
3 Vulnerability to confidence tricks
4 See also
5 References
6 Further reading
7 External links

Terminology

The perpetrator of a confidence trick (or "con-trick") is often referred to as a confidence (or "con") man, woman or artist, or a "grifter". The first known usage of the term "confidence man" in English was in 1849 by the New York City press, during the trial of William Thompson. Thompson chatted with strangers until he asked if they had the confidence to lend him their watches, whereupon he would walk off with the watch. He was captured when a victim recognized him on the street. A confidence trick is also known as a con game, a con, a scam, a grift, a hustle, a bunko (or bunco), a swindle, a flimflam, a gaffle or a bamboozle. The intended victims are known as "marks" or "suckers", and when accomplices are employed, they are known as shills.

In David Mamet's film House of Games, the main con artist gives a slightly different description of the "confidence game". He explains that, in a typical swindle, the con man gives the mark his own confidence, encouraging the mark to in turn trust him. The con artist thus poses as a trustworthy person seeking another trustworthy person.

A short con is a fast swindle which takes just minutes. It aims to rob the victim of everything in his or her wallet.[2] A long or big con is a scam that unfolds over several days or weeks and involves a team of swindlers, as well as props, sets, extras, costumes, and scripted lines. It aims to rob the victim of thousands of dollars, often by getting him or her to empty out banking accounts and borrow from family members.

Stages of the con

In Confessions of a Confidence Man, Edward H. Smith lists the "six definite steps or stages of growth in every finely balanced and well-conceived confidence game." "One follows the other with absolute precision. In some games one or more of these acts, to use a theatrical comparison, may be dropped out, but where that happens the game is not a model one. The reference to the stage is apt, for the fine con game has its introduction, development, climax, dénouement and close, just like any good play. And this is not the only analogy to the drama, for the scenes are often as carefully set; the background is always a vital factor. In the colorful and mirthful language of the bunko man, all these parts of the game have their special names. I give them with their definitions:

Foundation Work

The preparations which are made before the scheme is put in motion, including the elaboration of the plan, the employment of assistants and so forth.

Approach

The manner of getting in touch with the victim—often most elaborately and carefully prepared.

Build-up

Rousing and sustaining the interest of the victim, introducing the scheme to him, rousing his greed, showing him the chance of profit and filling him so full of anticipation and cupidity that his judgment is warped and his caution thrown away.

Pay-off or Convincer

An actual or apparent paying of money by the conspirators to convince the victim and settle doubts by a cash demonstration. In the old banco game the initial small bets which the victim was allowed to win were the pay-off. In stock swindles the fake dividends sent to stockholders to encourage larger investments are the pay-off.

The Hurrah

This is like the dénouement in a play and no con scheme is complete without it. It is a sudden crisis or unexpected development by which the sucker is pushed over the last doubt or obstacle and forced to act. Once the hurrah is sprung the victim is clay in the schemer’s hands or there is no game.

The In-and-In

This is the point in a con game where the conspirator puts some of his money into the deal with that of the victim; first, to remove the last doubt that may tarry in the gull’s mind, and, second, to put the con man in control of the situation after the deal is completed, thus forestalling a squeal. Often the whole game is built up around this feature and just as often it does not figure at all.

In addition, some games require what is called 'corroboration', which means what it says. This is important in games where a banker or other shrewd customer is to be the victim."

Vulnerability to confidence tricks

Confidence tricks exploit typical human characteristics such as greed, dishonesty, vanity, opportunism, lust, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, desperation, and naïvety. As such, there is no consistent profile of a confidence trick victim; the common factor is simply that the victim relies on the good faith of the con artist. Victims of investment scams tend to show an incautious level of greed and gullibility, and many con artists target the elderly, but even alert and educated people may be taken in by other forms of confidence trick. Accomplices, also known as shills, help manipulate the mark into accepting the perpetrator's plan. In a traditional confidence trick, the mark is led to believe that he will be able to win money or some other prize by doing some task. The accomplices may pretend to be strangers who have benefited from performing the task in the past. A greedy or dishonest victim may attempt to out-cheat the perpetrator, eventually realizing that he or she had been manipulated into losing from the beginning.