Email Scams (ESCAM)

[Susie924]

Follow up to my previous post.

Although I knew it was a scam I couldn't get it out of my head how authentic the check looked!

I finally found a website with the same company name and address with an e-mail address so I e-mailed them and asked them about it.

I received two e-mails the next day. One told me that it was a scam and the other one asking me what the letter said and who the check was made out to. I replied that it was made out to "me" but I didn't give my name.

Today I received two more e-mails saying that they were aware of "the scam" and had notified the bank and closed the account in question.

I got the impression that they weren't the scammer but the victim of a scam but who knows.

Either way it is a scam.

[Susie924]

This isn't an e-mail scam, however it sure looks like a scam.


I get home today and in the mail is this very nice letter from Silver Oaks Invesments, LLC located in Canada. Real nice letterhead paper and looking pretty official. (but I know better)

With the letter is a check made out to me for $3,975.00 and even though I still know better.....this is the most authentic looking fake check I've seen.

The letter goes on to tell me that I've won $33,975.00 and a cruise to the Caribbean.

LOL....the check for $3,975.00 is to "assist" me in paying the processing fee.


The address on the check is from Seal Beach, CA and I did find this online
http://www.jigsaw.com/id567002/silver_oak_investments_llc_company_directory.xhtml

I also found their name on the list on this website
http://www.ccfm.net/stock/functions/VDG_Staff/display2.php

[Chrisau]

They don't give up;

Newburgh House
Charter Court Way
Swansea west Glam
SA7 9EH
United Kingdom

Hello,
I am Mr. Smith Andrew, an Auditor of a London bank.
During the course of our auditing, I discovered a
floating fund of (£10M.) Ten Million British Pounds in
an account opened in the bank in 2004 and since Jan
2005 nobody has operated on this account.

After a lot of investigation I discovered that the
owner of the account late Rafik Hariri died without a
beneficiary. The money is floating and if I do not
remit this money out it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of the account is a foreigner. He died since
February 14, 2005 and the account has no other
beneficiary. My investigation proved to me that nobody
knows about this account or anything concerning it. So
I want to grab this opportunity, as it is no harm to
nobody to transfer the money out.

I need your assistance as a foreigner because the
money cannot be approved to anybody here. The
management must approve this payment to you if you
have the correct information of this account, which I
will give to you, upon your positive response and once
I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up
with instruction of key bank official who is deeply
involved with me in this project.

With our influence, we can transfer the money to any
foreigner's reliable account, which you can provide
with assurance that this money will be intact pending
our physical arrival at your end for sharing. At the
conclusion of this business, you and I can share the
money, 50% to me and 50% to you, and I will personally
be happy if you can respond to this immediately so
that we can receive these funds from the bank
immediately.

Regards.
Mr. Smith Andrew.

[Chrisau]

Good grief. This is so bad I can't understand how any sucker would fall for it!;

INTERNATIONAL CASH PROCESSING DELIVERY DEPT. UNITED NATIONS
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
5TH FLOOR, UN PLAZA
ONE CANADA SQUARE
LONDON NW 10 6RG
ENGLAND
Our Ref: WB/NF/UN/XX027

ATTN: Honorable Beneficiary,

This is to congratulate you and officially inform you that your over-
due Fund have been approved for immediate payment by Normal Bank
transfer to your bank account in your country. This new method of payment
was
personally approved by the Secretary-General's office last week because
of the
fraudulent practices going on in the Banking sector and most of the Offshore
Payment Centers which have failed to carry out their duties effectively,
as a result of this, most effected beneficiaries wrote several petitions
coupled with various suits filed to the international court of justice.


All you need to do now is to forward immediately your direct phone
number and copy of your identification which should be either International
Passport, Driver License or National Identity Card. Same you will use
to identify your self to avoid mistake and misdirection of payment to a
wrong recipient.

Meanwhile, before the transfer of your money, we shall process and
deliver to you your Fund Ownership Certificate which will prove that you
are the rightful beneficiary of the fund; it will also clear you from tax
payment on your contract/willed fund.

Note, as soon as your payment is processed, the worldbank will be
contacting you through our accridited banker for verification after which
they will deliver the money on a direct wire transfer straight to your
account.

Consequently, you should stop further dealing regarding this payment
except this organization hence we are now obliged to pay you your money.
We expect your urgent response to this email to enable us monitor this
payment effectively as to avoid further delays in paying you.

Treat as urgent.

Thanks,

Yours faithfully,

Tony Brown
(Secretary)
For: Dr.Geoffrey Cooper

[Chrisau]

This is different in that it made it through my spam filter;

Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo! 2007 Lottery Draw. All 10 winning email addresses were selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. Consequently, you have been approved for a total pay of 800,000.00 GBP (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING).

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British Representative Office in the United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 800,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in the United Kingdom(UK).

Find below your identification numbers:
Batch Number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto Number......................Lwh 09446
Winning Number.................Lwh 09447

To file for claim, fill out the information required in the verification form and establish contact via e-mail between the hours of 8.00am-7.30pm on Monday through Saturday and contact our overseas claims fiduciary unit with the information below:
OVERSEAS CLAIMS UNIT
Yahoo! Lottery Fiduciary
Contact Person: Mr Mark wakefield
Telephone:[phone]
Email: [e-mail]

VERIFICATION FORM
1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9.LOTTO NUMBER: B. DRAW NUMBER:
10.SERIAL NUMBER:
11.AMOUNT WON:
12.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:
13. COUNTRY:

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Williams Gerri.
Online coordinator for Yahoo! Lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.

Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user.

[corse]

yes it's the same old story LOL

corse

[Chrisau]

Another one that has a great command of English;

You're invited to: GRAND FECILITATION INTERNATIONAL LOTTO PROMOTION
By your host: Donald BROWN

Message:

GRAND FECILITATION INTERNATIONAL LOTTO PROMOTION.
REGENT’S PARK,LONDON NW1 4NS,
UNITED KINGDOM

Hurray!

You have been selected as one of the five lucky winners in the second edition of the GRAND FECILITATION INTERNATIONAL LOTTO PROMOTION draw. You have therefore been approved for a huge payout of (FIVE Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Only).

Bear in mind that you did not in anyway play this game or bought a Ticket but you are selected among the five lucky winners due to your frequent access to the internet.

How was the selection process done? Winners were randomly selected from an initial database of Five Million emails which was eventually downsized to Five Thousand from which we eventually selected the final and lucky
five.

The process was done through the computerized email balloting system selecting emails from The Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and South America.
The process of collecting your winnings is to be handled by our African Prize Transfer Agent.

To ensure a smooth collection of your grand prize, You are to contact our African representing agent by email. Please find full contact details below:

Contact Person:
Names: Mr. DICKSON.
Payment Officer
Email:[e-mail]

Please note, when you contact your claims agent please
remember to quote your reference number and batch Number in all correspondence.

Ref. Number: 132/756/4534,
Batch number: 638901527-
AMB/02.

Surname: ..................................................................
Othernames: ...................................................................
Date of Birth: .............................................................
Occupation and Position: ...................................
City: ....................................
Country: ............................................
Zip code:..........................................
Phone number: ............

Mode Of receiving winnings choose

1: Cash in Person.
2: Shipping to home by Diplomatic courier.
3: Swift telegraphic Bank transfer
Furthermore, contact your African claims agent as instructed above
and accept my Congratulations!
Regards,
Mr. BOB HOOCK.
Co-ordinator.

N/B; Due to high rate and strict conditions in the United Kingdom, for winners to comply to before they can get their winnings.the organization have decided to open an international office for payment of winners in Africa ( Lagos state Nigeria) and as well appoint our paymaster in Nigeria.

For free and fair collection of winnings by our winners ,please contact the above person through his email address for your money to get to you immediately.


Date: Thursday 6 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 15:00 (GMT +00:00)

[Chrisau]

And another. They just keep coming. Now that God???? And then Allah?????;


As-salam 'alaykum,

How are you doing? I am HASSAN IBRAHIM a merchant in
DUBAI,I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, It
has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right
now I have only about a few months to live, according
to medical experts.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I
never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my
business. Though I am very rich, I was never
generous,I was always hostile to people and only
focused on my business as that was the only thing I
cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know
that there is more to life than just wanting to have
or make all the money in the world.

Now that God has called me, I have willed and given
most of my property and assets to my immediate and
extended family members as well as a few close
friends.I want God to be merciful to me and
accept my soul. so,I have decided to give also to
charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the
last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have
distributed money to some charity organizations in the
U.A.E, Algeria, India and Malaysia. Now that my
health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this
myself anymore.

I once asked members of my family to close one of my
accounts and distribute the money which I have there
to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they
refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do
not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be
contended with what I have left for them.

I will want you to help me collect my last deposit and
dispatched it to charity organizations which I
deposited in security/finance house abroad, which no
one knows of is the huge cash deposit of (Twenty
five Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S dollars) I
have set aside 25% for you, then 5% for any expenses
inqured.

If you are interested, please send your prompt reply
to my email address below which you will have to reply
to if you will be kind enough to assist;

Email:[e-mail]

May the almighty Allah bless you.

Regards,
HASSAN IBRAHIM

[Chrisau]

And yet another. One of these days I'm going to play with one of these, or not. Could be fun?

Greetings to You Friend,

My name is Miss. Angela Musungu, hail from Liberia province and I am anxious to know if you can help me as to be my representative purchase land properties, real estate and Hotel structure in your country "say my family". I had an inherited sum of $7.33m, which I want to invest the said fund in cash presently in Europe.

The fund is currently secured in the Finance vault Ware House in Europe because of the rampant violence in my country. Please respond if you are willing and nice to secure this fund for me in your country so that I can plan your visit to the Finance vault Ware House for claim. Note: Nobody knows it is money accept now that I am telling you.

Meanwhile, I am presently out of my country to an Island to safe my life first, so you can be reaching me by e-mail upon the receipt of this mail I hope that this mail will reach you in good condition so that I will direct you to my lawyer to support you with legitimate document that will support your claims. And it is my hope that you can help and all your assistance will be highly rewarded.

This transaction will result in you being paid a commission of 30% off the investment capital.

Respectfully submitted


Cordially Yours,


By Miss. Angela Musungu
Tel: [phone]
I Anticipate your quick response

[Wildbilly]

Sorry wrong board.

[Phoenix-Rising]

Funny email I got...If anyones interested feel free to claim my prize LOL..


From: "COCA COLA COMPANY" <[e-mail]> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: CONGRATULATION WINNING NOTIFICATION !!!!!
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:00:23 +0200


THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPTCOCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM



THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION




We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the (16th of June, 2007) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the United Kingdom Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00 each .


THE COCA COLA COMPANY PROMOTION


However the results were released on the 18th of February, 2007 and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006)and ballot number (BT:12052006/20)The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of (29,031) E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world This Lottery is approved by the United Kingdom Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.

In other to claim your £1,000,000.00 prize winning, which has been deposited in a designated bank. However,you will have to fill the form below and send it to the Promotion manager of THE COCA COLA COMPANY for verification and then you will be directed to the bank for the transfer of £1,000,000.00 in cash into your account in your country,





NAME:.....................................







AGE:........................................







SEX:........................................







ADDRESS:...............................







EMAIL:....................................







PHONE:...................................







OCCUPATION:.........................







COMPANY:..............................







COUNTRY:...............................




Please you are adviced to complete the form and send it immediately to our Promotion manager through email for prompt collection of your fund from the designated bank.

(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)



Name:MR,NED GRAHAM

Phone # : [phone]

E MAIL: [e-mail]






Your Sincerely,


Management

[Chrisau]

No kidding.........those assholes are the worst.

[gottfried]

maybe not email, but scam nevertheless 'Bilking the Elderly, With a Corporate Assist" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/business/20tele.html?pagewanted=1&hp

[99Dan]

They sure are busy sending these things out lately.


CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE, VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS-NIGERIA
Our Ref: CBN/IRD/CBX/021/07

IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT

During the auditing and closing of all financial records of the
Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) it was discovered from the records of outstanding foreign
Contractors due for payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria in the year
2006 that your name and company is next on the list of those who will received
their fund. Through the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA

I wish to officially notify you that your payment is being processed and will
be released to you by FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA as soon as you
respond to this letter. Also note that from the record in our file, your
outstanding contract payment is USD$5,000,000.00 (five Million United States
Dollars).

Kindly re-confirm to FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA if this is
inline with
what you have in your record and also re-confirm the information below to
enable them proceed and finalize your fund remittance without further delays.

1) Your full name.
2) Phone, fax and mobile
3) Company name, position
4) Profession, age and marital status.
5) Copy of Drivers License I .D.

You are therefore advice to contact FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA. With
there contact below, and please forward your details above to them for
identification to avoid mistake in payment.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
CONTACT MAN: MR CHRISTOPHER DEON
TEL: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
EMAIL: [e-mail].

As soon as the above information are received, your payment will be
Made available to you via an international certified bank draft, which will
Be delivered to your doorstep for your confirmation or through a wire
Transfer to your nominated account.

Regards,


Prof. Charles C. Soludo
Executive Governor
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

[Chrisau]

Yet another, Sheesh.

Dear Sir,

My name is Richard Aluga (28yrs) and my Sister Irene (25yrs). We are
Liberians but presently residing in a refugee camp in Accra, Ghana. It is
our pleasure to
contact you for cooperation. Though I have not met with you before but I
believe one has to make an adventure before one succeed in life. I wish to
confide on you for the brighter future of my sister and I since you are a
human being like us. There is this huge amount of Nine Million, Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. ($9,500,000.00) which my late
Father kept with a Finance Company in Ghana in form of Consignment
deposited as Family Treasure before he was assassinated by political
rivals Liberia years back.

The documents relating to this deposit have just been discovered in one of
his secret files kept in his official residence in Liberia. Now my sister
and I decided to appoint you as his business partner and next of kin to
retrieve this money and invest it outside our country or anywhere safe
enough for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us claim and retrieve these fund from the Finance
Company in here in Ghana and transfer it into your personal or company's
account for investment purposes. If you assure us that you can handle this
fund for us, we will offer to you 30% of the total fund. I will give you
more explanation on your willingness to cooperate with us.

I await your response.

Respectfully yours,
Richard Aluga

[Art2Gecko]

Boy, what a great deal I just got emailed...lol


From: LYNDA OKILO

Warm Greetings to you.

I hope this mail will not come to you as a surprise since we have not seen each other for the first time, but in all things I will like you to prove your honesty to me because I believe that one has to take a risk in life in order to survive.

My name is LYNDA OKILO the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs, OKILO, my father was a rich Independent Oil and Cocoa merchant based in Ivory Coast before his death recently and my mother died when I was 5 years when she was giving birth to my only brother.

My Father was poisoned by his business associate in one of their outings on a business discussion.

BEFORE THE DEATH OF MY FATHER IN A PRIVATE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED, HE CALLED ME SECRETLY TO HIS BED SIDE AND TOLD ME THAT HE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF $8.500 000 (EIGHT MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED SATES DOLLARS) IN A DORMANT ACCOUNT AND HE ADVICED ME THAT I SHOULD NOT TELL ANYONE, HE SAID THAT I SHOULD SEEK FOR A RELIABLE FOREIGN PARTNER IN A COUNTRY OF MY CHOICE WHO WILL ASSIST ME TO MOVE THIS MONEY AND RELOCATE FOR MY SAFETY.
MY LATE FATHER DEPOSITED THIS MONEY FOR ONWARD TRANSFER TO OVERSEAS FOR THE PURCHASE OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES, BEFORE HE MET HIS UNTIMELY DEATH.
I am therefore desperately seeking for a honest and reliable person who will help me to invest this money and get married to me or legally adopt me and take me as his or her own biological Child without abandoning me after wards.

PLEASE I WILL LIKE THIS MATTER TO BE TREATED VERY CONFIDENTIALY BETWEEN YOU AND I BECAUSE OF MY SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF THIS MONEY BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHO KILLED MY FATHER AND WHY MY FATHER INSSISTED THAT I SEEK FOR A FOREIGNER.

I WILL SEND TO YOU THE FULL INFORMATIONS ABOUT THIS AND THE CONTACTS OF THE BANK ON YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PROPOSAL, TO PERMIT YOU TO CONTACT THE BANK DIRECTLY FOR THE PROCEEDURES.


N.B: IF YOU CAN SINCERELY INVEST THIS MONEY FOR ME, KINDLY REPLY ME THIS MAIL BY FORWARDING TO ME ALL YOUR FULL CONTACTS INFORMATIONS AND YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR AN EASY COMMUNICATION.

AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRANSACTION, I PROMISED THAT YOU TAKE 15% OF THE TOTAL MONEY FOR YOUR HONESTY, KINDNESS AND FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO ME AND YOU WILL INVEST 85% FOR ME IN ANY PROFITABLE BUSINESS.

I RELY ON YOU AND HOPING THAT YOU WIL SINCERELY ASSIST ME.

I AM EXPECTING HEARING FROM YOU ASAP.

BEST REGARDS

LYNDA OKILO
ADSL 6 Mb + Llamadas Nacionales 10€ / mes

[Chrisau]

Not sure was because I never went there to see what they want. And never would. I started this board to warn those who might.

[99Dan]

You're not sure? LOL Yea, right.

Send them your credit card number. Maybe include your SS number and birth date too.

Hard to believe people fall for that stuff but I'm sure some do.

[Chrisau]

WalMart.....I'm not sure about this one. I didn't go any further. But since I've never been in a WalMart, well once years ago, and it looks like they want credit card info........



CONGRATULATIONS!

You have been chosen by wal-mart online department to take part in our quick and easy 5 question surveys.
In return we will send $125 to your confirmed Credit or Debit Card and will be processing it within 7 working days - Just for your time!

This survey has been sent only to a few people from our random generator!

Helping us better to understand how our customers feel, benefits everyone. With the information collected we can decide to direct a number of changes to improve and expand our online services.

As part of wal-mart's commitment to excellence, we want to make sure we met your needs during our conversation.
Would you please take a minute to answer a few questions to let us know how we did?

Get started now

Wal-mart, as the party who controls the data collected in this survey, may use your responses together with existing data it has about you to ensure its products and services meet your needs. wal-mart will treat data collected from you in accordance with wal-mart's privacy policy.

Your personal information are protected by special encryption (128-bit) which fully encrypts and protects all of your personal data. This means that all of the information that you send during the confirming process is secured. No one can intercept it, so your information is safe and kept confidential.


Thank you for your help!

Wal*Mart Online Service

[gottfried]

NOTICE OF BEQUEST
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Engr.
Lurther Schultz, I once again try to notify you
as my earlier letter returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach
you again by this same email address on the WILL.
I wish to notify you that Late Engr. Lurther Schultz made you a
beneficiary to his WILL.

He left the sum of thirteen million five hundred thousand United States
Dollars ($13,500.000.00 USD) to you
in the codicil and last testament to his WILL.

This may sound strange and unbelievable to you,but it is real and true.
Being a widely travelled man, he must
have been in contact with you in the past or simply you wererecommended
to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good.

I hope to hear from you in no distant time through the emailaddress
below.
Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Sincerely yours,
BARR.BILLINGHAM RICHARD DAVID (ESQ).
MANAGING PARTNERS/SOLICITORS

[midastouch017]

FROM THE DESK OF MR.DESMOND ZUMA:
FIRST NATIONAL BANK LIMITED (S.A.)
AUDITOR MANAGER.

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Mr. Desmond Zuma, account manager to Mr. Morris Thompson, who was a Contractor/consultant to Kruger Mining (SA) Pty a South Africa Government Own Mining Company. On the 31st of January 2000, my client was involved in an air crash along side his entire family (wife and only daughter) on Alaska Airlines Flight 261 with other passengers on board. Since then I have made several enquiries here to locate any of my clients relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

You can confirm this from the website below. http://edition.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/

After all these several unsuccessful attempts to locate any of my clients relatives, hence my decision to contact you and front you as his next-of-Kin/business associate. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at the tune of (US$14.5M) Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars left behind by my late client into your account before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank. The Bank has already issued me (as my late client's account manager) a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives of my late client over the years, I seek the consent to present you as the next of Kin/business associate to my late client, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the modalities for transfer. I have all necessary information and legal documents needed to back you up for the claim.

The sharing ratio would be (30%) of the total sum for you while I receive (55%), 10% for miscellaneous expenses like the accumulated taxes and others expenses, then 5% for Charity Organizations.

I will want you to furnish me with the following information's stated below to enable us proceed with the transaction immediately:

(1) Your direct phone number, & fax number
(2) Your full names
(3) Your age
(4) Your Country of Origin
(5) Your Marital Status
(6)Your Residential Address
(7) Your profession

All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law.

I look forward towards a good business relationship with you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Desmond Zuma.

Note the All I require from you is your honest cooperation..., LOL

[americano]

My box just got blasted by 2 different people on DPWI, fills like a scam on that one to dump shares for sure

[surfkast]

Received emails on DPWI. Definitely spam!

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[Chrisau]

ImapExchange???
I think this looks really phony. Got it as a spam email. The grammar on the website is deplorable.


ImapExchange is a leading electronic funds transfer company with core
business values and a great concern for the general well being and
satisfaction of our customers. The scope of our expertise enables
ImapExchange to respond effectively to any challenge our clients care to
set us. ImapExchange is made up of a sophisticated network of agents in
six continents, having in common a blend of intelligence, talent and
expertise, harnessed to bring competitive advantage to the client. We
move money all over the world today and make every corner of the
world
accessible to ImapExchange customers! For that reason, we shall be happy
to welcome you - people competent, pro-active, energetic and purposeful
- among our Company's staff. If you do wish to join us, you should
demonstrate your ability to bring benefit to the Company, so forward
your resume to our HR manager at [e-mail] and we shall be
happy to meet you.

You can always find a list of the specialist vacancies most demanded by
the Company at the moment on our website. On the same website, you may
also find an application form to fill out.
a.. Decent reward.
b.. Social security package and medical insurance.
c.. Free seminars and skills training

If you are interested in this vacancy, you may forward us your resume to
[e-mail] or fill out a special form on our website.
ImapExchange
Remote Assistant
Ideal candidates will thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and have
the desire to manage their own operation. The task of the Remote
Assistant is to process payments between our partners. clients and our
company, in particular:
a.. Managing cash and balancing receipts
b.. Operating within prescribed budgets
c.. Following up on accounts
Salary

$1.000.00 USD bi-weekly during the trial period plus 2% commission from
each transaction (your commissions will be increased up to 3% after the
trial period)

Qualifications:
a.. Good business acumen.
b.. Maturity age.
c.. Honest, responsible, industrious
d.. PC, e-mail and the Internet skills
e.. Prior experience of processing checks/wire transfers/money orders
is preferable, but not obligatory.
f.. Ability to check e-mail several times a day.
g.. No less than 2 working hours per day (possibly in the evening).

General:
a.. Internet
remote operations;
b.. Part-time job (1-3 hours per day);
c.. Possibility to combine with main job;
d.. The brief training course is enclosed.
If you are interested in this vacancy, you may forward us your resume to
[e-mail] or fill out a special form on our website.

[Chrisau]

IMF.....This one is a bit different;

Good day,

Your Long overdue Payment.
I saw your name ( in the Central Computer among the list of unpaid contractors, inheritance next of kin and lotto beneficiaries that was originated from Africa, Europe, Asia Plus Middle east, Americans ) among the list of individuals and companies that your unpaid fund has beenlocated to the NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, UNITED KINGDOM.

Your name appeared among the beneficiaries, who will receive a part-payment of your contractual sum and has been approved already for months. You are requested to get back to me for more direction and instruction on how to receive your fund. However, we received an email from one Mr. Robert Walter who told us that he is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident last week. He has also submitted his account for us to transfer the fund to him including his International passport, we want to hear from you before we can make the transfer to confirm if you are dead or not.

Once again, I apologize to you on behalf Of IMF (International Monetary Fund) http://www.imf.xxx/xxxxxx/np/omd/bios/rrf.htm failure to pay your funds in time, which according to records in the system had been long overdue.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Mike Adams.

[JamesB]

Recieved this in the a.m. regarding Interactive Brokers account.

I have something that I think I should make folks aware of. Got an email purporting to be from Interactive Brokers, with whom I do have an account. Unfortunately, I cannot cut & paste the email because if I click on it anywhere it takes me to another page where my login, password, and email address are requested.

I know that there are many ways the bad guys are finding to hijack accounts, but this is the most sophisticated I have seen. The email looks very genuine, with the icon and logo reproduced nicely. The body of it basically said that they were doing a scheduled software upgrade, and by clicking on the link below you will begin the procedure of member details confirmation. These instructions sent to all IB members, apologize for inconveniences, etc., etc.

My first clue that is was a scam, other than wanting my login and password, was that the email showed up in the wrong account, not the one that IB has for me, but another one with swbell, and it was not addressed correctly, just got dumped into my account.

Anyhow, just wanted to put it out there so that people would be aware of what is (likely) going on.

I have reported this to IB and FBI.

[99Dan]

Most major places like banks and financial institutions have a place to forward the scam or "phishing" emails.


For example, Wells Fargo says this:

Forward the fraudulent email or information to [e-mail].


and Yahoo email says this:

To report a phishing email, please forward the email to [e-mail]

I always do forward any I receive.

The legitimate companies can get those fake sites shut down pretty fast.

[chaoslord]

Cool. Yeah, I guess that is the best way to handle it being it is potentially their own customers affected you would think they would want to take immediate action.

[Chrisau]

If it appears to come from a bank, ebay or paypal I copy the entire message including properties and forward it to them. Some contain a virus and those get deleted without opening them.

[chaoslord]

Should these be able to be reported somewhere? It seems it would be easy to crack down on these being you have to make a connection to their server which is made to look like some other server.

[Chrisau]

These people are idiots. I love the sentence after Warning! You're supposed to update your account two weeks before you receive this notice??

[99Dan]

The SPAM continues. Now I get Yahoo look-alike phishing.

[chaoslord]

The program was actually pretty simple to write. It has been some time since I wrote it but I will look for it if anyone wants it. There is one problem though, this program can be used in a bad way against legit companies. But if it is used in a negative way be prepared for that company to come after you. I might have to make some changes just to help make sure this code can not be used in a negative way.

[chaoslord]

I have done this before. I kept getting spam to go to an online ordering site. I knew how this person who was sending out the spam got my info so I told he in was in his best interest to remove me from the spamming list. Instead he sent my email address out to other spammers. So I wrote a program that would open up many connections to the sites that were being advertised. Most of the time within a 30 minute window you can bring the site down.

It just so happens one of the sites belonged to the spammer also and he wrote me asking why I was doing it. We had words back and forth and it took him some time but he did go out to the other spammers to have my email address removed. I did not budge and I told him I would only stop when all spam stopping. It took him some time but it did stop.

[Chrisau]

Most of these scams, especially the ones that appear to come from banks, are phishing. They have a hot link that connects to a page where they ask for personal info. Seems to me that a server setup that would link to that page several times a second would do the trick.

[chaoslord]

I know of at least one product out there that I am not going to mention too much about other than it looks for these types of messages and other spam, when it detects it it dramatically slows down the connected IP bandwith to bring the spamming to server to its knees. The more companies that use products like this the more likely we can run these spammers and scammers out of business.

[chaoslord]

Is there anyone out there who makes it their business to track these people down and try to something about these type of scams? There must be something that can be done. Like if we knew their IP address, lets say we find a webserver for them, next create a tool that continuously downloads their website until they run out of bandwidth. This is not a denial of service attack, it just simulates tons of users viewing their page until they run out of bandwidth, then their site is inaccessible until the next month or until they pay for more bandwidth.

There must be a way we can start returning the favor. If their cost went substantially up they might have to stop. Also, once their site is down, there is at least a period when maybe at least part of their business is down.

There may be other ways also.

[Chrisau]

This one is sneaky;


Chris,

Please call me at 1-253-537-3329. I previously tried to contact you at , but was unable to reach you. This is in reference to an entry form you filled out, either on-line or at a major mall or movie theater.

I actually have some decent news in regards to the giveaway. I have an address, claim number, and further details for you. Since all prizes are well over $500, I will need a few moments of your time to cover all related lottery-type information from procuring your prize to any related taxes.

Sincere congratulations!

Debra Ponce

P.S. For your convenience, we are available 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Central Standard Time, Monday to Friday

5/28/2006 96.78.110.150

Please follow url below to stop further emails
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sender:
Debra Ponce
105 South River Rd
North Aurora, IL, 60542

[chaoslord]

Any new news on this? Is there any way to turn the scam around so that they will regret trying to scam you or is there a way to report them? There must be some way to track these dummies down and start putting a stop to these crimes.

[Chrisau]

Details on that last one. I love the "X-X5: Spam:False".


Return-Path: <[e-mail]>
Received: from [137.118.16.122] (HELO relay4.av-mx.com)
by ponyexpress.neonova.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.4)
with ESMTP id 595382882 for xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:43:30 -0400
X-NNS-TO: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
X-NNS-UID: 104329
X-NNS-Flag: <SV>
X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0
X-X5: False;
X-X5: Spam: False ; 1.1 / 2.5
X-X5: ADVANCE_FEE_1
X-X5: SUBJ_ALL_CAPS
Received: from mx1.av-mx.com ([137.118.16.62] verified)
by relay4.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13)
with SMTP id 97264228 for xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:42:09 -0400
Received: (qmail 359 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 11:42:09 -0000
Received: from ttxc5.palmsoft.sk (HELO mail.ghsystem.sk) (85.248.70.5)
by 0 with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 11:42:09 -0000
X-NNS-SPF: PASS
X-CLIENT-IP: 85.248.70.5
X-CLIENT-HOST: ttxc5.palmsoft.sk
X-COUNTRY: Slovakia
Received: by mail.ghsystem.sk (Postfix, from userid 1022)
id 9F0367CC4; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:47:43 +0100 (CET)
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: FROM: HSBC BANK PLC UK, 21/03/2007
From: MICHAEL A.T WATSON <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:47:43 +0100 (CET)

[Chrisau]

Yet another. This clown claims to be from the UK. Note his command of English;


HSBC BANK PLC.
8 CANADA SQUARE,
CANARY WHARF,
LONDON, E14 5HQ
Tel/Fax: [phone]
Web site: http://www.xxxxxxxxxx
DATE: 21/03/07
FROM: MICHAEL A.T WATSON
TO: VALUED CUSTOMER

I am MICHAEL A.T WATSON the computer scientist with HSBC BANK PLC UK, solely in charge of all Telex (KTT) transfer of your Payment Fund which has been on hold due to logistic problems (and) might be return to UK
GOVERNMENT TREASURY in less than one month following directives from the Ministry of Finance to "write off" all such unclaimed debts.

I sincerely know that you will suffer if that happens. I am also aware of the stress this has cost you.

I have an answer for you:
It will take me just 72 hours to secure diskette for the Telex transfer of your fund that is if you are ready to collaborate with me until your money is credited to your nominated account.

You only have to accept my conditions and abide by it. You know this is a very big risk which I am prepared to take, because I intend to leave UK, within 48 hours of executing the transfer due to political situation in UK, at moment. I will not be coming back for a long time.
My conditions are:

You will guarantee to give me 10% of your money payable immediately (when the FUND is credited to your account). And keep it confidential between you and I only.

You must promise to re-transfer the fund into another account within 5 working days of being credited to your original account.

This is a security measure.
You will pay for my air ticket out of UK to your country, receive and ensure they are comfortably settled to secure my own percentage before I start programming for a swift telegraphic transfer (KTT) of your money
with the enabling sorting code and password to your designated account with 24 hours.

Finally, you must maintain absolute secrecy and confidentiality by notcommunicating with any other person or disclosing this arrangement to
another person. Contact me on this Private/Tel: [phone] for more informations (sic) on this method.

This is a last resort and your only (chance) of getting this fund. I expect your reply by email immediately. Time is not on our side.

Please if possible aslo call in receipt of this letter thanks.

Kindly comfirm your phone number.

Best regards,
MICHAEL A.T WATSON
Director/Creit Advice Dept HSBC.
[phone]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOTICE:
The use of our private mail via the public website is purely for professional security. any attempt to use the official website of the Bank will certainly result to insecurity and devulging of official secrecy due
to its porous nature as it is readily accessible to all
employees.Secondly,it will not allow for Our internal assistance and contributions towards the quick realisation of the success of your transfer, which will tangely be to our berefit.Finally, please understand that we are much
safer and vintageed conresponding through our private mail VIA public hosting website !! All we need do at this moment is to work acheive the neccessary and expected result.

N/B: IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECEIPENT OR RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR PLEASE SEND DELETE TO THIS E-MAIL THANK YOU.

[99Dan]

Wells Fargo Bank

I received the following email and decided to click the link with the intention of entering a phony name and password to have a bit of fun. That didn't work and instead I got the message shown below in a screen shot. First time I've seen that. Big red line across the top and the notation "Fishing Website".

_____________________________________________________________


Dear valued WellsFargo member:

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of the wellsfargo account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that your WellsFargo account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service.

Once you have updated your account records your wellsfargo account service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your WellsFargo records click on the following link:
http://www.wellsfargo.com/signon?LOB=CONS&screenid=Update_Acct

Thank You.

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, WellsFargo will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions.
http://www.wellsfargo.com/help/index.jhtml

[sandy lee lee]

I like the part about the FBI getting involved.

PART TIME JOB FOR YOU.
1st Floor Pacific House,
Hertford Road,
Barking,
IG11 8BL
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Good Day
My name is Smith Terry , I am an artist with my wife Kate Andrew,We own Dean's ART WORLD in London, Zealand(United Kingdom)I live in London United Kingdom, with my two kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life my wife. It is definitely a full house, I have been selling my art for the last 3 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines, I have sold in galleries and to private collectors from all around the world. I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans, they are always offering to pay with MONEY ORDER , CASHER'S CHEQUE etc, which is difficult for me to cash here in London United Kingdom.

I am looking for a representative in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and other countries were our clients will be sending there payments to,whom will be working for me as a par time worker and i will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which wouldn’t affect your present state of work, someone who would help me receive payments from my customers in the states, I mean someone that is responsible and reliable, because the cost of coming to the state and getting payments is very expensive, I am working on setting up a branch in the state, so for now i need a representative in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who will be handling the payment aspect for our company.

These payments will be in form of Money Orders/ Cashiers check and they would come to you in your name, so all you need do is cash the Money Orders/ Cashiers check deduct your percentage (10%) and wire the rest back. But the problem i have is trust,But i have my way of getting anyone that gets away with our money,i mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involved. It wouldn't cost you any amount,you are to receive payments which will be sent to you via mail from my bussiness patners in united states, which would come in form of a Money Orders/ Cashiers check then you are to cash it and send the cash to me via western union money transfer Method,all transfer fees should be deducted from the money and not from your 10% .If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as possible with this information listed below FIRST NAME ............
LAST NAME ..................
AGE ............
ADDRESS ..............
CITY ................
STATE ..................
ZIP CODE ...............
COUNTRY ...............
PHONE NUMBER (S) .............
GENDER ..............
Best Regards
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
REPLY ME TO MY ALTERNATIVE
EMAIL,[e-mail]

[jgbuz]

I got this today have not decided how to respond but they are getting pushy I will follow up
when there is more


Mr. Peter,

It is like you are too busy to respond to mails. I sent you a
memorandum of Understanding and you are yet to confirm the receipt. How far
have you gone with the bank, you know that I do not know what is
happening there, you have to be in constant communication with the bank and
myself, what we are talking about is huge sum of money.

Get back to me as soon as possible.

Regards.
Mr. Oni Bode.

[jgbuz]

than I got this


14) Attn: Mr. Peter Sanchez

I am writing to confirm if you have opened the new bank account as you requested for few days. It is better to conclude this transaction now without delays.

Expecting your urgent response.

Regards.
Mr. Andrew Kodjo.

[jgbuz]

than I baited them with this


13)


Did you recieve my account info, I sent it on 3/02/07
and I am waiting for the deposit

Peter Sanchez


I didn't send them anything

[jgbuz]

than I received this


12)Dear Peter,

Please, find the attached Memorandum of Understanding; study it and
approve or add something to it.

Rgds/MR. BODE

[jgbuz]

than I sent this

11) MR. BODE

Which attachment do you what me to fill out, my new
account has been opened, and I deposited $20,000 into
it.

Peter Sanchez

[jgbuz]

than I received this

10) Ok.

The earlier you open an account the better and try to be fast with it.

Regards.
Mr. Kodjo.

[jgbuz]

than I sent them this

9) Andrew Kodjo
Please give me a few extra days I am going to open a
new account, So I will be able to accept the transfer
of funds.

Peter Sanchez