John Hill sent me a message

World Bank /INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)
Milbank Tower, 12th Floor 21-24;
Milbank London SW1P 4QP ENGLAND
Direct Phone: +44-703597.
Fax: 44-87-1247-.

From The Desk of: Mr. Andrew Tweedie,
Finance Department Director
International Monetary Fund(IMF)

Attn: Beneficiary,

Broadway Securities and Finance Limited.
53 Lyvenden Road,
Greenwich East, Greenwich,

Email:info@bsfl.com

With regards to your mail, I want to clearly explain this in detail to
you, that it is two options stated in this formant sent to you
officially, one is to clarify you if you are interested to receive
loan, to finalize any of your outstanding project, the other one is to
let you know that we have been empowered to use our diplomatic
delivering system, to dispatch card delivering to your residence
address in your country of origin.

so you must clearly state which of the options you need, our company
has the ability to work on this two options, we decided to give this
offer, because of the fraudulent activity that is going on in the
global society, that a lot of people are victims, that is why we have
decided to give these two options, in order for you to benefit in any
of the one that suites you, as soon as we hear from you confirming
which of the options your require, we shall give you the necessary
process, in order to accomplish our obligation .

it is very clear, for your indication and confirmation, on which one
you require, it is a confirm process that must be worked in accordance
to the UK policies and your country of origin, as we have been
empowered to carry out this obligation, from the government agencies.

Pleas you can direct your email response to these email address, for
confidential reasons

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Sir, John Hill.

Appropriate Unit.

For: Broadway Securities and Finance Limited
atmunitintercontinentald.card@gmail.com

NAME IN FULL………………….
YOUR CELL NUMBER………………….
CONTACT ADDRESS ………………NOT P.O BOX
OCCUPATION……………………

—————————————–WARNING————————————
This communique is from the International Monetary Fund, beneficiaries are
advised to adhere strictly to directives. Any fund beneficiary who ignores
instruction will be doing so at his/her own risk.

A Runescape phishing scam

Dear Player,

We have collected convincing evidence that you have tried to trade your RuneScape account or sell your virtual items outside of the RuneScape game environment.

Such real-world trading has a major negative impact on the economy of RuneScape and is in violation with our policies. Therefore any player that continues to engage in the illegal activity has no place in our community.

All of your accounts are now on our watch-list and will be automatically monitored for real-world trading. Regardless of who you are or how long you’ve been with us, if you continue to real-world trade we will have no hesitation in: (1) permanently banning your RuneScape account, and (2) naming you as a defendant in Jagex Limited vs you, which is a lawsuit based on antitrust law violations that is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Civ. Action No. SANC-V13-00342-CGH).

If you decide to ignore this email and instead continue Real-World Trading, we (Jagex Ltd) reserve our rights to pursue statutory damages against you for between $200 to $2,500 per act of past, present, and/or future real-world trading in accordance with 19 U.S.C. 1307(c)(3).

In addition, we have temporarily changed your RuneScape account’s status.

Please fill in the following security form to monitor your account’s status or to appeal the infractions which you have received:
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 Please note: Due to recent technical problems with our automated detection systems, some accounts have been unfairly punished. Most of the void infractions should have been removed. Please visit the appeal section to appeal any unjustified infractions received due to system errors.

Sincerely,
Mod Mark.

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A New Twist On a Potential scam

Good day,

This message might meet you in utmost surprise however it’s just my urgent need for a foreign partner that
made me contact you for this transaction. I got your contact during my search for a reliable, trust worthy
and honest person to introduce this transfer project with. My name is Mr. Joseph Osei, I am the manager
of the International Commercial Bank Ghana, First Light Branch Accra.

I have the opportunity of transferring the left over funds ($9.8 Million) abandoned from one of our Bank
clients Account.I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your
assistance as a foreigner to receive this money into your bank account. Hence, I am inviting you for a
business deal where this money can be shared between us if you agree to my business proposal.

Further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as I receive your response.

I will appreciate your timely response, thank you.

Sincerely,
Mr. Joseph Osei

This really looks official

GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION OFFICIAL APPROVAL PAYMENT VALUED $8.3M.

 
Dear Sir/Madam,
 
The British Prime Minister in conjunction with GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION, EUROPEAN UNION do hereby give this irrevocable approval order with Release Code: GNC/3480/0112/12 in your favor for your inheritance and lottery award winning prize with the UNITED NATIONS to your nominated bank account.
 
Now, your new Payment code is, United Nations Approval No; UN5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No:339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, Released Code No: 0763; Immediate union Bank Telex Confirmation No: -1114433; Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment numbers approved herein, You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the United Nations immediately within the next 72hrs.
 
As a matter of fact, you are required to Deal and Communicate only with Mr.NELSON HAGGIN, DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DEPARTMENT HSBC Bank N.A New York, with the help and monitory team from the INTERNATIONAL MONETORY FUND (IMF) NEW YORK and which is our official remitting reseerve bank, has look up to make sure you receive your fund into your bank account. You are to contact: Mr.NELSON HAGGIN on his contact information, Email: nelhagga123@e-mail.ua for immediate release of your inheritance and lottery award winning claim. Be informed that you are not allowed to correspond with any person or offices anymore, you are required to send bellow information to Mr.NELSON HAGGIN to facilitate your approved fund in less than 48hrs.
 
 
Information request for your transfer.
 
1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) FULL ADDRESS OF YOUR CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY:
3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE:
4) COMPANY NAME, POSITION AND ADDRESS:
5) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
6) A COPY OF YOUR INT’L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE
 
(5) BANK INFORMATIONS:
 
a) BANK NAME:
b) BANK ADRESS:
c) ACCOUNT NUMBER:
d) SWIFT CODE:
e) ROUTING NUMBER:
F) IBAN NUMBER
 
 
Note: Your personal contact/communication code with HSBC Bank is (HSBC PAYMENT CODE 111), you are advice to send your full banking Information to the HSBC BANK N.A, NEW YORK, The International Remittance Director headed by Mr.NELSON HAGGIN and make sure you speak with him, with your new payment code for release of your fund and send him all your banking information now.
 
 
CONTACT CODE (HSBC PAYMENT CODE 111)
contact Person: Mr.NELSON HAGGIN.
Position: Director International Remittance Department
Email Address: nelhagga123@e-mail.ua
 
 
CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN CONTRACT/AWARD WINING PAYMENT UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEAN UNION.
SIR RICHARD GILBERT

I am suppose to believe this?

My wife Violet and I Allen Large won a Jackpot Lottery of $11.3 million in July. We have decided to donate

$2,000,000.00 USD to you as part of our own charity project,contact our private email for more information
(allenviolet.large@yahoo.co.uk).

A spooky scenerio
I don’t know if this is true, but it is spooky.
 
You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.
With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.
In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.
The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.
As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you’re in trouble.
In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..
Yours was never registered.
Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.
They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.
When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.
“What kind of sentence will I get?” you ask.
“Only ten-to-twelve years,” he replies, as if that’s nothing.
“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”
The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.
 
Somehow, you’re portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.
Their friends and relatives can’t find an unkind word to say about them..
Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have been arrested numerous times.
But the next day’s headline says it all:  “Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”
The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..
As the days wear on, the story takes wings.
The national media picks it up, then the international media.
The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he’ll probably win.
The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you’ve been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.
After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.
The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.
A few months later, you go to trial.
The charges haven’t been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.
When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you..
Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.
It doesn’t take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.
The judge sentences you to life in prison.
This case really happened.
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.
In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term…
How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the once great British Empire ?
It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..
Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.
Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.
Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of “gun control”, demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)
Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.
For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few side arms still owned by private citizens.
During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.
Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, “We cannot have people take the law into their own hands.”
All of Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.
When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.
Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn’t were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply.
Police later bragged that they’d taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?
WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
“…It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds..” –Samuel Adams
If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.
You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing, over here, if he can get it done
 
The UN Small Arms Treaty that Hilary is negotiating would take away our 2nd Amendment rights.
And there are stupid people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him.
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Just remember – the reason the Japanese didn’t invade the USA is because they knew that Most of the Citizens were armed.

I’m leary of Mr. Whites Email

Dear: Beneficiary,

This is Mr Paul White,We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you, your over due contract/inheritance fund which you could
not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin code through the Digitalized Payment System. We have decided to pay your funds to you through
(ATM Master Express Credit Card) This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank and Paris Club, due to fraudulent activities going on within
the African Region and it has been approved by the presidency to deliver here.

The World Bank and Paris Club introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our contractors/inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any
interference. the ATM Master Express Credit Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE. Reconfirm the following information to us for Security reason.

1)YOUR FULL NAME
2)YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS
3)YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER
4)YOUR PROFESSION
5)YOUR AGE

Upon the receipt of this mail we are going to load your $4.5 million into the Master Express Credit Card and send a scan copy of the card to you before we
will proceed to dispatch the card directly to your nominated home address so you absolutely have nothing to worry about all we need is your Prompt Response
and Co-operation by Gods Grace we will have a successful Transaction and what you have to do now is to obtain the INSURANCE BOND CERTIFICATE that has to be on your name to back up your card for successful delivery and also pay for the delivery fee of the courier and It will cost you $250 usd and that is all.

Here is the information of payment

Receiving name: Teke James
Receiving address: Lagos. Nigeria.
Text question: How are you
Text answer: Fine

I await you

Mr Paul White
+234-8191477141

I don’t trust Mr Samuel

ATTN : My Dear Friend,

I write to solicit your collaboration and support to enable us execute a very lucrative and high profiting business transaction. I am very sure that with trust and understanding, we can be able to execute this business to our mutual benefit and believe that you will not let down the trust I am willing to repose in you. I work for an Ivorian based public international firm (a MIC), I work as the corporate affairs manager. Between the 17th -19th of may, 2012 a business seminar was held in Yamoussoukro Cote d’Ivoire of which I attended. While in the Seminar, I was opportune to meet a renowned Farmer who happen to be the 15th President of a family farm, he is an accomplished and widely known and recognized millionaire farmer in this part of the region. He has farms in different countries. Above all, he is one of the greatest supplier of cattle, beef and other diary products in this part of the coast.On getting to know my profession, Alhaji the farmer took me into confidence by informing me about the purchase of a particular but very important medicine for his cattle. He informed me that he buys this product at $5,000.00 USD per carton, and that he mostly buys to the excess of 450 cartons. He informed me that he would like me to find out if my organization could source for him a cheaper supplier considering the recent trend of falls in the general price of beef in the world market which is affecting his business. Back in my office, I discussed this proposal with my boss and he decided to handle the supply by himself. We carried out a market research and discovered that we could purchase these medicine somewhere cheaper in Europe for $2,200.00 USD per carton .

We moved a proposal to them to supply at $4,800.00 USD per carton of which his farm company accepted.Owing to my role in the transaction, I had an agreement with my director to be receiving 15% of whatever gain is made on each supply of which he agreed. But on the completion of the supply and the receipt of the payment,my boss renegaded on our agreement and refused to give me my share of the profit. Since then our relationship has been soiled. I have since accepted it as one of life experiences. However, as faith would have it, recently, I ran into Alhaji and he informed me that he would want us to urgently supply him with 1,250 cartons of the same product before the end of the year 2013. I used the opportunity to inform Alhaji that I can introduce him to the main producer of this vaccine who can supply him the product at $4,400.00 USD if he will pay in advance as he usually does. He was very pleased and has assured me that he is not going to contact my boss again for this vaccine. He is now waiting for me to link him to the producer of the vaccine. We will buy the medicine at$2,200.00 USD from the manufacturing company and sell at $4,400.00 USD to Alhaji, with him making a down payment of 50% of our quoted price first. If you are interested and capable of handling this supplies on my behalf, kindly get back to me urgently through my e-mail, so that we can agree on the terms and profit sharing, after which I can then furnish you with the contacts of both our source and that of Alhaji. Kindly be notified that at no point in time should you let Alhaji know that you are not the producer of the medicine and we should never allow him to know the contact of our real source in EUROPE so that he wouldn’t by pass us to deal directly with them. I wait for your response.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Yours sincerely,
Mr.Sammuel.
 

I don’t even have a Runescape account

Dear Player,

We have collected convincing evidence that you tried to trade your RuneScape account or sell your virtual items outside of the game environment.

Such real-world trading is destroying the economy of RuneScape and is in violation with our policies. Therefore any player that continues to engage in the illegal activity has no place in our community.

All of your accounts are now on our watch-list and will be automatically monitored for real-world trading. Regardless of who you are or how long you’ve been with us, if you continue to real-world trade we will have no hesitation in: (1) permanently banning your account from our community in order to protect the game, and (2) naming you as a defendant in Jagex Limited vs you, which is a lawsuit based on antitrust law violations that is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Civ. Action No. SANC-V13-00342-CGH).

If you decide to ignore this email and instead continue Real-World Trading, we (Jagex Ltd) reserve our rights to pursue statutory damages against you for between $200 to $2,500 per act of past, present, and/or future real-world trading in accordance with 19 U.S.C. 1307(c)(3).

In addition, we have temporarily changed your RuneScape account’s status.

Please fill in the following security form to monitor your account’s status or to appeal the infractions you have recieved:
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Please note: Due to recent technical problems with our automated detection systems, some accounts have been unfairly punished. Most of the void infractions should have been removed. Please visit the appeal section to appeal any unjustified infractions received due to system errors.

Sincerely,
Mod Mark.

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This looks fishy to me

ERICK MOORE Lagos-Nigeria. Tel : 234-1-7774535 ATTN: Sir /Madam   I know this will come to you as a surprise but never mind, I got your Contact in my search for a reputable and trust worthy person/Company,Who can stand confidently with me in this successful business Arrangement. Before I proceed, I will like to introduce my humble self To you.  I am the Auditor General of a Government Accredited Oil Company here in Nigeria. Certainly, the prompting of this letter to you is anchored on my strong desire to solicit your sincere understanding and co-operation in this Transaction that would certainly boost the financial stand of both parties involved when completed. As a matter of fact, we want to transfer to overseas (US$52,000.000.00 USD) fifty two million Unite States Dollars) from the Oil Company’s operating Bank account here in Africa, I want you to quietly Look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to Provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank A/C Immediately to receive this money, even an empty account can serve to Receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end Of this important transaction, trusting in you and believing in God That you will Never let me down either now or in the near future.  In all honesty, during the course of our auditing I discovered a Floating fund of the above mentioned amount in account opened with the Bank in 1990 and since then; nobody has operated on this account again, After going through some old files in the records I discovered that the Money in the account was mapped out for the refurbishment of the Oil Company’s Machineries. Meanwhile, Mr. Magnus Leon, the President of the Oil company was the Only signatory to the account, but unfortunately he died after a brief Illness in 1993. And no other person knows about this account or any Thing concerning it, and the account has no other beneficiary. And my investigation proved to me that Mr. Magnus Leon, until his death Had wanted to siphoned that money into his personal account in New York Hence he did not disclose the operating devises of the account to the Board of Trustees.  I am only contacting you in this regard, based on the fact that you are A foreigner because, this money can only be approved to any foreigner Who can present all documents that will prove that he/she is the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the account base on the fact that Mr. Magnus Leon The owner of this account is a foreigner, and the money can only be approved into a foreign bank Account. Therefore, if you are capable of handling this transaction with me, lets Make the necessary arrangement for the hitch-free transfer of this Money to any safe bank account that you may nominate, on a share Percentage bases. However, we shall sign a binding agreement, to bind us Together as partners in this regard.  I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let Me down in this business, you are the first and the only person that I Am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently and indicate Your sincere interest, so that I can inform you on the modalities Already mapped out for the hitch-free transfer of the money out of Africa here.I will require your direct phone and fax number for easy contacting you I need your full co-operation to make this work adequately. Upon your Positive response and once I am convinced that you are capable and Willing to meet up with the instructions of the top bank official that is deeply involved with me in this business, I shall commence actions Immediately to process the payment of the money in your favor as the Beneficiary With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer This money to any reliable foreign bank account, which you can provide.  I am looking forward in anticipation to hearing from you soon as Possible. Yours truly,  ERICK MOORE

Scam from Spain

FROM: ANTONIO LUCAS (ESQ)
CARRETERA DE MADRID KM 241’5 N-10
50012 ZARAGOZA MADRID, SPAIN

GOOD DAY,

I APOLOGIZE FOR SENDING THIS MAIL TO YOU BUT THIS IS A MATTER OF URGENCY AND I WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY THIS MATTER WITH YOU.

MY NAME IS ANTONIO  LUCAS, SOLICITOR AND FINANCIAL CONSULTANT TO THE LATE MR. RICHARD WEIR A PROPERTY MAGNATE AND BUILDING CONTRACTOR BASED HERE IN MADRID-SPAIN.

ON 2004, MY CLIENT DIED IN A TRAIN BOMB BLAST HERE IN MADRID, SPAIN ((HALLMARK OF AL-QAEDA) FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CRASH AND PEOPLE INVOLVED, VISIT THIS

 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c00e4dc1139f937a35757c0a9629c8b63

MY CLIENT WAS A SUCCESSFUL AND AN ACCOMPLISHED FAMILY MAN WHO MADE ENOUGH FORTUNE BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH. HE LEFT BEHIND A LARGE DEPOSIT IN HIS INVESTMENT ACCOUNT WITH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION HERE.

UPON HIS DEATH, THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION CONTACTED ME AS HIS ATTORNEY TO PROVIDE THEM WITH A NEXT OF KIN OR INHERITOR SINCE HIS FAMILY DIED WITH HIM IN THE CRASH LEAVING A VACCUM TO BE FILLED.

MEANWHILE, I HAVE MADE SEVERAL INQUIRES ON MY OWN TO LOCATE HIS NEXT OF KIN BUT ALL HAS PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL. I EVEN CONTACTED MANY EMBASSIES TO SEE IF I CAN LOCATE ANY OF HIS RELATIVES BUT ALL MY EFFORT WAS ABORTIVE.

TWO WEEKS AGO, THE BANK ADOPTED A RESOLUTION AND I WAS MANDATED TO PROVIDE HIS NEXT OF KIN OR INHERITOR WITHIN 21 BANKING DAYS OR FORFEIT THE MONEY TO THE BANK AS ABANDONED/UNCLAIMED FUND DECREE OF 1936 ALLOWED THE BANK TO CONFISCATE THE FUND AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE PERIOD GIVEN TO ME.

I AM CONVINCED THAT IT IS BY THE GRACE OF GOD THAT I AM ABLE TO LOCATE YOU. HENCE MY LETTER TO YOU, BELIEVING THAT YOU ARE RELIABLE TO BE PRESENTED TO THE BANK AS THE INHERITOR TO THE FUND. I THEREFORE DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU WITH THESE FACTS BEFORE ME BECAUSE OF THE URGENCY OF THE SITUATION PRESENTLY.

BY VIRTUE OF MY CLOSENESS TO THE DECEASED AND HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY, I AM VERY MUCH AWARE OF MY CLIENT FINANCIAL STAND. TO THIS EFFECT, I NOW SEEK YOUR CONSENT TO PRESENT YOU TO THE BANK AS THE INHERITOR SO THAT THE PROCEEDS OF THIS DEPOSIT VALUED AT TWENTY FIVE MILLION U.S DOLLARS (US$25, 000, 000.00) WILL BE PAID TO YOU AND THEN YOU AND I WILL SHARE THE MONEY. 50% TO ME, 30% TO YOU WHILE 10% WHILE BE GIVEN TO ANY ORPHANAGE HOME AND 10% WILL BE MAPPED OUT TO PAY BACK ALL EXPENSES WE MAY INCURRED ON THE PROCESS OF THIS TRANSACTION.

I GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL BE EXECUTED UNDER A LEGITIMATE ARRANGEMENT THAT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ANY BREACH OF THE LAW. TRUST ME AS HIS FINANCIAL CONSULTANT THAT THIS IS A RISK FREE TRANSACTION. IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME VIA EMAIL WITH THE BELOW DETAILS THAT WILL BE USED FOR DOCUMENTATION AND PROCESSING OF THE PAYMENT IN YOUR FAVOR:

YOUR FULL NAME:
YOUR FULL ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE, FAX AND CELL NUMBERS:
PRIVATE EMAIL:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
SEX:
MARITAL STATUS:

YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED

YOURS SINCERELY,

ANTONIO LUCAS(ESQ)
Reply email:info_bnk.de.es@mcom.com

Another FBI potential scam

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
I am Mr.  Robert S.Mueller, The FBI Director; After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by imposters, claiming to be Professor Charles Soludo (Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria), Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr. Frank Nweke, None existing officials of the Oceanic Bank of Nigeria and Zenith Bank, UK winning Lottery, Andy Lear of Hsbc bank, Coca-Cola winning lottery and among a list of others is now under our custody with the help of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Local Police Force.
Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot on your personal earned money just to conclude the successful transfer of your funds to your nominated bank account by obtaining transfer documents as requested by the imposters, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail.
The FBI had to send some financial crime investigators from our head quarters in Washington DC to Africa in other to carry out proper investigation, after receiving series of other reports similar to yours as you are not the only person awaiting the legal transfer of funds from Africa.
The FBI has giving authority to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) to assist the Federal Ministry   of Finance and all the organization involved; such as the Central Bank, Zenith Bank, and Legit lottery organizations to immediately commence with the compensation of all the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of their funds.
With the help of some of the best Internet investigators attached to the FBI, we traced your information from the Internet as one of the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of funds to your nominated account.
I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to carry out with the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid reoccurrence of the delay in transferring your funds and the high cost of procuring transfer documents and came to a final conclusion as all head of organizations involved was duly represented.
It was approved to be issued to you as a valid international ATM card cashable at any ATM machine designation in the world. The ATM account has already being credited with two million, five hundred thousand United States dollars. ($2.5,000, 000.00USD) , with a daily Limit of withdrawal of Ten thousand United States Dollars. ($10.000, 00USD).The ATM card has already being packaged and approved to be delivered to your door step via express courier delivery service.
Contact Mr Donald Brady {Our FBI ATM Rep.} at the ATM PAYMENT CENTER and reconfirm your delivery information as stated below and your security code with five digit (15011) number has to be submitted alongside with your delivery information for security reasons.
DELIVERY INFORMATION:
FULL NAME AND AGE:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
SCAN COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
CELL PHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION
CONTACT INFORMATION:
NAME: Mr Donald Brady
EMAIL:
HAVE IT IN MIND THAT THE DELIVERY FEE OF YOUR PACKAGE DELIVERY TO YOUR DESTINATION HAVE BEEN SETTLED BETWEEN WE AND THE COURIER COMPANY IN CHARGE OF YOUR ATM CARD DELIVERY.SO YOU ARE MANDATED TO PAY FOR THE SECURITY KEEPING FEE ONLY FOR YOUR ATM CARD TO BE DELIVERED TO YOU.
A RELIABLE AND A TRUSTED COURIER COMPANY HAVE BEEN CONTRACTED TO DELIVER YOUR PACKAGE TO YOUR DESTINATION,AS SOON AS YOU CONTACT Mr Donald Brady HE WILL UPDATE YOU WITH THE COURIER COMPANY EMAIL CONTACT ADDRESS IN OTHER TO AVOID ANY UNDUE DELAY OF YOUR ATM CARD.
NOTE: Under normal circumstances you are suppose to come and collect your ATM CARD in person and sign some documents as proof of the collection of your ATM CARD but the IMF and the Finance Ministry insisted that you pay  for the SECURITY KEEPING FEE ONLY of your ATM CARD via western union money transfer, which will cost you only  $150.00 USD to cut down travel expenses in other for the western union payment receipt and the receipt of payment of $150.00 USD to the nominated courier company that will carry out with the delivery to your door step  to be  documented in your file as proof your collection.  We hope that is very clear.  A receipt to this effect will be sent to you and a copy kept in your file for future documentation.
We also advise that you stop further communications with these imposters and forward any correspondence / proposal you receive from them to Mr. Donald Brady in other for the FBI to bring justice to does still at large.
GOD BLESS US.
REGARDS.
Mr. Robert S.Mueller III
FBI DIRECTOR..

No, you can’t trust me

Good Day,

I am sorry to disturb you. I am Magareth Weiss, a childless dying widow , suffering from cancer of the lungs. I have been told by my doctor that I have a very short period to live. At this moment, I need your assistance to help the needy in the society. Please do not overlook my email to you. I hope to hear from you soon.

Faithfully Yours,
Magareth Weiss.

How can you call me friend? You don’t even know me

Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Jim Van, a Business Manager with Foreign Trade Bank(Cambodia office), am as well an account officer to a deceased customer of our bank, that shares the same name as yours, who died on a car accident with his wife and two children along Cambodian Vietnam on November 16th 2004. His account of US$19,500,000.00 million with us has been unclaimed due to unavailability of next of kin/relatives to claim his estate. In accordance with the escheat laws in Cambodia as a kingdom, the Board of Directors of the bank met forth night ago and resolved to turn the estate of the deceased over to Government pause having waited for too long without the deceased relatives/next of kin surfacing property and if this is done, invariably, the funds will end up to become Government property and it is as a result of this that am moved to contact you considering the fact that you share almost the same name with the deceased. Hope the money will be intact pending until my physical arrival at your end for sharing?

In view of this, am seeking your cooperation and understanding to stand as the deceased next of kin to enable us claim the inheritance before the period given by the bank elapse. All I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please accept my apologies and keep my confidence. At the end of the transfer you shall have 40% of the total amount.

Considering the money involved, and due to the nature of this transaction, it is necessary for you to be sure of whom you are transacting with. I want to be sure that you are ready, to execute this transaction with me, What I expect from you is trust and commitment, I want this large sum of money transferred with your assistance and you should have nothing to worry about regarding legality at all because  what affects you Shall also affects me too, but I will appreciate you to follow my directives amicably as everything shall be done in accordance passing through all international banking laws, and as a banker I know that if we follow up this transaction diligently it would be completed within 14 working days.

Do not fail to get back to me as soon as you have receive this mail to enable us discuss further, with your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication and oral discussion.

I await your prompt reply on this.
Kind Regards
Mr. Jim Van
mr.jimvan@e-mail.ua

Another suspicious looking email

Postal notification,

Our company’s courier couldn’t make the delivery of parcel.

Status: The weight of parcel is exceed the available parameters for free delivery.
LOCATION OF YOUR PARCEL:Columbus
STATUS: sort order
SERVICE: Expedited Shipping
ITEM NUMBER:U981226682 NU
FEATURES: Yes

Label is enclosed to the letter.
Print your label and show it in the nearest post office of USPS

An additional information:
If the parcel isn’t received within 30 working days our company will have the right to claim compensation from you for it’s keeping in the amount of $9.41  for each day of keeping.

You can find the information about the procedure and conditions of parcels keeping in the nearest office.

Thank you.
USPS Global Mail.

No forwarding here by me

OUR REF: 0012/BHC/FBI/ATM/2012 g We wish to bring to your notice that your email was listed by the British Financial Intelligent Unit (BFIU) for these exercise of compensating scammed victims, those listed some have been endorsed by the ASIA PACIFIC in Malaysia yours was among those reported unpaid as at today and we wish to instruct you to see the instruction of the commission to make sure you receive your compensation instantaneously as a beneficiary of $850,000.00 USD. Accredited on an ATM Card. Kindly forward your information to the email address below: Full Name: Delivery Address: Country: Phone Number: Occupation: Sex/Age: Verification Code: ATM-ASIA701 Note: Your Personal Contact/Communication Code With MR John Lordcap Is “247” You Are Advice To Send Your Full Details as requested. Take Note the money you will send to him before your ATM CARD will be Release to you is just $320 for the  Pin Code of your ATM CARD. Western Union Information for Payment: Receiver’s Name: Noel Eboh Country: Lagos Nigeria Test Question: Very? Test Answer: Urgent Do notify us immediately you make the payment by sending the details bellow to us: Sender’s Name: Sender’s Address: M.T.C.N: Immediately the above details are received and validated, your payment will be processed within 48hours. Call:+23480948818 Email: atmcenter2002@yahoo.co.jp Regars. John Lordcap.

I just don’t think I will reply

My name is Yasuji Yagi, a merchant in Japan. I have recently been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer, which has defiled all medical treatment. Expert diagnosis has shown that I have few months to live. The intention of this email is to employ the expertise of a business entrepreneur, who can identify a viable investment and guarantee reasonable returns on my wealth. This is to secure a future for my 4 years old son who lost his mother during birth. I cannot rely on his closest relatives any more, as they did not show responsible behaviour two years ago when I entrusted half of my wealth to them to invest on his behalf. They thought I wouldn’t survive the operation and then used the money for their personal needs. The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of USD$60 Million dollars. I will want you to help me collect this deposit . To prevent any more mishaps, my attorney will act as a check, monitoring every aspect of the investment. Funds should be split in half and distributed to charity organisation and the other half, as investment for my son. If this interests you, please reach me on this email address yasujiyag@aim.com to discuss terms and compensation. Kind regard Mr.Yasuji Yagi.

I am sure this if from Nigerian FedEX

For some reason I get the sneaking suspicion that this in not from FedEx but just another scam.

FedEx Nigeria Head Office

70 International Airport Road
Mafoluku, Lagos.
Tel: +234-8053313357
Customers Service Hours–Monday to Saturday:  Office Hours Monday to Sunday:
This is FedEx Company of Nigeria, the management of this company,wishes to inform you that, we have received a parcel containing an International Cashier’s Check
valued 2.5million USD with some vital documents attached on it, for safe delivery to your residential address in your city.
This parcel was brought to us this morning by the United Nations (Scam Victims Committee) Payment office Nigeria, with the below information? Please note that the validity of your check has been certified allowing you to cash funds
or make deposit at your local bank. Kindly reconfirm the below information, to avoid delivery of your check to a wrong destination.
Full names…………
Parcel owner address……
Tel………..
We will register your package and send you the tracking numbers before we proceed for safety delivery of your package as soon as you reconfirm the required information.
FedEx is one of the world’s great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we’ve grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies as FedEx that’s bigger, stronger, better than ever.
Do endeavor to send your response to the following email:  (fedexdeliveryoffice@secapintl.com)
Thanks
Yours affectionately
Mr Patrick Foster
Dispatch Manager FedEx Courier
for the Ikeja branch manager
FedEx express services Lagos -Nigeria

A Wells Fargo Phishing Scam

Recently this email was received and we took it to Wells Fargo Bank and they told us that this is definately a phishing scam. Therefore, if you receive a similar email from Wells Fargo, do not click on any of the links in the email and report it to Wells Fargo.

Our records indicate that your Wells Fargo checking account XXXXXXxxxx that is linked to your Bill Pay service for fees has been closed or is no longer available for use with Bill Pay. A Wells Fargo fee account (checking account) is required to maintain your Bill Pay service.

Until you designate another checking account as your new fee account, we have canceled any pending payments and will suspend any automatic (recurring) payments that have been scheduled.

If this was the only checking account linked to your Bill Pay service, please contact us at 1-800-956-4442.

If this is not the only checking account linked to your Bill Pay service, please sign on at https://www.wellsfargo.com to select a new fee account and reschedule your payments.
1. Go to Bill Pay.
2. Go to the Bill Pay User Profile screen and select a checking account as your new fee account.
3. Reschedule any canceled payments from the Bill Pay Overview screen.
4. Reset any suspended automatic (recurring) payments by selecting the Payees tab and clicking on the name of the payee. Then click on the Edit link to the right of Payment Details. Choose a new payment account and start date.

If you have questions, we are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call Wells Fargo Online Customer Service at 1-800-956-4442 or sign on at https://www.wellsfargo.com/questions to send a secure email.

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Please do not reply to this automated email. To send a secure email, sign on at https://www.wellsfargo.com/questions.

Money transfer from Western Union?

I just don’t think this if for real. Why would a Western Union representative use a hotmail email address? This is a major giveaway that this is more than likely a scam.

How are you today? The below payment has been awarded to you by the Nigeria Government/World Bank to compensate you on the past experience had with the Nigeria scammers. I write to inform you that we have already sent you $10,000.00 through Western Union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment total sum of $250,000.00 via Western Union by the Government. I have on a good authority email you the MTCN and sender’s details to enable you pick up the first $10,000.00,USD and confirm receipt to us so as to enable us wire the next USD10,000.00 by tomorrow and subsequent ones since we can only send USD10,000.00 a day. Please pick up this information and get to any western union in your country to pick up the $10,000.00 and email the Western Union outlets incharge of the payment so that they could send you another payment tomorrow. Western Union contact information: Manager: Mr. Paul Ben Email: paullbenn2012@hotmail.com Call or Email them once you picked up the $10,000.00 today, if there is any problem with them paying you make sure to contact this Western Union outlet with the information given to you Below. Below is the western union information for pick up: MTCN: 017-591-6070 Sender’s Name: Micheal Wells Question: Colour Answer: Pink Amount: $10,000.00 They will be expecting your call once you pick up $10,000.00. Best Regards, Terry Scott Outlet Manager WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER

This sounds like a fishy FBI letter

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION

FBI   HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
Phone/Fax: 206-337-5630
This is to officially inform you that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has wired the sum of Ten Million, Five hundred thousand U.S Dollars ($10,500,000.00) into the United States of America in your name as the beneficiary.
The said fund is still under intense investigation from this office regarding its source.
The CBN knowing fully well that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment  directly into your account, used what we know as a secret diplomatic transit payment (S.D.T.P) to pay this  fund through wire transfer.
However, Secret diplomatic transfer payments are normally funds related to drug/terrorist and money laundering system of payment.
The Question now is why must your payment be made in such secret transfer? If your transaction is legitimate and not related to drug/terrorism, why cant the CBN effect direct transfer into your account than secret diplomatic payment transfer?
Due to the increased difficulties and thorough scrutiny by the American authorities when funds come in through such payment process from Europe, Africa and Middle East and based on the records we have had in the past, such method of payment has always been identified as drug/ terrorist/money laundering funds.
However, in line with the United States policy on funds transfer, as soon as these funds are transferred into the United States, it is our compulsory obligations to establish the credentials and official recognition of these funds before final crediting into your account.
For these reasons therefore, you are advised to contact the United States Funds Monitoring unit, a sub-division of the US Treasury department for the certificate of funds legality. They are still waiting for confirmation from you on the already transferred funds which was made in direct transfer so that they can do final crediting to your account.
Failure to provide this document within 3 days will warrant us to confiscate these funds and further charge you for money laundering offense.
We will allow the funds to be released into your account as soon as you make provision for the essential document.
Yours faithfully,
Robert S. Mueller, III
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

EBAY secret shopper scam

Recently received this email about a secret shopper. It sure sounds inviting, however it is a scam to get your hard earned money.

Here is another link also reporting on this scam http://www.ripoffreport.com/work-at-home-business/ebay-secret-shopper/ebay-secret-shopper-llc-david-a34db.htm

ABOUT US EBay Secret Shopper® LLC is the premier mystery shopping company; serving clients across America and Canada with over 500,000 shoppers available and ready to help businesses serve their customers better. Continual investment in the latest internet and communication technologies coupled with over 18 years of know-how means working with EBay Secret Shopper® LLC is a satisfying and rewarding experience. Mystery shoppers are either paid a pre-arranged fee for a particular shop, a reimbursement for a purchase or a combination of both. Secret Shopper® is available for immediate assignment, an inspection of the customer service of any Wal-Mart in your area. You are to shop secretly and invest just a little time to get things done. This fee will be paid upfront. During this shop you will visit the location and make several observations as regards the customer service.You will be required to interact with the shop clerk.The assignment will pay $300.00 per duty Kindly Fill Out the application form below and we will get back to you shortly with the assignment:

1. Full Legal Names:… 2. Mailing Address: City: State: Zip-Code….3. Telephone Numbers( Cell & Home )

Thank you for your help. We look forward to working with you .

Sincerely,

Jack Carpenter Employment Manager

EBay Secret Shopper® LLC

Some scamers want your Paypal info

I just received this email and the date on the bottom of the email is dated 3/12/2011. These phishing mails must be floating around for a long time. No, I did not get concerned and follow their instructions and I would recommend that if you receive the same just delete it.

 

This e-mail has been sent by the PayPal Account Review Department. Unusual charges were recently detected to a credit card linked to your PayPal account. Due to this, access to your account was limited. There were numerous log-in attempts by an unauthorized user to your account. To ensure greater security,  we have limited access to your account. We have attached a file in this e-mail for you that will verify that you are the legitimate account holder (owner). Please download and open it in your browser. (This security breach issue may be found under reference PP # 283-448-105)
Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure taken by our security team intended to protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, PayPal Account Review Department – 03/12/2011

Msn scam

This is so phony. Do these scammers really expect someone to take this serious and click or follow their instructions?

Attention MSN Customer,

My name is Susan Williams, Vice President of MSN. We have recently teamed up with Apple and Facebook for a one-time promotional event today and are giving away free Apple iPads to randomly selected people who have an account with MSN or Facebook. YOU have been selected as one of our newest winners for today. We randomly choose numbers to match up with MSN email addresses and your email address matched with our latest drawing. We’ve partnered up with Apple to advertise their hottest product yet, the Apple iPad 3. Just like our last promotion when the first iPad launched, the iPad 3 promotion is for one-day only. Simply visit: http://MSN-Rewards.com and enter your email address to claim yours for FREE. Make sure you enter your email address so we can locate our records to guarantee that we have reserved one for you. That’s it! Congratulations on winning a free Apple iPad 3 ($800 value). In case you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me directly. However, you should claim your iPad first to ensure one will be set-aside for you before the deadline ends. We do understand that you may possibly receive this email after the deadline ends. However, we highly recommend you check the site and enter your email anyway to see if yours is still on hold. During our last promotion we had several unclaimed iPads because others hadn’t claimed theirs in time and they never checked back after the deadline.

Susan Williams VP, Corporate Communications MSN, Inc.

Another Nigerian e-mail

These scammers just don’t give up

BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION
NIGERIA HIGH COMMISSION, 9, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE,
LONDON WC2N 5BX, UNITED KINGDOM

ATTENTION:

The BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION in United Kingdom, Nigeria,Benin Republic,Ghana
and Bokinafaso received a report of scam against you and other British/US
citizens and Malaysia,Etc. whom the country of UK, Nigeria/Benin,Bokinafaso
And Ghana have recompensed you due to meeting held with Four countries
Government and the world high commissions against fraud activities by the
Four country Citizens.

Your name was among those scammed as listed by the United Kingdom Financial
Services Authority (UKFSA).A compensation has been issued out in ATM CARD to
all the affected victims and has been already in distribution to all the
bearers. Your ATM CARD REF(# TNY/478593G9/19) was among those that was
reported undelivered as at last Friday and we wish to advise you to see to
the instructions of the Committee to make sure you receives your ATM CARD
immediately for your usage.

The United Kingdom Financial Services Authority further told us that the
use of Nigeria Couriers and the Benin was abolished due to interception
activities noticed in the above mentioned courier services in Benin,Nigeria
and Ghana and thereby have made a concrete arrangement with the KENEX
COURIER SERVICES for a safe delivery to your door-step once the beneficiary
meets up the demand of the conveyance.

Due to the security, we ask that you keep all information confidential until
your claim will be processed and your money remitted to you.

THIS IS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOLS TO AVOID UNWARRANTED ABUSE OF THIS
PROGRAM BY SOME UNKNOWN PARTICIPANTS.

THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION has discovered a huge number of double claims
due to beneficiaries informing close friends relatives,
attorneys and third parties about their Awards. As a result of this, this
close friends relatives,
attorneys and third parties try to claim the prize on behalf of the real
recipients.

We advise that you do the needful to make sure the UKFSA dispatches your
recompense on Friday. You are assured of the safety of your ATM CARD and
availability and be advised that you should stop further contacts with all
the fake government officials  online who in collaboration scammed you.

Your Full Name:………………….
Your Delivery Address………………..
Your phone Number………………….
Your occupation ……………………

Yours in Service,
Agent Steve Morrise
CONSULAR/DIPLOMAT
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION

Visa/MasterCard scam

Visa / MasterCard FRAUD
Just a heads up for everyone regarding the latest in Visa fraud. Royal Bank received this communication about the newest scam. This is happening in the Midwest right now and moving.

This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want..

Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it.

This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA & MasterCard telephone Credit Card Scam works, you’ll be better prepared to protect yourself. One of our employees was called on Wednesday from ‘VISA’, and I was called on Thursday from ‘MasterCard’.

The scam works like this:

Person calling says – ‘This is (name), and I’m calling from the Security and Fraud Department at VISA. My Badge number is 12460, Your card has been flagged for an unusual purchase pattern, and I’m calling to verify. This would be on your VISA card which was issued by (name of bank). Did you purchase an Anti-Telemarketing Device for $497.99 from a marketing company based in Arizona ?’ When you say ‘No’, the caller continues with, ‘Then we will be issuing a credit to your account. This is a company we have been watching and the charges range from $297 to $497, just under the $500 purchase pattern that flags most cards. Before your next statement, the credit will be sent to (gives you your address), is that correct?’ You say ‘yes’.

The caller continues – ‘I will be starting a Fraud Investigation. If you have any questions, you should call the 1- 800 number listed on the back of your card (1-800-VISA) and ask for Security. You will need to refer to this Control Number. The caller then gives you a 6 digit number. ‘Do you need me to read it again?’

Here’s the IMPORTANT part on how the scam works – The caller then says, ‘I need to verify you are in possession of your card’. He’ll ask you to ‘turn your card over and look for some numbers’. There are 7 numbers; the first 4 are part of your card number, the last 3 are the Security Numbers that verify you are the possessor of the card. These are the numbers you sometimes use to make Internet purchases to prove you have the card. The caller will ask you to read the last 3 numbers to him. After you tell the caller the 3 numbers, he’ll say, ‘That is correct, I just needed to verify that the card has not been lost or stolen, and that you still have your card Do you have any other questions?’

After you say no, the caller then thanks you and states, ‘Don’t hesitate to call back if you do’, and hangs up. You actually say very little, and they never ask for or tell you the card number. But after we were called on Wednesday, we called back. Within 20 minutes to ask a question. Are we were glad we did! The REAL VISA Security Department told us it was a scam and in the last 15 minutes a new purchase of $497.99 was charged to our card. We made a real fraud report and closed the VISA account. VISA is reissuing us a new number..  What the scammers want is the 3-digit PIN number on the back of the card. Don’t give it to them. Instead, tell them you’ll call VISA or Master Card directly for verification of their conversation..

The real VISA told us that they will never ask for anything on the card as they already know the information since they issued the card! If you give the scammers your 3 Digit PIN Number, you think you’re receiving a credit; however, by the time you get your statement you’ll see charges for purchases you didn’t make, and by then it’s almost too late and/or more difficult to actually file a fraud report.

What makes this more remarkable is that on Thursday, I got a call from a ‘Jason Richardson of MasterCard’ with a word-for-word repeat of the VISA Scam. This time I didn’t let him finish. I hung up! We filed a police report, as instructed by VISA. The police said they are taking several of these reports daily! They also urged us to tell everybody we know that this scam is happening. I dealt with a similar situation this morning, with the caller telling me that $3,097 had been charged to my account for plane tickets to Spain , and so on through the above routine..

It appears that this Is a very active scam, and evidently quite successful.

Pass this on to all your family and friends

A new twist on an old Nigerian scam

I just received this email and I just don’t trust Rev Paul William. As usual, I posted here for others to see and then deleted.

Dear Confidant,

I am Mrs. Sharon Crawford a Charity organization officer; I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in New Braunfels Texas. My residential address is as follows. 1811 Teal Run Place Dr. Fresno, New Braunfels TX 77545, United States. I am one of those that executed Compensation in Nigeria many years ago and they refused to pay me, I had paid over USD15,000 while in the US, trying to get my payment but to all no avail.
So I decided to travel down to Nigeria with all my compensation documents, and I was directed to meet REV.PAUL WILLIAM, who is the member of COMPENSATION AWARD COMMITTEE, and I saw him and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake.
He took me to the paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am the happiest woman on earth because I have received my compensation funds of USD5,500,000.00 Moreover, REV.PAUL WILLIAM, showed me the full information of those that are yet to receive their payments and I saw your name as one of the beneficiary, and your email address, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you. I will advise you to contact REV.PAUL WILLIAM.
You have to contact him direct on this informations below.
COMPENSATION AWARD HOUSE
Name: REV. PAUL WILLIAM
Email: rev.paulwilliams190@skymail.mn
Phone number:+234-7070202543
Office Address: 13,Cole Street,Ikeja Lagos Nigeria.
You really have to stop dealing with those people that is contacting you and telling you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them, they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.
The only money I paid was just USD215, take note of that. Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact REV.PAUL WILLIAM so that he can help you to deliver your fund instead of dealing with those liars that will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your transaction.
Thank You and Remain Blessed.
Mrs.Sharon Crawford

How to fix Congress

*The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for

18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be

ratified!  Why?  Simple!  The people demanded it.  That

was in 1971… before computers, before e-mail, before

cell phones, etc.

Of  the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7)

took 1 year or less to become the law of the  land…

all because of public pressure.*

*I’m asking each addressee to forward this email to a

minimum of twenty people on their address list;  in

turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of

America will have the message.  This is one idea that

really should be passed around.

Congressional Reform Act of  2011

1.  No Tenure / No Pension. A  Congressman collects a

salary while in office and receives no pay when they

are out of office.

2..  Congress (past, present & future) participates in

Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement

fund move to the Social Security system immediately.

All  future funds flow into the Social Security system,

and Congress participates with the American people. 

It may not be used for any other purpose.*

*3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan,

just as all Americans
do.*

*4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.

Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.*

*5. Congress loses their current health care system and

participates
in the same health care system as the American people.*

*6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose

on the American
people.*

*7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen

are void effective1/1/12. ****The American people did

not make this contract with Congressmen.  Congressmen

made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.  The 

Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours

should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
*
*If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people

then it will only take three days for most people

(in the  U.S. ) to receive the message.  Maybe it is time.
*
*THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!*

*If  you agree with the above, pass it on. 

I’m sure Mr. Moore wants to give me a million bucks

 

Another email I am very suspicious of.     It must be my nature.
Dear Friend,

 

 

 

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?

 

I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. You may not understand

 

why this mail came to you. But if you do not remember me, you might have

 

received an email from me in the past regarding a multi-million-dollar

 

business proposal which we never concluded.

 

 

 

I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi-million-dollar

 

business has been concluded with another person who financed it to a logical

 

conclusion but i know that people has been using my identification to

 

contact you as a fraud act so i want you to decease from contacting them

 

because I know they just making earns out of you. I thank you for your great

 

effort to our unfinished transfer of fund into your account due to one

 

reason or the other best known to you. But I want to inform you that I have

 

successfully transferred the fund out of the security company to my new

 

partner’s account in London that was capable of assisting me in this great

 

venture.

 

 

 

Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthiness you showed during

 

the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show my gratitude

 

to you with the sum of $950,000.00. I have left an international certified

 

bank draft for you worth about $950,000.00 cashable anywhere in the world.

 

 

 

My dear friend I will like you to contact Barr. George Williams for the

 

collection of this international certified bank draft have authorized to

 

release the international certified bank draft to you as soon as you contact

 

him regarding this issue because as soon as you contact them the package

 

will be forwarded to the delivery company.

 

 

 

At the moment, I’m very busy here

 

because of the investment projects which myself and my new partner are

 

having at hand. Please I will like you to accept comply with Mr. George

 

Williams so that he will send the draft to you without any delay.

 

 

 

CONTACT: Barr. George Williams

 

ADDRESS: 102 Daytona ave. Holly Hull, City 32 Abuja.

 

EMAIL: barrgeorgewilliams@globomail.com

 

TEL: +234 81 53 671 539

 

 

 

Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your

 

address where you want him to send the draft to you I want you to give him a

 

call as well for verification.

 

 

 

Thanks and God bless you and your family. I am very busy now i may not reply

 

to any email for sometime.

 

 

 

Best Regards

 

Mr. David Moore

Petroleum Company of Trinidad says I have money

 
This sounds suspicious to me. 
The Manager 
Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (Petrotrin) 
Trinidad, West Indies
 
 
Dear Sir,
 
 
It is a fact that we have not met before neither have 
we had any previous business dealings, but I strongly 
believe that with understanding and trust we can have 
a successful business relationship.
 
 
For your information I am employee of Petroleum Company 
of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (Petrotrin), for more 
information you can visit our link
 
 
http://abarrelfull.wikidot.com/pointe-a-pierre-refinery-project
 
 
I have access to very vital information that can be used 
to move a huge amount of money out of the Petrotrin's 
continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) platform project 
account to a secured account. If it were possible for me 
to do it alone I would not have bothered contacting you, 
Ultimately I need a foreigner to play an important 
role in the completion of this business deal. Please, 
do not take this vital issue as the numerous scam mails 
you received nowadays, but a serious and mutually 
beneficial transaction.
 
 
The funds in question was sourced from over an invoiced 
billings and contracts of the;
 
 
REVAMPING OF FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT (FCCU) AND 
UPGRADE OF THE PETROTRIN’S GASOLINE OPTIMIZATION AT THE 
POINTE A PIERRE REFINERY. 
 
 
I have done my homework very well and have machineries 
in place to ensure that this venture succeed and I 
therefore asked of you if:
 
 
- You have a well serviced bank account that can receive 
huge transfer without suspicion from your bankers
 
- You have a good relationship with your bankers?
 
- You can guarantee the safety of these funds in your 
account pending my arrival for disbursement?
 
 
If YES, then I will need more information about you such as:
 
------Your Full Names 
------Your Contact Tel
------Your Office /Residential Address:
------Your Occupation
------Any form of ID 
 
 
This information will confirm that I am dealing with 
the right person as you know I have to be careful to 
avoid dealing with an impostor.
 
 
Kindly get back to me at your most early convenience 
so that I Can Brief you on the next line of action. On 
acceptance, Our Identities and total business plan package 
will be relayed to you in details.
 
 
I look forward to to meeting with you where I hope to 
do good business with you.
 
 
Treat this as confidential and Please respond to this 
email using my personal confidential mail at 
themanager@inMail24.com 
 
 
Best Regards,
 
Manager
Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. (Petrotrin)

Social Security information
History Lesson on Your Social Security Card
  
Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and
card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the
United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the
message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION,was removed.
 

An old Social Security card with the “NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION”message.
Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be
Completely voluntary,

No longer Voluntary

2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
Incomes into the Program,

Now 7.65%
on the first $90,000

3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,

No longer tax deductible

4.) That the money the participants put into the
independent ‘Trust Fund’rather than into the
general operating fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and,

Under Johnson the money was moved to
The General Fund and Spent

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed
as income.

Under Clinton & Gore
Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month —
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paidto the Federal government to ‘put
away’ — you may be interested in the following:

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— —-

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the
independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the
general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically
controlled House and Senate.

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— —

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— —–

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social
Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gorecasting the
‘tie-breaking’ deciding voteas President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the  US

———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— –

Q: Which Political Party decided to start
giving annuity payments to immigrants?

AND MY FAVORITE:

A: That’s right!

Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.  
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
even though they never paid a dime into it!

———— — ———— ——— —– ———— ——— ———

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA),
the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want
to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of
awareness will be planted and maybe changes will
evolve.
But it’s worth a try.
How many people can YOU send this to?

Actions speak louder than bumper stickers

 

Lets withhold elected officials pay

PLEASE read and forward to all your e-mail contacts, and post on your Face-book page if you have one… This is getting serious

 
Dear Mr. President, I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks if the debt ceiling isn’t raised.
 
Why is it the threat always has to do with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay? …trying to scare those who’s needs are greatest?
 
Why not stop YOUR pay, your staff, or Congress and the Senate to save more money for our country?
 
If that isn’t enough, how about withholding foreign aid?
  
Why use Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples?
 
Take the money from those who take no risks and reap the benefits!!   
 
Instead of threatening to withhold Social Security, VA and disability payments of people who really need the money….
 
Lets hold the paychecks of all house & senate members, then see how fast they resolve the debt ceiling crisis !!!!!
 
If you agree, repost this & keep it going across the whole USA.

    Thank you

A PayPal Phishing scam

I recently received this e-mail which was supposedly from PayPal and

I was am immediately suspcious when it says I need to update my

account with a link to update. I right clicked the link and retrieved the

address from the properties. I then Googled this address 82.114.94.182

and came up with this link https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?name=82.114.94.182

Surprise surprise, Norton shows this address as a Phishing attack threat.

Therefore, if you receive a similar email, don’t click on their link.

Dear PayPal Costumer,

It has come to our attention that your PayPal® 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.

However, failure to update your records will result in account

suspension. Please update your records before July 30, 2011

Once you have updated your account records, your PayPal®

account activity will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

Click here to update your PayPal account information 

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