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I know there is a lot of writers, bloggers on this site. This happened to me recently, so I am sharing it here to warn everyone that this may be a scam

HERE IS THE FIRST EMAIL I RECEIVED

Bookstore In-Store Stocking Invite

<kelly.sterling@strandbookstore.info>

Dear Tom,

Good Day!

My name is Kelly Sterling, the Chief Retail Officer of Strand Bookstore.

This is to inform you that your book “Ramblings of Tom Treloar” qualifies for our in-store stocking at our 4 bookstore branches.

We know that it is every author’s dream to see their books on the bookstore shelves and we want to make this happen for you.

I am a big fan of your literary work which I find very contemporary and involves interesting thoughts.

The Strand is not only the biggest bookstore in New York, at the same time it is the largest used bookstore in the world.

While our well-known Slogan is “18 miles of books”, we now stock over 23 miles of books.

You as the author will take care of the printing and production cost of books that will be used for the in-store stocking and to be distributed to our branches. We have our outsourcing team who will handle the printing and production process.

Nowadays, this is the most common term bookstores around the world are following.

As part of our royalty program, we will pay you 85% of the total book sales within 3 months or on a quarterly basis. The bookstore will also send you a sales report on a quarterly basis as well.

Our initial plan is to print 2,000 copies.

Let me know if you’re interested. 

Looking forward to your response.

I Replied

<mail@tomt2.com>

To: Kelly

I am curious about your proposal and would like to know more about it.   I am over eighty and on a fixed income. Therefore, the expense of printing 2000 books is the major obstacle. It is hard for me to imagine selling that many books. Please give me additional information about your proposal. 

She Replied

Dear Tom,

Thank you for getting back to me.

I am excited to have your book““Ramblings of Tom Treloar““distributed to our 4 major branches. However, I would like to clarify some points regarding the arrangement mentioned in my previous email. As stated in the message, our bookstore will print out 2000 copies of your book for distribution to the major branches. Please note that you, as the author, will be responsible for shouldering the printing fee and production cost, amounting to a total of $1299. 

Our trusted partner printer in New York will print out the books. It will be the same book as it was originally printed.

This cost includes exclusive benefits:

  • Premium Consignment package for 1 year.
  • Social media posts for book promotion.
  • Email newsletter blast featuring the Book.
  • Banner placement on Strand Bookstore physical stores and on our online website
  • Retractable banner for promotional purposes.
  • Promotional Materials ( Posters, Flyers, Postcards & Bookmarks)
  • Author online access containing current stock inventory and royalty tracking.
  • Press Release Campaign to all social media platforms.
  • Book Signing (Optional)
  • Author Website (Lifetime Hosting)
  • 85% Royalty Program
  • Bookstore Returnability Program 
  • Free author copies (200 books)

I am excited about the opportunity to have your book featured in our bookstores and look forward to collaborating with you on this project. Warm Regards,

I Replied

OK, you have a fish on the line, now start reeling it in.

Tom

She replied

Dear Tom,

For us to officially welcome you onboard. You can process the payment through a wire transfer.

Payment will directly go to our trusted partner printer in New York.

Total amount: $1,299

Account Holder’s Name: Danny Valdevilla Baguio

Account Holder Street Address: 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor

New York NY 10010

United States

Receiving Bank : Community Federal Savings Bank

Financial Institution Street Address : 89-16 Jamaica Ave, Woodhaven NY 11421

Account Number : 8314384058

Wire Routing Number: 026073150

Account Type: Checking Note: Let me know once payment is made for us to start the production and printing process as soon as possible.Looking forward to your response.Warm Regards,

I became suspicious of the offer and did not reply. The following day she sent a follow up email.

The last email received from her

Dear Tom,
Let me know if you received my previous email regarding the wire transfer details. You can also process the wire payment through your online banking.
Thank you. Warm Regards,

Before I received the last email, I reported it to the FTC and the FBI. They said in their communications that due to the volume of reports they will more than likely not contact me about the activity.

Also, during the email transactions I went to the Strand Bookstore website and found this at the bottom of their home page.

Author Solicitation Fraud Alert

Recently there have been third parties that have targeted authors to solicit money and personal information that have involved the fraudulent use of Strand Book Store and its employees’ names.

Specifically, third parties who are not affiliated with Strand Book Store have been impersonating our employees via phone calls, email, and social media, and requesting money, manuscripts, and personal details in exchange for assistance in having their work published and stocked in store. They even create fraudulent documents using our logo. Please do not trust these types of documents, especially if they are sent to you in the form of screenshots. Communications like these are fraudulent.

Strand Book Store is not a publisher—we neither print nor publish books. If you receive a solicitation using the Strand name and/or the name of a Strand representative, please reach out to us at customerservice@strandbooks.com

Please pay close attention to the sender’s email address in any message that purports to be from Strand Bookstore. Scammers often use misspellings or other variations of our domain name and email address in their solicitations. Please be aware that the following are not legitimate Strand domains:

  • thestrandbooks.org
  • thestrandbookstores.com
  • thestrandbookstore.net
  • strandbookstore.info
  • strandbookstores.com
  • strandbooks.us

This list is not exhaustive. Strand staff will only email from the Strand domain: strandbooks.com

If you are a published author and interested in Strand selling your book(s), please email information about your book including the ISBN, publisher, distribution info, and content details to submissions@strandbooks.com. Do not send unrequested physical copies of your work to the bookstore, as they will not be reviewed and we are unable to return solicitation materials to their senders.

Tips

  • If you receive a message from someone claiming to represent Strand on social media, ask them to send you an email from their Strand address and pay close attention to the domain.
  • Strand does not ask prospective authors for payment or bank account information under any circumstances.
  • If you are unsure of the identity of the sender of a communication, do not click on any links.
  • If you have any concerns about the legitimacy of an email appearing to be from a Strand employee or claiming a connection to Strand, please email customerservice@strandbooks.com.
  • Seek legal advice before signing any contracts.
  • If you are the victim of a scam, we encourage you to contact law enforcement immediately.

U.S. Resources

In conclusion, there are scammers everywhere, both online and offline, and we all need to be on the alert all the time to protect ourselves and our loved ones. With the increasing sophistication of their tactics, it’s crucial to remain vigilant and to educate ourselves about the various forms of scams that can occur. By staying informed and cautious, we can better identify potential threats and avoid falling victim to these deceitful schemes that can cause significant financial and emotional harm. Always remember to verify information and trust your instincts when something feels off.

If you are interested the book can be purchased at Blurb.com

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:
Link removed

 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).

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.

© 2012 Jagex Ltd. Jagex® and RuneScape® are registered trademarks of Jagex Ltd in the United Kingdom and trademarks used in other countries of the world.
View our Privacy Policy, Terms And Conditions: http://www  blocked out
St. John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB5 1WS, England.

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).

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

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)

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 

this link has been disabled

Who is World Debt Recovery Committee?

 

This must be some kind of scam. It has been over two years
since I have flown in an airplane.
 
WORLD DEBT RECOVERY COMMITTEE (WDRC)

 

Address: Head Office: 3, Kofo Abayomi

 

Street, Victoria Island, Lagos-Nigeria 

 

YOUR-UNCLAIMED FUND NOTIFICATION 

 

I am Mr. Desmond EKE of the newly inaugurated World
Debt Recovery committee (WDRC).in conjunction with
U.S.A Government My committee has a mandate to
recover unpaid debts associated with NNPC contracts,
Lottery fund, inheritance fund, loans and grants etc
ranging from
$1M-$19.5M owed to various beneficiaries and
companies across the globe
(Asia, Europe, USA,

 

 

 

Africa, and Australia) and submit the list of the unpaid

 

beneficiaries/companies to the 2 appointed official
paying Banks for

 

immediate payment of the fund.

 

 

 

In the course of our investigation, your email
address/particulars were short listed among the first
fifteen individuals yet to be paid hence this email.
However, we received a petition today from one Mrs.
Christina Morgan that you are dead. According to her,
you died in a plane crash as such your fund should be
paid to her as the apparent heir. She has also submitted
her Bank account with Federal Reserve System for the
transfer of the fund to her.

 

 

 

To avoid undue delay or paying the fund to wrong
individual/beneficiary, I have decided to contact you
for confirmation. If I fail to hear from you after 72
hours, it will be assumed that the petition of Mrs.
Morgan is true

 

and the fund will be paid to her without further delay.

 

 

 

Therefore, if you are still alive, reconfirm your particulars,

 

 

 

(1) Your full name.

 

(2) Phone, fax and mobile #.

 

3) Company’s name, position and address.

 

4) Profession, age and marital status.

 

5) Copy of int’l passport or any scanned identity to prove you.

 

6) The country where your fund was originated

 

 

 

NOTE:  IF YOU KNOW THAT THIS FUND DOES NOT
BELONG TO YOU, OR YOU CANNOT BE ABLE TO
COMPLETE THE TRANSACTION. PLEASE DON’T
BOTHER TO REPLY THIS MESSAGE.

 

 

 

Yours Sincerely

 

Mr. Desmond EKE

 

OF (WDRC

Now Yahoo says I won a million bucks

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

 
YOU WON ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.000 USD)
 
Dear Lucky Winner,
 
We are Pleased to inform you that your email was selected among the
winning numbers of the recently Lotto conducted from the Lottery Company
 and we shall be glad if you can claim your prize,
 
please respond to this mail within 72 hours otherwise we will assume that
you are not interested.
 
We conduct the Lotto using Lotto as part of our tax relief program set up
by the International Lottery Board and Yahoo Inc, on this note we
congratulate you and wish you best of luck as you claim the prize attached to this Lotto.
 
 
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Ticket number…………………085-12876077-09
Serial number…………………..51390-0
Lucky number……………….03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number……………….N.EGS/3662367114/13
 
You are to send the completed verification form below to the coordinator
whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what
to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!
 
1.FULL NAME………………………..
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN………………….
3.PRESENT ADRESS…………………….
4.POSTCODE………………………….
5.DATE OF BIRTH……………………..
6.OCCUPATION………………………..
7.SEX……………………………….
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER……………………
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)………………….
10.MARITAL STATUS……………………..
 
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30 days of receiving
this notification. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to
HER MAJESTYS DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed
that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY).
Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery
in your name.
 
Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your
winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.
 
THAILAND CONTACT PERSON: MR. KANE IVA.
 
(Winner?s directorate office)
E-Mail:  officelottery10@yahoo.com.hk
TEL:+ (66)835481357
Office Fax: + (66) 261-382-62
 
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.
 
Sincerely,
 
Yahoo! Customer Care
 
Yahoo-Thailand Online Lottery Org
 
Regd No: 79472002

Secret Shopper, yea right!

 
I get the feeling this is a scam and so does this site
 http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=20741&p=58652

Chase Secret Shopper® LLC
2123 West industrial Estate
Santa Clara, CA

Chase Secret Shopper® LLC is a company that conduct surveys
 and evaluate other
companies. We get hired to go to other peoples companies
 and act like customers
in order to know how the staffs are handling their services in 
relation to their
customers.
We all shop, and many of us enjoy shopping. But very rarely 
does opportunity
present itself to do what we enjoy doing and getting paid for 
doing it. Imagine
earning extra income just for going shopping and filling out 
a questionnaire!

Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service 
in a wide variety
of shops, stores, restaurant and services in your area. No 
commitment is made on
this job, and you would have flexible hours as it suits you. 
Confidentiality is
also very important. In most cases, the establishment is not 
to know that a
mystery shop is taking place. Additionally, the questionnaires 
may be protected
by copyrights. Often, the employee evaluated will be informed 
of the results of
your evaluation later and may even be allowed to read your 
comments. But this is
for management to determine. The information most often 
requested by management
concerns employee to customer relations, employee performance, 
product quality
or presentation of the establishment including cleanliness 
and convenience. This
information helps management to identify areas of strength 
and weakness so they
can take steps to correct the problem or potential problems 
before business is
lost.

Most of the time, the compensation for the assignment is 
established in advance
and paid after the questionnaire is returned. As a mystery 
shopper, you are not
an employee of the company that provides you an assignment--
but rather an
independent contractor. As such, there is no employee benefits 
and no taxes will
be withheld from your pay. You are responsible for reporting 
your own income.
However, you may want to consult your tax advisor as some 
tax breaks may apply.

You will be provided funds in advance for any upcoming 
Evaluation in form of
United States Postal Money Orders to cover wage and 
evaluation. Which you will
cash at your financial institution and you use the money to 
carry out the
Evaluation . You do not have to use any money from your 
pockets. We will provide
you the money for all your assignments.

EARNINGS
Pay can range from $200 to $300 per job assignment, with 
an average of $100 per
assignment. Additionally there is a stipend for purchases. 
The number of
assignments per day vary but if you are assertive in seeking 
work-and work for
several mystery shopping companies-you could garner up to 
20 assignments per
month. While most mystery shoppers consider this a part time 
or "hobby" job, if
you approach the work as a full-time job, you can earn 
$4,000 to $5,000 per
month.
====================================================
If you are interested do send in these information:

FULL NAME:........................
CONTACT ADDRESS..(PLS NO PO BOX ADDRESS)...................
CITY...............
STATE.............
ZIP CODE ................
TELEPHONE NUMBER:...................
MOBILE NUMBER:......................
OCCUPATION:........................
EMAIL:...........................

So we can look at your distance from the locations which 
you have to put your
service into, and your address would also be needed for 
your payments.
Great Pay** Fun Work** Flexible Schedules**No experience 
required.If you can
shop-you are qualified!
No start off fees is required
Must be above 18years old
Must be computer literate
Must be very honest and committed
pls note that this is a part time job

James Hodege
Chase Secret Shopper® LLC
2123 West industrial Estat

1% tax on all bank transactions HR4646

1% tax on all bank transactions HR4646

Watch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE in case you think Obama’s looking out for your best interest.

1% tax on all bank transactions HR 4646

This government just cannot think of enough ways to hurt the American people! I sure hope this dies!!!!!

FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

1% tax on all bank transactions HR 4646 – ANOTHER NEW OBAMA TAX SLIPPED IN WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on snopes, it’s true! Check out HR 4646.

 

Check it out on Snope: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp

President Obama’s finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee (TAX). Obama’s plan is to sneak it in after the November elections to keep it under the radar.

This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution – banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer within your account, will have a 1% tax charged. ~If your paycheck or your social security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction. ~If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand carry your paycheck or any check into your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be charged. ~You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50 just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank.. ~If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged.

Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax. Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn about this guy’s under-the-table moves to increase the number of ways you are taxed.

~Oh, and by the way,if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank. Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank.

Some will say, oh well, it’s just 1%. Are you kidding me? It’s a 1% tax increase across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at will. And if anyone protests, they will just say, “oh,that’s not really a tax, it’s a user fee”! Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made from last year’s banking statements. Then add the total of all those transactions and deduct 1%. Still think it’s no big deal?

 
Check it out on Snope: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp

Go ahead and close my account

I don’t even have a Warcraft account. Go ahead close it! This appears to be a scam of some sort

Greetings,

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment’s employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:

Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account.

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently.

Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.

Blizzard Entertainment SAS
TSA 60 001
Service Administration des Comptes
78143 Velizy Villacoublay Cedex

If you wish to review our current Rules and Policies for World of Warcraft and Battle.net, they can be found at:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/
http://us.blizzard.com/en-gb/company/about/termsofuse.html

Regards,

Game Master Dunarthra
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
http://eu.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=35726

Please retain all history if you reply to this mail

Sorry Mr Wilson, I am not keeping this confidental

 
Attention,
 
I am Mr. Howard Wilson, Director Unit United Nations Inspection Agent
 in Hartsfield International Airport Atlanta Georgia USA . During our
 investigation, I discovered An abandoned shipment through a Diplomat
 from United Kingdom via Africa under iship forwarder which was
 transferred from JF Kennedy Airport to our facility here in Atlanta.
 When scanned, it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal
 Trunk Box weighing approximately 55kg each. The consignment was
 abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the
 consignee as (money) rather it was declared as personal effect
 to avoid diversion by the Shipping Agent also the Diplomat 
inability to pay for Non Inspection Fees.
 
On my assumption, each of the boxes will contain more than
 $3 to $4M each and the consignment is still left in 
storage house till today through a registered shipping 
Company, Diplomatic Courier Service Limited a division of 
Tran guard made for Top politicians and Top Government 
officers . The Consignment are two boxes with weight of about
 55kg each (Internal dimension: W61 x H156 x D73 (cm). 
Effective capacity: 380 L.)Approximately.
 
The details of the consignment included your name, are
 tagged on the Trunk boxes so provide your private Phone
 Number full address, name of nearest Airport around and
 other details. You can send the required details to me for
 onward delivery. All communication must be held extremely
 confidential. I can get everything concluded within
 1-2days upon your acceptance and proceed to your address
 for delivery. But I must get assurance from you
 concerning sharing 50%/50% before I will proceed.
 
I want us to transact this business and share the money,
 since the shippers have abandoned it. I will pay for
 the Non inspection fee with the Demurrage and arrange
 for the boxes to be moved out of this Airport to your
 address, once we are through I will deploy the services
 of a secured shipping Company geared to provide the
 security it needs to your doorstep. Or I can bring it
 by myself to avoid any more trouble. But I will share
 it 50% to you and 50% to me. But you have to assure me
 of my share. If you agreed with my condition get back
 to me immediately.
 
Howard Wilson
INSPECTION OFFICER

Sounds risky to me

 
Hello,
 
I am interested to invest my money ($107,Million) in any profitable business
venture in your area, because my Illness is at its terminal stage and I must
invest for my little children and you will be compensated with 30% of the money.
 
Please respond as soon as possible so that we can discuss more about
this project.i know as a health care practitioner you can help
 
EMAIL ME BACK ; fdanielstewart@yahoo.com
 
Best Regards and God Bless.
yours Sincerely,
Daniel Stewart Ferguson

Yeah, I bet this is risk free

Sequel to your non response of our earlier letter to you, I wish to notify you that you have been legally privileged. Hence this business proposal which certainly will be of mutual benefit to us. This proposal has in it the sum of 4,500, 000.00 Pounds (Four million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) This transaction is legal and totally risk free. Therefore I crave your indulgence to seize this opportunity here present, full details of this transaction will be given to you upon request. Please contact the solicitor with the e-mail address below for further details.

Email: barrhartbrn05@w.cn
Brian Hart

I don’t even know this person

I get the feeling this letter is looking for some easy money.

My Dearest,

 
     I know you will be surprise to receive this email, but Before I go further I will like you to understand that, I am writing this mail to you With due respect trust and humanity, I appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business, honestly i am writing this email to you with pains, tears and sorrow from my heart, i will really like to have a good relationship with you and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you, i decided to contact you due to the urgency of my present situation here in the refugee camp. My name is Miss. Joy Kipkalya Kones, 25yrs old female and I from Kenya here in Africa; my father was the former Kenyan road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong’a, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on Tuesday 10th, June, 2008.

After the burial of my beloved father, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold all my father’s properties to an Italian Expertrate which they shared the money they sold from the properties among themselves and live nothing for me. Unfortunately to me I fined my father’s briefcase and when I opened it I found a document which my Father used to deposited amount of money in one bank here in Burkina Faso, with my name as the next of kin. I travelled to Burkina Faso here I am, to withdraw the money for a better life
so that I can take care of myself and start up a new life and also further my education, when I arrival to the bank, the Bank foreign Operation Department Director whom I meet in person told me that my father instruction to their bank is that the fund would only be release to me when I am married or present a trustee/partner who will help me and invest the fund overseas after the transfer, and the bank ask me to go and look for a foreign partner, that was why  am contacting you, which I believe that you are going to be honest and reliable person that will help me and stand as my trustee/partner, so that I can present you to the Bank for the release and transfer of the inherited fund into your bank account in your country.

I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust. But rather take me as your own sister. Though you may wonder why I am so soon revealing myself to you without knowing you, well I will say that my mind convinced me that you will be the true person to help me. Moreover, I will like to disclose much to you if you can help me to relocate to your country because my stepmothers have threatened to assinate me. The fund my Father deposited into the bank, is ($8.5 USD) Million United State Dollars, and I have confirmed from the bank here in Burkina Faso, on my arrival, You will also help me to place the fund in a good profitable business venture in your Country, However you will also help by recommending a nice University in your country so that I can further my education. It is my intention to compensate you with 40% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my capital in your establishment. Now my dear as soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest and wiliness to help me, I will put things into action immediately. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and wilingness to help me and also handle this transaction sincerely. Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Please my dear I want you to keep this as a top secret only to your self for now until the bank will release and transfer my inherited fund to you as my appointed trustee/partner. I beg you once again not to disclose this to any body until i come over your country because I am afraid of my weeked stepmother who has threatened to kill me and have my inherited fund alone. I thank you very much and am expecting to hear from you soonest.
 
Yours Sincerely
Joy Kipkalya Kones.

This has to be a scam

 
This has to be a scam, because I trashed all emails from 
Publishers Clearing House and never registered. With that said, 
there is no way I could be a winner.
Your e-mail has won $1,000,000.00 in the recent Publishing Clearing House
Lottery,please reply immediately to collect your winnings.Please
Send Your Info, Name Address, Phone Number to customerservicepch@w.cn 
You will be given more details by our information centre when you
send them your reply.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Todd Sloan

Windows Live warns about this scam

ACCOUNT™@ CONFIRMATION®

 

 

We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of free Windows Live Account therefore we are shutting down some Windows Live Account and your account is among those to be deleted,we are sending out this notice to enable you re-confirm your account details for us to commence immediate upgrading of your account from being deleted. If you still have the interest of proceeding your account with us kindly re-confirm your account by filling the space below after clicking the reply  button

 

 

 

* Username: .…………………………………
* Password: …………………………………..

* Date of Birth: ……………………………….
* Country Or Territory: …………………….
 
* Alternative email if any: ………………………
* Password: …………………………..
 

 

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

 

Note: You may also send your reply to: accountservice@windowslive.com

 

What kind of game is this?

Tom Please reply to this notice. Claim your winnings. We will send you 500 a week for the rest of your life. This is your 2nd and final notice.

Click here to respond.

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Attn: Customer Care.

One way to lose some of your money

Hello,
How are you doing today? hope this mail gets you all in good health and fine spirit. I’m deeply sorry for not informing you about my travelling to Spain for a Program. It has been a sad and bad moment,the present condition i found myself is so intoxicated to explain. I felt so ashamed and devastated because i am stranded and stocked in Madrid,i forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money,documents and other valuable things were kept,hint of embarrassment to my personality. I’m so confused right now i don’t know what to do or where to go.
 
My Purpose of writting this mail is to ask for your urgent help which you can do only if it is possible.I want you to please loan me the sum of 2,500 EURO to enable me sort-out myself probably confirm my basic travelling allowance fees back home. In case you couldn’t come up with all the requested amount due to the short notice kindly go ahead and send me any amount you can afford at this time and email me the transfer details i’ll be so grateful to receive the money. Be rest assured i’ll return the money back to you as soon as am back to colorado.I want you to understand my tight and critical situation at the moment,i know you will never disappoint me that is why i have contacted you in this regards and please as you endeavor to help me with this money i don’t mean you should disclose my predicament to anybody for my personal reasons till when am successfully back home. Anyway,it is not compulsory that you should help or send me the requested amount but if my situation and our good relationship touches you i want you to quickly proceed to any of the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER station or post office around you and transfer me the money as soon as you have receive this email. Western union money transfer is the most convenience and safe for me to receive the money here without any delay or problem.
 
Below is the information where to send me the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.
 
Receivers Name: Someone in your email address book

Address: San Vicente Ferrer 10
City: Madrid 
Zip Code:28004
Country: Spain
 
After you have sent the money email me the western union transfer details such as:
 
MTCN (Money transfer control number)
Test Question: My son’s name?
Answer:  Frank
Amount Needed: 2,500 EURO
 
I’ll check my email soonest to pick up the western union transfer details to enable me return back home with the next available flight,i need the transfer # MTCN (money transfer control number) as soon as possible.Thanks and Blessings, as usual!

Sincerely yours,
Maria

This sounds so authentic

Dear: Beneficiary,

How are you today?

I am writing to inform you that we have already sent you the sum of $5000.00USD through Western union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment totalling the sum of $800,000.00USD via western union by this government. I was calling your telephone number to give you the payment details but, your phone was on voice mail throughout yesterday even this morning.

Now, I decided to email you the payment details so that you will pick up this $5000.00USD to enable us send another $5000.00USD today as you know we will be sending you only $5000.00USD per day.

Please pick up this information and run to western union to pick up the money and call me back to send you another payment today. Immediately you pick-up the cash do get back to us through this infomation so that we can send you the next payment details.

Mr. Richard Flemming
phone line : +234 705 500 0827

For Verification visit our official website http://www.westernunion.com, you will find TRACKING on the top of the site page,click on it and kindly insert accordingly this details bellow:

Sender’s Name: First Name: George Last Name: Cheng
Text Question: who
Answer: Me
MTCN :7621452945
City: Kuala Lumpur
Country: Malaysia
Amount To Receive: $5000

I am waiting for your call once you pick up this $5000.00USD, Please email me your direct telephone number because I need to be calling you once we send the next payment.

Remain Bless,
Management of Western Union

Western Union® Welcome to Western Union Send Money Worldwide.

No way would I click on any of these links

This email looks fishy to me. I don’t want  to take a chance with a possible virus malware or something else bad. No way would I click on any link in this kind of email. The links have been removed and disabled.

Tom Please reply to this notice.

Claim your winnings. We will send you 500 a week for the rest of your life. This is your 2nd and final notice.
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Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Attn: Customer Care.

Another email from The United Nations

I just cant believe this is a letter from the United Nations.

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES
Internal Audit , Monitoring, Consulting and 
InvestigationsDivision 5H087 Washington,DC 20233,United States of America

ATTN: BENEFICIARY

This is to inform you that I came to Nigeria yesterday 
from United States of America, after series of 
complains from the FBI and other Security agencies 
from Asia, Europe, Oceania, Antarctica, South America 
and the United States of America respectively, against
 the Federal Government of Nigeria and the British 
Government for the rate of scam activities going on
 in these two nations.

Right now, as directed by our secretary general
 Mr. Ban Ki-Moon. We are working in collaborations
 with the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime
 Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau of
 Investigation (FBI). We have decided to waive
 away all your clearance fees/Charges and 
authorize the Government of Nigeria to effect
 the payment of your compensation of an amount of
 US$1,500,000.00 approved by both the British
 government and the UN into your account without any
 delay. We already have your name in our Claimant
 List as stipulated in article 41 of the Provisional
 Rules for claims.The Governing Council therefore
 devised a mechanism for the allocation of available
 funds to successful claimants that gave priority to
 the three urgent categories of claims and which,
 within each category, would give equal treatment to
 similarly situated claims. Only when each successful
 claimant in categories "A", "B" and "C" had been
 paid an initial amount up to US$1,500,000.00,
 thereafter other payments commence for claims in ot

In conformity with the Provisions of article 40
, paragraph 5 of the Rules, Information concerning
 the identities of individual claimant will not be
 made publicly.

See our press release below:

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.
htmNow your new payment approved numbers are follows
United Nation Approval No; Un5685p,White House 
Approved No: Wh44cv,Reference No.-35460021,
Allocation No: 674632Pin Code No: 55674Certificate
 of Merit Payment No: 103,World Bank Released Code No: 0763;

We are conducting a standard Process investigation on
 behalf federal credit Union Bank, United State Of
 America, The private banking arm of the international
 banking conglomerate. This investigation involves
, a man Who Came To our Office Claiming To be your true
 representative. Here is his information for you to
 confirm to this office if this man is truly from you
 or not as the government will not be held responsible
 for wrong transfer.

For Paying Into The Wrong Account.Name: Mr. Edward
 MarshBank Name: Wells Fargo BankBank Address:
 California, USA.Account Number: 6503809428.

Please reconfirm to this office, As a matter of
 urgency if this man Is From you. As a matter Of
 Fact, we have actually been authorized by the newly
 appointed UN Secretary General, and the Governing
 body Of The United Nations Monetary Unit to
 investigate the unnecessary delay of your fund
 payment. However, we shall proceed to issue all
 payments details to the said Mr. Edward Marsh,
 If we do not hear from you within The next Seven
 working days from today.

I have a very limited time to stay in Nigeria here
 so I would like you to urgently respond to this
 message so that I can advise you on how best to
 confirm your fund in your account within the next 72 hours.

Regards,

Mitchell GoldsteinInvestigation Department (UN)Tel: +234-805-189-4488