Sunday, March 28, 2010

The latest variation of the domain scam

Wow, someone wants to register your "wireless keyword." Ahem. No, nobody wants to register your domains. This scammer — whether his name is Mickeon, McKeon or otherwise — is sending out emails hoping that you'll be scared enough to buy overpriced services… which won't actually protect anything. It's a racket, it's a scam. Don't respond, don't be fooled by messages like this. Just delete them, and your Internet domains will be just fine.

From: "dave.mckeon" dave.mckeon@sohu.com
Date: March 27, 2010 5:43:12 AM PDT
Subject: FW: Notification of IPR and ISP
Reply-To: "dave.mickeon@hknetos.com" dave.mickeon@hknetos.com

Dear CEO/Principal,

We are an internet service provider and maintenance organization in Asia, responsible for the global domain name registration and protection of IPR(intellectual property right). Right here we have a very important issue related to your company's intellectual property, your confirmation is highly appreciated.

On March 10 2010, we received an application from one company named Lwoquen investment Company Limited, they want to register some domain name and trademark keyword. Currently, this application is right in the progress, however, when we were about to finalize the process, we double-checked these domain names and wireless keyword, the keyword is very similar with your company's trademark. Therefore we need to confirm with you (as follows):

1. whether your company consigned Lwoquen investment Company Limited to register the wireless keyword and domain names on the behalf of your company. If it is true, please let us konw, as we will help them complete the registration.

2. if your company did not consign Lwoquen investment Company Limited to register the wireless keyword and domain names, please reply to confirm immediately.

If you have any question, please let me know and your cooperation is highly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Dave Mckeon

Auditing Department Director
HongKong Net Cimpany Ltd

Tel: 00852-3060 6608 | Fax: 00852 - 3072 3949 dave.mckeon@hknetos.com | Web: http://www.hknet.com

Today's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be scammed

This scam is unusual only in that it says that 20% of the ill-gotten gains will be given to charity. It's still a scam. The only person who will make any money is the scammer. Don't respond, don't be fooled by messages like this.

From: Deng Xiyang hgareth73@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED

From the Desk of Deng Xi Yang
Nanyang Commercial Bank
Hong Kong
Tel/Fax: +852-3014-1829

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Deng XiYang, Principal Assurance Manager for the Nanyang Commercial Bank in Hong Kong. I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of our Late client and an investment placed under our Banks management.I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you independently and no one is informed of this communication. In 2000, the subject matter, Our Late client came to our bank to engage in business discussions with our private banking division. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Eighteen Million, Five Hundred United States dollars only (US$18.5M), which he wished to have us invest on his behalf.

Based on my advice, we spun the money around various opportunities and made attractive margins in our first months of operation, the accrued profit and interest stood at this point at over US$10M. In mid 2006, he instructed that the principal sum (US$18.5M) be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Hong Kong. We got in touch with a specialist bank in Hong Kong the Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) who agreed to receive this money for a fee and make cash available to our Late Client. However Guangdong Development Bank got in touch with us last year that this money has not been claimed. On further enquiries we found out that he was involved in an accident, which means he died intestate. He has no next of kin and the reason I am writing you is because you bear the same Last name with Our Late Client.

What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, you will be made the beneficiary of these funds. After making you the next of kin of this fund first in the Nanyang Commercial Bank.On verifications, which will be subject to details I make available to my bank, my Bank will release the funds to you after all necessary verification/application has been processed in accordance to Hong Kong Inheritance Laws.

I know this might be a bit heavy for you but please trust me on this. For all your troubles I propose that we split the money in these ratios which I think should be acceptable by you; 40% for me, 40% for you while the balance 20% would be shared among various charity Organizations around the world. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration four years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of Kin to our late client so that you will be able to receive his funds.

I want you to know that this is a lifetime opportunity for us because as the saying goes "Opportunity comes but once in a life time" hence we have to make use of it. I hold the KEY to these funds, and as a Chinese National we see so much funds been re-assigned/labeled un-claimed daily. I will make further details available to you when I hear back from you.

Please do not betray my CONFIDENCE. If we can be of one accord, we should act swiftly on this. Do pardon my writing mistakes and kindly get back to me if you are interested via my private Email an Fax: +852-3014-1829 respectively.

I await your response.

Mr. Deng Xiyang

Friday, March 19, 2010

Robert Mueller 111 wants to send you some FBI money… not

Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation sends messages from an Australian public email provider, and threatens to jail people who don't respond to its Nigerian office within 24 hours? I didn't either.

There's so much that's hysterically wrong with this message that I don't need to explain why it's a scam, do I? Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: "FBI HEADQUARTERS" fbi@ozemail.com.au
Date: March 2, 2010 5:48:37 AM PST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: FINAL NOTICE FROM FBI
Reply-To: fecdept@gmail.com

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

Attention: BENEFICIARY,

You are to contact the ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC)Lagos, Nigeria to obtain the Clearance Documents, find below their contact information's:

Contact Person: Rev. Andrew Kelly
PRINCIPAL STAFF OFFICER ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION (EFCC)
Rev Andrew Email: fecdept@gmail.com
Lagos Office Address 15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria

Ensure you contact them(EFCC) with your Full Name,Address and phone number/cell number.

Contact the EFCC via Email with the information above immediately, once you contact them i will get back to you or else i will have an agent come visit you at home for questioning.

Furthermore, be adviced that according to the United State Law together with the FBI rules and regulations, you are to obtain the document from the EFCC OF Lagos Nigeria where the fund was transfered from. Also Note that you are to take care of the cost of the Document, which will be issued in your name. due to the content of the document and how important and secured the document is, you as the beneficiary will send to the EFCC OF NIGERIA the sum of Usd250 Dollars only for the issuing of the document right away and your Usd 18 million will be released to you, That is the lay down rules for EFCC OF NIGERIA to release such sensitive document, EFCC will issue you the authentic and original copy of the documents with seal on it for verification and approval.

You are hereby adviced to Contact them through the email address above to make an enquiry concerning how you will send the official fee to them. Note that you are to observe this immediately, if you really want your funds to be credited to your personal bank account and to avoid any legal battle with the security operatives over this matter... We have already informed the EFCC OF NIGERIA about the present situation, go ahead and contact them immediately. Your fund is under our custody and will not be release to you unless the required document is confirmed, after that the fund will be release to you immediately without any delay.

NOTE: We have asked for the above document to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice purposes. The documents will clarify the intensity of this fund; exonerate it from money laundry, scam and terrorism.

WARNING: failure to provide the above requirement in the next 24 hours, legal action will be taken immediately by arresting and detaining you as soon as international court of justice issues a warrant of arrest, if you are found guilty, you will be jailed........ As terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our community today and the world at large. The F.B.I will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulges in this criminal act. FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHEMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAIN IT. No body is above the law and the law is not a respecter of anybody. We presumed you are law abiding citizen whom would not want have scuffles with the authority, in and outside America.

We are charged with the responsibility of implementing legal norms and our authority is irrevocable so dont dare dispute our instruction, just act as instructed. The person you know will not help you in this matter rather abide by this instruction. The funds in question was deposited by those people that contacted you.

Note: You are to contact the (EFCC) with your full names, phone number/cell number and full address via their email which i stated above immediately for the processing of your Clearance Documents within the next 48 hours.

Faithfully Your's,
Robert S.Mueller 111.
FBI Director.

Note contact the EFCC office: fecdept@gmail.com
You have less than 24 hours to contact them.

CC. TO:
Supreme Court of the United States
U. S. Courts of Appeals
U. S. District Courts
U. S. Circuit Courts
Courts of Special Jurisdiction:
Bankruptcy Courts
Court of Claims, 1855 - 1982
U. S. Court of Federal Claims, 1982 -
Customs Court, 1890 - 1980
U. S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1910 - 1982
U. S. Court of International Trade, 1980 -
Commerce Court, 1910 - 1913
Territorial Courts
Courts of the District of Columbia
Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Federal Courts Outside the Judiciary

What's up, Jack -- or is it Donald?

When you see "Dear Beneficiary," you should stop and hit the delete key right there. I don't think that the Nigerian president is really interested in giving you ten million dollars -- even if you can only withdraw $21,000 per day.

This an attempt to get personal information; at some point, they'll ask for either fees or for your bank account information to set up a wire transfer. With the personal identity information they have, they could then take over your account and withdraw all your money. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by scam messages like this.


From: "DR.DONALD JOHNSON" jack@w6062gr7d.homepage.t-online.de
Date: March 3, 2010 10:39:05 AM PST
Subject: ATM Card Payment Notification
Reply-To: drdonaldjohnson01@gmail.com

ATM Card Payment Notification
Office of the Director of Operations
International Credit Settlement Zenith Bank Plc

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is officially to inform you that we have verified your contract /inheritance file and found out that why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled the obligations given to you in respect of your contract / inheritance payment.

Secondly we have been informed that you are still dealing with the none officials in the bank, all your attempt to secure the release of the fund to you. We wish to advice you that such an illegal act like this, have to stop if you wishes to receive your payment since we have decided to bring a solution to your problem.

Right now we have arranged your payment through our swift card payment center,that is the latest instruction by the president and commander in chief of armed forces (Malam Urmaru Musa Yar'dua) (GCFR) federal republic of Nigeria . This card center will send you an atm card which you will use to withdraw your money in any atm machine in any part of the world, but the maximum is twenty one thousand dollars per day, so if you like to receive your fund this way please let us know by contacting the card payment center and also send the following information as stated.

1. Your full name
2. Your direct phone
3. Address were you want to receive your atm card
4. Your age and current occupation:
5. Choose either by account or by atm card.
6. Your international passport or your drivers license

The atm card payment center has been mandated to issue Out {us$10.3million us dollars} as part payment for this fiscal year 2010. Also for your information you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s).this is to avoid any hitches in finalizing your payment. Email back as soon as you receive this important message for further direction in this regards. and also update me on any development from the above mentioned office. Note: that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (007) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center .

Regards,

Dr.DONALD JOHNSON,

Director of Operations foreign remittance
Phone number:+2348120242366

A short, sweet, urgent scam

The scammers don't waste any time in this one — they simply instruct you to send your personal details to someone at Citibank. Hmm, does Citibank really send messages from "london.com"? And do they want replies sent to a Yahoo address in Japan?

No matter, even if the addresses looked legitimate, this message wouldn't be. No bank would contact you about something like this via email. If you did respond, the next message would ask for your bank account details for a wire transfer. Using all this information, however, the money transfer would be out of your account, not into it. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.


From: "CITIBANK LONDON" citibank@london.com
Date: March 8, 2010 7:48:59 AM PST
Subject: This is urgent
Reply-To: philipdavid2010@yahoo.co.jp

Attention; Be inform that your beneficiary fund has finally been release today, you are advice to get back to us with your personal contact details to enable us start making preparations on how to get your fund transferred to you $12.500.000usd.

1, Full name……………………….
2, House address………………………………
3, Occupation……………………….
4, House number …………………………….
5, Age ………………………………
6, Cell phone ……………………………….
7, Marital Status ……………………..
8, Country …………………………………..

Best Regard
Citibank London

Don't write to Hong Kong about your bogus Canadian lottery winnings

If you received a message like the one below, no, you didn't win the British Canadian lottery. You didn't win any lottery at all. But you would be a loser if you replied, because undoubtedly there will be upfront fees that you'll have to pay to claim your "winnings," which sadly will never materialize. The plethora of numbers in the message below are intended to make it appear more authentic, as is the link to a real Canadian lottery site. However, it's still a scam. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

Interestingly, I received nearly the same message — complete with all the same lottery code numbers — at a different email address. However, that message was from info@lotto.com and had a reply-to address of bclotto99@yahoo.com. The bogus "contact person" was Mr. David Telehany, and the message was signed by Mark Andrew, who is also the Lottery Controller General. I guess they job-share.

From: "BRITISH CANADIAN LOTTERY BC-49," b_canadianlottery@emailclick.com
Date: March 11, 2010 7:13:34 PM PST
Subject: BRITISH CANADIAN LOTTERY BC-49
Reply-To: britishcanadianlottery_ww@yahoo.com.hk

BRITISH CANADIAN LOTTERY BC-49,
70 Foster Drive, Suite 800, Sault Ste.
Marie, Ontario, P6A 6V2, Canada.
Winning No: 16,
Bonus No: 42
Confirm Winning: http://www.canada.com/life/lotteries/lottery_results.html

WINNER'S NOTIFICATION!!!

The Canadian Government in collaboration with the British Government and the World Gaming Board are the sponsors of this online email lottery for compensation and grant for both past lottery winners and the entire world public for purpose of Infrastructural development as an online compensation for all internet users.

We happily announce to you the draw of the Special Global 2009/ 2010 Promotional Draw held on the 24Friday January, 2010 in Manchester in the United Kingdom, Thailand, India, United Arab Emirate, Singapore, Malaysia, Austin Texas in USA and Ontario Canada. Your e-mail address attached to REF No; IMP/73253CA/2009, with Batch No: 642376/CA/2009 drew the Winning No: 16, Bonus No: 42 for BC-49 Lotto under the choice of the lottery in the 1st category of bi-weekly six.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site(s) Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Concast, sbcglobal. AOL , emailclick.com and other well known official sites. through computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000,000 companies and personal e-mails. So your email is your online automatic ticket that qualified you for this draw.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 520,000.00 GBP (FiveHundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds Sterling)

In view of this, your 520,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand PoundsSterling) would be released to you by following the directives of the B-C ONLINE LOTTERY REMMITANCE UNIT The B-C UNIT will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact the office. So you are required to forward the following details to our trusted courier company to help facilitate the processing of your claims:

You are to contact the B-C ONLINE LOTTERY REMT UNIT for payment with details below::

Contact Person: Rev.James Brooks
BC ONLINE REMIT Email: britishcanadianlottery_ww@yahoo.com.hk
British Canadian online Remit Unit Email: britishcanadianlottery_ww@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: +44 704-5769-845

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM:
(1) FULL NAME:
(2) FULL ADDRESS:
(3) AGE/SEX:
(4) OCCUPATION:
(5) TELEPHONE NUMBER: (OFFICE) / (CELLPHONE)
(6) TOTAL AMOUNT WON:
(7) BATCH NUMBER AS LISTED ABOVE:
(8) BONUS NUMBERS:
(9) YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:
(10) COUNTRY:

*Winners are advised to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.

Note: Mail to (B-C ONLINE GAME REMIT UNIT) email immediately for the processing of your winning prize. You can also confirm your winning number and bonus numbers on our web http://www.canada.com/life/lotteries/lottery_results.html

Congratulation!!

Sincerely,
Rev.James Brooks
Lottery Controller General
BC-49 Lottery.

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This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

The Lucky Day Office isn't offering you a lucky day

Do you think that an international lottery would tell you to retrieve your winnings by contacting a foreign AOL email account? I don't think so, and neither should you. If you didn't enter the lottery, you didn't win the lottery, even if they did use "an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet." Just delete messages like this; don't respond, don't be fooled, and you won't be scammed.

From: jha.simons@hetnet.nl
Date: March 15, 2010 12:19:30 AM PDT
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE (Lucky Day Lotto Nl)

IMPORTANT MESSAGE (Lucky Day Lotto Nl)

Stichting de Nationale Sporttotalisator
Lucky Day Lotto Nl.
Laan van Hoornwijck 55,
2289 DG Rijswijk-The Netherlands
KVK 41151075

Dear Sir/Madam,

This message confirms your bonus entitlements of Seventy-Five Thousand Euro Including free ticket travel to three countries, Canada, Spain, and Monaco. This program is carried out by cargo airline group ACN.NL To activate your free travel ticket and the claim of 75,000.000 Euro contact Registration activation office Via EMAIL: acngroep@aol.nl . The Verified number 12X-GH-OOO1AV
We write to inform you that the results of the Netherlands LUCKY DAY LOTTO Promotion new year anniversary, held on 4th day of January, 2010 have been released. Your email was attached to a ticket that won the lotto in the second category. Therefore, a prize amount of One Million Dollars (75,000.000) shall be your total payout after the official verification of your identity.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000.000.00 email addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet. The sum has been awarded to your email address in our online randomly selected email. Hence you did not have to apply in any way or form for this participation,as it is strictly for email users around the world.

At this juncture, your payment will be made by our appointed claim agent, for the details of this notification, kindly send your complete Names, Address,Age, Occupation, Telephone Number and your country of origin to the accredited claim agent Director ACN, via this email address: (acngroep@aol.nl) for the processing of your prize.

Congratulations!!!
Yours Faithfully,
Lucky day office

I'm in perfect condition, and you're a scammer

This scammer is certainly friendly and polite, but don't let it fool you… this person (whatever his/her real name is) only has one interest — in scamming you. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by any message which promises to send you large sums of money.

From: "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS" security_dpt8@live.com
Date: March 8, 2010 4:16:43 AM PST
Subject: Good Day...
Reply-To: taylorajames55@live.com

Hello,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition.

I am happy to inform you about my success in getting your winning funds under the co-operation of a new partner from ASIA .

Presently I'm in ASIA CHINA for investment projects with my own share of the total sum. Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts and attempts to get your winnings despite that it failed somehow. This was selected randomly and your email address was picked among the lucky 8 (eight)that were being given this funds.

Now contact my secretary in ABUJA his name is Mr. Taylor A. James Find below his contact information.

COMPENSATION HEAD OFFICE:

CONTACT AGENT:Mr. Taylor A. James
Email: taylorajames5000@gmail.com or taylorajames55@live.com

Ask him to send you the total of $950.000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS) certified bank Cheque, which I raised in your favor for your compensation for all the past efforts and attempt in this matter. I appreciated your efforts at that time very much.

So get in touch with my secretary and give him your address where to send the bank draft to you.

Please do let me know immediately you receive the Cheque to enable us share the joy with you.

At the moment,I'm very busy here because of the investment projects, which the new partner and me are having at hand,finally, remember that I had forwarded instruction to my personal secretary on your behalf to Receive that money. So feelfree to get in touch with him (Mr. Taylor A. James )without any delay.

Thanks and God bless you and your family.

Best regards,

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Amanda Rose
ASSISTANT CHAIRMAN.

If you're highly respected, respond with the 'delete' key

This scam wants you to pretend to be next of kin in order to claim an inheritance -- that is, commit fraud. However, it doesn't make any difference what this alleged barrister says, because this is scam. There is no "Mr. Steve," no car accident in 2004, no $35 million bank deposits, nothing. All you know is that this person apparently has three different email addresses. It's a pure scam. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: "From The Desk of Barrister Dennis Park" law@chambers.org
Date: March 15, 2010 12:01:50 PM PDT
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL!!!
Reply-To: dennis.park0001@yahoo.com.hk

From The Desk of Barrister Dennis Park

Email: dennispark20@hotmail.com

CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL!!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you I believe you are a highly respected personality considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events.

Well, I am Barrister Dennis Park, a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. Steve, who used to work with SIAMRAK Company Limited in Bangkok , Thailand . On the 21st of April 2004, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Sukhumvit Express Road..

Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident. Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Finance Company.Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US$35 Million (Thirty five million United States Dollars only).

Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to claim the US$35 Million (Thirty five Million United States Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the fund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House.

Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share the money in this order: 60% will be for me, 40% will be for you. I have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will make with the Finance House.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Kindly provide this below informations

1) Full name:
2) Address:
3) Telephone number:
4) Occupation:
5) Gender:
6) Age:

Upon receipt of this requested information's, I will file an Application of claim on your name to the Bank presenting you as the next of kin to the deceased and as such the beneficiary of the fund.

Private email: dennispark20@hotmail.com

You are needed as a next of kin to inherit your brother left fund

Best regards.
Barrister Dennis Park (Esq.)

Friend Oscar thinks you're a sucker, but don't be

Any email message telling you that you're the beneficiary of an unclaimed bank deposit -- or which invite you to pretend to be a beneficiary -- is a guaranteed scam. It's not true, even if the scammer says that it's 100% risk free. Don't be embarrassed by hitting the delete key. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: "Oscar Stephen" info20@mcom.com
Date: March 14, 2010 10:58:55 AM PDT
Subject: DEAR FRIEND
Reply-To: oscarsteves@aol.fr

Dear Friend,

I apologize to you for any inconveniences caused if this mail does not meet your demands, though I do not intend to embarrass you by the contents of this very mail. I am Mr Oscar Stephen. I was the account manager to Late Engr Paul, Who was a citizen of your Country but lived and did his business here with his family. He was the CEO of Shan Properties before his sudden death along with his family. This mail is written to solicit your assistance to present you as next of kin to my Late Client. Before his sudden death, he made a fixed Deposit valued at USD7.5,million (Seven Million five hundred thousand United States Dollars Only) with my bank.

Unfortunately he lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October31, 1999. He left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin. The Bank here has searched for the relative’s abroad for more than four years without any success and after 10 years, no claims have been made by any of the deceased next of kin, and the money will be sent to unclaimed accounts and embezzled by the corrupt bank or government officials. It is during this bank drop that the bank did contact me as the late depositor's financial adviser to contact and present to them my late Client's next of kin so that the deposit can be paid to him or her.

This is why I have contacted you. Anybody I present to the bank as the next of kin will be accepted .Upon your acceptance, I shall give you other details for the successful claim of the fund. I have secured from the probate registry, an order of Mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so I am assuring you that this business is 100% risk free. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please endeavour to reply me with this E-mail (oscarsteves@aol.fr) immediately, if not please disregard this information.

Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while I expect your prompt response.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. Oscar Stephen

Watch out for that squirrley malware spam

Links in this message want to trick you into downloading a virus, Trojan or some other malware. Don't click links in email unless you know the sender, and you can verify that the message is authentic. Even then, be very careful.

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Date: March 19, 2010 5:08:41 AM PDT
Subject: UPDATE YOUR E-MAIL SECURITY IMMEDIATELY (IUEU)

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No free money from the European Union

Think that the European Union is giving you free money? Think again. This is a scam. It's funny how it starts out saying it's an economic relief package, but then you're told that the money will be confiscated under the "Money Laundering and other Financial Crime Prohibition Act of 2003" if you don't reply quickly. Yeah, right.

Don't respond, don't be fooled, to any message promising free money.


From: "European Union Monetary Unit" monitoring-unit@europe.com
Date: March 2, 2010 2:43:56 PM PST
Subject: Possible_UCE: European Union Monetary Unit: Payment Identity Confirmation
Reply-To: barrister.davidfrost@lawyer.com

European Union Monetary Unit
King Charles Street London. SW1A 2AH, U.K
Together since 1957

BUSINESS GRANT & COMPENSATION RELIEF SCHEME.
DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR ON FINANCIAL MATTERS.
BUSINESS GROWTH POINT PACKAGE/OUR REF: WB/NF/UN/XX027

In joint alliance with the UNITED NATION, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, DIRECTORATE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ON FINANCIAL MATTERS & EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CONGLOMERATE COMMISSION to tackle, help, and support both co-operate, large and small companies, including families and individual with the current Economic Downturn into Recession, we wish to let you know that we have an ongoing BUSINESS GRANT & COMPENSATION RELIEF SCHEME and you have been approved to receive the total sum of 10.5 Million Dollars from the Grant Scheme today.

This above stated bodies came together during the UN Summit with the initiative of raising USD$2,000,000,000 (Two Billion US Dollars) as equity partnership contribution to join the Award newsiest Worldwide Relief Scheme and Compensation Programmed. We also conducted an online review of unpaid Contract Funds, confiscated Inheritance Deposits and withheld Award Winning Payments which were not paid and conclusively listed out over 3, 000, 000, 00 company/individual email address worldwide to receive their payments.

Our target is to improve business by supporting them with a long term Business Grant and Relief package. If you have been in business recently or years back or you are thinking of going into a fresh business but do not have the resources to fund your business, or you may have packed up your already existing business for lack of Governmental business support funding or Business Grant, here is your chance to improve your business services today.

Your First Step: All business individual, both cooperate, private companies are more than eligible to apply, upon receipt of the application form that will be sent to you and further verification made, our European consultant will contact you shortly.

Your Second Step: You do not need to have a good credit rating record to receive your awarded funds, as long as you have a Business or wish to start up one, you can benefit from this scheme. We must see some documention proof of your running business and a statement of interest that this funds will be used for the proposed Business you wish to take on before this Business Grant funds are released to you.

This is not a high interest repayment Business Grant but we aim at raising more funds and repayment from the World Bank Financial International Budget for private to commercial business growth and economic improvement scheme. The UN Revenue office will collectively and randomly receive repayment back from your Revenue Authority through taxation realized from profit made from the Business Grant and there will be no further repayment required. This is how this Business Grant will continue to run until we have built up over 2 Million Business on every quota through Revenue authorized scheme.

How Does Our Service Work?
Funds are paid through local Banks for accountability, therefore to help us proceed with your application, this information must be filled and returned.

Answers to your application are instant and once we get your application, YOU GET FUNDED!

Steps.
You are required to confirm your interest in receiving the total sum of 10.5 Million Dollars by sending the information below to us by eMail;

QUESTIONS;
ANSWERS; (write NIL for questions you dont have answer).
1. Your Full Name and Present Location
2. Your Age:
3. Your Telephone and Fax Number:
4. Name of Business and Nature of Business (if any):
5. Business Registration Number (if any) :
6. eMail Address:
7. Status

Finally, we state in clear terms, that you should click here to eMail us a copy of this filled document.

Also note that your 10.5 Million Dollars will be definitely confiscated and made to be forfeited under the Money Laundering and other Financial Crime Prohibition Act of 2003 especially if you fail to confirm your interest in receiving this funds timing from the day of this notification.

Yours Sincerely,
MR. David Frost,
(Director-General)
European Union Monetary Unit
King Charles Street London. SW1A 2AH, U.K
Direct Tel: +44-76-2410-3722

© 1957 - 2010 European Union Monetary Unit, King Charles Street London. SW1A 2AH, U.K.

vCard-based hack attempt?

The short message below was accompanied by file named jamestyler.vcf, which would appear to be a vCard file — something that you'd click to add someone's contact info to your Outlook address book. However, the .vcf file is malformed. Is it an attempt to hack Outlook?

Do not click or open attachments that you receive from anyone you don't know — or even from someone you do know, if the message looks suspicious. This message certainly looks suspicious, based not only on its content, but also by the from and reply-to email addresses, and also by the fact that my address was a "bcc" address.

This message entered the mailstream from the entelchile.cl server, which is is hosting company in Chile. Don't be fooled by responding to such messages, or by clicking their attachments.

From: James Tyler jamestyler@123mail.cl
Date: March 19, 2010 12:31:23 PM PDT
Reply-To: jamestyler@go.badgers.com

From James Tyler (For Trustees)
Managing Partner (Anderson & Tyler)
London - United Kingdom.

Notification of Bequest

On behalf of Anderson and Tyler Chambers, Trustees and Executors of the estate of Late Schulz Wagner, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address.

Please if I reach you, as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible for further details.

I look forward to your prompt response.

Yours sincerely,
James Tyler

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The United Nation is scamming for $96.99

This scam message is in two parts. There's a message body, and then a plain-text attachment. Scam, scam, scam. The fact that it's claiming to be from a "Scam Victims Compensations" office doesn't make it any less of a scam. A link to a genuine FedEx page about international rates also doesn't make the message legitimate.

Don't reply, don't be fooled by messages like this.


First, the message body:

From: (UNITED NATION PROGRAM fred.juan@usa.gov
Date: 2006/9/3
Subject: **UNITED NATION ASSISTED PROGRAM
To: fred.juan@usa.gov

Kindly, view your attachment message for your payment !

And then the attachment, which was a plain-text file called UNITED NATION.txt

UNITED NATION ASSISTED PROGRAM
SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS
PAYMENTS.REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654.
United Nations Liaison Office - Africa
AMOUNT $5,000, 000.00 USD

Fund Beneficiary,

This is just for reference purpose. This message was sent to you yesterday. This is a good and lasting solution from the Remittance Department in conjunction with the United Nation and the Federal High Court in Abuja. They have made a provision for you to claim your Fund without much stress. Certificate of Other has been introduce to solve all these problem of Custom, FBI, Anti-terrorist Certificate and other minor hindrances from getting your ATM Card.

And we advice you to forward to us your full home address and telephone number were to deliver this ATM card to you because your fund has credited into your ATM card.

The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $125.99 but because Fedex have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping as stated on their website:

http://fedex.com/us/international/irc/profiles/irc_ng_profile.html?gtmcc=us#C10

We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual $125.99 to $96.99 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort! You are advised to contact the dispatch officer responsible for the shipping of your ATM card with the receipt of western union of $96.99 payment for shipping of your payment ATM card.

Dispatching Officer: John Igboecheonwu
Email: buck1966@mail.mn
Tel: +234-8064-523580

The processing will take 3 working days before your ATM Card can be dispatch to your Address. Once you Send the require fee today to the below information through Western Union money transfer or Money Gram;

Name: John Igboecheonwu
Address: Lagos State, Nigeria
Question: urgent
Answer: urgent
Amount: $96.99

Now be inform that this is the only fee you advice to pay and receive your ATM card you send this $96.99 to and get back to us with the payment information for the confirmation.

Regards

Mr.Fred Juan

No, I don't have cash waiting, it's a scam

First of all, any message about money — whether it's lottery prizes or hidden wealth from war zones — that is sent out to a bcc list is a scam. Second of all, nobody is going to send you money that you don't know. Third of all, why would a company called Moneybookers.com (which is a real company) send you to a third-party hosting site to "claim" your money?

This particular email seems to have entered the Internet via an SMTP server at koso.net, a hosting service in South Korea.

Don't reply, don't be fooled, by scams like this.

From: "www.moneybookers.com" security@moneybookers.com
Date: March 9, 2010 1:07:35 PM PST
Subject: Money Received
Reply-To: no_reply@moneybookers.com

You've got cash

Greetings from moneybookers.com! We would like to inform you that you have received a payment from moneybookers3@mercantrade.com

Payment details

Amount: USD 275.00
ID: 20505502
Subject: You must use the link below to accept the payment.

Note: http://sendmail.sixserve.com/MoneyBookers.Com/directory.php?app=login.pl

Your money is waiting for you : http://sendmail.sixserve.com/MoneyBookers.Com/directory.php?app=login.pl

We hope you enjoy your cash.Use this link to accept the payment : http://sendmail.sixserve.com/MoneyBookers.Com/directory.php?app=login.pl

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Friday, March 12, 2010

FedEx now uses Hotmail!

Does this have "scam" written all over it, or what? If someone from the New York Institute of Technology contacts you claiming to be shipping a package containing a $900,000 bank draft to you… it's a scam. Note that country code +234 is Nigeria. (The message seems to have originated from the NYIT mail servers, which implies that someone's email address was hacked.)

Don't be fooled, don't reply, to messages like this.

From: Fiaz Zoubi fzoubi@nyit.edu
Date: March 12, 2010 4:57:19 AM PST
Subject: Contact FedEx
Reply-To: fedex_ng2@hotmail.com

Dear Customer/Beneficiary!

Kindly contact our delivery department with the details Given below:

FedEx Courier Express NG
Contact Person: Mr.Mark Davids
E-mail: fdex333@gmail.com
Telephone: +234-702-870-3222

Reasons: This is due to the fact that we are in possession Of your Package containing a Certified Bank Draft worth of Nine Hundred Thousand United State Dollars that was registered With us by Mrs. Amanda Guld for shipment to you,You are to act fast by providing your postal address and Your direct phone number to enable us makes the delivery ASAP.

Note that as soon as the Delivery Team confirms your Informations, it will take only two working days (48 hours) for your package to arrive your designated address. For your Information, the Mail, VAT & Shipping fees have been paid by Mrs. Amanda Guld, you will only have to pay a sum of $265.00 to the FedEx Courier Department being full payment For the Security Keeping Fee of the FedEx Courier.

Yours Faithfully,
Fiaz harry Zoubi
Secretary.

Mrs.Amanda Guld delivery.ups2@hotmail.com
Info@eric.com

Who's the domain scammer, Andre or David?

It doesn't really matter whether it's Andre or David — it's all a scam. If you reply, the scammer will pressure you to buy high-priced services to "buy back" your domain and to "guarantee" that nobody else buys it in the future. If you do nothing, nothing will happen. Don't be fooled, don't reply, to messages like this.

I've changed the name of the domain to xxxxxx here, but everything else is verbatim.

From: "Andre" Andre@dmcenter.net.cn
Date: March 11, 2010 10:46:24 PM PST
To: "info" info@xxxxxxxx.com
Subject: xxxxxxxx
Reply-To: Andre@sknetservice.com

Dear Principal,

We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies' domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

On March,11, 2010, we received an application formally. A company named "knisenthy" wanted to register some domain names with the keyword of "xxxxxxxx" through our organization.

Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names.When we checking their application, we found the keyword of these domain names are identical with your company's. So, I want to confirm with you: Have you consigned knisenthy to register those domain names? Or are they your subbranch in Asia?

We haven't finished the registration of knisenthy yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Waiting for your reply ASAP.

Best Regards,
David

Auditing and Registration Manager

Tel: +852 65171987
Fax: +852 30696940
Email: andre@ymzc.hk.cn
Website: www.sknetservice.org