Friday, December 23, 2011

With lack of trust, you scammer

Gold dust? That's a nice twist on the usual scam. But this is most definitely a scam. Don't reply to messages like this; you should delete them instead.

This is a rare case, by the way, when you're not asked to reply to a different email address. That's the sign of a hacked mailbox, or a mailbox set up specifically by the scammer.

From: tony kess tonykess01@gmail.com
Subject: WITH TRUST
Date: December 18, 2011 6:21:12 PM PST

I am Tony Kess from London 31 year of age I have a little problem my late friend who die two days ago had 200 kilo of Gold Dust with a Gold Mining Company in Malaysia, I am contacting you because i need your help in regards to this issue, I have contacted the Gold Company in Malaysia to ship the 200 kilo of Gold Dust to me and the Company ask me to pay for the shipment of the Gold Dust, I am contacting you and at the same time if you can be my partner so we can both put head together and pay the shipping cost and share the Gold Dust among our self 50/50, Please note if you want the Gold Company to ship in the Gold Dust to your destination first no problem I believe that when the Gold Dust finally get to your destination later i can fly down and meet with you and collect my own share of 100 kilo.

What i needed from you is trust and honesty once I confirm your return email in agreement to my email I shall send you the contact details of the Gold Dust Company in Malaysia so you can contact them yourself.

I await to hear from you.

Thanks
Tony Kess.
tonykess01@gmail.com

More money from Libya - thank you Ashley, or is it Chang?

You can't get rich by helping people steal money. Instead, you will be scammed. Don't reply to messages like this — delete them instead.

From: Ashley Richardson arichardson@spsu.edu
Subject: ...of utmost Confidence

The late former Libyan defence minister Abu Bakr Yunis Jabr made a fixed deposit of $25,500,000.00 Million United States Dollars in my bank branch am ready to share 50/50 with you if you choose to stand as my deceased client next of kin.

Please if you are interested you indicate by response at my personal email address:

Email Contact: zchang92@yahoo.com.hk if only you are interested.

Yours Truly,
Chang Zhang

That's not a real soldier - that's a fake one

There may be a Sgt. David Thompson in the U.S. Army - but this isn't from him. Linking to a news story proves nothing about the honesty or identify of the person writing to you. Rather, it's a common factor in this type of scam. Don't be fooled - delete messages like this.

From: Sgt. David Thompson" davidthomp2117@aol.com
Subject: Hi
Reply-To: sgt.davidthomps2117@hotmail.com

Hi ,

My name is Sgt. David Thompson US ARMY serving the World and my country in the most honorable way i know i can, in IRAQ right now, in a nutshell, I am a American soldier serving in the Military with the Army 3rd infantry division. With a very desperate need for assistance, i found your contact particulars during my email search and picked up courage to contact you for your assistance.

Some money in various currencies were discovered in a room at a farm house near one of Saddam's old palaces in Tikrit-Iraq during a rescue operation, i happened to be one of the soldiers that lead that operation that day, so it was agreed by Brigadia General Edward Ballanco the head of our batallion that some part of this money will be shared among both of us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw the money first. This was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? No compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives in this hell hole, my brother in-law was killed by a road side bomb just few months ago, and i cannot count how many times GOD has saved my life down here. I would like you to read the below article so you can confirm what i am saying.

http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2003-04/a-2003-04-20-1-1.cfm

Now i found a very reliable way of sending a trunk mettallic box containing the amount of United States Dollars worth Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars(US$ 12,500 Million) as you must agree with me it has been hell on earth trying to keep this money safe from peoples eyes for all these while and with this opportunity all i need is just someone capable I can trust 100% i can send the box to.

So if you can assure me of your honesty i will go ahead and send the box to you for safe keeping till i am back home and i will gladly give you 50% of the money.

If this okay with you please get back to me with the following so i can get the box accross to you.

1. Your full name
2. Contact address
3. Telephone number.

Waiting to hear from you.

Yours in Service.
Sgt. David Thompson
Camp MXP-512 Third Infantry Division Unit(T.I.D.U),
Abul Uruj,Bagdad,Irag
http://www.army.mil/

The scammer is trying to trick you with a fake inheritance

It must be nice to inherit a lot of money from someone who found your address on the Internet. But the only person who will make money from this transaction is the scammer. Don't be fooled by the religious overtones — this is s scam. Don't reply to messages like this - you should simply delete them. Note that there are three separate email addresses used in this scam. That is common in scams like this.

From: "SUSAN GALLOWAY" sarahmay675@gmail.com
Subject: Re: TO YOUR URGENT ATTENTION / RESPOSE NEEDED
Reply-To: susangall68@yahoo.nl

Urgent Assistance
Dear Sir/Madam

After going through your profile I decided to contact you for friendship and assistance and distribution of my inheritance, I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any Pains so I decided to contact you through this medium. I got your Contact through a personal search via the internet. As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I Believe everyone will die someday.

My name is Susan galloway I am a dying woman who have decided to donate what I have to you/ church/charity Organizations. I was diagnosed with esophageal Cancer for about 7 Years ago; I am married to Sir Gerald Allport galloway who worked with British Judicial Commission in Chelsea England for over a decade before he died on 5th of July in the year 2004. We were married for fifteen years without a child and he has left me everything he worked for.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focus on my self as that was the only thing I Cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that I know My time is near I have been touched by God to donate from what I have Inherited from my late husband for the good work of God, rather than Allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.

So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, London and Ireland. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I once asked members of my family to Close one of my accounts and donate the money, which I have there to Charity organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them. The last of my money which is the huge Cash deposit that I have with Financial Firm Abroad .I will want you to Help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations And let them know that it is me Susan galloway that is making this Generous donation.

I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses you to support and assist me with good heart Please pray that the good Lord forgives me my sins. I have asked God to Forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less than few days. I decided to WILL/donate the money to you for the good work of the lord, And also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the Assistance of the widows.

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit This money and my husband relatives are not inclined to helping poor Persons and I do not want my husband's hard earned money to be misused Or spent in the manner in which my late husband did not specify. At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the Fact that my relatives are around me and my health status. I wish you All the best and May the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use The funds well and always extend the good work to others.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don't Want my relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.

Regards,

Susan Galloway Mrs.

Please contact me through the email address below: susangall.susan@aol.com

Ooh, the FBI's director has written to me personally. Not.

Some scammers try to evade spam filters by putting the spam payload into a zipped attachment. Didn't work. Messages like this are always scams. Delete them, don't reply, don't be fooled. But you can enjoy a laugh at them, such as by the idea that the director of the FBI would send you an email from a German domain, with a reply-to address somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Here's the contents of the email:

From: "FBI Washington DC" fbi4@wp9932uk5.homepage.t-online.de
Subject: 2011 NOTICE REPORT
Reply-To: fbidepartment08@qatar.io

WARNING: YOU SHOULDN'T DISREGARD THIS INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO YOU ON ATTACHED MESSAGE FILE.

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
FBI, DIRECTOR.

The attachment was called FBI REPORT.zip. Unzipping it (which you should never do, but I have secure tools for doing this) revealed a rich-text file called FBI UPDATE.rtf. Here's what it said:

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Date: 11/04/2011

Attention: BENEFICIARY,

This is to bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the money transfer originated from any part of Africa and European countries as contract payment, fund inheritance or lottery winning due to unauthorized/incapability of financial institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money result of fraud, terrorist and money laundry activities going on World Wide.

We sum of Ten Millions US Dollars each victim. This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received his or her contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or international businesses that failed due to instability of government in some part of Africa etc.

We found your name in our list as one of the beneficiaries and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed. These also indicate that the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) often referred to as a criminal history record or rap sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. This condition is valid until 3 days after which the funds shall be confiscated and legal action will be taken against you.

Guarantee: funds will be released upon confirmation of the DIST document. Final instruction given below;

1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries Bank in can only release funds.
4. upon confirmation from the World Bank / United Nations.
5. Bearers must clear Bank protocol and validation request.

We have confirmed that the amount required to procure your document which is called the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) will cost you a total of $2,350USD only and the fee should be paid directly to the payment office in United State via Western Union Money Transfer OR MoneyGram. Below is the contact person of the payment in United State and who will process your transaction.

Contact Information;
Payment centre.
Name: Mr. Ronke Phillips
E-mail: mr.ronke.phillips@gmail.com

Contact Mr. Ronke Phillips of finance payment centre, for details regarding the release of your fund to your own Personal Bank Account with the following information’s below:

Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:
Sex:
Date of Birth:
Direct Email:
Direct Phone Number:
Current Occupation:

Once you have sent the required information to Mr. Ronke Phillips, he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $2,350USD only for the procurement of your (DIST) document, to enable her expedite action on the processing and release of your payment without any further delay.

You have hereby been authorized /guaranteed by the federal bureau of investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be no delay once payment for the (DIST) document has been made to the authorized agent.

Note: We have requested for the DIST document to make available the most complete and update records possible for the enhancement of public safety, welfare and security of society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the document to us, we will charge you with the financial crimes. The United Nations department of justice order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI identification record to obtain a copy of his or her own record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) division processes these requests to check illegal activities and once you have completed payment of $1,350USD to the agent in charge of this transaction, you're advised to keep us posted to enable us follow up with the release of your payment and act fast.

Regards,


Federal Bureau Investigation.
Robert S. Mueller III,
FBI, Director.

Ooh, the FBI's director has written to me personally. Not.

Some scammers try to evade spam filters by putting the spam payload into a zipped attachment. Didn't work. Messages like this are always scams. Delete them, don't reply, don't be fooled. But you can enjoy a laugh at them, such as by the idea that the director of the FBI would send you an email from a German domain, with a reply-to address somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Here's the contents of the email:

From: "FBI Washington DC" fbi4@wp9932uk5.homepage.t-online.de
Subject: 2011 NOTICE REPORT
Reply-To: fbidepartment08@qatar.io

WARNING: YOU SHOULDN'T DISREGARD THIS INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO YOU ON ATTACHED MESSAGE FILE.
ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
FBI, DIRECTOR.
The attachment was called FBI REPORT.zip. Unzipping it (which you should never do, but I have secure tools for doing this) revealed a rich-text file called FBI UPDATE.rtf. Here's what it said:

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Date: 11/04/2011

Attention: BENEFICIARY,

This is to bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the money transfer originated from any part of Africa and European countries as contract payment, fund inheritance or lottery winning due to unauthorized/incapability of financial institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money result of fraud, terrorist and money laundry activities going on World Wide.

We sum of Ten Millions US Dollars each victim. This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received his or her contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or international businesses that failed due to instability of government in some part of Africa etc.

We found your name in our list as one of the beneficiaries and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed. These also indicate that the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) often referred to as a criminal history record or rap sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. This condition is valid until 3 days after which the funds shall be confiscated and legal action will be taken against you.

Guarantee: funds will be released upon confirmation of the DIST document. Final instruction given below;

1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries Bank in can only release funds.
4. upon confirmation from the World Bank / United Nations.
5. Bearers must clear Bank protocol and validation request.

We have confirmed that the amount required to procure your document which is called the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) will cost you a total of $2,350USD only and the fee should be paid directly to the payment office in United State via Western Union Money Transfer OR MoneyGram. Below is the contact person of the payment in United State and who will process your transaction.

Contact Information;
Payment centre.
Name: Mr. Ronke Phillips
E-mail: mr.ronke.phillips@gmail.com

Contact Mr. Ronke Phillips of finance payment centre, for details regarding the release of your fund to your own Personal Bank Account with the following information’s below:

Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Country:
Sex:
Date of Birth:
Direct Email:
Direct Phone Number:
Current Occupation:

Once you have sent the required information to Mr. Ronke Phillips, he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $2,350USD only for the procurement of your (DIST) document, to enable her expedite action on the processing and release of your payment without any further delay.

You have hereby been authorized /guaranteed by the federal bureau of investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be no delay once payment for the (DIST) document has been made to the authorized agent.

Note: We have requested for the DIST document to make available the most complete and update records possible for the enhancement of public safety, welfare and security of society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the document to us, we will charge you with the financial crimes. The United Nations department of justice order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI identification record to obtain a copy of his or her own record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) division processes these requests to check illegal activities and once you have completed payment of $1,350USD to the agent in charge of this transaction, you're advised to keep us posted to enable us follow up with the release of your payment and act fast.

Regards,


Federal Bureau Investigation.
Robert S. Mueller III,
FBI, Director.

You haven't run out of email storage space

I receive a lot of variations on this email. They always lead you to portals that ask for your email address and password. And then the scammers have access to your address book and can send spam or phishing messages to your friends.

From: "Mr. Rashidzadeh, Mehdi" rashidzadehm@ripi.ir
Subject: E-Mail Account Security

You have reached the storage limit on your mailbox.

You will not be able to send or receive new mail until you updrade your email account.

click the below link to fill your email upgrade form.

(link deleted)

Technical Support Team
192.178.0.1

Not a sad trip, but a sad scam attempt

I see messages like this occasionally. Unfortunately, I know people who have fallen for them and sent money. That's the real tragedy. Messages like this are scams, pure and simple. Delete these messages, don't reply to them.

This particular message claims to have been sent from the pacbell.net domain, but actually entered the mail stream from the listed yahoo.com address.

From: Patrick Bitz ptbitz@pacbell.net
Subject: Sad Trip!!!
Reply-To: ptbitz@yahoo.com

I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and i came down here to London,UK for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where we lodged.All cash,credit cards and cell were stolen off me.I've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all,our flight leaves today and I'm having problems settling the hotel bills, we still have some money in our account but we don't have access to it right from here.

The hotel manager won't let us leave until i settle the hotel bills(£1,650GBP)now am freaked out.Please reply and let me if can you have the money wire to me through western union i promise to pay back as soon as i get back home.

Thanks

Patrick T. Bitz
Main Street Financial Services
2186-C Rheem Dr
Pleasanon, CA 94588

Bus 925-484-3829
Fax 925-494-3272
Cell 925-848-9590
E-mail ptbitz@pacbell.net

Nothing outstanding about the compensation payment

Messages like this are always scams. Delete them, don't reply to them.

From: "Boerner, Hunter" boernerh@cofc.edu
Subject: Contact UPS Via ups_despatch.ng@dgoh.org For Claims

After much attempts to reach you on phone, I deemed it necessary and urgent to contact you via your e-mail and to notify you finally about your outstanding compensation payment.

During our last annual calculation of your banking and Internet activities we realized that you are eligible to receive a compensation payment of $2,811,041.00 USD.This compensation is being made to all of you who have suffered losses as a result of fraud, accident or illness.

For more information, contact the UPS agent for the delivery of your cashier check ($2,811,041.00 USD).

United Parcel Service (UPS)
Contact Name: Collins Abah
Tel:+2348168636983
E-mail: ups_despatch.ng@dgoh.org

Please take note that you will pay a shipping/handling fee of $245.00 USD to UPS.

Thanks for your patience.

Mark Richard
Programme Manager
United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Want some free funds? You won't find them here

With the demise of Libya's dictator, it was only a matter of time before the scammers found a new storyline. This is a scam. Delete messages like this - don't reply to them.

From: William Mchardy info@williamconsultgroup.tk
Subject: Our Foreign Plan

Dear Sir,

We are private consultant also acts as a private consultant to some clients in the United Kingdom ranging from top business personals, serving and retired Army, Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel and top government functionaries whose privacy is shrouded in topmost secrecy.

As stated above I have a client's mandate to seek for a reputable, And well-established individual to help channel some funds into profitable investment abroad

One of my clients is the son of Ex-President Gaddafi of Libya

They want to move these funds out of there their names completely for invest until the crisis will be over, details on the amount will given to your in my next email.

Please let me know if you will be able to work with the transaction of the fund and what is your percentage,

Kindly response to me with your tell phone number and full name if you interested so we can complete the formality and contract agreement.

Best Regards
William Mchardy
156-157 St. John Street, Colchester
CO2 7NN United Kingdom.

Fakes sales inquiries - what's the catch?

I don't understand the scam in these messages, but am convinced they are not legitimate. I have received dozens of these sales messages, all from different email addresses. A few of them are shared below.

These message have some generally comment elements that indicate that they are machine-generated. For example, the name of the product, such as a park bench or a scale base, is often in parentheses.

The messages enter the mail stream from different open relays. The first message below claims to come from a gmail address, but it actually was posted by lunariffic.com, a web hosting company.

Perhaps a key element is the mention of credit cards. In any case, message like this are a scam. Don't reply to them, don't be fooled into providing any information to the scammers.

From: Ben Harold benharold0@gmail.com
Subject: Order

Good day,

I want to place an order and I have a private freight agent that will commence to your location for the pick up.So you don't have any stress to face in the shipping arrangement to Malaysia,but I will like to know if you have credit card processing machine to charge my VISA card for the goods's payment ? If yes,then treat this email with good concern and include your website/current price list in your reply.

Regards,
Ben Harold

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From: Bob Wilson stigma2g8@gmail.com
Subject: Urgent Order

Hello

This is Bob and I will like to order ( Park Bench )Do get back to me with the types and cost for the ones you do carry and let me know if there is an extra cost when using visa or master Card.Kindly get back to me with your name Are you the sales manager or the Owner?

Regards....
Bob Wilson

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From: Jeff Willson jeffwillson020@yahoo.com
Subject: Work Platforms Order

Good Day Sir / Madam

With much respect to your company my name is Jeff Willson and i will like to know if you do carry (WORK PLATFORMS ) in stock for sale...? If yes kindly email me back with the type and sizes that you have in stock and the total pick up price of each so that we can proceed with the order.. Moreover i will like to know if you do accept Credit Cards as a form of payment. Looking forward to hear from you soon with the sizes and the price list of each so that we can proceed with the order.

Jeff Willson
Managing Director
Jeff & Sons Ltd
Email: jeffwillson020@yahoo.com

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From: John Freeman john.freeman20@yahoo.com
Subject: Order Request.

Good Day,

Am John Freeman i want to know whether you carry(SCALE BASE) in stock for sale.If you do so kindly email me with the sizes and the price ranges on that so that i will know the quantity to offer and also i want to know if you accept credit card as form of payment.Are you the Sales Manager or the Owner?Awaiting for your prompt reply.

Regard
John Freeman

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From: Victory Enterprise enterprise.victory@yahoo.com
Subject: P.Order

Good day Sir/Ma,

We are highly interested to purchase your items listed below:

Storage Memory Cards 1GB Micro SD Card...............500 pieces

Kindly give us your discount price quote,including shipping cost.

Attn
Ship to

%Carolyn King
7351 S BLACKSTONE
CHICAGO ILLINOIS 60619
Tel: 954 2563 363
US

We request your urgent reply.

Regards
David Williams