Sorry, 'Paula,' but you're not being honest

Don't feel bad for people who send you messages like this: They're not friends stranded overseas. They're spammers who can't even spell their fake name consistently. This message didn't originate from AOL; it came from charter.net. Don't reply, don't be fooled by messages like this.

From: "Paula Jayne Winnig" pjwinning@aol.com
Date: December 30, 2009 3:33:38 AM PST
Subject: Get back to me pls
Reply-To: pjwinning@gmail.com

Hi,

I really don't mean to inconvenience you right now but I made a quick trip to the UK for the holidays, and I lost a bag which contains my passport and credit cards. I know this may sound odd, but it all happened very fast. I've been to the US embassy and they're willing to help me fly without my passport but I just have to pay for my ticket and settle some bills. Right now I'm out of cash plus i can't access my bank without my credit card over here. I have contacted them but they need more verification. I'm just gonna have to plead with you to lend me some funds right now? I'll pay back as soon as I get home. I need to get on the next available flight home.

Please reply as soon as you get this message so I can forward the details as to where to send the funds. You can reach me via the hotel's desk phone if you can, the numbers are, 011447024065511 or 011447024064567 You can also email me via my googlemail, as I can easily access it here pjwinning@gmail.com

I await your response...

Thanks
Paula Jayne Winnig

Is your name in the central computer?

Here's an example of a really mixed-up scam. Is this about inheritance? Contracts? Lottery winners? It's a muddle. The fact that it's in all caps, of course, makes it even worse. Sorry, the one-line "profile" doesn't add real legitimacy or cancel out all the typos. Nobody should be fooled by such an amateurish effort, but you never know. Don't be fooled, don't reply to any messages like this. Real bankers won't contact you via email about your inheritance.

From: MR.DOMINIGUE STRAUSS-KAHN julioguzman@cable.net.co
Date: 2009/12/18
Subject: LETTER FROM INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. 18/12/2009

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
20 FISKERTON ROAD LINCOLN,LN3 4LA
LONDON-UNITED KINGDOM
TEL: +44 7024 044518

GOOD DAY

THIS IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR OVER DUE INHERITANCE/CONTRACT FUNDS VALUE $12.5MILLION HAS BEEN GAZETTE TO BE RELEASED AT NEW YORK WITH BANK OF AMERICA.

I SAW YOUR NAME (IN THE CENTRAL COMPUTER AMONG THE LIST OF UNPAID BENEFICIARIES, CONTRACTORS, LOTTERY WINNERS,INHERITANCE NEXT OF KIN, THAT WAS ORIGINATED FROM UNITED KINGDOM AMONG THE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES THAT YOUR UNPAID FUND HAS BEEN LOCATED US.

YOUR NAME APPEARED AMONG THE BENEFICIARIES WHO WILL RECEIVE A PART-PAYMENT OF $12.5MILLION HAS BEEN APPROVED ALREADY FOR YOU.

MEANWHILE, A MAN CAME TO OUR OFFICE FEW DAYS AGO WITH A LETTER AUTHORITY, CLAIMING TO BE YOUR TRUE REPRESENTATIVE.

HERE ARE HIS INFORMATION'S FOR YOU TO CONFIRM TO THIS OFFICE IF THIS MAN IS TRULY FROM YOU OR NOT SO THAT WE WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING INTO THE WRONG ACCOUNT NAME:

NAME: MR.BROWN JOHNSON
BANK NAME: CITI BANK
BANK ADDRESS: ARIZONA, USA.
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6503809428.

PLEASE, DO RECONFIRM TO THIS OFFICE, AS A MATTER OF URGENCY IF THIS MAN IS FROM YOU.

I APOLOGIZE TO YOU ON BEHALF OF IMF (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) HTTP://WWW.IMF.ORG/EXTERNAL/NP/EXR/CHRON/MDS.ASP FUTURE TO PAY YOUR FUNDS IN TIME, WHICH ACCORDING TO RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM HAD BEEN LONG OVERDUE.

PLEASE GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE US FORWARD YOUR INFORMATION TO OUR PAYING BANK IN NEW YORK SO THAT YOUR FUNDS CAN BE TRANSFER YOU WITHIN 48 HOURS.

YOURS SINCERELY,
MR.DOMINIGUE STRAUSS-KAHN
MANAGING DIRECTOR IMF
MY PICTURE AND PROFILE BELOW. YOU CAN COME TO OUR OFFICE.

PROFILE: I MR. DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN, FROM FRANCE, BEGAN HIS FIVE-YEAR TERM AS IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD ON NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The scammers are getting younger, but the story's an old one

This is a scam. This particular message originated or routed through a server in Russia. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: "FROM KELVIN GIDEON" kelvin.g9@optusnet.com.au
Date: December 16, 2009 2:17:15 AM PST
Subject: FROM KELVIN GIDEON

Hello ,

How are you today,i hope you are fine? I am Kelvin Gideon the son of the late Minister of Tourism in Liberia,i am 18 years of age and i am presently at the refugee camp in Ghana,i am contacting you in respect of my two consignment boxes which is already in your country with the diplomat,my foreign beneficiary who was suppose to receive the consignment boxes and invest it for me was so greedy asking for 75% which we agreed on 25% before the boxes left Ghana for your country.

I had to put a stop to the delivery of the boxes to him,please i am contacting you to help me receive my consignment boxes because i have mapped out 35% for you.

I want to inform you that the diplomat has been there for good five days now waiting to hear from my foreign beneficiary to carry out the delivery to and the content of my two consignment boxes is Money $25,000.000.00 ( Twenty Five Million United States Dollars ) which is meant to be invested in a profitable business in your country.

I want you to know that the diplomat does not know the true content of the boxes is containing money so please when contacting him for the delivery to you don't tell him about the content.

I want you to know also that i have paid for the delivery charges which is $8500 ( Eight Thousand Five Hundred United State Dollars ) all you have to do is contact the diplomat.Please help me by receiving the boxes,for as soon as you receive them i will be coming over to join you,so we can start the investment together and i will start living a good life again.

Please get back to me so that i can give you the contact of the diplomat so you can contact him for him to carry out the delivery to you.

Best Regards,
Kelvin Gideon.
kelv.gideon@live.com

Scammers now contacting via Facebook messages

A scam just arrived in my Facebook inbox. It was apparently sent from a Facebook account named Tofa Maxwell. It's unclear how to report such messages to Facebook in any meaningful way. My advice is to simply delete such messages without responding.

Subject: Attention,

Attention,

We act as solicitors and our services were retained by late Alan C. Zeichick, a foreigner who used to work with Shell International Republic of Togo, here in after referred to as our client. We write to notify you that my late client made you a Beneficiary to the bequest sum of FIFTEEN Million one Hundred United States Dollars in the codicil to his will and last testament.

He died at the age of 65. This bequest is to support your activities, humanitarian services, help to the less-privileged and research work.

We are perfecting arrangements to complete the transfer of this inheritance to you. You are required to forward the following details of yours:

1. Full Name:
2. Telephone number:
3. Age:
4. Contact address/Country
5. Occupation:
6. Identification:
7: Email address:

For verification and re-confirmation. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter immediately. For further clarification you can always reach me on my direct phone number.

I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Upon your acceptance to this proposal, I expect your urgent response indicating your full interest in this great transaction to our both mutual trust.

Congratulations! Reply to chambers.guildhall@yahoo.com

Yours sincerely,
TOFA MAXWELL ESQ.
Tel: 00228-922-4588.

That's no sergeant, that's a scammer

Do you ever get messages like this? You can be assured that no stranger is writing to you, out of the blue, to cut you in on a huge fortune. It's just not going to happen.

I have no idea who really sent this message, but you may be assured that it wasn't a U.S. soldier who found $21 million in Iraq. It's a scammer who is going to use this as bait to lure you in... and then get money or bank-account access from you. Links to random BBC news stories do not make the scammer any more legitimate -- anyone can link to a news story.

Don't be fooled, don't respond to messages like this, even if you feel bad that the fellow's uncle is "late."

From: SGT ANTHONY ORTON info@military.com.org
Date: 2009/12/10
Subject: FROM UNITED STATES SOLDIER

Attention:

How is everything going, I hope great? Though i have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have approached you on this issue being that the internet has been greatly abused over the recent years and is very unsecured for informations of vital importance.

I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the e-mail. I write to you irrespective of the fact you do not know me, but please do consider this letter as a request from a brother in dire need of assistance.

My name is Anthony Orton (Sgt) an American soldier,I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division here in Iraq. As you know we are being attacked by insurgents everyday and car bombs, it will come worst now Saddam Hussein was executed.

During one of our rescue Mission we came across a safe that contains the total sum of $21,000,000 (Twenty One Million Us Dollars) that belongs to the revolutionaries, which I believe they use in buying weapons and ammunitions, and it was agreed by all party present that the money will be shared amongst us.

You can go to this web link to read about events that took place here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Out of the total fund my share was $8,000,000 (Eight Million Us Dollars). I am seeking your assistance to evacuate my share of the money, which is $8,000,000 out of here to you, in as much as you can assure me that my own share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here.

This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved,as I have from you the Bank where the fund was deposited will contact you for the transafer. why i needed your assistance is becuase my uncle who was a contractor that had the abulity to handle this kind of fund is late.

I shall be compensating you with US$2,500,000 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for me for my investment purposes.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please destroy this e-mail as any leakage of this information will be too bad for me. I do not know for how long we will remain here, and I have survived two suicide bomb attacks, which prompted me to reach out for help because I will be migrating to you to invest and start a new life not as a soldier anymore.

Please if this proposal is acceptable by you, kindly send me an email signifying your interest including your most confidential telephone numbers for quick communication also your home address.

As soon as I receive your e-mail with the information,I will furnish you with full details on when and how the fund shall be deliever to you either by Bank transfer or Bank diplomat and he will make a contact with you before any move.

Waiting for your urgent reply.
Best Regards,
Sgt. Anthony Orton

Federal Bureau Investigation is helping you get Nigerian money… not

This is one of the better-written scams, but a scam it is nonetheless. Read it, enjoy it -- but be fooled and don't respond to such messages. They're all scams.

From: FEDERAL BUREAU INVESTIGATION (FBI)
Date: 2009/12/4
Subject: FBI ALERT: Please read this mail carefully

================================================
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
Contact: +1(866) 414 6977
=================================================

Dear Citizen.

Inline with the "Patriot Act", a statute enacted by the United States Government that President George W. Bush signed into law on October 26, 2001. The Act which increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expands the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; has prompted us to contact you in respect of your unclaimed fund.

We the Justice Department of the Federal Bureau of Investigations do hereby inform you that in our bid to fight against the ranging terrorist threat facing the United States of America recently, we have registered your unclaimed fund through a Certified Bank Draft with the DELIVERY SHIPPING COURIER COMPANY in the country of fund origin.

This fund was said to have been held by the Central Bank of Nigeria due to your inability to obtain necessary documents and delivery charges required by the Bank and its affiliates in the past. Thus, we sourced that some unscrupulous agents of the terrorist inclined nations have devoted their time using the opportunity to transfer funds into the USA under the disguise that the fund was meant for you the beneficiaries. However, after our investigations, we discovered that you had no involvement in such evil plan that is why we are contacting you to get the fund out of its position before it implicates you.

Note that all the necessary arrangements for the delivery of your $2,000,000.00 Bank Draft has been completed. In your best interest, you are urged to send the following details to the Courier Agent;

*Full Name:
*Contact Address:
*Current Phone Number:

We have paid for the delivery charges. The only money you have to pay to them is $280 (ONLY) for their Security keeping of your Bank draft, we try to pay for that but they insist that such cost can only be paid once the real beneficiary have contacted the Courier Company for security reason.

You are hereby instructed to contact the Operations Manager with the information below and call him immediately you send him an email:

Name: Mr. John Edward
email: deliveryshipingcompany@gmail.com

Thank you as we look forward to your cooperation on this very crucial matter.

God Bless America!

Regards,
Mrs. Tracy D. Gail
(Secretary)
Office of the Director:
FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

New scam has hackers or phishers phoning users: Be warned

A good friend — a computer expert — just sent me this account of a strange experience this afternoon. It's scary, especially for those whose "skeptic flag" is turned off. If you get a call like this, at home or at work… don't do what the caller wants. It's undoubtedly not good for you. Here's my friend's account of this episode:

Got a weird phone call just now. Guy with Indian accent who said he was calling to help me with my Windows problems — I don't have any, but he said they were calling 'all' Windows owners to fix problems causing computer to run slowly. He rattled off the name of his company, and after I asked several times I finally got: "Support On Click." The number on my phone readout was 05-247-9749 — and it said "Out of Area." Odd number.

Cautiously, I let him continue. He had me click Start-Run and type in eventvwr, and then click on Applications and tell him how many Error flags I had — well, there were hundreds, just from this past month. He asked for a little info about them, and started a spiel about how many people were having these kinds of problems. It sounded like the canned beginning of a sales pitch.

I finally said I wasn't interested and hung up on him. He called back a minute later but I let it go to voicemail, whereupon he hung up.

Was it a sales pitch to get my credit card? A scammer planning to get me to read him something fatal off my screen? Hacker wanting me to enter some command that would give control to a virus or something? I would have hung on to find out where he was going with this, but he was taking too long. Clearly, he was prepped for inexperienced computer users, so he took forever with his instructions, and I lost patience.

End-of-year joy? I don't think so

No joy here: You didn't win a large cash prize from a contest that you didn't enter. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: Linda Caterino Linda.Caterino@asu.edu
Date: November 28, 2009 6:57:13 AM PST
To: info@winner.org
Subject: End Of Year Joy Congratulation Your Email Address Has won You The Sum Of 500,000.00 Pounds Contact At Mr.kelvin_gibson27@live.com

Amount Won£500,000.00). Your email address has brought you an unexpected luck, Your e-mail address was selected and confirmed by our co-sponsor Visa Credit Card International online promo. To claim your prize Contact Email Mr.kelvin_gibson27@live.com

So, are you Ian, Ben or Wong?

There's so much wrong with this email that nobody should be fooled by it… but given the number of people on the Internet, probably someone will be. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: Ian Shochet i.shochet@qut.edu.au
Date: November 27, 2009 7:03:33 PM PST
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: BUSINESS NEGOCIATION

Acknowledge,

A Jordanian made a fixed deposit of $6.5M in my bank branch where am a director and he died with his entire family in the bomb blast leaving behind no next of kin, I'm ready to share 50/50 with you if you choose to stand as my deceased client next of kin. If interested mail me at the address below

Email Contact: benelderson@aol.com
Private Line: +34672881185

Yours Truly,
Wong Tang

A Nigerian hijacking of the electronic kind

A friend of mine received this from the email address of his friend Karen. Needless to say, she wasn't in Nigeria and she didn't send this message. Her email account had been hijacked.

If you get a message like this from someone you know, don't respond electronically or via the means suggested in the email. Instead, contact, the person directly using his/her usual contact info. Never be fooled like messages like this.

From: Karen (last name and email suppressed)
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:57 AM
Subject: HELP NEEDED

How are you doing? I am writing you this message with tears in my eyes because of what I've going through Am in a great sorrow written you this note, I could barely type or think straight right now, I hope you come to my aid. something very terrible is happening to me now, I need a favor from you urgently, I had a trip here in Nigeria for a Seminar. Unfortunately for me I got robbed on my way to the hotel where i lodged along with my Cell phone, bag where my passport was and since then i have been without any money, I am even owing the hotel here. So i have limited access to emails for now, I urgently need your financial assistance. The total sum of money that i would need would be $2,000 to sort-out the bills so i can make arrangements and return back, I'm in a panic now, the police only asked me to write a statement about the incident and directed me to the embassy, I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively, I will return the money back to you as soon as i get home, I am so confused right now. I wasn't hurt because I complied immediately.

So please kindly make some money available for me with the below information via western union money transfer

Name .........Karen (last name suppressed)
address.. 101 island avenue,
city....ikeja
state....lagos
zipcode...23401.
Nigeria

Hope to hear from you soon.

Karen

More of Saddam Hussein's treasures!

You'd think that all the treasure would have been scammed by now, but no -- there's always more. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this. (Even if they're in all caps.)

From: SGT GOODSON PETERS godsonpeters26@gmail.com
Date: 2009/10/2
Subject: HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?

HOW ARE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY?

MY NAME IS ( SGT 1ST CLASS ) GOODSON PETERS, I AM AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, SERVINGIN THE MILITARY WITH THE ARMY’S 3RD INFANTRY DIVISION.WITH A VERY DESPERATE NEED FOR ASSISTANCE,I HAVE SUMMED UP COURAGE TO CONTACT YOU.I FOUND YOUR CONTACT PARTICULARS IN AN ADDRESS JOURNAL.I AM SEEKING YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE TO MOVE THE SUM OF ( $9.8 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS )NINE MILLION,EIGHT HUNDRED UNITED STATES DOLLARS TO YOU IN UNITED STATES, AS FAR AS I CAN BE ASSURED THAT MY SHARE WILL BE SAFE IN YOUR CARE UNTIL I COMPLETE MY SERVICE HERE SOMETIME NEXT YEAR.

SOURCE OF MONEY:

SOME MONEY IN VARIOUS CURRENCIES WAS DISCOVERED IN BARRELS AT A FARM HOUSE NEAR ONE OF SADDAM’S OLD PALACES IN TIKRIT-IRAQ DURING A RESCUE OPERATION, AND IT WAS AGREED BY STAFF SGT KENNETH BUFF AND I THAT SOME PART OF THIS MONEY 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 OF WHICH MY BROTHER IN-LAW WAS KILLED BY A ROAD SIDE BOMB LAST TIME.

THE ABOVE FIGURE WAS GIVEN TO ME AS MY SHARE, AND TO CONCEAL THIS KIND OF MONEY BECAME A PROBLEM FOR ME, SO WITH THE HELP OF A BRITISH CONTACT WORKING HERE, AND WHICH HIS OFFICE ENJOY SOME IMMUNITY, I WAS ABLE TO GET THE PACKAGE OUT TO A SAFE LOCATION ENTIRELY OUT OF TROUBLE SPOT. HE DOES NOT KNOW THE REAL CONTENTS OF THE PACKAGE, AND BELIEVES THAT IT BELONGS TO A BRITHISH/AMERICAN MEDICAL DOCTOR WHO DIED IN AN RAID HERE IN IRAQ, AND BEFORE GIVING UP, TRUSTED ME TO HAND OVER THE PACKAGE TO HIS FAMILY IN UNITED STATES. I HAVE NOW FOUND A VERY SECURED WAY OF GETTING THE PACKAGE OUT OF IRAQ TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR YOU TO PICK IT UP.

I WILL DISCUSS THIS WITH YOU WHEN I AM SURE THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO ASSIST ME, AND I BELIEVE THAT MY MONEY WILL BE WELL SECURED IN YOUR HAND BECAUSE YOU HAVE FEAR OF GOD. I WANT YOU TO TELL ME HOW MUCH YOU WILL TAKE FROM THIS MONEY FOR THE ASSISTANCE YOU WILL GIVE TO ME. ONE PASSIONATE APPEAL I WILL MAKE TO YOU IS NOT TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER WITH ANYBODY, SHOULD YOU HAVE REASONS TO REJECT THIS OFFER, PLEASE PLEASE AND PLEASE DESTROY THIS MESSAGE AS ANY LEAKAGE OF THIS INFORMATION WILL BE TOO BAD FOR US SOLDIER’S HERE IN IRAQ. I DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG WE WILL REMAIN HERE, AND I HAVE BEEN SHOT, WOUNDED AND SURVIVED TWO SUICIDE BOMB ATTACKS BY THE SPECIAL GRACE OF GOD, THIS AND OTHER REASONS I WILL MENTION LATER HAS PROMPTED ME TO REACH OUT FOR HELP, I HONESTLY WANT THIS MATTER TO BE RESOLVED IMMEDIATELY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WITH MY E-MAIL ADDRESS WHICH IS MY ONLY WAY OF COMMUNICATION. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS FAMILY.

SGT GOODSON PETERS.

Read urgently, and delete quickly

Another spammer who has lovely children. This came from an MSN address. Don't respond, don't be fooled.

From: mohammed alpha ala_alpha08@msn.com
Subject: PLEASE READ AND REPLY VERY URGENTLY.

PLEASE READ AND REPLY VERY URGENTLY.
FROM: MR MOHAMMED ALPHA

Good day,

Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings

Please in the name of God i ask for your little time to read this message again carefully to the excellency of our mutual benefit. So please read this email very gently and tell me what you think, if we can transact it together or not. And please after reading, if it does not interest you please kindly delet the mail and keep the secret of what you read within you.

My name is Mohammed Alpha,I am the Operation Manager in Bank Of Africa,headquters Republic of Bamako Mali, I got your informatio n when i was searching for an oversea partner amongother names.I promise this to you in goodfaith,I am 52 years old,An Ethiopian white based in Mali Republic, married with four lovely kids.

I have a very important business which i would like to execute with you which involves some reasonable amount of cash and no risk involve, i have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the OPS manager in this bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my headmen office in Bamako at the end of each business year. On the course of the last year business report, i discovered that we made NINE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ($9,000,000.00 ) which our head office do not know about, and no single staff is aware of this over surplus extra cash and will never be aware of it since i have wisely parckaged an arrangement to move out the money for myself as i intend to retire from service soon. I blinded the files. I have placed this funds on what we call escrow account with no beneficiary and awaiting data, so that it would be simply easy for anybody to claim peacefully.

As an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is for you to apply and stand as the beneficiary to this money and order the bank to transfer it into your account with immediate effect. As soon as you receive it in your bank account, i agree that you will take 40% of the total funds as your commission. There are practically no risks involved in this event, it will be a bank-to-bank wire transfer , and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of the fund who made the deposit with this bank so that my head office can order the transfer to any of your bank account that you shall indicated. I assure you that hence you apply as the beneficiary of the fund it shall be vividly released to you.

If you accept to work with me I will appreciate it very much. so that we can go over the details and i will give you my full information and relay to you more information on the money and explain to you how we should start the claim. Remember there is no risk involved, i promise.
Thank you in advance and May God bless you and your family.

Yours truly

MR MOHAMMED ALPHA
BLESSED BE THE GOD

Urgent, urgent: Please fax us your bank details and signature

A creative bit of spam with PDF attachment. Don't be fooled, don't respond. Here's the email message:

From: URGENT URGENT euromillions.euromillionsuk.lo@gmail.com
Date: September 30, 2009 8:10:21 AM PDT
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: Urgent attention for all SA WINNER
Reply-To: euromillions.euromillionsuk.lo@gmail.com

Urgent attention for all SA WINNER we write to inform you that all the formal arrangement for the transfer of your wining lottery has been cancelled, you are therefore advised to stop any further communication with any body to avoid been scammed.

Please kindly fill the attached bank form and send to the paying bank, the Barclays bank for immediately transfer. 24hours service

Thanks
Sir Kelvin Walter,
Co-coordinator (Online Promo Programmer)

The contents of the PDF is a form, on faux Barclay's Bank letterhead. The formatting is lost, but here's what it asked for -- just perfect for both identity theft and cleaning out your bank account:

Barclays Bank Plc, London
Private Banking Section
P.O.BOX 738, Eagle Court
75 King Street, Hammersmith
London, W6 9HY . U.K

WIRE TRANSFER FORM

BENEFICIARY DETAILS

NAME:
SURNAME:
ID NUMBER/ PASSPORT No.:
PRESENT ADDRESS:
HOME TELEPHONE:
FAX:
SPECIMEN SIGNATURE:

BANK DETAILS

BENEFICIARY’S BANK
BRANCH:
BANK ADDRESS:
ACCOUNT NUMBER
SWIFT CODE
ACCOUNT NAME:

Jonathan Britton.
Head, Financial Controller
Private Bank Dept.
Tel:+44-702-402-0677
Tel:+44-702-408-2977
Fax:+44-844-774-4307

Scam spam by Yahoo calendar invitation

Here's a new twist, at least for me: This spam came in the form of a Yahoo Calendar invitation. The pitch was embedded as the event address.

Don't click to "accept" such invitations, don't be fooled, don't respond.

You're invited to: Dear Friend,Compliment of the season

By your host: Jacob Lycama

Date: Wednesday September 30, 2009

Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (GMT +09:00 Japan)

Street: Dear Friend,Compliment of the season and God's blessings from dr Jacob lycama, who contacted you long ago for assistance in an Inheritance claims of $250 million Dollar in our company. However I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting those fund transferred under the cooperation of a new partner from Japan,Presently I'm in Japan for an investment projects. I have decided to compensate you with the sum of $1.500.000.00 dollar.( One million ,Five hundren thousand dollas )This is from my own share, I did this simply to show you that it is good to do good things and also to fulfil my my promise to you. Therefore you should contact my secretary,Here are his contact address:Name:Jane white ,Email: jane_white96@yahoo.com , I kept the money for your as compensation in her care and instructed that she send it to you immediately you contact her, however she will attend to you without any delay as she was duly instructed. Send your current contact info rmations to enable her know where to send you the money .1.Your Full Name...........................,2.Your Home or Offie Address...............,3.Your Telephone............,please do let me know immediately you receive the money so that we can share the joy together after all the suffering at that time. Thanks and may God Bless you.Yours Sincerely,Jacob

A man of peace who wants a piece of the action

I'm glad that he has three lovely children, but he's a crook, whoever he really is. Don't be fooled, don't reply to messages like this.

The message came in from a Yahoo address; the reply-to address was at Hotmail. The message was sent to undisclosed recipients.

From: "Mr.Samuel Kofi" mr.sk020@yahoo.com
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: Best regards!!
Reply-To: mr.sk1960@hotmail.com

Best regards!!

My name is Mr. Samuel Kofi , I am the regional manager of the Zenith Bank Plc Tema Accra Ghana I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 52years of age and married with 3 lovely kids.

It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don't want problem, I only hope we can assist each other. If you don't want this business offer kindly forget it, as I will not contact you again.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the Zenith Bank Plc (Ghana) it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2008 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made Seven million five hundred thousand dollars [US$7, 500.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 40% of the total fund. I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve it successfully.

Best regards,
Mr. Samuel Kofi
MOBILE: +233-2429-424-22.

No company will give you money as part of an online promotion

Variations of this scam have been floating around the Internet for years — and new ones keep coming. This one came formatted with a nice photo of Bill Gates in it. Trust me, no company is offering you money as part of an online award promotion or lottery. They are all scams, every single one of them. Do not reply, do not be fooled.

From: "DR. ALEX MORGAN" bar_paulmorgan@yahoo.com
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: MICROSOFT AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION 2009
Reply-To: alexmorgan@winning.com

Microsoft Award Team
Microsoft London (Cardinal Place)
100 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL.
http://www.msprolive.com

MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION 2009.

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected at the First quarter of year 2009 Microsoft/Nokia/Aol Online award promotion. Microsoft & AOL in conjunction with Nokia Cell phone are currently running a beta test and for this had set out ₤450,000,000.00GBP for these winners. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows and use of Global system for mobile (GSM). Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Microsoft Windows. We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on line winners.

A winning check/chegue will be issued in your name by Microsoft Corporation board or the fund transferred to your account. You have therefore won the entire sum of £1,000,000.00 {One Million Great British Pounds} with winning lucky number: 14 21 30 39 40 47 31. A certificate of prize claims will be sent to you as soon as your claim agent receive your personal details.Therefore, you are mandated to contact your claim agent immediately with the below needed information.

Name: DR. ALEX MORGAN
Tel: + 44 703 1741 821
Email winningcontac@gmail.com
Email: alexmorgan@winning.com

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers:
(3) Your Nationality/Country:
(4) Your Full Names:
(5) sex:
{6} Age:
{7} Occupation/Profession:
(8) Email ID:
(9) Your Preferred Method Of Receiving Your Prize(From Below)

Mode Of Prize Remittance.

(1)Telegraphic wire Transfer (Account to Account transfer).

(2)Courier Delivery Of your bank certified Winning Cheque/Check and other Winning Documents safely to you.

The Microsoft Windows lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the interactive Lotteries board Commission and Mr. Gustavo Goranson from Sweden for being our Bonus winner!

Our gratitude goes to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune in this season.

Note: You have One week from the date of this publication to claim your prize or you may forfeit your winnings.

Thank you for being part of our commemorative beginning of year 2009 Microsoft Online Promotion Anniversary Draws.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO; KINDLY CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER DIRECTIONS.

Dr. Bryan McDonald
Microsoft Promotion Team

Note that this program is being sponsored by:
MICROSOFT/AOL INTERNET EXPLORER.

Act fast, urges the secretary general of Interpol

Nice detail on this message, which was received by a colleague. It spells out exactly what you'll have to pay… at least at first. Note the domain, interpo.com. It's a domain listed for sale. Don't respond, don't be fooled by such messages.

From: RONALD K .NOBLE interporonald@interpo.com
Date: 2009/9/16
Subject: INTERPOL/UNITED NATION/FBI NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT.

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION
UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL CENTRAL BUREAU OF INTERPOL.
SE11 5EN LONDON UNITED KINGDOM.

Attn: Funds Beneficiary,

INTERPOL/UNITED NATION/FBI NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT.

The British Prime Minister in conjunction with U.S.A GOVERNMENT, WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAME, and UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION, do hereby give this irrevocable Order of payment with Release Code No: GNC/3425/02/22 in your favor to enable the remittance of contract /Inheritance entitlement payment with the UNITED NATION.Your new Payment is classified as follows, United nation Approval No:UN5685P,Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No:55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103 with World Bank Released Code No: 0763.

In referance to the above information we have been informed officially through the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network such as the FBI,,CIA and the HOMELAND SECURITY, that one Mr. James Hill from Canada, has presented himself to claim your funds as your Next of Kin and we were also informed that you died in an auto crash some weeks ago. James Hill submitted an account information where he wants the money to be transferred. The account information is as follows:

Bank of Lebanon
A/c No: 890458984589.
Routing No: bl 275-79665.
Aba no: BL-ANAJFG-FL.
Beneficiary: Mr. James Hill.

For our action on this matter therefore, You are requested to get back to us quickly to notify us if you are the person that sent this man because he is ready to pay for your Fund Approval Slip as the only thing keeping your payment. Also, during our Investigation, it came to our notice that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled all the official requirements given to you in respect of the release of your Payment. Also, you have been dealing with non officials of the bank, government and they have been extorting money from you because have been going through the back doors in the chase of your payment.

Therefore, we have contacted the UNITED NATION OFFICE LONDON on your behalf and a solution to your problem has been sorted out by coordinating your payment in the total amount of $10.5 Million USD which will be paid to you, but you will be expected to make your choice of payment from the list of payment options as stated below:

(2) PAYMENT VIA ATM SMART CARD.
(2) ONLINE BANK TO BANK TRANSFER (through the Natwest bank of London).
(3) SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC COURIER CASH DELIVERY.

Since our Intelligence Monitoring Network headed by the (INTERPOL) has stepped into this transaction,You are rest assured that this transaction is legitimate and completely risk-free as it is our duty to protect and Serve all the payment beneficiaries and our citizens of the United States of America. However, you will be expected to contact the payment center via E-mail for instructions on how to procure your Approval Slip Certificate which contains details on how you will receive your overdue Contract/Iheritance payment.

We have confirmed that the amount required to procure the said Approval Slip Certificate is $375.00 USD only and the fee should be paid directly to the PAYMENT OFFICER via Western Union Money transfer / Money Gram Money transfer.Below, is the contact detail of the payment officer who will process your transaction.

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR UNITED NATION OFFICE/PAYMENT CENTRE IN NIGERIA .

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Contact Person: DR. JOHNSON SMITH.
Office of The International Payment Dept.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA 20-A VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS-NIGERIA
DIRECT TELEPHONE :+234-802-808-9023.
Email Address: drjohnsmith@mail.mn

Contact DR. JOHNSON SMITH of the UNITED NATION payment Centre with the following information:

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT PHONE NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:

Once you have sent the required information to DR JOHNSON SMITH, he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $375.00 USD only for the procurement of your Approval Slip Certificate to enable him expedite action on the processing and release of your payment without any further delay. You are hereby authorized and guaranteed by the united nation office to commence action towards completing this transaction, as there shall be NO delay once payment for the Approval Slip Certicate has been made to the United Nation authorized agent as directed.

Once you have completed payment of $375.00 USD only to the United Nation agent in charge of this transaction,you are advised to keep us posted to enable us follow up with the release of your payment.

Act fast.
INTERNATIONAL POLICE LONDON
RONALD K .NOBLE(INTERPOL) Secretary General.

Thank you, Sir Mike Ike from Benin, for saving us from micreants

Oh, no, I've given away the secret funds code! Darn. Silly me. Guess there's no longer any reason to send them $90 or $120. I hope they told the United State Bureau about the fraudsters and miscreants.

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

From: marah ngan marahngan@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Subject: This Is given to you by the federal high court of Benin Republic(Be74678FGN)

Attn:Beneficiary.

This to acknowledge you that your e-mail address was found among the list of foreigner that have been scammed by Benin Fraudster. It might interest you to know that we have signed an agreement with the UNITED NATION SECRETARY MR BAN KI MOON during our first meeting this year on 31/08/2009 with our PRESIDENT Commander In-Chief Republic Du Benin, YAYI ABONY ALI and the FBI to fight against this and to return all contract funds that has been stolen and people who has been scammed too.A total sum of (150,000.USD) united state dollars in Cash has been set aside for your compensation which will be delivered to your door step by an accredited diplomatic courier, or bank to bank wire transfer.Note that the only office/chamber you are to contact prior to the delivery of your fund, is , which is currently been headed by the Barrister Sir MIKE IKE.

further advised to deal directly with him and do what so ever you are asked to do because that is the only way you will achieve the success in the wire of your funds to you as designated:Endeavor to contact the chamber in charges which is currently been headed by Barrister Sir MIKE IKE.You are further advised to deal directly with him and do what so ever you are asked to do because that is the only way you will achieve the success in the delivery of your funds to you as designated:

Name: Barrister Sir MIKE IKE.
Private E-mail Address:.(barrmikeike_mike@sify.com)
Direct Telephone: (+229-98-46-48-58) (00229-98-46-48-58)
For more information on how to make sure your Bank Draft is delivered to you, get back with the below information:

Your home address........
Telephone number..........
Your occupation...........
Country....................
Zip code....................
Any form of identification of yourself.......

Please we demand an urgent response prior to this matter and to work with us to enable track those Miscreants and send their information to the FBI to carry out actions in the US immediately because those Miscreants have some agent all over the country and we are now working with the internet operation such as YAHOOMAIL, HOTMAIL,AOL,the Benin police and also the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) so that the scam can be eradicated in this country, hence i want you to follow your Funds code which below, which is given to you by the high court of Benin(Be74678FGN). You are to keep this code for security purposes.

Note that every beneficiary will be responsible for shipping fees which cannot be deducted from the fund because there is a bond holding the consignment that stated that only the sole beneficiary of the fund is permitted to open it after it has been sealed by the foreign payment department. The shipping fee is only $90.00usd for courier charges, bank transfer $120usd CHOOSE ONE. Also note that the federal high Court here will alert the united state bureau and also your state police immediately your shipment leave the shore of Benin so as to avoid any restriction and problem when the fund get to its port of destination.

Thanks.
Best Regard.Mr.Adam John
Director Federal High Court Of Benin Republic.

The governor has gone through screaming about the fraudsters

This message came from a Gmail account, and is quite funny. Try reading it aloud. Don't respond, don't be fooled.

From: George Cotomali cotomalig@gmail.com
Date: September 15, 2009 7:30:07 AM PDT
Subject: Mallam Lamido Aminu Sanusi Governor Central Bank (CBN)

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Address: Samuel Akintola Street,
Garki 11, P.M.B. 187, Garki, Abuja
234 802 921 2152
sanusilamidofer0001@yahoo.com

Attn: Dear Customer

I the governor of central bank of Nigeria CBN Mallam Aminu Lamido Sanusi. Hereby let you know tat I am contacting you based on your file with the power vested in me by the president of Nigeria and from the house of the senate ABUJA.

This letter is coming to you because of your over longed contract payment that has not been paid to you during to regime off Sani Abcha the former president of Nigeria now late. As a Muslim that I am, I felt concern about the cheat and fraudulent that I can see going on in the banking sector here in Nigeria both the CBN and the local banks in this country. As I have gone through screaming an gotten all the information and the names of the people trying to close the local banks in aspect of borrowing money without any collateral tendering down and without returning it back to the bank, this people are working together with bank directors both in the CBN and the local banks collecting the masses money together with the contract payment that the federal government have released from the central bank over many years now, and the former governor of central bank of Nigeria share this money together with the local bank director giving the federal government excuses that the contractors have been directed to be paid which is not showing sign of truth.

Now with my investigation I have found out that you have not been paid and the fraudsters have been arrested by the economic crimes and financial commission and the money lost has been recovered. So you are hereby advised by me to reply this letter if you are willing and send me the amount you are been owed together with your account number. For me to cross check if correspondent with the one on my table is. Because I longer trust any one of the banker anymore. And the attached following this letter is for you to take a look at the name of the people and the amount I discovered. Note that I am still investigating. I have taking it upon me that your contract payment will be released to you as soon as you respond to my mail.

Mallam Lamido Aminu Sanusi
Governor Central Bank (CBN)

My good friend, I'm am indeed surprised

These barristers and pastors always have my best interests at heart, which is why they bcc me on all their correspondence.

Don't reply, don't be fooled.

From: Eugene Robinson
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: 014/9/2009 SURPRISE! SURPRISE!! GUESS WHAT?
Reply-To: pastorhenryphilips74@hotmail.fr

Hello good friend,

I am Barrister Simon Media and I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund transferred. Now I want you to contact my Pastor on his email address below and receive your compensation of $1.500.000.00USD dollars from him;

Name: Pastor Henry Philips
Email: pastorhenryphilips74@hotmail.fr
Phone: +229 98-39-12-58

Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information;
Your full name________________________
Your address__________________________
Your country__________________________
Your age______________________________
Your occupation_______________________
Your Phone number_____________________

Note that if you did not send him the above information complete, he will not release the cheque to you because he has to be sure that it is you. Ask him to send you your cheque.

Remain blessed,
Barrister Simon Media .

The FBI isn't kidding, they don't have a sense of humor

The faux FBI may not be kidding, but I was laughing. This message came to a friend of mine. The FBI says that if you send $1200 within 72 hours you'll receive $10 million. Yeah, right.

The email's return address was given as the "fbi.org" domain. Note that the date given is a month from now: October 13. Don't reply, don't be fooled.

From: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date: 2009/9/13

Subject: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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

DATE: 10-13-2009

Attn: SIR

We got your mail, we are not kidding or joking as Federal Commission we are here to protect your interest and of all the United State citizens as well as World at large, so we are not joking or kidding. You have been investigated as the beneficiary of the said fund that is why you are in touch with the FBI for a solid proof before the fund will be release to you.

The said funds is now in U.S Bank in your name which has been placed embargo under the custody of the FBI for further verification and proof before releasing the fund to you. You do not have this document in your files; if you did the fund would not have been hold. We did not believe this at first, but when we saw the transfer we had no option than to contact you. We have gone through your Identification record and also the information’s received from you, we have verified a lot of things about you. It has come to the attention of our Money Trafficking Investigation Department (MTID) that you have some fund valued at U.S $10 Million to your name; the said payment is awaiting adjudication and crediting to Sasha Pinkard instead. This fund is from Inheritance 'willed ' from C.B.N Bank Nigeria precisely.

With full concern of The F.B.I and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wish to remind you of the consequences of remitting such huge sums of money without complying fully with the provisions of the Financial and Allied Matters Decree 5 as amended in sub-section C (6) of 2003, which stipulates that any monitory transaction been done in the United States Of America, must have proper records, which duly guarantees and covers the transaction as legitimate and legally acquired and not criminally or terrorist associated funds. This is due to ongoing terrorist activities/economic crimes and against the United Nation (UN).

Note that with the information's we have here, the fund in your name here was release from Federal Republic of Nigeria. To this regard you are to contact the EFCC Nigeria where the fund was release from so that they will issue you the required document because they are the only people that can issue you the document. Nobody else have the right or privilege to issue you this document unless the EFCC Nigeria. You are under an observational /Investigational in connection with money laundering. If your funds comes from a legitimate and legal source, the proper guidelines for you to recover the right of transaction is for you to provide the official monitory transaction release document so that your funds will be legally processed and recorded and accounted for and then finally released to you.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONEY LAUNDERING DEPARTMENT) is here to wipe out terrorism, and will stop at no length in doing our duty for the World. You have 72 hours to produce legal proof of the below frozen wired transaction number coded: SPinkard008 owned. You do not have any rights to receive this fund if the documented legal wire information is not complete.

For your own good and benefit, you are advice not to send your money to anybody accept the below person that will get the document for you. It has come to our notice that scammers are online looking who to devour regarding the present transaction, with the power imposed on us as a High Federal Commission, you are hereby warn and instruct to terminate your involvement with any body or individual contacting you regarding this present transaction. The said funds is now in our custody in your name as the beneficiary, your dealings should be channel to this office alone, if we find out you are still communicating with imposters we will not be responsible for any money to sent to them.

The very heart of FBI operations lies in our investigations--which serve, as our mission states, 'to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States.' So follow our instructions properly to avoid any action before you. We currently have jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of Federal Law. So you can see that we can track any incoming fund down through our Investigative programs. We have your address and the evidence and status of your wired funds.

You don’t have the required document on your possession, this document are only to be issue to you from the paying country Nigeria, to this regards you are advice to contact the EFCC Nigeria to obtain the document from them to enable the immediate release of the funds in your name.

We have done our verification on your FBI Identification Record with fund Security Number, the only document left is the required Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) which should be issue to you from the paying country of the said fund, you are to contact the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Nigeria to obtain the above required document, find below their contact information's:

Contact Person: REV DR PAUL ADAMS
bank;;BANK OF ENGLAND (LONDON)
Open phone number: +44 7024028664

Furthermore, be advice that according to the United State Law together with the United Nations (UN) rules and regulations, you are to obtain the document from the EFCC Nigeria where the fund was transfer from. Also Note that you are to take care of the Document to be issued to you right away, because due to the content of the document and how important and secured the document is, you are to take care of the document by sending to the EFCC Nigeria the sum of USD1,200 only for the issuing of the document right away and your $10 million will be release to you. That is the only way we can release your fund because the certificate from them is authentic and genuine.

You are here by advice to Contact them through the email address above to acquire from them on how you are going to send the fee to them. Note that you are to do this immediately if you really want your fund to be credited to your personal account and also if you don't want any action to be fall before you. We have already informed the EFCC Nigeria about the present situation, so go ahead and contact them immediately. Your fund is now on 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 documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for no criminal justice purposes. If you are not satified with this mail, you are free to visit our head office in washington DC.

Warning: Failure to produce the above requirement in the next 72 hours, legal action will be taken immediately by confiscating your fund, justification and if found illegal, your fund will be confiscated for terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our World today. The F.B.I will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulge in this criminal act. Forward the document to us via email attachment as soon as you obtain it.

Your's Sincerely,


FBI Director.
Robert S. Mueller, III

You have to be crazy to believe this scam

This looks like the usual lottery scam: If you reply, they'll ask for your bank account number and/or demand fees, and there goes your money. But check out the bottom of the message. What's with that? The message headers reveal that hackers compromised an email account at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio (uhhospitals.org). Thus, the automatic footer (starting with "Visit us") from the organization's server. Whoops.

Don't be fooled, don't respond.

From: Monica.Floyd@UHhospitals.org

Subject: AUTHORIZED: THE NEW DEAL!

ATTENTION,

We are pleased to notify you the "Winner" of our last Secured Mega Jackpot Online Sweepstakes result. This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services and all email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly selected from an internet resource database of registered software and domain users.

Reference Number: UC 64 LX 2009
e-ticket number: 76544556263 098
Category: A
Amount: $2,500,000.00 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars)

You are required to establish contact with your claims agent via e-mail with the particulars presented below:

Contact: Mr. Leon Becker
Phone: +31 61 671 0747
Email: writeleon.becker@live.nl

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are requested to furnish Mr. Becker With the following information:

1. Full name... 2. Address... 3. Occupation... 4. Tel/Fax.... 5. Cell/Mobile.... 6. Age... 7. Winning Ref Number...........


Congratulations

Monica Floyd
Promotions Co-ordinator

NOTE: This is an Automated Message; do not respond. You should contact the assigned claims agent immediately to process the remittance of the prize sum to you.

Visit us at www.UHhospitals.org.

The enclosed information is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the use of the addressee only. University Hospitals and its affiliates disclaim any responsibility for unauthorized disclosure of this information to anyone other than the addressee.

Federal and Ohio law protect patient medical information, including psychiatric_disorders, (H.I.V) test results, A.I.Ds-related conditions, alcohol, and/or drug_dependence or abuse disclosed in this email. Federal regulation (42 CFR Part 2) and Ohio Revised Code section 5122.31 and 3701.243 prohibit disclosure of this information without the specific written consent of the person to whom it pertains, or as otherwise permitted by law.

The government of Benin wants to send you $1.5 millions

Another variation on a classic scam. It was sent via a Yahoo account. Don't be fooled, don't respond.

From: kenneth paulson

Subject: THE FINANCIAL WESTERN UNION PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT YOUR PAYMENT.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DIVISION ATM
INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC BENIN
WEST AFRICA.

Attn My Dear :

Now we have arranged your payment of ($1.5millions) One millions five hundred thousand united state dollars in atm payment card to be sent to you through western union money transfer payment: Your payment will be sending to you by western union,the amount you will receive per day is $6,000.

The minister trust funds of Benin Republic will send you the currently standards track details you need to pick up your ($6,000) payment by western union, you will receive every day till you receive the $1.5millions united state dollars, now no need to send you this atm card because you cannot be able to withdraw the atm card due to the atm master card contain large money on it.

The director administrator trust funds have already signed your payment, now you are free to comply with wemaco payment office on this email(western_union.dept@live.com)

However, kindly contact the below person who is in position to release your payment by western union per $6,000 a day.

Mr.Richard Oloye,
western union department
Intercontinental Bank Benin,
Mobile: +229 98563441
E-mail: ( western_union.dept@live.com)

The financial western union payment center has been mandated to issue out your payment and you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.Note that the administrator payment need this details from you to process your payment:

Receiver name_______________
Country______________________
City__________________________
Tel___________________________
Test question________________
Answer______________________

Comply now because as soon as you sent this required details to Mr.Richard Oloye he will start sending your payment by western union,

Regards to you and your family,

Thanks and be bless,

Mr.Kenneth Paulson,
THE DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DIVISION.

$5 million from Hillary Clinton, Secetary of States? I think not!

Oh, this is a nice laugh on a Thursday morning. The sender is using the address infosecofstates (at) e1534.b.akamaiedge.net. Sorry, that didn't convince me to shell out for the "little insurance and shipment fees" for a bogus ATM card. Don't reply, don't be fooled.

From: OFFICE OF THE SECETARY OF STATES
Subject: OFFICE OF THE SECETARY OF STATES

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
OFFICE OF THE SECETARY OF STATES
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT
(RESOLUTION PANEL ON PAYMENT)
WASHINTON DC
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From The Desk Of The Secetary of States.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HILLARY CLINTON.

Subject: Immediate Release of Your FUNDS Via ATM CARD.

Attention:SIR/MADDAM

I wish to use this medium and my new office to inform you that your CONTRACT/INHERITANCE Payment of USD$5m (FIVE Million Dollars) from FEDERAL RESERVE BANK NEW YORK have been RELEASED and APPROVED for onward transfer to you via an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw all the USD$5m in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$6000 Only

The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA government have mandated Bank Of England, to send you the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER with other relivant document from our government and british government and the united nation which you will use to withdraw all your USD$5 Million Dollars in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum you can withdraw in a day is USD$6,000.00 Only.

You are therefore advice to contact director and the Head of ATM CARD Department of Bank Of England

Contact Person: REV DR PAUL ADAMS
bank;;BANK OF ENGLAND (LONDON)
Open phone number: +44 7024028664

Tell REV DR .PAUL ADAMS that you received a message from the OFFICE OF THE SECETARY OF STATES UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to send you the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER AND ALL THE DOCUMENT which you will use to withdraw your USD$5 Million Dollars in any ATM SERVICE MACHINE in any part of the world, also send him your direct phone number and contact address where you want him to send the ATM CARD and PIN NUMBER to you BUT YOU WILL PAY FOR THE LITTLE INSURANCE AND SHIPMENT FEES FOR DELIVARY.

all the document regards to the release of the funds has been handed over to RAV DR PAUL ADAMS for delivary SO CONTACT HIM HOW FOR DELIVARY

We are very sorry for the plight you have gone through in the past years. Thanks for adhering to this instruction and once again accept our congratulations.

Best Regards.

HILLARY CLINTON
OFFICE OF THE SECETARY OF STATES
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT