Wow, free money from the new Prime Minister!

Does the fake formal language make this spam appear to be more honest? Fear not, it's a scam, even thought it reads like a period drama on television. Best I can tell, it originated at a hacked account or open relay at the mfarconstructions.com domain. Don't respond, don't be fooled by messages like this, even if they use words like "hence" and "enquiry."

From: "Barclays Bank PLC®" info@barclays.com
Date: April 30, 2011 9:38:24 AM PDT
Subject: Attention: Honorable Beneficiary / Office of Barclays Bank Plc.
Reply-To: barclaysbank5000@gmail.com

From The Desk of Sir Johnny Sunderland
Foreign Remittance Department
Barclays Bank PLC.
1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP
+44 07024031991
www.barclays.co.uk

Dear Honorable beneficiary

Did you authorize one Mr. Louis Henrik who presented document’s of claim purported to have been signed by you for the release of your Payment Beneficiary/Winnings settlement of Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($11.5) only, which have been made and sealed for your transfer? Why this, because the Fund Certificate was credited to you,hence this later development of Mr. Louis Henrik?

Ensure that you do not delay to get back soonest as this calls for urgent and cogent attention to avoid misappropriation, misconception and misconstrue in BARCLAYS BANK beneficiary’s financial transfer record. If you did not give any Power of Attorney or Authorization to the said Mr. Louis Henrik for claim of your fund, please reconfirm immediately to avoid banking irregularities, as your fund is now ready to be transferred (based on the urgent instructions from the Committee of Foreign Contractor Payments Board under the control of the PRIME MINISTER’S office).

In summary to your fund transfer do contact the Barclays Bank for your fund release.

As soon as this information is received, your payment will be made to you in a Certified Bank Draft or Wired to your nominated bank account.

You are advice to contact the Foreign Department immediately. Your contract Ref. No. is BAR/LON/UK/BEN/011 This fund is in line with the Federal Policy for release of all outstanding payment beneficiary due for payment as directed by the NEW PRIME MINISTER. For further explanation, your request and enquiry will be highly welcome and treat with understanding.

Waiting for your Reply.

Sir Johnny Sunderland
Foreign Remittance Department
Email: barclaysbank5000@gmail.com
Tel: +44 07024031991 (available 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.)

Barclays Bank PLC. Registered in England. Registered No: 1026167. Registered Office: 1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP

A US soldier in Iraq? I don't think so

The following spam scam came as a file attachment. Don't be fooled or reply to scams like this. Just because they link to a BBC news story doesn't mean that the scammer is legit. Anyone can link to a news story.

The message itself came from a hacked email account -- I'm not going to embarrass the owner of that account. The body of the message was

Hello
Please open your attachment for the full details of my story. I am an America soldier who base in Iraq,
Best Regards
Cpt.Blake Cole

And here was the attachment, in a Microsoft Word file called Hello.doc

Hello,


My name is Cpt. Blake Cole. I am an American soldier (USF-I) Serving in the military with the 1st Armored Division in Iraq. As you know we are being attacked everyday by insurgents, car/suicide bombers in Iraq.



I am contacting you on behalf of my colleagues here in Baghdad, we are honestly seeking for your hands in this partnership to move this allocation valued at {10.4 million USD} into your custody for safekeeping.



In 2009 we managed to secure Ten Million US Dollars, these were part of the stash money found in Baghdad to have belonged to Saddam Hussein's family and associates. This money has been kept somewhere outside Baghdad for some time now but with the proposed troops withdrawal by our President to end the war and make lasting peace with Iraq militant and terrorist, I am so afraid that this money may be discovered. My contact to you is to make sure that the money is move to a safe place and in safe hands pending the completion of my assignment here.



Visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm


We am ready to compensate you generously well with 30% of the money because there are no strings attached as Iraq is a war zone. We plan on using diplomatic immunity-cover to ship this money to you as military cargo. I am contacting you with confidence as all arrangements for the successful delivery has been put in place. All I need from you is to receive the cargo at your location from the delegated diplomat.



I am expecting your positive reply so as to extend more confidential details to you. I hope I can trust you.



Yours sincerely, 

Cpt. Blake Cole

US Military Ba'qubah.

Email: cpt.blakecole2@usa.com
Email: clcptblakecoleus@aol.com

New York, New York, it is so nice they scammed it twice

This is your basic scam. What more is there to say? According to headers, the email originated at email originated at the South African server cp3.snowballeffect.net. Of course, there's no way of knowing how the scammer got into that server.

The phone number listed for Mr. Saltzman, (347) 355 355l -- assuming you change the L into a 1 -- belongs to a cell phone on a Brooklyn, N.Y., exchange.

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

From: THE NEWYORK CLEARING HOUSE ms.mirandajacobs@gmail.com
Date: February 24, 2011 10:26:06 AM PST
Subject: KINDLY CONFIRM IF THIS YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR TRANSFER OF $12.5MILLION.
Reply-To: ms.mirandajacobs@gmail.com

Attention: Beneficiary.

The New York Clearing House is pleased to comment on the final payment release of your unblocked funds, through the Clearing House Interbank Payments System (CHIPS). Basically, this message is notifying you that your blocked funds, $12.5million, that has been in the coffers of the U.S Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since April 2008, is finally unblocked and authorized for immediate wire transfer into your receiving bank account by the Clearing House in New York.

We at the Clearing House, received a certified payment instrument from OFAC in your favor containing your personal details and a new receiving account in the name and favor of your financial representative and partner, Mr. Richard Salazar. In lieu of the issued payment mandate from the OFAC, the Clearing House conveyed a payment message through CHIPS, which will effect the transfer of the funds via S.W.I.F.T MT2O2 COV into the account of Mr. Salazar in the nearest 72-hours after a confirmation to proceed from you as the original beneficiary. Please kindly confirm is the account information are correct to receive the funds,

Bank Name: U.S Bank Trust, N.A, MN;
Swift Code: USBKUS4TCOR;
Routing #: 121122676;
Account Number: 153459581457;
Account Beneficiary Name: Richard B. Salazar;
Beneficiary Address: 5021 Laguna Blvd, Elk Grove, CA 95758.

The funds will be available in the U.S. Bank Trust, N.A account as above in the next 72-hours as soon as we get a permission to proceed from you, and a copy of the MT202 COV Payment Slip will be sent by fax to the receiving beneficiary bank, U.S. Bank Trust, N.A; Mr. Salazar, and also a copy of the wire slip to you for funds clearance at your receiving bank.

We hope this letter is understood, if not, kindly go over the content twice or more before responding, And If you have any questions as regards this matter, kindly reply me via (ms.mirandajacobs@gmail.com) or call the Clearing House as we would be pleased to discuss any of our comments in more detail. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Paul Saltzman, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at (347) 355 355l.

Thanks for your Co-Operation.

Sincerely,

Miss. Miranda Jacobs
SWIFT Transfer Manager
The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C.
450 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
=================================================
© 2011 The Clearing House Association L.L.C. All Rights Reserved.

It's a terrible situation, so ignore it

This message was sent by a clever scammer who was actually using a gmail.com account, jstevens1850@gmail.com, to get this message out. However, the scam looks like it came from an AOL account.

I guess I don't feel back for this mysterious Jack, since he's actually a scammer who's going to ask you to wire him money. Don't be fooled, don't reply, to messages like this. If you receive a message like this from someone that you think you know, try contacting him/her via phone using a known number, or verify that he/she is actually out of the country. Often these come from hijacked email accounts -- so if you reply via email, the scammer will see your message.


From: Jack Stevens jstev61149@aol.com
Date: March 4, 2011 3:31:21 AM PST
Subject: Terrible Situation----Help!!!‏

Hello

I'm sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it's because of the situation of things right now,I'm stuck in Cardiff wales right now,I came down here on vacation ,I was robbed, the situation seems worse as bags,cash ,credit cards and cell phone were stolen at GUN POINT, It's such a crazy experience for me, I need help flying back home, the authorities are not being 100% supportive but the good thing is that I still have my passport but don't have enough money to get my flight ticket back home, please I need you to loan me some money, I will reimburse you right as soon as I'm back home. I promise.

--
Jack Stevens

Ooh! Free laser hair removal and mini facelift treatments!

Don't reply, don't be fooled, by this pyramid scheme. In other words, don't forward this email to 10 of your friends.

What's clever is that they know that an email from you to your friends will bypass many spam filters. Not only that, if you follow their directions, they'll harvest your friends' addresses to use for more spam/scam mailings.

From: "Dorothy" dorothy@gautengpromo.info
To: dsl5@gautengpromo.info
Subject: FW: FREE R990 makeover vouchers for laser hair removal and mini facelift treatments...B4
Reply-To: dsl5@gautengpromo.info

If you send this mail onto ten people, or call one of our clinics, we will give you a laser hair removal treatment worth R500 and R490 towards a mini non surgical face lift.

That's right. almost a complete make over, just for sending this mail onto 10 people.

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Mr. Levenstein doesn't exist, and he's not planning to give you half of a gold mine

I'm starting to see scams come in via fax, and this message is one of them. It claims to be from a Mr. Jeff Levenstein, who is "the chief operational officer with one of the South Africans investment and private based bank."

The scammer claims that the bank had a customer, Mr. Fred Buther, who owned a gold mine -- but is now deceased. If you claim to be Mr. Buther's kin, Mr. Levenstein will split the money with you 50/50. Click the image to see the entire document.

Of course, it's a scam - don't reply, don't be fooled.

To help search engines find this scam, Mr. Levenstein claims that his email is jeff@regalsa@co.za, phone +27719666714, fax +27115075168.

It's a horrible spam from a hacked mailbox

This message came in today from a cousin's email address — and freaked out some members of my extended family. However, it's a total scam. Someone hacked in my cousin's email address (either by guessing her password or by phishing for it) and sent out these messages. One family member actually went to the bank to get cash to send to London!

Needless to say, my cousin is safe at home — and was initially somewhat confused because she couldn't get into her email. One of the first things the scammers did was change her password. And then the phone started ringing….

If you see messages like this, don't respond, don't be fooled. Do not try to get back to the family member by email, but use other means. Remember, the scammer has access to the email account, and can answer. Being bcc'd on a message (which I was) is one sign that it's not legit. (But if you're not bcc'd, that's not proof that the message is legitimate.)

Here's an account of someone who received a very similar message earlier this year — it's possibly from the same scammers, as it's nearly word-for-word identical. Don't be fooled!

Subj: Horrible Trip

Hello,

This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help.Few days back my family and I made an unannounced vacation trip to London,UK.Everything was going fine until last night when we were mugged on our way back to the hotel.They Stole all our cash,credit cards and cellphone but thank God we still have our lives and passport.Another shocking thing is that the hotel manager has been unhelpful to us for reasons i don't know. I'm writing you from a local library cybercafe..I've reported to the police and after writing down some statements that's the last i had from them.i contacted the consulate and all i keep hearing is they will get back to me. Our return flight leaves soon...I need you to help me out with a loan to settle our bills here so we can get back home . I'll refund the money as soon as we get back. All i need is $1,850 USD..Let me know if you can get me the money then I will let you know how to get it to me.

Thanks

What does 'diver-stated' mean?

This is a confusing message, but one part of it is crystal clear: This is a scam. It wasn't sent by a U.S. soldier named David Cox or Daviid Cox or David Dean, but by someone trying to con you. When you reply, the "confidential" message will an invitation to help launder money, or something like that. Links to news stories on the BBC prove absolutely nothing about the authenticity of a message. Delete messages like this. Don't reply to them.

From: David mgstdaviidcox@yahoo.com.hk

Date: July 21, 2010 4:27:42 AM PDT

To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject: Yours sincerely,

Reply-To: daviddean1967@hotmail.com

Dear friend ,

I am MSgt. David a Master Sergeant in the U.S Army. Kindly View the BBC news article Listed below. My experience and challenges serving under the U.S Army in Iraq, makes me feel Diver-stated, but I am very optimistic that I will not die in the battle, by the special grace of God.

http: //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/middle_east_shooting_in_tal_afar/html/1.stm

Your prayer and friendship will be highly appreciated at this point in time of my life. To crown it all, I have some thing confidential I would like to disclose to you, but you will have to assure me that no other ear will hear it.

Waiting for your favorable response.

Yours Sincerely,

MSgt. David.

The FBI is not working with the IMF

If you believe that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation uses a Yahoo account to tell you to pick up an ATM card from someone in Nigeria, and you should reply to an account in China, you might fall for this. It's a scam, though an amusing one. Coca-Cola?

Delete the message, don't reply, don't be fooled.

From: "FBI" ron@yahoo.com

Date: July 19, 2010 1:35:27 AM PDT

Subject: ATM Card

Reply-To: despatchunit_rwilliams@w.cn

THE IMF HAS APPROVED YOUR ATM CARD FOR DELIVERY (FBI)

Attn: Beneficiary,

I am Mr. Ron Mills, the personal secretary to the FBI Director; Robert S.Mueller III. After proper investigations, we discovered that your impending payment that have been withheld by imposters, claiming to be Mr. Mr. Lamido Sanusi (The New Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria), Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr. Frank Nweke, None existing officials of the Oceanic Bank of Nigeria and Zenith Bank, UK winning Lottery, Andy Lear of Hsbc bank, Coca-Cola winning lottery and among a list of others is now under our custody with the help of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Local Police Force.

Investigations revealed that you have spent a lot on your personal earned money just to conclude the successful transfer of your funds to your nominated bank account by obtaining transfer documents as requested by the imposters, costing you a lot of money but all to no avail. The FBI had to send some financial crime investigators from our head quarters in Washington DC to Africa in other to carry out proper investigation, after receiving series of other reports similar to yours as you are not the only person awaiting the legal transfer of funds from Africa. The FBI has giving authority to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) to assist the Federal Ministry of Finance and all the organization involved; such as the Central Bank, Zenith Bank, and Legit lottery organizations to immediately commence with the compensation of all the beneficiaries awaiting the successful transfer of their funds. With the help of some of the best Internet investi gators attached to the FBI.

I am pleased to inform you that a meeting was held as regards the best way to carry out with the compensation exercise for transparency and most especially to avoid reoccurrence of the delay in transferring your funds and the high cost of procuring transfer documents and came to a final conclusion as all head of organizations involved was duly represented. It was approved to be issued to you as a valid international ATM card cashable at any ATM machine designation in the world. The ATM account has already being credited with two million, five hundred thousand United States dollars. ($2.5, 000, 000.00USD), with a daily Limit of withdrawal of Ten thousand United States Dollars. ($10.000, 00USD).The ATM card has already being packaged and approved to be delivered to your door step via express courier delivery service.

Contact Mr. Richard Williams {Our FBI ATM Rep.} at the ATM PAYMENT CENTER and reconfirm your delivery information as stated below and your security code with five digit (24006) number has to be submitted alongside with your delivery information for security reasons.

DELIVERY INFROMATION:

FULL NAME:

DELIVERY ADDRESS:

CELLPHONE NUMBER:

CURRENT OCCUPATION

CONTACT INFORMATION:

NAME: Mr. Richard Williams

EMAIL: dispatchdirector_rwilliams@w.cn

PHONE: +234-802-524-3188

NOTE: Under normal circumstances you are suppose to come and collect your ATM CARD in person and sign some documents as proof of the collection of your ATM CARD but the IMF and the Finance Ministry insisted that you pay for the delivery charges of your ATM CARD via western union money transfer, which will cost you only $180.00USD to cut down travel expenses in other for the western union payment receipt and the receipt of payment of $180 .00USD to the nominated courier company that will carry out with the delivery to your door step to be documented in your file as proof your collection. We hope that is very clear. A receipt to this effect will be sent to you and a copy kept in your file for future documentation.

We also advise that you stop further communications with these imposters and forward any correspondence / proposal you receive from them to Mr. Richard Williams in other for the FBI to bring justice to does still at large.

Mr. Ron Mills.

For: Mr. Robert S.Mueller III

FBI DIRECTOR

The IRS is using Polish email addresses to save money - not

Ooh, a letter from the Tax Credits Office! Sorry, this is scam. No, they don't send email from Poland. No, the U.S. Government doesn't use "www.unclefed.com" to distribute IRS forms. Don't reply, don't be fooled, by any email that you receive that claims that you're owned money from the government. It's always a scam.

From: Tax Credits Office Agent david.morgan@przemysl.pttk.pl

Date: June 29, 2010 10:02:15 AM PDT

To: alan@domain.com

Subject: Re: Tax Notification

We are pleased to inform you that upon review of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $246.30 under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to process it.

To get your refund, please access the IRS e-file form.

IRS e-file form (http://www.unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/2009/09indvlforms.html)

Note: For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time. Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicted.

Note: Because this letter could help resolve any questions regarding your exempt status, you should keep it in your permanent records.

David Morgan

Director, Tax Refunds Department

The faux sergeant is a scammer, not a soldier

This is a fairly transparent scam, even without the amusing "from" email address and bad grammar. Don't respond, don't be fooled, by messages like this.

From: "US AIR FORCE" us.af.mil.b52@gmail.com

Date: July 6, 2010 9:52:33 PM PDT

To: sgtlilianat@msn.com

Subject: Hello /From Dr. Craig A. Franklin

Hello,

Would you mind if we got correspond? I am contacting you on behalf of MAJOR GENERAL CRAIG A. FRANKLIN; My name is Ms. Liliana R. Tavera (Sgt) office coordinator of the 332nd Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron {Joint Base Balad, Iraq}.

I was directed to contact you after a closer look on your profile and personality, MAJOR GENERAL CRAIG A. FRANKLIN will be honoured to secure a mutual financial business with you or any trustful person/s that you can recommend outside our United States military and the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization (NATO) surveillance.

Please kindly contact me immediately with your response including

(1.) Your Full Names& Address

(2.) Tel & Fax numbers

(3.) Your most confidential email address; and I'll get back to you with our proposal.

In waiting of your response...

Sgt. Liliana Tavera {Ms}

Baghdad, Iraq

Domain scam spammers continue

Your brand is not in danger -- and if you're worried that it is, go to a domain registry and register it yourself. Don't reply to scammers like this, who are trying to sell you over-priced and unnecessary services to protect your business assets.

From: "Mike Yan" mike.yan@tldschina.org

Date: July 5, 2010 7:10:50 PM PDT

To: "info" my email address

Subject: Notice:Brand name " domain " dispute in ASIA

Reply-To: mike.yan@tldschina.org

(If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept, thanks.)

Dear President,

We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china. we have something need to confirm with you. we formally received an application on July 5, 2010. one company which called "Boices Group Inc." are applying to register "domain" as Brand name and the following Domain Names:

domain.asia

domain.com.hk

domain.com.tw

domain.hk

domain.in

domain.net.cn

domain.org.cn

domain.tw

After our initial examination, we found that the Domain Names applied for registration are as same as your company's name and trademark. these days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. if your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, please contact us as soon as possible.

In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit is 7 workdays. if your company files no reply within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by "Boices Group Inc.".

Best Regards,

Mike Yan

Senior Consultant

Register and Audit dept.

Tel:0086-21-37529318

Fax:0086-21-37529316

Website:

Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District, Shanghai