INTERNET
E-MAIL SCAMS
We all get a lot of spam in our emails and
there are a lot of scams with offers of jobs, work, etc. I have
created this page to debunk some of the more frequent emails that I get.
Here's a link to
A Blog
of Scams which lists many scams used. Also check the
Federal Trade Commissions website
How Not to Get Hooked by a ‘Phishing’ Scam
I get loads of these Ebay scams. I did not order anything from this person.
| Subject: | Contact Kennedy Thomas Soon | ||
| Date: | 3/10/2009 8:01:26 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time | ||
| From: | tina1961stone@comcast.net | ||
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Somebody in Nigeria
telling me that somebody has scammed me and they actually are the one's trying to get me.
ROBERT MUELLER III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI.WASHINGTON DC.
Email: washington.field@ic.fbi.gov
Phone:(206)-338-5501
FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP INTERNET
GOOD DAY:
We the Federal bureau of investigation (FBI)
Washington, DC in conjunction with some other relevant security
Agencies here in the United states of America have recently been
informed through our Global intelligence monitoring network that
you presently have a transaction going on with the Central Bank of
Nigeria(CBN), regards to your over-due contract payment which was fully
endorsed in your favor accordingly.
I did an internet search on this and here is a link to this scam: There is quite a bit of information on this web site and you might find it amusing and informative. Beware.
The e-mail here is just one type of the thousands of variants of scam e-mails sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the one on this page, or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search, I can 100% guarantee you...YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!
Subject: Employment Opportunity(Part-Time Job)
From: actionplanning18@gmail.com
Pleasant Day,
United Nation International Children and Educational Fund (UNICEF), a humanitarian organization under United Nation Organization (UNO)urgently needs a new set of Representatives to Implement a new method of donation Management.There are countless voluntary donors who are willing to raise funds to assist the less privileged in various societies in your region who haven't had the Avenue to complete this without much effort and we need yourservices as a Representative to receive these various donations from around the world.
You will be entitled to an UPFRONT ALLOWANCE an the end of the year in November. Your commission will be 10% of each donation you process from each Individual.
If you are interested in Representing UNICEF in this noble endeavour, kindly Apply within immediately so you're enrolled in the screening process. The information requiredare as follows;
Full name.......................Address....................... City.......................State.......................
Zip code.....................Phone number.............Nationality................
Regards, David Michael, Coordinator Desk,
UNICEF.www.unicef.org.
To submit your application details and for further enquiries:
REPLY TO:The Management desk,
Humanitarian department, UNICEF, through the following email:
Get Paid to Shop
8/28/2008 8:20:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time
Shopping.Critics@linkparkszoo.com
SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. To receive the reward you must: 1) be a U.S. resident at least 18 years of age or older; 1) Register with valid information; 2) Complete the user survey; 3) Complete at least 1 Silver,1 Gold, and 2 Platinum offers(Available reward offers will vary. Some reward offers require a purchase. Credit card offers may require you to activate the card by making a purchase, transferring a balance or taking a cash advance. Click on the following links to go directly to the reward offer pages:Silver,Gold, Platinum); 4)follow the redemption instructions. All program requirements must be completed within 120 days of the date of registration. Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery. Limit of one (1) gift per household. No cash redemption value. Please read the Terms and Conditions for complete program details. Your information will be shared with our marketing partners. Please read the Privacy Policy for more details.
Get paid to shop? Are you kidding me. I followed through on most of the stuff and you have to sign up for all kinds of offers. I quit when they asked me for my credit card info. You really have to purchase a bunch of things and nowhere did I ever see anything about being paid to shop. SCAM!!!
Renew Your Account Now !
Dear Member,
This is your official notification from Google Inc. that the service(s) listed below will be deactivated and deleted if not renewed immediately.
As the Primary Contact, you must renew the service(s) listed below or it will be deactivated and deleted.
Renew Now your Google AdWords services.
SERVICE: Google AdWords
EXPIRATION: August, 30 2008
Thank you for using Google Inc service.
We appreciate your business and the opportunity to serve you.
Google AdWords Service .
*Note : Please do not reply to this Customer Service e-mail. ©2008 Google
I DO NOT HAVE THIS ACCOUNT. Their website is not that of google. Not even trying this one out as I am sure that they will ask me to submit credit card info, etc. ANOTHER SCAM
A Rebate Processor position offers you the chance to work at home
You can possibly make $225+ daily processing rebates at home for 60 minutes. I get at least 5 of these offers each and every day. Make money simply by filling out online forms
Enter the data into the forms that we provide you, click submit, sit back and collect the money
You'll earn $15 per rebate processed You can make this much money:
2 a day @ $15 each=$210 per week or $840 month or $10,080 a year.
6 a day @ $15 each=$630 per week or $2520 month or $30,240 a year.
15 a day @ $15 each=$1575 per week or $6300 month or $75,600 a year. Opportunities like this do not come by every day. The truth All of these claims have kernels of truth to them, but they are intentionally misleading.
Make money simply by filling out online forms This is a lie. You wont make money by filling out the forms like you would if it were a real job. You make money IF someone clicks on the ad you created by filling out the form AND THEN buys the product!
Enter the data into the forms that we provide you, click submit, sit back and collect the money. Again, its far from that simple. The forms are not provided for you by this site. They are part of the process of creating a Clickbank ad. And you cant just create the ad click submit and expect to make money. You have to somehow get that ad in front of LOTS of people so that someone will click and buy. Theres no sitting back involved.
You'll earn $15 per rebate processed. Yeah, and my grandmas a super model. Heres how they came up with that number. IF you sell a $37 product from Clickbank and IF the commission is $23.50, and IF you offered a rebate in your ad for $8.50, the difference of $15 is yours to keep! Woo-hoo! What about the bajillion products in Clickbank that are not $37, and for which the commission is not $23.50? Rebateprocessorjobs.com doesnt say.
You can make this much money:
2 a day @ $15 each=$210 per week or $840 month or $10,080 a year.
6 a day @ $15 each=$630 per week or $2520 month or $30,240 a year.
15 a day @ $15 each=$1575 per week or $6300 month or $75,600 a year.
This is utter nonsense. As you know by now, you wont make $15 for each form you fill out, so all of these numbers are purely theoretical. They are only possible IF you put your ads in front of enough people AND enough people click on your ads AND enough of those who click make a purchase AND you've chosen Clickbank products with a commission of $15 or more.
Opportunities like this do not come by every day. Yes they do. Hundreds of them, day after day after day. Once you've paid your money (which is nonrefundable), you learn the full story. Here's how it all goes down: You sign up at Clickbank, an online clearing house of thousands of products
You choose products you want to sell You create ads for those products
You plaster those ads all over the ˜Net (this step could cost you money) You somehow get people to see your ads. (the site doesn't tell you this, nor how to do it) You somehow get them to click on your ads, not the dozens hundreds thousands of other ads from your competitors (the site doesn’t tell you how to do this) You only earn a commission IF someone buys the product you're selling after clicking on the ad you created. Read that again!
You send part of your commission back to the buyer Wait where/s the rebate? Wheres the processing?
You see the last step? That's the rebate. The œprocessing is when you look at the email addresses of your buyers and manually send them money through PayPal. Not quite the job you were expecting, is it?
Paypal Access to your Account was Limited
Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at PayPal by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
PayPal never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way. The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times. The REAL URL of the spoof website has been chosen to look very similar to the actual PayPal URL. Do not be fooled!
Re: Selling your products through our group of stores this holiday season
8 TimeDavid@WiseRep.comDo you wholesale yourÂproducts? The stores we work with are aggressively looking for products to sell in their stores this holiday season. If you want to make a push, now's the time. We work with buyers from the largest stores in the U.S. plus thousands of specialty stores, mail-order catalog companies and Internet shopping sites. We need a larger variety of products they can choose from, hence my email to you. If you want to sell your products to more stores visit us at http://www.WiseRep.com
Sincerely, David Thibos
Director of Merchandising WiseRep.com
I then clicked on their website, filling out bogus info along the way. I came to a page that then said:
CLICK ON THE BOX. Yes. Sign me up. I want my products seen by the nations top retailers. I understand there is a one time set-up fee of $185. This allows me to post unlimited products on the site. I understand there is also a $30 monthly fee. Of course, I can cancel at any time.
NIGERIAN SCAM
Subject: HAVE YOU BEEN SCAMMED ? (SCAMMED VICTIM/BENEFICIARY)
Date: 9/15/2008 5:29:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time From: efcccrimedept@crimefighter.com
Reply To: dept.fruad_efccnigeria@yahoo.com
EFCC HEAD OFFICE 1 IBRAHIM TAIWO ROAD
ASO ROCK VILLA PMB 166 FCT ABUJA,
NIGERIA
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIME COMMISSION 2008
COMPENSATION PAYMENT
DIRECTOR. EFCC.
PLEASE HELP US STOP SCAM
ATTENTION: Sir,
SCAMMED VICTIM/BENEFICIARY. REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654,
This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the United Nations to Eco bank Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims the amount being ripped by Nigerian scam artists, you are listed for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payment of your compensations payment.
We have made several inquiries and have discovered that you were among those victims being duped by Nigerian scam artists so we are here to enlighten you and to let you know that the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA founded this organization to fight against cybercrime in our country (EFCC).
Visit : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISMgGdaGOJM
On this faithful recommendations,I want you to know that during the last UN meeting held with the new president of our country at Abuja,Nigeria, it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meeting on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today known as cyber crime,in other to retain the good image of the country,the new president of the country is now paying 100 victims of this operators One after the other if you have only proof that you have once been scammed by a Nigerian, Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria,the payments are to be paid by Eco bank Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by the National Westminster bank London.
According to the number of applicants at hand,15 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more left to be paid the compensation with evidence. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in Lagos Nigeria as one of their victims of the operations and we are on the trace of the other person, you are here by warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal. You can receive your compensation payment via any of the both options you choose,DRAFT PAYMENT or WIRE TRANSFER.
NOTE**** You have to give Details on how you became a Victim.
I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you to know if you can be able to come in person to witness your compensation or not. On April 15, 2008, Nuhu Ribadu received the World Bank's 2008 Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service, for having led a courageous anti corruption drive in Nigeria, as Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). We apologize once more for being a victim of our country crime. EFCC Executive Chairman, Chief Mrs. Farida Mzamber Waziri (AIG rtd.)
Representative Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC):MARTINS LAWANI
15 A, Awolowo Road Ikoyi, Lagos. dept.fruads_efccnigeria@yahoo.com
Yours faithfully,
Mallam Nuhu , Executive Chairman, EFCC