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EMAIL SCAMS I GET
I get a good number of scams in
my email daily and I would like to share them with you.
I will not go into detail about them. You can just
google the info and you'll see what the scam is all
about. There are other websites dedicated to all
this stuff and they can provide you with more info than
I could ever.
Here's a link to Part One of my listed scams
November 5. Phewww. This
was a close call. Here's what I received today.
There is an attachment to the email and I considered
downloading it out of curiousity. NEVER DO THAT.
From:
dtaylo123@aol.com
To:
dtaylo123@aol.com
Dear customer!
Unfortunately we were not able to deliver the postal
package which was sent on the 20th of June in time
because the addressee's address is incorrect.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect
the package at our office.
United Parcel Service of America.
Just one look at it and I knew
instantly that it was a scam. Many discrepancies
here. UPS notification from an AOL address?
Hilarious. Letter 'c' in customer is not
capitalized and there is an exclamation point following
the word. Sent on the 20th of June? No
tracking number. And of course, the name of the
sender - United Parcel Service of America. This
has to be one of the most poorly written scam letters of
the year.
Okay, so I decided to do a google
search on the first sentence and of course, this scam
has been going around.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ups-malware.shtml
This is what they said:
Attention Virus Warning
Service Update
We have become aware there is a fraudulent email being
sent that says it is coming from UPS and leads the
reader to believe that a UPS shipment could not be
delivered. The reader is advised to open an attachment
reportedly containing a waybill for the shipment to be
picked up.
This email attachment contains a virus. We recommend
that you do not open the attachment, but delete the
email immediately.
UPS may send official notification messages on occasion,
but they rarely include attachments. If you receive a
notification message that includes an attachment and are
in doubt about its authenticity, please contact
customerservice@ups.com.
Please note that UPS takes its customer relationships
very seriously, but cannot take responsibility for the
unauthorized actions of third parties.
The attachment contains malware, detected as Trj/Agent.JEN
by Internet Security company PandaLabs, that can replace
an important file on Windows computers and then download
other malware to the infected computer. PandaLabs
notes:
This malware is copied in the system, replacing
the Windows Userinit.exe (this file is the one which
runs explorer.exe, the interface of the system and
other important processes), copying the legitimate
file as userini.exe, so that the computer can work
properly.
Additionally, it establishes a connection with a
Russian domain, which has been used on some
occassions by banker Trojans. From this domain it
will redirect the request to a German domain in
order to download a rootkit and a rogue antivirus,
detected as Rootkit/Agent.JEP and
Adware/AntivirusXP2008 respectively.
If you receive an email similar to the example quoted
above, do not open any attachments that come with the
message or click on any links that it may contain.
Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Seattle, Washington 98101-2904
Telephone/Fax Number: +1(206) 426-2866
Attn: Beneficiary
This is to Officially inform you that it has come
to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an
Investigation with the help of our Intelligence
Monitoring Network System that you legally won the
sum of $850,000.00 US Dollars from a Lottery Company
in the United Kingdom. During our investigation we
discovered that your e-mail won the money from an
Online Balloting System and we have authorized this
winning to be authentic and paid to you via a
Certified Cashier's Check.
Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for
an International Check to be cashed by your local
bank. We have successfully come to an agreement with
this company on your behalf that funds are to be
drawn from a registered bank within the United
States Of America so as to enable you cash the check
instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated
amount of $850,000.00 US Dollars has been deposited
with Bank Of America.
We have completed this investigation and you are
hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we
have verified the entire transaction to be
Legitimate, Safe and 100% risk free of scams and
frauds of any nature, due to the fact that the funds
have been deposited at Bank Of America you will be
required to settle the following bills directly to
the lottery claims agent in-charge of this
transaction whom is located at the liaison office of
the Lottery Company in Seattle-Washington. According
to our discoveries, you are required to pay for the
following:
(1) Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid by the lottery
company for the deposit into an American Bank which
is - Bank of America)
(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee (Fee for
converting the Wire Transfer payment into a
Certified Cashier's Check)
(3) Shipping Fee's (This is the charge for
shipping the Cashier's Check to your nominated
destination)
The total amount for everything is $239.99 (Two
Hundred & Thirty Nine United States Dollars & Ninety
Nine Cents). We have tried our possible best to
indicate that this $239.99 should be deducted from
your winning prize but the funds have already been
deposited at The Bank of America and cannot be
accessed by anyone apart from you the winner.
Therefore you will be required to pay the needed
funds to your lotto claims Agent in-charge of this
transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or
Money Gram. The payment will NOT reflect at the Bank
of America with the given transaction
code(EA2948-910) until you have covered the
processing fees needed.
In order to proceed with this transaction,
Click Here
to contact your claims agent
Mrs. Louise Major.You
will be required to call her for verbal verification
and e-mail her with the following informations:
FULL NAME:
FULL MAILING ADDRESS(INCLUDING
CITY/STATE/ZIPCODE):
AGE/SEX/OCCUPATION:
CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS(CELL & HOME):
You will also be required to request Western
Union details on how to send the required $239.99 in
order to immediately ship your prize of $850,000.00
US Dollars via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from
The Bank of America, Also include the following
transaction code in order for her to immediately
identify this transaction : EA2948-910.
This letter will serve as proof that the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay
the required $239.99 ONLY to your claims agent via
the information in which she shall send to you upon
your request, if you do not receive your winning
prize of $850,000.00 US Dollars we shall be held
responsible for the loss and this shall invite a
penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY by
you (The Winner).
NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets
delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to
immediately contact
Mrs. Louise Major via contact information provided above and make the required
payment of $239.99 to information in which she will
provide you.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The information contained in this email message
is legally privileged and confidential information
intended solely for the use of the intended
recipient(s). If you are not the intended
recipient(s), any distribution, dissemination, or
reproduction of this email message is strictly
prohibited.
The HSBC Bank
UK Limited
19 High Street Northwich
Cheshire CW9 5BZ
Attn: Payment Notification,
This is to bring to your notice
that I have paid for the re-activation fee and the
delivery of your ATM. I paid it because the ATM Card
8119 worth 8.3m US Dollars has less than twenty days to
expire and when it expires, the money will be
confiscated and go into Government purse. With that I
decided to help you pay the money so that the ATM will
not expire, because I know when you get your ATM
definitely you must pay me back my money and even
compensate me for helping you.
Now i want you to contact Mr
Patrick anthony he is the director of the ATM CARD
Delivery Service,so contact him with your Full Contact
informations so that they can deliver your Card to your
designated address without any delay. Like i stated
earlier, The delivery charges has been paid but i did
not pay for their security keeping fees since they
refused. They refused and the reason is that they do not
know when you are going to contact them and dumurrage
might have increase.
They told me that their keeping
fees is $45{fourty five US dollars} per day and i
deposited it on (Friday) last week.
Here is the information you are to
provide to them:
1.NAME:
2.ADDRESS:
3.AGE:
4.OCCUPATION:
5.GENDER:
6.NATIONALITY:
7.TELEPHONE:
Below is their Contact
Informations,
Contact Person: Mr Patrick Anthony
OCC Service
Email:patrick.anthony.hsbc@gmail.com
Best Wishes
Hsbc Bank.
Mr. Dinther Helmut Udo
Valiant Privat Bank AG
Postfach,
3001 Bern,
Switzerland.
Confidential Tel : +870-764107753
Confidential Fax : +870-764107751
Email: dinther100@terra.com.mx
Hello,
I am contacting you on a business transaction of a
huge sum of money
from a deceased account, though I know a transaction
of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I’m
assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day and this is
why am contactingyou
due to the urgency of this transaction.
We discovered an abandoned sum of (Seven million
five hundred Thousand
United States dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of Our foreign
customer who died along side with his entire family,
and ever Since his
death none of his next of kin or relations has come
forward to lay claim
for this money as his heir.
We cannot release the funds from his account unless
someone applies for
Claim as the next of kin to the deceased as
indicated on our banking
Guidelines. Upon this discovery we now seek your
permission to have you
stand as a next of kin to the deceased in which all
documentationsWill be
carefully worked out by us for the (Seven million
five hundred Thousand
United States dollars) to be released in your favour
as the
Beneficiary’s/next of kin to the deceased. And It
may interest you to know
that we have secured from the probate an order of
mandamus to locate any of
the deceased beneficiary.
Kindly acknowledge receipt of this message in
acceptance of our mutual
business endeavour by furnishing me with the
following;
1. Beneficiary name and contact address.
2. Direct telephone, fax and Mobile numbers.
3. Date of birth and occupation.
These requirements will enable us file letter of
claim to the appropriate
departments and authorities for necessary approvals
for the release of the
funds in your favour, before the transfer can be
made to you. And we will be
compensating you with thirty percent of the total
funds on final conclusion of
this project, while the rest will be for us and for
investment purposes.
If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take
undue advantage of the trust
we have bestowed in you.
NB: If you are willing to assist me, including the
information's i have requested
from you, call me on my confidential Tel:
+870-764107753. For further details on
what to do next.
I await your response and call.
Please call me and Respond to Email:
dinther100@terra.com.mx
Regards.
Mr. Dinther Helmut Udo.
Confidential Tel : +870-764107753
Confidential Fax : +870-764107751
Hi,
I am Engineer. Jeff Clark,
Director of Project, South Africa Department of
Minerals and Energy. I am making
this contact with you based on the
Committee need for an
individual/company who is willing to assist us with a
solution to a money transfer.
This amount $28.5m represents the
balance of the total contract Value
Executed on behalf of Department
by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has
been paid.
Should you be willing to assist us
in the transaction your share of the sum
will be 25% of the $28.5million,
70% for us and 5% for taxation and
miscellaneous expenses. To enable
us commence, I will need your personal
telephone/fax number.
I await your immediate response.
Best Regards,
Engr. . Jeff Clark
E-MAIL:
mr.jeffclark@yahoo.com
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CONTRACT SUPPLY
Ministry Of Trade & Industry
P.O Box M47 Accra.Ghana
Sir,
I'm Mr. Joseph Mkama , Accreditted/Registered
Agent, Tender Board Contract Award Committee
Ministry Of Trade & Industry P.O Box M47
Accra.Ghana
The Ministry of Trade & Industry P.O Box
M47 Accra Ghana at the moment is looking for
a reliable/capable company to supply them
with Candle Holders, Bracets etc for the
on-going 2009 Cultural Festival coming up in
the Month of Jan.here in Ghana.
As an agent to the Ministry,in my capaity,
I'm contacting you to know if your company
can bid for the said contract of supplying
the above to the Ministry. If you can,
kindly indicate your interest by reverting
back to me.
If your company is in a better position to
bid for the above contract, do not fail to
contact me so that I can furnise you with
the contract information. My direct contact
phone number is :+233 541557084
Best international regards
Mr.Joseph Mkama
Accreditted/Registered Agent,
Tender Board Contract Award Committee
Ministry Of Trade & Industry
P.O Box M47 Accra.Ghana
Phone: +233 541557084
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FROM THE OFFICE OF THE
PAYMASTER GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION
ASO-ROCK VILLA ABUJA NIGERIA
ATTN: BENEFICIARY,
BE NOTIFY THAT THERE WAS DISCREPANCIES IN YOUR
PAYMENT FROM THE OFFICIALS HANDLING YOUR PAYMENT
PREVIOUSLY AND APPROVED BANKS MANDATED TO RELEASE
THE FUND TO YOU; THIS WAS AS A RESULT OF SHAKE UP IN
THE BANKING SECTOR. ON THAT NOTE THE PRESIDENCY HAS
ORDERED THAT YOUR PAYMENT BE STOPPED.
CONSEQUENTLY, MY OFFICE HAS BEEN DIRECTED AND
MANDATED TO MAKE FRESH ARRANGEMENT FOR THE RELEASE
OF YOUR FUND TO YOU HENCE WE CONTACT YOU. BASED ON
THE ABOVE, YOUR FUND WILL BE RELEASE BY THIS OFFICE
AND WE THEREFORE, URGE THAT YOU STOP FURTHER
COMMUNICATION TO ANY PERSON(S) OR BANK(S) RELATING
THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND.
IN THE SPIRIT OF RECONCILIATION, MY OFFICE HAS
APPROVED A PART PAYMENT OF US$2.1M TO BE PAID TO YOU
IN THIS LAST QUARTER OF THIS FISCAL YEAR 2009. YOU
ARE HEREBY ADVISED TO CONTACT THIS OFFICE WITH YOUR
DETAILS AS FOLLOWS BELLOW:
YOUR FULL NAMES, YOUR ADDRESS, YOUR DIRECT PHONE
NUMBER AND YOUR FORM OF IDENTIFICATION.
UPON THE RECEIPT OF YOUR MAIL WITH YOUR DETAILS, WE
SHALL LET YOU KNOW THE METHOD BY WHICH YOUR FUND
WILL BE RELEASE TO YOU TO GUARANTEE SECURITY AND
UNINTERESTING IN THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND.
SINCERELY,
DR. JERRY JACKSON
PAYMASTER GENERAL
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
