Scammers: They really need to try something new

February 16, 2010 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam

Happy Tuesday !!!   Unless you are not reading this on a Tuesday. In  which case I would say,   “ Happy   ________day!!”   So, this morning  I opened up my e-mail and was treated to another …  (*dum dum duuummm*) E-mail, scam attempt!!!  (I feel like there should be lightning strikes and thunder when I say that)

Not that I want anyone to get “taken in” by these foul creatures, I just think they need to have a little more ingenuity…  A little more creativity…  COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW! You’re boring us already!!

But, in case that there are others out there who receive the e-mail I got and are “unsure” of its validity…  Then let me assure you that what you read below is A SCAM!   Delete this and go about your day.  Go to your local Panera Bread and have a cup of coffee and rejoice that you were not suckered today.  Hey, you could even treat yourself to one of their tasty pastries!


UNITED NATION (UN)
DEBT RECONCILIATION DEPARTMENT.
GENEVA-SWITZERLAND.
Our Ref: UN-0XX2/987/2010
Dear Sir/Madam,

EUROPEEAN UNION, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION OFFICIAL APPROVAL PAYMENT VALUED $8.3M

The British Prime Minister in conjunction with EUROPEEAN UNION, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION do hereby give this irrevocable approval order with Release Code: GNC/3480/02/00 in your favour for your Inheritance/contract entitlement/award winning payment with the UNITED NATIONS to your nominated bank account.

Now your new Payment, United Nations Approval No; UN5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, Released Code No: Be
appeared the next on the list of our outstanding beneficiaries to received payment at the Beginning of this banking season. SO contact: MR. PETER JEFFERSON on his contact Direct email: mrpeterjefferson@aol.com or by Phone +44 7024060524 for the immediate release of your contract/inheritance/Award Winning claim Be informed that you are not allowed to correspond with any person or office anymore, You are required to send bellow Information for your transfer.

1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY.
3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE
4) COMPANY NAME (IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS
5) BANK DETAILS
6) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS
7) COPY OF YOUR INT’L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE.

NOTE: YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT/COMMUNICATION CODE WITH CITI BANK IS (511), YOU ARE ADVICE TO SEND YOUR FULL BANKING INFORMATION TO THE CITI BANK OF LONDON THROUGH THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DIRECTOR HEADED BY MR. PETER JEFFERSON AND MAKE SURE YOU SPEAK WITH HIM, WITH YOUR NEW PAYMENT CODE FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT AND SEND HIM ALL YOUR BANKING INFORMATION NOW. Regard. Senate CONTACT CODE (511) OFFICER: MR. PETER JEFFERSON.

Best regards

SIR GEORGE GRAHAM.
DEBT RECONCILIATION DEPARTMENT.
UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEEAN UNION.


As un-creative as they are being, they should just go ahead and sign this “Best regards,  Dirty Scammer“  It would only make it slightly more obvious.

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Scam attempts: Aren’t they cute?

November 5, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam

Stop!!! Don't do it!

Howdy all! I hope all is well for everyone this fine day!

Today, I got a fresh scan attempt in my e-mail.  This one is interesting in that fact that  it abandons the old  “Hey, I’m in another country and my pop died and I need to funnel his money out…” route.  This is attempting to lure you in by embracing the whole “random internet user” thing… In fact it addressees  it’s opening remarks to “Internet User“…

Is this supposed to give you a sense of security?  I don’t know but, from our other received “Scam Attempts” we’ve learned that these vial excuses for human beings are quite inventive in their methods to defraud you.

So, as always, if you get the following in an e-mail – delete it.  Then, get in your car, drive down to your local Pilot and by a Powerball ticket… You’ll have as much chance winning at that as you would have the chance that such an e-mail would be legitimate.

CATEGORY “A” WINNER
Ref No: PJN/6109-101
Batch Number: NL 80 OS 94144448
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00

Dear Internet User

We are pleased to inform you of the result of our Internet Promotional Draws. 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 of registered software and domain users.

Your email address was selected in the Category “A” with Reference Number PJN/6109-101, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand prize award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email address.

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the particulars below:

Contact: Mr. Damien Lewis
Phone: +31 626 006 051
Email: lewis.d@live.nl

You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the following information for processing the payment of your cash award.

DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:

Failure to contact the claims agent after 14 days of this notice will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims process immediately, by contacting the claims agent (Damien Lewis) who would be guiding you through the Claims process.

Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your payout soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Emily Floyd
Promotions Co-ordinator

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Another Scam Attempt

October 12, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam, Support

Hi all!  Got another scam attempt in “Ye Ole” e-mail today.  Now this one is pretty obvious but,  I thought I would go ahead and post it in one more attempt to thwart the evil doings of these stinking Scammers.  As always,  if you get this e-mail (or anything that resembles this e-mail)  delete it!!  Do not respond, do not pass go,  send it straight to your “deleted items folder” .

49, Featherstone Street,
LONDON, EC 1Y 8SY
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: + 44 703 194 6790
Fax: 44 207 901 6603

Attn: Beneficiary,

We the entire members of the Royal House of Treasury, on behalf of the Government of Great Britain, under the auspices of the Her RoyalMajesty Queen Elizabeth of England II held a meeting this week concerning payment, both foreign and local contractors and some inheritance funds which were not released to the right benefactors Her Royal Majesty, has just informed this office (Royal House of
Treasury) that All the listed contractors and Inheritance funds benefactors which their CONTRACT PAYMENT SUM AND INHERITANCEFUNDS were not paid to should be released to them with effect.

We discovered that your payment listed to us Seven million five hundred thousand dollars US$7.5M) approximately Four million Great BritainPounds (GBP 4M), you are advised to respond with effect so that we will process your payment to be made in any form you wish to receive your funds.

Kindly respond to this office so that your payment will be process and transferred under 72hours of receiving this email, you can contact us on this telephone number + 44 793 609 6539 for a voice confirmation.

On going through files yesterday, we discovered that your file was dumped untreated, so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your payment and please stop communicating with any office now and attention to the appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly.

Now your new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No : 339331 , Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No : 103 , Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex confirmation No: 1114433 ;Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment number, therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland immediately within 72hours You are directed to reconfirm your full detailed information, as stated:

FULL NAME, HOME ADDRESS, PROFESSION and MARITAL STATUS, AGE, HOME PHONE NUMBER and CELL PHONE NUMBER as well as time to call you on the phone.

And please kindly respond back to this email: paulbryant03@sify.com

Best Regards,
Paul Bryant
For Royal House of Treasury

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Email Scam: Taking the Military Tact

August 29, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam

Oh You… Spammers!

It’s amazing the tactics that these Spammers go through to try and steal money from you.  This one is attempting to target our Patriotic feelings by claiming to be coming from an America Soldier.

Hello friend,

My name is Scott Whittington, I am an American soldier, I am serving in the military with the 1st Armored Division in Iraq , as you know we are being attacked by insurgents everyday and car bombs.We managed to move part of funds belonging to Saddam Hussein’s family in 2003.

The total amount is US$12 Million dollars in cash, mostly 100 dollar bills,this money has been kept somewhere outside Baghdad for some time but with the proposed troop in increase by president Barrack Obama, to end the suicide bombing and make peace with Iraq militant and terrorist ,we are afraid that the money may be discovered hence we want to move this money to you for safekeeping pending the completion of our assignment here.

READ THIS WEBSITE VERY WELL AND GET BACK TO ME.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm We are ready to compensate you with good percentage of the funds, No strings attached, Iraq is a war zone, we plan on using diplomatic means to ship the money out as military cargo to your home, under diplomatic immunity cover.

I am contacting you in confidence, all arrangement for the successful delivery has been put in place, all we need from you is to receive the cargo from the diplomat, If you are interested I will send you the full details, my job is to find a good partner that we can trust and that will assist us. Can I trust you? When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your interest.

Alternative Email Address: swhittington101@aol.com Regards ,

Sgt. Scott Whittington

Another shameful Spammer attempt…  If you get one of these, please just delete it.  These Spammers are just evil souls!  :evil:   Ignore their efforts!

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Spam: It is inventive.

June 22, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam

Here is the latest Scam e-mail I’ve gotten.  Don’t be fooled! This is a scam! This e-mail came to one of my e-mail accounts today from different senders and IP addresses but the machine sending names were the same. AND, the content was identical. It looks as though some has a mass-mailer sitting on their machine. Just a reminder to make sure your updates are current!!

Here are the mail headers:

1st:
Received: from xxxxxxxx; Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:05:55 -0400
Received: from host9.oneononeinternet.com [209.239.38.96]
by xxxxxxxxx.com with XWall v3.44. ;
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:02:41 -0400
Received: from mmsrep.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by host9.oneononeinternet.com (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n5KJonLJ010686;
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:50:49 -0400
From: “Nina Powell s” <npowell@info.org>
Reply-To: jjppalmer001@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:50:49 -0400
Message-Id: <20090620195049.M76707@info.org>
X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502
X-OriginatingIP: 41.219.227.176 (cris)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1
Received-SPF: fail (domain of npowell@info.org does not designate 209.239.38.96 as permitted sender)
X-XWall-Bayes: 42
X-XWall-Heuristic: 50
Subject: Nina Powell’s Philanthropic Gesture [spf]
Precedence: bulk
X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000
Return-Path: <>
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 8.5.339 [270.12.82/2190]

Then it came again with this header:

2nd:
Received: from xxxxxxxxxxx; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:54:12 -0400
Received: from host9.oneononeinternet.com [209.239.38.96]
by xxxxxxxxx.com with XWall v3.44. ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:50:57 -0400
Received: from mmsrep.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by host9.oneononeinternet.com (8.12.11.20060614/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n5M8qv7q021658;
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:57 -0400
From: “Jeff Palmer” <palmerjefferson@info.org>
Reply-To: jjppalmer001@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:52:57 -0400
Message-Id: <20090622085257.M2115@info.org>
X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20060502
X-OriginatingIP: 41.191.108.130 (cris)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-8859-1
Received-SPF: fail (domain of palmerjefferson@info.org does not designate 209.239.38.96 as permitted sender) X-XWall-Bayes: 59 X-XWall-Heuristic: 50
Subject: Nina Powell’s Philanthropic Gesture [spf]
Precedence: bulk
X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000
Return-Path: <>
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 8.5.339 [270.12.87/2195]

Hello,

I am Jeff Palmer, a U.K international attorney. This email is reaching you because you have been selected to be the beneficiary to the late Nina Powell’s $5m funds deposited with Waltham Savings and Credit Union here in the United Kingdom. I was the personal attorney to Nina Powell before she died of cancer.
Days before her death, she wrote a will indicating what she wanted her money to be used for. Her will states that it is the duty of my chambers to select a trustworthy beneficiary to receive her funds. Her will also reads that her beneficiary is under compulsion to donate 50% of her money to the cancer society. We conducted an email random draw here in my chambers where a little girl of 6yrs old was asked to pick an email address, of the wholesome of the gathered email addresses, yours was picked and that qualified you to be the beneficiary of the late Nina Powell’s money.

Waltham Savings and Credit Union will release the money to you as the beneficiary. After the money has been transferred to you, you MUST donate 50% to the cancer society, keep 40% to yourself while the balance of 10% comes to me as attorney in this project. Waltham has issued a 14 working days ultimatum for the money to be claimed, so you are to respond so that we can begin the process to get the money transferred to you within that time frame.

Jeff Palmer
+44 702 306 6778

As always, watch out for scam artists they are everywhere on the internet! If you get something that sounds “Too good to be true”. Then, it probably is. Delete it and go on about your day!

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Email Scam – Trying another route

June 15, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam

I got another Scam attempt in the e-mail tonight and thought I would share. I may have to make a whole new section of the site for these pitiful attempts. I guess it must sucker somebody, else they wouldn’t continue the effort. Maybe since I’ve ignored all of their other attempts, they decided they needed to switch directions.

Received: from cantv.net (rs20s9.datacenter.cha.cantv.net [200.109.127.76])
by rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/3.0) with ESMTP id n5F10Xop008234;
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:30:33 -0430
X-Matched-Lists: []
Message-ID: <380-2200961151034534@cantv.net>
Reply-To: mrs_rmtins@cantv.net
X-ORIGINATOR-IP: 41.207.195.249
From: “mrs_rmtins@cantv.net” <mrs_rmtins@cantv.net>
To: mrs_rmtins@cantv.net
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:30:34 -0430
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at rs26s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net
X-Virus-Status: Clean
Received-SPF: pass (domain of mrs_rmtins@cantv.net designates 200.11.173.12 as permitted sender)
X-XWall-Bayes: 50
X-XWall-Heuristic: 63
Subject: =?us-ascii?Q?Re=2DCharity=20Donation=20From=20Mrs=2EGloria=20Goci=28Seed?=
=?us-ascii?Q?=20of=20Faith=29=20=5Bfaked=2Dfrom=5D?=
Precedence: bulk
X-ME-Bayesian: 0.000000
Return-Path: <>
X-Read: 1

Re- Accept My Charity Donation(Seed of Faith)

Beloved In Christ,

Greetings in name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am Mrs Gloria Goci ,69 years old widow & a new Christian convert,suffering from long time cancer of the blood (Leukaemia According to my doctor my condition  is critical  and I might  not  survive.

Although as a christian,I beleive God and I know that I will not die,but will live to declare the glory of God. My late husband (Dr.Hugo Goci )and  my only son were killed during the (ABIDJAN- BOUAKE) Crisis some years back(take a look)

http://news.bbc.c o.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3993265.stm
http://news.bbc.c o.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3995429.stm

Our Lord Jesus Christ is my only comforter.

I have the sum of Two million ,Eight  hundred thousand US Dollars($2.8m) The fund is presently deposited with a financial company for security reasons and all the documents concerning the fund are in the custody of my lawyer.

I inherited the money from my late husband who was an industralist and international businessman. I have prayed concerning this donation for God‘s guidance and if in your heart you geniunely and faithfully desire-to use this fund for the propagation of God‘s work in any form whether for charity, ministry evangelical work,building a Clinic, school, orphanage, library and drilling of water for the orphans, local community, widows, Old Aged, and people living with HIV AIDS who can not afford to pay for health, school and foodstuff or otherwise in relation to God‘s work,do get in -touch with me for further arrangements with my lawyer on how you will receive my Charity donation.

God bless you once again and as you receive,give and give God all the Glory.

‘My obligation is to do the right thing, the rest is in God‘s hands‘

* One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life. Psalms 27:4, 8-9

Remain blessed in  the Lord
Yours in Christ,
Mrs. Gloria Goci (mrsgloriag@gmail.com)

I’m  not sure how this one would work, they must try to get something out of you if/when you attempt to contact them. If you get this e-mail or any variation of it, It-Is-A-Scam. Do not reply to them. Delete it and go on with your day.

Oh, and have a good one of those, days that is. :-)

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Another Spammer Mail

May 20, 2009 by Robert Owen  
Filed under Email Scam, Support, Virus

Here’s another variation on that silly, “We’ve got some money for you” e-mail scam. Oh and, FYI, the spelling errors are the Spammer’s not mine. Obviously spammers cannot afford spell checkers.

This is a scam!  If you get this, delete it.  After making fun of it of course.

ATTENTION
THIS IS TO ALERT YOU THAT THE POLICE HAVE GOT THOSE THAT EXTORT MONEY FROM YOU IN AFRICA WE ARE ABLE TO GET YOUR EMAIL THROUGH ONE OF THE CRIMINAL .
THE GOVERNIOR OF THIS COUNTRY MR NELSON BEN ARE REWARDING YOU THE SUM OF $2.5 MILLION DOLLARS AND IT HAS BEEN DEPSOITED TO WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER UNDER THE CUSTODY OF MR DON BRIGHT .

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO CONTACT HIM WITH THIS. YOUR RECEIVER NAME .YOUR COUNTRY ..YOUR TELEHPONE NUMBER ..YOUR TEST QUESTION .. AND ANWSER ASK HIM FOR YOUR MTCN TO PICK UP YOUR FUND AT WESTERN UNION
HERE IS HIS CONTACT INFOR EMAIL (westernnuion_mtransfer@yahoo.com.hk)TELEPHONE +229-97-91-75-77 NAME MR DON BRIGHT .

BE INFORMED THAT HE WILL REQUIRED $105 DOLLARS FROM YOU TO ENABLE HIM TO BEEN REMMITING YOUR FUND AT THE RATE OF $5000 PER DAY TO YOU UNTILL YOU HAVE YOUR WHOLE MONEY AS THE DEMAND OF WESTERN UNION WORLD WIDE .

YOURS SINCERLY
MR kenneth tom

Remember, the delete key is your friend in this instance.

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