Scambusters, Preventing Internet Scams & Phishing Attempts

This blog is dedicated to help preventing internet fraud and internet scams. Scambusters was a radio show I started in Albany Oregon, but due to defaulted payment by the radio station we took the show offline. Regardless of this issue we still wish to help prevent internet fraud and save people from internet loss. I have been interviewed and featured in various publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times & Daily News, The London Times & AARP Newsletters. Please watch this blog for latest tips and tricks and scams to avoid.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Email Scam from Peter Wong mr_peter14@hotmail.com

Blah! What an awful attempt at a scam. I guess this is the lazy man's scam
email.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Peter T S Wong [mailto:peter@wongts.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:22 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Greetings

My name is Mr.Peter T S Wong i am the director of operation in Hang Seng
Bank
Hong Kong.I have a business proposal($125,750,000.00 Million)Please
contact my private E Mail:(mr_peter14@hotmail.com)I will give your more
information on how we would handle this project.

Keywords: Nigerian Scam, email scam, phishing scam, money scam, fraud,
internet fraud.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Another Microsoft Bogus Email Lotter Scam

Another twist on the Microsoft Lottery Scam (see blog post prior to this one). This one is especially silly as they say they are from Microsoft Corporation, but to reply you need to email a Yahoo Account.

If I won an email lottery, why don't they know my email address?

Do they not read the news.. the MS buyout of Yahoo did not happen, it is not the same company, so MS employees do NOT have Yahoo email addresses.
----------

Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Wrights Lane,
Kensington London W85SP,
England UNITED KINGDOM
FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU


OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held this may 2008,in London UK.

Where in your email address emerged as one of the online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of £650.000.00 (six Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds sterling) Our winners are arranged into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly in each category. They are arranged in this format below:

These are your identification numbers:MCS-26799/097

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 2 £ 850,000.00 pounds each
2nd. 8 £ 650.000.00 pounds each
3rd. 13 £ 250,000.00 pounds each
4th. 27 £ 170,000.00 pounds each

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released with the following particulars attached to it.

(1) Award numbers: NL 56/7766
(2) Email ticket numbers: EAASL-130877
(3) Batch numbers: MC11/834/8PDH /EU
(4) The file reference numbers: HL/5574/41/07/MICS {5} Serial Numbers: McST/006/NL46560

For verification purpose be sure to include note that you ar to include all the data below when contacting the payment transfer manager,
(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
{4} Your Full Names.
(5) Occupation.
(6) Your Preffered Method Of Receiving Your Price(From Below)

Mode Of Price Remittance.

(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to Uk Personally to Pick Your Price).

(2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other Winning Documents safely to you.

To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this winning notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine working days of winning notification are termed void and invalid. You are required to mention the above particulars of your award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your winning.

CONTACT:

FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
MR BROWNIE JAMES.
MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
MOBILE +44 704 576 5467
E-mail:browniejames@yahoo.com
The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies.
The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies. The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Sincerely,
MRS. JUNE WALTER.
M.S.PRO. ZONAL COORDINATOR.

Twist on Yahoo & Microsoft Email Lottery Scam

What worries me more about this twist on one of the older web scams is the email / domain goes back to someone in the USA. The owner of the email / site is

Domain Name.......... micro-xp-promo.com
Creation Date........ 2008-02-04
Registration Date.... 2008-02-04
Expiry Date.......... 2009-02-04
Organisation Name.... Isak Lamberg
Organisation Address. 175 Willis Avenue, apt 16A
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. Bronx
Organisation Address. 10454
Organisation Address. NY
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES


The email award scam I think is the oldest known scam, been around forever with many twists. The rule is simple, not now, not ever, not in a billion years will Microsoft and/or Yahoo or other company give away money in this fashion. They don't have lotteries, they don't have prizes like this.

Avoid this email scam at all cost. You will lose money, no doubt, 100% of the time they will ask you for money for taxes or transfer fees etc.. and you wire the money and lose your money. This one even invites you to fly to the UK to get your money… sad.

---------scam email below----

Yahoo&Microsoft Lottery Incorporation
7 Prauge Palace.Brixton Hill
London SWZ SED.
REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L
Batch: Mcs/989/989/#34


The prestigious Microsoft and Yahoo has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking the new year 2008 anniversary, we rolled out over 4,500,000.00 (Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) for our end of year the Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

You have been approved for lump sums pay out of ?450,000.00 GBP (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) in cash Credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. Selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage our prominent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and for the Continuous use of E-mail.

Your fund (Certified Cashiers Cheque) has been insured with your REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your prize to you.

Mr. Andreas Georgetown.
Email: ag.andreas@micro-xp-promo.com
Foreign Transfer Manager.
Yahoo&Microsoft Lottery Incorporation

You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and

complications:

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.

1. FULL NAMES:
2. ADDRESS:
3. SEX:
4. AGE:
5. MARITAL STATUS:
6. OCCUPATION:
7. COMPANY NAME:
8. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
9. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
10.STATE:
11.COUNTRY:
12.YOUR PREFERRED METHOD OF RECEIVING YOUR PRIZE (From Below)


Mode Of Prize Remittance.

(1) Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to United Kingdom Personally to Pick Your Prize).

(2) Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other Winning Documents safely to you.


NOTE: Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your Prize is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification

that may arise from double claim.


Congratulations.

Halam Scott
ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.

Nigerian Scam FedEx Courier Service / Fraud - Fake - Email

Being a FedEx Drop Off does not make this any sillier, it is an insane attempt at a very badly written scam.

My favorite parts of this scam..

1. Clearly states it is from Nigeria, so a big scam right off the bat.
2. Says they are from "Wes Africa" (sounds like a good movie star name)
3. Says they are from FedEx but wants you to email rsingh.01@hotmail.com
4. Email was sent by bukvic76@024wifi.net
5. They said we are a client, but they don't know our name??? WTH?

Oh well, a bad scam, but yet someone will answer and believe it is real, at least you won't.

-----

FEDEX COURIER SERVICE.
Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
TEL...+234-7033325610
Date..16/05/2008
Customers Service Hours--Monday to Saturday:
Office Hours Monday to Saturday:

Attention,Attention,Attention,

FedEx provides access to a growing global market place through a network of supply chain, transportation, and business and related information services.

The FedEx courier Service Company is hereby passing an essential message to all our valuable customers to be very careful while presenting their Receivers/Residential Address to avoid wrong delivery. I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars which i promised you, but I did not hear from you since that time. Then I went and deposited the Draft with FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, Wes Africa, I will travell out of the country for a Month Course and I will not come back till end of july.

What you have to do now is to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country.

The only money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE to deliver your Draft direct to your postal Address in your country is ($180.00 US) Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far. Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $180.00US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of demurrage. You have to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow;

Contact Person: Mr. Michael Thomas
Email Address:fedexcourier_dept011@hotmail.com
Telephone:+(234) 7033325610

CONTACT INFORMATION
YOUR FULL NAME:YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS:YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address() and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $180.00 US Dollars for their immediate action. You should also let me know through email as soon as you receive your Draft.

Yours Faithfully,
DANIEL FULLER

nigerian scam, nigerian fraud, email fraud, email scam, fedex scam, fedex fraud, money fraud.

Scam Email / Fake: Notice From Department of the Treasury

Scam Email / Fake: Notice From Department of the Treasury, received today 5/16. Senior are especially vulnerable to IRS scams.

There are so many things wrong with this email to make it obvious that it is a scam, the first one is that the IRS does not email you regarding a refund or claims, you will be contacted by a letter.

Also a 501(c) (3) is not a "refundable issue" but a charity non-profit category for a business / company. You don't get a refund under any section of501(c) (3)

Other obvious facts..

1. Bad Spelling (he maner of section; and the realtionship) to name only two.
2. The fact the email was sent from "thecollegehotel.com" in Amsterdam Holland
3. That the link (removed) takes you to a website called "indopreneur" with a copy of the IRS site. This site is very dangerous as it asks for your SS# as well as Credit Card Number and CVV and your PIN Code. Can red flags be any redder?
4. There is a 4 and a 5 and 6 but why bother, this is enough, totally clear… what a fake!

--- scam email below--- links removed ----

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity
we have determined that you are eligible to receive
a tax refund under section 501(c) (3) of the
Internal Revenue Code. Tax refund value is $189.60.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days
in order to IWP the data received.
If u don't receive your refund within 9 business
days from the original IRS mailing date shown,
you can start a refund trace online.

If you distribute funds to other organization, your records must show wether
they are exempt under section 497 (c) (15). In cases where the recipient org.
is not exempt under section 497 (c) (15), you must have evidence the funds will
be used for section 497 (c) (15) purposes.

If you distribute fund to individuals, you should keep case histories showing
the recipient's name and address; the purpose of the award; the maner of
section; and the realtionship of the recipient to any of your officers, directors,
trustees, members, or major contributors.

To access the form for your tax refund, please (click here removed)


This notification has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service,
a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.

Sincerely Yours,

John Stewart
Director, Exempt. Organization
Rulings and Agreements Letter
Internal Revenue Service

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Nigerian Scam > law.frankdean@hotmail.com >: Keep Me Informed

A clear and common scam, maybe a bit better written then most, but still clearly and 100% a true scam. Regardless there are still clear typos and context issues that would scream out to everyone that this email is not written by an attorney.

Please remember people, there is no free money out there, avoid these scams.

From: Frank Dean [mailto:barrbrown4577@bigmir.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:33 PM
Subject: Keep Me Informed

Dean & William Chambers,
ATTORNEY, SOLICITORS, ADVOCATES,
LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES.
Branch office 34 Queen Charlotte Street
Bristol BS1 4HJ United Kingdom
__________________________
Email: law.frankdean@hotmail.com
Tell: +447035904370

Greetings my dear friend,

How are you today?I have long expected a responds from you considering my earlier email to your personality before this last one, Please my dear friend I know this email has come to you again as a surprise, considering that we don't know each other and I must apologize for any embarrassment this might cause you.i got your contact on the email directory, but I took some factors into consideration before arriving at the decision to contact you which you will find out as you read on.

First of all let me introduce myself, my name is Barr. Frank Dean from london, the personal lawyer to Late Mrs. Juliet wilford,my self is married to my dear wife Mrs.Claire Dean and am blessed with two good-looking kids (Maryann and George dean)also i am an attorney at law with an International accredited law Firm Based in London( Dean & William Chambers Ltd).My service covers individuals, corporate bodies and institutions.

I confidently wish to engage in a trustworthy interest with you.On the 21st of April 1998, my late client Mrs.Juliet Wilford who declared her individuality to be a National of your Country as a result of decision was involved in a car accident and unfortunately for her she lost her valued life.she lived most of her lifetime and was resident in London before her demise, due she was not married.

My Late client had an account with a bank in UK valued about 4.5million Pounds sterling. Presently the Finance Vault (Bank) management has issued me as the personal attorney to the deceased with a notice to contact the relatives to come up for the claim of the money left behind by the late sister hence it has been a long time their sister died and Consequently after some years if no next of kin come up for the claim the account will be declared sequester and the fund diverted to the Bank Treasury Department as unclaimed inheritance.

I have been unsuccessful in my numerous efforts to search out anyone related to my late client,all has proved abortive and since i have been the personal lawyer to late Juliet spanning for a period of fifteen years, according to my late client, she told me she was raised up from an orphanage home, having been abandoned by her mother at birth.With this regard nowadays, I am urgently in need of a trustworthy individual from your country to present to the bank as the late client distant relative which the inheritance funds will be transferred to without any further Inconveniences hence the reason for contacting you .though the deceased client declared her individuality to be a National of your Country as a result of decision.

My dear good friend unfortunately the deceased left no record of any relative in my file, this entitles the claim as a relative and under the existing law here the Surviving relatives of the deceased by extension of family lineage becomes the benefactor which to the best of every knowledge is non-existing considering her background as an orphan and the management of the Bank insisted they will only release the fund to the deceased relatives by extension of family lineage.

I wish to solicit for your co-operation in assisting secure the fund by permitting me to present you to the bank and the proceed of this money can be transferred into your nominated account without no further delay, subsequently to be shared among us only on your acceptance to be honest and trustworthy. I am very very optimistic that it would workout if you follow my directives, which I will brief you upon your response.

Furthermore, all i require is your honesty and Confidentiality in co-operating and the transaction will excel. I Swear and guarantee that this will be executed through a genuine/officially recognized arrangement. I must inform and assure you that there is practically no risk involved in this transaction; It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer so as to avoid any travel costs. The transaction in question is legitimate, all the Legal documents to back up your Claim as my late Client's distant relative as the personal lawyer to the deceased i shall provide them. If this business Proposition offends your Moral Ethics, please do accept my sincere apology, thus it is our genuine opportunity to make money. I Swear and Guarantee that all will be well after every thing.

I look forward to hearing from you immediately,PLEASE ENSURE YOU REPLY ME ON MY FOLLOWING PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS: law.frankdean@hotmail.com

Regards,

Barr.Frank Dean
+447035904370
PLEASE ENSURE YOU REPLY TO: law.frankdean@hotmail.com

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Fake Microsoft Sweepsakes Scam > YOU HAVE WON 650,000 POUNDS!!!

Funny, Microsoft located in Washington USA, has a UK Sweepstakes and you
have to email browniejames@yahoo.com a Yahoo.com person. Come on people,
make it even slightly believable!

The scam part will of course be that you either need to wire money for the
taxes or they will send you a fake check to deposit and wire the taxes back
to them so they can send you the balance of the money. Once the check
bounces you are out 100% of the funds.

-----Original Message-----
From: MRS STEVE WALTER. [mailto:browniejames@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 8:51 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS……YOU HAVE WON 650,000 POUNDS!!!

Microsoft Corporations:
Customer Service
Wrights Lane,
Kensington London W85SP,
England UNITED KINGDOM
FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS
BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU


OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION.

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but
please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your
success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail
electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft, in conjunction with
the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.) held this
may 2008,in London UK.

Where in your email address emerged as one of the online Winning emails
in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of £650.000.00
(six Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds sterling) Our winners are arranged
into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly in each
category. They are arranged in this format below:

These are your identification numbers:MCS-26799/097

CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
1st. 2 £ 850,000.00 pounds each
2nd. 8 £ 650.000.00 pounds each
3rd. 13 £ 250,000.00 pounds each
4th. 27 £ 170,000.00 pounds each

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to
contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for
more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual
payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note that your award information was released with the
following particulars attached to it.

(1) Award numbers: NL 56/7766
(2) Email ticket numbers: EAASL-130877
(3) Batch numbers: MC11/834/8PDH /EU
(4) The file reference numbers: HL/5574/41/07/MICS
{5} Serial Numbers: McST/006/NL46560

For verification purpose be sure to include
note that you ar to include all the data below when contacting the payment
transfer manager,
(1) Your contact address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
{4} Your Full Names.
(5) Occupation.
(6) Your Preffered Method Of Receiving Your Price(From Below)

Mode Of Price Remittance.

(1)Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to Uk Personally to Pick Your Price).

(2)Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other
Winning Documents safely to you.

To file for your claim, Please contact your Validating Officer for
VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this winning
notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine working
days of winning notification are termed void and invalid. You are
required to mention the above particulars of your
award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your winning.

CONTACT:

FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
MR BROWNIE JAMES.
MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT (UK).
MOBILE +44 704 576 5467
E-mail:browniejames@yahoo.com
The Microsoft Internet E-mail lottery Awards is sponsored by our
CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates and a consortium of software promotion companies.
The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International
Companies. The Microsoft internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is
organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer
literacy worldwide.

Once again on behalf of all our staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!

Sincerely,
MRS. JUNE WALTER.
M.S.PRO. ZONAL COORDINATOR.

Friday, May 09, 2008

SCAM Amazon Phish: Amazon Marketplace Items Canceled

Not a bad phish except for the bad design or execution.  The links actually take you to a fake Amazon site in Russia and asks for your login.  Once they have your Amazon login, they can then order items using your credit card, and ship it to people in the USA who they have already set as “reshippers” (another scam) and then pack the items up and send them overseas to the scammers who can then resell the items.

 

From: Amazon Marketplace [mailto:marketplace-messages@amazon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: Amazon Marketplace Items Canceled

 

 Dear member,

Per your request,your listings for the following items in the Amazon Marketplace have been canceled.  You were assessed no fees.

http://amazon.co.uk/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/1EQ82B2KMQGBMVR891F3 (actual link removed)

Your items no longer appear in the Amazon catalog, and cannot be purchased. You can review the details of your cancelled listings, including the price, condition, and seller comments for each individual listing.

Thanks for listing your items with Amazon Marketplace. We wish you the best of luck with your future sales.

Amazon Marketplace -- Amazon Services Inc.
Sell Your Stuff
http://www.amazon.co.uk/marketplace (actual link removed)

Royal PITA Scammers = Green Tree (Warehousing) Ltd.

I have never been so frustrated with a company that scams people more than I am with Green Tree (Warehousing) Ltd. This company (if they are indeed a company) are brutal, they have spammed my mailbox with over 84 emails in the last 3-weeks trying to get me to "Take a job" which is clearly and obviously a well documented scam.

They even have a bogus website that makes them seem legit. It is scams like this that is most dangerous as they make it seem real, authentic and most scary... profitable.

They can easily trap people because of their website, the fact they talk about business meetings, advancement, management positions and more "biz" concepts. Their website is of fair quality and can easily confuse people into being ripped off.

Their website has changed domain names / urls about 4 times in the last two months because their hosts keep shutting them down, for now they are at greentwld.net. Please feel free to view their garbage while they are still online, but please do not fall for this complete scam / rip off.

Their domains move so fast it is hard to find out who is behind these sites, the whois is only showing reserved for now... but by the time you read this, more info may be available.

Their scam is common, you receive a payment, deposit it, wire the money less your commission and then you wait for your bank to tell you the checks / payments are fake.

You will be on the hook for 100% of the payment to your bank which could easily be in the 10's of thousands.


Nigerian Bank Scam > FW: From:Mr. Austin Jacob.

I would really think that this type of scam would stop, because I would believe that people would be bright enough to not fall for this scam. If people never fall for it, then the scammers won’t keep sending these garbage emails. I have not even bothered to read the whole scam as the text is redundant, they are all the same garbage. I can see that this one even asks right up front for all your bank information. Very sad, please don’t fall for these scams and help stop others from being ripped off!

From: Mr. Austin Jacobs [mailto:austob255@msn.com]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:45 AM
Subject: From:Mr. Austin Jacob.

From:Mr. Austin Jacob.
Address:8 Mitchley Road Tottenham London N17 9HG
Occupations: External Auditor
Hello,
Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics although, I wish to use this medium to get in touch with you first because it's fastest means.

I am an external auditor of a well known bank here in the United Kingdom.
In one of our peroidic auditing I discorverd a dormant accounts with holding balance of 52,000,000 (Fifty Two Million British Pounds) which has not been operated for the past three years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account, a Foreigner by name Mr.Gregory .B.Wilson died in plane crash in July 19,2003 and since then nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money because he has no family members who are aware of the existence of neither the account nor the funds.

I have secretly discussed this matter with a top senior minister official of the federal ministry of finance here and we have agreed to find a reliable foreign partner to deal with us although due to his possition he did not want to take active part but as soon as you follow my instructions everything will be successfull because we will be woking hand in hand with him. We thus propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and after due legal processes have been followed the fund will be released to your account without delay and we will use it for investment and to assist the less privelaged in the society because if we left the fund with the government it will be fortified for nothing and will be used to suppress the poor masses in the society.

This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.Finally, I will give you 35% for your coporation,5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during this process. On receipt of your response I will furnish you with detailed clarification as it relates to this mutual benefit transaction.
You should send me Your account information as states below where you like the money to be transfer so that i can
send application for the release of the fund immediatelly with your account information.Even an empty account is
ok.

Bank Name..............
Bank Address...........
Beneficiary Name.......
Account Number.........
Swift Code.............
Your Tel/Fax Number....
Routing Number.........
State & Country........

I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible if you are interested.
Regards,
Mr. Austin Jacob.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

SCAM sgt_brooks7@yahoo.com IRAQ Funds > FW: Sgt. Brooks Fitte

Sad try, using the guise of a US Soldier and the war to scam people out of funds.. a total scam, please don’t fall for this phising scam.

From: SGTBROOKS@USARMY.MIL [mailto:sgt_brooks7@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:36 AM
To: sgt_brooks7@yahoo.com

Subject: Sgt. Brooks Fitt

FROM: Sgt. Brooks Fitte .

Important Message.

My name is Brooks Fitte , I am an American soldier, I am serving in the military of the 1st Armored Division in Iraq, As you know we are being attacked by insurgents everyday and car bombs.We managed to move funds belonging to Saddam Hussien's family.

The total amount is US$25 Million dollars in cash, mostly 100 dollar bills. We want to move this money to you, so that you may invest it for us and keep our share for banking.We will take 50%, my partner and I. You take the other 50%. no strings attached, just help us move it out of Iraq, Iraq is a warzone.

We plan on using diplomatic courier and shipping the money out in one large silver box, using diplomatic immunity.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 including your most confidential telephone/fax numbers for quick communication also your contact details.

This business is risk free.

Respectfully,

Sgt. Brooks Fitte


Sunday, May 04, 2008

Nigerian Scam Dr. Anthony Ekpo

Not as bad as some, only asking $195 courier fee, which sadly is a low
enough amount that I am fairly certain a few hundred people will fall for
and will be short $200 this week. What can make it worse is that
"additional fees" may show up to scam more money out of those who will
already fall for this email scam.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Anthony Ekpo [mailto:ekpo2008@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:42 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: *****SPAM***** YOUR PAYMENT UPDATES.

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE,VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS-NIGERIA


From the Desk Of Deputy Governor
Central Bank of Nigeria. (CBN)

Attention: Hon. Contractor.

Congratulation your fund has been finally approved for immediate payment.

We have received a payment credit instruction from the federal Government
of Nigeria to credit your account with your full contract funds from the
Nigerian reserve account with our bank.

This is to notify you that your funds has been programmed for immediate
release into your nominated account but we can not transfer this funds
direct to your nominated bank account, because we are having a little
problem with International Monetary Fund (IMF) so our method of payment is
by Diplomatic Courier Service which means your payment will be issued by
DRAFT.

Be inform that every arrangement regarding your cash payment through DRAFT
has been made. Note that as soon as your DRAFT arrives your Country, you
are to pick-it up in our Embassy or High commission in your country.
I want you to send your direct mobile phone and your international
passport for identification at the Embassy or High commission in your
country to me immediately, so that as soon as the DRAFT arrive in your
country they will call you immediately to notify you.

The expenses you will have to incurr is the Diplomatic courier fee which
is a secured way of securing your DRAFT from being lost on transit which
$195 dollars only and note that the copy of the DRAFT will be sent to you
via email attachment for your confirmation