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.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Dear Beneficiary, ARE YOU DEAD OR ALIVE ? CONFIRMATION OF YOUR FUND TRANSFER
Marlow International,
Parkway, Buckinghamshire.
SL7 1AJ, UK
Tel: +447024019496; Fax: +447092985893
Our Ref: UK/fdpb/2012/01
Dear Beneficiary,
RE: PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOU ARE DEAD OR ALIVE ? YOUR FUND TRANSFER TO BE RELEASED.
In the course of our General Auditing and Account revision of this quarter of the year 2012, we discovered that the Bank Accounts belonging to some Beneficiaries have been changed on the basis that the owners have DIED IN TESTATE (without leaving a WILL) some time last year or have given out an authorization note of change of data.
After the investigations however, it was revealed that there are Foreigners who are collaborating with Retired or former Staff to make these changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide Beneficiaries and there is one traced to your data been changed to one MR. DAVID BROWN of GLOBAL OIL & GAS SERVICES (UK) who said you are dead, hence they have forwarded a DEAD CERTIFICATE bearing your name so as to divert your funds, IT WAS STATED THAT YOU DIED OF HEART FAILURE.
They have also forwarded the bank account below as the new account that will receive this fund / money.
Bank: Bank of China
Bank Address: Des Veoux Road , Central - Hong Kong
Account Name: Global Oil & Gas Services, UK
Account Number: 113-685174-667
Bank Code: 024
Swift Code: HASEHKHH
But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and decided to write to your email address for confirmation, which after 48 hours from today and there is no response, we shall then carry out payment in their favour.
If proved otherwise by you that you did not die, please forward to us all your related details including your full names, direct telephone numbers, contact address, copy of your ID and also details of your payment. These details from you will help to assist us reach a conclusion that you are not dead and that the fund in question belongs to you.
Anything contrary to this claim will help us charge this man and his partners to court and prosecute them while your fund will be paid to you immediately without any further delay. You have to get back to us on time for us to commence legal proceedings against Mr. David Brown Jones and his associates.
You have 24-48hours to respond to this message or else we carry out payment in their favour as the fund has been programmed for payment this week.
Thanks,
Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Picard Marc Roger
(Int'l Payment Director)
Thursday, January 24, 2013
This Is Our Last Notice To You.
This Is Our Last Notice To You.
We wish to notify you again that you were listed as a beneficiary to the total sum of US$18,500,000.00 Dollars in the intent of the deceased (name now withheld since this is our second letter to you).
We contacted you because you bear the surname identity and therefore can present you as the beneficiary to the inheritance since there is no written will. Our legal services aim to provide our private clients with a complete service. We are happy to prepare Wills, set-up and administer Trusts, carry out the Administration Of Estates and prepare and administer Powers Of Attorney.
All the papers will be processed in your acceptance. In your acceptance of this deal, we request that you kindly forward to us your letter of acceptance, your current telephone and fax numbers and a forwarding address to enable us file necessary documents at our high court probate division for the release of this sum of money in your favour.
Email Address:alfonso_cortez1@aol.com
Yours faithfully,
Mr Alfonso Cortez
Saturday, January 19, 2013
CONFIDENTIAL.....
130 Tonbridge Road
Hildenborough Tonbridge
Kent TN11 9DZ
ATTN:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: READ AND DIGEST:
I am Mr. John Fisher, I work as the Fund Executive Manager with Fidelity Investment UK, the world leading Investment & Fund Management Institution based in UK/Channel Island.
I have an investor under my portfolio with a closing balance of Forty Two Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand Dollars ($42.870m), as his first initial deposit. This investor died three years ago leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for Re-transfer of his investment and its proceeds to the NEXT OF KIN.I have personally carried out an investigation on the subject matter that took me 12 months to finalize and was made to understand that the family or relatives of the investor knows nothing about his investment with fidelity and none have any records of all his deposits and investment with us, there by creating an avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.
If you are interested I can present you as the NEXT OF KIN with proper documentation that will qualify you to have the funds claimed and on doing this, our establishment will not question the release of the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with the banking laws and ethics of claiming the investment in our establishment.
Our sharing ratio will be 50:50. Please contact me for more details if interested.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
Sincerely.
Mr. John Fisher.
Executive Manager.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Dear Beneficiary, ARE YOU DEAD OR ALIVE ? CONFIRMATION OF YOUR FUND TRANSFER
Marlow International,
Parkway, Buckinghamshire.
SL7 1AJ, UK
Tel: +447024019496; Fax: +447092985893
Our Ref: UK/fdpb/2012/01
Dear Beneficiary,
RE: PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOU ARE DEAD OR ALIVE ? YOUR FUND TRANSFER TO BE RELEASED.
In the course of our General Auditing and Account revision of this quarter of the year 2012, we discovered that the Bank Accounts belonging to some Beneficiaries have been changed on the basis that the owners have DIED IN TESTATE (without leaving a WILL) some time last year or have given out an authorization note of change of data.
After the investigations however, it was revealed that there are Foreigners who are collaborating with Retired or former Staff to make these changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide Beneficiaries and there is one traced to your data been changed to one MR. DAVID BROWN of GLOBAL OIL & GAS SERVICES (UK) who said you are dead, hence they have forwarded a DEAD CERTIFICATE bearing your name so as to divert your funds, IT WAS STATED THAT YOU DIED OF HEART FAILURE.
They have also forwarded the bank account below as the new account that will receive this fund / money.
Bank: Bank of China
Bank Address: Des Veoux Road , Central - Hong Kong
Account Name: Global Oil & Gas Services, UK
Account Number: 113-685174-667
Bank Code: 024
Swift Code: HASEHKHH
But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and decided to write to your email address for confirmation, which after 48 hours from today and there is no response, we shall then carry out payment in their favour.
If proved otherwise by you that you did not die, please forward to us all your related details including your full names, direct telephone numbers, contact address, copy of your ID and also details of your payment. These details from you will help to assist us reach a conclusion that you are not dead and that the fund in question belongs to you.
Anything contrary to this claim will help us charge this man and his partners to court and prosecute them while your fund will be paid to you immediately without any further delay. You have to get back to us on time for us to commence legal proceedings against Mr. David Brown Jones and his associates.
You have 24-48hours to respond to this message or else we carry out payment in their favour as the fund has been programmed for payment this week.
Thanks,
Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Picard Marc Roger
(Int'l Payment Director)
Saturday, December 29, 2012
CONFIDENTIAL.....
130 Tonbridge Road
Hildenborough Tonbridge
Kent TN11 9DZ
ATTN:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: READ AND DIGEST:
I am Mr. John Fisher, I work as the Fund Executive Manager with Fidelity Investment UK, the world leading Investment & Fund Management Institution based in UK/Channel Island.
I have an investor under my portfolio with a closing balance of Forty Two Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand Dollars ($42.870m), as his first initial deposit. This investor died three years ago leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for Re-transfer of his investment and its proceeds to the NEXT OF KIN.I have personally carried out an investigation on the subject matter that took me 12 months to finalize and was made to understand that the family or relatives of the investor knows nothing about his investment with fidelity and none have any records of all his deposits and investment with us, there by creating an avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.
If you are interested I can present you as the NEXT OF KIN with proper documentation that will qualify you to have the funds claimed and on doing this, our establishment will not question the release of the funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with the banking laws and ethics of claiming the investment in our establishment.
Our sharing ratio will be 50:50. Please contact me for more details if interested.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
Sincerely.
Mr. John Fisher.
Executive Manager.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Urgent Attention
I'll send you details of the proposal if you are interested and any other requirements you desire to confirm the authenticity of this proposal.
Sincerely,
Hussain Biyari
Sunday, December 02, 2012
CONFIDENTIAL...
130 Tonbridge Road
Hildenborough Tonbridge
Kent TN11 9DZ
I am Mr John Fisher,I work as the Fund Executive Manager with Fidelity Investment UK, the world leading Investment & Fund
Management Institution based in UK/Channel Island.
I have an investor under my portfolio with a closing balance of Forty Two Million, Eight Hundred and Seventy Thousand Dollars
($42.870m), as his first initial deposit.This investor died three years ago leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for Re-transfer
of his investment and its proceeds to the NEXT OF KIN.I have personally carried out an investigation on the subject matter
that took me 12 months to finalize and was made to understand that the family or relatives of the investor knows nothing
about his investment with fidelity and none have any records of all his deposits and investment with us,there by creating an
avenue for claiming of the said funds with its accrued interest on presentation of a trustworthy person that can stand as the
NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.
If you are interested i can present you as the NEXT OF KIN with proper documentation that will qualify you to have the funds
claimed and on doing this,our establishment will not question the release of the funds to you as i will make sure that we
comply with the banking laws and ethics of claiming the investment in our establishment.
Our sharing ratio will be 50:50.Please contact me for more details if interested.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
Sincerely.
Mr. John Fisher.
Executive Manager
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Urgent Information
My name is Mr. Sven Brustner. I work in a bank in the United
Kingdom. I will need your assistance in a very urgent business transaction.
I would need your assistance in applying for the next of kin to my Late
customer, who died of a kidney failure after years of struggling with the
disease.
He was a wealthy Business man who deposited a huge amount in our bank.
He died without any registered next of kin as he was a divorcee and had no
child. On your confirmation of this message and indicating your interest, I
will furnish you with more details. I was moved to do something about this
and urgently transfer this fund out of my bank as my bank is planning to move the fund
to a Redundant Funds Foundation where it will be misapplied into arms production and
funding Crude Oil bunkering in Africa. Note that I am in full control of the account and
all instruments that we may need to perfect the complete transfer of the funds into your bank account.
All I need is your full co-operation.
Please endeavor to provide me the following in your reply:
1. Your Full Name:
2.Your Contact Address:
3.Your Profession:
4.Your Age:
5.Your Phone:
I urgently hope to get your response via sa_fco@yahoo.com.
You may also call me directly on tel. no. +44 7924012845
Yours Sincerely,
Sven Brustner.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Paul the Car $$$ Scammer via Fake PayPal = jballx3@gmail.com = Common.
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I just checked my PayPal account and I don't see a payment there.... I double checked the account and don't see an attempt at any transaction there. Why is PayPal not showing the transaction?
THAT IS HOW THEY USE TO CONTACT ME AS WELL..SO KINDLY EMAIL THEM
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Craig Solomon invited you to Dropbox
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Fwd: Vacancies available - id - (Y90667460919)..
From: gay abela <abela1kr6d@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:32 PM
Subject: Vacancies available - id - (Y90667460919)..
To: "houseonahill@aol.com" <houseonahill@aol.com>
Cc: "craig.solomon@gmail.com" <craig.solomon@gmail.com>
Company offering a vacancy.
Opened vacancy (job) at USAFORWARDING Co. With 3-4 working hours per day you can earn up to 3200$ per month in our company, job positions are opened at the moment.
Brief job position info: 1. Company is located in US 2. Signing of contract is necessary 3. No fee required from you 4. High monthly salary.
We will be waiting for your reply.
Regards
Website Wellness "Be Remarkable"
Monday, February 06, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Angela Dawes Euro Millions Jackpot Lottery Scam
Please start following Scambusters on our new site at http://craigsolomon.com/blog/
Well of course, how silly of me, someone I don't know is willing to send me £1mil just because I am one heck of a nice guy. Of course the email is to "unknown" but I still feel special right?
Hello There!
This is a personal email directed to you. My wife and I won an Euro Millions Jackpot Lottery of £101m million (Pounds) on October 11, 2011 and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of £1,000,000.00 Pounds to you as part of our own charity project to improve the lot of 20 lucky individuals all over the world.
If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get back to us so that we can send your details to the payout bank.
You can verify this by visiting the web page below;
>>> Links removed!
Regards
Dave and Angela Dawes
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Website Wellness "Be Remarkable"
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
We're moving soon...
Website Wellness "Be Remarkable"
Monday, October 17, 2011
CL Craigslist iPad Scam > Harold Bates
From: Harold Bates <knightonaaw@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: Programmer Needed ASAP for PHP / MySQL Linux Project (Albany OR)
Dear Cl User,
My name is Harold Bates, Chief executive officer of Craigslist. We have recently partnered up with Apple for a one-time promotional event today, we are giving away complimentary Apple iPhones and iPads to randomly selected individuals who have published an ad on C-list. You have been chosen as one of our latest winners for today. We randomly select numbers to match up with ads on Craigslist and your ad matched with our latest drawing.
We have partnered up with Apple to advertise their most popular product yet, the Apple iPhone and iPad. Once yet again, we are running this campaign for one-day only. All you need to do is CLICK HERE to go to our website made for this promotion and fill out the short survey to get yours for free. Just make sure you enter your email so we may locate our records to ensure that we have reserved one for you. That's it!
Congrats on winning a free Apple iPhone4 and iPad2. In case you have any query or concerns, feel free to email me back. However, you should claim your free iPhone and iPad first to ensure one will be reserved for you before the deadline ends. We do understand that you may well not receive this e-mail until after the deadline, but, we advise you check out the website and enter your email to see if we still have got yours on hold, which we often-times do because others have not claimed theirs in time.
Harold Bates
CEO, C-list
Friday, October 07, 2011
Money Scam > zulusofola@gmx.com > Urgent and very confidencial......
From: Jerry Zulusofola <zulusofola1@yahoo.com>
Date: 2011/10/4
Subject: Urgent and very confidencial......
To:
NEEDING YOUR ASSISTANCE ! ! !
BUDUBURAHAM REFUGEE CAMP, WESTERN REGION.
ACCRA-GHANA
Jerry Zulusofola
I and my younger sister write to seek for your assistance; we got your contact from a noble gentleman that came to our refugee camp who came to give a seminar about AIDS whom we confronted that we are looking for a God-fearing person that is when your data was given to us.
I want to introduce myself to you. My name is Jerry Zulusofola and my younger is Aicha Zulusofola and we are both Sudanese. My consignment contains the sum of 48.5 million United States dollars and some quantity of gold and Diamond, which I cannot be specify. The consignments are presently in the United State. The consignment gets to the State through the help of a U.N diplomat Dr. Newman Desmond. The fact is that Dr. Newman Desmond is supposed to have delivered this consignment trunk boxes to our adopted mother called Miss.Oliver Strongman in the State.
The week Dr. Newman Desmond is suppose to deliver the consignment metallic trunk boxes to her, when he got to the State after clearing the consignment from the Airport, he call Miss.Oliver Strongman to tell him the description to is house for the delivery, but is house keeper answered the call and told Dr.Newman Desmond that her mistress Miss.Oliver Strongman hard a fatal car accident which lead to her death some few hours later. Our mother has already paid the demur-rages from the security company, she paid for Bullion van that took the consignment to the airport and she paid for custom check report she also assisted us in getting the Necessary Document covering the Consignment and Also for the DRUG / ANTI TERRORIST CERTIFICATE, which is so expensive that he spent 75 thousand dollars to acquire it, but unfortunately she died in a car accident, that was why Dr. Newman Desmond has to deposit the consignment with a warehouse over there in State of Utah where our late adopted Go
d mother do reside. And called us
(1) Assist in the banking safely of the said funds
(2) Advise on lucrative areas for investment
(3) Assist in purchase of properties.
(4) Assist us to continue our education and to start a better life over there.
We will need a financial support from you to get every of our legal documents been transfer to your name in the high court of justice Accra Ghana where our consignment trunk boxes is being originated from before getting to the United State before the diplomat can have the legal right to relocate the delivering to you as our new foreign beneficiary. Diplomat Dr. Newman Desmond has instructed us that as soon as we get all the documents being transfer to your name legally from the high court of justice we are to contact him immediately so that he can proceed with the delivering to you as our new foreign beneficiary. If you can render your assistance in this regard, 45% of the total investment sum will be for you, as your commission.
It will be done under a legitimate process so that we will not breach any international or local laws, governing this matter it's a 100% risk free.
I wait in anticipation of your reply and co-operation.
Thanks
E mails me: zulusofola@gmx.com
Thanks and God bless you
Jerry Zulusofola
Cell Phone # +233 20 423 9430
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Goodbye Mr. Jobs...
My most sincere and shortest blog post ever.
"Goodbye Mr. Jobs, you have changed people in ways you will never know."
10/5/2011
Money Scam >: ECOBANK PLC, DEPT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFERm
From: DR. AMATA MICHAEL <test@l3d.nl>
Date: 2011/10/4
Subject: ECOBANK PLC, DEPT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFERm
To:
ECOBANK PLC, DEPT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.
LAGOS NIGERIA/ADDRESS 455 AGBOKOU,ANKPA ROAD OFF
GENERAL GOWON AVENUE VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS.
CALL US ON +2347081358151.
ATTN: Beneficiary,
PLEASE YOU ARE ADVISE TO GO TROUGH THIS EMAIL CAREFULLY AND MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND AND READY TO COMPLY WITH THE CONTENTS BEFORE REPLYING TO IT. WE ARE INSTRUCTED BY JULIUS BERGER MULTI-NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ON THEIR AWARD WINNING TO UNITED STATE, ASIA AND EUROPEAN CITIZEN WHO ARE TO RECEIVE THE BELOW MENTIONED AMOUNT, SO YOUR NAME HAPPEN TO BE IN THE LIST OF BENEFICIARIES. SO YOU WILL BE RECEIVING USD$250,000.00 FROM THIS DEPARTMENT OF ECOBANK (WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER), YOU WILL BE RECEIVING USD$20,000.00 SPLITTED INTO FIVE DAILY ON THE INSTALLMENT OF USD$4,000.00 PER CASHED AT ANY WESTERN UNION OUTLET UNTIL IT COMPLETE THE CORRECT AMOUNT (USD$250,000.00). SO THAT MEANS YOU WILL BE RECEIVING FIVE (5) MTCN NUMBER PER DAY, USD$4,000.00 INTO FIVE THAT'S USD$20,000.00 PER DAY.
MEANWHILE YOU ARE REQUIRE TO BE SENDING US THE TRANSFER CHARGES, THAT IS IF YOU SEND US TRANSFER CHARGES WE WILL RELEASE YOUR INFORMATION TO PICK UP YOUR FUND AND WHEN YOU'VE RECEIVED THE FUND, YOU WILL SEND US THE TRANSFER CHARGES OF NEXT DAY TRANSFER THEN WE RELEASE THE NEXT DAY PICK UP INFORMATION. BECAUSE WE ARE GIVEN ONLY FIFTEEN BUSINESS DAYS (15DAYS) TO GET THE TRANSFER COMPLETED VIA OUR SERVICE AND SUBMIT TRANSFER SLIP TO THEM AT THE END OF THE TRANSFER.
It became imperative to contact you on the subject matter because after the fund has been brought to our office to remit somebody from your country by name Charles Porter contacted us and said you are on sick bed and ordered him to contact us to remit the USD$250,000.00 using his information to pick up your fund presently under our custody for transfer on your behalf.
The Official responsible for the presentation of your money valued USD$250,000.00 Winning quickly granted approvals to their application now waiting for final endorsement from Board of Trustees.
When our ECOBANK Debit Note was submitted to my desk for final Approvals before forwarding it to Board for endorsement, I noticed that there are discrepancies as there was no evidence of authorization letter from you for Charle Porter to receive the fund on your behalf. I urgently summoned The Official responsible for the presentation of the winning and directed him to stop the movement of the funds and at the same time placed a stop order instruction on the funds pending when your views and comments are received with regards to this matter.
I hereby urged you to call or email me urgently for your comments which will be highly appreciated if you are still alive or not on sick bed, because we will not hesitate to continue the payment transfer activation with the name of the gentleman on claim if no response come from you. Contact me on this number : +2347081358151. or e-mail me back using this address ecobankwesternunion@abv.bg as your silence will be a clear indication that you authorized her to effect the above changes . Also fill the information below to help us facilitate your transfer via western union.
1) Your Full Name:.............
2) Fax and Mobile #:..........
3) Home/ Office Address:....
4) Profession and Age:.......
YOUR URGENT RESPOND IS HIGHLY NEEDED .
REGARDS,
DR. AMATA MICHAEL,
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS,
ECOBANK PLC WESTERN UNION DEPT
