E-mail scams >_<
 

The Chief Auditor/Information manager,
In-Charge of Foreign Unit
African Development Bank Group,
Ouaga. Burkina-Faso.
Dear Good Friend,

I am MR belo ahmed, The Chief Auditor/Information Manager, In-Charge of Foreign
Unit of our bank and i have had the intent to contact you over this financial
transaction/transfer worth the sum of Twenty Nine Million Two Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars (US$29.2M)for our progress and richness.This is an abandoned sum that belongs to our late foreign customer (an International Billionaire French Businessman) who died in plane crash disaster since three years ago along with his wife.

[i didnt know i was french]

I was opportuned to see the deceased deposit file bearing this huge amount
of money when i was inspecting the dated and current customers files in other
to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official validation
/ re-documentation against the statement approval to the account holders
for the year. In a swift investigation carried out by me, i found out that
non of the deceased relative is aware of the abandoned fund except his late wife.
As a result of that, it is an extremely confidential matter between me and you.
Hence you are a foreigner to our country,

[really? i thought i was from africa]

you are authorized by our Banking
law to apply and claim the fund into your account as the NEXT-OF-KIN to the
deceased. For assisting me to get the fund transferred into your bank account,
the ratio of 40% of the total sum is for your share whereas 60% is for me
as business pioneer.

Please i need your urgent response on assurance of trust that you will not
deny my right of the share once the fund gets into your account because i
am a poor civil servant who depend on little monthly salary. That you are
the one who will help me to get visa to your country immediately i resign
from my work on the instant of the transfer into
your account.

[its called immigration stupid]

If you are realy sure of your integerity, trustworthy, and confidentiality,
reply urgently and to prove that, include your particulars as follows.

Private telephone and fax numbers?..........1-800-callatt
Country of Origin?.................................africa!
Your occupation?..................................yes
Your official age?...................................11
Your passport or ID card number?..............666
In sincerity,
Mr belo ahmed.



does anyone else get these? cus i get them everyday. got them? post them!

i totally posted this in the wrong section. cassini!

Although I agree this can be entertaining this belongs in the Way Off Topic area so I'm moving it. Entertainment is for TV, movies, books, games etc.

The best email scam I ever got remains that one from the guy looking for someone to help him travel through time. I think I posted it in the Spam section a while ago.

Oooohoho.... Yes. I get them and... other things... pills... other things x.x about 30 a day. I'm always amazed when I get something thats not spam in my e-mail.

[quote=Sparky;61923]Although I agree this can be entertaining this belongs in the Way Off Topic area so I'm moving it. Entertainment is for TV, movies, books, games etc.

i sent a PM to ORD about it so its his fault. jk ord
[confucius say sparky snap faster then dragon.]

Well I had put this in Way Off Topic, looks like someone else moved it to Spam? Okay then.

haunted forum!

who you gonna call - ghost busters.

cassini and his bag of tricks im sure >_> lol

Wasn't me.

Ugh, it was me. I wasn't sure where to move it, but I guess we both tried to move it at the same time. :P

Anyway, I get a lot of things in the email that I shouldn't mention here. Mostly nasty stuff. :macwor:

Oh my god! $29.2M! You lucky bugger, go for it before you miss out.

OK! and ill make a donation. NF would be in 3-D

* i had this really off the wall dream about being in the future, and the forum, i dont know if it was this one, was like 3-D. and the chat room was a actual room. kinda like in futurama.

The topic can stay here as long as people actually *discuss* stuff...

And remember that the topic is email SCAMS not just spam emails or ads for porn, Viagara, Canadian Pharmacies etc. Unless those are scams...maybe they are...Anyways I love getting those scam emails from people trying to make you think its an official email from eBay or Paypal, and then you read it and there's typos and stuff, lol. Oh yeah, I'm fooled! :jk: Anyways whether an email looks official or not I don't ever click links in them (unless I'm expecting an activation email for a forum like this for example), I just go to the site and go to my account and take care of business that way.

What about those with "job offers"? Eh, some of them I get on my inbox sound too good to be true, and some of them are office management positions. :P Not exactly what I'm looking for, lol.

how about the classic "you, won a free ipod" lol

I've gotten a few pretending to be from Paypal over the last couple of years. Unfortunately they're very well done; correct spelling, words used in the proper context, the works. Even the graphics are consistent with a real Paypal email. The message is usually something about a $300.00 iPod or an Xbox or some similar crap that I would never buy. They say I did, they suspect fraud, and are trying to correct everything, but they need my PIN to make the corrections. That's the givaway right there, the PIN request. No one other than me needs to know my PIN, period. I forward copies of the scam to everyone who I think should know about it and alert my bank.

I've seen some pretty clever ebay and paypal ones. Well worded and all that, the only giveaway is the link, it's usually a subdomain like ebay.blahblah.com

So I clicked the link and it goes to what looks exactly like an ebay or paypal logon screen. I typed a fake username and password in and here's the genius part, it spits out an "incorrect password" message and then redirects you to the correct logon page. So the user types in their details again, gets in and just assumes they mis-typed the first time, meanwhile your details have already been sent off.

Some of them are tricky, but as Cassini90125 said, no one needs to know or confirm or require you to change your details but you.

I received a fairly official-looking one claiming to be from Ebay a few years ago, asking for a whole wad of personal details. What surrendered the game early on is that they wanted to know not only my email address, but the password to my email account as well. Now, what business could that possibly be of theirs? I didn't stick with it long enough to know if my PIN number was also featured on their list of demands...either way, like hell were they getting anything from me. :madbloo:

Fortunately, my junk mail filter does a reliable job of barring suspect emails from my inbox overall, so all I usually have to worry about are chain emails passed on from "well-intentioned" friends advising me to forward them to ten more unlucky souls in order to get a free hand-out from Bill Gates/save a non-existent sick child dying from cancer/avoid dying a slow and agonising death within the next few days. ::) I covered some of my feelings on the latter in the "Post to Post" thread last week. Such chain emails are a waste of space.

If anyone's interested, they have a whole directory dedicated to individual email scams over on Snopes.com. It makes for a pretty entertaining read: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/scams.asp

I get scam-mail all the time. It's always stuff saying one of the following...

1: You have won $1,000,000 in a foreign lottery!

2: Hello, I'm "So-and-so", and I would like you to be the one to invest in this very profitable venture...

3: This is the "Whozitz" bank and we would like to inform you that some rich person with no family has died. Via a draw, you have been chosen to inherit the fortune.

All of these end with the request of my personal info. Stay away from these turkeys, people.

That sounds funny, actually... I rarely check my email (like I ever get anything important, nobody submitts to my site), so I wouldn't know about these scams.

did this get moved again?

nother one-
RE: HELPING TO FULFIL WILL EXECUTION
Dear Sir,
I send you greetings. Quite aware that we have not previously been
engaged in correspondence, this mail may therefore look astonishing to
you.
But I want to assure that you won't have anything to regret in any way
responding and engaging in some profiting ventures with me as I would
like to divulge in my subsequent mail.
May I ask and receive from you permission to present you as a
beneficiary to the Will of one of my trusted clients? My client and his
whole
family members where involved in the Sharja air crash on the 25th of
July
2004.
Since after this unfortunate incidence, I have not been able to locate
any member of his family to be presented to his bank for claims of his
deposit as the law permits.
On receipt of your response and indicate your willingness to work with
me, I will send to you full details and more information about myself
and the said funds to elicit your better understanding.
As I am yet to get your consent on this issue, I prefer not to divulge
my full identity so as not to risk being disbarred by the British Bar.
Due to the risk involved in disclosing confidential correspondence and
the activities of fraudsters now rampant on the internet, and until I
am sure of your consent, full cooperation and genuine willingness to
offer your assistance for our mutual benefit, I would prefer that we
maintain correspondence by email only. My personal email address is:
nigagric@indiatimes.com
Yours sincerely,
David Adams
nigagric@indiatimes.com
+44 789 283 0902

Any of the scams, I just delete them without even reading them.

but sending them fake info is the funnest part!

You've done that? What did you type?

I would give them the name and address of whoever was most annoying to me at the time. Unfortunately when responding to an email ad, be it a scam or legit, that confirms to the sender that it's a legitimate email address, and the amount of junk email you receive increases a hundredfold overnight. It's best to simply delete the garbage without responding and be done with it.

LOL thats so funny, i'v done that before to back stabbing friends and my old boss

I get these every so often, but I think I got one worth sharing today.
It might almost look "real", but the obvious fact that they address me as "Friend" even though they supposedly have a cheque written out to me, and also the spelling and grammar errors, makes it highly suspicious. And pay $98 to have a cheque delivered? Yeah, suusssspiiiiiiiiiiciouuuuuuuuuss!!

The spelling errors are a dead givaway; it's impossible to take anyone who spells that bad seriously. Print it and post it on the office wall so your co-workers can point at it and laugh. 8D

This gem arrived in my inbox about 10 minutes ago:

This classic piece of literature was written by a "woman" who calls herself Carmen, who has been spamming a huge number of Yahoo! groups for years, always with links to singles sites designed to part lonely people from their money. That's the case here as well. Pretty reprehensible, if you ask me. :frankiemad:

I responded, by the way, but the rules prohibit posting that kind of language. :eek: :bendy:

Oh, way to go, Lynnie! You didn't respond at the Approprete time and now you've lost yourself $850.000.00. >[

i just thought of something, this had to of happen one point in time. what would happen if one of these was real? XD

Nothing. Not responding to a real offer nets the same result as not responding to a scam.

LOL!! I just got a fake Paypal scam email posing as a "fight Paypal phishing scams!" email. 8D

Here's a classic, always from some currently-deposed member of some African royal family, who desparately needs our help to regain his/her throne, with the promise that once in power again, he/she will reward you handsomely with family assets, which are currently frozen by the individual in power. In order to get your money, you have to SEND money or your bank account number/credit card number, to finance the royal family's return to power. Here's an example of something similar that recently spammed the Studebaker Drivers Club forum:



"From Princess Joyce Hansan,

After going through your profile , I decided to contact you for the relationship and bussines assistance .

Well, to introducing myeslf, I am Princess Joyce Hansan, TWENTY ONE years, I am a citizen of Cote D'ivoire former Ivory Coast in West Africa.

I am writing to solicit your noble assistance for the transfering and investment of Nine Million, United Stat Dollars US D. in your country under your guardianship.I am the only daughter of late Chief. Hansan Adams ,before the death of my late father, he was the Director of Cocoa & Gold Dealers in Abidjan capital of Cote D'Ivorie and Accra Ghana respectively.My late father father was poisoned by my uncle with ganged up of my father's bussiness associates in one of their dinner.

Before his death last year, he called me confidentially and informed me in confidence of this sum of Nine Million, United Stat Dollars US D. he deposited in a prime bank here in Abidjan. Pending the guarantee of your faithfulness and co-operation, he further advised me to search for a reliable partner overseas who will assist me transfer and invest the money in overseas in case he did not survive in the hospital .Unfortunately, he died. I am soliciting your kind assistance in the following ways :

To provide me good account were this money will be transfered.
To help me seek for a good business to invest the money into.
To help me search for a better school to continue my education over there.
To help me come over there to start a new life there.

I have the Offical Deposit Slip Document with me here in Abidjan. So, I look forward to hearing from you so that we will proceed and as soon as we retrieve the deposit, I will without wasting time come down to your country to witness the investing of the money, Meanwhile, you will be compensate with TWENTY% of the money for your noble assistance.More detail will be giving to you in your next mail.

As i am writing to you now, I am hiding myself in a local Guest House for the safety of my life due that my uncle and the enemies are wanted to kill me in order to claims this money deposited by my late father with my name as the next of kin.

Please help me to accord this transaction with the due confidentiality it demands. I appreciate it if you will respond to me as soon as possible.I will send you my Identification in my subsequent mail upon hearing from you. This transaction will bring us into an everlasting relationship rooted on truth and fear of God.


Please reply me directely on this my private mail box for more detail
(joyce_hanxxx10@xxxx)

May God Bless You ,while expecting your immediate response.

Kind regards,
Princess Joyce Hansan"

pitbulllady

thats great!

if some African leader wanted my help and was willing to pay for my plane ticket i'd go over to beat up some Marxists but thats about it 8D

Honestly don't think there's many marxists left for you to beat up in Africa, Partymember. Not since Mengistu fell anyway but if you can track him or his gang down, give him one from me and all the rest of us idiots who paid for his ethnic cleansing via charity in the 80s.

First e-mail scam i got was supposedly from the son of General Abacha, the former Nigerian military dictator. Silly old me thought it was for real and fowarded it to the democratic authorities who didn't even bother replying, obviously. As it turns out, most of those scams do indeed originate in Nigeria.

alright :P it sucks being sold out by your ideology, doesn't it? I'm trying to pay these guys back, get my money's worth. I see it ths way: take how much i invested in their little utopian fart and divide that by $0.15, thats how much one bullet for an AK-47 or an SKS costs in the States right now...jeez, i may be paying them back for a while.

8D

you're always welcome to join, Koos :)

That's very kind of you to offer, Partymember but poetry is my weapon.

Strike the fear of God into them with some fierce iambic pentameter, then 8D

I just got this today. Looks pretty authentic, huh? Especially when looking at it with the BOA logo and all, which it did have. Well, at hovering my cursor over the links and keeping my eye on the status bar, I can see without a doubt that this is NOT real. That and I don't currently have any accounts at BOA.

Oh, and another thing, see the first date up there? Uhm, hello? It's still July 2.

I get LOTS of BoA scam emails (I do have an account with them). But then I get a lot of scam emails for other banks too. Guess they gotta cover all their bases. :wiltyeahright: But yeah typos and weird dates always give those people away. I always hover my cursor over the links to see what weirdo addys show up, even when I already know it's a scam.

I get Bank E-Mail scams too...usually from a "bank" I don't have an account with. :P