Phish: SCAMMED VICTIM

Ok, you know what? This one isn't even entertaining. It's boring. Whoopee. The UN and Nigeria decided to repay me that million bucks I was scammed out of. Um. I didn't have a million to get scammed out of, and the closest I've come to getting scammed is as a seller on Ebay.

But, you know what? I don't want to send my bank info to someone who has very poor English skills, and a gmail address. 'Nuff said.

SCAM!

From: "george_eddie06 Gazeta.pl"
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: SCAMMED VICTIM
Date: Tue 07/01/08 09:55 AM

BANK OF AFRICA/UNITED NATIONS 2008
COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS DIRECTIVE.

ATTN: DEAR THOMAS EVANS

SCAMMED VICTIM/1 MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE:06654 1MILLION USD This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations and Bank Of Africa to pay 100 Benin Republic 419 scam victims $1 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1 Million compensations funds.

On this faithfull recomendations,I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at Proto Novo,Capital Of Benin Republic,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by variouse foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today,in other to retain the good image of the country,the president of the country is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1Million USD each,Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Benin Republic,the payments are to be paid by Bank Of Africa as corressponding paying bank under fundling assistance by the National westminster bank london.

According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States and Asia,we still have more 16 left to be paid the compensations of $1Million each.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in Cotonou as one of thier victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal,You can receive your compensations payments via ATM CARD
PAYMENT.

Furthermore you are advice to reconfirm you billing address include your full name and direct contact telephone number to the Managing Director Swift Card Consultant Payment Center for the issurance certified ATM Card, the contact information is as follows:
MANAGING DIRECTOR SWIFT CARD
CONSULTANT PAYMENT CENTER.
Email:(atmregistercardcenter2008@gmail.com )
TELPHONE: +229979-398-79
NAME: MrJames Hunter

Call him immedaitely you get this mail to enable him speed up for your ATM payment Card,NB Please do not reply to this E-mail,contact the Managing Director Swift Card Consultant Payment Center immediately with the necessary information required from you so that they will commence on procesing.

Yours faithfully,
Mr Douglas Cool

Phish: Please I Need Your Help.{06/23/08}

Let me just take this one one paragraph at a time.

From: Mr.Nathan Ooje
Reply-To: nathan.ooje@o2.pl
To: [redacted]
Subject: Please I Need Your Help.{06/23/08}
Date: Sun 06/29/08 06:52 AM


Dear Sir,

Ok, actually, I'm a Ma'am. Or Madam. Mistress, Mrs.- whatever. What I am not, is a "sir".

My name is Mr. Nathan Ooje; I was formerly an Adviser on special duties
to Mr. Charles Taylor former president of Liberia. The purpose of this
letter is to seek your assistance in transferring/investing the sum of
Sixteen Million United States Dollars {$16M} for me pending when I sort
myself out with the government of Nigeria where I am presently on
asylum.

You're on asylum. I don't even want to know what that means. And do I care who you were advisor to? Look, I'm an American. We don't know what goes on in the world let alone who other countries' politicians are. We certainly don't know if we side with your politicians or not when we can't even decide which of our politicians we like or hate the most.

I need your urgent help to move this fund out of this country because, I
am taxed heavily by local revenue office here in Nigeria whose tax laws
I consider arbitrary and this places great burden on me. I feel very
insecure with everything around here and I have the believe that I might
end up losing the fund to this shy luck agency in the name of tax if
urgent action is not taken by me. That�s my reason of looking for your
assistance at this point in time.

Well now. I consider our country's tax laws arbitrary as well. How about if I ask you to handle my money for me so that I no longer have the burden of, um, obeying the law. I'm glad you feel insecure as well. You know why? Because it's nice to know that I'm not alone. And I'm not asking what a shy luck agency is. I really don't want to know.

Please note the amount is in Nigeria bank, one of the leading banks in
Nigeria ironically this fund does not yield any interest because it was
placed as dormant account but regrettably the revenue office makes
deductions out of this money and you know the implication of this action
it might goes off to the revenue office as tax all the time, till the
total fund is gone. I want you to consider and help me out from this
mess.

Yah. See, I'm having the same problem with my ClickBank account. They keep deducting money from my account because I haven't had 5 sales from 5 different credit cards made by 5 different people. By the end of the year, that account may be bankrupt. So, you see, I'm in the same boat. In fact, I'll be gracious and totally ignore the illegality of what you're asking as well as your atrocious grammar.

I need this data�s to forward to the ministries concern for the
transferring immediately, Your Full Name and Address, Your bank name and
address, Your private phone/cell phone and Your account and swift codes.

There's that swift codes thing again. What the heck is a swift code? And no. I don't hand out my name, let alone all the other information just willy nilly (hey, you used weird phrases too!). If I believed for one second that this email was legit, I'd be calling the authorities, not posting this email up on my very public blog of phishing and spam emails. Good thing you sent this out to thousands of other people, isn't it?

I wait on your good gesture towards my family and me.

Oh, I got your gesture right here, buddy.

Regards,

Mr. Nathan Ooje.

Same to you.

Phish: Congratulation: You have won the sum of €3,000,000.00 EURO

My apologies for getting the photos not quite perfect. It's a little hard to maneuver them in Blogger.

While most of the phishes and spams that I get sound as though English isn't the author's first language, this one sounds as if an American highschooler wrote it. And I don't mean the straight A, spelling bee champ either.

The first paragraph is so convoluted that I'm not even going to try to piece it out except to say, subscriber to Microsoft Windows? Oh, dear dog. Like Yahoo would really make such a pathetic mistake! And all email users are being forced to switch to Yahoo Beta? Um, I hope they mean all Yahoo email users, and not all email users, cuz, yanno, I don't use Yahoo since they sell email information to spammers! They even tell you so in their TOS, and make it almost impossible to unsubscribe from that "feature".

Ranting aside, I'm not even going to point out that Yahoo would not be sending email from student.com, or that even if Yahoo UK were giving away 3 million Euros, that they wouldn't be sending it to an American. I'm not even going to ask what a "driven" license is.

And you know why? Because we all know that I'm a sucker for spam with pictures. Keep 'em comin', boys!


From: "Lotto Yahoo"
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Congratulation: You have won the sum of €3,000,000.00 EURO
Date: Sun 06/29/08 02:02 AM








Date: 27th / 06/ 2008

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Three Million Euro (3,000,000.00) for the YEAR 2008 Lottery promotion which is organized by Yahoo!! Lottery INC for the introduction of the new Yahoo Beta Mail which all email users are required to switch onto.
Yahoo! & Microsoft Windows, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the billions that subscribed to Yahoo! & Microsoft Windows, and others we only select five (5) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You have to immediately contact your claims agent to direct you on what to do towards recieving your prize.

Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.

Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (7 days) will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................8576657438
Reff number........................4354676/ 54653
Winning number...............434

These numbers above fall within the London agent's Location file, you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him;

Yahoo Office In UK.
Email at: bar.dalton@ymail.com


You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.

Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:

Personal Information
****. Full name..............
****. Contact Address........
****. Age....................
****. Telephone Number.......
****. Marital Status.........
****. Sex....................
****. Zip Code...............
****. Occupation.............
****. State:.................
****. Country................
****. Nationality............
Paying bank requirement


****. Your driven license or Your international ID Card.

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
Bar Dalton John

Phish: Yours In Service,

I'm speechless. This is such an... interesting... email. It's amazing just how many "banks" use poor English and gmail for contact!

Pathetic.

I gotta hand it to them, though. This is one of the few emails that come right out and ask you for your routing number and account number. I wonder what a "Swift Code" is, though? Must be a British thing.

People, please don't fall for this. It's a scam. A spammy scam. And not a very good one, though I've rarely found any that look believable.

From: "donadmax Gazeta.pl"
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Yours In Service,
Date: Tue 06/24/08 07:23 AM

ATTENTION PLEASE!

We hereby confirm receipt of part payment of US$8,500,000.00 dollars
Only, into our official ESCROW account with the HSBC Bank in London by order of the African Development Bank(ADB) in-charge of Foreign Debt Recovery Committee on Overdue Contract / Next of Kin payments in Africa, as indicated in our database.


We sincerely apologize for delays and advice you to STOP any further communication with any other payment centres in Europe, as well as your associates in any of the African countries e.g., South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Abidjan, Angola, Cotonou for they contributed 100% hindrances to the release of your funds.

Kindly provide us with the below information to reconfirm your details in our database and for our prompt payment procedures.

Beneficiary's name / Age:.............................................
Company's name / Rank in office:..................................
Address:............................................................
Tel:......................... *Fax:.................................
Receiving Bank:.....................................................
Address:............................................................
Bank Routing Number:................. Swift Code:...................
Account number:.....................................................

Your funds will be released by wire transfer through our operationalpaying bank, HSBC bank in London, UK.Our final fund release order will be forwarded to our operational paying bank, the HSBC Bank in London, UK for the immediate release of your
allocation to you upon receipt and official re-confirmation of your information.
For any further inquiry, please contact the undersigned officer as funds will be retrieved to treasury after ten (10) business days of this notice.


Yours In Service,
Mr.Donald Maxwell
Manager, Foreign operations Dept.
contact me
mrdonaldmaxwell@gmail.com

Phish: Dear Client

This is a weird one. I'm not even going to get into the misspellings and poor grammar which should easily give this away as a SCAM to anyone who's paying attention.

But seriously. They say that I was unable to pay a transaction fee to access my $500,000 bank draft? So they're lending me $5000 to access it? And then you have to pay another $25,000 once you get the 500K? This one is way more complicated than most spam/phish/scams.

Besides, aren't bank drafts loans? And of what use is my age and occupation to delivering a check to me? Gods, do people fall for this stuff?

From: "ASSET MANAGEMENT"
Reply-To: samsmith00@post.ro
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Dear Client
Date: Sat 06/21/08 11:43 AM


ASSET MANAGEMENT
EAST LONDON CLEARING HOUSE
SWE-2560 GRAHAM DRIVE UNITED KINGDOM

TEL+44-703-184-2084

Attention: Client,

I have been directed by Mr Williams James Compensation officer in charge
of your Bank Draft of $500,000,00. (Five hundred thousand United States
Dollars) We were told that you were unable to pay the charges of the
delivery.

I am Mr Kings Jefferson Co-coordinator Asset Payment Manager East
London.
Mr Williams has explain to me details of the draft and we are are ready
to
issue a check of $5,000 to you respectively which you will cash and send
to him to complete the delivery process of the draft to your
destination.

However it has been noted that the $5,000 will complete all the expenses
that may in-cured to finalised the delivery to your door step. We
therefore urge you to provide details of your present information where
the check can be deliver to you. E.g.

Your full Name
Postal address
Telephone & Fax
Age & Occupation

As soon as we have receive above information the check of $5,000 will be
written in your name and send to your door post without any further
delays.

Note: As soon as your transaction has been sent and received. You are to
pay a sum of $25,000 cash to the Asset Management as finance fee. If you
are okay with this directives do not hesitate to get back to this
office.

Regards Kings Jefferson.

Operation Manager Asset House London

Tel:+44-702-409-4088

Phish: RE:SERIOUS ORGANISED CRIME AGENCY

Wow! Interpol is contacting me directly? I'm so special! And they're even giving me a private email address with which to contact them, since that's what hotmail is, right? And, oh... I suppose "interpolscamalert" was taken as an email address since they were forced to use "intapolscamalart", which is nearly the same thing.

And, how interesting. Information that I gave them about a scam helped them to catch the scammer! Oh, wait. I never gave information to Interpol about anything, and I have yet to be scammed for anything but my email address.

And how interesting that they're based "here in the UK", yet list the address of Jersey City, United States. And which Jersey City, anyway? That's not a state, you numbskulls!

*snarf* This spam was so funny, I had to read it aloud to my husband before posting it. I'll just mark the funniest typos in blue.

From: "INTERPOL®"
Reply-To: "INTERPOL®"
To:
Subject: RE:SERIOUS ORGANISED CRIME AGENCY
Date: Wed 06/25/08 06:21 PM

77 Amity Street, Jersey City,
United States.
26 / 06 / 2008

Hello

These is Brigadier Suhail Amor Bait Fadhil from INTERPOL in
the criminal investigation department.We are glad to inform
you due to the information that was given to the authority by
you,we have been able to arrest the scam-er that scammed you
along with so many inter-net user.

He fell victim in one of the western union money transfer
here in the UK,tyring to claim money with the same name that
has been reported so many times.

We know it took us a long time to get him,but due to further
investigation and search to his private account,we assure you
that your money will be refunded back to you.
To enable us know if you are still in use of these E-mail
address Please contact the INTERPOL Secretary General with
the following:

NAME:
COUNTRY:
PHONE NO:
AMOUNT BEING SCAMMED:

Ronald K. Noble
+447024043202
intapolscamalart@hotmail.com
HTTP://www.soca.gov.uk/orgCrime/sectorFraud.html