Scammers

[Exfso]

These guys must think people came down in the last shower of rain, some people actually get sucked into this crud!! the mind boggles. Here is their latest offering to me, what a joke :eyepop::lol:

UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
TINUBU SQUARE, VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS-NIGERIA
[OFFICE OF DIRECTOR FOREIGN
REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT UBNP]
Our Ref:UBNP/IRD/UBX/021/10 Barrister Mmadu Kings Director Foreign Remittance Dept, Union Bank of Nigeria (UBNP) CELL PHONE NUMBER:+234-7062936227

Dear Beneficiary,

IMMEDIATE COMPENSATION PAYMENT I wish to inform you of the new decision taking by the Federal Government of Nigeria to compensate all Foreigners that have been cheated by some Nigerians in the Process of receiving their Inherited Funds, Contract Funds, Lotto Promo Funds and Next of Kin Funds, the Federal Government has promised to raise cheque what of ($1.5Million USD) for each Foreigners, lucky 5 foreigners will be compensated, your name reflected as one of the victims.

However, I advise you to contact me immediately so you can take impart in this compensation Nigeria Government has promised.

You are requested to furnish me with the following information to enable this office process your own payment raised by Union Bank of Nigeria,

1) Your full Name...
2) Bank Name....
3) Account Number...
4) Bank Address...
5) Your Adders...
6) Swift code….
7) Your country……..
8) Your Telephone or Cell phone Number....

As soon as we get this information your fund will be transfer into your bank account immediately without any delay ok.

Regards,

Barrister Mmadu Kings

Director, Foreign
Remittance Dept
Union Bank of Nigeria

[DavidTrap]

I love it!

I did hear of someone who was suckered into the Microsoft Help Desk scam because the scammers phoned just as she was having trouble with her PC - she thought they were her angels and gladly coughed up $200. Eventually the penny dropped and she rang Microsoft who told her to unplug the computer ASAP. Her bank was also able to cancel the credit card transaction as it was still in a "clearance stage".

DT

[Octane]

Pete,

I've mentioned this site many, many times: www.419eater.com

Go to the forums and the general scambaiting section. Prepare to laugh your rear end off.

I haven't had much time in recent history to engage in the shenanigans, but, for a while, scambaiting was my favourite pasttime.

H

[Stardrifter_WA]

It is unbelievable to think that scammers scam approximately $70 million from Australians annually. It is estimated that 5% of the Australian population have been victims of scams annually. Although some scams are quite sophisticated, I find it hard to believe that people still fall for this. It is mentioned in newspapers, online, on current affairs shows and the news regularly, so why are people still falling victim to this?

On 60 Minutes on Sunday night they interviewed a woman who got caught up in a love scam; she handed over $300,000 :eyepop: to someone she never even met, or had no idea who it was; friggin' unbelievable. :( And she seemed an intelligent woman, no less.

Yes, I know there are many lonely people out there looking for love, I am one of them, but I ain't that gullible. :P

I do not give out my details to anyone, without knowing who they are and why they need it. I have always shred anything with personal details on, included bills, as I have never thrown anything out in the trash. Many years ago some of my friends thought I was paranoid. It is one of the few times I have been right.

It is a very old adage that "if it seems to good to be true, it usually is". Does no-one heed the old adages anymore :question:

Dr. John Bridges' Defence of the Government of the Church of England, 1587: said that "a fool and his money is soon parted". So, fools must still abound :sadeyes:

[AdrianF]

Already received 2 of these emails today on 2 seperate email addresses

Adrian

[Terry B]

I had about 9 scam emails today of different sorts to 3 differnet email accounts. This is more than usual. Many were for ANZ banking when I dont have an ANZ account.
Not sure why the number has increased.:shrug:

[AdrianF]

Forgot about the ANZ/PayPal/CBA/St George emails asking me to confirm my details and they have suspended/limited my accts.

I dont have any of these except PayPal which is not linked to my main email accts, I have one specially setup for this.

Adrian

[jjjnettie]

I have noticed an increase of late. I was reporting them to the Dept Fair Trading at one stage, but got tired of that.
Sometimes I'll email abuse to them, other times I'll play up to it.
Mostly I just delete.

[Octane]

Don't ever reply to them, jJjjJJ.

When you reply to them, it confirms that you exist.

There is a /lot/ of money, and, I mean, a /lot/, in selling legitimate email lists. That's how these scammers operate. They have an oga (head scammer/boss) who sells mugus (scammers) mailing lists and then shares the profits of the mugu's scamming.

H

[Mliss]

beat me to it H, replying tells them they have scored a ligitimate email address :sadeyes:

i don't even read them, i get so many a day it's insane.

[jjjnettie]

I went through the Trophy Room. LOLOL
Hilarious, they have no idea do they. :D

[Jeffkop]

Oh man ... NO WONDER they think the rest of the world are SO gullible ... :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Stardrifter_WA]

:(:(:( I am beginning to feel left out, I rarely get any email scams. Had only one SMS scam this year, nothing by phone (but I have a silent number) :P:P But that is because I am a paranoid SOB and hardly give out my email address or phone number :D :lol: :lol:

[Exfso]

Here is another one that has been sent to me 5 times this week already what a load of cobblers:lol:

P O Box 1010
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
(Customer Services)

Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Ticket number:56475600545 188
Lucky Numbers: 05,06,17,20,28,42(Bonus33)

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of cash prize £1,000,000.00 (British Pounds) held on the 27th October 2011 in London Uk.The selection process was carried out through random selection in Our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected. And Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
05, 06, 17, 20, 28, 42 (Bonus 33) ,which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1 Million Pounds,(One Million Pounds) in cash credited to fileKTU/ 9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £1,000,000 Million Pounds,shared amongst the (4)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.
For due processing of your winning claim,please contact the FIDUCIARY AGENT Information Officer Mr. Fred Peters who has been assigned to assist you. You are to contact him with the following details for the release of your winnings.

Agent Name: Mr. Fred Peters
Tel: +447024091949
+447024013832
Email: mr.fredpetersagent15@yahoo.co.uk (mr.fredpetersagent15@yahoo.co.uk)

Contact him, please provide him with the following Requirements below:

Claims Requirements:
1.Name in full----------------------
2.Address---------------------------
3.Nationality-----------------------
4.Age-------------------------------
5.Occupation------------------------
6.Sex ------------------------------
7.Phone/Fax-------------------------
8.Present Country-------------------

If you do not contact your claims agent within 5 working days of this Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners are advised to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid Fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.

*Winner under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified. *Staff of the British Lottery are not to partake in this Lottery.

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Regards
Mrs. Stella Ellis
(Group Coordinator
Note that you are not to reply to this E-mail,please contact your claims officer directly to start the processing of your claims application form.

[Stardrifter_WA]

:lol: It truly amazes me that people think that a company is just going to give away millions without any input. :P Last I heard lottery winnings are based on how much is spent. :confused2:

I sure would love to find someone that wants to just give me lots of money (for real). I could then go buy a new telescope. :lol: Like that's ever going to happen :rofl:

[Bassnut]

Well, was offered 10mill , received it, but then blew it on the pokies. I blame the goverment for not enforcing mandatory gaming limits.

[leon]

Well, I have read with dis belief, but i have to say i have never ever received an email like that, not that i would open it anyway.

Leon

[blindman]

Believe or not, "they" scam millions of $ from Australia !
Do we have world majority of suckers here?
Unbelievable.
cheers all

[mishku]

I got the most incredible spam via my work email address about a fortnight ago. The email was addressed to other Michelles, with very similar (if not the same) surnames to mine. The best bit was that they had managed to cc: email addresses for 3 out of my last 4 jobs in amongst the other random names.... I can only conclude that my perma-out-of-office replies once I'd left the jobs made them think they'd hit a winner, and add me to their lists. Eerie though, to think about the trail of email addresses still lurking after I've left jobs!!!!

M

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:

[ballaratdragons]

I get these emails every day.
It is because my email address is out there on the net as a contact for the SVAA website, SV camps, and the SVAA shop.

I get about 10 per day on average and they are usually the same ones Adrian mentioned (ANZ/PayPal/CBA/St George), plus I also get them from Nigerian Govt, UK Lottery, Telstra, and the list goes on.

But the ones that REALLY gripe me are the ones saying they are Cancer victims in their last few weeks of life and want to give all their money (usually in the $millions) to me, their missing distant relative (even though they don't even know my name). :rolleyes:

But today I recieved a new one.
It was saying that my ATM card has already been credited US$6.8 million. :eyepop:

Then it was followed up with the usual dribble:

The ATM Card Value is $6.8MILLION USD. Please Contact secretary Martha Ozioma {marthaoziomaatmcard@yahoo.com.hk} With the following details for processing:

*Full Name:
*Delivery Address:
*Gender:
*Occupation:
*Phone Number:
*Country:
*Means Of Identification:

then also ended with:

Note: You are required to effect delivery fee of $80

:lol:

They keep coming up with new ideas! This time the megabucks was already in my bank account!

Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiight :lol:

[ballaratdragons]

Here's another one that just came in while I was posting in here:



This is to notify you again that you were listed as a beneficiary to the total sum of Seven million four hundred thousand British pounds in the codicil and last testament of the deceased. (Name now withheld for confidential reasons).

You are qualified to be listed as a sole beneficiary and therefore can present you as the beneficiary to the inheritance.

We therefore reckoned that you can receive these funds as you are qualified by your surname identity.

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 to you as the sole beneficiary.

Yours Faithfully,
Personal Manager.
Barclays Bank


Note that my name is not mentioned in the email, the sender gives no name, "you are qualified by your surname identity" which isn't in the email, and the need to know my phone numbers and address.

When I get up in the morning there will be a few more to start the day. And on it goes :lol:

[GeoffW1]

Hi,

There was a clever one in my email the other day, it was purporting to be from Fedex, trying to deliver a parcel. It was well worded, with no obvious silliness.

It said I was not at home when they called (and I had in fact been out), and that the attachment should be printed out and taken to the local Post Office for pickup.

Indeed I was at that time expecting a parcel to arrive, and did not know exactly which carrier the sender was using.

Ooooh, sneaky. By why was Fedex using Australia Post, hmmm? So I scanned the attachment, and sure enough, a Trojan virus.

Cheers

[ZeroID]

They are such fun ain't they. Used to do the scambaiting as well with 419eater but got too tedious and time consuming. If you want to send a reply back just setup one of those throwaway email address, Gmail or there are some which have a life of a week or so and flick the baiter mail to that and go from there.
I used to send them huge attachments, large files of rubbish, old DLLs when they asked for pictures, filled out forms, Western Union, passport details etc. Kept them running around trying to decipher the male bovine excrement. And keep resending to fill up their mailboxes. Just to annoy them.
Still got a few remote email accounts out there that are designed to attract the mugu boys. Check on them now and then to see what's happening.
But Astronomy took over so there is no money for the mugus to scam from me now ... :lol: I can't afford to pay their 'fees'

[AdrianF]

Just received an email from Yahoo Awards don't know how much I had won as it had an attachment I had to open to see how much I won Scanned the attachment and it had a virus attached

Adrian

[Ric]

I've won the UK lottery that many times I must surely have more money than Bill Gates by now.

[mishku]

My Dear Ric,

Thankyou for your kind regards. It has been a difficult time as two weeks ago, I was hospitalised for a full frontal lobotomy. I have now returned home and have been advised that the terrorists who killed my parents have kidnapped my brother and have also set up a trust fund for me. Our Nigerian laws do not permit me to access it directly, so in return for your sending me 4.82 billion British Pounds Sterling, I can give you approximately $3.75 as a handling fee in return for your kind and generous time. Please, hurry, as if I have not recieved these funds by Tuesday evening, my brother will be sold to elephant hunters :lol:

[Octane]

haha, Mish.

Hang around on 419eater and you'll soon find that your mock up is not so far from the truth!

H

[FlashDrive]

I just tell them to send it to :

" Flash's Astronomy Foundation "
c/- Gem, G11,EQ6 and EM-200.
Astro-Tech Avenue
Takahashi Way
Via Skywatcher ...Post Code M42.

Flash :P

[mishku]

H,

I concede I may have derived some (okay, ALL) inspiration from 419eater :)

[Ric]

No worries Mish
Just send me all the details of your bank accounts along with the names of your children and I'll send the money straight away, no questions asked. ;)

[OneOfOne]

One way you can protect your email address on a website is to create a jpg of the address and put this onto the site. People can't click on it, but at least they know exactly what to type, my address from my website has never received spam in more than 4 years. You can obfiscate it with "Fred at mysite dot com" but some people just can't work that out!

[AdrianF]

Just received this one in my email.
The change password at the bottom is a link.

Adrian


Wrong Password
Our records show that someone tried to enter your Verified by Visa/Mastercard password three times in a row. This password protects you from unauthorized online use of your credit card. For your safety please change your password now.


Change password!

[WadeH]

I am feeling really left out now. Its been years since I've recieved one on these con jobs.:shrug:

[AdrianF]

So that you don't feel left out send me your email address and I will forward my scam emails to you :lol:

Adrian

[ballaratdragons]

Here you go Wade, just so you don't feel left out here's one just for you:

Dear person,

I am righting you from Bank of Nigeria to unform you of your fortunates.
In trust is held $8.7 million for you but yu cannot come on to claim the fund until we can clerifying all you details.

Please to submit the folowing:

Name (in full):
Date of Barth:
Address:
Country:
Phone number:
Cell Number:
Bank:
Account Number:
Pin Number:
Current Balance:
Gender:
Occupation:
Color of Jocks:
Last meal was:

Please return copy of you Birth Certifucit, latest Bank Statement, aproximit property valuation.

Thanking you
Ngomo Umbutomo (Manager)
Bank of Nigeria

:thumbsup: :lol:

[Stardrifter_WA]

The biggest scammers of all are Governments. A licence that cost $15 annually, five years ago is now $65 annually. :eyepop: That's approximately a 30% annual increase, whereas inflation is running at less than 3% anually, which would make it approximately $20. How can they justify this. Easy, they don't. :sadeyes: Biggest scammers in the world. :rolleyes:

[WadeH]

I feel much better now, totally ripped off! :D

[Stardrifter_WA]

Legally ripped off, that is :D