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May 12, 2008

Email From William Abani – 419 Email Scam

Filed under: 419 Scams,Advance fee scam — Tags: — admin @ 4:41 pm

Not sure how this scammer expects anyone to take this advance fee scam seriously. He / she writes with the Caps Lock on and has the inability to break up the text in to any paragraphs.

A very primitive attempt at fraud orignating out of Romania.

from: www-data@www.autoitalia.ro

ATTN FIRST AND FOREMOST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR STRICTEST CONFIDENCE IN THISTRANSACTION AND I PRAY THAT MY DECISION TO CONTACT YOU WILL BE GIVEN GENUINE APPROVAL CONSIDERING THE FACTS WE HAVE NOT KNOWN EACH OTHER BEFORE, I WISH TO USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU.I AM WILLIAM ABANI FROM LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA. I WRITES TO INFORM YOU MY DESIRE TO INVEST, AND TO BUY A LIVING HOUSE IN YOUR COUNTRY. I AM THE FIRST SON OF DR MIKE ABANI HE WAS A DIAMOND/GOLD MERCHANT IN MY COUNTRY.MY FATHER HAD A BULLET SHOT BY THE REBELS ON HIS WAY TRAVELLING OUT OF MY COUNTRY WITH TWO OF MY YOUNGER SISTER’S DUE TO PRESENT CRISIS THAT IS OCCURING IN MY COUNTRY (LIBERIA).MY SISTER’S DIED ON THE SPOT WHILE U.N.PEACE KEEPING FORCE RESCUED MY FATHER, HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT WHICH HE LATER DIED.BEFORE HE DIED HE REAVEALED TO ME AND MY MOTHER ABOUT THE BOXES CONTAINING $8 MILLION US DOLLARS.WHICH HE DEPOSITED WITH A SECURITY COMPANY IN GHANA FOR SAFE KEEPING. M Y FATHER DID NO T DISCLOSE THE CONTENT OF THE BOXES TO THE SECURITY COMPANY.TO AVIOD THE OFFICIALS FROM RAISING EYE BROWS TO THE FUNDS.PRESENTLY MYSELF AND MY MOTHER ARE HERE IN GHANA, THEREFORE I WANT YOU TO LECTURE ME ON HOW BEST WE CAN INVEST THIS MONEY,BECAUSE MY FATHER TOLD ME THAT IT IS DANGEROUS TO INVEST THIS MONEY IN AFRICA TO AVIOD SUSPICIONS, AND DUE TO MARKET INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY FACING AFRICAN COUNTRIES,THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO INVEST IN ABROAD. FOR YOUR MUTUAL ASSISTANCE, MYSELF AND MY MOTHER HAVE AGREED TO OFFER YOU 30%OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE MONEY. WE HAVE ALL THE VITAL DOCUMENTS COVERING THE DEPOSIT AND THE OWNERSHIP WHICH I CAN SEND TO YOU THROUGH FAX ON REQUEST.NOTE:I HAVE NEVER DISCLOSED THIS TO ANY PERSON APART FROM YOU, SO YOU HAVE TO KEEP THIS TRANSACTION AS A TOP SECRET TO YOURSELF ALONE.WHICH I WILL WANT YOU TO FORWARD ACROSS TO ME YOUR DIRECT TEL/FAX NUMBER FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS TRANSACTION. PLEASE I F YOU ARE INTERE STED IN TRANSACTING BUSINESS WITH US WE WILL BE GLAD. EMAIL ME AT THIS ADDRESS BEST REGARDS, WILLIAM ABANI (FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY 00233245338391

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May 8, 2008

IMMEDIATE PAYMENT NOTIFICATION – 419 Email Scam

Filed under: 419 Scams,Advance fee scam — admin @ 1:38 pm

This fraud email is an example of a desperate & confused scammer and a rehash of an advance fee scam / UN identity theft email that has done the rounds before.

After you read the body of the email, you will see my reasons as to why this is an obvious scam attempt.

UNITED NATION (UN)
DEBT RECONCILIATION DEPARTMENT.
GENEVA-SWITZERLAND.
OUR REF: UN-0XX2/987/2008
CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN
CONTRACT AND INHERITANCE FUND PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
FROM UNITED NATIONS AND USA GOVERNMENT
 
U.S.A Government, World Bank, United Nations Organization Official Has Approved To Pay You Part Payment Valued $9.5m for 2008 Fund Approval.
 
Attn: Honorable Beneficiary,
 
The British Prime Minister in conjunction with U.S.A GOVERNMENT, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION does hereby give this irrevocable approval order with your Release Code: GNC/3480/03/00 in your favor for your contract entitlement, Inheritance/winning payment with the UNITED NATIONS. To your nominated bank account.
 
Now your new Payment, United nations Approval No; UN5685P, White House Approved No: WH45CV, Reference No.-36350021, Allocation No: 674876 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 78569 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 104, Released Code No: 0876; Immediate HSBC Telex confirmation No: -222568; Secret Code No: XXTN014, Having received these vital payment number, therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the United Nation immediately within the next 48hrs.
 
As a matter of fact, you are required to deal and communicate only with MR. PAUL THURSTON, DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DEPT. HSBC BANK, UNITED KINGDOM, with the help and monitory team from the HSBC BANK USA N.A. which is our official remitting bank. Committee on foreign payment matters in United Nation has picked interest in your payment and they want to make sure you receive your fund. So contact Mr. Paul Thurston via email: paulthurston01@hotmail.com for immediate release of your Contract, Inheritance/ Winning payments. Be informed that you are not allowed to correspond with any other person or office anymore, in view of above be advice to reconfirm the following information under for urgent free of your fund by wire transfer.

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May 6, 2008

Mr. STEVE JOHNSON – Email Scam

Filed under: Advance fee scam — admin @ 2:24 pm

A classic email scam, purporting that there is an outstanding inheritance to be claimed.

Below is the content of the email.

Reply-To: stevejohnson2001088@yahoo.co.uk

Palmer Commercial Finance Ltd

46, Alfred Close,

Totton Southampton,

SO40 8TD.London,

London-U.k

Attention: Sir/ Madam.

My name is Mr.STEVE JOHNSON, the Director of Palmer Commercial Finance Ltd London. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of our bank with account number 14-255-114 whose name is Late Mr. Morris Thompson, an american by citizen who perished in a plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter.You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list

Since the demise of this our customer, I personally has watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$9.M (Nine Million,United States Dollars). which has been with our London branch for a very long time. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the Next of Kin as no one has come up to be the next of kin. And the banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than Ten Years, because the money will be recalled to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund after this period.

NOTE: This is a legitimate transaction without government interference

with interest in companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms investments. our is interested in placing our money fund in your country if your country`s by-laws allows foreign investment,then 10% has been maped out to donate to the motherless baby home,in view of this, Please send to me Your details informations such as Full Name and Address,Your Mobile Number, Your Account Beneficiary,

Yours Sincerely,

Mr.STEVE JOHNSON.

PALMER COMMERCIAL FINANCE LTD.

LONDON, (DIRECTOR)

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This scammer has made a number of fundamental mistakes that show this email as a fraud:

  1. The business address stated is almost correct for the company name used (the company is unlikely part of this fraud, its just used to make the scam look legitimate), but for some reason the scammer added “London,London-U.k” to the end. No business is going to add an arbitary city to their address.
  2. A commercial finance house is unlikely to deal with personal inheritance funds.
  3. If I had been tracked down as a beneficiary of an inheritance, I would expect they would know my name and not address me as Sir/ Madam (in fact if this was real they would send it by snail mail).
  4. Poor grammar.
  5. Use of a link to a item on a news website. We know planes crash but what is reported in the news doesn’t mean I am entitled to someone’s money!

So what is this criminal after? Most likely if you were to contact them, they would ask for money to release the “funds” to you. Its just another advance fee scam. If you recieve this (or any similiar emails), delete it and get on with your day

May 4, 2008

You Have A Package.. Contact.. fedex_dispatch@live.com – Email Scam

Filed under: Advance fee scam — Tags: , , — admin @ 4:24 pm

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  • from Shane Desrochers sdesrochers@silverpop.com
  • subject You Have A Package..Contact..fedex_dispatch@live.com
Greetings!
I have been waiting for you to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of 125,000.00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you ever since. Then, I went and deposited the Draft with FedEx Delivery, West Africa,I travelled out of the country for a 3Month Course and I will not come back utill the end of May. What you have to do now is to contact the FedEx Delivery as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date.And the delivery fee is (485 USDOLLARS) For your information, i did not pay for the delivery charge.
Below you are going to provide your details to them once more form verification:
Full Name:
Address:
Cell phone No:
You are to Contact the dispatch director below:
Mr.Daniel J.cole
Email Address: fedex_dispatch@live.com
Cell Phone No: +2347038530110
Sincerly
Mr Wellington James

***CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE and DISCLAIMER***
This message and any attachment are confidential and may be
privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure and solely for
the use of the person(s) or entity to whom it is intended. If you
have received this message in error and are not the intended
recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this
message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the
intended recipient, be advised that any use of this message is
prohibited and may be unlawful, and you must not copy this
message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person.

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May 3, 2008

Congratulation Your Email ID Won (£500,000.00 GBP) – Email Scam

Filed under: Advance fee scam,E-Mail fraud,email scam — Tags: — admin @ 10:03 pm

This is a typical “advance fee” scam email. Often these type of emails use well known companies as the supposed senders, in an attempt to build trust. In this case, the scammers have chosen Microsoft. Microsoft, however, do not run any type of lottery or “email selection balloting promotional programme “.

Other indicators that there is something suspicious about this email are that it arrived in my Inbox at 7.30 PM on a Saturday evening (unlikely the “Microsoft Award Team” in the UK would be in the office), the poor grammar and the fact it arrived in my Spam folder as the email had been rerouted through many countries to try and hide the senders identity.

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Microsoft Award Team
10 Great Pulteney Road,
London,W1F9NB, United Kingdom.

Ref: BTD/968/07
Batch: 409978E
Dear Lucky Winner,

We the united kingdom Microsoft lottery board wishes to inform you officially that your email ID attached to the Ref: BTD/968/07 and Batch: 409978E number won you the amount of £500,000.00 GBP, in our email selection balloting promotional programme for the month of may 2008.
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CERTIFICATE OF PRIZE CLAIM(Receipt Official Notification Letter)
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1. Full Name:
2. Address:
3. Marital Status:
4. Occupation :
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Nationality:
8. Telephone Number:
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Please contact your claims officer with the above Reference & Batch to enable him process your winnings. Contact Agent Mr Ben Oris Via This email ID (mrbenoris@live.com )Call telephone number
for confirmation.(+44704-572-1259). Congratulations to you Once again from all our Staffs.

Congratulations to you Once again from all our Staffs.
Chief Online Co-ordinator Ben Oris.
On behalf of United Kingdom Microsoft Lottery Board.

Mr.Ben Oris
Tell:+44-704-572-1259
Microsoft Award Department
Email:mrbenoris@live.com

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If you have received a similar email and wish to verify the authenticity, the actual contact information of Microsoft UK is as follows:

Microsoft
Microsoft Campus
Thames Valley Park
Reading
Berkshire
RG6 1WG

Telephone no. 0870 60 10 100

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