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May 10, 2008

(Important Update From Natwest Bank Plc) – Phishing Email Scam

Filed under: Phishing — Tags: , , — admin @ 3:16 pm

A NatWest email phishing for account details.

If you recieve a similair email, you can report it by calling NatWest on 0845 605 0789 or forward the suspect e-mail to phishing@natwest.com

BTW. the “Proceed” button has been disabled in the following email body.

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  • subject (Important Update From Natwest Bank Plc)
  • mailed-by freeolaweb0.freeola.net

ONLINE BANKING
Secure Your Internet Banking Dear Natwest Bank Customer, Recently there have been a large number of identity theft attempts targeting Natwest Bank Customers.In order to safeguard your account,we require that your banking details. This process is mandatory,and if not completed within the nearest time your account may be subject to temporary suspension. To serurely confirm your Natwest Bank Account details please click on the PROCEED botton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**** This is an automated message, please do not respond ****

 

 

 

 

 

 

?2008 Natwest Bank. All Rights Reserved. No recipient addresses found in header


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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 2, 2008

BIG LOTTERY FUND LUCKY WINNER – Lottery Email Scam

Filed under: Lottery Scams — Tags: , — admin @ 1:13 pm

The scammers seem to be back in full swing after a few weeks of quiet!

Please note the Big Lottery Fund does NOT run a lottery. They make payments to causes from money raised by the UK National Lottery. This is what they say in regard to email scams:

Have you received an email telling you that you have won a prize from Big Lottery Fund? If you have, it has not come from us. We do not run a lottery or give away prizes. We only make grants to people and organisations that have applied to us. Any lottery that asks for payment to claim a prize is not run by either the Big Lottery Fund or the UK National Lottery.

We advise you not to give your money or your details to unknown organisations or individuals.

Also, there wasn’t a draw made by the UK National Lottery on the 1st April (perhaps this is a late April Fools trick?). The closest draw was made on the 2nd April & the numbers were: 2 – 6 – 21 – 23 – 43 – 47 – 29 with a bonus number of 5. The prize was £2,503,562, split between 2 winners.

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from “BIG LOTTERY FUND.” claims_roeder@yahoo.com.hk
to Admin@wr-il.net
subject BIG LOTTERY FUND LUCKY WINNER

BIG LOTTERY FUND
BIRMINGHAM CENTRE,
APEX HOUSE 3 EMBASSY DRIVE EDGBASTON,
BRIMINGHAM B15 1TR,
UNITED KINGDOM.

We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent BIG LOTTERY FUND PROGRAMME DRAWS (#1001) held on the 1ST of April, 2008 through computer ballot system Your email,is attached to ticket number 023-1856-790-279, with serial number 5073-10 drew the lucky numbers 43-58-42-37-69-72 Bonus No. 7, and consequently won the lottery in the first category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ?2,500,000.00 POUNDS STERLING.{Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling} in cash credited to file REF: BLF/26510460037/02.

This is from total prize money of ?25,000,000.00 shared among Ten Lucky international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa as part of International Promotions Program.

You have to send following details in order to facilitate the processing and release of your winning.

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April 8, 2008

Good Day:From The Desk Of Barrister James Potong (Esq). – 419 Email Scam

Filed under: 419 Scams — Tags: , , — admin @ 12:31 am

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  • reply-to “Barrister James Potong (Esq)” <barrijamespotong@hotmail.com>
  • subject Good Day:From The Desk Of Barrister James Potong (Esq).

 From The Desk Of Barrister James Potong ,
James & Associate Chambers
37 Sathorn Tai Road, 
Bangkok Thailand
Email:barrijamespotong@hotmail.com
Tel: +66876724370.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you I believe you are a highly respected personality considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events.

Well, I am Barrister James Potong , a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.Steve Anderson, who used to work with Siamrak Company Limited. On the 21st of April 2003, his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident along Sukhumvit Express Road.

Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident. Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client’s relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by my client in a Finance Company, Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only).

Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to claim the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 5 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the fund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House.

Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share the money in this order: 70% will be for me, 30% will be for you. I have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we will make with the Finance House.

All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

You are needed as a next of kin to inherit your brother left fund.


Best regards .

Barrister James Potong  (Esq).

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April 4, 2008

Temporary Job Offer Pine Woods!! – Employment Email Scam

Filed under: Employment Scams — Tags: , , , — admin @ 4:11 am

“Pam Williams” is making the rounds again, this time using Pine Wood Furniture instead of Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company Ltd. A different company name being abused but the same fraudulent intent.

 The content of the email is as follows:

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PINE WOOD FURNITURE
15 Kilmandil Rd,
Cloughmills,
Ballymena,
BT44 9BH
Telephone and Fax: +44 (0) 28 2763 8653
http://www.pine-furniture.co.uk/index.html
http://www.pine-furniture.co.uk/gallery.html

 Once again i try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered. On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the  Pinewood,My name is (Mrs.)Pam Williams a Texan currently working as Pinewood Consultant.

I want to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without, affecting your present job? Actually i need a representative who can be working for Pinewood.

Its always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive payment’s twice in a month so i therefore decided to contact you,i am willing to pay you 10% for every payment received by you from our clients who makes payment through you.i do come to receive payment and have it cashed after i supply them raw materials.

  Just in case you are concerned about how i got to your contact,it was through the “American Chamber of Commerce” for trust worthy individuals.i was also directed on  how to make online search.

WE DO OFFER’S FLEXIBLE PROGRAM:
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 *TWO HOURS/DAY AT YOUR CHOICE,
  DAYTIME AND EVENING.
 *CHECKING AND REPLYING EMAILS.

N.B
REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL FOR ME TO CO-ORDINATE YOUR FORM WITHIN 24HRS,
SO I COULD GET BACK TO YOU WITH THE ACCEPTANCE LETTER.(p.a.m194@hotmail.com)

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