‘Scams & Spam’

Of Course You Can Trust Me! But Can I Trust You?

Hello Pal,
 
I need of your assistance. My name is Sgt. Jarvis Reeves Jr. I am a military attache with the Engineering unit here in Ba’qubah Iraq for the United States, we have about $14 Million dollars that we want to move out of the country.
 
My partners and I need a good partner someone we can trust to actualize this venture.The money is from oil proceeds and legal. But we are moving it through diplomatic means to your house directly or a safe and secured location of your choice using diplomatic courier services.
 
But can we trust you? Once the funds get to you, you take your 30% out and keep our own 70%. Your own part of  this deal is to find a safe place where the funds can be sent to. Our own part is sending it to you.
 
If you are interested I will furnish you with more details. Awaiting your urgent response.
 
Your Buddy.
Sgt Jarvis Reeves
 
God Bless America!!!!!!

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Next Of Kin?

Hello My Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal Ethics.

I introduce myself as Mr Fredrick Kutai a staff in the accounts management Section of awell-known Bank here in the Nigeria.

One of our accounts with holding balance of 13,500,000 (Thriteen million five hundred Thousand United State Dollars) has been dormant and last operated in the past 3 years.

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Promoted By Microsoft? I Seriously Doubt It

YOU ARE TO CONTACT MR. RENE HUSON FOR THE CLAIM OF YOUR PRIZE FUND.
FROM:  THE PROMOTION CO-ORDINATOR OF STAATS LOTERIJ
STAATS LOTERIJ PROMOTION CO-ORDINATOR  
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION PROGRAM IS REGISTERED UNDER THE NETHERLANDS GAMING CONTROL LOTTERY BOARD PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X). www.staatsloterij.nl        
                                
Dear beneficiary,
We happily notify you of the draw of the Email Lottery Ballot – World Gaming Board Sweepstakes program held on Saturday – the 6th of January, 2007 at our Lottery office complex in Den Haag.
 
Your email address attached to our Lottery payment order, had the following details:(i) Ticket Nr.: DZS-NED 338-691-BBT/2006; (ii) Lucky Nrs.: 11, 18, 25, 43, 56, 77, 89; (iii) Reference Nr.: MST/18436/DZS-NED;(iv) Batch Nr.:KNED-LOTT 5196 72X5G; which consequently won you this lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of One Million Euro only, in cash, credited to your File Reference number as quoted above. This is from a total cash prize of Fifty Million Euro only, shared amongst the fifty winners in this category.
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The Winnings Keep Rolling In…

Subject: You Have Won.

THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
EURO MILLIONS SWEEPSTAKE
Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
 
Sir/Madam,
 
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE WON 1,000,000.00 EUROS.
 
We are pleased to inform you of the result of Euro Millions Sweepstake,which was held on the January 1, 2007. Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 05-32-44-45-50 (01-07),with Prize Number: 106000007 drew a prize of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros). This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.

You will receive the sum of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) from our authorized bank. Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time limit placed on the payment of your prize: 1,000,000.00 Euros, we advice that you keep all information about this prize confidential until your funds:1,000,000.00 Euros have been transferred to you by our bank. You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your funds to your person. This program has been abused severally in past,so we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false claims.

This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000 spectators. Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number 05-32-44-45-50 (01-07) was selected and; it came out first by an e-ballot draw from over 250,000 e-mail addresses (personal and corporate e-mail addresses). This program is sponsored by CFI to compensate faithful internet surfers around the globe.
 
Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners.
 
With your permission, your e-mail will also be included in the next sweepstake of 5 Million Euros. You must claim your prize: 1,000,000.00 Euros not later than 14-days from the moment you receive this e-mail. In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank; please contact them immediately, and quote your winning and personal information now, and in all your correspondence with the bank.
 
Here is the contact information:
 
Bank: Laagste Heypotheekofferte Bank. N.L.
Attention: Edgar Von. Karspeldreef 6A,1101 CJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
E-mail:
laagsteclaims@aim.com
Telephone: (+3162) 646 5225.
Fax      :      (+3184) 725 0512.
 
Furnish them with the following:
(1)YOUR NAME(S)
(ii)CONTACT ADDRESS
(iii)YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
(iv)A PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION (OPTIONAL)
(V)YOUR TICKET NUMBER
(vi)AMOUNT WON

Yours faithfully,
Blijke Johanna Diedrich (Ms.)
Promotions Manager, Euro Millions Sweepstake.

173.8

Just Exactly What Is “Re-profiling Funds”? Or Do I Really Want To Know?

Subject: PRIVATE AND BRIEF, READ CAREFULLY GET BACK TO ME IMMEDIATELY THINK ABOUT THIS

Dear Friend,
I am Larisa Sosnitskaya and I represent Mr. Mikhail Khordokovsky the former C.E.O of Yukos Oil Company in Russia. I have a very sensitive and confidential brief from this top (oligarch) to ask for your partnership in re-profiling funds US$46 Million. I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via Bank Menatep. This is a legitimate transaction. You will be paid 20% as your commison/compensation for your active efforts and contribution to the success of this transaction.
You can catch more of the story on This website below or you can watch more of CCN or BBC to get more news about my boss.

http://www.mosnews.com/mn-files/khodorkovsky.shtml
http://www.mbktrial.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213505.stm
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/04/11/041.html
http://www.nndb.com/people/633/000025558/
If you are interested, please do indicate by providing me with your confidential telephone number,fax number and email address and I will provide further details and instructions. Please keep this confidential as we cannot afford more political problems. Please do send me your response as soon as possible via my either of my personal

Emails :   Ssslarisa@aol.com

look forward to it.
Regards,
Larisa Sosnitskaya

175.7

Legitimate Or Spam?

CNS:  Fraud Alert!  Read carefully!

Hello,

We are writing to alert you to an incident which involved your email address.  A little more than an hour ago, someone using a stolen credit card number signed up for hosted services on our network and began sending bogus ebay notices.  The notice claimed to be from “Marina”, with a question about an ebay item.  The purpose of this notice was to steal your ebay password.  By clicking on the button to respond to the ebay notice, you would have been redirected to a site disguised as ebay and specifically designed to steal your ebay password.

This activity was identified by our rapid response team here at Commercial Network Services.  We immediately logged into the phishers virtually hosted server and caught them in the act of sending these fraudulent messages.  While we put a stop to it as quickly as possible, but we believe thousands of messages had been sent.

We have seized the phishers email list and are sending this message to that list – you – to alert you to this activity.  If you received a message claiming to be from an ebay member and inquiring about an item – DO NOT RESPOND TO THE NOTICE!  Instead, if you believe it is a legitimate notice, manually enter the ebay URL into your browser.  It is very important you do not click on the “respond now” link contained inside the message  as it will not take you to ebay!

If you received this notice and clicked on the respond link, we strongly recommend you logon to your ebay account * by manually entering www. ebay. com in your browser * and change your password immediately.

You should also be cautious in the future in that we know a phisher has your email address.  Please be very careful when receiving future notices like this one.  The best practice is to always visit the site in question by entering the URL manually in your browser and not clicking on the link contained in the message.

Commercial Network Services is a 12 year old online service provider.  We service a variety of online businesses from big to small.  Our services include web and email hosting, virtual servers, streaming media, e-Commerce and much more.  It is our intention to be a good online neighbor by responding to these threats as quickly as possible.

Sincerely,

Rapid Response Team,
Commercial Network Services
San Diego, California

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Email From Wendy

Hello Friend.Its me Wendy King,  i want to donate what I have to the needy. You Could be surprised why i picked you. But someone has to do it. I am old and living with HIV AIDS, my husband also died of HIV AIDS and gave me all that he had. I have been touched to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to charity through you for the good work of humanity, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband’s hard earned funds inappropriately.I hope to be fogiven for all my sins and I believe he has, because He is merciful. I have been living with HIV AIDS for years. and i know that the disease has no cure therefore i will surely die. I have made up my mind to give out (Fifteen Million Dollars) towards the fight against HIV AIDS, and other human related diseases. I want this to be done through you. Part of the money would also be used to help the motherless, less privileged and also for the assistance of the widows. Presently, i can not answer calls due to the fact that my relatives are around me and I have been restricted by my doctor from taking telephone calls because I deserve all the rest I can get.

Presently, I have informed my lawyer about my decision in donating the funds. I wish you all the best, and please use the money well and always extend the good work to others. If you are able to carry out this task, i will inform my legal adviser so that he can arrange the release of the funds to you. I know i have never met you but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely. I will pay you a handsome amount of this money if you will assist me because I am now weak to do things myself because of my HIV AIDS.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost secrecy in this matter until the task is carried out, as I don’t want anything that will halter this my last wish.

Love, Wendy King

Easy Money… Just Provide Your Bank Details

Dear Sir/Madam,

How are you doing. I would be very interested in offering you a part-time paying job in which you could earn a lot.

My names is Wayne Davis and I am 58 years of age. I just resigned my job as a research scientist for ARINI(Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland and I now work as a freelance consultant for the institute which gives me very much time to do my own work which is basically being a freelance researcher who could be employed by research institutes to do research projects anywhere in the world. Read more »

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