The following 16 pages contain examples of email scams.
Typical characteristics of these scams are:
• Offers of large sums of money for a very modest token payment by you
• Implied threats of undesirable consequences if you do not immediately
take action to verify your identify, password, social security number, or
other personal information
• Sender uses very broken English, poor spelling, refers to themselves as
Mr., Mrs., Dr. or other title.
• Implies a sense of urgency, the opportunity for you to receive great
benefits is short lived
• Text of hyperlink begins with https://bankofamerica.com, but actual link is
http://iamgoingtoripyouoff.podunkville.nigeria
• Use of major corporation name to imply validity and the company's
support, e.g. Microsoft is used frequently
• Many religious terms to convince you the sender has high moral standard
Mystery shopper scam – you are offered a job as a shopper to purchase goods
from a specific store or chain of stores to evaluate the effectiveness, courtesy,
and other characteristics of the store employees. You are paid $200 to shop for
a couple hours using credit cards you are given. You turn over the purchased
goods (worth much more than $200) and the credit cards and receive you pay.
Your picture is now on the store's video cameras and you can be charged with
fraud for using fake credit cards.
I have a very important situation that requires your attention. Kindly reply me:
[email protected]
Your assistance is needed for a transaction worth($8,370,000.00).Reply me if
interested.
Attn: Winner
Winning No: Msoft/366/598/2012
Email Ref No: Msoft/166/53/2012
Your e-mail address was selected and confirmed by our Microsoft
International, through Internet software. You are therefore been
awarded to receive the sum of ($500,000.00). Contact Mrs. Lisa
Jones via email: ([email protected]) to receive your won
prize.
Your Full Name:
Tel/Cell Number:
Address/Country:
Congratulations!
Virgie Adkins
MICROSOFT AWARD TEAM
Dear Beneficiary,
The board of directors of African Union Monetary Unit do hereby to inform you
that we received your inheritance ATM card/cheque from the delivery company
as an abandoned and unclaimed property. Your funds will be diverted/channel to
the government treasury account in seven (7) working days that is if you fail to
meet up with our demand.
You are required making a deposit of $65 to this office to enable us obtain a
certificate of ownership in your favour. This Certificate of Ownership will give you
legal right to put claim over your inheritance funds as a true beneficiary.
As soon as we receive the fee of $65 we will secure the Certificate of Ownership
and your funds shall get to you within 48 hours. Therefore, you are hereby
advice to proceed immediately with the payment via western union or money
gram to enable us obtain the certificate and proceed with the delivery of your
inheritance funds.
Thank you,
Mr. C. Disu.
My wife and I won the Euro Millions Lottery & will be donating a check for £1.5
Million Pounds to empower you financially.
Please get back to us with your Name, Age, Tel, Country and a valid bank check
will be issued in your name.
For more information about our winnings, please read this news article below;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9497129/Lottery-winners-bombardedwith-letters-asking-for-financial-help.html
Gillian & Adrian Bayford
Contact Email.: [email protected]
I am private financial institution,i offer loan at 1%interest rate
My name is Hussain Biyari,an executive with the International Institute of
Finance,Inc (RUSD) bank malaysia.I have a legitimate prospect in my office that
will be of great benefit to us,All i require is your honest co-operation,dedication
and trust for the success of this deal.
I'll send you details of the proposal if you are interested and any other
requirements you desire to confirm the authenticity of this proposal.
Sincerely,Hussain Biyari
Subject: View attached file
Dear Costumer,
You have one(1) new banking alert
Continue
Thanks for helping us protect you better your account safety is our priority
National Australia Bank Security Team
We are accepting applications for qualified individuals to become Mystery
Shoppers.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
1. You will receive funding for the assignment.
2. You will receive the Instruction for your assignment via email on the
location and details of the assignment.
3. You are to complete the assignment as fast and discreetly as possible.
4. You will be asked to visit a business location to conduct business be it a
restaurant, shopping store etc.
PAYMENT TERMS:
You will receive a flat sum of $200 per assignment. The company will furnish
you
with all expense
needed for the assignment and any other expense incurred during the course of
executing your assignment.
NOTE : YOU ARE TO FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO YOU THE
FULLEST.KINDLY SEND
YOUR INFORMATION BELOW TO PROCEED ON FIRST ASSIGNMENT .
Your Full Name:
Your Address
City,
State,
zip code
Occupation:
Phone/cell Number
Age:
It's fun and rewarding. There is no charge to become shopper and you do not
need previous experience and you would be paid $200 for every duty you
carryout,
Human Resource Dept
Dear member
Your account was restricted due to acts inconsistent with the letter or spirit of our
policies.
You are required to update your account information till the end of the next
billing cycle. Failure of accepting our ruling could result in account suspension
and denying access to our services. We need you to take action now. Please go
to the URL bellow and follow the instructions on screen.
Activate your account by click on the link bellow and complete the fields :
Click here to activate your account
This is an automated message and this mailbox is unsupervised. If you have
questions, please contact Road Runner Team.
Questions? Go to the Help Center at: http://http://help.rr.com
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not
receive a response. For assistance, log in to your Road Runner account and
click Help in the top right corner of any Road Runner Service page.
You can receive plain text emails instead of HTML emails. To change your
Notifications preferences, log in to your account, go to your Profile, and click My
settings.
Road Runner Email ID
Good day,
I am Mr Dave Dawes. My wife and I,won the biggest Euro Millions lottery
prize of £101,203,600.70 GBP and we have commenced our Charity
work/Donation now and we will be giving out a cash donation of
£1,500,000.00 GBP to five(5)lucky individuals and ten(10)charity
organisations from any part of the world.
To verify the genuineness of this email and our winnings, please see our
interview by visiting the web page below;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8820740/101mlottery-jackpot-winners-Dave-and-Angela-Dawes-to-give-millions-to-friends-andfamily.html
Your email address was submitted to my wife and I by the Google Management
Team and you received this email because we have listed you as one of the
lucky beneficiaries , Kindly send us the below details so that we can direct
our Bank can effect a valid Bank Draft in your name to your operational
bank account in your country.
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Full Name:
Country:
Age:
Occupation:
Sex:male
Mobile/Tel:
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Congratulations & Happy Celebrations in Advance,
Dave & Angela Dawes
Email: [email protected]
Dear SunTrust customer,
We recently reviewed your account, and we are suspecting that your SunTrust
Online Banking account may have been accessed from an unauthorized
computer.
This may be due to changes in your IP address or location. Protecting the
security of your account and of the SunTrust network is our primary concern.
We are asking you to immediately report any unauthorized withdrawals, and
check your account profile to make sure no changes have been made.
To protect your account please follow the instructions below:
* DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH OTHER USERS
* UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
* LOG OFF AFTER USING YOUR ONLINE ACCOUNT
Please click on the following link, to verify your account activity:
https://www.suntrust.com/PersonalBanking
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your
support in helping us maintaining the integrity of the entire SunTrust system.
Please login as soon as possible.
Thank you,
© 2012 SunTrust.
Awarded $2.5million dollars in compensation of scam victims send the
following details for claims.
Name.
Address.
Tel...
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From: Dorisca, Esson
Sent: Tue 3/13/2012 7:39 PM
To: Dorisca, Esson
Subject: RE: Can I Believe In Your Trust.
I am Albert Burkhard Blarr from National Bank of Oman (NBO),Oman.I have a
business proposal of $15.6million for us.If you are interested kindly email me
on: [email protected]
Kindly respond Via Mail:[email protected]
Dorisca, Esson
HOW ARE YOU TODAY, MY NAME IS DR. JAMES DANTATA, YOU MIGHT
HAVE FORGOTTEN ME BUT THE FACT IS THAT YOU HAVE ATTEMPTED
HELPING ME IN THE PAST REGARDING A 35 MILLION USD TRANSFER
WHICH WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL BUT I SUCCEEDED LATER WITH THE
HELP OF A BRITISH BASED MERCHANT BUT CONSIDERING YOUR
EARLIER EFFORT I HAVE DECIDED TO GIVE YOU 2.5 MILLION USD AS
COMPENSATION.
My Name is Sr. Fausto De Carmona,
I am from Portugal I have been diagnosed with cancer. It has defiled all forms of
medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live,
according to medical experts. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I
never really cared for anyone (not even myself) but my business.
Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and
only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for. But now I
regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or
make all the money in the world.
I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live
my life a different way from how I have lived it. I would want to have a Personal
and Trustworthy Relationship with you, as I intend and willing to empower the
change of ownership for the transfer of my Deposits to your personal
possession for further Investment and Charity Disbursement to the Less
Privilege and Homeless write me via my mail: [email protected]
I will send you the photos of me and my very hopeless and selfish family
members, including my wife, who I learnt is getting married to my personal
friend and attorney,
Thank you for your due consideration. God be with you. You can reach me
through my private email address at [email protected]
Yours Brother.
Sr. Fausto De Carmona.
I have a business proposal that i will like you to handle with me from my
bank worth $98.6m. If interested, kindly get back to me for more details via
this email: [email protected]
Attention: Beneficiary.
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /inheritance file
and your fund valued at US$8.5Million has been approved by this authority via
ATM card delivery and you are required to get back to me immediately with Your
full: Address: Age: Phone Number: and valid ID for immediate release of your
fund in this first quarter of this fiscal year 2012 without any further delay.
Wait for your expedite response.
Yours sincerely,
Rev. John Ama
Tel: 234813021125
You are required to upgrade your Regions
Account by subscribing to our New Security Center.
Please click here in order to upgrade your
Regions account.
If you not perform the update now, your account will be placed on hold. On
hold accounts can still send money, but they cannot withdraw or receive
funds.
©Copyright 2012 Regions Financial Corporation
Our Ref: us/inhpay/012/93823
Your Ref:
Date: 26th Jan., 2012;
ATTN BENEFICIARY; PRIOR TO PREVIOUS NOTICES SENT TO YOU; WE
WAIT VERIFICATION OF YOUR DATA; AS PAYMENT FOR $1,000,000.00 USD
HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR PAYMENT TO YOU; PROVIDE YOUR *FULL
NAMES *FULL POSTAL ADDRESS *DIRECT TEL NUMBER *CURRENT
OCCUPATION *SEX & AGE *NATIONALITY - FORWARD RESPONSE TO
([email protected])
REGARDS;
SUE O'LEARY
You are the Second Prize Winner of £1,200,000.00, EURO MILLIONS
LOTTERY 2012. Contact Mr. Peter Hills via [email protected] with your
Full Name, Mobile Number and Country.
You have been awarded $1,500,000.00 USD in the on-going united nations
poverty alleviation program. Contact Mrs Franca Lee @ +6010 3770 946 for
more inquiries and send your full Name,Address & Phone Number to
[email protected] for payment.Yours truly Jim Burch
Announcer.
You have been awarded $1,500,000.00 USD in the on-going united nations
poverty alleviation program. Contact Mrs Franca Lee @ +6010 3770 946 for
more inquiries and send your full Name,Address & Phone Number to
[email protected] for payment.Yours truly Jim Burch
Announcer.
From Sister Ruth Zaman
My Dearest in Christ Jesus The Lord,
My name is Mrs.Ruth Zaman a nationality of Kuwait . I am married to late Mr.
Simon Zaman who worked with Kuwait embassy here in GHANA for nine years
before he died in the year October 2008. We were married for twenty years with
a child. My Husband died after an illness that lasted for four days May his Soul
rest in perfect peace Amen.
Before his death we were both born again Christians. When my late husband
was alive he deposited the sum of (Eleven Million U.S.Dollars) with one of good
banks here in GHANA presently, this money is still with the bank. Recently my
Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to my cancer
problem, though what disturbs me most is my stroke. Having known my
condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a Christian
individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in. more
especially earthquake victims in Haiti and also any organization of your choice,
the poor and the motherless babies. I want a person or church that will use this
fund to churches, orphanages, research centers and widows propagating the
word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.
The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this
decision because I have a child that will inherit this money but my son can not
carryout this work only because I and my late husband decide to use some of
the money to work for God and live some for our son to have a better live. our
son is just 17year old now and been grow up in Africa, he have low maternity
and my husband's relatives are not Christians and I don't want my family hard
earned money to be misused by unbelievers, I don't want a situation where this
money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking this bold
decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know that I am going to be in the
bosom of the Lord. Exodus! 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I
shall hold my peace. I will like you to understand that my contact to you is a
divine direction from God, I don't want any of my husband family relatives to
receive this money but I know that With God all things are possible. As soon as
Remain blessed in the name of the Lord.
Yours Sister in Christ
Mrs.Ruth Zaman and Son David,
AET
Aqua Evaluation Team® AET
20161 SW Birch St # 250,
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-734-5222
AQUA EVALUATION TEAM
We are offering you a Mystery Shopper job and we would like you to participate,
Aqua Evaluation Team conducts surveys on other companies when hired. we
get paid to go to other people's companies and act like customers in order to
know how the staffs are handling their services in relation to their customers. If
you decide to apply for this job, you would be directed to the company or outlet
and you would be given funds to either purchase products or required services
after which you would write a comment on the staff's activities and give a
detailed record of your experience.
Examples of details you would forward to us are:
o How long it took you to get the services requested.
o Smartness of the attendant
o Customer service professionalism
o Sometimes you might be required to upset the attendant, to see
how they react.
We turn this information over to the company executives and they would carry
out their own duties in improving their services. Most companies employ our
assistance when people give complains about their services or when they feel
there are needs for them to improve their customer service.
Due to the work pressure on our staff, we hereby look for more workers to work
for us. If you think you have what it takes to join a fast-pace professional
environment, then apply immediately via my EMAIL : albertstroller22@ aol dot
com
As this position will be filled quickly. Your identity would be kept confidential as
the job states (secret/mystery shopper) and you would
be paid $200 for every duty you carry out,which takes just 2 to 3 hours of your
time,and you could have three to four duties in a
week..which gives you more money..depending on how fast and effective you
are.
All interested candidate should fill the information below.
1. Name:
2. Contact Address (No P.O. Box please):
3. City:
4. State:
5. Zip Code:
6. Cell Phone:
7. Age:
8. Current Occupation:
Please only serious candidates should apply for this mystery shopper position
and when writing, we would need you to inform or tell us why you feel you are
the best candidate for the job.
Thanks,
Albert Stroller
Office ( 949-734-5222 )
All contents © 2011. Aqua Evaluation Team. All rights reserved.
Attn: Customer!
Are you ready to pick up this your first payment $5000.00 sent today? We have
concluded to effect your payment through western union $5,000.00 daily until
the (US$2.5M) is completely transferred. Meanwhile, Our Office has western
union $5,000.00 in your name today.
Contact Western union Agent to pick up this $5000 now:
Contact person:Mr John Richard
E-mail [email protected]
Tel this Number (+229 99666825
Here is the payment information:
TRACK WESTERNUNION SITE : www.westernunion.com
Money Transfer Control Number (M.T.C.N):8222623510
Senders First Name: Ozekwe
Senders Last Name:Lawrence
Question:In God USD$5,000
Avaliable to pick by receiver while you only need to send them activation fee of
$50 now to this
information before picking up the fund:
Use this information below send the $50 now;
Receiver Name George Obukweli
Address C/B 312 City/ Cotonou Country/Benin Republic
Question A
Answer
B
Sender Name and Mtcn
Ask him to give you the , Question and Answer to pick the $5,000.00. Also you
should send $50 to him and your your information such as below,
Thanks1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Current Address
4. Age and Current Occupation
5. Your Identification Card
Regards
MR PETER SMITH
From Western Union Money Transfer:
Office In charge Of Your Fund.
Attn: Fund Beneficialy,
We want to inform you that an approved payment of S$4.5million Singapore
dollars was discover in our wester union payment system during our end year
auditing as your out standing balance made to be paid to you via wester union.
considering the largness of the amount , a cheque have been issued under your
name to offset this payment please contact our western union money transfer
department,Development Bank Of Singapore (DBS), kuala lumpur branch
Malaysia with your Telephone number,Full Name, Your Country and adress so
that they will ratify the information with the data in their system and your cheque
will be send to you as soon as possible. E-mail( [email protected] )
Best Regards,
Mr.Carlson Ting
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From Miss Fatma Aziz
I am Miss Fatma Aziz young medical student from Cote d’Ivoire West Africa. I
would like to go into a partnership with you; it is my pleasure to contact you for a
business venture which I and my brother ISSA intend to establish in your
country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk
confident in succeed sometimes in life. There is this huge amount ($10.500,
000, 00 Dollars) Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars which
my late Father deposited on my name in the suspense account with one Bank in
Europe before his Death.
Now we have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe
enough outside Africa for security and political reasons. we want you to help us
claim and retrieve these fund from the Bank and transfer it into your personal
account in your country for investment purposes, since the money is deposited
in the suspense account we can not have access to the fund until it is
transferred out from the account that is why I am contacting you to assists us
and see that the Bank transfer the money into your personal account for to us to
leave this country and meet you over there.
I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be transferred to.
(2) To serve as a guardian of this fund.
(3) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our
education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
If you can be of assistance to us we will be pleased to offer you 20% of the total
fund, and again we are going to invest together and share what ever profit we
make together, we want you to get back to us as soon as possible so that I will
tell you what next step to take to enable us conclude this transfer.
I am waiting for your soonest response.
Yours Sincerely,
Miss. Fatma Aziz
Dear Western Union member,
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