ALL CAPITALIZED WORDS Scam from a Mr. Aziz Usman

We think that the unusual rhetorical stylings of Mr. Aziz Usman - Who Likes To Capitalize All Words In His Letter - should be enough to deter even the stupidest of potential scam victims. However, we will post his message along with his email address in the event that anyone still has doubts about the REPLY URGENT LETTER. Here's Aziz Usman's email address; spambots, ahoy!

azizzusman@libero.it

From Mr Aziz Usman

Dear Friend.

This Message Might Meet You In Utmost Surprise. However, It's Just My Urgent Need For Foreign Partner That Made Me To Contact You For This Transaction. I Am A Banker By Profession From Burkina Faso In West Africa And Currently Holding The Post Of Foreign Remittance Director In Our Bank.

I Have The Opportunity Of Transferring The Left Over Funds ($15.Million) Of One Of My Clients Who Died Along With His Entire Family In Kenya Plane Crash 2003.You Can Confirm The Geniuses Of The Deceased Death

kindly view this site to know more.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html.

Hence, I Am Inviting You For A Business Deal Where This Money Can Be Shared Between Us In The Ratio Of 50/40 / 10% For Any income expenses that will come During the transfer, If You Agree To My Business Proposal. Further Details Of The Transfer Will Be Forwarded To You As Soon As I Receive Your Return Mail.

Please reply to only this address. ; azizz_usman@y7mail.com

Have A Great Day.

Yours,
Mr Aziz Usman

Synthia Anthony, Scammer from Cote d' Ivoire

This pitiful-sounding scammer emailed us from the email account synthia.anthony18@gmail.com. We trust that all you spambots get busy and fill Synthia's Inbox with so much spam that she can't find victims to rip off.

From Synthia Anthony Abidjan, Cote d' Ivoire

Dearest One

Permit me to inform you about my desire to go into business relationship with you. I am synthia Anthony the only daughter of Mr and Mrs. Michael Anthony, my father was a very rich cocoa merchant, based in Abidjan , the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings to discuss on a business deal. When my mother died, my father took me so special since I am motherless. Before the death of my father on 26th May 2004 in a private hospital where he was admitted, he called me secretly to his bed side and told me that he kept a sum of us$10,500,000 (ten million five hundred thousand united states dollars) in a bank in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire.

That he used my name Synthia Anthony as the next of kin in deposit of the fund he also explained to me that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business partner and that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I would transfer this money and use it for an investment purpose, such as: real estate investment or stock market investment .I am honourably soliciting your kind assistance as follows.

(1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transferred to. (2) To serve as the guardian of this fund, since I am a girl of 21 years old. (3) To make arrangement for me in your country to continue my educational career and to procure me a residential permit in your country. I am inclined to offer you 10% of the total sum as a mode of compensation for your efforts after the transferring of this fund to your account in your country. Please, I will be very happy if this transaction will be concluded within seven (7) working days from now. I am expecting hearing from you as soon as possible, N.B: I will like you to give me your direct telephone and fax number in your reply of this proposal. May almighty God bless you as you do care for an orphan like me. Anticipating to hearing from you.

Yours faithful
Synthia Anthony.

Ali Buhary Ahammed - Terminally Ill Scammer

Ah, poor Ali Buhary: he can't trust any of his thieving relatives to handle his financial affairs, and he is reduced to spamming email accounts in the hopes that some kind soul can help him donate his millions to charity.

If you are sucker enough to fall for this tired old scam, God help you.

This email originated from the email account alibamhemmed@yahoo.com, into which now I hope that thousands of spambots now dump millions of pieces of email, reducing the likelihood that this scammer will be able to fleece another fool. here is the text of Ali Buhary's letter:

Dear Friend,

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is Ali.B.Ahammed a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with esophageal 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 tolife 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.

Now that God has called Me, I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family Members as well as a few close friends. I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul so, I have decided to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last Good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed Money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia.

Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this myself anymore.I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Pakistan, they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them. The last of my money, which no one knows of, is the huge cash deposit that I have with a Finance/Security Company abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations. I have set aside 10% for you and for your time. God be with you.


BEST REGARDS

ALI BUHARY

Yet Another Fake Lottery Scam

So many email lottery scams, so little time. This piece of virtual excrement comes to us via a Morris Bladder at the email address of morris_bladder_uk@hotmail.com. Flood his email account, spam-bots!

Here is the text of the email, for those with nothing better to do than to read scams:


FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
DEAR SIR/MADAM,


FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 28TH AUGUST, 2007, of winners of the LOTTERY INTERCEPT LOTTO U.K/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, held on 3rd APRIL, 2007 as part of our promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New
Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions Program. You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting Various websites we are running the e-business promotions for.

You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 100-309-7482, with serial number 513-10 drew the lucky numbers 5, 9, 12, 29, 40, 59, 76, and consequently won in the Second Category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$950,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for Second category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$13,650,000.00 shared among the Seven international winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the interface Finance and Security Company insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our mid year (2008) high stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent immediately;

MR MORRIS BLADDER.
CLAIM AGENT,
INTERFACE FINANCE & SECURITY LTD,
NEWCASTLE, U.K
TEL: +44-703-1898- 644
EMAIL:morris_bladder_uk@hotmail.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than 30th JUNE, 2008. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays andcomplications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: FLS-ZR39-825P-4
BATCH NUMBER: 74-263-BBN
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,

THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
LOTTERY INTERCEPT UNITED KINGDOM.
115 NORDIX AVE. BRYANSTON, 762
NEWCASTLE, L60 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your claims agent through his email contact above.

EMAIL:morris_bladder_uk@hotmail.com

New PayPal Scam Email

There seems to be no end to the ways in which scam artists try to target PayPal accounts. This should be no surprise, since the company handles some 164 million accounts with over $12 billion in retail transactions per year.

This scam email even has an official-sounding email address from which it originated: service@intl.paypal.com. Even more tricky is the fact that this scammer is almost free from the grammatical and spelling errors that normally make a phony email stick out. However, this email has a redirect script that sends unsuspecting users to a dummy PayPal phishing page on a site hosted by RadiumPhoto.com:

http://radiumphoto.com/ws/restore-account-access/www.paypal.com/webscrcmd.php

Don't be a sucker, though. PayPal never sends out emails soliciting account information, and legitimate PayPal emails address you by your first and last name or by the business name associated with your PayPal account.


Dear PayPal Member,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently contacted you after noticing an issue on your account.

We requested information from you for the following reason:
Our system detected unusual activity associated with your account.

Case ID Number: PP-505-129-568

This is a reminder to log in to PayPal as soon as possible. Be sure to log in securely by open the link. Once you log in,
you will be provided with steps to restore your account access. We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.

Restore Your PayPal Account and complete the "Steps to Remove Limitations."


In accordance with PayPal's User Agreement, your account access will remain limited until the issue has been resolved.
Unfortunately, if access to your account remains limited for an extended period of time, it may result in further limitations or eventual account closure.
We encourage you to log in to your PayPal account as soon as possible to help avoid this.

To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access,
please visit the Resolution Center. If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access,
please contact PayPal by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact Us".
We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely, PayPal Account Review Department


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PayPal (USA) S.C.A.

PayPal Email ID PP1039

Fake Merrill Lynch Email Want to Phish Your Info

The following is one of the more impressive-looking phishing scams I have seen. It uses realistic HTMl graphics, contains few grammatical errors, and looks quite convincing.

Of course, since I do not do business with Merill Lynch, it is easy to spot as a fraud. This email came from the following account: cunsomers@ml.com. I hope they get blasted with Viagra ads in their Inbox, making it harder to find fraud victims.

Merrill Lynch Enhanced Security Authentication

We have enhanced the Merrill Lynch Business Center security access to further safeguard access to your account information. Click on the hyperlink below and follow the prompts to answer and record answers to five personalized security questions. We may, in the future, ask you for answers to these questions when you log into the Business Center to ensure that only you are accessing your account information.

By clicking the link below and/or by using the Merrill Lynch Business Center website ("site"), you:

Login by clicking here: http://wcma.businesscenter.ml.com/

I. Represent and warrant that you are authorized to accept the Merrill Lynch Business Center Terms & Conditions and use the site on behalf of yourself and your employer and in doing so you are acting within the scope of your duties.
II. Accept the Merrill Lynch Business Center Terms & Conditions on behalf of yourself, agree to be bound by them.

Scam Emailer Pretends to Be a Soldier Named Sgt. George Green

This demented bastard is pretending to be a U.S. soldier in Iraq, and he even has an email to support his bogus claim: sgt.georgegreen@us.army.mil.

Not only is this clown a scammer, but he is especially evil for exploiting a serviceman. Die in hell, jerk.

Attention,

How is everything going, I hope great? Though i have not considered this medium to be the best manner to have approached you on this issue being that the internet has been greatly abused over the recent years and is very unsecured for informations of vital importance.

I have decided to take the chance seeing that no other means could have been faster and more efficient than the E-mail. I write to you
irrespective of the fact you do not know me,but please do consider this letter as a request from a brother in dear need of assistance.

My name is George Green(Sgt)an American soldier, I am serving in the
military of the 1st Armored Division here in Iraq. As you know we are being attacked by insurgents everyday and car bombs, it will come worst now Saddam Hussein was executed. During one of our rescue Mission we came across a safe that contains the total sum of $21,000,000 (Twenty one Million Us Dollars) that belongs to the revolutionaries, which I believe they use in buying weapons and ammunitions, and it was agreed by all party present that the money will be shared amongst us. You can go to this web link to read about events that took place here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Out of the total fund my share was $8,000,000 (Eight Million US Dollars).

I am seeking your assistance to evacuate my share of the money, which is $8,000,000 out of here to you, in as much as you can assure me that my own share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here.

This is no stolen money,and there are no dangers involved, as I have made arrangements with a UN representative based in Asia who promised to deliver the fund to any of my choosing destination. I shall be compensating you with US$2,500,000.00 (Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) on final conclusion of this project,while the rest shall be for me for my investment purposes.

One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with a third party, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please destroy this e-mail as any leakage of this information will be too bad for me.

I do not know for how long we will remain here, and I have survived two suicide bomb attacks, which prompted me to reach out for help because I will be migrating to you to invest and start a new life not as a soldier anymore. Please if this proposal is acceptable by you, kindly send me an e mail signifying your interest including your most confidential telephone numbers for quick communication also your home address where the fund would be delivered.

As soon as I receive your email with the information, I will furnish you with full details on when and how the fund shall be delivered to you by the diplomat and he will make a contact with you before anything move.
Waiting for our urgent reply.

Best regards,
Sgt. George Green

Miss Rose Guei Maps Out a Scam for You

She uses ALL CAPS in her pitch, but don't be fooled by the person posing as Miss Rose Guei - she wants to rip you off.

She emailed us from rose_15guei@latinmail.com, and we hope that the spam bots make this email a destination for millions of Viagra ads.

FROM MISS ROSE GUEI
IVORY COAST WEST AFRICA

DEAREST ONE

I AM MISS ROSE GUEI FROM IVORY COAST AND I AM CONTACTING YOU BECAUSE I NEED YOUR HELP IN THE MANAGEMENT OF A SUM OF MONEY THAT MY LATE FATHER LEFT FOR THE FAMILY BEFORE HE WAS KILLED BY THE REBELS .AND AS HIS FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE ONLY SURVIVAL IN THE FAMILY, WHY BECAUSE I WAS NOT AT HOME WHEN THEY ( THE REBELS ) ATTACK OUR HOUSE AND KILLED MY FATHER/MOTHER AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, AND BEFORE THE SUDDEN DEATH OF MY FATHER,HE GAVE ME THE COVERING DOCUMENTS OF THE FUND DEPOSITED IN THE SECURITY COMPANY, AS I AM HIS FIRST DAUGHTER AND HE SO MUCH LOVED ME THAT WAS WHY HE MADE ME THE BENEFICAIRY OF THE FUND.

THIS MONEY IS 18.5 MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS AND THE MONEY IS IN THE SECURITY COMPANY HERE IN ABIDJAN. MY FATHER WAS EX MILITARY/EX PRESIDENT BEEN AN OPOSITION PARTY TO THE PRESENT GORVERNMENT OF COTE D'IVOIRE. ON THE 19TH SEPT 2000 MY FATHER/MOTHER INCLUDING EVERY MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY WAS MURDERED BY THE REBELS DURING THE TIME THEY ATTACK OUR HOUSE

I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT AND NOW I WANT YOU TO STAND AS MY GUIDIAN AND APPOINTED BENEFICIARY AND RECEIVE THE MONEY IN YOUR COUNTRY SINCE I AM TOO YOUNG AND WITHOUT MOTHER NOR FATHER.

PLEASE I WILL BE GLAD IF YOU REPLY TO ME ,SO THAT I WILL TELL YOU ALL THE INFORMATION AND THIS CONSIGNMENT WILL BE TRANSFERED TO YOU,SO THAT I CAN JOIN YOU THERE AND CONTINUE MY EDUCATION .

I AM WAITING FOR YOUR URGENT REPLY AND I WILL CALL YOU AS SOON AS I HEAR FROM YOU. I WILL BESENDING YOU A COPY OF MY PICTURE SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW THE PERSON YOU ARE HELPING IN MY NEXT MAIL. PLEASE CONTACT ME AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

THANKS.
MISS ROSE GUEI.

Scammer Claims to Be Son of Charles Taylor

Well, well.

This is a new twist. These 419 scammers usually take the anonymous bureaucrat angle, holding millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains. In this letter, the scammer claims to be "Kennedy," the son of the former dictator of Liberia.

The letter was ent via this email account: kenny_taylor01@hotmail.com. I hope he gets nothing but spam for his efforts to rip people off.

By the way, I am still waiting for the first 419 scammer to claim hidden Nazi gold, or booty from the rise of Nazi Germany.

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am KENNEDY THE SON OF CHARLES TAYLOR, the Former President of Liberia.

As you may be aware that the President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) has granted us asylum in Nigeria and we are presently leaving in Calabar
Eastern part of Nigeria before my father was arrested and taken to Sierra Lone to face trial Please we have what we will call my family last hope money of $10M TO TRANSFER to any foreign trusted person who will help me to invest this fund into any good business, As we can no longer have any other means of livelihood.

Please if you are interested in helping me to received these BOXES that is presently with a SECURITY COMPANY. As after successful delivery of these BOXS to you, 40% of the total fund will go to you. I will come to your country to start up a business with your assistance so that we can be able to live again.

This fund is in two boxes deposited to a SECURITY COMPANY by my father before his arrest. The company is not aware of what is inside the boxes as I told them that
the box belongs to my friend and that I will inform my friend to apply for the collection of this box since we are not allowed to be attending to visitors in Nigeria.

So please I will advise you to apply as the owner of this boxes. So that as soon as this BOX is DELIVERED to you. You will arrange for my coming to your country for proper investment. There is no risk in this as you are aware that our family is now free since we left Liberia to Nigeria peacefully.

you will apply to the security company
NOTE ON THE BOX N0: 123BKK MB .BOX FOR ONWARD DELIVERY TO YOUR
HOME.
God bless you as you help my family

Yours sincerely,

KENNDY TAYLOR;

The son of former president of Liberia

Scammer Frank Ahiazuruazu Has a Crooked Deal

Well, at least this con artist is direct and to the point. He sent this garbage from frank_ahiazuruazu0200@hotmail.fr, but asks that you correspond with him through the address frank_ahiazuruazu0200@yahoo.fr.

Just don't send this clown any money, OK?

From Frank ahiazuruazu

Dear Sir/Madam.
It's my pleasure to acquaint you with this proposal for a financial and business assistance.I know my message will come to you as a surprise. Don't worry I wasUSD$11.5M to your account for onward investment ( Hotel industries and estate building management) in your country.

Please,if you are interested,Email me so that I can give you more information. reply me urgently with this email:(frank_ahiazuruazu@yahoo.fr)Remain bless while expecting your prompt co-operation.

Regard's
From Frank ahiazuruazu

Mr. George Path, Scammer From Burkina Faso

Ho-hum.

Another day, another email box full of 419 scams. This scam is from a Mr. George Path, who somehow came across "Eighteen Million, Four Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars" in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries on Earth.

If all of the Burkina Faso scams were legitimate, there would be enough money to cover the national GDP about ten times over. George, by the way, emailed us from a French Hotmail account: george_path93@hotmail.fr. Spambots: fill Mr. Path's email box with tons of penis patch ads, OK?

The Chief Auditor/Information manager,
In-Charge of Foreign Unit
African Development Bank Group,
Ouaga. Burkina-Faso.

Good Morning,

I am MR GEORGE PATH, The Chief Auditor/Information Manager, In-Charge of Foreign Unit of our bank and I have had the intent to contact you over this financial transaction/transfer worth the sum of Eighteen Million, Four Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars (US$18.4M) for our progress and richness. This is an abandoned sum that belongs to our late foreign customer (an International Billionaire Businessman) who died in plane crash disaster along with his wife.

I was opportune to see the deceased deposit file bearing this huge amount of money when I was inspecting the dated and current customer’s files in other to sign and submit to the entire bank management for an official validation / re-documentation against the statement approval to the account holders for the year. In a swift investigation carried out by me, I found out that non of the deceased relative is aware of the abandoned fund except his late wife. As a result of that, it is an extremely confidential matter between me and you.

Hence you are a foreigner to our country, you are authorized by our Banking law to apply and claim the fund into your account as the NEXT-OF-KIN to the deceased. For assisting me to get the fund transferred into your bank account, the ratio of 40% of the total sum is for your share whereas 50% is for me as business pioneer, and 10% will be for any expenses such Telephone Calls and Internet bills during the transaction.

Please I need your urgent response on assurance of trust that you will not deny my right of the share once the fund gets into your account because I am a poor civil servant who depend on little monthly salary. You are the one who will help me to get visa to your country immediately I resign from my work on the instant of the transfer into your account.

If you are really sure of your integrity, trustworthy, and confidentiality, reply urgently and to prove that, include your particulars as follows.

Private telephone and fax numbers?..........
Country of Origin?.................................
Your passport or ID card number?..............

I NEED TRUST.

In sincerity,

Mr GEORGE PATH.

Mr. John Williams, Scammer Extraordinaire

This scammer, who uses ALL CAPS in his writing, must be a believer in the power of CAPITAL LETTERS to persuade the stupid.

Don't fall for his tricks.

I have actually received this scam email at three different accounts, so I suspect Mr. John Williams will find a sucker. He sent this message from the email address william_john.03@hotmail.com. May his email account be hit with hundreds of spambots promoting Viagra, Cialis, and penis patches.

DEAR FRIEND,

MY NAME IS MRJOHN WILLIAMS THE MANAGER, CREDIT AND FOREIGN BILLS OF BANK OF AFRICA(BOA). I AM WRITING IN RESPECT OF A FOREIGN CUSTOMER OF MY BANK WITH ACCOUNT NUMBER 14-2551004/BOA/T WHO PERISHED IN A PLANE FLIGHT 990 - EGYPTAIR WITH THE WHOLE PASSENGERS ABOARD.

SINCE THE DESMISAL 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 $6,500.000.USD, [SIX MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS] WHICH HAS BEEN WITH MY 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 DOESNOT ALLOW SUCH MONEY TO STAY MORE THAN FIVE YEARS, BECAUSE MONEY WILL BE RECALLED TO THE BANK TREASURY AS UNCLAIMED AFTER THIS PERIOD.

IN VIEW OF THIS I GOT YOUR CONTACT THROUGH A TRADE JOURNAL IF YOU CAN STAND AS NEXT OF KIN TO THE DECEASED. I WILL GIVE YOU 30% OF THE TOTAL. UPON THE RECEIPT OF YOUR RESPONSE, I WILL SEND YOU BY E-MAIL THE APPLICATION, BANK'S FAX NUMBER AND THE NEXT STEP TO TAKE.

I WILL NOT FAIL TO BRING TO YOUR NOTICE THAT THIS BUSINESS IS HITCH FREE AND THAT YOU SHOULD NOT ENTERTAIN ANY FEAR AS ALL MODALITIES FOR FUND TRANSFER CAN BE FINALIZED WITHIN FIVE BANKING DAYS, AFTER YOU APPLY TO THE BANK AS A RELATION TO THE DECEASED.

WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS LETTER. KINDLY SEND ME AN E-MAIL SIGNIFYING YOUR DECISION INCLUDING YOUR PRIVATE TEL/FAX NUMBERS FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
MR.JOHN WILLIAMS.

Mr.Shahid Imam Hopes to Scam You

This scam letter purports to from one Mr.Shahid Imam, a Muslim man in that hotbed of Muslim activity, South Africa.

Ahem.

The sender actually hails from the United States, and after a few reroutings, the letter was sent from the email account shahidmam@hotmail.com. Another case of a foreign national who can bring his scamming carcass to the U.S., but who just can't seem to find a way to get all that illicit money here.

Hello,

I am Mr.Shahid Imam,A SOUTH AFRICAN working with SENEGAL BRANCH OF
CREDIT MUTUAL DU SENEGAL AS THE MANAGER.My apologies if you find my mail
intruding, i do not intend to offend you but only wish to use this
medium to propose a business transaction to you which i believe would be of
financial benefits to both of us if you agree to work with me.

First,i would like you to know that i would understand if you take
this proposal to be some scam or hoax as i would probably think the same
in your place. I also receive a lot of spam mails all the time which to
be honest with you is how i got the idea of contacting you through this
medium from.I want to assure you this is a real and genuine business.

I am sorry,i can only give you a few details of the transaction at
this moment as i am not sure of your position yet and would not want to
risk destroying everything i have worked hard for so far by being
carefree and disclosing vital information's at this point that could get me
into trouble,i have to be sure you are willing to work with me before i
can give you the full details including my personal information's.

The total amount involved is around NINE MILLION UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA DOLLARS and all i need from you is to help me get the funds over to
you safely, i have everything all worked out and there would be no
risk or danger in this transaction.
If you are willing to co-operate with me on this deal feel free to
give me a call or write me ASAP indicating your sincere interest and for
further information's and any questions you might wish to ask me. Thanks
for your time and i look forward to a positive response from you soon.

Thanks,
Mr.Shahid Imam
Telephone:+221-440-9966

Hajara Coulibary Hopes to Steal Your Money

Yet another typical 419 scam, this time from a scammer posing as a Mrs. Hajara Coulibary.

This one has all the usual hallmarks of a 419 scam: big wad of illicit cash, small African nation, and they just need a stooge (you) to help them move it.

Interestingly, Mrs. Hajara Coulibary maintains a Japanese Yahoo account, hajara2005diarra@yahoo.co.jp. It seems she can travel to Japan, but she just can't seem to find a way to get all that cash out of Cote d'Ivoire.

FROM : Hajara Coulibary.
Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire.

I pray that this email reaches you in the best of health. This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not yet met. The message could be strange but it's real and you will realise this if you paysome attention to it. I want to notify you about it at least for the sake of your integrity.

Dear One,
I and my Son intend to invest in your country.

There is this amount of Five million United States dollars($5,000.000) which my late Husband kept for us in the Bank here in Abidjan before he untimely death in a hospital after a brief illness.

Now I and my son have decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa.
We want you to help us transfer and invest this fund in your country for investment purposes.

If you can be of a sincere assistance to us ,please do get back to us for more intimate details.

I await your soonest response.
Kind regards,

Mrs. Hajara Coulibary.

Mr. Koffi Peters Wants to Rip You Off

Typical 419 scam here: bad English, a deal too good to be true, and the lure of ill-gotten gains.

YAWN.

Still, there will be at least one sucker who falls for the poorly-written missive of Mr. Koffi Peters. Don't be that sucker. The email originated from MYSTICALMASCOT@YAHOO.CA

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mr.Koffi Peters,From Ghana West Africa we buy and sale raw gold,Dust Gold Minening &Dimond Import& Corporation (CEO.PRESIDENT.) we are a company who deal on real raw , Dust Gold and Dimond , and minerals, Presious Stones products, And export into the Canada/America, Asia and Europe.We are searching for representatives who can help us establish amiddleperson , of getting to our costumers in the Canada/America,Asia and Europe as well as making payments through you to us.Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be glad. Please contact us for more information,Subject to your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services as our representative in Canada/America,Asia and Europe. Please if you are interested forward to us your phone number/fax your full contact addresses .
to our mail address
koffipeters05@excite.com

Thanks in advance
Mr.Koffi Peters
Managing Director
CEO PRESIDENT.

Western Union Scam Email

These scammers hope to prey upon the unsuspecting, and they use a redirected URL hidden in an email link. Instead of sending you to Western Union's website, the victim gets sent to a spoof site at this address:

http://www.mbam.org.my/mbam/components/wumt.westernunion.com/asp/signin/regLogin/

The email originated from this account: online-wu@mt.westernunion.com. I trust that spambots will now get busy and fill the scammers' email box with spam.

We are contacting you regarding your westernunion account. Due to inactivity, your account has been deactivated from using our services. Therefore, we invite you to update your profile in order to regain full access to our services.

Go here >> [phony redirect URL]

Please Note: If your account information is not updated within the next 36 hours, your account will be deleted.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,
Western Union Support Dept.

Another Scam eBay Email

Yet another example of the phishing emails using eBay as a front. The perpetrators of these criminal ID-grabbing schemes hope that you will be stupid enough to click on the link they provide and give them your eBay user name and password.

Don't be stupid. Always go to the official eBay site and login there.

This email redirects to the following website: http://ppp-71-139-198-83.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net/NoSiteDefined.htm. It was sent from the email address of aw-confirm@ebay.com, but it went through numerous remailing IPs to hide its origin.

These scammers, however, failed to correct their typographical and grammatical errors, making this email a bit easier to ferret out as a scam.

eBay Limited Account Access.

Dear eBay customer,

During our regularly schedule account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error in your billing information on file with eBay.
This might be due to either following reasons:

- A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address)
- An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due an internal error within our processors.

We need you to confirm your identity in order to regain full privileges of your account. If this is not completed by July 23, 2007, we reserve the right to terminate all privileges of your account indefinitly, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes.

- Click on the link below:

https://www.ebay.com/

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and regret any
inconvenience this may cause.

Sincerely,
eBay Account Review Department

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored a
nd you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your eBay account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any page. If your inquiry is regarding a claim, log in to your eBay account and go to the Resolution Center.

Scammer Dr. Diego Seahm Uses Sick Ploy

This soulless scammer actually includes a link to a BBC article about a real plane crash in his efforts to rip you off.

Dr. Diego Seahm emailed us from di_34ah@hotmail.fr, so I hope the spambots fill his email box with Viagra ads. Bastard.

FROM THE DESK OF DR.DIEGO SEAHM
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TEL:00226-78-81-04-32

Dear Friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but due to the urgency of this transaction.
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. There is no doubt that trust conceptually is a conundrum which leads itself to deferring interpretation, we have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction.

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of African Development bank (ADB). I came to know you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I am writing to you, following the impressive information received about you from the chambers of commerce. I believed that you are capable and reliable to champion this business opportunity. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $30m US dollars (Thirty million US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family On Monday, 31 July, 2000, 13:22 GMT 14:22 UK, 2000 through concorde air lane with flight N AF4590 crashed off, killing all 109 people on board and you can view the site for more details:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,
Dr. Diego Seahm,
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB

Ken Quattara, Scam Artist from Côte d'Ivoire

Typical 419 scam: relative of a late African offical supposedly needs your help to move millions of dollars out of the country.

YAWN. We wish you scammers could get a little more creative.

"Ken" mailed us this email from kenquattaras@hotmail.com, and he also lists an email of qkenuattara@yahoo.com. Spambots: start your engines!

Ken Quattara
Abidjan - Cote D'ivoire

Good day ,
Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business transaction with you.i got your name and contact from the ivories chamber of commerce and industry.I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to its esteeming nature and there commendations given to me as a reputable and trustworthy person that i can do business with and by there commendation, i must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

I am ken Quattara the only son of late Mr. Koffi Quattara, my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast.My father was poisoned to dearth by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip,my mother died when i was a baby and since then my father took me so special.before the death of my father on march 2005 in a private hospital in Abidjan he secretly called me on his bedside and told me that he has the sum of Seven million,five hundred thousand united state dollars($7,500,000.00) left in fixed/suspense account in one of the prime bank in Ivory Coast West Africa, that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin in depositing of the fund, he also explained to me that it was because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates, that I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management or hotel management.

Please, I am honorably 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 since i am only 25years staying my pastor
(3) to make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and to secure a resident permit in your country.
Moreover,please, I am willing to offer you 30% of the total sum as compensation for you effort, help and input after the successful transfer of this fund into your nominate account in country.
Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within short period of time,you signify interest to assist me.
Anticipating to hear from you soon.
Thanks and God bless.
Best regards,
Ken Quattara
(qkenuattara@yahoo.com)

eBay Scam Email Redirects to Phish Site

It looks just the like the real eBay emails, and says it originated from the email account "eBay-US@ebay.com," but this is a major phishing scam. If you are foolish enough to follow the link, you will be redirected to a phishing site that looks just like the real eBay, except it has a new URL:

http://59.144.47.146/.cgi/pages.ebay.com/welcome.html

Don't be a sucker!

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