Wednesday, January 30, 2013

FBI Anti Terrorist Scam

This is an obvious scam. I just received this e-mail, and it has all the halmarks of a scam: It wants to much info, it uses "legitimate" agency names, yet all the e-mail addresses are not to that agency. it mentions Nigeria... Don't fall for this one.

Scam e-mail Below:

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crimes Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington D.C


FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

HELLO, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE:

THIS OFFICE HAVE BEEN ALERTED BY FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT BOARD OF AFRICA. THE SETTLEMENT BOARD OFFICE HAVE PREPARED A CASH DISPATCH PACKAGE OF US$15.5 MILLION FOR YOU. WE WERE TOLD THAT THE SOURCE OF THE FUND IS A OVER DUE PAYMENT WHICH HAVE BEEN UNCLAIMED FOR OVER 8YEARS NOW.

THE US EMBASSY IN NIGERIA HELPED THEM TO VERIFY AND GAVE AN ABIDING ATTESTATION FOR YOU TO BE THE LEGAL OWNER OF THIS FUND.

SO NOW YOU WILL CONTACT THE US EMBASSY SECRETARY (TROY CARTER) ON HIS E-MAIL: mr.charlespaul001@live.com
PLEASE NOTE WHILE CONTACTING THE US EMBASSY IN NIGERIA, YOU WILL QUOTE HIM YOUR DETAIL IN THE FORMAT BELOW WITHOUT MISTAKE:

YOUR NAME IN FULL:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
SEX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
POSITION:

HAVING FILLED THE ABOVE, PLEASE YOU SEND IT TO: mr.charlespaul001@live.com
CONTACT PERSON: TROY CARTER
UNITED STATE EMBASSY, LAGOS OFFICE
EMAIL ADDRESS: mr.charlespaul001@live.com
DIRECT TELL +234-7046144294


BEST REGARDS,
Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C.
20535-0001, USA

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Another Nigerian Scam

Does anyone take e-mails like this from Nigeria seriously?

Scam e-mail Below:

DEAR.

I AM DR. HEATH OTEGAR, THE SPECIAL ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT NIGERIA ON
FINANCIAL MATTERS.

I HAVE A BUSINESS OF $65.3MILLION DOLLARS FROM OUR FOREIGN CONTRACTORS WHO
HAVE EXECUTED CONTRACTS WITH OUR NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM COOPERATION
{NNPC} AND THEY ARE FULLY PAID WITH THEIR CONTRACTS PAYMENTS. THIS
$65.3MILLION DOLLARS WAS OVER-INVOICE WHICH I MADE DURING TIME OF
PAYMENTS TO OUR FOREIGN CONTRACTORS.

I WANT YOU TO BE MY PARTNER TO RECEIVE THIS $65.3MILLION IN YOUR ACCOUNT
AS FOREIGNER. I WILL GIVE MORE VITAL INFORMATION OVER THIS BUSINESS
SHORTLY AFTER HEARING FROM YOU. I WILL GIVE YOU 30% OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT
AFTER RECEIVING THE SAID AMOUNT IN YOUR ACCOUNT.

NOTE,THERE IS NO RISKY INVOLVED AT ALL IN THIS VERY TRANSACTION, I
SINCERELY PROMISED. ALL THE FIRST CLASS ARRANGEMENTS
TO MOVE THE SAID AMOUNT INTO A FORIEN ACCOUNT ARE EVER READY. THE NEXT
SHALL BE FORWARDED TO YOU SHORTLY AFTER

YOURS IN PRESIDENCY
DR. HEATH OTEGAR
FINANCIAL ADVISER TO THE PRESIDENT NIGERIA
E-MAIL: drheathotegar@zhot.net

The Mr. William Billington Scam

This one is very short and simple. I have no blind trust for anyone, so it is obvious to me that this is a scam. A quick google search verifies that.


Scam e-mail Below:

This is based on blind trust, hoping that you will expand my wishes as desired. I have US$200 Million for charity projects. You will be getting 20% of total funds as your commission if interested.


Regards,
Mr. William Billington

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The 2013 GLOBE Award Grant Scam

This is a scam. a quick internet search of 2013 GLOBE Award Grant reveals that there is no such thing. Another quick way to determine a scam is to understand how internet domains work. When you see an e-mail address like the one in this scam e-mail (@yahoo.com.hk) you will notice the .hk at the end. That is a Honk Kong domain. The com before the .hk is the registered domain name, and the yahoo. at the beginning is a subdomain on the com.hk website. This is not related to Yahoo.com in anyway. ( Yahoo's Hong Kong website is http://hk.yahoo.com/ ). That shows a lot of deception right off the bat, and is clearly a sign that this e-mail is not to be trusted.

Scam e-mail Below:

Attention, Good Morning.

The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Promotion Department of the IMF/WORLD BANKFoundation is proud to congratulate you as one of the 2013 winners of the GLOBE Award Grant valued US$2,500,000.00. under the IMF/WORLD BANK programe.

Each email address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number: (GF/529/MX/03RY4) was randomly selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners.Please contact Mr. Craig Fred (DIRECTOR)with the E-mail (imf_wb9@yahoo.com.hk), for further details.

Regards,
Mrs. Elizabeth Time

The CARRIER CRESCENT,COTONOU.BENIN REPUBLIC. Scam

Here is yet another scam email. I am sure you are beginning to notice they all look similar. This one even asks you to be on the look out for other "Scanners" (sic).

Scam e-mail Below:


HON;Mr.Alex Soulaman.
MINISTER OF FINANCE(MOF)
OPERATIONAL TOWERS;8/10
CARRIER CRESCENT,COTONOU.BENIN REPUBLIC.
HOT-LINE(00229)96-87-38-09
EMAIL;mr.alexsoulaman@yahoo.fr
 ATTN: Sir/Madam.

I am HON;Mr.Alex Soulaman, minister of finance (M.A.R),I monitor offices and control the affairs of all banks and financial institutions in Benin republic concerned foreign contract payments. I am the final signatory to all foreign transfers of huge funds moving within banks both the local and international levels in line to foreign contracts settlement. I have before me the list of foreign contract payment files, which are due to be transferred to their nominated accounts.

Meanwhile, we identified some of these accounts to be ghost accounts, unclaimed deposits and over invoiced sum etc. I wish to have a deal with you as regards to the unpaid fund. I have a file before me and hope the data's are correct and un-tampered. As it is my duty to recommend the transfer of these surplus fund to the Federal Government Treasury and Reserve Accounts as unclaimed deposit. I have the opportunity to write you based on the instruction I received two days ago from the senate committee on contract payment/foreign debts to submit the list of payment reports expenditures and audited reports of revenues. Among several others, I have decided to remit the total sum of USD10.2 million following the idea that we have a deal/agreement and I am going to per fact the paperwork legally.
MY CONDITIONS

1.You will have to provide foreign account where the funds will be transferred.
2.This deal must be kept secret forever, and all correspondence will be strictly by private email /telephone for security purposes.
3.There should be no other third parties as most problems associated with such payments are caused by their agents or representatives. If you AGREE with my Conditions, contact me directly through this email address;(mr.alexsoulaman@yahoo.fr) will advise you on the next line of action and immediately the funds transfer will commence without further delay as I would proceed to fix your name on the payment schedule instantly within the next 5 working days.

 NOTE:DUE TO THE HIGH RATES OF INTERNET SCANNERS,IF YOU ARE REPLYING TO THIS EMAIL,DO WRITE "YOUR BROTHER" AT THE SUBJECT OF YOUR REPLY ,THAT SERVES AS OUR SECRET CODE FOR THIS TRANSACTION,BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT YOU TO FALL VICTIM OF ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

THANKS,

YOURS FAITHFULLY
HON;Mr.Alex Soulaman

Monday, December 10, 2012

The UN, Africa, Western Union, Philippines Scam

This is a simple scam. They are trying to get your info. Maybe if you respond they might ask for money, or more info. Something to note in this email is the email return address. Although this email claims to be from the UN, and claims your money is in Africa, the .ph at the end of the e-mail suggest that this was sent from the Philippines. They are obviously not being honest.

Scam e-mail Below:

Attn,

Your Compensation entitlement of $700,000.00 usd from the United Nations has finally been moved down to Africa, precisely Lagos- Nigeria and the Office in charge is ( Western Union Head Office). The arrangement is to transfer the money by $5000 in each batch to you. Therefore forward your FULL NAME, CURRENT ADDRESS and DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER to Mr. Nzeh Collins here ( nzehcollins08@yahoo.com.ph ) for further details

It is important for your compensation.

Thanks,
Mr. Paul Robbison.
United Nations.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

The FBI has your Money Scam

This scam is nice. It assumes you have already fallen for a scam, and tries to explain that the y are the reason you have not received the money. They will send you the money if you send them all the info they need to steal your identity.
Hopefully, most of you are like me, and haven't fallen for any of these scams. That way it is easy to spot this type of scam.

Scam e-mail Below:

ANTI-TERRORIST AND MONITORY CRIMES DIVISION
FBI HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535-0001
Attention Fund Beneficiary.

This is an official advice from the FBI department. it has come to our notice that Central bank of Nigeria has released us$10.5m payment to BANK OF AMERICA in your name , The bank Nigeria knowing fully well that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from Nigeria to your account, They used what we know as a “secret diplomatic transit payment” (S.T.D.P) to pay this fund through wire transfer, but this means of transfer can not reflect to your account as this was wrong method of transferring fund.

Secret diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities why must your payment be made in secret transfer?, if your transaction is legitimate, if you are not a terrorist, then why did you not receive the money directly into your account, This is a pure coded means of payment, the Records we have had with this method of payment in the past has always been related to terrorist acts, we do not want you to get into trouble as soon as these funds reflect in your account, so it is our duty as a world wide commission to correct this little problem before this fund will be credited into your personal account.

Due to the increased difficulty and unnecessary scrutiny F.B.I crime commission has (STOPPED THE TRANSFER)on its way to deliver to your account. as We govern oversee funds Transfer and the rest of the world. We advice you contact us immediately, as the funds have been stopped and are being held in our custody, until you can be able to provide us with a DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY SEAL OF TRANSFER(DIST) within 3 days from the world local bank that authorize the transfer from where the funds was transferred from to certify that the funds that you are about to receive from Nigeria are not anti terrorist drug free or we shall have cause to cross and impound the transfer, we shall release the funds immediately we receive this legal documents mentioned from you.
FBI have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper verifications and proof to show that you are the rightful person to receive this fund, because of the amount involve, we want to make sure is a clean and legal money you are about to receive. Be informed that the fund are now in your name in BANK OF AMERICA IN SUSPENCE ACCOUNT. for your information we have ask the bank not to release the fund to anybody that comes to them unless we ask them to do so, because we have to carry out our investigations first before releasing the fund to you.
In this regards you are to re-assure and prove to FBI that what you are about to receive is a clean money by sending to us FBI Identification Record and also Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) to satisfy to us that the money you are about to receive is legitimate and real money.

You are to forward the documents to us immediately you secure the mention document , but if you dint have it in your possession, do let us know so that we will direct and inform you where to obtain the documents and send to us so that we will ask the bank holding your funds to go ahead Crediting your account immediately.
This Documents are to be issued to you from the World Local Bank that Authorized the transfer, so get back to us immediately if you dint have the document so that we will inform you the particular place to obtain the document because we have come to realize that the fund was Authorized by the bank that initialized the transfer Identification Record and Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST) often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment,naturalization, or military service. These conditions is Valid only for few days after we shall take actions on canceling the payment and then charge you for illegally moving funds out of Nigeria.
Final instruction:
60fCredit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee
61eBeneficiary has full power when validation is cleared
62 Beneficiaries bank in Usa/outside. can only release funds-
62 Upon confirmation from the world bank/united nations.
64 Bearers must clear bank protocol and validation request

NOTE: We have asked for the above documents to make available the most complete and up-to date records possible for the enhancement of public safety welfare and security of Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the Documents to us, we will charge you with the FBI and take our proper action against you for not proofing to us the legitimate of the fund you are about to receive.

The United States Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI Identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own Record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division processes these requests to check illegal activities in U.S and outside. An individual may request a copy of his or her own FBI Identification record for personal review or to challenge information on the Record. Other reasons an individual may request a copy of his or her own Identification Record may include international adoption or to satisfy a requirement to live or work in a foreign country or receive funds from another country (i.e.,Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer, letter of good conduct, criminal history background,etc.)
WARNING: failure to produce the above requirement in the next72 hours, legal action will be taken immediately by arresting and detaining you, if found guilty, you will be jailed. As terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our community today. The F.B.I will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulge in this criminal act. FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAIN IT.


THANKS
FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller, III