More manure for the north 40...

You would think that one of the minimal requirements of any government 'official would be literacy. It looks as though Mrs. Waziri (and that withered swamp she calls a conscience) needs to get her arse back into primary school.

EFCC (FUNDS TRANSFER.You have been dealing with the wrong offices.)‏

From:	Mrs Farida Waziri (root@dodmoshe.com)
Sent:	July 4, 2009 7:57:57 AM

Hello,

My Name is Mrs Farida Waziri the new Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
chairperson in Nigeria. I understand you are expecting your delayed fund to be wired
to your bank account, but some top government officials and bank partners will not
tell you the truth about the where abouts of your fund and all they are doing is to
tell you to pay out rageous fees which you refused to come up with, but I will not do
that based on my conscience and that is why I have contacted you to let you know the
truth because i know you have gone far in trying to get this fund and must have paid
some amounts of monies to persons you are not supposed to give out a dime to.

I will be ready to help you get your fund but you have to help me keep it a secret to
enable me help in delivering your fund as the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission principal officer. You better believe me or forget contacting me again but
i know that they will never tell you the truth because they are all thieving
criminals. Get back to me and i will tell you the possible way to get your fund
delivered to you without the consent of anyone i know God will reward me after all.

You can reach me on my direct number for urgent response; +234-80-20977386.

I expect your prompt response.

Regards.
Mrs Farida Waziri
chairperson,
EFCC.

A series of unfortunate events...

With the pathos and bathos that scammers churn out to elicit your sympathy and 'aw gee, puir wee creature' response, I'm surprised there is a violin player in the world out of work ~ there have to be lots of positions for them to be playing the accompanying theme, 'O Woe Is Me'.

The line, 'Help me, ObiWan Kenobi, you're my only hope' also springs to mind.

Hello‏

From:	Simon Boldon (pvt009@colegas.com)
Sent:	July 4, 2009 1:40:33 AM

Dad/mum,

I need your help about my late father consignment. My name is simon Boldon i am from liberia and i am living in refugee camp in ghana now because of the war that happen in our country some times ago and my father told me that he have 500KG of diamond and 1000GK of gold that inside the boxes of consigment and some family valuable goods that he deposited with security company.
I really need your urgent help because mr. william smith who live in America promise to help mereceive this consignment last month but when the security company want to deliver this consignment to him last month after the security company agent arrive to america to deliver my late father consignment to Mr. William, they told the security company agent that mr. william smith has motor accident two days before the security company agent arrive to America and mr.william died. The security company agent cannot deliver my late father consignment to any body,the security company return my late father consignment back to Ghana,now are you the God sent to help me receive this consignment.please write back to me i have the document of this consignment with me to show proof.please write back to me now and give me your information.

Thanks may God bless you.

Simon Boldon

Bloodsuckers and other leeches...

Do I need to tell you that this is a scam? If you don't believe me, try here as well: http://scamoftheday.com/wordpress/2009/06/15/loan-5/.



LOAN OFFER!!!‏

From:	Rangers Finance Co. (info@rangers.co.uk)
Sent:	July 2, 2009 4:23:38 AM
To:

Hello,
 
Do you have a low credit score and you are finding it hard to obtain
capital loan from local banks/other financial institutes? We offer loan at
low interest  rate of 3%. Contact us with Details mentioned below
 
1 FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.PHONE NUMBER:
4.AMOUNT NEEDED:
5.LOAN DURATION:
6.ANNUAL INCOME:
7.OCCUPATION:
 
REPLIES SHOULD BE SENT TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW:
 
E-mail:rangersfinanceco1@discuz.org
 
Regards,
Mr.Mark Taylor
Tel:+447035998325
Rangers Finance Loan Company.
 
 

Might as well hand 'em the keys to the car as well...

So I got this in my mail this morning and for those of you who haven't run into the concept yet, it screams 'Scam!' 'Phishing!' 'Identity theft!' 'Account hijacking!'

DO NOT! EVER! EVER! EVER! click on this kind of link. If not sure, check with your bank, but most of them nowadays and other services such as EBay, Paypal, etc... do not request this kind of information. Instead of using the link, go directly to the services website ~ if they want you, there is usually a message on your account. (And it's more likely to be written by someone literate.)

If you're still not sure, email their security department. Paypal (for example) has an address to send this sorta stuff and they will tell you if it's a spoof. I mean, look at the email address they are using ~ does that come across as MSN to you?

Oh ~ and if you don't believe me...? It's from IP Address 4.219.251.173 which funnily enough is in Nigeria. Not exactly a hotbed of MSN corporate activity.


Hotmail Account Alert !!!‏

From:

Windows Live™ Team

Sent:	June 24, 2009 4:56:13 AM
To:	Windows Live™ Team (lagrone45@hotmail.com)

Dear Account User

CONFIRM YOUR WINDOWS LIVE ACCOUNT SERVICES. VERIFY YOUR HOTMAIL ACCOUNT NOW !!!

This Email is from Hotmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Hotmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Hotmail accounts so we are shutting down some Hotmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.

Confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

* Username: .............................
* Password: ................................
* Date of Birth: ............................
* Country Or Territory: ................

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Sincerely,
The Windows Live Hotmail Team

They even litter Facebook mailboxes...

From: Justlenc Ground

Naturally, this letter will come to you as a surprise since we have not met,but please permit me to introduce myself to you.

My name is Barrister Lenc Darius, a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Engr. J. P. M****, a national of your country, who used to work as a contractor in Africa. Here in after shall be referred to as my client,who died some years ago in a fatal accident on September 2005, All occupants of the vehicle unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several inquiries here to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to search through with his name which motivated me to contact you, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.

I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the fund valued at USD$13,500,000.00(Thirteen

Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars). left behind by my cleint before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the Security Finance Firm(bank) where this huge amount were deposited. Now the management under the influence of the bank Chairman and Members of the Board of directors, has made arrangement for the fund to be declared Unclaimed so that they can share the money amongst themselves.

They has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have his account confiscated within the next twenty one official working days Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now, I seek the consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since you have the same last names, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you.

Therefore, on receipt of your positive response, we shall then discuss the sharing ratio and modalities for transfer. I have all necessary informations and legal documents needed to back you up for the claim.

All I required from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction goes through.

To commence this transaction, I require you immediately to indicate your interest by a return e-mail and enclose the following information’s.

Names:..................................
Age:....................................
Occupation:.............................
Phone/Fax no:...........................
Nationality:............................
Private Email:..........................

I await your urgent response asap at legalstand_7@hotmail.com

Best Regards.

FROM BARRISTER LENC DARIUS
DARIUS (CHAMBERS) & LEGAL CONSULTATIONS.
NO 7, RUE DE GAGLI
LOME-TOGO.
TEL:+228 078 9554.

Lottery One Million and Two

Euros Milliones Notification‏

From:	Euros Milliones Board (all0011@comission-infos.es)
Sent:	June 12, 2009 3:44:19 PM
To:

Attn Web/Internet user!!

This is to notify you that this e-mail address was entered during the Euro Milliones Lottery selection Draw and has won the sum of  Ђ750,000.

For claim please contact the below agent for immediate process of your claim; Rememebr to quote these numbers below for verification by the company. REF: ESP/WIN/008/02/10/MA and BATCH: EURO/1007/444/606/09 you should include Your Name, Address, Sex, Age, Occupation, Nationality, Phone Number and Fax Number.

Mr. Patricio carlos (Claim Personnel)
Email: libertygroup@hotmail.es
Tel: +34 634-138-556
Fax: +34-911-414-291

Best  regards,
Dr. Maria Jose Muyor.
Euro Milliones Lottery

This does not compute...

One thing about all these lottery prizes that keep rolling in is that I don't seem to sign up for 'em. Apparently all this largesse is going to fall into my lap with absolutely no effort on my part ~ a lottery lotus land. If I had known all this wealth would have been accrued so easily I wouldn't have put so much energy into working for a living.

Anyhoo, the badly written tripe below is more of the ecrap cluttering up mailboxes ~ anything in red is information from the actual Acer UK site and, as you can see, it differs somewhat from the usual scam phone numbers, etc...


RE: PAYMENT RELEASE NOTICE‏

From: Acer Computers UK Limited (info@acer.org.uk)
(For all Technical Service related support, please see the http://support.acer-euro.com website or email euro_mail@acer-euro.com )
Sent: June 17, 2009 5:26:55 AM

Acer Computers UK Limited
Head Office
Acer House
Heathrow Boulevard III
282 Bath Road
West Drayton
Middlesex
UB7 0DQ
England

Dear Lucky Winner,

Thank you for participating in the 2009 Acer Computers UK Limited lottery program. The 2009 Acer Computers UK Limited lottery program selection has been performed at our United Kingdom Corporate headquarters here in London. The Acer Computers UK Limited lottery program is registered and organized in accordance with the British Gaming Board (B.G.B.) and the World Lottery Regulation Act (W.L.R.A.).

We are therefore pleased to officially notify you of the status of your Winning. An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email ticket number; ACER-09-0-96-09, with serial number; ACER /01/2009, and ref no; LV /0012/2009 in batch A /6183 randomly drew for the lucky numbers 000-31-0584 which selected your email address as a winner of our End of Year lottery program. You have therefore consequently won the Acer Computers UK Limited, 2009 lottery promo in its first batch.

As regards the above, we have officially approved a sum payout of ? 500,000.00 POUNDS only to you as our lottery winner. This amount is from the total prize cash of ? 2,500,000.00 POUNDS randomly distributed among our five (5) International winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection (L.R.S.S.).

The Acer Computers UK Limited 2009 lottery program's Organising Commitee (L.O.C.) will immediately commence the immediate dispatch of your cheque of ? 500,000.00 POUNDS as soon as you have contacted them. You are therefore adviced to contact the Acer Computers UK Limited lottery program's Organising Commitee (L.O.C.) immediately as stated below;

================================================================
Contact Person: Richie Mccathy
Dispatch Officer in Charge
Acer Computers UK Limited 2009 lottery program's Organising Commitee (L.O.C.)
Email: <>
Phone & Fax: +44-703-1741-647

(Commercial and Product Information
Please call 0870 853 1005

Technical Helpline:
Calling from UK : 0870 853 1000
Fax from UK: 0870 853 1004)

================================================================

Please provide them with the underlisted informations below as soon as possible;

1. Names in Full
2. Delivery Address
3. Nationality / Present Location
4. Occupation
5. Phone Number(s)

Hearty congratulations from my humble self and all members of the 2009 Acer Computers UK Limited lottery program's Organising Commitee (L.O.C.)

Your's Sincerly,

Engr. Allen Anderson
Chairman
2009 Acer Computers UK Limited lottery program's Organising Commitee (L.O.C.)
For and on behalf of Acer Computers UK Limited.

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