Sunday, December 27, 2009

Oooooooo - The FBI, no less...

Considering the contents, I think it must be from the Fucking Barrel of Idiots:

Payment Notice From The Federal Bureau of Investigation‏
From: FROM THE FBI robertmueller@fbi.gov
Sent: December 21, 2009

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building
93 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attention Funds Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that your fund which is in Africa has been approved for release by the joint FBI/UN Payment Reconciliation Board. Due to Scam act by African officials we reached to an agreement with them to have the funds released to you via ATM Card. The total sum of $5.7 Million US Dollars which is approved will be loaded in an internationally accepted ATM Card and then sent to your address via courier service, so that you can be picking your funds from any ATM Machine around you in bits at your will.
This measure is to help prevent scam on your bank account and all African bureaucratic bootleggers . Be advised not to expose your banking details to any person in the name of trying to get your funds. We the American FBI is bent on making sure that scam is totally wiped out and with this measure we are taking nobody scam you over this payment.
From our joint decision we choose ATM UNIT GHANA to be the office to release the funds to you since the country has been tested politically and otherwise, the we approved them for this payment reconciliation of every funds owned to foreigners by African governments.
You are advised to contact the ATM UNIT GHANA via their contact information as noted below:

NAME: DR. PETER AMAH (ATM UNIT DIRECTOR)
EMAIL ADDRESS: atmunitghana1@emailclick.com
TELEPHONE: +233- 2- 47189890

Contact them immediately and let them know that the FBI directed you to them for your funds release via ATM Card. Do provide them with the following reconfirmed information as stated below to avoid any mistake:

1. Your Full Name________________________________________________
2. Your Full Address______________________________________________
3. Your Telephone Number________________________________________
4. Your Occupation_______________________________________________
5. Your Age___________________

Do not send your banking details to them for security reasons. We guarantee this payment and always feel free to ask us any question if the need be until you have received your ATM Card.
Thanks,

Robert S. Mueller, III
(FBI Director)

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Header Analysis

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP AddressProbable Country
222.186.126.25China (Zhenjiang)
82.128.34.26Nigeria (Lagos)

* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address


I think there's something just a little bit greasy about this one...

Please let me know if my email received.‏
From: Rebecca rebeccataylor26@live.com
Sent: December 21, 2009

Rebecca L.Taylor,
Address-13400 Alexis-Nihau Boulevard,
Saint-Lauren Monaco.
Phone-+37-2531-97748.

Pardon me if I have offended you by contacting you through this medium (e-letter)
I should have explained this to you on face-to-face meeting. But I could not do this because of the situation, and again not being sure of your reaction. I hope you will keep this little secret I'm about to share with you personal and confidential to yourself.

Its about my husband, who is a sailor with INTERMAS SHIPPING COMPANY IN NEITHERLAND. He worked as a crew member in one of their vessels MV KIMOLUS which was leased to Kuwait Oil Corporation LLC.

During one of such routine sail assignment, their Vessel was loaded with Contaminated Crude Oil which was to be disposed off at a designated discharge point. But rather they thought otherwise and contacted an Indian buyer, who indicated interested in the product and also directed them to discharge the product to his Tank Farm in South Africa .

The deal was struck, sealed and payment was made with regards to same and the proceeds of this deal were shared among them (my husband and others) accordingly. However, the deal was not to the knowledge of the company, because of International Purchase Agreement on contaminated product. But my husband decided to deposit his share of the proceeds with a financial institution under an untitled holding account, so it will not be traced to him, in case investigation into the discharge of the contaminated oil is initiated. So far so good, nothing of such has happened since the death of my husband 10 months ago of pneumonia.

It has taking me 2 months of fervent prayer to let the cat out of the bag and I thought it wise and led by the spirit to disclose this now and ease my mind of unnecessary tension, in expectation of your assistance to help secure the release of the money from the financial institution.

Please let me know what to do? If it is something you can handle, as my husband made me promise on his death bed not to go near the funds, until I find someone who can assist in securing the release and payment of the funds. As he wouldn't want the money to be traced or associated with any member of his family.

I shall furnish you with further detailed information as I await your kind response directly to: rebeccataylor25@live.com.

Thank you for finding out time to read my letter.

Kindest Regards.
REBECCA TAYLOR

Has my blog gone to the dogs?

An opportunity to make money from your blog!‏
From: Dog Health Problems (healthdog0182@in.com)
Sent: December 22, 2009

Hello ******@hotmail.com,

Now you have a great opportunity to earn 25% per sale for every product you sale, through your website.
You need to just place these links on your website.
You just need to place these links on your website and start making some money!

http://**dog-health-problems.org/bloggers/offer.php?p=1&u=439
or
** dog-health-problems.org/bloggers/offer.php?p=1&u=439">Dog Pain Relief

We already have created an account for you. You can always login to your account and check money you have earned. We pay
every month for money you made last month!

http://dog-health-problems.org/bloggers/
Username: *****@hotmail.com
Password: 12345

I am here to always help you.

Thanks,
Shiela

********

WHOIS information:

Domain Name:DOG-HEALTH-PROBLEMS.ORG
Created On:13-Oct-2009 11:37:30 UTC

Interesting, I'll grant you....

Grant Number: MICC/97846563459/206‏
From: e.blokdijk@hetnet.nl
Sent: December 22, 2009


MICROSOFT®
(UK. Regional Office)
Microsoft Building, Wright Lane,
Kensington London W85sp.

Winner No. 005,

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft Corporation ,in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.) held today 22nd December 2009 here in United kingdom, A Draft of $1,000.000.00 (One Million United States Dollars) will be issued in your name.

It is important to note that your award was released with the following particulars attached to it.
(1) File Number: F1267-2009
(2) Ref. Code :KP23/857/MCL5 /CO
(3) Grant Number: MICC/97846563459/206

Forward The Following Information as Listed Below and Send to Asset Management & Finance Group Office [ Microsoft Corporation Consultancy Firm].

.Residential address:
.Tel(Mobile):
.Nationality/Country:
.Full Names:
.Age/Sex:
.Occupation/Position:

Asset Management & Finance Group Office :
51a High Street, Hanham, Bristol. BS15 3DQ.
Director : Mr. Alexander Godson
Contact Email:alexandergody@live.com
Tel:+447010306574

Soon as The Above Information is Received Through E-mail: alexandergody@live.com,You Will Be Duly Informed

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Furnish me with a few details, eh....

Subject: Your Blog Featured at Home Furniture Depot‏
From: home furniture homefurniture@in.com
Sent: December 10, 2009

Hello,
This is Shiela from homefurnituredepot.net.
We stumbled on your blog while searching for Exclusive Furniture related information. We operate the largest Home Furniture & Office Furniture website featuring more than 30,000 blogs. Our site averages 200,000 unique visitors per month. As a kind note We have featured your blog at http://homefurnituredepot.net/blog_awards/index.php?id=143 We would be grateful if you could add the following details to your blogs main page.
Home Office Furniture
Looking forward for your confirmation.
Thanks
Shiela
homefurnituredepot.net.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Gassy wee montebanks, wot?

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:05:28 -0000 (GMT)

Subject: MESSENGER FROM CHEVRON-TEXACO

From: "CHEVRON/TEXACO OIL AND GAS COMPANY" chvjddoma@yahoo.com
Reply-To: cttt-2009@discuz.org

Attn: Chevron-Texaco Beneficiary

Your verification number is: (CT-389-6373,FGN/P-073-92)(Dunno, Mrs. Victoria
Wallison ~ all of a sudden I don't feel so very special any more.
http://itccommunicationsnet-johnnichols.blogspot.com/2009/12/inbox-call-to-confrim-they-are-still-at.html)

We wish tocongratulate you over your email success in the Chevron-Texaco computer
balloting sweepstake held recently.your price is worth $300,000.00 USD
United States Dollars. you are to contact your CLAIMS PROCESSING OFFICER
with your:

1.full name
2.Home Address:
3.Age:
4.Phone Number:
5.Occupation.
6.Amount Won:
7.Annual Income(Optional).
8.Delivery mode.
Via Bank Transfer Or
Via Courier Delivery

CLAIMS PROCESSING OFFICER:

Payment Officer General Information
Name: Mr Alhaji Musa Aliu Mohammad
Email:cttt-2009@discuz.org
Telephone:+234-705 81 56 183 (http://www.419report.org/419-phone-2009-11.htm)

+234-808 79 26 131 (http://www.419report.org/419-phone-2009-11.htm)

Fax: +234-707-226-2983-6. (http://antifraudintl.org/showthread.php?t=19792;
http://k0bkl.org/abuse/lottery.html;
http://www.delphifaq.com/faq/scams/f987.shtml?p=159;
http://419archive.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html;
http://zoqy.blogspot.com/2009/08/todays-e-mail-scams_578.html)

West Africa Office.

All response should be forewarded to (Mr Alhaji Musa Aliu Mohammad)
Co-sponsors of this online promotion are listed herein: Shell Oil Company,
Pepsi Corporation, and the Federal Government of Nigeria.

NOTE: You must have received different emails from different angles,
which are fraud mails, DO NOT DIS-REGARD THIS EMAIL AS IT'S NOT A FRAUD,
as this Organization is a 100% Scam Free.

Yours Faithfully,

Mrs Victoria Wallison (http://antifraudintl.org/showthread.php?t=20670;
http://gariell.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/mrs-victoria-wallison-fedex-parcel-scam/)


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Royal pain in the ass....

I don't have a Royal Bank of Canada account ~ of that, I am really quite certain. I wish the knobheads flooding my mailbox with scammail trying to get me to click on their miserable links would be just as certain.

The links they used have been edited out. I'm quite certain that 99% would have the sense not to click on them but there are those few who just have to have a look. If it isn't safe for me to click on, it's not gonna do them any good either.

The name of their game is 'Click on the link'. Whether they use it to con personal information from you, infect your computer with malware, whatever...., they gain nothing if you don't click.
99.99% of the time DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS IN YOUR EMAILS ~ particularly unsolicited ones. About the only time I do any more is if I am registering for a site and they send me a
confirmation email.

If you receive an email from banks, credit companies, Paypal, EBay, etc... requesting personal information or that you need to up-date with them and you find yourself looking at a link, open a new window, go directly to their website and deal with them there. Or by phone ~ old-fashioned to be sure, but I like it.

I used http://headertool.apelord.com/headers to check the headers on the emails because I usually find it quite useful. Computer savvy scammers have no difficulty covering up their tracks from the average user (including faking IP addresses) but I thought it was interesting to note that there was no consistent information as there would be if it were actually the RBC.


From: Royal Bank of Canada service@rbc.ca
Date: 30 Nov 2009
Subject: You have one new message from Royal Bank of Canada
Please update your RBC Royal Bank account.
Your Internet Banking Account may be locked. (or not even
exist, eh?)

Please identify yourself by visiting our Online Banking
service: (link)

**************

From: RBC Royal Bank idpfxo@yahoo.com
To: donotreply@rbc.com
Subject: New Message from Customer Service - KCGYIWILQE
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009

From: Customer Service
Date: 01/12/2009
Subject: Unsuccessful login attempt from IP address: 89.202.19.215 (Germany)

For your security, your online profile has been locked.
- Protect your personal account information by following the link bellow: (link)

We appreciate your understanding as we work to ensure account safety.
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT US .

Copyright 2009 RBC Financial Group Registered Number 3950882 2009.

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers
IP Address Probable Country
75.149.139.109 Algeria
76.248.224.105 Ireland (20842)
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

*************

Reply-To: noreply@rbc-royalbank.ca
From: "RBC Royal Bank" email-id@rbc-royalbank.ca
Subject: Reference ID: CPIQVMFIXK
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009

Dear Customer,

We would like to inform you that your RBC Royal Bank online account has been
locked due to inactivity. To avoid losing important information, you must
reactivate your RBC account now.

Click here to confirm your information and unlock your online banking: (link)

Thank you for using RBC Royal Bank.
___________________________

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 RBC online banking and
choose the Help link located in the bottom right corner.

You are receiving this email notification because this email address is listed
as the administrative contact email for your RBC Royal Bank account.

Copyright © 2009 RBC Royal Bank of Canada

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:
IP Address Probable Country
83.138.66.82 Cape Verde
70.46.232.115 N/A (49221)
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address


************

Reply-To: noreply@rbc-royalbank.com
From: "RBC Royal Bank" email-id@rbc-royalbank.com
Subject: Action Required: Please update your RBC account
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009

Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. To
protect your account against unauthorized use, RBC Royal Bank requires
you to create sign-in questions and answers.

Anytime you login from a different IP address, you will have to answer
one of these security questions. Make your RBC Royal Bank online banking
even more secure by updating your account now.

Please create Security Questions and Answers for your RBC Royal Bank online
account by going to: (link)

We strongly advise you to enroll now. The new security measures will be
effective right away.

Thank you for using RBC Royal Bank.

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country
69.10.138.198 Western Sahara (June Lake)
70.55.226.34 Jamaica (21754)
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

*****************

Reply-To: noreply@rbc-royalbank-ca.com
From: "RBC Royal Bank" serv@rbc-royalbank-ca.com
Subject: Customer Service: Email ID XQJUUXUMMI
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009

(link)

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country
83.138.147.229 Cambodia (07746)
24.199.254.142 Germany
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

****************

Reply-To:
From: "RBC Royal Bank"
Subject: Customer Service: Email ID

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009

(link)

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country
217.7.203.173 N/A*
74.8.95.169 Micronesia, Federated States of*
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

****************

Reply-To: noreply@rbc-royalbank.ca
From: "RBC Royal Bank" email-id@rbc-royalbank.ca
Subject: Reference ID: MBGSBCPSDP
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009

Dear Customer,

We would like to inform you that your RBC Royal Bank online account has
been locked due to inactivity. To avoid losing important information,
you must reactivate your RBC account now.

Click here to confirm your information and unlock your online banking: (link)

Thank you for using RBC Royal Bank.
___________________________

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 RBC online banking and
choose the Help link located in the bottom right corner.

You are receiving this email notification because this email address is listed
as the administrative contact email for your RBC Royal Bank account.

The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country
67.192.109.26 Czech Republic
70.46.232.115 N/A (49221)
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

***************

From: RBC Royal Bank erpydl@yahoo.com
To: donotreply@rbc.com
Subject: Transfer status: PENDING - ID: NRTHNZPMFR
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009

This email confirms that you have transferred A1-MOBILE using Money Transfer.

Transfer id : 250010358176
Price : 110.00 CAD
Transfer Fee: 15.00 CAD
Subtotal : 125.00 CAD
__________________

To cancel payment please confirm account ownership by following the link below:

http://mail.bcmanor.com/RBC-rbcaccess.html
__________________

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT US .
Copyright 2009 RBC Financial Group Registered Number 3950882 2009.



















So How Come?

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I have two blogs at the moment - Here Be Dragons which is devoted to rental scams primarily sourced through Craigslist although the proliferation of free ad sites has widened the hunting grounds. Many additions come from other sources (ie: blogs/anti-scam sites/online community ad sites) or are provided by people who want to share their experiences. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch is for copies of scammail that I find in my mailboxes ~ sometimes I can't resist the odd acerbic comment but for the most part I post 'em because the more that people do, the fewer fools they get to gull. Dunno what to say about me that would be very interesting ~ I'm a granny who reads, gardens and crafts as the mood strikes me. :) I don't particularly care for the social predators on this planet and this blog is part of my way of saying so.