Monday, March 22, 2010

No... I don't think so...

This came with an attachment. I don't open attachments from unsolicited, unknown sources ~ do you?

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010
From: MRS. Mthembu Hlengiwe webattza@att.net
Reply-To: hlengiwemt@gmail.com
Subject: MRS. Mthembu Hlengiwe

Dear Sir/Madam,

It is my desire to investment some funds ( Money ) in your country.Attached to this
email is my Investment Proposition. I would like you to go through it and respond
back if you are interested.

Yours Sincerely,

MRS. Mthembu Hlengiwe

Email: hlengiwemt@gmail.com

Tel: +1 206-203-1778

And yet another deader...

They're dropping like flies leaving anxious widows distributing gadzillions of dollars for whatever....

Lucky us.

Subject: GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU REPLY URGENTLY
From: Mrs.Anna Kouakou anna.kouakou@hotmail.fr
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010
Reply-To: annakouakou11@cantv.net

GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU REPLY URGENTLY

May God bless you

Attn: Please ,

I am the above named person from Angola. I am married to Mr. Lobi Kouakou who worked with Angola embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2008. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we were both born agai n Christian. Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against.

I have Eigtheen million US Dollars(US$18,000,000.00) with one security company.My husband is dead. I want to donate this fund to you for charitable work.Reply me so that I can give you details. my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next Eight months due to cancer problem.

Urgent Send.

1 Your Full Name
2 Your Nationality
3 Your Age
4 Your Telephone Number

Thanks

Mrs.Anna Kouakou.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

I will await your thoughts

I hope she's very patient waiting for my thoughts because even to me they're pretty unthinkable. There has to be a polite way to say what I'm thinking. :)


Subject: From Helen White
From: Helen White helenwhit5@terra.es
Reply-To: whitehel3@aim.com
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010

My name is 2nd LT. Helen White, a member of the U.S. army Medical Team, which was deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the war in Iraq. I would like to share some highly personal classified information about my personal experience and role which I played in the pursuit of my career serving under the U.S 1st Armored which was at the fore-front of the war in Iraq.

I would hold back certain information for security reasons for now until you have found the time to visit the BBC website stated below to enable you have an insight into what I intend sharing with you, believing that it would be of your desired interest one-way or the other.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm (I've saved you the trouble of looking up the article ~ it's below. Look at the date on the article, folks.)

Get back to me having visited the above website to enable us discuss in a more clarifying manner to the best of your understanding. I will be vivid and coherent in my next message in this regards, meanwhile, could you send me an email confirming that you have visited the site and that you have understood my intentions? I will await your thoughts via my personal email.

Thanks,

Best Regards

2nd Lt.Helen White

whitehel3@aim.com

Header Analysis
The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country Additional Info
200.63.215.219 Ecuador (Quito)*
212.225.178.74 Spain (Málaga)*
 The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address



Wednesday, 30 April, 2003

Stash of money found in Baghdad

Foreign currency worth nearly $200m has been found in a Baghdad neighbourhood, the US military say.

Troops found $100m and 90m euros in 31 containers, US Central Command said.

The money has been flown out of the country to a "secure location" for counting purposes and will eventually be returned to Iraq to help rebuild the country, the US said.

Last week, US troops found more than $650m in the same area of Baghdad.

Soldiers questioned

The latest banknotes were discovered between 23 and 26 April in an area of Baghdad secured by members of the US 3rd Infantry Division, according to a US statement.
The funds will eventually be returned to the Iraqis to help rebuild their nation
US Central Command

It did not specify exactly where the money was found, although the funds were said to have been kept in containers.

The statement said the containers were flown from Baghdad International Airport on Sunday under an escort of police officers, criminal investigators and financial experts.

"The money arrived at a secure location for counting purposes at approximately 1030 that morning," the statement said.

"Soldiers of the unit in charge of the counting took approximately five hours to finish this count.

"Funds will remain secure until a stable government is established in Iraq and will ultimately be returned to the Iraqis to assist in the re-building of their nation."

The funds which were found last week are also being held at an undisclosed location.

The money had been hidden behind the false wall of a house searched by US troops. It is thought the stash could have been left by fleeing regime leaders.

Five US soldiers are currently being questioned by military officials after some of that money was allegedly stolen following its discovery.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm

Published: 2003/04/30 12:28:41 GMT

Friday, March 19, 2010

Just say the word and the money is yours...

Honest to gawd, anyone who succumbs to this illiterate tripe is in more dire need of education than the twerp who wrote this:

Subject: Western Union Payments
From: Western Union barristercharlesbbeze1@verizon.net
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010

FROM OFFICE OF THE WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.
COTONOU BENIN REPUBLIC/ADDRESS 455 AGBOKOU,ANKPA ROAD
OPPOSITE TUNDE MOTORS COTONOU.
TELPHONE[+229]-99.15.80.32

Dear Friend,

How are you today, I write to inform you that we have already sent you USD5000.00 dollars through Western union as we have been given the mandate to transfer your full compensation payment we are undarstand your filling that why we sent you the payment now we help you to pai the harf of the transfer charge which is $140 so the only money you can pay to us to realise you fund from onhold is $140

HERE IS THE ONE WE SEND TO YOU BUT IT WILL REMAIN ON HELD UNTIL YOU SEND US OUR TRANSFER CHARGES OF $140BEFORE WE CAN REALISE IT MEANWHILE YOU WILL TRACK IT AND CONFIRM THE MTCN BY.

https://wumt.westernunion.com/asp/orderStatus.asp?country=global

Sender Name : John Onyi
MTCN : MTCN: 010-2694-066
Question--------------- how much
Test Answer--------------- $5000
Amount-------------------$5,000,00,

FINALY URGENT SEND US THE $140 USD TO ENABLE US PROCEED ON YOUR PAYMENT IMMEDIATELY RIGHT.
BELOW IS OUR ACCOUNT'S INFORMATION FOR YOU TO SEND THE $140 USD THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER BEEN OUR TRANSFERING CHARGE FOR YOUR $5,000.00 USD.

Bellow is the payment advice!!

Receiver Name: Prince U. Onwuka
Country; Benin Republic
City: Cotonou
Text Question; To Whom
Text Answer: Prince
Amount Necessary: $140. SUD
MTCN ..................?

My working ID is attached in the e-mail.
Yours In Service
Mr. Anthony Robert.
Western Union Payments

Header Analysis
The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:
IP Address Probable Country Additional Info

68.142.206.146 United States (Sunnyvale)*
68.142.200.224 United States (Sunnyvale)*
66.196.97.152 United States (Sunnyvale)*
81.91.230.142 Benin*
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

There's something phishy here...

Subject: RE: REPLY ASAP!
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010
From: grafemas1 grafemas1@grafemasas.191.it

Dear friend I am Mr. Cheung Eric of Hang Seng Bank Hong Kong I have a business transaction of my late client to share with you, If interested contact me for more details via my personal email

cheungeric24@yahoo.com.hk

Header Analysis
The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country
85.37.16.26 Italy (Rome)*
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

From: ARIF AHMED pttkkrosno@neostrada.pl
Reply-To: b_rif_ahmed@live.com

Subject: Hello!!!

Date: Sat, 3 Apr

I am ARIF AHMED, Attorney at law. A deceased client of mine, that shares the same last name as yours,who died as the result of a heart-related condition in March 12th 2005.

I have contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my client(US$18 Million Dollars) is lodged in the bank.

Reply to b_rif_ahmed@live.com for more information.

Regards

ARIF AHMED

On account that there is no account...

Yes, I have accounts with a financial institution but the scammail I receive has nothing to do with any account that I hold or the institution I do my banking with either.

The scammails come with links, downloadable forms and requests for personal information that banks don't ask you. Any time you have any doubt as to whether your account needs tending to, go directly to their site through a separate window you open in your browser or go really low tech and phone them.

Subject: Western Union- You have 1 new ALERT message.
From: Western Union support-service@westernunion.com
Reply-To: no.reply@westernunion.com


We are sorry to inform you that your Western Union Online Account has been suspended. A high number of failed login attempts have been recorded on your online account. As a security measure we had to temporarily suspend your account.

To restore your account we have attached a form to this email. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen.

NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern, javascript enabled, browser (ex: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Opera 9).

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Sincerely, the Western Union security team.

Nope - no account here either:

New Security Upgrade‏
From: TD Canada Trust secure@tdcanadatrust.com
Return-Path: www-data@mail.jobberuf24.de
Sent: June 4, 2010 8:11:22 AM


TD Canada Trust is hereby announcing the New Security Upgrade. We've upgraded our new SSL servers to serve our customers for a better and secure banking service against any fraudulent activities.

Our new security system will help you to avoid unauthorized access to your account
and keep you safe. Due to technical maintenance we need you to confirm your account.
Login to
EasyWeb

TD Canada Trust is committed to ensure the safeguard of each customer's personal information, making sure only authorised individuals have access to their accounts. It is all about your security.

Accounts Management As outlined in our User Agreement, TD Canada Trust will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements.

Baby, you can drive my car... (Part 2)

From: "2010 PROMOTION" sherry@webbox.com
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010

THE SUZUKI MOTORS COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT SUZUKI AVENUE
65 EXCHANGE ROAD,ORTIGAS BUILDING
TOKYO, JAPAN.

SUZUKI COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION"

You are to be noted that the online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

Therefore we are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on 18th Dec 2009 by SUZUKI Motor Company your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won $500, 000.00(Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2009) and ballot number (BT:12052009/20) In other to claim your award which is $500,000.00 prize winning,which has been deposited in a designated bank.

However,you will have to fill the form below and send it to the promotion manager of THE SUZUKI MOTOR COMPANY for verification and then you will be directed to the bank where a cheque of $500, 000.00 has already been deposited in your favour.

NAME:.....................................
AGE:........................................
SEX:.........................................
ADDRESS:(RESIDENT ADDRESS ONLY)................................
EMAIL:....................................
PHONE:...................................
COUNTRY:................................

Please you are advised to complete the form and send it immediately to our Promotion manager through email for prompt collection of your fund

(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)
Name: MR PETER CHAIN
E MAIL: mrchain1@yahoo.cn

You are to keep all the lotto information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number.(this is important as a case of double claiming will not be entertained)

*Staff of SUZUKI Motor Company and the Japanese International Lottery Company are not to partake in this Lottery.

lucky winning number falls within our Asia booklet representative office in THE PEOPLE REPUBLIC OF CHINA as showed in the coupon.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully
Mr lucky wang

VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE
SUZUKI MOTORS COMPANYS

Header Analysis
The following IP addresses were extracted from your headers:

IP Address Probable Country
222.66.142.170 China (Shanghai)*
58.252.29.44 China (Guangzhou)*
* The last IP listed is usually the originating IP address

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.