Elamb Cybersecurity

Category: scam

  • Scammers Using Hewlett Packard UK

    Hewlett Packard Company,
    Customer Service Department,
    26 Lower Mall, Hammersmith,
    London W6 9DJ
    United Kingdom,

    Reference No: HPC/L/W-1221908.
    Batch No: HPC/L-653-2008
    Winning No: HPC/L/W- 1221908/07

    Good day Sir/Madam,

    Lottery notification

    This is to inform you that you are winner from the just concluded Hawlett Packard (HP) Company lottery in way of saying thank you for your patronage and in promotion of our hardware and software product.

    Kindly note that this lottery is approved by the British Lottery Board BLDA, any mail without this approval code (BLDP) Meaning British lottery board approved.

    No ticket were sold but it was done my a randomly selected email database from all email service providers and with the help of Microsoft incorporated, to this you have been declared a winner of 1,000,000,00 Great British Pounds sterling and One HP Pavilion laptop from the just announce result with Reference No: HPC/L/W-1221908.and Batch No: HPC/L-653-2008.

    You are to fill the verification form below and forward to your claim processor for proper entirely into the British lottery book of the year and for accurate delivery of prize to you. you can call him if need be.
    On behalf of the entire staff of HP company we say congratulations.

    VERIFICATION FORM

    {1} Your Full Names:……………
    {2} Contact Address:…………….
    {3} Telephone Number:………………………
    {4} Fax numbers(optional):……………
    (5} Nationality/Country:……………
    {6} Date of Birth:…………………………………..
    {7} Age/Sex:……………………….
    {8} Occupation:……………………………………………………
    {9} Scan a copy of your international passport and your personal photograph.
    How would you want to get your prize? …………….

    {A} Come down to United Kingdom to pick up your Cheque & 2 hp Pavilion
    laptops.

    {B} Courier delivery of your winning cheque and 2 hp Pavilion laptops to your
    doorsteps.

    ****************************************************************
    CONTACT:
    Hewlett Packard Promotion Processing Department,
    Mr. Rick Bowen
    Tel : +447045756005
    Phone: +447045743006
    Email: hprickbowen@live.com

    *******************************************************************
    Note that your reference number and batch no and all other details concerning this lottery should not be disclosed until prize is delivered, this is to avoid double claim and delivery of prize to the wrong person.

    Once a again I say congratulation,
    Yours truly,

    Mr. Philip Omar
    Public relations officer.
    Hawlett Packard computer company

  • ¡Tengo nueva dirección de correo! el scam

    Ahora puedes escribirme a:raphaelstephen01@yahoo.com.ve

    – I have a Transaction as I am contacting you to join hands for our betterment. I work as an administrative Secretary to one private SECURITY COMPANY located in Accra-Ghana. Having worked for this firm for nine years and within this period, I have watched with meticulously precision how African Heads of States, government functionaries, Foreign Contractors and Inherited consignments have been using our firm to move huge sums of money in USD, Pound sterling, Euro and Gold to their foreign collaborators. They bring in these consignments of RAW CASH encoded and declared the contents to be either gold, diamond, precious stones and family treasure, there are hundreds of consignments deposited under our vault, and most of the depositors are now dead but their Consignments lying here Unclaimed for over past 10 to 15 years without no one coming for claims. Recently the board of directors of our Firm resolved that any over stayed deposited Trunk Boxes be disposed and destroyed before 30th of September, to pave way in accommodating incoming items in year 2009. It was on this development I met with our Vault Manager who is in charge of all deposited Consignments in our Vault and we reached an accord before secretly retrieved (2) Trunk Boxes in pretence to take them out for destroying as mandated by the Management. As I am writing this message to you we have kept the two consignments into a safety place where no one can lay hand on them, while waiting to relocate them. The goodnews was, we took these Items to where it was run electronic Scanning and only to find out their contents to be image of money in Millions of US Dollars in 100 Bills Note, amounting to the tune of USD 21.5 MILLION DOLLARS, though we did not disclose this findings to our Management or any of our staff only kept it to ourselves. Now we needed assistance of you as a foreigner to receive the Funds on our behalves for Investment in your Country. We have already finished every arrangement with a diplomatic Officer who will be delivery the Consignments direct to your doorstep in your Country while one of us will come over there to meet with you once you confirm the arrival. Most important is to heard from you if capable to handle this transaction with maturity without being greed, also upon your good response, we shall discuss the sharing ratio between both parties involved and I personally assuring you that you will have a course to smile at the conclusion of this transaction as it is very secure and risk free only that all we needed your word and sincerity before furthering with you. More so, this transaction has been hatched for the past four (4) months now. Please do get back to us as quick as possible for more details. Thanks, Stephen Raphael.

  • ATM Skimmers?

    There’s a new way of stealing money from ATMs:

    “Becki Turner got the call from her bank’s fraud department on Labor Day. The investigator wanted to know if she had withdrawn $500 from an ATM in California over the holiday weekend. She hadn’t. She couldn’t. Turner was home in Puyallup, Wash.

    “I was just flabbergasted,” she says. “I had the card with me, the ATM was in another state, and the person using the machine had to have my security code.” Turner worried crooks had gotten into the banking system and stolen her password.

    It wasn’t anything that complicated. Puyallup police say thieves snagged her account information — along with the debit card numbers and PIN codes of hundreds of other people — at two gas stations in the area.

    They did it by installing their own hard-to-spot card reader, called a skimmer, on top of the card reader built into the pump. The skimmer is able to grab the account information from the card without interfering with the legitimate payment transaction.

    The crooks used the stolen data to create (or clone) fake debit cards that were used at ATMs in Washington State over the Fourth of July weekend and in Northern California on Labor Day weekend. The bad guys like three-day holidays because it gives them more time to use the cards before the unauthorized withdrawals are spotted.”

    MSNBC

  • INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE INTERNET USER *scam?*

    *I’m pretty sure this is not real*

    FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE
    INTERNET USER
    LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

    Dear Internet User,

    YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR USING THE INTERNET.

    I am pleased to inform you that one of the best things
    that can happento any Internet user is to be rewarded for
    spending money and time on the Internet. You may not have
    known that over one hundred billion people daily surf the
    Internet on regular basis for one reason or other.
    These Internet users including yourself, pay access fees
    to various Internet Service Providers (ISP) all over the
    world who in turn remit surplus funds to the numerous
    World Wide Internet Technology Companies (WWITC)for the
    developmentand advancement of Global Information
    Technology.

    So much money is generated from people like you all over
    the World for using the Information Superhighway (the
    Internet) without your being aware the enormous sum that
    go to the stake holders (WWWITC). Without your patronage,
    this would not have been possible. After we conducted a
    research on the issue, we concluded that Internet users
    should becompensated. As a result, we embarked on a
    worldwide lottery promotion with a sophisticated automated
    database to randomly select E-mail
    accounts that frequently surf the Internet.
    Consequent upon this, your E-mail address was picked for
    Category “A” ‚Winners.

    After the automated computer ballot, your E-mail address
    emerged as a winner in the category “A” with the following
    numbers attached Ref Number: PW EH 9590 OG 0612,Batch
    Number: PA 563881545-NL/2007

    You and other category “A” ‚ winners are therefore
    to receive a
    cash prize of Five hundred Thousand pounds(953,000.00Gbp
    )respectively from the total payout of twelve million
    pounds earmarked in the lottery for category “A” ‚
    winners. Your prize award has been insured with your
    E-mail address, which qualified you for the lottery and
    will be transferred to you upon meeting our
    requirements,statutory obligations, verifications,
    validations and satisfactory proof of E-mail address
    ownership.

    To file in for the processing of your money, you are
    advised to contact our certified and accredited claims
    agent for category “A” winners with the information below:

    CLAIMS AGENT.
    Name: Mr.Peter Wales
    E-mail:gamingdept61@hotmail.com

    You will provide her with the following information:

    Full Names: ……………………………………….
    Last Name: ………………………………………..
    Contact Address:……………………………………
    Nationality:……………………………………….
    Occupation:………………………………………..
    Sex:………………………………………………
    Age:………………………………………………
    Amount Won:………………………………………..
    Land Telephone No. (If Any):…………………………
    Mobile Telephone No.:……………………………….
    Email Address:……………………………………..
    Marital Status:…………………………………….
    Employer (If Any):………………………………….

    NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days,
    thereafterunclaimed funds would be forfeited after a trio
    repeated forwarding ofthis message to you without your
    response. Remember to quote yourreference information in
    all correspondence. (Ref No: PW EH 9590 OG0612,Batch No:
    PA 563881545-NL/2008),

    You are to keep all lotto information confidential,
    especially your reference numbers and the password of your
    E-mail address. Since we donot know you, if an impostor
    hacks your E-mail account ID and claims your moneywithout
    our knowledge, we shall not be liable. Double claims will
    not be entertained so be careful. Furthermore, should
    there be any
    change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

    Congratulations! Thank you for being a user of the World
    Wide Web.

    Yours Faithfully,
    Mrs.Wayne Allison
    Lottery Coordinator.
    Thank you and
    congratulations!!!

  • Important Message Notification Alert *Bank of America* Phished

    Important Message Notification Alert

    Dear Bank Of America Customer,

    For your Online security, the profile that you are using to access Bank Of America Financial Group Online Banking has been locked because of too many failed login attempts. You can unlock this profile online by selecting an option below:

    Unlock your account profile with [Bank Of America Online Banking Log-In]
    **phished** http://afghania.yaktah.com/images/account_update/account_update/online_bofa_banking/e-online-banking/index.htm”>

    We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, we are requesting this information to verify and protect your identity. This is in order to prevent the use of the South Africa banking system in terrorist and other illegal activity.

    Security Advisory,

    Bank Of America Customer Service Center.

    *Important*

    failure to update your account at least 24hrs of notice might lead to account being locked and online access will be restricted.

    Equal Housing LenderMember FDIC(c) Copyright 2008 Bank Of America Financial Corporation – 1-800-Bank Of America .

  • New Scam: Students “Warned” Of Undercover Police At Polls

    Young voters at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. have already been targeted, with students reporting that flyers have been posted around campus warning that undercover police will be at the polls on Election Day looking to make arrests.

    “The flyer reads like a friendly letter to fellow students relaying a warning from an “Obama supporter”: “He informed me that on the day of the election there will be undercover officers to execute warrants on those who come to vote based on the anticipated turnout,” writes the anonymous student in the letter which was later posted on the Drexel College Democrats website. ‘He advised me if I had any outstanding warrants or traffic offenses I should clear them up prior to voting.’…Political experts say the Drexel flyer is a classic example of voter suppression – a practice that involves scaring, angering, or confusing voters so that they stay at home on Election Day.

    “‘The basic idea is that you intimidate people by saying that law enforcement is using the polling place to catch scofflaws…criminals…whoever. It’s basically a deterrent to keep people away from voting,’ said Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative who went to prison for three-months in 2006 for his involvement in a scheme to jam the phones at headquarters of the Democratic get-out-the vote effort in New Hampshire in 2002.”

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  • Your Card has been deactivated *phishing*

    From: security@buttecommunity.com
    Subject: Your Card has been deactivated.
    Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:37:02 +0200

    Butte Community Bank has been notified by numerous members that they have received e-mail requesting account information. We will never ask you to verify your account information via e-mail.
    Due to increasing number of fraudulent e-mails claiming to be from BCB, all Visa Cards, including yours (4850-9900-XXXX-XXXX) have been deactivated.
    We understand that having limited access can be an inconvenience, but protecting your account is our primary concern. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
    To activate your card, please follow the link bellow:
    https://www.buttecommunity.com/visa/activate.asp <== phished (http://users.nelsoncable.com/anita/personal.html) 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. Sincerely, Butte Community Bank Security Department

  • Osama Hanged (virus)

    *verified with snopes.com and about anti-virus*

    Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the
    moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you
    will not be able to fix it!

    1.) If you get an e-mail along the lines of ‘Osama Bin Laden Captured’
    or ‘Osama Hanged’ , don’t open the Attachment!!!!

    This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe,
    but mainly in the US and Israel.

    Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know..

    PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS.

    2.) You should be alert during the next few days:

    Do not open any message with an attached file called ‘Invitation’
    regardless of who sent it.

    It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which ‘burns’ the whole hard
    disc C of your computer!!!!

    This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address
    in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this E-Mail to all
    your contacts.

    It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus
    and open it.

    If you receive e-mail called ‘invitation’, though sent by a friend. Do
    not open it!!! Shut down your computer immediately!!!!

    This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by
    Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.

    This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair
    yet for this kind of virus.

    This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the
    vital information is kept.

  • state Corporate Compliance fraud

    Corporate Compliance *scam*HA! They almost got me! I had a $150.00 USD check ready made out to “Corporate Compliance”. The envelope was wet with my spit and just about to be sealed until I read the print in bold at the bottom:

    Requirement code 3001. This is a Solicitation for the order of goods or services, or both, and not a bill, invoice, or statement of account due. You are under no obligation to make any payment on account of the offer unless you accept the offer. Requirement B&P Code 17533.6This Product or service has not been approved or endorsed by any government agency, and this offer is not being made by an agency of the government..

    Translation: You don’t HAVE to send us money.. we are not affiliated with the government.. we just want your money.. our service is that we are asking for money. *SCAM*

    Annually, I have to file documents to keep my corporation compliant with state & federal law. Although I know this is something that can be done online with my state (Colorado), I usually procrastinate until I completely forget about it. So it is convenient to get the occasional mail reminding me to file. The state usually send a post card with a reminder and a link to their .gov site. The “Office of Corporate Compliance” sends a message telling you the importance of filing your “Annual Corporate Minutes”. They offer to do it for $175 (check or money order). The only problem is that states don’t require minutes filed with them. You are supposed to keep minutes, and other corporate records.. but they are not submitted anywhere. My state requires a re-statement of my Articles of Incorporation (annually over the ‘Net).

    I’ll hand it to them, “Office of Corporate Compliance” seal looks authentic at the glance. Once I found out that this was indeed a scam, I realized that they could be doing this in EVERY single state and making a small fortune. If you Google it, you’ll see that they really are doing it all over the nation. They’ve probably been doing it for years.

    My question is, how and why has this been allowed to flourish. Each state puts out some sort of can response about it:

    Recently, an entity calling itself “[STATE] Corporate Compliance” mailed solicitations entitled “Annual Corporate Minutes Compliance Filing” to numerous [state] corporations. This solicitation offers to complete corporate meeting minutes on behalf of the corporation for a fee. Despite the implications contained in the solicitation, [state] corporations are not required by law to file corporate minutes with the Secretary of State.

    Why can’t the state governments come down on this 50 state scam? Perhaps “Corporate Compliance” wording is such that there is nothing the states or any other government can do ANYTHING about.

    Heres how I think their scam works:

    1) They set up a P.O. Box in each state with corresponding state header on envelops and letters.
    2) Search each states corporate data base for corporations with the status (delinquent or non-compliant.. this means the corp. in question did not restate their annual articles of incorporation.)
    3) They send the appropriate state letter to the delinquent corporations
    4) The corporation pays and send to the P.O. Box that is already typed on the self addressed envelop inside
    5) The P.O. Box forwards to the real address of the creators of this system (or franchisers)

    Reverse PO Box Lookup
    US Post offices will disclose the forwarding location of corporate entities PO Box. So I think I will do one and advertise them right here on this site. I think that there is only one company (or group) behind this mail fraud.

    Who is Corporate Compliance Filings, Inc?
    I did a Google search for the company and came up with only one organization named Corporate Compliance, the name The Office of Corporate Compliance asked to be put on the checks. The only way they can cash the check is to have an actual corporate entity. Here it is: http://www.corporatecompliance.com/ –> Although there should be a crime against having a terribly shitty 90’s site, I can’t yet pin the scam to these guys… I simply don’t have any evidence at all pointing to this particular site.

    When I did a search on the New York business database (where this 90’s Internet Corporate Compliance is from) I noticed that their were two entities with that name: CORPORATE COMPLIANCE FILINGS INC. (foreign entity) & CORPORATE COMPLIANCE LTD (domestic). But then I noticed that Corporate Compliance Filings Inc. is also in the California business database, Colorado business database and all the others.. each one does not list other entities or foreign entity as the registered agents in an attempt to avoiding naming individuals.

    If you search the databases you’ll see that they use: CORPORATE COMPLIANCE FILINGS INC., Corporation Compliance Recorder, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE CENTER

    Colorado Corporate Compliance

    The Colorado Secretary of State’s office has recently become aware that an additional entity, “California Corporate Services”, has mailed solicitations titled “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” to businesses in Colorado. These solicitations are similar to those mailed to businesses by “Colorado Corporate Compliance” and “Board of Business Compliance” titled “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” or “Disclosure Statement”. These solicitations offer to process corporate meeting minutes on behalf of the corporation for a fee. Despite the implications contained in the solicitations, Colorado corporations are not required by law to file corporate minutes with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office.

    California Corporate Compliance

    In very fine print, the document usually has a disclaimer, such as:

    “CA Business & Professions Code Sec 17533.6 This service has

    not been approved or endorsed by any government agency, and

    this offer is not being made by an agency of the government.”

    California Corporate Headquarters, Compliance Division

    California Addresses:

    CALIFORNIA CORPORATE COMPLIANCE
    Business Division
    3053 Freeport Blvd #310
    Sascramento, CA 94518

    State Corporate Compliance
    916 J Street
    Sacramento, CA 95814-2703
    form was 4780C

    Corporate Compliance Filings
    9175 Keifer Blvd # 336
    Sacramento, CA 95826

    California Corporate Headquarters
    Compliance Division
    2443 Fair Oaks Boulevard #539
    Sacramento, CA 95825
    CA-FORM AMDS-03

    Massachusetts Corporate Compliance

    Recently, an entity calling itself “Massachusetts Corporate Compliance” mailed solicitations entitled “Annual Corporate Minutes Compliance Filing” to numerous Massachusetts corporations. This solicitation offers to complete corporate meeting minutes on behalf of the corporation for a fee. Despite the implications contained in the solicitation, Massachusetts corporations are not required by law to file corporate minutes with the Secretary of State.

    Georgia Corporate Compliance

    Secretary of State Handel Alerts Corporations to Potential Scam

    Atlanta, GA—Recently, an entity calling itself “Georgia Corporate Compliance” mailed solicitations entitled “Annual Minutes Disclosure Statement” to numerous Georgia corporations. This solicitation offers to complete corporate meeting minutes on behalf of the Georgia corporation for a fee. Despite the implications contained in the solicitation, Georgia corporations are not required by law to file corporate minutes with the Secretary of State.

    New York Corporate Compliance


    Texas Corporate Compliance

    Recently, an entity calling itself “State Corporate Compliance” mailed solicitations entitled “Annual Corporate Minutes Compliance Filing” to numerous Texas business entities. This solicitation offers to complete corporate meeting minutes on behalf of the Texas business entities for a fee. Despite the implications contained in the solicitation, Texas business entities are not required by law to file corporate minutes with the Secretary of State.

    Oregon Corporate Compliance

    Better Business Bureau takes a look at Corporate Compliance

  • Confirm Your Bank Of America Account **PHISHING*

    From: accounts@customerservice.com
    Subject: Update Your Account Information
    Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:06:05 +0900

    Dear Bank Of America Customer,

    During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification procedures, we have detected a slight error in your account information. To securely confirm your personal information please click on the link bellow:

    ** http://211.116.129.254/index.php *PHISHING SITE**

    Confirm Your Bank Of America Account now to enjoy the benefits of online banking and finance to avoid identity theft and fraudulent activities on your account.
    Note: THIS IS AN GENERATED MESSAGE activity.

    Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender
    c 2008 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved