Elamb Cybersecurity

Category: scam

  • REGARDS GOD BLESS YOU *scam*

    I have a new email address!You can now email me at: revsistermaryjoseph3@yahoo.com

    – DEAR FRIEND,GOOD DAY,I’ M REVEREND SISTER MARY JOSEPH FROM ST.JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH LONDON ENGLAND.IT’S VERY PATHETIC THAT WE LOST REV.FATHER JOE-BONO OF ST.JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH LONDON ENGLAND.LATE REV.FATHER JOE-BONO IS AN AMERICAN AND ALSO AN ORPHAN BUT NATIONALISED HERE IN ST.JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH LONDON ENGLAND.LATE REV.FATHER JOE-BONO DIED ON 5TH SEPTEMBER 2007 AND BEFORE HE DIED,HE MADE A WILL.I’ M GLAD TO INFORM YOU THAT LATE REV.FATHER JOE-BONO MADE YOU THE BENEFICIARY OF HIS WILL A SUM OF {300,000.00 three hundred thousand pounds} THROUGH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS.YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING HOW LATE REV.FATHER JOE-BONO MADE YOU THE BENEFICIARY OF HIS WILL.LATE REV.FATHER JOE-BONO MADE A RANDOM SAMPLING OF THREE PEOPLE E-MAIL ADDRESSES BY THE HELP OF MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL FIRM AND AMONG THE THREE PEOPLE E-MAIL ADDRESSES,YOURS CAME OUT AS A DRAW AND THIS IS HOW LATE REV.FATHER JOE-BONO MADE YOU THE BENEFICIARY OF HIS WILL.FORWARD THE DETAILS BELOW TO ME SO THAT I CAN FORWARD IT TO THE BARCLAYS BANK PLC LONDON UK FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR FUNDS.1,FULL NAME.2,CONTACT ADDRESS.3,COUNTRY.4,AGE AND OCCUPATION.5,PRIVATE PHONE NUMBER.I AWAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU TODAY.BEST REGARDSGOD BLESS YOU.REV.SISTER MARY JOSEPH.

  • Nigerian Dating Scams

    *also under dating scams*
    dating scam Sadia Ghana
    BEWARE OF DATING SITE SCAMS. There are a lot of false profiles out on the dating sites. The false ones are typically free member parasites and not usually paying members. Many of the false profiles are harmless member stealer’s. They are on there to flirt with you and try and get you to come to some other dating site. But some are trying to steal your heart to get to your money.

    ONLINE DATING SCAM TACTICS:

    Step 1) Take the Bait

    You meet someone on a dating site (Adult Friend Finder, Match, okcupid, etc). This person has posted a picture of themselves and they are gorgeous!
    Their profiles says something like:

    I am a caring ,loving, honest, respectful and i believe in god and real people to hop to meet meet my real love here

    There profile seems perfect. They sounds sweet, loving and caring. Their picture (if they have one) looks incredible. They seem to live pretty close.

    What’s really going on? More than likely it is some ugly dude from a third world country who just learned to use a computer. They found a hot picture and posted it on the dating site. They are the exact opposite of what ever they said on their profile: they are uncaring, dishonest and don’t respect anyone… not even themselves.

    Step 2) The Out of Country Story

    You send them a message. They reply and tell you that they’d rather talk to you on email (usually hotmail or yahoo). They then proceed to tell you that they are currently in another country (Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, England), but they have some sort of connection to the states in your local area. They’ll say they’re relatives are there or they do business their and they’d love to meet you sometime.

    What’s really going on? They really are outside of whatever country you are (usually Nigeria, Ghana, West Africa – this is one of the top scams in that region).

    Step 3) Relationship Deception

    What they do next is get a steady relationship with you. They will send more pictures. They will want to know more about you so they can cater to your ego. They will tell you they love you, tell you how good you look, how great you are. Basically, anything get the relationship going.

    What’s really going on? They are lying to you and 20 other people on 5 or 6 different dating sites.

    Step 4) A Crisis: they Need Money

    There are various lies they may use to get money. They will ask for cash to buy the ticket to come visit you or they will tell you a tragedy has occurred and they need your help maybe even with a promise to pay you back.

    What’s really going on? They are attempting to take your money and spend it on bullshit.

    Clues to Spot Dating Scams:

    – Pictures look too professional. Magazine quality photos should be a dead give away. If they send a series of pics and each one looks like a “model posed” photo shoot, be suspicious.
    – BAD GRAMMAR & SPELLING. They are typically not very well educated and it will sometimes come through loud the clear via very choppy English and slight stupid logic. Sometimes it is as bad as a 3rd grader (a dumb 3rd grader).
    – Western Africa. Be suspicious of ANYTHING from from Ghana, Mali and especially Nigeria.
    – Too much love, too fast. They will almost immediately start talking about “I love you”, “I miss you” – don’t be flattered… they don’t love you… trust me.

    Disclaimer: Miracles do happen. Maybe you’ve just met a West African supermodel, with bad grammar, who has fallen madly in love with you in the course of two or three emails.

    Conclusion:
    I’ve dealt with these scammers on ebay, email, dating sites and in chat rooms and one thing I’ve noticed is that they are actually not very smart. They are just ruthless. They take advantage of people’s trust, kindness and generosity. They are not so much predators as they are parasites that jump from host to host. They feed on the infrastructure and wealth of Western Civilization and have nothing at all to contribute to humanity but ignorance and greed. The sad thing is that these few greedy, idiots are giving ALL West Africans a bad name on the Web and these nations (particularly Ghana & Nigeria) are among the richest nations in Africa with the greatest potential of having great success in any and all endeavors. Its a real shame.

    Richest African Countries 2006: GDP Per Country

    1. South Africa … $606.4 billion in international$ (up 8% from 2005)
    2. Algeria … $262.2 billion (up 8.5%)
    3. Nigeria … $181.8 billion (up 10.2%)
    4. Morocco … $150.8 billion (up 4.8%)
    5. Sudan … $98.8 billion (up 11.2%)
    6. Tunisia … $91.4 billion (up 7.4%)
    7. Ethiopia … $78.4 billion (up 12%)
    8. Ghana … $59.4 billion (up 9.1%)

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  • UNITED NATION ORDERED FOR YOUR COMPENSATION *SCAM*

    > Subject: UNITED NATION ORDERED FOR YOUR COMPENSATION
    > From: info.network4@aliceadsl.fr
    >
    > UNITED NATION ORGANISATION
    > COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RE PAYMENT
    > (RESOLUTION PANEL ON THE IMAGE REDEMPTION OF THE AFRICAN COUNTRIES,INSTRUCTED BY USA GOVERNMENT
    > Our Ref: USG /GAO/STB Your ref:
    >
    > Hello Dear
    >
    > We, the entire members of the United Nations Organisation (UNO), on behalf of the United Nation President Hon H.E.
    Srgjan Kerim and USA Government, Under the auspices of the civilian Head of State, President George W Bush and the
    President of Nigeria President Umoru Yaradua and the Governor of Central Bank Of Nigeria , Prof Charles Soludo, held a
    meeting last week concerning the payment of all people that have fallen victim to the dubious/fraudulent /scammers
    and impostors parading themselves as head of Government, finance houses or banks and other institutions like telling
    people that they have won lottery which they did not won,etc. Primarily, this panel has resolved to pay out
    compensation benefits of Nine Hundred and fifty Thousand United States Dollars (US$ 950,000) to all victims that
    has fallen prey to this group of fraudsters.AS UNITED NATION has instructed Nigeria Government.
    >
    > For this reason, Nigeria Government have arrested some group of people that are involve in this bad act.
    >
    > Your name, email address and contact details was observed to be one of their victims.
    >
    > We have opened up a file and ascribe it with the following information; Payment Reference No.-35460021,
    Allocation No: 674632 Password No : 339331 , Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No :
    103 , Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex confirmation No: -1114433 ; Secret Code No: XXTN013.
    >
    > For the release of your compensation funds by international ATM CARD that you will use to withdraw your
    Compensation/inheritance funds in any ATM MACHINE CENTRE any were in the world with a maximum of $5,000
    United States Dollars daily. In View of this, you are advised to contact the Director (CBN, IRD, and ATM)
    DR.CHIZAM UGBUAH for further information with the following contact details:
    >
    > Email: atm.cardcenter@ymail.com
    >
    > And also you are required to provide to him the following information:
    >
    > 1. Your full name.
    > 2. Phone and fax number.
    > 3. Address were you want the ATM Card to be sent. (P.O Box not acceptable)
    > 4. Your age and current occupation
    > 5. Attach copy of your identification.
    >
    >
    > Remember to use your Payment Reference (No.-35460021) as the title of your message.
    >
    > Therefore, Contact him now and inform him that you received an email from The UNITED NATION,
    instructing
    you to write him for immediate release of your ATM CARD compensation fund .
    >
    >
    > NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming call , if we still find
    out that you are still dealing with all those fraudsters that have been frustrating our efforts and
    defrauding beneficiaries and indigence of America and other countries in the world, We shall stop and cancel your payment immediately .
    >
    >
    > Best Regards
    > H.E. Srgjan Kerim,
    > President United Nations Organisation General .
    > Email address: info.network3@aliceadsl.fr
    >

  • From: Mr. Richard Crosby Acknowledge the receipt Asa *scam*

    From: Mr.Richard Crosby
    Randburg, Johannesburg,
    South Africa.
    Tel/Fax:+27-86-535-2546
    Date: 02/08/2008.

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    I am a Financial and legal consultant based in South Africa. As Financial Consultant my firm has facilitated
    a lot of transactions for very high profile clients at home and abroad.

    From my enquiries, your profile on investments and acquisitions suits an investment opportunity and may
    turn out to be a good foundation on which we can build an effective and functional business relationship
    of particular interest presently, there is a client’s account that I have had to administer for the past six years.
    Although the client is late, there are huge deposits he made with a Finance Firm that we can safely engage
    for investment funding before they are declared Unserviceable or reverted to the government treasury as
    unclaimed funds.

    The client died in very unfortunate circumstances there are no existing beneficiaries. It is my mandate as
    clients’ financial consultant to facilitate the release of this fund to a verified beneficiary. I have decided to
    seek your assistance and have you receive this fund on our behalf. All the legal requirements will be fulfilled
    to have you as a proven beneficiary of the claim. The total value of the claim is Seventeen Million United
    States Dollars (US$17m).

    At your interest please let us discuss this further by e-mail or fax for further directive so that I can avail you
    with more information and the mutual benefits that will accrue. I hope you will understand the nature of this
    transaction, which has made me frugal with sensitive information.

    E-mail: richcros01@gmail.com

    Best regards
    Mr.Mr.Richard Crosby

  • Poetry Scam

    The dream of every artist from painter or poet is to create something that communicates to others. For a writer, publishing a successful piece is a joyous dream reserved for very few. Poets are perhaps some of the most courageous writers. It takes a lot of guts to put your rawest feelings into words and distribute them for all to see.

    As a writer, I was horrified to find out that there is a HUGE scam that targets us. As a security guy who is always researching scams, I am not surprised that there are scams targeting writers, but I am amazed that there is one that is doing so well.

    There is a poetry scam that legally swindles people out of their money. Its called poetry.com. Poetry . Com is not a URL that you’d associate with “scam”, so it is easy to see why many might be attracted to this wolf in sheep’s clothing. So how does poetry . com scam people “legally”?

    Poetry . com actually misleads aspiring poets into thinking that they have won acceptance into a poetry book. The catch is that you must BUY the book to be put in it. Unfortunately, these poets, hungry for a break go for this. What they need to realize is that poetry . com offers the SAME thing to EVERY one who writes them a poem. That is how they scam you.

    Poetry Scam Steps:

    1) Poetry . com advertises the prize of being published to all the best aspiring poets.

    2) They send ALL who submit the same letter of acceptance:

    a. It is my pleasure to inform you that after reading and discussing your poem, our Selection Committee has certified your poem as a semi-finalist in our Open Poetry Contest.Your poem will automatically be entered into the final competition held in Spring. As a semi-finalist, you have an excellent chance of winning one of 70 cash or gift prizes. You may even win the $1,000,000 Grand Prize.

    3) Poetry .com Offers to publish the poets work if they pay X dollars.

    No matter what you write to them, your reply will be this.

    It is my pleasure to inform you that after reading and discussing your poem, our Selection Committee has certified your poem as a semi-finalist in our Open Poetry Contest.Your poem will automatically be entered into the final competition held in Spring. As a semi-finalist, you have an excellent chance of winning one of 70 cash or gift prizes. You may even win the $1,000,000 Grand Prize.

    i have been victim of an online poetry contest hoax, organized by poetry.com. i entered a very personal poem and did not expect to have any response so far. of course i felt very excited when I received a letter of acceptance full of praise. a french native who writes in english, i felt so proud of my accomplishment. so i accepted to buy two copies of the book my poem was going to be published in, and even payed to have a short bio published.

    My husband was suspicious, but did not want to hurt my feelings, and eventually let me buy the copies of the book, one for his mother, the other one for us. in the short bio, i wrote that the poem was a tribute to my father-in-law who recently passed away. my two bright and creative children were so proud of me. This happened a week ago. i have been calling my credit card company to try to put a stop payment, but the transaction has not been registered yet. it was only yesterday i realized all of this was a scam from clicking on an internet link. I am horrified by the idea that a an intimate, well-crafted poem might appear online, among a lot of trash. I feel violated and humiliated. I want to get the poem they stole and tainted, back, and to be able to submit it to serious and reputable publications.

    Anastasia
    Waltham, Massachusetts
    U.S.A.

    Poetry.com poetry scam, I entered a poetry contest online, it was to my own standards and to other poets and writers’ standards a good poem So I did believe them when I received their quite outrageous letter of acceptance, and of course agreed to buy two copy of their book, payed an additional fee to include a short bio. This was a week ago. Owings Mills Maryland

    www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/284/RipOff0284117.htm

  • One of many Survey Scams*

    What
    do you think about our new website?

        You’ve been selected to take part in our quick
    and easy survey.
    In return we will credit $99.99 to your account – Just for your time!

        Please spare two minutes of your time and take part
    in our online

    survey so we can improve our services. Don’t miss this chance to
    change something.

    To access the form please click the link below :

    http://www.creditunion1.org/survey.asp

    Copyright © 2008, All
    Rights Reserved | Credit Union 1, 200 East Champaign Avenue, Rantoul,
    IL 61866

  • Dear Beloved In Christ

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

    I have a new email address!You can now email me at: marthadandridge12@rocketmail.com

    – Dear Beloved In Christ I am Mrs.Martha Dandridge,an aging widow suffering from long time illness. My condition is critical, although as a Christian, I believe in God that I will not die, but will live to declare the glory of God upon me. My husband was amongst the casualties of the terrorist attack that rocked London on the 7th of July 2005. I have some funds that I inherited from my late husband, the sum of US$8,400,000.00 United States Dollars, and I needed a very honest and God fearing Christian that will use the fund for spreading evangelism, I searched through the internet for this purpose, and I found your email address and decided to contact you. Please if you would be able to use the funds for the Lord’s work, kindly respond back for further instructions.Yours in the Lord,Mrs. Martha Dandridge

  • IRS REBATE CHECKS economic stimulus *scam mail* Extended

    IRS SEAL
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    Some body should tell the IRS that some one is pretending to be them. Emails have been going around phishing for credit card numbers. They send you an email requesting that you click on a link (phished site). Then they ask for your credit card info claiming that they want to give you a direct deposit

    Here is the email:

    Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:44:17 -0600
    Reply-To: info@irs.gov
    From: Internal Revenue Service
    Subject: IRS 2008 Economic Stimulus Refund – 2Nd Notice!
    Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:44:57 -0400
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/html;
    charset=”Windows-1251″
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    X-Priority: 1
    X-MSMail-Priority: High
    X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081
    X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081
    Bcc:
    Return-Path: info@irs.gov

    X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2008 17:44:17.0800 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC784080:01C8E834]





    IRS

       

        Over 130 million Americans will receive refunds as
    part of President Bush program to jump-start economy.

    Our records indicate that you are qualified to receive the 2008
    Economic Stimulus Refund. The fastest and
    easiest way to receive your refund is by direct deposit to your
    checking/savings account. Please follow the
    link and fill out the form and submit before July
    20    , 2008,
    to ensure that your refund will be processed as
    soon as possible.

       
    Submitting your form on July
    20    ,2008 or
    later means that your refund will be delayed due to the volume

    of requests we anticipate for the Economic Stimulus Refund.

    To
    access the IRS
    2008     Economic
    Stimulus Refund    , please
    Note    : If you received this message in your
    SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the large amount
    of e-mails we are sending out or because of the restrictions
    implemented by your ISP    .

    PHISHED OUT IRS SITE:
    **http://221.194.128.174:84/irs/online_form
    /www.irs.gov/0,,id=96596,00.htmlscam**

  • IRS REBATE CHECKS economic stimulus *scam mail*

    Some body should tell the IRS that some one is pretending to be them. Emails have been going around phishing for credit card numbers. They send you an email requesting that you click on a link (phished site). Then they ask for your credit card info claiming that they want to give you a direct deposit. MORE HERE —> IRS SCAM.

    PHISHED OUT IRS SITE:
    **http://221.194.128.174:84/irs/online_form
    /www.irs.gov/0,,id=96596,00.htmlscam**