Another scam email
Just got another one of 'those' emails.
Love email addy 'Frank Smith [fex.courier.company@gmail.com ]'
Anyway...
I want to inform you that the fee for your Cheque Draft has been Paid yesterday 12th/3/2008 2:30 Pm afternoon because the manager of Eco Bank Benin told me that before the check will get to you it will expire. So i told him to cash the $15m,, all the necessary arrangement of delivering of the $1.5m in cash was made with FEDEX COMPANY WORLD WIDE.
Here is the contact of the fedex Company World Wide bellow.ATTN: REV. FRANCO BEN.
Email: fed_expresscourier_company101@yahoo.com
Please send them your contacts information to enable them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX. This the information they need from in order to delivery your box to your address.1.YOUR FULL NAME...
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS ....
3 YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.....
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.......
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE......... Please make sure you send this needed informations to the Director general Fedex Company world wild in Benin REV.FRANCO BEN. with the address given to you. Note. The fedex company here don't know the contents of the Box. I registered it as a dameges of jeans returning to the retailer.
They don't know it contents money to avoid them delaying with the Box.
Please don't let them to know that the contents of the Box is money to avoid them from delaying with the box. I am waiting for your urgent response. Mean while the only fee you have to pay them is $185 USD they will use to obtain insurance certificate and claims of affidavite that will prove that the box belongs to you. Be rest assure that all other fees have been paid by me.
I am waiting for your urgent response.
Thanks
Frank smith.
Hehe, Gotta love 'em.
Love email addy 'Frank Smith [fex.courier.company@gmail.com ]'
Anyway...
I want to inform you that the fee for your Cheque Draft has been Paid yesterday 12th/3/2008 2:30 Pm afternoon because the manager of Eco Bank Benin told me that before the check will get to you it will expire. So i told him to cash the $15m,, all the necessary arrangement of delivering of the $1.5m in cash was made with FEDEX COMPANY WORLD WIDE.
Here is the contact of the fedex Company World Wide bellow.ATTN: REV. FRANCO BEN.
Email: fed_expresscourier_company101@yahoo.com
Please send them your contacts information to enable them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX. This the information they need from in order to delivery your box to your address.1.YOUR FULL NAME...
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS ....
3 YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER.....
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE.......
5.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE......... Please make sure you send this needed informations to the Director general Fedex Company world wild in Benin REV.FRANCO BEN. with the address given to you. Note. The fedex company here don't know the contents of the Box. I registered it as a dameges of jeans returning to the retailer.
They don't know it contents money to avoid them delaying with the Box.
Please don't let them to know that the contents of the Box is money to avoid them from delaying with the box. I am waiting for your urgent response. Mean while the only fee you have to pay them is $185 USD they will use to obtain insurance certificate and claims of affidavite that will prove that the box belongs to you. Be rest assure that all other fees have been paid by me.
I am waiting for your urgent response.
Thanks
Frank smith.
Hehe, Gotta love 'em.
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I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
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i love getting emails from banks that state my account (with the banks im not even with) has a problem
there is a pigeon inside your bank account
I am cuurently out of a job, what office number do I need do give?
Social security????
Always funny, those mails and who fall for these mails:
Why not wonder why the amount was taken from the total cash for you?
Best scam I had in Holland:
A compagnie claimed to have determined my ancestors and I could get a copy of it. They only needed my name and address.
I asked them : "How could you determine my ancestors without my name?"
Never heard from them again....
They're email address is a Yahoo one!
fed_expresscourier_company101@yahoo.com
doh!
A long time ago i wound one of these scammers up quite a bit with my 'Jimmy Krankie' email address. I hate scammers though ! But the people who fall for them i dont feel sorry for anymore, have to be utterly stupid to fall for them when its 'manager@hotmail.com' etc !
Of course the link that you have to click on to "sort a problem" with your account often reveals some questionable address.
Thing that got me tempted to click the link was that I'd been on the phone to somebody at Lloyds getting my internet banking reactivated. Thing is to do that you go to their website to do it. I didn't give them my email address and at no point during the phonecall was I asked for it. I didn't bother reactivating my internet banking as I lost the paper with my temp password on it, and couldn't be arsed to go through all the phone robots again, just so some jumped up prick can give me a password. So I didn't even enter my email on the Lloyds TSB website.
So obviously I'm like hang on a scam.
I may have a little sympathy for someone suckered by a scam like this as it did look considerably more convincing than anything else I've seen so far. Still didn't get me, but I imagine someone who's just got their first PC, or just got online for the first time or whatever may not know the difference.
But the people who fall for the "I am king Quami Mugabe, and I give you $150 billion dollar US", deserve everything they get these days.
I've had a load from various Fedex@yahoo, fed_ex@gmail, etc, recently maybe I should write them back and tell them my package is late and I want it :lol:
I've had a few from American Express@ "insert generic email provider here".com also telling me about a raise in capital for my card, and how I can go platinum.
Maybe I could if I actually owned an American Express card in the first place...idiots :lol:
Every bank says they will never send you a link in an email, they may say 'there is a problem with your account, please login when you can' but wont ever put a link in the email because of these phising ones.
The good thing is these 419 scam emails are normally mentioned in the media quite a lot whereas a few years back they werent and more and more people got suckered into them.
- Dear Friend,NOTIFICATION REQUESTOn behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Charles Wexler, I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter was returned undelivered.I hereby attempt to reach you again by this same email address on the "Will", I wish to notify you that Late Charles Wexler made you a beneficiary to his "Will", he left the sum of USD$2, 5Million to you in the codicil and last testament to his "Will", this may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but I have been given the task to locate you.Being a widely traveled man (Late Charles Wexler), he must have been in contact with you in thepast or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good, Late Charles Wexler until his death was a former managing director and pioneer staff of a giant construction company.He was a very dedicated business man who loved to give out. His great philanthropy earned him numerous awards during his life time. Late Charles Wexler died on the 5th day of February 2004 atthe age of 82 years, and his "WILL" is now ready for execution.According to instructions left by him these funds should be used in the support forHumanitarian/Charity activities and to help the poor and the needy. Please If I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job, I hope to hear from you in no distant time. Reply via my private E-mail:johnedward11123@yahoo.co.ukYours faithfuly,Mr.John Edward.
Yup, and I got a lovely 42" plasma TV out of it too! Cheers buddy! :D
That's mine! Give it back!
Gimme ?500 and it's yours!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Give it back or i'll send mel the bell round!
hehe, who do you think got me your details in the first place??? ;)
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Give it back!!!
And his "official ID"?
Why on earth would he give that out?!
How does he know that MattLamb isn't some sort of scammer??
Beats me. Call me over cautious, but I'm going to give his .jpg.exe ID card attachment a miss.
they deal with this stuff all the time lol
so I went to the bank to see what that was all about, and boy was I surprised? I did had an account in my name in that bank, with -150? on it due to bank fees and 50? worth of Benfica Shares (that at the time wasn't even on the market, so it was worthless). The thing was, I had never opened an account with that bank. I wanted to see the supposed contracts I had signed with the bank but they refused to show them to me.
I got pissed of, told them I would talk to my lawyer about it (As if i had a Lawyer?), and eventually they showed them to me. I had everything on it, my data, my address, etc. except for? my signature. They still wanted me to pay for it, and refused and even told them I would sue them. They them told me, that as a "special favor" they would close my account, the only problem would the the Benfica stocks. (not sure what i did to them?).
to cut the story short, apparently, the had a bank cashier who had work at my bank, and when she moved, she took tons of names of old clients and client families, and created "ghost" accounts to get her bonuses and whatever (I later came to know she stole a huge pile of money and went to Brasil, before she got arrested).
The bank in question defended himself by saying they had been schemed by an employer, but the fact is, that they knew I never opened an account with them, and they wanted me to pay and where ready to call the IRS on me?
I've always felt that had this story happen in America, I would be filthy rich right now!
You have been warned.
D.
http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm
They have some brilliant stories in the letters pages, which document the hapless scammer getting taken for the ride by the very person they are trying to scam. Some even end up getting tattoos, hand-writing hundreds of pages of prose, or creating artwork in the name of getting their hands on non-existent funding.
Very funny, and very worthy :)
Recieved this nasty scam email on my work email a few days ago.
The thing that really makes me sick is that i can imagine someone who wouldn't normally be taken in falling for it if they really were waiting for some results from their doctor.