Something Smells Phishy To Me...

Department of the Treasury Owes Me $189.60!

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:05:56 +0000

Too bad, by the time I received this scam email the IRS had already shut it down.

From: Department of the Treasury [mailto:service@irs-usa.com]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 5:25 AM
Subject: Notice from Department of the Treasury

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity
we have determined that you are eligible to receive
a tax refund under section 501(c) (3) of the
Internal Revenue Code. Tax refund value is $189.60.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days
in order to IWP the data received.
If u don’t receive your refund within 9 business
days from the original IRS mailing date shown,
you can start a refund trace online.

If you distribute funds to other organization, your records must show wether
they are exempt under section 497 (c) (15). In cases where the recipient org.
is not exempt under section 497 (c) (15), you must have evidence the funds will
be used for section 497 (c) (15) purposes.

If you distribute fund to individuals, you should keep case histories showing
the recipient’s name and address; the purpose of the award; the maner of
section; and the realtionship of the recipient to any of your officers, directors,
trustees, members, or major contributors.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here

This notification has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service,
a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.

Sincerely Yours,

John Stewart
Director, Exempt. Organization
Rulings and Agreements Letter
Internal Revenue ServiceNo

Scam Email Names Ma Delun in Email Scam?

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:21:38 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHA! LMFOA! This is the first scam email I’ve seen actually capitalizing on other famous email scam names… Ma Delun is undoubtedly the most famous name used in phishing and advanced fee fraud schemes (Nigerian 419), followed closely by Robert Mueller (the current director of the FBI), Jürgen Krügger and the Epmgigo Rebels, so I think that it is tremendously funny that they name Ma Delun and “an imposter from the FBI” while laying down their sceme in this email.

I love the warning at the end of their email, too.

From: investigation.dept@fbi.gov
Reply-to: fbi-usa.gov1@live.com
Sent: 12/12/2008 1:45:31 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: ALERT FROM THE FBI

Washington Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation

601 4th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535
(360) 637-3443

ATTENTION: Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly Investigated by the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal Transaction with Imposters claiming to be Ma Delun of the Bank of China and an imposter claiming to be the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During our Investigation, it came to our notice that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfill your Financial Obligation giving to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

So therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by arranging your payment in total of US$800,000.00 in an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw money anywhere in the world. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in the ATM CARD.

All I did want you to do is proceed and contact the ATM CARD CENTRE via email for their requirements to proceed and procure your Approval Slip on your behalf which will cost you $550.00 only and note that your Approval Slip contains details of your PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (PIN) which you will use in activating your ATM CARD in any ATM MACHINE in the United States of America.

CONTACT INFORMATION

NAME: MR. PAUL SMITH
EMAIL: atmcardcentre1@hotmail.com
PHONE #: +2347027797613

This ATM Card Centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw money in any part of the world, but the maximum twenty thousand five hundred dollars per day.

If you wish to receive your funds in your ATM SWIFT CARD, kindly use the above information to contact Mr. Paul Smith, the director of the ATM CARD CENTRE and provide him with the below information.

1. Your full name:
2. Full address for ATM Card delivery:
3. Phone/ fax #:
4. Age:
5. Gender:
6. Occupation:

You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the required $550.00 so that they will make your ATM SWIFT CARD available and shipped to your doorstep immediately.

As soon as you have contacted and provided the ATM CARD CENTRE with the required info and fee, they will make your ATM SWIFT CARD available and shipped to your doorstep immediately.

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $550.00 ONLY to Mr. Paul Smith via information in which he shall send to you, if you do not receive your winning prize of $800,000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you.

We order you get back to this office after you open contact with the ATM SWIFT CARD CENTRE and we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation and make sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.
.

Faithfully Yours,

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: (360) 637-3443

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any imposter or office claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are advised only to be in contact with Mr. Paul Smith of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person you are suppose to deal with in regards your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any email you get from imposters to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

Scam email with a fake telephone number 800-927-1839

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:37:37 +0000

I received the following vishing attempt today. The scam email asks its intended victims to call a number, (800) 927-1839 and tries to fool them into believing that they are calling their bank, U.S. Bank. It then asks for secret US Bank account information, which of course will be used by the thieves to steal the victim’s identity and money.

Do not fall for these fake phone numbers. If you have a question about a bank account or your credit card account always call the number printed on the card or call your local bank branch directly.

From: U.S. Bank Alerts [mailto:alerts@cs.usbank-email.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 2:15 PM
To: [redacted]
Subject: U.S. Bank (Message from Customer Service)

This is not a promotional e-mail. Please call us immediately at 1-800-927-1839 regarding recent restriction placed on your U.S. Bank Check Card, ATM Card.

We’re available 24/7 to take your call.

Please do not respond to this message. If you would like to contact us, please login to U.S. Bank Internet Banking at usbank.com and send a message to Customer Service.

You are receiving this email because you signed up for alerts through U.S. Bank Internet Banking. If you no longer wish to receive this alert, login to U.S. Bank Internet Banking at usbank.com to temporarily disable or permanently delete the alert.

U.S. Bank Internet Banking

At U.S. Bank, protecting your privacy is our priority. We will never request personal information (such as your Personal ID, Password, Social Security Number, PIN, or Account Number) via email. For your safety, we recommend that you do not share this information with anyone, at any time. Sharing such information gives the recipient full access to your account. If you receive emails requesting personal information, please forward to fraud_help@usbank.com or call U.S. Bank Customer Service immediately at 1-800-943-1477.

View the U.S. Bank Privacy Policy

U.S. Bank · EP-MN-L28M · 200 South 6th Street · Minneapolis, MN 55402

V2.0 10/23/2008

Exodus 14:14

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:12:49 +0000

I got this scam email 9 times in less than 4 hours across 5 different email addresses. I guess they thought it was really important to be the featured email scam of the day.

From: jonesinkuwait9020@yahoo.com
Reply-to: mrsmaryjones9020@gmail.com
Sent: 12/4/2008 4:23:36 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: HI

From: Mrs Mary Jones of Kuwait

RE: Donation for the less priveledged.

I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr. Harry Jones who worked with Kuwait Embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2000. 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 again christians. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $8.6Million (Eight Million six hundred thousand U.S.Dollars) with a finance/security company in United Kingdom.

Presently, this money is still with the Security Company and the management just wrote me as the beneficiary to come forward to receive the trunk boxes of money or rather issue a letter of authorisation to somebody to receive it on my behalf if I can not come over. Presently, I’m in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for oesophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a few weeks to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of this fire outbreak in Australia and other charity organizations. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and the interest accrued from the company and distribute it accordingly. I want a person that is God fearing that will use this money to fund churches,orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. I took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money.

Exodus Chapter 14 Verse 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my soundless voice. With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance/ Security Company in United Kingdom. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will prove you as the new beneficiary of this fund. I want you to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for another person for this same purpose.

Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you soon. Remain blessed in the name of the Lord and carefully respond through the below email herein.

mrsmaryjones9020@gmail.com

Mrs Mary Jones

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Robert Mueller of the FBI and Advance Fee Fraud Scam Emails

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:48:53 +0000

This is what I find hilarious about this scam email:

1. That people will fall for it- no matter how ludicrous.

2. That Robert Mueller, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Executive Governor of the Bank of Nigeria would both use a free email service, live.com, to send out official email.

3. That he would start an email off with, “Good Day.”

4. That he would end an email with, “Have a blessed day!”

5. That some fraudster took the time to write such a long-winded scam email, when statistically a shorter one works more often.

From: fromthedeskoffinanceminister@nichesitestore.com
Reply-to: fbi.crimeinvestigation01@live.com
Sent: 11/27/2008 1:21:27 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI. WASHINGTON DC.

ROBERT MUELLER III
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FBI
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON DC.
FBI SEEKING TO WIRETAP THE INTERNET

Good Day,

How are you and your entire family, We The Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) Washington,D.C in conjunction with some other relevant Investigations Agencies here in the United states of America have recently been informed through our Global intelligence monitoring network that you presently have a transaction going on with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as regard to your over-due contract payment which was fully endorsed in your favor accordingly.For security reasons it is against our protocol of operation to release our security numbers to clients, we the F.B.I have purposely created.

It might interest you to know that we have taken out time in screening through this project as stipulated on our protocol of operation and have finally confirmed that your contract payment is 100% genuine and free from all facet and of which you have the lawful right to claim your fund without any further delay. Having said all this, we will further advise that you go ahead in dealing with the Central Bank office accordingly as we will be monitoring all their services with you as well as your correspondence at all level. In addition, also be informed that we recently had a meeting with the Executive Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, in the person of Prof. Charles Soludo along with some of the top officials of the ministry regarding your case and they made us to understand that your file has been held in abase depending on when you personally come for the claim.

They also told us that the only problem they are facing right now is that some unscrupulous element are using this project as an avenue to scam innocent people off their hard earned money by impersonating the Executive Governor and the Central Bank office. I will use this opportunity to WARN you against some hoodlums who are impersonating my office and other government agencies for the purpose of extorting money from innocent CITIZENS like you. Be very vigilant and always forward to my office, any messages sent to you before replying to them so that we can confirm if its genuine or not. We are poised to taking this
precaution so as make sure you don’t fall victim to those miscreants who are claiming to be who they are not.

We were also made to understand that a Man with name (Mrs. JOAN C. BAILEY from TEXAS) has already contacted them and also presented to them all the necessary documentations evidencing your claim purported to have been signed personally by you prior to the release of your contract fund valued at about US$12,500,000.00 (twelve million five hundred thousand united states dollars),but the Central Bank office did the wise thing by insisting on hearing from you personally before they go ahead on wiring your fund to the Bank informations which was forwarded to them by the above named Lady so that the main reason why they
contacted us so as to assist them in making the investigations. We recently had a meeting with the Executive Governor, Central Bank office prior to your case and they presented to us the real official contact information of the genuine Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of which we have enclosed below for your observation and reference.

EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR: CHARLES SOLUDO
OFFICE ADDRESS: Central Bank of Nigeria,
Central Business District,
Cadastral Zone,
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory,
Nigeria.
TEL: 234-80-857-912-07
Email:foreigndepartment0001@live.com

NOTE:
In your best interest, any message that doesn’t come from the above official email address and phone numbers should not be replied to and should be disregarded accordingly for security reasons. The reason is because we received a fax today from the Central Bank office, stating that they have recently been informed through their underground monitoring unit that some hoodlums are contacting you claiming to be from the central bank of Nigeria, just to collect money from you for no just course. Although, We have started our investigation on how to get this hoodlums and as well bring them to book and note that any information you send to us, will go along way in helping us track this fraudsters down. To this effect, we will like you to forward to us any of their contact information so as to enable us forward copy to all the relevant security agencies.

Ensure you follow all their procedure as may be required by them as that will further help hasten up the whole process as regard to the urgent release of your fund to you as instructed. Also have in mind that the Central Bank of Nigeria equally have their own protocol of operation as stipulated on their banking terms, so delay could be very dangerous.Once again, we will advise that you contact them with the above email address and make sure you forward to them all the necessary informations which they may require from you prior to the release of your fund to you accordingly. Once again, we will advise that you contact the Central Bank office only with the above information as soon as you can because they have already started sorting our contract payments to serious clients and your case should not be exempted. This is all I can tell you for now until you have contacted them as directed.

Should in case you need any more informations in regard to this notification, feel free to get back to us so that we can brief you more as we are here to guide you during and after this project has been completely perfected and you have received your contract fund as stated.

Have a blessed day !

Best Regards,
Robert S. Mueller III
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001, USA
E-mail: fbi.crimeinvestigation01@live.com

Fake Capital One Credit Card Email and Phone Number 800-523-8103

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:12:35 +0000

My wife received today this fake email in a attempt to scam Capital One credit card information. Since the email tried to get her to call a fake phone number for Capital One, (800) 523-8103, this is technically a vishing attempt. If you call the provided number you will hear that it is a poor quality recording trying to elicit account information. Remember, ALWAYS call the number on the back of your credit card and NEVER the number provided in the email.

From: “Capital One” [service@capitaone.com> <216.57.96.8 (HELO mailout04.westnotificationsgroup.com)]
Sent: 11/27/2008 11:50 PM MST
Subject: Capital One Alert: Irregular Credit Card Activity

Irregular Credit Card Activity

Account: Capital One® credit card
Date: 11/28/2008

We detected irregular activity on your Capital One® credit card on 11/28/2008. For your protection, you must verify this activity before you can continue using your card.

Please call us immediately at 1-800-523-8103 or collect using the number listed on the back of your card. We will review the activity on your account with you and upon verification, we will remove any restrictions placed on your account.

Scam Email and Phishing Attempt Purportedly from Chase

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:41:40 +0000

A pathetic attempt at fraud really…

From: Chase [mailto:survey@chase.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:43 PM
Subject: Customer Center: Claim Your $50 Reward

CONGRATULATIONS !

You’ve been chosen by Chase Customer Center to take part in our quick and easy 5 question survey. In return we will credit $50 to your account within the next three business days.

Helping us better understand how our customers feel benefits everyone. With the information collected we can decide to direct a number of changes to improve and expand our online service.
The information you provide us is all non-sensitive and anonymous - No part of it is handed down to any third party groups.
It will be stored in our secure database for three days while we process the results of this nationwide survey.

We kindly ask you to spare two minutes of your time and take part to this unique offer!

To take the survey now, please visit our affiliate website:
http:/static-71-119-20-180.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net/ssl/CustomerCenter/onlinesurvey.chase.net/

Best regards,
Chase Customer Center

Important Phishing and Security Alert from Network Solutions

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:45:23 +0000

Dear Valued Network Solutions(R) Customer:

We’ve recently become aware of a phishing scam targeting domain name customers of a small number of registrars including Network Solutions(R). We wanted to alert you of this situation. Phishing is the practice of luring unsuspecting Internet users to a fake Web site by using an authentic-looking e-mail in an attempt to steal passwords, account information or other sensitive data.

At this time, we know that fraudulent e-mails are being sent to some domain name customers, regardless who the registrar of record is, which include links to sites that look like networksolutions.com or other domain provider sites; however they are fake Web sites. These e-mails are attempting to capture login information. For more information and tips on identifying phishing scams, please continue to read this blog.

If you believe you have received an e-mail of this type, have clicked on the link, and provided your login
information, we recommend the following for security purposes:

1. Log in to your account from the Network Solutions Web site.
2. Review your account information for accuracy
3. Choose a new password security question and answer
4. Change your password

Thank you for your attention to this message.

Sincerely,
Network Solutions(R) Customer Support

If you have been scammed you could always find a private investigator to help you locate the people who defrauded you, too.

Mark Babel is Just Waiting to Send Me $800,000 and It Will Only Cost me $295!

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:42:23 +0000

At least the intended victim of this scam knows exactly how much the fraudsters are trying to steal up front…

From: kap3watt@nafed.go.id
Sent: 10/27/2008 3:10:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: FEDEX NOTIFICATION DELIVERY

Greetings!

I am Mr. Mark Babel i have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $800,000.00 United States Dollars, but I did not hear from you since that time. Then I went and deposited the Draft with FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa, I Travelled out of the country for a 3 Months Course and I will not come back till end of November.

What you have to do now is to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date. For your information, I have paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country; this is my idea for a gift.

The only money you will send to the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE to deliver your Draft direct to your postal Address in your country is ($295.00 US) Dollars only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier Company so far.

I would have paid that but they said no because they don’t know when you will contact them and in case of Dumorrage. You have to contact the FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow.

Contact Person: Mr. Steve Anderson
Email: fedex-deliverypoint2008@live.com
Tel:+234-805-922-4901

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable you track your package over there and know when it will get to your address.

Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their Security Keeping fee of $295.00 US Dollars for their immediate action. You should also let me know through email as soon as you receive your draft.

Finally, When contacting them you are to send the following details to them to avoid any mistake on the Delivery of your draft. (1) Your Full Names (2) Residential Address (3) Phone Numbers. Have a nice day.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Mark Babel

Internal Revenue Service Phishing Scam

admin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:43:08 +0000

My Favorite part of this email: “Deliberate wrong imputs are criminally pursued and indicted” [sic] I did it anyway; I’m crazy like that.

From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:online.survey@IRS.gov]

Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:21 PM
Subject: IRS Survey: $90.00 to your account - Just for your time
Importance: High

Congratulations!

You’ve been selected to take part in our quick and easy 9 questions survey In return we will credit $90.00 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 participate in this survey Click Here

This notification has been sent by the Internal Revenue Service,a bureau of the Department of the Treasury.

Note:
▪ If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, that is because of the restrictions implemented by your ISP
▪ For security reasons, we will record your ip address, the date and time.
▪ Deliberate wrong imputs are criminally pursued and indicted.

Survey ID :
JNEFJQCPNPQKBVIDFNRUQVZBZGTCLRCORQLORS

Investigator’s Notes

IRS Phishing Email. It should be noted that the fraudulent IRS website looks pretty convincing except for the fact that it asks for complete debit card account information and none of the rest of the navigation links work.

The link directs the visitor to http://cyber.skuniv.ac.kr:8080/complete.IRS.online/survey.php?Where_is_my_survey&Get_Survey