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Dear Harrell,

I would like to seek your help in a business proposal which although is sensitive by nature and not what I should discuss with someone I don’t know and have not met using a medium such as this but I do not have a choice .

I am Mr. Thomas Brogger, personal account manager of late Dr. Norman Harrell, who died of a cardiac arrest a few years ago leaving behind a large sum of money with a commercial bank in the Island of Seychelles which is a tax free zone, a place where plenty of rich people tend to hide away funds not ready to be used or invested, I am also the Client Service manager of the Kenyan branch. I will not mention the amount of
money which runs into several millions in United States Dollars and name of bank presently until we have agreed to deal. I trust you will understand the need for such precautions.

So far, valuable efforts has been made to get to his people but to no avail, as he had no known relatives more because he left his next of kin column in his account opening forms blank and he has no known relative. Due to this development the bank has been expecting someone to come forward as a close relative to claim the funds otherwise as the Seychelles national laws would have it, any dormant account for five years will be declared unclaimed and then paid into the government purse.

To avert this negative development my colleagues and I have decided to look for a reputable person to act as the next of kin to late Dr. Norman Harrell So that the funds could be processed and released into his account, which is where you come in. We shall make arrangements with a qualified and a reliable attorney to represent you locally to avoid any inconveniency of you coming down to claim the funds all legal documents to aid your claim for this fund and to prove your relationship with the deceased will be provided by us. Your help will be appreciated with 30% of the total sum which I would disclose in my next email Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this letter if you do not appreciate this proposition I have offered you.

I wait anxiously for your response.

Yours Faithfully,

Thomas Brogger

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Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 05:52:31 -0700
From: msmariam_lowe@yahoo.fr
Subject: Hello Dear
To: rlh3856@hotmail.com

Hello Dear,

How is life over there in your country?, I hope that you are in atmosphere of peace and love. I am very happy to read your mail today, please do not be surprise or get offended for receiving this message from me, It just that I have been obliged to lay a mere trust on you due to my situation here in the refugees camp. Having searched through the internet from where i get your email address i strongly believes in my heart that you must be honest and sincere person for me to disclose my life secrets for you to help me.

Let me first of all introduce my self to you, and I will require the best of your honesty after you knowing about me and whom that I am, I  will really like us to have a good relationship in-spite of anything because I have this feeling that you will be honest and trusted person and you will not betray me.

I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here and after reading your mail today i whole-heatedly decided to let you know more and more about me, Who knows? maybe you will be my saviour, from this conditions i have found myself into. My name is  Mariam Lowe from Liberia, the only daughter of Late Dr Philip Lowe. The managing director capitaliste industries Ltd in Monrovia the capital city of my country years past. My late father is one of the most richest business men in my country, in anything pertaining Gold and diamonds, but he was assasinated by the rebels and the greedy fellows in my country during the war, on his way down to the village with my two younger ones.

Therefore I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father’s treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father.

Meanwhile I wanted to escape from Africa to any where in the world but she hides away my international passport and other valuable travelling documents. Luckily she did not discover where I kept my father’s File which contains important documents. So I decided to run to the refugees camp where I am presently seeking asylum under the Private charity organisation for the Refugee here in Republic of Senegal. I wish to contact you personally for a long term relationship that may lead us to somewhere better if we work well on it.Life here in the refugees camp is very stressful and i honestly prays to move out from here as soon as you help me.

My late father of blessed memory deposited the sum of (Nine Million Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in a Bank here in Senegal with my name as the next of kin. However, I shall forward you with the necessary documents on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer of the funds to your bank accounts, on my behalf. As you will help me in an investment and i will like to complete my studies in your country like i said earlier, as i was in my 1st year in the university, when the crisis started. After the transfer you will arrange for my trip joining you over there for us to share this feelings face to face. I tried all my possible best and explain my conditions here to the bank but they told me that my refugees status in senegal does not permit me to such a transactions, unless i look for someone to help me,(maybe my relatives, trusted friends or partners).

To be sincere with you, i prefer to tell my secrets to a stranger because he/she will not have a mind to cheat me or betray me, not somebody here, if people here know that i have such funds i tell you my life will be in a total danger and risky here, that is why i am disclosing this to you with all my hearts and confidence that you will keep this confidential for my safety reasons and life purposes, i sincerely want to let you know that We will invest the fund together me and you, or if you don’t intend staying with me then It will be my pleasure to compensate you with 15% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my investment capital. This is the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.

As soon as I received your positive response showing your interest to help me, I will put things into action immediately. I will send the contacts of the bank so that you will contact them immediately for them to transfer the funds to your bank accounts, please this is a legitimate money and the bank is also aware that i am the next of kin because i have send them the documents where my late father written my name as the next of kin and they have also confirmed it and say that i should look for someone to help me facilitate the funds transfer, since i am in refugees camp. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this relationship and transaction sincerely.

I am waiting for your urgent and positive response. Please do keep this only to your self please I am on my kneels in the name of the god, do not disclose this secret to anybody till i come over to your country, once the funds has been transferred into your nominated bank account.

Yours Sincerely,

Mariam

Of course my dear, I am pleased to write you although I do not know you or why you have written me….but doesn’t really matter….regards, Richard

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Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 02:25:13 +0200
Subject: Hello Dear
From: lowemariam102001@yahoo.fr
To: msmariamlowee14@gmail.com

Hello Dear,

It is my great pleassure to contact you in having communication with you, please i wish you will have the desire with me so that we can get to know each other better.I will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication and also to give you more details about me, i will be waiting to hear from you as i wish you all the best for your day.

Ms Mariam

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

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

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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

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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.

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

]]> http://www.smellsphishytome.com/2008/12/scam-email-with-a-fake-telephone-number-800-927-1839/feed/ http://www.smellsphishytome.com/2008/12/exodus-1414/ http://www.smellsphishytome.com/2008/12/exodus-1414/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:12:49 +0000 admin http://www.smellsphishytome.com/?p=246 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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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

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.

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Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:43 PM
Subject: Customer Center: Claim Your $50 Reward

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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.