OT: Scam...

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Any of you guys rec'd an email w/ this text?

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My name is ______ ______, I am the operational manager in account management section incharge of credit and foreign bills of one of the prime banks here in South Africa. I am writing in respect of a foreign customer of my bank who perished with his whole families on
25TH JULY,2000 in CONCORDE PLANE CRASH [Flight AF4590]with the whole passengers aboard.

There is an account opened in this bank in 1998 by this great late INDUSTRIALIST who died without a written or oral 'WILL' attached to the account. Since his death, I personally has watched with keen interest
to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds and no other person knows about this account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and until his death he was the manager of his company.

The total amount involved is 16,000,000.00 USD.[Sixteen Million United States Dollar]. We wish to start the first transfer with $6,000,000.00[Six million] and upon successful transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the transfer of the remaining balance to your account.

I have secretly discussed this matter with the general manager of the bank who I must involve in order to have a smooth and a successful transfer of the fund to any foreign bank account which you are going to nominate. On this note, I decided to seek for a reliable foreigner who will act as the foreign beneficiary of the fund from the deceased by providing his/her bank account where the fund will be transferred for immediate investment on any viable project as no one has come up to be the next of kin.

The banking ethics here does not allow such money to stay more than six years without claim hence the money will be recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed after this long period of domancy.

In view of this I got your contact through my personal search to see if you can assist by providing your safe bank account for the transfer or find a reliable person who will be capable of receiving such amount in his or her personal account. At the conclussion of the transfer 65% of the fund will be for me, I will give you 20% of the total transfer sum, 10% for charity both in Africa and in your country while the remaining
5% will be set aside to settle expenses both parties might incure during the transfer process.

Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you a detailed information about the transaction. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business is 100% risk and trouble free and that you should not entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer
can be finalized within 7 to 9 banking days, after you apply to the bank as the beneficiary of the fund from the deceased.

When you receive this letter. Kindly send me an e-mail or you can call me or fax me. You should also include your private fax and phone numbers for easy and safe communication.


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Looks like an identity theft and account theft email. Course no one jjust sends you a blind email then says stuff like "I decided to seek for a reliable foreigner" and "this business is 100% risk and trouble free...you should not entertain any fear"

Freakish, eh?

Keith
 
All I can tell you Ferrous is that if you give them your bank account number they will clean it out in the time it would take you to sneeze. Report it
 
The three things I want most for Christmas ...a real Jedi light sabre, a blow job from Kathy Holmes and the President of Angola to stop spamming my E-mail box.
 
I saw smomething about those e-mails a short while ago (my father got one a short while back requesting that he take part in transferring funds from Britain and Nigeria, similar sort of deal), a bloke contacted the homeoffice about the mail, they set interpol onto it and led a whole operation to try to find the bloke. I can't remember if they got him.
 
I keep getting the Nigerian version, but it's about the same story - pot of gold - need partner in U.S. - no risk - big reward for doing nothing - send bank acct. info. - etc. Like weeds. Can't keep them all pulled.
 
Keith, did you notice that only the *whole* family members perished in the Concord crash? Not a peep about the *partial* family members, such as Uncle Sabu who, soon after discovering a hoard of gold in Nigeria, tragically lost his right arm (the one he wrote checks with!) to a rabid crocodile. Praise G*d Uncle Sabu is okay but unable to write checks or make the deposits, hence this wonderful opportunity...

However, if they ever find that arm, Uncle Sabu will instantly perish as well at which time the gold hoard will need to be transferred out of the country.

Please send your private bank account number as well as all other personal information for us to plunder and by the way, do you have a cute sister?

Sincerely, etc etc...
 
I sent a return email explaining that I would set up and manage the dummy accounts. Please FedEx $10,000 in small unmarked bills with non consecutive serial numbers along with further instructions.
 
I've been very fortunate in having an IP that has a program that guarantees almost -No- spam.
I've had a couple of the porn sites get through, don't know how as I don't frequent those places, but only a couple or three since I've been with Lakwebs.net.
But tomorrow or the next day will probably end that as I'm getting a DSL hokup, supposed to be active today but need some help to install the new modem and hookup.
I'm not looking forward to the spam, but am looking forward to the telephone being usable when I'm online again.
The kids are paying for it because they got tired of not being able to get a hold of Mom when they wanted to.:D
 
There are some other rather nasty scams going around. I took a look in my in-box just now and saw this (pasted exactly, but with the link removed):

_Dear_ Citi-Bank Client,

Thiss Email was sennt _by the CITI_bank server_ to
veerify your email adderss.
You muust ctemolpe this pesocrs by clicking on the link
below and enttering in the litle winndow your _citibank
Debit_ full Card nummber and card pin that you use_ on Atm_machine.
This_is donne for your percottion -O- becourse some_of our
members no legnor have acsecs to their email adesdress
and we must verify it.

To veerify _your_ E-mail adderss and access _your_ Citibank
account, click on_the_link _bellow_.


There are much better variations, like pretending to be PayPal and not misspelling every other word.
 
I got three messages today entitled "Hi" from three different notional senders -- each with an attachment and each totaling 31K. I erased all. Probably virus carriers. Good rule is not to open anything when the source is not known to you.
 
You're right about not open strange emails. And never click on attachments without scanning them, whether you know the sender or not.

Got this from our IT department this morning:

NAME: W32/Mydoom.A-mm



If you receive an email with the following characteristics, simply delete it to avoid any damage:



Sender: Known/Unknown email address, the sender information is falsely generated by the worm.



Subject: Can be any of the following:



test
hi
hello
Mail Delivery System
Mail Transaction Failed
Server Report
Status
Error

Message body: is one of the following:

Test

The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding
and has been sent as a binary attachment.

The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent
as a binary attachment.

Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.

Attached File: Attachments are composed combining the following names: e.g. document.pif

document
readme
doc
text
file
data
test
message
body

With the following extensions:

.pif
.scr
.exe
.cmd
.bat
 
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