Scam Alert

Yes lots of red flags in that email.

Hilarious! They give all kinds of caveats about their peculiar credit card and special ordering needs --- then ask "do you take a (stolen) credit card?"

It's the well-worn shipping company scam.

It was almost believable until he said his card doesn't work on any major company and he has his own freight company lined up. I wouldn't worry about how to ship it, you charge him and send who ever. And that he wants a quote, but knows what he wants?

Authorize.com took me to a bitcoin site. Its actually a .net site

you would really have to be inconvenienced with the payment if that was real.

----Mike Savad

Just three words - Yes A Scam : )

Definitely a scam!

This was one of three:

Hi,

Your Subscription for Norton protection has been successfully renewed & updated.

The Debited Amount will be reflected within the Next 24 TO 48 HRS on your A/C statement.

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Product Name : Norton Protection

Expiration Date : 1 Year from the Date of Purchase

Price : $ 299.45

Invoice NO. : NY2456558

PAYMENT METHOD : Auto Renewal

---------------------------------------

If you wish to cancel this Subscription then please feel free to Contact our Billing Department as soon as Possible.

You can Reach us on +1 (818,483,0986)

Regards,

Billing Team

I've been getting all sorts of -- you bought this congrats, call this number so we can scam you.

I've been getting more nigerian scams lately:

this is a fav:


Attention,

I am Eric Thrower the International Police (PRO) And I'm writing to you in regards to the Victims Internet Fraud Compensation Scheme valued Four Million Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($4,200,000.00) only by the United Nations.

Kindly reply for more details by contacting the Delivery Payment Manager with the information below:

Name: Penelope Roberson
Position: Delivery Payment Manager
Private: no need to advertise that 7@gmail.com

Regards,

Eric Thrower
Interpol (PRO)
another gmail account@gmail.com


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this one was really wordy:



Dear Sir/Ma.

My name is Mr. Geoffrey Mudenzi" a senior government official in
department of Public Works & Infrastructure here in South Africa, I am
the Chief of Staff in charge for contract awards / execution. also the
supervisor of all contracts in Department Of Public Works &
Infrastructure. In 2019 before the (Pandemic), I personally monitored
and supervised the awarded contracts for supplies of building
materials and constructions of ultra modern shopping malls, low cost
housing units, airports maintenance and Stadiums to Improve the
standard of living in this country, In the Eastern Cape, Western Cape,
Natal and Gauteng provinces here in South Africa.

My colleague and I serving in the board deliberately inflated and over
invoiced the contract sum, leaving an excess of US$30, 000,000.00
(Thirty Million United States Dollars Only). At the completion of the
contracts, the real contract sum was paid to the original contractors,
leaving the excess, which we reported to the Government that it
belonged to the sub-contractor that handled part of the original
contract. But the company we submitted as the beneficiary was
non-existing foreign company, which was a purported attempt by us to
divert the money for our private use. I do not intend to mince words
with you, I have to tell you the truth; this is a deal but completely
risk-free and genuine because the contract has been perfectly and
genuinely executed and completed. It depends on whether you are
interested or not.

Right now this amount is due for payment and is floating in the
treasury not attached to anyone/company. We are only two people who
know the origin of this fund. But we cannot claim it by ourselves
because we are civil servants therefore we are looking for a
trustworthy foreign company / individual whose name can be used to
claim this money for our mutual benefit.

This is strictly a business deal, but it’s completely risk-free and
secure because we will use our official positions to source all the
necessary approvals, official documents and certificates that will
back up the fund to reflect that you/your company genuinely executed
and completed the contract. All necessary arrangements have been put
in place in all the relevant departments for immediate approval of
this payment.

For your co-operation, we have agreed to offer you 2.5% of the entire
amount on conclusion of the transaction while 75% will be for us.
Please if you are interested in this proposal, I want you to respond
immediately through my personal e-mail account stated below for
further information and directives.

This transaction is expected to be completed within 5 or 8 work days
and is highly confidential and discreet. Thank you for your
co-operation. Your urgent reply is awaited through my private email
accounts below.

Best Regards,

Mr. Geoffrey Mudenzi.
Private Email: not important.@gmail.com
(Department Of Public Works)

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this one he keeps most of it.


Dear Friend


I am Edward Turner a Manager with a private security company in South Africa , a Former Minister of Defence (Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr ) to Late Muammar Ghaddafi of Libya. There is absolutely going to be a great doubt and distrust in your heart in respect of this letter coupled with the fact that, so many individuals have taken possession of the internet to facilitate their nefarious deeds, thereby making it extremely difficult for genuine and legitimate business class persons to get attention and recognition. There is no way for me to know whether I will be properly understood, but it is my duty to write and reach out to you as a person based on great fidelity and trust. Your contact is by a courtesy of my good friend who was a member of South African Export Promotion Council (SAEPC) in Johannesburg.


Before the Libyan uprising in 2011 Mr. Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr deposited the sum of US$40,500,000.00 (Forty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) with a security company I work for here in South Africa . he was killed during the Libyan uprising or war. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over a period of time, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$40,500,000.00 (Forty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only) can be transferred into your designated account. Then I shall proceed down to your country with you to confirm the net amount in your account and to invest my share of the money if you permit me.

I shall re validate and notarize all the necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim that the bank may need, this is 100% risk free ,I guarantee you this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. I need your strong assurance and confidentiality. I will give you 30% while 70% for me. contact me on my email actually had a real sounding address@executivemail.co.za but erasing the address anyway@rediffmail.com for more details

if you are interested please send me your mobile phone numbers for easy faster communication, do not bother to reply if you are not interested

Yours truly,

Edward Turner


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and now and then they change it up a bit:

United States Postal Service
Post Office
421 8TH AVE
NEW YORK, NY 10001-9998

Attention Beneficiary.

This Is United States Postal Service Delivery Company, The management of this company, wishes to inform you that, we received a parcel containing an ATM Master Card valued $ 10.5 million USD with some vital documents attached on it, for safety delivery to your home address in your country, within 'the next 48 hrs as soon as we hear back from you. This is (payment office) I am directed to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is OK.

This parcel was brought to us this morning by the ATM Card payment office / United Nation (UN) as your inheritance approved fund to be delivered to your residential home address without any delay, so kindly reconfirm the below information, to avoid delivery your ATM Master Card to a wrong hand.

Full names ..............
Parcel owner address ...........
Tel ...............

Scan Copy of Your International Passport Or Driver's License. We will register your package and send you the tracking numbers before we proceed for safety delivery of your package as soon as you reconfirm the required information's for safety delivery, POST OFFICE is one of the world's great success stories, the start-up that revolutionized the delivery of packages and information. In the past 30 years, we've grown up and grown into a diverse family of companies as POST OFFICE that's bigger, stronger, better than ever.

Waiting to read your e-mail on this Email ID Which is: ( Postofficeunitedstates331@gmail.Com.) -- i'll leave this email in because its just funny.


Best regards.
Mr. Jerry Allen
From United States Postal Service New York City



----Mike Savad

Mike,

I never knew you were so popular. LOL

Mike, "in the last 30 years...", ok sure Post Office. We know you've only been in operation since 1990. duh

And the gmail address is a riot. Very official! :)

Seriously, what kind of idiots do they think we are? lol

They think we are very dumb. I have a 151 nigerian based scams from 2017 to present. I keep them for kicks.


Some are very simple:

International Bank of Chicago
United States.
website: https://www.inbk.com


Attn,


Please is your fund among those that are yet to be paid? Besides have
you read all the messages that was sent to you?

Get back as soon as possible

Kinds Regards,
Frank Wang (CEO)
International Bank of Chicago

that's all it sais.


I miss the stories, they started to get lazy like this one:



UN relief fund
Your grant has been released to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Contact James at (xxx@shiftmail.com) to claim.

You are receiving this notice via email because your email address is among the selected recipients/beneficiaries of $150,000.00 Dollars UN COVID19 relief fund for individuals/organizations.

Contact Name: James A Price
SVP Payments and Funds Transactions
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Phone: (314) 900-8511
Email: some guy named james @shiftmail.com

Thank you,
Rubén Sarmiento
President UN Funds Management Committee
Member United Nations General Assembly

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then others get very wordy as this Barrister wrote:



Dear Friend,

It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a surprise; this
is because we have not met before but I am inspired to sending you
this email following the huge fund transfer opportunity that will be
of mutual benefit to both of us. However, I am Barrister Michael
Arthur, SAN, Attorney to the late Engr.Ronald Johnson national of
Northern American, who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC) in Nigeria On the 11th of November, 2002. My client,
his wife and their three children were involved in a car accident
along Sagamu/Lagos Express Road. Unfortunately they all lost their
lives in the event of the accident, since then I have made several
inquiries to several Embassies to locate any of my clients extended
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the
Internet to locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I
contacted you.

I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money and property
left behind by my client; I can easily convince the bank with my
legal practice that you are the only surviving relation of my client.
Otherwise the Estate he left behind will be confiscated or declared
not serviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at
about $15 million U.S dollars (Fifteen million U.S. America
dollars).Consequently, The bank issued me a notice to provide the next
of kin or have the account confiscated within the next ten official
working days. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
for over several years now. I seek your consent to present you as
the next of kin to the deceased, so that the proceeds of this account
valued at $15million U.S dollars can be paid to your account and then
you and I can share the money, 50% to me and 50% to you.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through and also forward the following to me:

1, Your Full Name:.......
2, Your House Address:..................
3, Your Country:..........................
4, Your Contact Telephone ......
5, Your Age and Gender:.......................
6, Your Occupation: .................................

I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement
that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me VIA this my confidential email
( x@outlook.com
Yours Faithfully,

BARRISTER Michael Arthur SAN.


At least he told me he's from nigeria. Not washington, texas or any number of places. Some of these are just were you scammed by us - them contact me so I can scam you too.

But its more stuff like this:


Dear email address owner:

This is to inform you that your funds valued of $10.5millions dollars
has been release and approve for transfer by Chase Bank New
York,contact me back by e-mail (oficebank101@gmail.com) so that you
will eceive your funds immediately.

Best Regard
Mr Emmanuel Johnson
>From Chase Bank New York.


I'll just leave the email in that one, hardly matters.

--

I didn't even know I entered this contest...

Bmw Lottery Department
1200 W 104th St, Kansas City, MO 64114
United States Of America.

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a prize of a brand new 2020Model BMW 7 Series Car and a Check of $1,500,000.00 United States Dollars frominternational programs held on the 1st section 2021 in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerizedemail selection system (ESS) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawnfrom all the continents of the world which you were selected.

The BMW Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by theInternationalAssociation of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). To begin the processing ofyour prize you are to contact ourfiduciary claims department for more informationas regards procedures to claim your prize.

Officer In Charge
Name: Mr. Elliot Mazer
Email: xxx@gmail.com

Contact him by providing him with your secret pin code Number BMW: 255125HGDY03/23.You are also advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon aspossible:

1. Name in full.
2. Address.
3. Nationality.
4. Age.
5. Occupation.
6. Phone/Fax.
7. Present Country.
8. Email address.
9. pin code Number BMW: 255125HGDY03/23

Best Regards,
Mrs. Rachael Adams.
The Director Promotions
Bmw Lottery Department
United States Of America

that was from the bmw lottery dept... Yeah...


Here is another lazy one:

Hello good day,

My name is Ye LiN, I'm an employee of the Wing Hang Bank here in Hong Kong. There is a letter of request from my bank that needs your urgent attention. I have a legal business proposal from my bank. After you have confirmed your interest in this offer, you will receive detailed information and documents

Please contact me by email if you are interested: xxx@gmail.com

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this one comes from belgium?
Head Office
32 Long Way,
Communautй Franзaise,
1020 Brussels Belgium.


Attention!


My name is Travis Moore, i am the head financial advisor of Commercial Offshore National Bank Brussels Belgium. I am responsible for the disbursement of an awarded funds worth the sum of US$3,560,000.00 donated by the IBM Incentive Compensation Management in collaboration and granted access by the department of Monetary Control Asset for United Nations. This compensation is as a result of your loyalty to the IBM community through the years. Our office had received a notification that several attempts has been made to deliver, transfer or even offshore the funds, but all was a dead end without knowing the reason why.


Today being the 1st of April 2019, a power of attorney was forwarded to our office by two gentle men, one of them is an American national name MR. HARRY SICILIANO by name while the other person is MR. JAMES IGNACIO MILLAN by name, a CANADIAN national. This gentlemen claimed to be your representative, and this power of attorney stated that you are dead. They brought an account to replace your information in other to claim your fund of US$3,560,000.00 ( THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN DOLLARS ) which is now lying DORMANT and UNCLAIMED at the Commercial Offshore National Bank Brussels Belgium, below is the new account they have submitted:


BANK NAME: STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
BANK ADDRESS: 1095 AVENUE OF THE AMERICA NEW YORK CITY, NY 10036
ACCOUNT #: 00200000634 Numero de ABA
SWIFT-CODE: 026002561


Be further informed that this power of attorney also stated that you suffered and died of throat cancer, therefore; you are advise and given 48 hours to confirm the truth in this information, If you are still alive, You are to get back to me immediately, because we work 24 hours just to ensure that we monitor all the activities going on in regards to the transfer of inheritance beneficiaries fund/contract payment.


As the head financial advisor, i will guide you on three (3) key steps to get your funds without any further hassle that you have seen. Funds will be transfer directly to your Bank account. Once you reply to this mail, reconfirm your details and immediately i confirm that they correspond to that which we have in our database/cloud. I will give you direct instruction to make this deposit/disbursement possible for you to confirm in your account within the next 3-5 business days. Each steps comes with a price that is paid upon the confirmation funds.


Note this email and confirm. If i did not read back from you, then we will have no choice than to forward payment to the two gentlemen who claim to be your attorney and next of kin. They are willing and ready to cooperate with whatever demands required of them to get funds deposited to their offshore account immediately. This is why we suspected them and since none of them have your last name, we find it fishy. Your swift response is duly needed.


Travis Moore

CFO/COO Fund AuthorizatioN Manager
32 Long Way,
Communautй Franзaise,
1020 Brussels Belgium
Tel: Please Request
Email: Please Request



they didn't even give me an email to respond back to. But it was some hk server?


most of these are:

I stole money and I need an american to help me get it.
I embezzled money and the same
I inherited money and again the same.
I have money in a gift card, locked in an airport, in a briefcase, locked to my wrist, and I need you to help me out.
I have a brother in nigeria, that probably looks like a white guy from america, that the bank won't notice we don't look anything alike... And he died, but the official record doesn't know he's dead, and we can split the money...


----Mike Savad

They are in everything , the good people like myself has to be truly meticulous at these present time

I've got a scam message too. 2 days after I uploaded my first image. They came with very very very long various stories but with the same aim from year to year

Yep - quote from me: "Ah yeah, the old so-called "Nigerian Scam" where they rope you into sending them some money, promising great returns. I guess it's catching on in Cambodia too. This has been around for decades, used to claim that some Nigerian prince needed your help to get his hands on millions that he would share with you. It used to be on paper stuffed into a mailbox, sometimes in an envelope, but they got to expand their reach when various digital messaging media came about. It's somewhat amusing that, not only are these still around, but the wording has been very similar for decades, even though the exact scam has varied. It's sometimes referred to as a 419 scam in reference to a Nigerian law banning it from being sent from there."

Hello! I also have a scam, but I can't delete it because I see it only in my activity, when I go to the picture it says I have no messages, and I don't see the option to delete it. Boo

Well only you can see that Lucia, so it will soon go off the page as other things happen

OK, then, thank you Abbie!

I've gotten 2 emails through fine art that has nothing to do with art or photography. What is up with this? Who can we report this too to have these people removed?

Just got a comment from an Erin Deng saying she has something important to tell me.