The Spam Report

This is actually a rather clever scam. The goal, of course, is to make you believe that someone had ordered some goods online and somehow, your PayPal account was charged for it.

This type of message is bound to fool a few people. It will most likely elicit a very immediate emotional response on the part of the unlucky recipient who does not recognize it as a scam.

The link at the bottom to “dispute” the charge would take the victim to a web page designed to look like PayPal and then capture the victim’s PayPal username and password to use for the scammer’s own evil purposes.

In addition, the domain they set up to use for this scam had the word “PayPal” in it and was cleverly set up to look like an genuine PayPal web site if you did not examine it closely. I have, of course, changed the link to point to a non-existent web site.

I love the way they include the word “Nigeria” in the PayPal ID of the user who supposedly received the payment. This will of course bring the word “SCAM” to mind to all those who have heard of the Nigerian 419 scams and make them all the more anxious to click that “Dispute” link to get this matter cleared up as soon as possible!

Clever PayPal Phishing Scam-Spam Follows:

Dear Customer,

 

This email confirms that you have paid CARO-NIGERIA ( sales@caron.com ) $239.95 USD using PayPal.

This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as ” PAYPAL CARO-NIGERIA* “.

 

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PayPal Shopping Cart Contents

ITEM NAME:	Brand new Motorola V3x ( Black Edition )Quad Band CellPhone unlocked
QUANTITY:	1
TOTAL:	$219.95 USD
CART SUBTOTAL:	$219.95 USD
SHIPPING CHARGE :	$20.00 USD
CART TOTAL:	$239.95 USD

 

 

 

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Shipping Information

 

SHIPPING INFO:	Mehmet Hakan GOKMUHARREMOGLU124 Folly Brook Blvd. Apt:2 Wethersfield, CT 06109
Address Status:	Unconfirmed

 

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If you haven’t authorised this charge, click the link bellow to cancel the payment and get a full refund.

 

 

Dispute Transaction

These jackasses are spammers who are obviously selling list of e-mail addresses for other spammers to use. Pretty disgusting, eh?

I have left this message just as I received it. The phone number must be genuine, so if anyone would like to call them and tell them what they think of them, I’m sure they’d be thrilled to hear it!

Or, if you are a spammer, perhaps you’d like to put their e-mail address on your list? it’s included below!

Generic E-Mail Address Peddling Spam Follows:

From: “Darrell indissoluble” <cognizable8vibrato@gmodal.com>
Subject: datasets for the healthcare profession
Date: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:02 PM

Fully Licensed Physicians in the US

788,030 in total – 17,400 emails

Lots of Physicians in specialties like Orthopedics, Surgery, Radiology, Dermatology, Neurology, General Practice etc..

Can easily be sorted by 16 different fields

Price for this week only =  $296

*** Get the data below as a gift when you order the MD list above ***

Listing of US Pharma Companies
Personal email addresses (5000 in total) and names for execs

Listing of US Hospitals
complete contact information for CEO’s, CFO’s, Directors and more - over 23,000 listings in total for more than 7,000 hospitals in the USA

US Dentist Database
597,000 dentists and dental services ( a $300 value!)

American Chiropractors Directory
Complete data for all chiropractors in the USA (a $249 value)

Email us at: statmeddat@hotmail.com  telephone: 1 (206) 495-6516

Only good until October 5

for termination of this mail send a blank message with 6807 in the subject

Yet another Lotto scam e-mail. I’m amazed that all these “lotto officials” are using free Yahoo e-mail addresses for such important correspondence.

These poor lotto organizations must not be doing so well if they cannot afford their own domain!

Lotto Scam-Spam Follows:

From: “Walter Jones” <infoawardclaims@yahoo.com>
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY “A” WINNER ONLY
Date: Friday, October 05, 2007 7:34 PM

Attn Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you that you have emerged a
winner in the final annual draw of our Lottery
International Programs.

Your email address was selected by our Electronic
Random Selection System (ERSS) from an exclusive list
of 250,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and
corporate bodies generated from an internet resource
database.No tickets were sold.

Your email address is identified with Batch Number:
444821545-NL/2007 and Ticket Number: PP 3812 /2007-07
in Category “A” and your claims portfolio is filed
with Ref Number: MARKT 80 ES 9414.You are therefore to
receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the
total payout

CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

Your prize award has been insured under a bonded
depository policy with your e-mail address, and will
be transferred to you upon meeting the claims
requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications,validations and satisfactory report.
To file for your claims,please contact your assigned
claims agent with details as stated below;

*************************************
Name: Mr. Edward Lestra
Tel:+31 619 289 696
Fax:+31 847 436 967
Email: info_award_claims@yahoo.de
*************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following
information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14
days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in
the next stake. Remember to quote your reference
information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lotto information
confidential,especially your reference and ticket
numbers.

This is important as a case of double claims will not be
entertained. Members of staff of affiliate agencies
are automatically not allowed to participate in this
program.Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations
once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Yours Faithfully,
Walter Jones.
Lottery Coordinator.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

1. Personal and winning data provided by winners to
MARKT LOTTERY remains known ONLY to the winner and
MARKT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS ORGANISATION.

2a. All e-mail addresses, contact information,
photographs and/or personal data of winners SHALL NOT
be published or disclosed on ANY public or in any
other public place or via any medium accessible to the
public.

2b. All e-mail addresses, contact
information,photographs and/or personal data of
winners SHALL NOT be disclosed to or made available to
any third party or agent outside the claims office.

3. All e-mail addresses, contact information and/or
personal data of winners are kept in an isolated
database server protected from any external access
using SSL locking on 6th level binary pharse. This
data is made accessible ONLY to MARKT INTERNATIONAL
CYBER LOTTERY staff and authorized agents directly
involved with the processing of winners claims.

4. Winners are advised to keep their winning
information away from public knowledge, in order to
avoid any double claims, impersonation or
misrepresentation during the claims process.MARKT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONAL PROGRAMS  will not be liable
for any misplaced claims as a owing to your negligence
or publishing of your winning information.

Ah, the irony! Imagine, a low-life scammer scum that created this e-mail message and decided to use a subject asking if their potential victims can be trusted! Ha!

The one who cannot be trusted is the one who sent this message. Look for these kinds of tactics in 419-style scams where they try to turn the tables and make potential victims feel as though they have to prove their own trustworthiness. These scum know no shame!

419 Scam E-mail Follows:

From: “SARAH PAUL.” sarah_paul012@yahoo.com
Subject: CAN YOU BE TRUSTED?
Date: Monday, July 16, 2007 8:59 AM

From: Mrs. Sarah Paul.
26 Kensington Court,
London, W8 5DL,
England.

Dear friend,

I am Mrs. Sarah paul, an English woman who is suffering from cancerous ailment. I am married to Sir Jim paul who also is an Englishman though dead now. My husband worked with the British Railways for over two decade before the cold hand of death took him away on the 23rd of July 2006 at about 2:00AM. Our marriage lasted for over a decade without any fruit of the womb.

My husband died after a protracted illness. My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals within the United Kingdom, Europe, North and South America, Africa and the rest of the globe as he had passion for persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament. I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this relationship, which never came.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 2.45 Million (2.45 Million Great Britain Pounds) Sterling with an offshore Bank in UK. Presently, this money is still with the Bank. Recently, my Doctor told me that I have a limited or numbered days on earth and that my life span will not exceed 150days due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to the cancer. With this hard reality that has befallen my family, and me I have decided to donate this fund to a non-governmental, or a non religious, and or a non profit organization or better still an individual, that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in.

I want a non governmental, or a non religious, and or a non profit organization or better still an individual, that will use this gift which comes from my husbands sweat to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.

It is often said that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband’s hard earned money to be misused or invested into ill perceived ventures. I do not want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner, hence the reason for taking this bold decision.I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be with the Almighty when I eventually pass on. The Almighty will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I do not need any telephone communication in this regard due to my deteriorating health.

YOU CAN CONTACT ME ON MY PRIVATE EMAIL
sarahpaul_07@yahoo.no
Mrs. Sarah paul.