The Spam Report

Seriously now, who could believe that some “prince” just appears out of the blue and has prepared a shipment for you containing millions of dollars? I’m really amazed that anyone could fall for this one!

FROM:  ALHAJI Mohammed A.
       2/8 GIDADO DRIVE,
       NASARAWA, G.R.A. KANO.
Hello,
In a drive to ensure the safety of my family’s fund for investment and
safe keeping, I wish to inform you that all necessary modalities have been concluded and the funds have left to Europe last week by Express Cargo Flight (Diplomatic Delivery Agency).
Note carefully the content of the crates is money \”U.S Dollar $14 Million Cash\” but I did not disclose it to the Courier Services as Money, rather I informed them that the crates contains Vital \”DOCUMENTS AND EXPENSIVE AFRICA ART WORK\” belonging to a family friend and also business partner(that’s you).
Please get back to me as soon as possible with your full names, address and phone numbers so that I can give you the shipment document and full contact information of the diplomatic company so that you may open up a communication with them to confirm when the trunks would be delivered to you.
Note that the deposit papers are ready and will be forwarded in due course.
Yours faithfully,
Prince Mohammed A.

I guess the scammer that came up with this one was not as ambitious as most of the other ones that come up with the elaborate, long-winded messages.

Hello
My name is Sonam Khandu, Foreign operation manager of Bhutan National Bank Limited Tshongdue Paro Branch. I wish to make a transfer involving a huge amount of money worth $19.000000.00 (Nineteen million US dollars). I do solicit for you assistance in effecting this transaction.
I intend to inform you on the transaction in full if you are willing to assist me. Please kindly note that this is an appeal as your acceptance will be appreciated. I intend to give 30% of the total funds as compensation for your assistance. Please kindly reply me at my private e-mail address: sonamhandu@aim.com
I will notify you on the full transaction on receipt of your response if interested, and I shall send you the details and necessary procedures with which to make the transfer.
Regards,
Mr. Sonam Khandu,
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Here’s a fake lottery message that is claiming I won some kind of prize in association with Coca Cola. Just more scam crap.

THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON. SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM
                   THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on  (23th July, 2007))  by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email  was among the  20 Lucky
winners who won £1000,000.00{One million Great Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.
  However the results were released today 23th July, 2007 your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2007) and ballot number (BT:12052007/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .
  This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.
  To begin the claim  processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:
Mr Springer morrison
22 Garden Close, Stamford, Lincs,PE9 2YP,London United Kingdom
Email:paydivision_dept03@yahoo.co.uk
phone number:
+447011137088
+447011135831
Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that  you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.
*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not   to partake in this PROMOTION.
Accept our hearty congratulations once again!
Yours Faithfully,
Management.

Here’s another fake PayPal message claiming that my account was blocked because they had to upgrade their server due to fraud. Nice angle for scumbag fraudsters to use, huh?

Dear PayPal Customer,

This email is to inform you, that we had to block your PayPal Account access because we had to upgrade our servers in order to remove online fraud.

Our terms and conditions you agreed to state that your account must always be under your control or those you designate at all times. We have noticed some unusual activity related to our servers that indicates that other parties may have access and, or control of your informations in your account.
Please follow this link to confirm your account access information :

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?_cmd=login-run

Please be aware that until we can verify your identity no further access to your account will be allowed and we will have no other liability for your account or any transactions that may have occurred as a result of your failure to upgrade your account as instructed above.

    Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter .

        Sincerely,
    PayPal Account Departement.

© Copyright 2007, PayPal. All Rights Reserved.
e-mail id : 1211ppl1

Just another idiot with another vanilla-flavored 419 scam. Yawn.

Dear Friend,
I know that you may be wondering if this letter is meant for you and how I got your email address. Because we have not met before neither physically or through Correspondence.After going through your profile i decided to contact you for friendship and assistance. I am Mr. Ali Saibi the son of Mr. Mohammed Saibi the chairman of Algosaibi Diving and Marine Services in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia who was assassinated here in London by unknown assassins. Before he was assassin, He called me as his son and told me about the money £5.2M (Five million, Two Hundred Thousand British Pound Sterling only) he deposited in a Security Firm here, which i believed, that it was because of this money he was assassinated.
He told me that i should look for someone whom i trust to help me move this money out of this country, to a secure place for investment purpose in oversea while i will continue with my education then the person will be managing the investment.
Dear, I am soliciting your assistance to help me move this money out of this country for my life sake while i will come to meet you, to continue my education in your country, because my uncles had taken control of all my late Dads’ properties not even minding to take proper care of me or to pay my school fees. Though, they do not know about this money because all the documents concerning the deposit of the funds are with me, and i am not ready to release it to them, this is the main reason i am soliciting for your assistance to help me move this money out of this country.
Dear i am looking forward to hear from you so that we can discuss on what will be your compensation for this assistance? i have every documents relating to the depositing of the funds.
Please confirm to me the following.
1) Your Full Name:
2) Phone, Fax and Mobile Number:
3) Company Name, Address and Position:
4) Profession, Age and Marital status.
5) Scan copy of your identity.
You can call me on my direct number +44-704-5708357 for more details also, i want you to keep this very confidential.
Upon your acceptance i will tell you the modalities and how to move the funds to you in your country. I urge you to contact me immediately for further details if you are satisfied with my proposition because i feel you are in a position to assist me. Bearing in mind the confidential nature of this transaction, for the trust i have on you, i believe that you have the ability to handle this transaction.
Expecting to hear from you.
Thanks
Ali Saibi
___________________________________________________________________________
Mensagem enviada através do serviço de e-mail disponível em
- http://www.condominiogdresort.com.br/

It’s hard to believe the idiot that came up with this one could be stupid enough to mention the word “Nigeria” in the message! I would think that just about everyone on the planet has heard about these scams that originate in Nigeria by now. Nice going, Moron!

Reply-To: eng_tonyfrank1@yahoo.de
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <20070717121845.9741E68AD6@cougar.safesecureweb.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
From Engineer Tony Frank
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC),
P.o. Box 256 Victoria Island Lagos,
Nigerian
Email: eng_tonyfrank1@yahoo.de
Date: 17/07/2007
Dear Friend,
I am Engr. Tony Frank, The Director of the Contractors Award and Review Department with the Nigerian national Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I am contacting you on this business of transferring the sum of US$25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five million,  United Stated Dollars only) into a safe foreign account and the need is very urgent. I got your contact from the internet when i was searching for honest person who will assist me to receive the money into your bank account and it is with business trust that made me to contact you on this matter. I write to solicit for the transfer of this money into your account.
This money was generated from an over invoiced contract sum in my corporation (NNPC).
I am contacting you for your help and partnership for the following two reasons:
1. As a civil servant, I am not permitted to own foreign accounts due to civil service code of conduct.
2. My present financial resources as a civil servant will not be sufficient for me to handle the transfer alone successfully without financial assistance from a reliable foreign partner abroad. 40% of this sum would be for you as compensation for using your Bank account in transferring this money, 5% would be used to reimburse the expenses made by both parties during the processing of the transferring which include, telephone bills, traveling expenses and fees. While 55% is for me.
Please note that I will arrange to meet with you immediately after the successful conclusion of the transfer, the 55% share of mine will be used for investment overseas. Your assistance and co-operation is highly needed. I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you are interested I will require your banking information as mentioned below:
1. Name to be used as beneficiary
2. Your private and confidential telephone/fax number(s).
3. Your bank name and address, your bank telephone and fax number(s).
4. Or if you are not comfortable with providing your existing account, you can within the shortest possible time, confidentially open an entirely new (Virgin) account for the transaction. I would prefer this arrangement. I hope to conclude this business within the next fourteen (14) working days. Looking forward to your anticipated and urgent positive response via this e-mail box.
Regards
Engr, Tony Frank.

This is just another lame PayPal Phishing scam message. These were coming in constantly for a while.

We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your PayPal account from a foreign IP address.
If you recently accessed your account while traveling, the unusual log in attempts may have been initiated by you. However if you are the rightful holder of the account,click on the link below to log into the account and follow the instructions.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run

If you choose not to complete the request, you give us no choice but to suspend  your account temporary.

It takes at least 72 hours for the investigation in this case and we strongly recommend you to verify your account at that time.

If you received this notice and you are not the authorized account holder, please be aware that it is in violation of PayPal policy to represent oneself as an other PayPal user.Such action may also be in violation of local, national, and/or international law. PayPal is committed to assist law enforcement with any inquires related attempts to missapropriate personal information with the intent to commit fraud or theft. Information will be provided at the request or law enforcement agencies to ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account.

PayPal Account Review Department.

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response.
For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

PayPal Email ID PP00145

Copyright © Paypal 2007. All rights

Yeah, right. Here’s another load of crap from those low life characters sending out the fake lottery scams.

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON,
LONDON.
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369                                               
                WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#1104) of the BRITISH
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held
on
MONDAY, 16th, JULY, 2007
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/06 drew the lucky numbers: 20-22-23-26-31-47 (bonus
no.02),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e
match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of £550,000.00 (Five hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings)
in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security
reasons,you are advised to keep your winning information confidential
till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of
this program.
To file for your claim, please contact our Oversea claims agent
Fudiciary Agent:Mr Richard Blakes
Official Email:brit_winsclaims@yahoo.co.uk,
You are to provide the claims agent with the under listed information
as soon as possible:
1.FULL NAMES:………………………..
2.DATE OF BIRTH:……………………..
3.SEX:………………………………
4.MARITAL STATUS:…………………….
5.CONTACT ADDRESS:……………………
6.COUNTRY:…………………………..
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:…………………..
8.OCCUPATION:………………………..
9.WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:……………..
10.WINNING NUMBER:……………………
11.REF NUMBER:……………………….
12.BATCH NUMBER:……………………..
13.AMOUNT WON:……………………….
14.HOW DO YOU FEEL AS WINNER:………….
NOTE: THIS VERIFICATION FORM SHOULD BE COMPLETELY FILLED OUT AND
E-MAILED BACK TO US
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE
BRITISHINTERNATIONALLOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. James K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

The subject of this classic 419 scam asks if I can be trusted. To answer the question, yes, I can be trusted. Unfortunately, however, the sender of this message most certainly cannot!

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.