Scams like these

[TheRealTMA]

Nothing like a personal invitation! (From a bank where we hold no accounts.)

Hello %E-mail_address%,

To comply with regulations, we are required to collect and verify information about our customers. We have placed a hold on your account capability to withdraw, send or receive payments. We encourage you to provide this information now.
Here's how to provide the information we need:

Log in to your account.

Click here to log in to your account

Follow the instructions and complete all the tasks.

Once you've completed these steps and provided any additional information we may need, your case will be reviewed by one of our Account Specialists. We'll send you an email with the outcome of the review.

If you can't complete these steps we may have to close your account.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Thanks,
Steve Gray - CBA Account Specialist




2018 Commonwealth Bank of Australia ABN 48 123 123 124 AFSL and Australian credit licence 234945

 

[JohnK]

Are the spammers still on holidays?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Are the spammers still on holidays?

Not for us. Plenty of invitations for banks, bitcoin, and pills to improve performance. You must just be lucky!

 

[JohnK]

Not lucky at all. See my post a few pages back. I was getting 30-40 spams a day and then one day the spams stopped. I did send email to Microsoft previously that their spam filters were not working.

Now I'm getting a trickle of one spam every 2-3 days. The frequency has been increasing ever so slightly.

 

[OZDUCK]

I got this message from "Netflix" today - I naturally don't actually have a Netflix subscription.

Dear Client,
We're having some trouble with your current billing information.Therefore, you need to update your account.

Please copy and paste the entire URL below into your browser's address bar :

xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_xx_

The process will only take a couple of minutes
and will allow us to maintain our high standard of account security.


Thanks for understading.
Greetings

Not very likely - and I have no "understading"

 

[Franky]

Not lucky at all. See my post a few pages back. I was getting 30-40 spams a day and then one day the spams stopped. I did send email to Microsoft previously that their spam filters were not working.

Now I'm getting a trickle of one spam every 2-3 days. The frequency has been increasing ever so slightly.

JohnK, like you, I was receiving 30-40 spam/junk emails daily. I eventually changed from an hotmail address to a gmail address, and now only receive 1 per month. A great relief to say the least.

 

[leadman]

Bored and Foxtel channel hopping over Christmas and came across Dr Phil trying to convince an old lady that the US man she had met and was unfortunately jailed over an unpaid bill in Lagos Nigeria was a scam. It was dragged out into two episodes with feuding family members and all other US TV pizazz and you felt like throwing the remote control at the TV. Surely people/families cannot be so dumb!!! She only had one photo off him (of course stolen from the internet and they found him) because he didnt carry any other, phone calls distorted by electronic gagetry, etc, etc, After minus $76,000 I had to turn it off when the woman still confessed she wanted to marry him!

 

[Denali]

Apparently Im lonely because my spam folder has been inundated with emails from lovely ladies that seek companionship, 584 of them in 2 days.

Not that it matters but Im married to a dude so Nastya and her friends are hitting on the wrong person.

 

[JohnK]

JohnK, like you, I was receiving 30-40 spam/junk emails daily. I eventually changed from an hotmail address to a gmail address, and now only receive 1 per month. A great relief to say the least.

The weird thing is I'm still using the Hotmail address. No junk yesterday or today.

 

[cove]

Despite us being on a do not call register we still get calls about accidents, telephone and computer scams. I would love to send them something back to disrupt their operations. Any ideas?

 

[OATEK]

I have received the following offer from Alma, Lavender and Hyacinth (identical down to the last !):

Hyacinth/Alma/Lavender just sent you $8,892.00 USD with Paypal.

Click here to continue

Best of luck!

 

[Major]

GOOGLE.CO.UK <[email protected]>

Attn: Winner'


Your e-mail address has been randomly selected as Google Winner for Google NEW YEAR Promotion.


Please view attached JPEG file for More DETAIL.


Yours faithfully,


Sundar Pichai

[CEO]

Google Inc™


I don't think so

 

[QF WP]

Being away in SYD for 5 days brought a plethora of spam, but the best two:

"From The Department of State Treasurer North Carolina

3250 Atlantic Avenue Raleigh, NC 26404

RE/NO: 006-DTNC/00567/2017

Attention

On behalf of the entire staff of the US Treasurer North Carolina and the in collaboration with IMF and EU Office. We apologize for the delay of your contract payment/compensation fund, and all the inconveniences you encountered while pursuing this payment. However, from the records of outstanding due payment with the United States, your name was discovered as next on the list of the outstanding beneficiary who have not yet received their payments.

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square hole and your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter via diplomatic means of payment. so if you like to receive your fund this way, please let us know by contacting Diplomat Paul Francis, and also re-confirm to him the following information’s, in order to proceed immediately:

Your Full Name: ______________________________
Your Contact House Address: ______________________
Name of City of Residence:_______________________________
Country:____________________________________
Direct Telephone Number:________________________
Mobile Number:____________________________________
Working Identity Card/Int'l Passport:________________________________
AGE: ________________________________
OCCUPATION: ________________________________

However, kindly find below the contact person:

Diplomat Paul Francis
A Diplomatic Agent by profession
Email: <redacted>

Note that from the record in the file, your outstanding payment is US$5,500,000.00 (Five Million five hundred United States Dollars). So as soon as the you re-confirm to Diplomat Paul Francis the above mentioned details, your fund will be deliver to you immediately via diplomatic means of delivery without any holdup.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Janet Cowell
Director
Department of State Treasurer North Carolina"

and

"Hello My Dear

Calvary Greetings in the name of the ALMIGHTY

I am Mrs. Hannah Allan Joseph from Switzerland I am married to Late Mr.Allan Joseph who is a wealthy business man here in Burkina Faso we were married for many years without a child before he died after a brief illness

Before his sudden death we where devoted christian When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of Eight Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($ 8,700,000.00) in one of the prime bank here in Burkina Faso Presently this money is still with the Bank,

I am very sick from Kidney cancer that i may not last till the next two months according to my doctor so now i decided to donate this money to a honest individual who will use it to work for Almighty, orphans, widow and maintenance of church to fulfill the vow i and my late husband made to Almighty, and i have chosen you after praying.

I want this money to be use as i have said since i do not have any child to inherit it and our relatives are all unbelievers and i don't want our hard earn money to be used in ungodly way so you will take 40% of the fund for your effort and use the remaining as i stated, as soon as i read from you i will give you more details on how to achieve it, I need your urgent reply as i don't know what tomorrow will result, i wish you the best in life. Please Always remember me in your prayers.

I am waiting for your reply.

Yours Sister,

Mrs Hannah Allan Joseph."

 

[RB]

My first spam text received today. Bank of Ningbo China have a $US47,300,000 business proposal

 

[leadman]

i do like the line "I am not a greedy person...." whats $10 million between friends!!!!!


" ........That was why when I saw your last name I was happy and I am now seeking your co-operation to present you as Next of Kin/ Heir to the account, since you have the same last name with him and my bank head quarters will release the account to you. There is no risk involved; the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. It is better that we claim the money, than allowing the Bank Directors to take it, they are rich already. I am not a greedy person, so I am suggesting we share the funds equal, 50/50% to both parties, my share will assist me to start my own company which has been my dream. Let me know your mind on this and please do treat this information as TOP SECRET. We shall go over the details once I receive your urgent response ......."

 

[QF WP]

Two more new ones today:

"Home Affairs Department
Estate Beneficiaries Support Unit
3rd Floor, Southorn Centre,
130 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

The Estate Beneficiaries Support Unit of the Home Affairs Department advertises in national and local newspapers when someone dies intestate and without known beneficiaries. It will give details of the person's name, where and when they died and the value of their estate. Of the numbers advertised which has created a very busy time for the genealogists who operate in this field, which has made these so-called heir hunters are in a race against time to piece together a family tree, find the relatives who are line for the inheritance and be the first to contact them.

However as a Management Staff, Records Department of the Estate Beneficiaries Support Unit, Home Affairs Department, Hong Kong, I am getting in touch with you regarding the estate of a Deceased client whose file I had safely tucked away, this client had dies Intestate, leaving no Last Will and Testament and an investment placed under one of our Hong Kong Bank’s Management. I want this large sum of money transferred with your assistance and you should have nothing to worry about regarding the legality AT ALL. What I require is your honest co-operation and I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect me and you from any breach of the law. What I propose is that since I have exclusive access to his file, you will be made the beneficiary of these funds. You do not have to have known him personally. I know this might be a bit heavy for you but please trust me on this. For all your troubles I propose that we split the money reasonably. In the banking circle this happens every time. The other option is that the money will revert back to the state.

The Treasury swallows £10bn every year from unclaimed estates anyway, so please accept my apologies.

I would respectfully request that you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. All confirm able documents to back up this fund shall be made available to you as we proceed.

Your earliest Response to this letter will be appreciated.

Regards

Mr. Davis J.
Direct Email:<redacted>"

But why do you have two emails Mr Davis and why is one from the Phillipines. I'm confused.

The second one:

"Good Morning

Please, this mail and the classified information contained therein that I am about to reveal to you can either destroy me, ruin my professional career or make me depending on how you receive and take it. Please, I need you to read it attentively to know the reason and purpose why you received this mail from me,I didn't come to you by chance nor by accident, I have come to you because your names has planted you in the center of relevant in my life and my professional career as a banker at this very moment, but before I go further I will like to introduce myself to you.

I am Mr. Greyling a Fund Manager with Standard Chartered Bank (www.standardchartered.com) and I handle all our Investor's capital Project Funds which enables me to divert 1.2 Percent Investors Excess Return Capital Funds to our Magellan Trust Funds Account whereby anyone with a surname as you can be presented to claim the funds. On this note, the total sum of $18.1 (Eighteen million one hundred thousand united states of America Dollars) has been diverted representing the 1.2 Percent Excess Return Capital Funds from the Investor Capital Project Funds for 2014/2015. I need a reliable and trustworthy person that can work this deal out with me so that we can claim the funds as mentioned above. There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be dictated or traced. Our sharing ratio is 60:40. (60 for me 40 for you) If you are interested, please reply and send your direct telephone numbers to me for a smooth discussion of this transaction in further details.

But if you are not interested or see this mail as a hoax simply delete it and forget I ever contacted you. If after 72 hours I didn't hear from you I will assume you are not interested, and then I will proceed to look for someone else with the surname as you that might be interested to work with me. This is a clean and straight forward bank deal; it is safe and risk-free, as I have taken care of all necessary steps to ensure a hitch-free movement.

Sincerely,

Mr. Greyling"

Damn, there are a lot of people with my surname - I'd better get in quick before he passes onto somebody else in my family..

 

[wandering_fred]

A new variation

A recent review of your transaction history determined that your card was used at an ATM located in United Kingdom, but for sequity reasons the requested transaction was refused.

You need to complete the Card Holder Form.

Just wandering
Fred

 

[Hvr]

Just got the same one. I wonder what 'sequity' means?

 

[JessicaTam]

Just got the same one. I wonder what 'sequity' means?

I don't know, but as QF WP's email says - you have nothing to worry about regarding the legality AT ALL.

 

[QF WP]

Just got the same one. I wonder what 'sequity' means?

I think this is the inserted error by the scammer - or else they couldn’t spell equity and hit both s and e keys at the same time