Scams like these

[Major]

Fyi.





Mohammad Ali Tajick Ghanbary

Associate Prof. of Mycology & Plant Pathology Department of Plant Protection College of Agronomic Sciences Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University P.O.Box 578 Sari,IRAN Office & fax : +98 11 33687567 Mobile : +98 911 254 6616


Attached to this wonderful email was a pdf.zip file which they expected me to open

 

[OZDUCK]

I seem to be attracting the attention of a number of scammers who think I am in Canada. Some leftover from our 2016 trip perhaps? These are a sample of what I am getting. ( I do like the nice touch in the second one about "We’ll fully reimburse you for any unauthorized transaction")

TD.Canada.Trust.contact-client

Dear Ozduck,

All of your banking access is on hold due to recent security attacks on our bank.

Confirm your financial data on our "Official Site” by xx_xx_

If you haven't yet confirmed your information, take your time to do it today and avoid permanent suspension.

© Copyright 2018 TD Canada,. All Rights Reserved

&
RBC.RoyalBank.Canada
GDPR enforcement

Due to the latest GDPR enforcement policy ( General Data Protection Regulation ) we are forced to ensure all our client's information is up to date.

All canadian customers have to comply with the recent law changes, otherwise access will be restricted until this process has been completed.
Fake link removed
The regulation contains provisions and requirements pertaining to the processing of of individuals xx_xx_x

Protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personal, business and financial information is a cornerstone of our business and will always be one of our highest priorities. RBC adheres to rigorous codes, policies and standards that govern what information may be collected, how it is used and how it is protected.

Should anything ever happen, we’ve got you covered. We’ll fully reimburse you for any unauthorized transactions go to disclaimer 2 made through the Mobile app or Online Banking.

Ce message, ainsi que tous les fichiers qui y sont attachés, sont confidentiels et à l’usage unique du destinataire. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire de ce message, merci d'en avertir immédiatement l'expéditeur et de détruire le message. Son contenu ne représente en aucun cas un engagement de la part de SIG, sous réserve de tout accord conclu par écrit entre vous et SIG.

 

[prozac]

... Mohammad Ali Tajick Ghanbary...

Attached to this wonderful email was a pdf.zip file which they expected me to open

Go on. You know you want to take just a quick peek.

 

[get me outta here]

Having gone from phone calls everyday where they hang up on my silence, I now have not had any at all for weeks. I only just realised and missed them.

 

[prozac]

I report scam emails to the server host. Only takes a few minutes and often has a good result. This is a response I received tonight;

Hello prozac,
This is to inform you that the personalityaltittudes.com domain was suspended. It is now pointed to non-resolving nameservers and will be null routed once the propagation is over. The domain is locked for modification in our system.
Thank you for letting us know about the issue.

Keep up the fight and don't make it easy for these miserable people.

 

[prozac]

Another response received today.

Hello,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The customer responsible has been removed from our platform.
Regards,
Mike
Linode Support

 

[Strategic Aviation]

Facebook and the bad hombres of Texas, Queensland - ABC News

 

[prozac]

I report scam emails to the server host. Only takes a few minutes and often has a good result. This is a response I received tonight;

Hello,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The customer responsible has been removed from our platform.
Regards,
Mike
Linode Support

Keep up the fight and don't make it easy for these miserable people.

I missed their earlier email which dealt also with another domain.

Hello prozac,

Thank you for contacting us in XKV-338-89462 and KFG-486-80520 tickets regarding the following domain names:
porkcafe.date
personalityaltittudes.com

Let us continue our further correspondence via this ticket in order to avoid any confusion. The other one will be closed.
Please be informed that the porkcafe.date domain was suspended. It is now pointed to non-resolving nameservers and will be null routed once the propagation is over. The domain is locked for modification in our system.

Also as the personalityaltittudes.com domain name is registered with Namecheap, it is hosted with another company. That is why we cannot check the logs for the domain and confirm if it is involved in sending unsolicited bulk emails.

However, it seems the domain name is listed in Spamhaus DBL. Since we consider Spamhaus to be a trusted organization, we opened a case regarding the domain name. Please allow about 48 hours for our further investigation.

Thank you for letting us know about the issue.
------------------------
Regards,
Legal & Abuse Department
Namecheap, Inc.

This is not about cancelling someones email account. I receive a few responses like this now where the domain is being delisted.

 

[JohnK]

Mum received a call from Telstra regarding her faulty PC. She said there were 2 people on the phone.

I laughed and told her they are trying to scam money.

 

[VPS]

Do Not Ignore

U.S INTERPOL Washington
U.S. National Central Bureau
Washington, DC 20530-0001


Attention:

Foremost, we introduce this commission, The INTERPOL. We fight global crime including internet fraud and money laundering. Our commission has rounded-up well over 27,000 fraudsters and we are still battling these nefarious individuals. We are aware that quite a lot of people have been conned into parting with huge amounts.

The United Nation has vowed to combat these crimes. As such due to their efforts and contributions, we have been able to recovered over USD$1.3 Million Dollars (One Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) till date.
Amongst the details yours was found to include your email. Our aim is to return all lost assets including funds to legitimate individuals identified.

After a mandated investigation of the apprehended persons, the United Nations has approved the total sum of USD$200,000.00 (Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars only), as compensation to the funds you lost. This amount will be paid to you in the oncoming days with your co-operation as we commence to conclude the investigation on your case.

There will be a series of questions we will ask to aid us in rounding-up your case file. Please respond with your full names and address, country of origin, company's name and position (if any), current occupation, daytime mobile (phone) number for easy communication for ratification and to redeem your fund.

We await your swift response to this notification.through this email address: ([email protected])


Regards Deputy Director
INTERPOL & SCAM VICTIMS
Mr Wayne Salzgaber
INTERPOL Washington

PS I ignored it

 

[VPS]

And another one

An over-due inheritance claim.

Atten:Beneficiary,


I am Lin Zhu(Mrs),i work with the Citic Bank of China,i am writing to you for an opportunity that will benefit us both immensely in my department. Being a member of the Fund Allocation Department,i have discovered an over-due inheritance claim of fifteen million three hundred thousand thousand dollars and i wish to place your name as the beneficiary to the amount in question due to the death of the depositor who died years ago along with her family.


However,i assure you that will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law both in your country and here in China once the fund is transferred to your bank account.The funds I am referring to is Right Here in this bank floating in suspense account,therefore i solicit for your cooperation to be in collaboration with me to have this done, it will be transferred into an account you will provide any where in the world.


I will need you to provide the following information urgently to enable the attorney start the processing of the all the relevant legal documents for the fund remittance.

1) Name:
2) Address:
3) Tel:
4) Age:
5) Sex:
6) Occupation Status:


Waiting for your reply soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Lin Zhu(Mrs)

 

[JohnK]

Here's an interesting one from Microsoft account team.

Microsoft Account

Unusual sign-in activity

This is to inform you that your request on: 07/23/2018 02:15:09.AM. to remove your account johnk@*****.*** from outlook.com server has been approved and will initiate in one hour from the exact time you open this message.
Regards.

ignore this message to continue with email removal or

If this deactivation was not requested by you

Please reply us.

If You Receive This Message In Your Junk or Spam Its Due to Your Internet Provider

That's it. No links. They had me fooled with Microsoft Account Team and when you hover over the email address there is no email address. Click on reply and the email will be sent to 3 email addresses that are most definitely not Microsoft.

So what happens when I send reply? They confirm it's a valid email address? What else? I'd almost want to go to the trouble and create new email and send them "Low Life Morons" but they'd just ignore it. Wish I could send them an email that will paralyse them for life. Low life morons.

 

[prozac]

Interpol must be on a cost cutting exercise, now using a gmail account.

 

[OZDUCK]

This must be the laziest scammer I have seen :-


Compliment of the day to you. I am Mrs. Elodie, I am sending this brief letter to solicit your partnership to transfer Five Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars into your account for investment in your country. I shall send you more information and procedures when I receive positive response from you.


Thank you.

Mrs. Elodie Azeez

No dead father, plane crashes, UN Investigation etc. Just a"if you want to be scammed contact me" approach.

 

[OATEK]

Amazing what you find buried in a spam email (read down):

We weren't able to complete your last payment for your Netflix membership. We'll try charging you again over the next couple of days, but if we aren't able to complete a payment soon, you'll lose access to Netflix.

Update payment method now


Need help? Contact support or visit our Help Center Please do not reply to this email

View or make changes to your Netflix Red membership at any time You'll need a supported device and an Internet connection to stream videos or to save videos to watch offline

--

----- Original Message -----

From:

"Dolores Castelino" <[email protected]_>

To:

"rlkm@xx_" <rlkm@xx_>

Cc:

Sent:

Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:20:26 +0800

Subject: OAA Annual Dinner 2018 Invitation

Dear Roeland,

Please find attached your invitation to the Old Aquinians' Association Annual Dinner on Friday 17th August 2018. This wonderful social event brings many different peer years together from 1930 to 2017; reminiscing, reacquainting, networking or just catching-up, the OAA Annual Dinner provides a great opportunity for all.

This year we are thrilled to have Jordan Makins('12) in conversation with Mike Dempsey ('88).
See attached invitation for more details.

Please do not hesitate to come on your own, seating is done according to peer year (unless otherwise requested).

Kind regards

Dolores Castelino
Alumni and Events Administrator | Aquinas College
T: +61 (08) 9450 0660 | F: +61 (08) 9313 1901 | E: Dolores.Castelino@xx_



This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the Aquinas College Postmaster. mailto[email protected]_x

 

[QF WP]

I have had everything in the past month, everything from the lazy:

I have a business proposal that require trust and transparency, where both of us will benefit, if interested mail me back for more details.

Regards,

Mr. Li Feng.

and

I have only about a few months to live and I want you to Distribute my funds to charities if you will help reply me to my private email below

to a brand new one from somebody in Indonesia (love the mis-spelling but confused by the lack of logos in the email):

2018 Soccer Camp Courses

Good day,

This is to bring to your attention that the coughnal Soccer School will be organizing weekend Soccer Camps in 5 locations around you for Boys and Girls from the ages of 4 to 20 years.

This is a great opportunity for young soccer stars to learn how to play soccer The coughnal Way from our own UEFA certified coaches and they also get the opportunity to get a Certificate of completion.

For more information and to register, kindly reply to us with your Full name, Email Address, City and Country and we will get back to you.

Aresenal Soccer School
Hale End Sports Ground
99 Wadham Road
London E17 4LU

Now even blockchain is getting a run from Greece:

This Blockchain Platform secures your fund from hackers and scammers. Kindly, verify your Passphrases.

 

[QF WP]

Some more different ones

Good Day,

After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and Money Gram Office, we found your name in Western Union database among those that have sent money through Western Union/Money Gram and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them through Western Union/Money Gram in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of Western Union-Money Gram in the United State Region and the FBI alongside with the Ministry of Finance, As a consequence of our investigations it was agreed that the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($1,500,000.00) should be transferred to you out from the funds that The United State Department of the Treasury has set aside as compensation payment for scam victims.

This case would be handled and supervised by the FBI and the United State Police Service. We have submitted your details to them so that your funds can be transferred to you.

Contact the agent in charge through the information below:

Contact Person: Robert Edward

Address: Western Union Post Office,

Email: [redacted]

Yours sincerely,

Christopher A. Wray.

Post Office Agent Location

and this lady sent it to me 3 times - she must really like shouting (but as I don't, I deleted it):

HELLO MY FRIEND, GOOD MORNING AND HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY?

I KNOW YOU MAY BE WONDERING HOW I CAME ABOUT YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW COME YOU ARE GETTING THIS KIND OF MESSAGE FROM A COMPLETE AND TOTAL STRANGER YOU HAVE NEVER MET BEFORE, I HAVE BEEN RUNNING A PERSONAL CHARITY DEEDS FOR NEED AND HELPLESS FOR FEW YEARS BEFORE I AM CURRENTLY DOWN ON THE SICK BED WITH CANCER AND I AM USING THIS AS THE ONLY MEDIUM TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU AT THE MOMENT DUE TO MY PRESENT HEALTH CONDITION.

IN BRIEF MY NAME IS CHRISTY L ZUPPA, FROM NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES. I RESIDE HERE IN 10 MASTERS ROAD BRICK NJ 08724. I WANT TO PASS THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO YOU DUE TO MY PRESENT CONDITION AND I WANT YOU TO MAKE USE OF IT VERY WELL WHEN IT GETS TO YOU. I HAVE BEEN HELPING THE NEED AND THE HELPLESS IN THE COUNTRY FOR A FEW YEARS NOW, AS I HAVE ONLY FOLLOWED WHAT GOD HAD COMMANDED TO HELP WHO YOU COULD, AS A RESULT I HAVE BEEN DOING THE BEST I COULD OVER THE YEARS BEFORE I LOST MY HUSBAND AND THREE CHILDREN THROUGH A CAR ACCIDENT.

NOW I AM DOWN ON THE SICK BED WITH CANCER WHICH I KNOW THE LORD COULD HEAL ME IF HE WANTS AND TAKE ME TO HIS SIDE IF THAT BE HIS WISH. I OWN A PRIVATE BUSINESS WHICH FLOURISHED OVER THE YEARS, WITH A LOT OF FORTUNE I HAVE FOUND DOING MY BUSINESS BOTH IN THE STATES AND OVERSEAS BEFORE I LOST MY FAMILY IN A CAR CRASH. BEING THROUGH ALL THESE I HAVE DECIDED TO DO ONE FINAL GOOD DEED AS I HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS TO LOOK FOR SOMEONE, ANYONE TO REACH THROUGH TO YOUR NEED AND HELP YOU. AT LEAST ALL THE WEALTH I HAVE GATHERED NOT TO BE ALL WASTED.

AFTER THIS DECISION OF MINE, I CAME ACROSS YOUR CONTACT DETAILS IN THE INTERNET DIRECTORY WHICH I HAVE DECIDE TO GIVE YOU TWO MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ( $2,300,000.00 USD) IN MY ACCOUNT WITH THE BANK OF AMERICA, I KNOW THIS MAY SOUND STRANGE TO YOU BUT I SWEAR IT TO YOU THAT THIS IS REAL AND THERE IS NO CATCH TO IT AT ALL I AM GOING TO HELP YOU, MAYBE GOD HAD PUT THIS IN MY HEART TO DO BECAUSE HE FINALLY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS, I WILL HELP YOU FINANCIALLY, IF YOU NEED THIS HELP I HAVE OFFERED PLEASE LET ME KNOW

This one was most confusing. His email is in Vietnam...

Compliments of the season to you and members of your family.

Dear

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY.

It is my pleasure to officially inform you that your name was on the list of those scammed victims, who was compensated by the Nigerian Federal Government to the sum of $475,000 (US dollars).

Already the sum of $75,000 (seventy five thousand US dollars) has been issued an ATM at Zenith Bank headquarters, Plot 84, Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island Lagos, Nigeria,

awaiting the confirmation of your;

1)Full names

2)Address

3)telephone number, and

4)e-mail

subject to the confirmation of your embassy.

You are directed to contact the account officer in charge of foreign remittance, Chidi Martins; via email

Kind regards,

FOR: Public Affairs Section, Abuja
Embassy of the United States of America
Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive
Central District Area,
Abuja, Nigeria.

Best regards,

From Michael Green

This scammer got the American Embassy address right but not the Zenith bank address

 

[drron]

My scam emails have really dropped off but 3 financial type emails last Friday.1 from Commbank,1 from NAB.Ha Ha.
But one from the UN who was a lazy scammer.Just said we have some money that we would like to deposit in your bank account.Click here to confirm your bank details.
I was tempted to reply-Tell me how much as I will not confirm my bank details for anything less than $50 million.

 

[itsBella]

Can these scammers just get a life? I always received emails about winning, being associated with a rich family, and all. It's getting old, these people are sick in the head for doing such things.

 

[QF WP]

It's a pretty easy way for these scammers to make money - they only need 1 or 2 gullible people per broadcast email and they are making more money than they probably can in their country at a real job.