Scams like these

Second one of these (purporting to be from Xero-installed businesses), but the format is different to my usual one from my IT guru, so always hover over the link to see where it's going. The email address and the payee details are not the same ;)

Subject: Bill INV-10861 from NEX METALS EXPLORATION LIMITED is due

Hi,

This is a courtesy reminder that your invoice for $7598.56 was due on 14 Nov 2018.

If you've already paid it, please ignore this email and sorry for bothering you.

Unfortunately, if payment is not received in the next 3 days, a late fee of $50.00 incl.GST may be applied to this outstanding invoice.

We understand that oversights happen but would appreciate prompt payment of this amount.

If you've got any questions, or want to arrange alternative payment don't hesitate to get in touch.

Thanks
NEX METALS EXPLORATION LIMITED
 
How dare the IMF steal my inheritance that I didn't even know about.

The Treasury Department leads the U.S.
700 19th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20431
Ref Swift: IMFDUS7W2017
Attention
The Treasury Department leads the U.S. Government's engagement in the
International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is an organization of 188
member countries that works to foster global monetary cooperation,
secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high
employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around
the world. The Secretary of the Treasury serves as the U.S. Governor to
the IMF, and the U.S. Executive Director of the IMF is one of 24
directors who exercise voting rights over the strategic direction of the
institution.
While IMF serving almost all the countries of the world, were obligated
to comply with both Domestic and International Financial Laws, which
requires us to verify your identity prior to sending or receiving wire
transfer to or fro nations. Please understand that this procedure is
crucial for preventing financing terrorism and organized crime
throughout the world Today the Global Financial Stability Report, a
quarterly publication launched to review a regular assessment of global
Pending Foreign Payments, reviewed that your contract/ Inheritance fund
US$25,500.000.00 which was seized and confiscated on Tuesday, February
10, 2017 by the Global Illicit Financial Team as it was tagged
suspicious fund transfer was proven to be a legal fund, free from any
illegal business and civil, criminal, or financial crime.
It has been showed that you have fully complied with the International
statutory provision for payment of Huge Funds under Article 102, section
36, SS 1a-2b of the 2012 International Financial and Allied Matters
Act.Prior to this effect, an irrevocable fund transfer authorization
letter has been forwarded to the remitting bank "ZENITH BANK " to
commence with the fund transfer as appropriate to you as the
beneficiaries with Fund Allocation Approval Serial Number: FGS43N.
Kindly contact; Mr. peter Amangbo Managing Director,Chief Executive
Officer and Executive Director of ZENITH BANK PLC,Email: {
[email protected] } with your Fund Allocation Approval Serial
Number: FGS43N, as your fund transfer order has been forward to their
bank.
NOTE: If You Receive This Message In Your Junk Or Spam It's Due To Your
Internet Provider.
 
And now a variation of the Nigerian scam supposedly from ATL.

DIRECTOR INSPECTION UNIT
UNITED NATIONS INSPECTION AGENCY
HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
Email: ([email protected])
Email: ( [email protected] )
Call : (214) 935-8914)

I am GRANT WATSON Inspection Agency in Harts field-Jackson
International Airport Atlanta Georgia. During our investigation, I
discovered an abandoned shipment through a Diplomat from FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA which was transferred from Murtala International
Airport. To our facility here in Atlanta Georgia USA, and when scanned
it revealed an undisclosed ATM MASTER CARD. The consignment package
was abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the
consignee as money rather it was declared as personal
Effect/classified document to either avoid diversion by the Shipping
Agent or confiscation by the relevant authorities.

The diplomat's inability to pay for Non Inspection fees among other
things are the reason why the consignment package is delayed and
abandoned. By my assessment, the ATM MASTER CARD package contains
about ($6 Million United State Dollars). And it still left in the
airport storage facility till today. The ATM MASTER CARD like I said
the details of the ATM MASTER CARD contain your full name and email is
in the official document from United Nations' office in NIGERIA where
the shipment was tagged as personal effects/classified document is
still available with us. As it stands now, you have to reconfirm your
Full name, Phone Number, full address so I can cross-check and see if
it corresponds with the one on the official documents.

It is now left to you to decide if you are the beneficiary and still
need the ATM MASTER CARD or allow us repatriate it back to NIGERIA
(place of origin) as we were instructed. Like I did say again, the
shipper abandoned it and ran away most importantly because he gave a
false declaration, he could not pay for the yellow tag, he could not
secure a valid non inspection document(s), etc. I am ready to assist
you in any way I can for you to get back this packages if only you are
willing to work with me with trust. You can either come in person, or
you engage the services of a secure shipping/delivery Company/agent
that will provide the necessary security. That is required to deliver
the package
to your doorstep or the destination of your choice. I need the entire
guarantee that I can get from you before I can get involved in this
project.

Full Name :
Full Home Address :
Tell Phone :
Occupation:
DOB :
Copy Of Your ID Card :

Best Regards,
Mr. GRANT WATSON
DIRECTOR INSPECTION OFFICER.
 
I've had everybody wanting a piece of me in the last week - Suncorp Bank (x2), RBC Royal Bank, Christian Louboutin and the usual hackers that purport to have taken over my computer and have compromising photos of me and want me to give them $800 in bitcoin. Ha ha ha, not happening :D
 
I have had a few robo calls saying they were from the Telstra technical department. Must think a machine voice will disguise the source.
 
I think I have had this one before

Dear Friend ,



Due to lot of internet Fraud people have nursed fear to do online business that are real because of fear of dealing with wrong person,i want to tell you that this mail is not one of them ,can i trust you also to do this Business? Please i want you to read this message carefully and i will give you all proof that will show you am real.How are you doing ? Please carefully read my mail.Am Ivan Todd , 45 years old , from Austin Texas, United States of America but I lived in the Military Cantonment in Houston Texas , I completed my training program and physical education course at Fort bliss command Virginia US. Am 2nd lieutenant and Protocol officer. Am well trained combat and infantry. I had a tough childhood. I lost my parents when I was very little, and am the only son and only child. I never knew my real parents or any relation because my Parents nationalized in USA . I was adopted by Mr Eugene Lee Scott , and his wife Rose , may their soul rest in peace amen .They are also dead.



Am on Peace keeping force deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan from Iraq. Can you be trusted?



If you are current,you might hear the world braking news in Iraq some time ego,about the USA ARMY stormed a place and make this discovery which was handed over to the USA heads,till today no body gave account of it.



You can read more about it here:



BBC NEWS | Middle East | US soldiers find Iraqi cash fortune



I have to attach my Pictures to proof what am about to tell you, please keep everything secrete . Last time we went for inspection in terrorist hid out,we discover bags fill with US DOLLARS and other currency,me and my group returned it back to the base camp,our heads,told us that they will report it to the proper office for investigation and up to date we did not hear any thing about the money again,and i feel they must have shared it among them selves,so after the next day i went to take records of other items in the trucks discovered from the terrorist hid out,i notice their was another bag right inside they Truck tanker side,i said glory be to God,i took the bag, and hid it in a safe place,after some couple of days, i decided to count the money in my room it was huge amount $ 12.6 Million US Dollars, i smiled.



If you will assure me, honesty,sincerity , i will make plans how to move it out from Afghanistan to your address as a Military family valuable , which i will obtain (M.N.I.F.V.T) Military Non Inspection Family Valuable Tag with UN Tag and tag on the box for delivery to avoid any body to open it,as far as it have the UN Tag and Military Non Inspection Family Valuable Tag. When it get to your address. You will take $ 5 Million US Dollars and keep $ 7.6 Million US Dollars till i pull out.



If you are interested and assure me your Sincerity,get back to me.



I await for your immediate reply to enable us proceed.



Forward all reply to my Private email address.xx





Respectfully,

Col.Ivan Todd
 
This one obviously arises from a website hack, as the password they quote was one is used many years ago. I have had 3 or 4 variations of this message in the last few weeks from different supposed hackers.
--
Hi‌ the‌re‌, I a‌ctu‌a‌lly kno‌w the‌ di‌rty se‌cre‌ts o‌f yo‌u‌r li‌fe‌. I wo‌n't te‌ll yo‌u‌ wha‌t I'm a‌wa‌re‌ o‌f, I've‌ go‌t a‌ll the‌ i‌nfo‌ wi‌th me‌. To‌ de‌mo‌nstra‌te‌ thi‌s, ju‌st le‌t myse‌lf te‌ll yo‌u‌ tha‌t o‌ne‌ o‌f yo‌u‌r se‌cu‌ri‌ty pa‌sswo‌rds i‌s de‌fi‌ni‌te‌ly xx_xx_. Se‌nd me‌ $‌9000 vi‌a‌ *Bi‌tco‌i‌n* to‌ the‌ a‌ddre‌ss <Code removed> i‌n the‌ ne‌xt 45 ho‌u‌rs. I wa‌nt to‌ ma‌ke‌ o‌ne‌ i‌mpo‌rta‌nt thi‌ng o‌bvi‌o‌u‌s, tha‌t I wi‌ll de‌va‌sta‌te‌ yo‌u‌r li‌fe‌ fu‌lly i‌f I do‌ no‌t ge‌t the‌ pa‌yme‌nt. Whe‌n I do‌ ge‌t the‌ pa‌yme‌nt, I wi‌ll re‌mo‌ve‌ e‌ve‌ry la‌st i‌nfo‌ I've‌ wi‌th me‌, a‌nd I wi‌ll va‌ni‌sh e‌nti‌re‌ly a‌nd yo‌u‌'ll do‌ no‌t he‌a‌r a‌ thi‌ng fro‌m myse‌lf. Thi‌s i‌s the‌ fi‌rst a‌s we‌ll a‌s fi‌na‌l e‌ ma‌i‌l fro‌m me‌ a‌nd the‌ o‌ffe‌r ca‌n no‌t be‌ ne‌go‌ti‌a‌te‌d, the‌re‌fo‌re‌ do‌ no‌t a‌nswe‌r to‌ thi‌s ma‌i‌l.
 
I have had a few robo calls saying they were from the Telstra technical department. Must think a machine voice will disguise the source.
I had the robo call today that said I was about to be issued with a law suit and to call them back. And ended with ‘have a blessed day’. Surely people aren’t stupid enough to fall for it?
 
I have had 5 or 6 e-mails advising me that I have enrolled in a,paid, Catholic dating website - CatholicMatch. Not only have I not joined up but the e-mail is addressed to a random name. I think that this is one of those scams attempting to get you to click on the "unsubscribe" button and thus download some nasty bugs. .
 
Had the Indian call centre scam call using a SYD number - ringing about my problems with on my computer. Laughing, I told him I didn’t have a computer. Asked him how he slept at night scamming people and told him in no uncertain terms to disappear.
 
Not a scam as such, but I get infuriated when political groups call and with a blocked number. The other day answered one from a woman who explained she was a volunteer with GetUp...enough said.
 
Geez. Which one of you is Sybil?


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My Facebook account isn’t the same email so that’s a shame.
 
Had a call from "Telstra" tonight letting me know they were on to all the problems I was having with internet and malicious files, and wanted to help me fix the problems. Managed to string her out to waste their time to see where it was going, until she realised and hung up.
Nothing particularly new about that, but what I found interesting was they managed to spoof the caller ID which looked like a real number, but had one digit too many for a normal Oz 10 digit phone number. Won't publicise the number as if you tried ringing it you would get an annoyed plumber in St Andrews (first 10 digits).
What intrigues me is how the crooks can influence the signalling layer of the network to present the false Caller ID.
 
Hmmmm, think not! First of all I'd be looking for ways to improve my spelling!

"I wannt too findd a reall maan whho cann celebrate withh mee a Meerry Christmaas. Ohh i havve a new chriistmas photos forr you.. Here"
 
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