Scams like these

[OZDUCK]

We have had our 4th or 5th 'robot' call today from 'Nicole' of the NBN who is going to disconnect us within 24 hours unless we press '1'. As my wife points out, if a real Nicole ever rings us she will be very surprised at our reaction.

 

[Pushka]

So many of these, plus another one of the “you’ve been naughty and I have pictures” email.

Subject: I jusst seee yoour likkes, att myy pagee. I send yoou a gifft fromm me..

Hello my dear!!!!
My name is Sara Morrall, Christmas is soon and I am very sad, because I dont have any man who can celebrate with my soul(
I am a alone lady , and i want to find reliable person who rejoice this vacation in conjunction in love. I know that New Years brings people together and can brings peolple enjoyment!
I can give you my videos because you must understand that i am real. We can discuss here.

 

[Buzzard]

Received a call from the tax office yesterday. Started with an automated message then transferred to a real person. She started asking me for details such as my name etc so I just replied "Well you rang me so you should know who you rang" She hung up.
I am aware however that on Wednesday somebody got scammed for $8000, buying Google Play Cards to pay the tax office. It may not be successful but Aussie Post were trying to cancel the cards.

 

[prozac]

Another scam domain scuttled;

Hello prozac,
This is to inform you that the xx_xx.com domain was suspended. It has been placed on the clientHold status and locked for modification in our system.
Thank you for letting us know about the issue.
------------------------
Regards,
Legal & Abuse Department
Namecheap Team

 

[cove]

I feel I am missing out.....

 

[VPS]

Mmm decisions - do we meet in Ghana or Angola

Hello Dear,

On my honor, I wish to introduce myself as Mr Johnson Edmar Financial consultant represents the interests of top civil servants, military chiefs, politician and wealthy business people from West African Sub-Saharan, Southern and East Africa.

Recently one of my clients, a retired member of the Angola's state oil firm (SONANGOL) mandated me to move and re-invest his liquid assets to a country with high economic possibility for investment and profit purpose as well as safe keeping to be managed by a reliable/trustworthy business person/company.

The amount involved in this project is USD 50 million. If you are willing to receive this funds for re-investment under a non-disclosure joint venture agreement for a renewable period of 7-10 years with an estimated (ROI) return on investments of between 20-25% each financial year.

Please do reply with a brief but clear and unambiguous proposal of your intended business ideas/projects/areas of specialization you wish to secure investment for, after review of your intended project for investments, if acceptable, I shall inform you in details about the financier and then prepare a memorandum of understanding cough funds management agreement and send you draft copies for your review.

It will be necessary for us to meet in persons to discuss the details of funds transfer process with the bank manager in the bank. Our physical meeting will also help us clear all doubts and fears of possible scams.The venue of our meeting should either be in Angola or Ghana.I am presently in Ghana to meet with the bank presently holding part of the funds.

Once again, I assure you that this offer is a legitimate offer and all due process of international business,; banking and legal ethics would be adhere and followed during the course of this business.

Once I get your reply, I will outline the stages and process of this business.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Johnson Edmar
Financial consultant

 

[QF WP]

Damn, I should reply to your scam email @VPS - I'm just the person they need.

But wait, I've just been gifted USD $500M (he is a bit confused with all the zeroes, he thinks it's only $5M) from Bill Gates - I can buy my own private G650 to jet over to Ghana or Angola and still have lots of change...

Greetings You have been gifted $5 MILLION USD From Mr Bill Gates. Contact me at this email for your claim: <redacted>

I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to know why/how I selected you to receive a sum of $5,000,000,00 USD, our information below is 100% legitimate, please see the link below: <actual Wikipedia link of the Gates Foundation redacted>

I BILL GATES and my wife decided to donate the sum of $5,000,000,00 USD to you as part of our charity project to improve the 10 lucky individuals all over the world from our $65 Billion Usd I and My Wife Mapped out to help people. We prayed and searched over the internet for assistance and i saw your profile on Microsoft email owners list and picked you. Melinda my wife and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see. as you could see from the webpage above,am not getting any younger and you can imagine having no much time to live. although am a Billionaire investor and we have helped some charity organizations from our Fund.

You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members, Before we die we decided to donate the remaining of our Billions to other individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the red cross, Haiti, hospitals in truro where Melinda underwent her cancer treatment, and some other organizations in Asia and Europe that fight cancer, alzheimer's and diabetes and the bulk of the funds deposited with our payout bank of this charity donation. we have kept just 30% of the entire sum to our self for the remaining days because i am no longer strong am sick and am writing you from hospital computer.and me and my wife will be traveling to Germany for Treatment.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds ($5,000,000,00 USD) which have been donated solely to you, you are to send me

your full names.................

your contact address.........

country :...............

your personal telephone number...............

SEND YOUR ABOVE DETAILS TO : <redacted>

so that i can forward your payment information to you immediately. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your City. please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful You Can Google my name for more information: Mr Bill Gates or Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Remain Blessed

Regards

Mr Bill Gates

Nah, not in a million years, when Bill Gates email address is something completely different to the redacted one.

 

[VPS]

I think they could have put a bit more effort into this one - it's like getting a job application where they have the previous company's name in there.

(IRS) INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE USA.
Office Address: Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building, 1111 Constitution Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC.Commissioner: Mr. John Andrew Koskinen.


Greetings From The Internal Revenue Service United States of America. Tax Agreement Letter.


I am MR.THOMAS WILSON The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue Service,and I know this email may sound strange to you but nevertheless am here to make a point to you which will be the secret you have expected or wish to know about the difficulties and upfront fees which always pups up whenever you are about to receive your previous transaction.

You have paid uncountable and endless fees to different People, Offices, Banks, Company E.T.C. in the name of receiving your promised Fund, but it always turns out to be story after story and fees after fees whenever it is time to receive those Funds.

Am here to tell you that this OFFICE has been the Authority behind those upfront fees, and you need to read carefully to know our reason for making you to pay upfront fees before you could receive your legitimate Funds.

I want to make it clear to you that 25% of all the transaction you have dealt with are legitimate, We know the actual amount for each Fund, and knowing the important of TAX in the State, We secretly set-up "request for upfront fees" as a medium to collect TAX on those funds before we could allow them release those Funds to you. (request for: transfer fees, Certificates fees, Clearance fees, Customs fees, etc) are just the medium we set-up with those People, Offices, Banks, Company etc to be collecting payments from you until you have paid the actual percentage Tax of your Fund before we could release your Fund.

Normally you don't have to pay a dime to receive any of your promised Fund if not for what I have just explained. Am here to make it clear to you that the above explained SYSTEM OF TAX PAYMENT which has been the secret behind your Fund delays has been put to STOP and thereby bringing up a final and affordable solution to receiving your Funds.

Only the 25% among all your previous and current transaction are legitimate and approximately the total sum of $35-Million USD is the only legitimate amount left for you to claim. We have watched out all the series of payments we made you pay through those people you where and currently dealing with, and found out it is still going to take you more years and more thousands of dollars payment to cover the TAX FEE levied on your $35 Million USD which is approximately the sum $3.5 Million.

$3.5 Million TAX FEE is the actual amount we have planed to collect from you through the explained SYSTEM OF TAX PAYMENT before releasing your Thirty Five Million USD to you. But since the old SYSTEM OF TAX PAYMENT has been changed, We have reached a new SYSTEM which says you will enter into an Agreement with this OFFICE to unfailingly and unconditionally pay the TAX FEE of $3.5 Million immediately we release your $35 Million USD to you from this OFFICE without any delay.

We are going to release your $35 Million to you without making you pay out your hard earned money, but before that you must present to this OFFICE a TAX AGREEMENT LETTER, and this Tax Agreement Letter will be the only legitimate Document to hold our agreement with you on releasing your Fund with agreement to pay the TAX FEE after receiving your Fund.

If you fail to adhere to the explained instruction you will continue to waste your hard earned money without receiving anything, because there is no possible means of you completing the TAX FEE of $3.5 Million expected from you, therefore you need to enter into an agreement with us by issuing this TAX AGREEMENT LETTER, This Tax Agreement LETTER will stand as a Documented Oath biding us together before we can feel comfortable to release your $35 Million and you will pay the TAX FEE of $3.5 Million from your $35 Million USD after you have received it from this OFFICE.

You will have to obtain this TAX AGREEMENT LETTER from our TAX AGENCY REPRESENTATIVE at the Country of your Fund Origination being Benin Republic and it will cost only $100.00 therefore TAX AGREEMENT LETTER Fee of $100.00 is all you will have to spend in other to receive your $35 Million from this OFFICE and pay the $3.5 Million from the Fund.

We expect to hear from you with the Western Union or Money Gram payment information only if you are willing to pay the fee of $100.00 for the TAX AGREEMENT LETTER and receive your $35 Million USD

(YOU CAN SEND US AN ITUNES CARD)

Receiver's Name ,,,,,,,,, MARK OKERE
Country ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Benin Republic
City ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Cotonou
Test Question ,,,,,,,,,,,Hurry?
Answer ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Up
Amount: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,$100.00
MTCN.........................

Thanks for your understanding and we still need your Correct information to make up this Tax Agreement Oath with you. Meanwhile you are advice to reconfirm the below information upo
Chat conversation end
Type a message...

 

[drron]

Well my latest email is from Lauren who wants to be comforted.
the unusual part is her email address ends in catholic.edu.au.

 

[love_the_life]

Mmm decisions - do we meet in Ghana or Angola

Hello Dear,

On my honor, I wish to introduce myself as Mr Johnson Edmar Financial consultant represents the interests of top civil servants, military chiefs, politician and wealthy business people from West African Sub-Saharan, Southern and East Africa.

Recently one of my clients, a retired member of the Angola's state oil firm (SONANGOL) mandated me to move and re-invest his liquid assets to a country with high economic possibility for investment and profit purpose as well as safe keeping to be managed by a reliable/trustworthy business person/company.

The amount involved in this project is USD 50 million. If you are willing to receive this funds for re-investment under a non-disclosure joint venture agreement for a renewable period of 7-10 years with an estimated (ROI) return on investments of between 20-25% each financial year.

Please do reply with a brief but clear and unambiguous proposal of your intended business ideas/projects/areas of specialization you wish to secure investment for, after review of your intended project for investments, if acceptable, I shall inform you in details about the financier and then prepare a memorandum of understanding cough funds management agreement and send you draft copies for your review.

It will be necessary for us to meet in persons to discuss the details of funds transfer process with the bank manager in the bank. Our physical meeting will also help us clear all doubts and fears of possible scams.The venue of our meeting should either be in Angola or Ghana.I am presently in Ghana to meet with the bank presently holding part of the funds.

Once again, I assure you that this offer is a legitimate offer and all due process of international business,; banking and legal ethics would be adhere and followed during the course of this business.

Once I get your reply, I will outline the stages and process of this business.

Yours sincerely,
Mr Johnson Edmar
Financial consultant

Hello Dear???
Oh dear.

 

[AisleSeat]

Another scam domain scuttled;

Nice.

Reminds me of my scambaiting days, where I'd repeatedly have the same scammers fake websites shut down, then string him along and feign ignorance as to what was going on. Then he'd set up another site and direct me there and rinse repeat. After around 15 times I got bored with him.

 

[prozac]

Nice.

Reminds me of my scambaiting days, where I'd repeatedly have the same scammers fake websites shut down, then string him along and feign ignorance as to what was going on. Then he'd set up another site and direct me there and rinse repeat. After around 15 times I got bored with him.

I report 2-3 a day atm. I really like the responses I get from Russian ISPs. After initially reporting they are looking into it, the next email states "We will definitely act". I can only imagine how cold it must be in some Siberian gulag.

 

[AisleSeat]

I report 2-3 a day atm. I really like the responses I get from Russian ISPs. After initially reporting they are looking into it, the next email states "We will definitely act". I can only imagine how cold it must be in some Siberian gulag.

GoDaddy were the worst at shutting down sites (I don't know if they've improved) It took forever, like 2 weeks. My quickest was dealing with a German host provider. 45 minutes after reporting it was shut down.

 

[Major]

You are a recipient of a cash donation of Two Million USD. More Info, send an email to xx_.com for details

 

[Pushka]

Got lucky today.

 

[QF WP]

My latest:

Attention;

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, it is because of the restrictions imposed by your Mail/Internet Service Provider, we urge you to treat it genuinely.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this email came to you. In regards to the recent meeting between the United Nations, Cyber Crimes Commission (CCc), Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) and the United States Government to restore the dignity and Economy ofa Nations based on the Agreement with the World Bank Assistance Project to help and make the world a better place. We have been having meetings for the past 3 months with the Secretary General of the United Nations.

This email come to those who are yet to receive their compensation/inheritance/winnings and who have been scammed in any part of the world, this includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or Compensation payments that failed due to Government problems etc. Recently we the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) arrested internet fraudsters and Scammer with large amount of money so if you are receiving this email its means you where select to be compensated as a scam victim among 100 selected victims with part of the money recover from the internet fraudsters account, . The UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate you with the sum of $20,000.000.00 USD (TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS).

100 people where selected across the Globe for this MIDDLE OF THE YEAR COMPENSATION and Your email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed, so you are advised to contact Mr. Samson lucas of the United Nations Compensation Commission, as he is our representative in United State Of America. Contact him immediately for your Compensation payment of $20,000.000.00 USD (TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS) which will be released directly to you in accordance with legal clearance and procedures.

It is my pleasure to inform you that your ATM Card Number; 4000128498979908 have been approved in your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 6062. The ATM Card Value is $20,000.000.00 USD (TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS) You are advised that a most withdrawal value of $15,000.00 USD is permitted on withdrawal per Day and we are duly Inter Switch and you can make withdrawal in any Inter Switch site and ATM Center of your choice.

However, you should send him your:

Full Name/

Telephone Number/

your Residential Address/

Gender:

Occupation:

New email address for this safety of this transaction Contact Mr. Samson lucas immediately for your compensation payment:

Mr. Samson lucas

Director- General,

ATM Card Payment

Washington Field Office

Email: <redacted>

He is obliged to give you a call and treat your case with utmost urgency as soon as you contact him and fill out your correct details including all reachable phone numbers for him to get in touch with you via phone and email.

NOTE: Under normal circumstances the collection of your ATM CARD the IMF and the Finance Ministry insisted that you pay for the DELIVERY FEE ONLY of your ATM CARD via western union money transfer, which will cost you just $450 USD only, the western union or Money Gram payment receipt of $450 USD to the nominated courier company that will carry out with the delivery to your door step to be documented in your file as proof your collection. Ask Mr. Samson lucas for the instruction on how to send the delivery fee of $450 to him, Please note that the delivery fee can not be deducted from your ATM CARD due to the fact that no one has the authority to unlucky and use your ATM CARD on your behalf because you alone will be the one to first use the card for the first withdrawal with your secret code.

We also advise that you stop further communications with these imposters and forward any correspondence / proposal you receive from them to Mr. Samson lucas in other for the FBI to bring justice to them.

Good luck and kind regards,

Making the world a better place!

GOD BLESS USA.

REGARDS.

God bless scammers and I'm very comfortable with the email going to my spam folder thanks!

Is anyone else being spammed from "Orion Code App" or "Stephen Tesler"? Determined little emailer there, getting a couple per day.

 

[tgh]

Just imagine how lucrative this industry must be to have so much activity.
It makes me a tad annoyed to think about the less wise and able genre who take the bait.
It took a lot of work to train a quite trusting swmbo how to deal with this seemingly this endless flow of detritus.
We are approaching the nbn witching hour and truncating the land line sewer for 4G wireless is increasingly attractive.

 

[OATEK]

Got back after a month in the UK to find just 2 messages on my answering machine:
1. This is the Tax Office, you are going to be prosecuted etc etc
2. Telstra service regarding disconnecting your internet connection etc etc
Seems I only keep my answering machine going for spammers!

 

[QF WP]

Alright...cautious optimism here as I note they have made it to 3/184 (156 run partnership). Joe Burns now has the highest Australian score this summer - on 90, beating the previous 84

 

[VPS]

Alright...cautious optimism here as I note they have made it to 3/184 (156 run partnership). Joe Burns now has the highest Australian score this summer - on 90, beating the previous 84

Mmm maybe this should be in another thread - please don't tell me that we have relegated the Australian cricket team to the scams thread