Scams like these

[VPS]

^ So the warning in German about it probably being a scam … where did that come from?!

it was at the top of the body of the email

 

[Forg]

it was at the top of the body of the email

I was wondering if maybe your email was via a German server or something … if the scammers have included a WARNING that it’s a scam in their message, how lazy is that? That particular Nigerian prince doesn’t deserve assistance getting his millions outta Nigeria!

 

[VPS]

It's the Veritas foundation which means truth doesn't it so it should be fine


Dear Sir/Madam

Congratulations from the Veritas Philanthropies Foundation, where life changing opportunities and cash are given out on a daily basis. Our Founder has indeed been a great philanthropist to this generation and is truly committed to giving while living.

We are therefore pleased to inform you that you are one of the lucky people to benefit and receive $1,850,000.00 USD from our Foundation’s ongoing goodwill project (Grant/Donations Program). Is this message sent to a valid email account?. Your email account was randomly selected from a massive pool to receive a cash donation of One Million Eight hundred and Fifty Thousand United State Dollars ($1,850,000.00) from the Foundation. Your email was randomly chosen and you are very lucky as you are the recipient of the highest amount we are giving out. Please make sure you use these funds for judicious purposes.

This donation of $1,850,000.00 is made out to enable you to strengthen your personal issues and generously extend hands of help to the less privileged, orphans and charity organizations within your locality. If this is a valid email account, kindly reply to Daniel Harris (Attorney / Payment Supervisor) at ( [email protected]_ ), for comprehensive information.

Sincerely,
Edna Chu
The Veritas Foundation.
Email [email protected]_x

 

[OZDUCK]

Looks like I have to be careful that this might be phishing



Achtung: Diese E-Mail stammt von einem externen Absender. Öffnen Sie keine Links oder Anhänge, wenn Sie sich nicht sicher sind, dass diese E-Mail vertrauenswürdig ist, kontaktieren Sie Ihren Support.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE JANET M DIFlORE FEDERAL BUILDINGS AD U.S COURTHOUSE

Address: 255 W Main St #230, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR TRANSACTION,

I 'M CONTACTING YOU NOW BASE ON ISSUE ON MY DESK THIS MORNING BECAUSE YOUR PAYMENT FILE WHICH CONTAIN YOUR $4.5M WAS BROUGHT TO ME BY MR JEROME POWELL OF FEDERAL RESERVE BANK WHO ORDERED ME TO SIGN THE CANCELLATION OF YOUR PAYMENT FILE AND I ASKED HIM WHY AND HE SAID THAT YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED AND YOU HAVE INSULTED HIM SO MUCH JUST BECAUSE THAT THEY TOLD YOU TO PAY

$250 TO COMPLETE YOUR FUND TRANSACTION.

SO I DECIDED TO WRITE YOU BECAUSE I FOLLOWED THE LAW AND I WILL NOT BE AGAINST ANYBODY IN THIS WORLD AND I THINK THAT MAYBE HE HAS A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH YOU. I HAVE NOT TOUCH YOUR PAYMENT FILE UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU THIS MORNING BECAUSE I HAVE A HUMAN SYMPATHY AND I KNOW THAT YOU WILL NOT AFFORD TO LOSE YOUR FUND JUST BECAUSE OF $250 AND PLEASE ALL I NEED FROM YOU IS SINCERITY AND TRUTH.


SO MY DEAR I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AND IF YOU STILL NEED TO RECEIVE YOUR FUND THEN I WILL TELL YOU WHERE YOU WILL SEND THE $250 AND HAVE THIS FUND SEND TO YOU THROUGH MY POWER AND NOTHING WILL STOP IT.

YOUR URGENT REPLY IS NEEDED AS I AWAIT YOUR EMAIL NOW.

THANK YOU,

JUSTICE JANET M DIFIORE

Someone on another forum of which I am a member remarked about receiving this exact same scam message. He is in Scotland so it is pleasing to see that they the originator is an equal opportunity scammer.

 

[p--and--t]

 

[Cruiser Elite]

 

[JohnK]

Or I can just got to Westpac website myself and check? Or not bother at all as this card is not used for any purchases.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

0461563(*)26
Rec: 2.59 am
Your package was not delivered because the address information was incorrect. Please check and update your address https postmio.info/au
Heh, NESB.
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Same as JohnK's reply above, I would have worded these differently.
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Will block and delete my this incoming sms ph #.

 

[Forg]

Using a cheap 1990’s spec computer-generated voice to leave me a voicemail saying:
”This number is in violation and will be terminated within 2 days unless …”
is just lazy, and they certainly haven’t worked hard enough to deserve to scam a cent outta me.

 

[VPS]

Yeah right

DEAREST FRIEND,

I AM DR.MARY ROSE GODWIN AND AM VERY HAPPY TO INFORM YOU ABOUT MY SUCCESS IN GETTING THAT FUNDS TRANSFERRED WITH THE HELP OF MY IN-LAW FROM INDIA.

NOW I WANT YOU TO CONTACT MY SECRETARY ON THE INFORMATION BELOW AND RECEIVE YOUR COMPENSATION OF $2,800,000.00 FROM HIM:

NAME....MR JAMES BROWN

EMAIL [email protected]

PHONE NUMBER +234 8024 3493 88

SEND HIM THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO PROVE YOURSELF TO HIM:

YOUR FULL NAME;...............................

YOUR ADDRESS:.................................

YOUR COUNTRY:.................................

YOUR AGE:.....................................

YOUR OCCUPATION:..............................

YOUR PHONE NUMBER:............................


NOTE THAT IF YOU DID NOT SEND HIM THE ABOVE INFORMATION COMPLETE, HE WILL NOT RELEASE THE ATM MASTER CARD TO YOU BECAUSE HE HAS TO BE SURE THAT IT IS YOU.

ASK HIM TO SEND YOU THE TOTAL SUM OF ($2,800,000.00)USD IN ATM MASTER CARD, WHICH I KEPT FOR YOUR COMPENSATION.


NOTE ALSO THAT I WILL NOT BE REACHED BY EMAIL OR PHONE FOR NOW BECAUSE I AM CORRECTLY AWAY FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSE WITH MY SHARE AND I WILL BE BUSY TILL ABOUT SIX MONTHS TIME OR A YEAR.

REGARDS,

DR.MARY ROSE GODWIN

 

[latawiec]

Today morning I have received two emails 4 min apart each for an unknown membership from two females.

It might be quite tempting to check what these are about and open the invoices in .pdf (attachments)...

... but I am not an idiot and I am not falling for their tempting "trap" ....

 

[drron]

They don't sound Russian or Ukrainian names so obviously a scam.

 

[p--and--t]

 

[OZDUCK]

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I wonder if the fact that these 'toll' scam e-mails seem to appear with monotonous regularity indicates that they are successful at a better percentage than others?

 

[p--and--t]

I wonder if the fact that these 'toll' scam e-mails seem to appear with monotonous regularity indicates that they are successful at a better percentage than others?

The websites/links keep changing. They seem to mostly target the same things nowadays (Linkt, Auspost, ATO, Medicare)

Not totally dumb, they must have learnt Amazon, IRS, and US banks don't have the same penetration in AU as in US as these have dropped off almost entirely, for me as least.

What is consistent, most of the texts come somewhere around 1am CST plus or minus an hour.

 

[VPS]

I love the header for this

[Message Came from Outside the Houston Police Department Mail System]


United Bank for Africa

Head Office Address Uba House,

151 Museum,P.O. BOX 2406 Banjul,Gambia

I Am Mr. Saleh Dunoma the Chief Officer Operating united bank for Africa , the international monetary fund (I.M.F.) in conjunction with Organization of African Unity (O.A.U) is compensating all the scam victims with the sum of $9.500.000.USD

And your email address was found in the scam victim's page, the united bank for Africa and Federal Reserve Bank has been mandated by the (I.M.F) to pay your compensation ($9.500, 000.USD) in cash through means of diplomatic courier service hand delivery,

Therefore, do forward your home address, direct phone to this email, [email protected]

Regards,

Mr Saleh Dunoma

Director cash processing unit

United Bank for Africa

contact this Email , [email protected]

 

[Forg]

I wonder if the fact that these 'toll' scam e-mails seem to appear with monotonous regularity indicates that they are successful at a better percentage than others?

I guess there aren’t a heap of services where you might legitimately owe a few dollar’s worth, a small enough number not to worry too much about paying it & hence it might not raise red flags, and also where the normal method of paying is electronic.

 

[p--and--t]

Scammers must have at least one or two smart cookies in back of house to write their programs for them to generate the robo calls, emails and texts and vary things to evade the likes of Microsoft and Google and Telstra filters etc.

But the the "operations" people so to speak must be dumb as to generate robo calls to Aussie landlines and mobiles telling them they need to pay their IRS debt otherwise they will be gaoled.

 

[Forg]

Scammers must have at least one or two smart cookies in back of house to write their programs for them to generate the robo calls, emails and texts and vary things to evade the likes of Microsoft and Google and Telstra filters etc.

But the the "operations" people so to speak must be dumb as to generate robo calls to Aussie landlines and mobiles telling them they need to pay their IRS debt otherwise they will be gaoled.

They may not have a lot of control over the source of their lists, eg. where the numbers come from.

Probably costs less to send a bunch of American stuff to non-Americans, than it does to filter the non-American contacts out.

Besides, with the number of Australians who claim Trump is our real president … they’d still have plenty of marks in Australia.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

1am Aust is 15.00pm in Africa, just after their lunch time.
Maybe this is the reason, they have gotten their fill of food, so the afternoon shift targets Aust.
Their day shift probably targets the US evening, or their night shift targets the US day time.