Current scams

**Sleepy** · 23rd June 2011, 05:52 PM

Ha! Good one ezyrama. Consider making a fictitious occupation too.

DiscoMick · 24th June 2011, 12:44 PM

Occupation: Penis enlargement evaluator.

**ezyrama** · 24th June 2011, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Ha! Good one ezyrama. Consider making a fictitious occupation too.

I was going to say, "God's gift to woman kind" but SWMBO was reading over my shoulder and she almost choked when she read it (on her cup of tea that is )

**BMKal** · 24th June 2011, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by MickS

Same here, but I told them that a 21" penis would just be ridiculous, and fainting would be a constant threat

An aspirin a day keeps the blood pressure up and eliminates this threat.

DiscoMick · 28th June 2011, 08:22 PM

Apparently, I've won US$2.5 million in the Italian Lottery. I just have to send my details so they can validate my identity...

**vnx205** · 20th July 2011, 06:17 PM

I've had a couple of new ones lately, not in my main email account, but in a webmail one that I use any time I have to give out my email address.

The first ones claim to come from DHL and from UPS about failed deliveries. I was not expecting any deliveries and the address of the recipient in the header is not mine. How come it arrives in my mail box if the "To:" address is not mine?

The second one was to advise me that a sum of money had been fraudulently withdrawn from my Visa account. There were two suspicious things about that. One was that there had been no withdrawals from my account and the other was that I have never had that much money available in that account anyway.

I assume that there was some link that I was supposed to click on that would take me to some bogus site that would try to get personal details from me. Needless to say, I didn't do that.

Anyone else had anything similar?

EDIT
According to this site, clicking on their link installs malware.
Not Able to Deliver UPS Package Malware Email

DiscoMick · 21st July 2011, 07:30 AM

I've had them from the Commonwealth and ANZ banks, PayPal, an online pharmacy offering Viagra and several others.

d@rk51d3 · 21st July 2011, 07:43 AM

Yeah, I've had a couple of the "failed package delivery" ones too. As I wasn't expecting anything, they just got deleted, and added to the spam list.

**ramblingboy42** · 21st July 2011, 03:53 PM

If youre in the job market a scam has developed there. You receive a job notification telling you of a high paying UK oil/gas maintenance position(or smilar) and that they had see your resume on the Seek/Careers lists, inviting you to apply. They send a typical big business application with all the HR questions about interpersonal relationships etc.when you reply they send you back a confirmation email stating that you have short listed, requesting your personal details for pay system, bank a/c numbers, all the stuff like super fund authorities that a formal application requires. If you send it, BINGO.....they've got the lot. I stumbled over this one while job searching. If you're jobseeking, BEWARE!

**pop058** · 8th October 2011, 09:06 AM

Latest one for me arrived today.

Charity Notification Project Assistance

Calvary greetings, I decided to contact you for friendship and assistance and distribution of my inheritances I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any Pains so I decided to contact you through this medium humbly ask that you to take due consideration of its importance and immense benefit and also sincerely seek your confidence, as I make this Proposal to you as a person of integrity. I got your contact through Network online internet email search in my personal search for a reliable and reputable individual to handle a very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of $5.5Million US Dollars. I decided to write you. As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I Believe everyone will die someday.

My name is Sarah Adams I am a dying woman who have decided to donate what I have to you/ church/charity Organizations. I was diagnosed with esophageal Cancer for about 7 Years ago; I am married to Sir Gerald Adams who worked with British Judicial Commission in Chelsea England for over a decade before he died on 5th of July in the year 1989. We were married for fifteen years without a child and he has left me everything he worked for.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared For anyone. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focus on my self as that was the only thing I Cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world again I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that I know My time is near I have been touched by God to donate from what I have Inherited from my late husband for the good work of God, rather than Allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.

So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, London, Ireland and South Africa. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I once asked members of my family to Close one of my accounts and donate the money, which I have there to Charity organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money to themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have left for them. The last of my money which is the huge Cash deposit that I have with Financial Firm Abroad .I will want you to Help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations And let them know that it is me Sarah Adams that is making this Generous donation.

I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses you to support and assist me with good heart Please pray that the good Lord forgives me my sins. I have asked God to Forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less than few days. I decided to WILL/donate the money to you for the good work of the lord, And also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the Assistance of the widows according to (JAMES 1:27).

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit This money and my husband relatives are not inclined to helping poor Persons and I do not want my husband's hard earned money to be misused Or spent in the manner in which my late husband did not specify. At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the Fact that my relatives are around me and my health status. I wish you all the best and May the good Lord blesses you abundantly and please uses the funds well and always extends the good work to others.

I must let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free and The nature of your business does not necessarily matter all I demand from you is assurance that you will not sit on this Funds when it finally gets to your personal or company's account in your Country. If this proposal is acceptable by you, please confirm your interest and contact my lawyer with the email address below so that he shall inform you on how to proceed with the documentation to satisfy you that this project is Legitimate.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish.

Barrister.M.V. Cooper
Notary Legal Solicitor & Legal Practitioner
Advocate Address: International Law, Peace Palace Carnegieplein 5,
2417 KJ Den-Hague, Netherlands
Email : barr.morrisvancooper@ulmail.net

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