They say to see is to believe. I say, to see is to better learn. so to better recognize Scams when you see one, here are some circulated examples of each category of scams:
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Phishing Scam Example
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Dear Valued Customer:
We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 24 hours, after this period your account will be terminated.
For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.
Regards, Safeharbor Department eBay, Inc
The eBay team.
This is an automatic message. Please do not reply.
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Lottery Scam Example
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Subject; Winner Microsoft Yahoo Google Lottery Promotion
MICROSOFT YAHOO GOOGLE LOTTERY PROMOTION North London Business Park (NLBP) Oakleigh Road South, London, N11 1NP United Kingdom.
Dear Lucky Winner,
We happily announce to you the result of the Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Lottery draws held on Saturday 12th of September 2009, Lotto 6/49 in Essex, United Kingdom. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 100,000.00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.
Your e-mail address attached to Ticket number: B9564 7560 with serial number 046560 drew the winning numbers 6 7 14 16 17 27 Bonus 32. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/08.
To file for your claim, please contact your corresponding Fiduciary Claim Agent (Mr. Michael Walker) immediately you get this message for quick and urgent release of your fund.
Contact information is as follow:
Mr. Michael Walker
Email: michael.walker@micro.lt
Tel: +44-7024031703
Endeavour to submit the below information’s as stated below to enable Mr. Michael Walker process your winning.
1. Full Name:................................
2. Full Address:.............................
3. Marital Statue:...........................
4. Age:.......................................
5. Sex:.......................................
6. Nationality:...............................
7. Tel. Number:..............................
8. Country of Residence.....................
***Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program. ***
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this Lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Lottery Promotion **Customer Service**
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Nigerian Scam E-mail
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(URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL)
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
Good Day!
I am the manager of bills and exchange at the foriegn remittance department of the (ABN AMRO BANK AMSTERDAM ). I am writting you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this transaction. We discovered some abandoned sum $15,500,000(FIFTEEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLAR ) in an account that belongs to one of our foriegn customer who died along-side his entire family in march this year in a terrorist train bomb blast in Spain some few months ago.Since this development,we have advertised for his next of kin or any close relation to come forward to claim this money,but nobody came yet to apply for the claim.
To this effect,i and other official in my department have decided to look for a trusted foriegn partner who can stand in as the next of kin of the deceased as we cannot do it only ourselves and claim this money.We need a foreign partner to apply for the claim on our behalf because of the fact that the customer was a foreign and we don't want this money to go into the treasury as unclaimed fund.
Every document to effect this process will emanate from my table and i will perfect every document to be in accordance with the banking law and guideline,so you have nothing to worry about and we have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you,while 10%will be for any expenses incured on both sides wihile 60% will be for my colleagues and me. If you are willing to help us,please indicate by replying this letter and putting in your name, private telephone number,fax and permanent residential address via my private email address below.I awaits your immediate response to enable us start this transaction as soon as i recieved your reply,i will send you a text application form for immediate APPLICATIION OF CLAIM.
Please contact me even if you are not intrested in my proposal to you to enable us scout for another partner in the event of non-interest on your part. Thanks for your co-operation
E-MAIL :pietjan2000@netscape.net
Mr Piet Van Jan
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Transfer Job Scam E-mails - Laundering Scams
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Subject: PART-TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY
Dear Sir,Madam,
We are small new firm engaged in export of goods to overseas outside my country. We have won various small exports contract at one time or the other, recently we were (engaged) contracted to supply financial programs for market analyzing, management project software in USA which was successfully done.
Unfortunately we have faced some difficulties while receiving payment for our software in our country as need 10-30 days to get a payment from your country. We do not have so much time to accept wire transfers and can't accept cashiers checks and money orders as well. So we need your help to accept this payments in your country faster. If you are looking to make additional profit we will accept you as our representative in your country. You will keep 10% of each deal we conduct.
Your part is very important to accept funds and forward it to us. It is not a full time work but a very convenient and fast additional income. We therefore solicit your assistance to help remit this money , I would want you to submit to us via mail to [Address removed] the following information which includes
1 Your Full Name
2 Your Contact Address
3 Telephone number/Fax
4.Yahoo or MSN ID.
Your country of living
Please respond ASAP and you will get additional details on how you can become our representative. Joining us and starting business today will cost you nothing, just some extra income for you.
Thanks for your vivid co-operation.
Manager,
SMITH BAMI
Director of ENFOSOFT Marketing Dept.
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Competition Scams
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Please follow this link to see sample of competition scam.
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Take note of the grammatical errors and wrong spellings in the sample mails. Also, scams often involve a large sum of money. If what they are saying is too good to be true, then better just leave it alone and send it to your trash bin. That big sum f money directed to you is worth all your suspicion after all.
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Phishing Scam Example
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Dear Valued Customer:
We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 24 hours, after this period your account will be terminated.
For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.
Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.
Regards, Safeharbor Department eBay, Inc
The eBay team.
This is an automatic message. Please do not reply.
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Lottery Scam Example
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Subject; Winner Microsoft Yahoo Google Lottery Promotion
MICROSOFT YAHOO GOOGLE LOTTERY PROMOTION North London Business Park (NLBP) Oakleigh Road South, London, N11 1NP United Kingdom.
Dear Lucky Winner,
We happily announce to you the result of the Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Lottery draws held on Saturday 12th of September 2009, Lotto 6/49 in Essex, United Kingdom. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws system and extracted from over 100,000.00 companies and personal e-mail addresses.
Your e-mail address attached to Ticket number: B9564 7560 with serial number 046560 drew the winning numbers 6 7 14 16 17 27 Bonus 32. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file EAAL/9080118308/08.
To file for your claim, please contact your corresponding Fiduciary Claim Agent (Mr. Michael Walker) immediately you get this message for quick and urgent release of your fund.
Contact information is as follow:
Mr. Michael Walker
Email: michael.walker@micro.lt
Tel: +44-7024031703
Endeavour to submit the below information’s as stated below to enable Mr. Michael Walker process your winning.
1. Full Name:................................
2. Full Address:.............................
3. Marital Statue:...........................
4. Age:.......................................
5. Sex:.......................................
6. Nationality:...............................
7. Tel. Number:..............................
8. Country of Residence.....................
***Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program. ***
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this Lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Microsoft, Yahoo and Google Lottery Promotion **Customer Service**
-----------------------------
Nigerian Scam E-mail
-----------------------------
(URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL)
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
Good Day!
I am the manager of bills and exchange at the foriegn remittance department of the (ABN AMRO BANK AMSTERDAM ). I am writting you this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this transaction. We discovered some abandoned sum $15,500,000(FIFTEEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLAR ) in an account that belongs to one of our foriegn customer who died along-side his entire family in march this year in a terrorist train bomb blast in Spain some few months ago.Since this development,we have advertised for his next of kin or any close relation to come forward to claim this money,but nobody came yet to apply for the claim.
To this effect,i and other official in my department have decided to look for a trusted foriegn partner who can stand in as the next of kin of the deceased as we cannot do it only ourselves and claim this money.We need a foreign partner to apply for the claim on our behalf because of the fact that the customer was a foreign and we don't want this money to go into the treasury as unclaimed fund.
Every document to effect this process will emanate from my table and i will perfect every document to be in accordance with the banking law and guideline,so you have nothing to worry about and we have agreed that 30% of this money will be for you,while 10%will be for any expenses incured on both sides wihile 60% will be for my colleagues and me. If you are willing to help us,please indicate by replying this letter and putting in your name, private telephone number,fax and permanent residential address via my private email address below.I awaits your immediate response to enable us start this transaction as soon as i recieved your reply,i will send you a text application form for immediate APPLICATIION OF CLAIM.
Please contact me even if you are not intrested in my proposal to you to enable us scout for another partner in the event of non-interest on your part. Thanks for your co-operation
E-MAIL :pietjan2000@netscape.net
Mr Piet Van Jan
--------------------------------------------------------
Transfer Job Scam E-mails - Laundering Scams
--------------------------------------------------------
Subject: PART-TIME JOB OPPORTUNITY
Dear Sir,Madam,
We are small new firm engaged in export of goods to overseas outside my country. We have won various small exports contract at one time or the other, recently we were (engaged) contracted to supply financial programs for market analyzing, management project software in USA which was successfully done.
Unfortunately we have faced some difficulties while receiving payment for our software in our country as need 10-30 days to get a payment from your country. We do not have so much time to accept wire transfers and can't accept cashiers checks and money orders as well. So we need your help to accept this payments in your country faster. If you are looking to make additional profit we will accept you as our representative in your country. You will keep 10% of each deal we conduct.
Your part is very important to accept funds and forward it to us. It is not a full time work but a very convenient and fast additional income. We therefore solicit your assistance to help remit this money , I would want you to submit to us via mail to [Address removed] the following information which includes
1 Your Full Name
2 Your Contact Address
3 Telephone number/Fax
4.Yahoo or MSN ID.
Your country of living
Please respond ASAP and you will get additional details on how you can become our representative. Joining us and starting business today will cost you nothing, just some extra income for you.
Thanks for your vivid co-operation.
Manager,
SMITH BAMI
Director of ENFOSOFT Marketing Dept.
-------------------------
Competition Scams
-------------------------
Please follow this link to see sample of competition scam.
-------------------------
Take note of the grammatical errors and wrong spellings in the sample mails. Also, scams often involve a large sum of money. If what they are saying is too good to be true, then better just leave it alone and send it to your trash bin. That big sum f money directed to you is worth all your suspicion after all.
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