Schemes, Scams and Internet Fraud Exposed
If you get the following scam email do not respond to it. We have seen this type of email dozens of times over the past few months. It brings up the no beneficiary angle and offers you the chance to get a nice return for acting as a recipient.
The scammer boldly asks you to send your personal banking details and phone number. If you already have – stop and contact your local police department and bank.
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The following fraud spam email just landed in our inbox. This is another banking type scam but this one is a little scant on details up front. It doesn’t right up front claim you are in for a share of millions, or a recipient of some poor soul’s life savings after their death, but it does try to entice you to respond all the same.
Notice some of the more obvious scam details like the use of a free gmail email address for someone claiming to be an executive of a major bank. In this case the Hang Seng Bank actually exists, but that still doesn’t make this offer true.
If you get the following email just don’t bother. Delete it, send it to the spam folder or junk it – whichever is better than responding looking for more details.
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I am not sure if I should laugh or cry after reading this very poor email scam. They certainly are not shy at attempting to tie themselves to big friendly brand names like Microsoft and Yahoo. But even the most cursory glance at the actual scam email should show you it’s all fake and meant to rip you off.
First off, there is no Yahoo and Microsoft Internet email prize. They don’t even work together, let alone give out money together to random people over the Internet. Secondly, this email just arrived today, yet it says the prize is being awarded for the first quarter of 2008. It’s now the fourth quarter of 2008.
Just in time for Christmas comes this terrible sob story from Russia. Elana is contacting you because she found your email on the Internet. Sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Of course it doesn’t, so don’t fall for it.
This email scam is better written than some of late, but make no mistake, the clear aim is to separate you from your money. If you really want to help someone from Russia this year send money to – Charitable Foundation To Help Children With Cancer.
Somebody must be falling for these poorly written scams as the Trust In The Lord scam is back. And by back I mean they barely even changed the text of the scam email. They simply replaced a few words – namely people’s names and places.
The scammer didn’t even bother to check to see if anyone was on to their scam. I’m guessing they nailed enough marks to try it again. People, don’t reply to these emails under any circumstance. Use your common sense! Read more on this website about how to identify these email scams. If you have already fallen for one, contact your local police department immediately. Don’t delete the email, you will need it for evidence.
If you get the following scam attempt in your email don’t reply to it as it is nothing more than a scam. Not any ordinary scam, oh no, this is a scam targeting those who believe in God.
The writer pretends – poorly – to be a worshiper of God and wants you to find them a church to dispense their funds when they die soon. But if this person is such a close follower of God, they should have at least some connection of their own to a Church, priest or other church-goer.
Here is another email-based scam making the rounds. This one, like most email-borne scams of this nature have the same tell-tale signs that you can use to keep from being scammed.
The first giveaway which we always point out to our readers is the source of the email. Not only is it from someone we don’t know who is suddenly offering us millions of dollars for little effort, it comes from yet again another free email address. The free email address this time is from yahoo, and think about it, how many people with high positions in a bank use free email addresses from yahoo or google to conduct business? Right – none. Don’t be fooled.
Here we have yet another clumsy attempt at conning people into falling for an online scam. As with almost all of these so-called lawyers contacting you out of the blue, this one too leaves an obvious trail behind.
Russell here claims to be a lawyer in London yet when you actually read the email you will see that Russell has the language skills of a fifth grader. Notice the unnecessary capitalization of words, improper grammar and the complete lack of legal terminology that lawyers usually write in. Lawyers don’t write like this – scam artists from shady countries do!
If this scam is anything it is a great fake story. Designed to sound plausible and well targeted to a certain audience, this particular scam is one you should watch out for. An American soldier has access to barrels of money found in Tikrit after the fall of Saddam Hussein and wants your help to get it out. What a story!
Like most scams like this even the slightest amount of caution will show the offer to be a scam. Did you know this person? How did they get your email, and why is a soldier addressing you as ”Friend”? Serving soldiers are much more formal. The scammer also claims to be a Swiss national serving in the U.S. armed forces yet is sending you this unbelievable offer of millions from a free Yahoo email address from Hong Kong. It doesn’t add up, and it is a scam.
You have all seen this but maybe you didn’t know it was a scam like so many others perpetrated over the Internet each and every day. This is the unsolicited business offer that drops into your email inbox from somebody you don’t know from overseas.
With titles like From China Business Offer, or Quick Money Business Deal, be wary of these job or business offers. They are trying to prey on the tens of thousands of people who are currently out of work or find themselves underemployed and looking for extra money. Many of these people may be applying online for new employment and may not screen their emails closely enough.