Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Contact Person: Mr Robert Shawn

from:  FedEx Courier Service info@fed-ex.com
reply-to:   fed_ex_1@w.cn
(Different addresses - red flag!  Neither one is an actual fedex.com email address.) 

Dear Customer!!!  (Have you ever, ever seen an official email from a company like FedEx that starts out Dear Customer!!!?)

We have been waiting for you to contact us reagrding the Confirmation of a
that is registered (Confirmation of a what that is registered?) with us for shipping to your residential Location. We
had thought that your sender gave you our contact Details. It may interest
you to know that a letter is also added to your package.

We understand that the content of your package itself is a Bank Draft
worth of $1,500,000.00 USD (1.5 Million Dollars), FedEx does not ship
money in CASH or in CHEQUES but Bank Drafts are shippable. The package is
registered with Us for mailing by your colleague from United Nations
Organization, and Your colleague explained that he is from the U.S.A but
he is currently In Africa for a three (3) months Surveying Project as he
works with a Consultant firm in Nigeria, (Nigeria...hmmm...Nigerian scam, perhaps?) We are sending you this email
because your Package is been registered on a Special Order.
For your information, the VAT & Shipping charges as well as Insurance fees
have been paid by your Colleague before your package was registered.
Note that the payment that is made on the Insurance, Premium & Clearance
Certificates, are to certify that the Bank Draft is not a Drug Affiliated
Fund (DAF). This will help you Avoid any form of query from the Monetary
Authority of your country.

However, you will have to pay a sum of $120.00 USD to the FedEx Delivery
Department (And...there's the scam.  Send us $120...but then we're going to need some more, and some more after that...extra fees, you know...they'll keep lying and telling you to send more as long as you fall for it.) being full payment for the Security Keeping Fee of the parcel
Been registered by your colleague, FedEx Company as stated in our privacy
Terms & condition page. Send your Postal address, telephone and your name
In full this is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone.
Please note that packages are not shipped nor delivered on Saturday,
Sunday and on holidays. If your order has been placed on any of these
days, Then it may be shipped the following business day.
Kindly complete the below form and send it to the FEDEX DELIVERY POST With
the below informations.

This is mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers.

FULL NAMES:
TELEPHONE:
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SEX:  (Just curious here, but why the hell do you need my gender to deliver a package???)
CITY:
STATE:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:

FEDEX DELIVERY POST
Contact Person: Mr Robert Shawn.
Email: fed_ex_1@w.cn
Phone number: +234-807-0707-174

Have a great day!

Federal Express Co-operation.
FedEx Online Team Management.
All rights reserved. © 1995-2012.   (This one went so far as to include a fake copyright.  Hardly convincing, though.)

Typical Nigerian scam.  Send us money, and we'll send you your tons of money that's already yours.  Never, ever pay for something that's yours in the first place!  And remember, if it sounds too good to be true...

~Blue Dragonfly  

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TRUTH ABOUT YOUR FUND

from:  Mr Johnson Great  webmaster@xjy.com.cn
reply-to:  johnsongreat@yahoo.cn
(As always...differing from and reply-to addresses are a red flag.  I actually received this one twice in the same day.)

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES  (Riiiight...UN...sure....)
Internal Audit, Monitoring, Consulting and Investigations Division

From: Mr.Johnson Great  (Seriously?  Johnson Great?  Please.  At least get a little creative with the fake names.)

This is to inform you that I came to Nigeria (AHA!  Nigeria, eh?  So, this couldn't possibly be a Nigerian scam, could it???) yesterday from London, after series of complains from the FBI and other Security agencies from Asia, Europe, Oceania, Antarctica (Wait...isn't Antarctica pretty much uninhabited?  What...are polar bears and penguins complaining now???), South America and the United States of America respectively, against the Federal Government of Nigeria and the British Government for the rate of scam activities going on in these two nations.

I have met with President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria (I snorted out loud when I read this.  The President of Nigeria is named Goodluck Jonathan???) who claimed that he has been trying his best to make sure you receive your fund in an ATM CARD which you can use to withdraw money from any ATM MACHINE CENTER anywhere in the world with a maximum of $10,000 to $9000 United States Dollars daily. You now have the lawful right to claim your fund in an ATM CARD. .

Right now, as directed by our secretary general Mr. Ban Ki-Moon (Um...we've seen this guy's name before, in another scam attempt), We are working in collaborations with the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and have decided to waive away all your clearance fees/Charges and authorize the Government of Nigeria to effect the payment of your compensation of an amount of $10.5M approved by both the British government and the UN into your ATM MASTER CREDIT CARD without any delay. The only fee you will pay to confirm your fund delivered to your doorstep is your Neutralaization fee (What the hell is a Neutralaization fee?) to the UN.The Neutralization fee is $285 only, As soon as you recive this email just get back to me with the needed informations and also get ready the $285 and I will forward to you the details on how to send it as soon as i receive the information needed from you.  (And...there's the rub.  Send us $285 per day...and it'll take weeks I'm sure...to claim my rightful funds.  Remember...never, ever pay for something that's yours.)

Sincerely, you are a lucky person because I have just discovered that some top Nigerian and British Government Officials are interested in your fund and they are working in collaboration with One Mr. Richard Graves from USA to frustrate you and thereafter divert your fund into their personal delivery address.

Get back to us with your information,

Full Names:
Country:
Direct Number:
Current occupation:
Gender:
Identification card:

I have a very limited time to stay in Nigeria here so I would like you to urgently respond to this message so that I can advise you on how best to confirm your fund  within the next 72 hours.

Sincerely yours,
Mr.Johnson Great

Classic example of a Nigerian scam.  There ARE no funds with your name on them, only some jackass on the other end of this email, hoping you'll part with your $285, and then he's going to try and get you to part with, say, 10 days worth, being $2850, and so forth.

Remember...if it sounds too good to be true...

~Blue Dragonfly 

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Re: Chugai

from:  Hr virgi89833@wowway.com
reply to:  web66300@btinternet.com
(Different from and reply-to addresses - RED FLAG!)

Chugai, We are a corporation that Distribute healthy Medical equipments and more. We Require your assistance as Rep. in your region.

Fill Form below;
(Name):
(Contact Add):
(Phone):
(Occupation):

Send Response to:  web66300@btinternet.com
Reply with completed form. 

Healthy medical equipments?  And, what's with the random capitalization in this one?  Dead give-away.  Nothing more than a scammer's attempt to gather personal information, and promise millions in salary...for a price.  Hold on to your identity and your money.

Remember...if it sounds too good to be true...

~Blue Dragonfly 

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Re: Reply!!!!!

from: Mr. Hoi Chu Wai hoichu@wlb.com.hk
reply-to:  h.louiswai@yahoo.com.hk
(Red flag #1...differing from and reply-to addresses, neither of which look like they are from a real bank.)

I am Mr Hoi Chi Wai, I work with Wing Lung Bank HongKong. I have a proposal worth 18.5million USD. If interested, reply to me on my personal email belo : h.louiswai@yahoo.com.hk   for details

Poor English, and a promise of a fabulously large "business proposal" are dead give-aways that this is a typical scam.  Sure, he's going to share that 1.8 mil with you...for a fee.  And I guarantee you'll never see a penny.  

Remember...if it sounds too good to be true...

~Blue Dragonfly  

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Contact Mr,Milton Daniel

from: WESTERN UNION westernunion@info.com
reply-to: miltondaniel78@yahoo.com.hk (A different sender and reply-to are dead giveaways that this is fake.)

Please be informed that you have £50,000.00 Fifty Thousand British pound Lodged in our
Western Union to  transfer to you as Compensation.

 Contact Mr,milton Daniel

Contact email: westernunion93@yahoo.com.hk




Poor English, differing addresses for the from and reply-to...nothing more than a classic Nigerian scam.  Remember...if it sounds too good to be true...  ~BlueDragonfly

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1,000,000.00 Pounds Promotion

cahs@uniontel.net
May 5

to undisclosed recipients

Your email id has won you 1,000,000.00 Pounds in the ongoing Coca-Cola
Promotion.  (There IS no 1,000,000 pound Coca-Cola promotion...in the UK or here in the states.)

https://docs.google.com/
spreadsheet/viewform?
formkey=dHFGc0tHeUZBem5qckt3Mzc2S1gzcUE6MQ  (NEVER EVER EVER click on a link that promises to send you tons of cash in return for your personal information!  SCAM!)

You are to CLICK on the link above and fill in the requested data's and submit
immediately.

Congratulations.

Regards,
Prof. Alex Kingston and Dr. George Williams,
Directors Board of trustees in Coca Cola Plc
Online Promo England UK
Classic example of a phishing scam, in which the scammer wants nothing more than your identity and personal information.  Remember...if it sounds too good to be true...  ~BlueDragonfly

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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Dear Friend,

BlueDragonfly's comments are always in italics. 
 From: Miss. Stella Rose - missstellarose@vfemail.net
Reply-to: alinco2_2@yahoo.fr (...shocking...different addresses...)
Subject:
Dear Friend,

Dear Friend,

I have been waiting for you since (err...since when?) to come down here (down where, exactly?) and pick your consignment (i know how to pick a nice cabbage, but I'm not sure how to pick a consignment...) but i did not heard anything (...did not heard anything, huh? Speak English much?) from you since then, I have deposited the US$5,000,000.00 with the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY here in Nigeria (...aha! That's the magic word!), because I traveled to Japan to see my boss and I will not come back till next year ending (...next year ending? Um...what???).I have arranged with the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY to get your US$5,000,000.00 to you this month and they will be coming to you with the fund inside black portfolio, I would have deposited the fund with Bank for transfer into your own account but the procedure of Bank is too much and they will
required enough fee (...they will required enough fee? The idiotic writing on this one is classic).I drop (...you drop them, eh? Sure you didn't mean you dropped them?) your delivery details with the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY but I will like (...will like? Verb tense, people!) you to re-confirm the information to them again so that they will not be any mistake when coming with the fund (...this one's actually making me laugh out loud...).

Send the below information to the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY.(1)Full
name:(2)Address:(3)Tel:I want you to know that you have all right to declare
how you want to receive your fund, I would have prefer the fund to be transfer
to you but I make some searches about the Bank transfer and they told me that
it will cost you the sum of US$1500 (...and there's the catch...I send you $1500, and you send me...absolutely nothing. I'm thinking I should hold on to my cash instead...) to transfer the US$5,000,000.00 into your
account.But I have deposited the US$5,000,000.00 in cash to the ALINCO
SECURITY COMPANY, below is the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY contact.Director:
Mr.Paul Ego (...Paul Ego? Seriously?) Mobile: +234-80-23-6318-97 Email: (alinco2_2@yahoo.fr) I have paid
the delivery charges and insurance fee to the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY. The
only Money that the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY will require from you is $85 (...wait...I thought it was going to cost me $1500, now it's only $85? Make up your mind, dammit.) Dollars for demur-rage,

if you can pay the $85 Dollars to them, they will proceed and get the
US$5,000,000.00 to you in your Country.Please if you want to contact the
ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY, you are to contact them with your portfolio code
number which is (PPL111RSS) and your address where you want them to deliver
the cash to.You are to pay the $85 to the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY to enable
them to proceed and get the cash to you, don't fail to resend your information
to them for your own good.Regards,Miss. Stella Rose

Ah, yes. You have funds for me...that I have to pay you to get. Suuuuure you do. And names like Stella Rose and Paul Ego? Those don't even sound remotely legit. An award is just that - you should never have to pay for it. Random emails promising millions of dollars are NEVER legit! I received this one three times within a week, too.

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