I sometimes wonder what list we're on...

"musa mariam
Côte d'ivoire
Abidjan
Afrique occidentale
Je souhaiterais votre aide pour l'exécution d'une transaction financière. Je desire investir dans la fabrication et la gestion de biens immobiliers mais aussi continuer mes etudes dans votre pays.
J'ai à présent sept million cinq cents mille dollars américains ( 7,500,000 USA) herités de mon père defunt que je desire investir .je voudrais bien solliciter votre aide en recevant ces fonds sur votre compte ou un compte quelconque que tu ouvriras à cet effet dans votre pays.
En contre partie ,Je suis prète à vous ceder 20% de toute la somme comme commission et efforts que vous fournirez si vous acceptez de m'assister dans cette operation.Si vous desirez davantages d'informations , veuillez bien me contacter immédiatement sur mon adresse privée :
E-mail: musa_mariam21@yahoo.fr
En attendant votre réponse immédiates
Que Dieu vous bénisse
Respectueusement
musa mariam"

Here's one where the US recipient becomes the money laundering service:

"Hello,
My name is Don Smith and I am an artist.I live in Netherland,with my
two kids, four cats, one dog and the love of my life. It is definitely a
full house. I have been doing artwork since I was a small child. That
gives me about 23 years of experience. I majored in art in high school
and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done in either
pencil or airbrush mixed with color pencils. I have recently added
designing and creating artwork on the computer.I have been selling my art for
the last 3 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints
and in magazines.I have sold in galleries and to private collectors
from all around the world.I am always facing serious difficulties when it
comes to selling my art works to Americans,they are always offering to
pay with a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER,which is difficult for me to cash here
in Netherland.

I am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for
me as a partime worker and i will be willing to pay %10 for every
transaction,which wouldnt affect ur present state of work,someone who would
help me recieve payments from my customers in the states. i mean
someone that is responsible and reliable,cause the cost of coming to the
state and getting payments is very expensive,i am working on setting up a
branch in the state,so for now i need a representative in the united
state who will be handling the payment aspect.

These payments are in money order and they would come to you in your
name, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your percentage
and wire the rest back.

But the problem i have is trust,But i have my way of getting anyone
that gets away with our money,i mean the FBI branch in Washington gets
involved.

It wouldnt cost u any amount,u are to receive payments which will be
sent to u by fedex or usps from my business patners, which would come in
form of a money order then u are to cash it and send the cash to me via
western union money transfer all western union charges will be deducted
from the money.

If you are interested,please get back to me as soon as possible.
Endeavour to send your reply through my e-mail address.

Regards
Don Smith"

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F.S.B.I.) FIRST STANDARD BANK INTERNATIONAL. COTE D' IVOIRE DESK OF Mrs, Ama Ahmmed.
EMAIL/amaahmed2000@netscape.net


(NEXT OF KIN)

DEAR SIR''

I am Mrs, Ama Ahmmed.the manager, Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the (F.S.B.I.) Bank of COTE D' IVOIRE. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.

On Dec 29, 2003,AN American oil consultant/contractor with the IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. KELLY BARRY made a numbered time (Fixed) deposited for twelve calendar months, valued at US$25,000,000.00(TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, COTE D' IVOIRE National Petroleum Corporation that Mr.
KELLY BARRY died from an automobile accident.

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.KELLY BARRY did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork.

This sum of $25,000,000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim it.

According to the COTE D' IVOIRE Law, at the expiration of 6{Six} years, the money will revert to the ownership of the COTE D' IVOIRE Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. KELLY BARRY so that the fruits of this old man's labuor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials.

This is simple;
1) I will like you to provide me immediately with your full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits, which will put you in place as the next of kin.

2) We shall employ the services of two attorneys for drafting and notarization of the WILL and obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.

3) A bank account in any part of the world, which you provide, will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin to Mr.KELLY BARRY. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you.

There is no risk at all as all the paper work for this transaction will be done by the attorney, and my position as the Foreign Remittance Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.

If you are interested, please reply immediately via the private email address below.
Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Awaiting your urgent reply.
Thanks and regards,
Mrs, Ama Ahmmed.
NB: PLEASE REPLY TO THIS MY PRIVATE EMAIL/amaahmed2000@netscape.net

Estimado Cliente,

Según nuestros registros informáticos, hemos detectado recientemente que los accesos a su cuenta a través de banca electrónica han sido realizados desde diferentes direcciones IP.

Esto seguramente se debe a que la dirección IP de su ordenador es dinámica y varía constantemente, o debido a que usted ha utilizado más de un ordenador para acceder a su cuenta.

Debido a este suceso y en cumplimiento con la legislación vigente, hemos actualizado nuestros sistemas informáticos para brindar una mayor seguridad a nuestros clientes, por lo cual necesitaremos que ingrese en su cuenta y efectúe una verificación de su actividad reciente. Los procedimientos de seguridad requieren que usted verifique la actividad en su cuenta antes del 5 de mayo de 2006. De no ser así, transcurrida esta fecha, el sistema informático automatizado de banca electrónica suspenderá su cuenta indefinidamente.

Desde ya le agradecemos su cooperación en este aspecto.

Para ingresar a su cuenta a través de banca electrónica y verificar la actividad de la misma, debe hacer clic sobre el siguiente enlace:

https://www.bv-i.bancodevalencia.es/login.jsp?ID=23659

Apreciamos su ayuda y compresión, pues trabajamos juntos para que Banco de Valencia sea cada día un lugar mas seguro para hacer negocios.

Departamento de Seguridad
Banco de Valencia

Por favor no responda a este correo electrónico, esto es un correo automatizado solo para notificaciones.

Copyright © 2001, Banco de Valencia, SA. Todos los derechos de explotación están reservados.

i gotta get off of these list . i think i'll blame myspace :

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FROM OFFICE OF REVD.FR Peter Clark
DIRECTOR SPECIAL DUTIES,UNITED NATIONS
ORGANISATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND WORLD
BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
DAKAR,SENEGAL.
TEL: +221 440 9966
EMAIL:revdfrpeterclark01@katamail.com


Dear Friend.

I am Rev. Fr.Peter Clark. A senior staff with the World Bank fact
finding & special duties office. I am writing you this letter based on the
fact that cool penny is better than millions of dollars means it's better for
one to live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one.

I and the Chief security officer (CSO) of this organisation and have
arranged with an officer in the computer section in person of Engineer
Peter Cliff to bring out part of your total pending payment with reference
number (LM-05-371) amounting to US$10 million. Why we did this is
because according to information gathered from the Bank’s/security
computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive this payment
without success.

As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in
respect of your pending payment. The problem we feel you are having is
that of interest groups. A lot of people are interested in your payment
and those people are merely doing paper works with you and that
explains why you receive different kinds of untrue fax and phone
messages from different people everyday.

Also we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been
extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive
your money. I can assure you this will keep happening if you do not do
away with those officers. For security reasons you do not have to tell
anybody that your have your payment on the way until the payment gets
to you.

The said payment is been arranged in a security-proof box weighing
75kg. In order to get this box shipped to you I and the (CSO) Yesterday
went to this four courier companies Dhl, Ems, FedEx and Ups to make
arrangements on how to get the box shipped to you by courier, but to no
avail the above courier companies all made us to understand that they
will have to open the box for inspection by the customs before shipment.

This is something we want to avoid because this box is been padded
with synthetic nylon and to open it you will have to cut the pad before you
will meet the button that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There
is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again because it
was padded with machine.

We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and
when open will spoil the materials. <N:B> we did not declare money
because courier does not carry money.Today a friend of mine who is
diplomat disclosed to me that there is a security courier service
company that is specialised in sending diplomatic materials and
information from one country to another, which also has diplomatic
immunity and consignment such as this cannot be checked by any
customs anywhere in the world.

I have therefore met the official of the security courier service and
concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence
as soon as I have your go ahead order. The diplomat who will be bring
in this consignment to you is an expact and has been in this line of work
for many years now so we have Notting to worry about.

After all arrangements we have concluded that you must donate Five
Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any
charity organisation I designate as soon as you receive your money. To
this effect, you will send to us a promissory note for the donation along
with your address where you will like the box to be delivered to by
courier.

Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause a lot of problems if
found out that we are using this way to help you. You are advised not
inform anyone about this until you received your money. Am helping you
on this because something in me is tells me that you are an honest
person. When you conclude this and you send our promise, we will help
to ship the final part of your money to you.

May God be with you as i wait for your response either through Fax or
Email: Feel free to call me if you will like us to discuses more on this
FAX/TEL: +221 4488469.

Yours Faithfully
Revd. Fr.Peter Clark
Director, Special Duties. UNO/WBF.

The bank will be closed on Monday, May 18, 2006
WAMU NOTICE
Dear WaMu Client ,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and verification we have detected a slight error
in your billing information on file with WaMu ( Washington Mutual ).
This might be due to either following reasons :


- A recent change in your personal information (I.E. change of address)

- Submitting invalid information during initial signup process

- An inability to accurately verify your selected option of payment due of an internal error within our
processors


In accordance with WaMu User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised ,
access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited untill this issue has been
resolved. In order to secure your account and quickly restore full access we may require some specific
information from you for the following reason :


- We encourage you to restore full access as soon as possible


https://online.wamu.com/IdentityManagement/Logon.aspx



Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account

Best regards,
- WaMu`s Team.

This is the first time that I've received a "spoof" email at my yahoo account that looks exactly like an email fromt the eBay message center. This was very good.

The view item description redirected to a different site.

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Item: 1992-93 UPPER DECK MCDONALD'S SHAQUILLE O'NEAL (8809613172)
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heather32386 is the winner.



I just recieved my cards and they are all good except this one. The ink is all like peeling off the card under the toplaoder and its all white and cruddy. I dont want this, its in junk condition. i mean all the rest are great but this one isint worth 1.00. can i please send it back or something or get a refund.

Thanks So Much, Matt
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Tanglenet,

What is the scam? Maybe I'm not seeing it.

The scam (I assume, since the link is no longer working) is to reply to a fake eBay message, giving up your eBay user name and password and / or Paypal user name and password.

I sent this to spoof@ebay.com and received a confirmationthat it did not generate from them.

From the real eBay:

Thank you for writing to eBay regarding the email you received.

Emails such as this, commonly referred to as "spoof" or "phished"
messages, are sent in an attempt to collect sensitive personal or
financial information from the recipients.

The email you reported was not sent by eBay. We have reported this
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Well I'm confused. The link works for me, it's a valid eBay link and nobody requested any information.
Guess I fell for the scam.

You are correct. The link works to the correct page.

However, in the underlying HTML of this link in the original email, it does not got to the link as it is written. You are directed to another site.

This is just funny. "re-profile legitimately accrued funds"????? Huh???

****************************************

President/CEO

Sir,
I am Alexander Georgy, I represent a top company executive in Russia. I have a very sensitive and private brief from this top executive to ask for your partnership to re-profile legitimately accrued funds over fifty million euros.

I will give the details, but in summary, the funds are coming via a bank in western europe, and this is a legitimate transaction. You will be paid 8% for your "management fees", if I am able to reach terms with you.

If you are interested, please write me back by email and provide me with your telephone number, and private email address and I will provide further details. Please keep this close to your chest as much as possible; we can not afford any political problems.

Write me back.I look forward to it.

Regards,

Mr. Alexander Georgy.

I like your newest avatar WineTex. Tell us a little more about it please.

It is a church in Tuscany near Montalcino called Abazzia di Sant'Antimo. People visit the church to hear the monks chant and sing. It was built in the 12th century and the grounds are stunningly beautiful. The tree and the end of the abbey are probably over 100 feet tall.more info

First the stuff about the Bordeaux in the cellar and now this. My mind is going fast.

I thought you meant that the picture looked like it was in Tuscany but that it was really in Austin.

I do think I'm clear now

No it's me doing computer fly-bys.

Al salaam,

My name is Hafarh Bolkiah, from Brunei I am a 29 years old and a mongolian citizen who was taken to Brunei by my father 10 years ago. He deceived me that I was going there on vacation and later married me out to a wealthy Prince in Brunei who is 36 years older than me.

I was thus forced into marriage and when I objected I was beaten and raped by this Prince. I was locked up in a house for six months after which I submitted and decided to accept my faith, knowing that was the only way out.

After I got my freedom back I have been allowed by my husband to have access to his account and businesses. With the help of a loyal aide I have been able to divert $16.5.000.000.00 (Sixteen million five hundred thousand dollars)as bonds into a private finance house without his knowledgement. because he do not even go to school

Right now I have mapped out a plan of escape out of Brunei,thou I have tried escaping several times and its been fruitless. first of all I have been able to move the fund out of Brunei. This is where I need your assistance,to help me secure the fund from the finance house before I get out of Brunei if I am lucky enough.

If you know you are capable of handling such a huge amount of money respond to me and I will compensate you by giving you $1.5.000.000.00 (one million five hundred thousand dollars) of the total fund.

Note also that you must keep this business secret as my life is at stake if my husband or any of his relatives hear of this business they will stone me to death or hang me.

I await your quick email.

Mrs. Hafarh Bolkiah

i got an email supposedly from paypal confirming a payout for an ebay purchase... addressed to

"Dear (my email address)" not "paypal user"

the body had an email address of a payee and an "unconfirmed" street address for the payee. amount was $47.81 for a digex something or another...

had a nice "if you want to dispute the transaction and get a full refund click here" and a whole bunch of other links to "paypal" addresses.

"https.paypal.com (encrypted address)"


opened another browser to check my "real" account and there was no activity for months... haven't bought anything from ebay in a long time which made this pretty easy to ferret out but this had a lot of seemingly corroborative info on it... beware...

i never click on any link from any bank, paypal, ebay or anything. pretty bold scam though...

i sent it to spoof....