Sep 03 2010

Oh, It’s Susan!!!

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 11:32 pm

Ah, if it were only that easy!  This morning I received a email forwarded from a Susan Odegarrd Turner.  Apparently, some random person named Mrs. Etters has chosen my email and I am the winner of $18 million!  Wow!  I didn’t even know I sent an email to Mrs. Etters or Susan Odegarrd Turner for that matter.  Wait a minute, since it was forwarded does that mean Susan won or I did?  Maybe Susan and I can split it.  Oh, wait, who is Susan again?!

Scams like this are a dime a dozen and don’t look like they are disappearing any time soon.   Unfortunately, you might find them in your SPAM and inboxes for many years to come.  Scammers have tried long and hard to come up with new variations to lure you in.  Maybe it was a long story of tragedy.  They might also use a reputable business to hide behind or simply dangle a high number in hopes you will respond.  Regardless of the premise, watch out for the Mrs. Etters of the world.  And, if you receive an email from a person you don’t know maybe it’s best not to respond.

To: susanodegaardturner@dochs.org

Subject: $18Million

Mrs.Etters picked your email for $18Million.For details email:
etters_elizabeth@rogers.com

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Aug 27 2010

Odd Email from USAA Bank

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 11:24 pm

Well, these are common, but we wanted to share the latest in the bank scam emails.  Most of the bank scams are sent in an attempt to have you log on to a site and update your bank information.  The only problem… these are not from your bank! If you ever receive an email that is similar to the example below, it is best to call your bank directly.  Don’t click the link!

Dear USAA Savings Bank customer,

We recently reviewed your account, and we are suspecting that your USAA Online Banking account may have been accessed from an unauthorized computer.

This may be due to changes in your IP address or location. Protecting the security of your account and of the USAA Savings Bank network is our primary concern.

We are asking you to immediately login and report any unauthorized withdrawals, and check your account profile to make sure no changes have been made.

To protect your account please follow the instructions below:

* DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH OTHER USERS

* LOG OFF AFTER USING YOUR ONLINE ACCOUNT

Please click on the following link, to verify your account activity:

https://www.usaa.com/inet/ent_logon/Logon

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your support in helping us maintaining the integrity of the entire USAA Savings Bank system. Please login as soon as possible.

Thank you,

USAA Savings Bank Security Advisor.



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Aug 26 2010

Online Promotional Scams

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 5:09 pm

As we already know, scams come in a wide range of sizes and styles.  Now, they even come in the way of email promotions!  This scam depends on a company that is well-known so readers feel that it is legitimate.  The scammer will tell you that you are the winner of a cash prize and try to gather some important personal information from you in order to grant you the money.  This is actually a type of  Nigerian email scam.   Don’t give them any information!  This type of email, just like any type of Nigerian email scam, is set up to start a dialogue with you the victim and the scammer on the other end of the email.

Read below for an example of the email promotion scam.

MICROSOFT CUSTOMER SERVICE
REFNO.:MS/75-A08055161/2010

Batch: 044/05/ZY369

Dear E-mail Owner,

You are a winner of the just conclude Microsoft Online Email Promo.  You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£500,000.00). Please this informations are required for verification.

Name:……………….
Address:……………
Country:……………
Age:………………
Gender:…………….
Occupation:…………..
Phone and Fax:……………
Winning E-mail Address:…………….

Please contact:
Owens Gibson
Email:
msoftdpt10@w.cn
Telephone: +44-704-570-7201

Jade Ray
Annoucer For Microsoft Online Email Promo


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Aug 26 2010

Low Down and Dirty

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 4:10 pm

Today marks a unique day in which we receive an email variation we have never, ever seen before. We recently got an email from a man named Hoecker Moreb, a man that we obviously do not know.  The subject line was quick, simple, and down right creepy.  It read, “Your Wife Photos Attached”.  Clue one… improper English.

Immediately, we became suspicious and of this obvious piece of spam.  After clicking on the email we again found a similar quick, simple, and extremely creepy line.  The only text inside the body of the email read, “Your wife photos”.  The only other thing the email contained was a zip download.  And, there we go! Wow, who wants to be the first to guess what that zip folder is?  Can you say MALWARE!?!? And to think,  Hoecker thought he could trick us!

Now, kudos to the scammer for freaking us out so much that we immediately had to click on the email.  And, kudos to us for reconizing the potential dismise we would of faced if we downloaded the attachment.  Crash! As we mentioned before, scammers will try to take any angle to get you to download a virus, malware, or send back personal information.

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Aug 20 2010

It Happened!

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 6:09 pm

As much as you tried to avoid it, it finally happened to you.  Your email was hacked.  Now, you are receiving calls and response emails from your friends, family, and co-workers about the crazy messages that have been filling their inboxes from your account.

How did this happen?  You never give your email address out unless it is completely necessary and you monitor your sent messages daily.  Regardless of how it has happened the first thing you need to do immediately is CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD!!!!  This should hopefully stop anyone from getting back into your email account.  The next thing you can do is email everyone on your contact list and let them know that you are aware that your account was hacked and you have everything under control.

Getting hacked is a frustrating and sometimes unavoidable issue.  If you have any old email addresses that you don’t use anymore it is best to close the account and/or still monitor its activity.  An old email address with thousands of unread messages may seem harmless to you, but is an ideal email account for hackers.  Most often they can hack and use your old email address without detection for a long period of time since you rarely check it.

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Aug 17 2010

Malware Didn’t Get Us!

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 2:33 am

Hello faithful readers!  We are back from our short summer vacation and of course, our inbox was full with latest and greatest scams.  To welcome back the blog, we thought we could share a classic email scam that includes a download. Below is the simple text included in the email.

To Whom It May Concern:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Kindly download the attachment it contains vital information regarding your claims.

Regards,

Grace Morgan (Mrs.)

Attached came a PowerPoint presentation that was titled, “morgan letterhead”.  As you might have suspected, we didn’t dare open the attachment.  If we had, malware might have actually got us!

It is important to remember that attachments can be dangerous regardless of whom the email is from.  The attachment could contain a form of malware that has the potential to infect your computer.  Malware can be used to gather information such as bank account numbers, social security numbers, addresses, and more. On the off chance that the download does not include malware, it could offer additional information to bait you in for any other type of scam.  It’s best to just avoid any attachment that you are not expecting via email.

Now, that we are back, please don’t forget to check back with us.  Happy End of Summer!

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Jul 15 2010

Still Unbelievable!

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 9:56 pm

Below is the second half of the scam.

Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from FedEx website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.

Name : Donny Peterson: FedEx Tracking Number: 870456747216
Name : Angela L.Johnson: FedEx Tracking Number: 870456750392

To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you 360us dollars only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken cared of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is 360us dollars only.

Contact Information
Name: Edwin Clark
Email:
edwinclark1111@yahoo.cn

Do contact Edwin Clark of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:

Your full Name: ORVAL L PETTERSEN
Your Address: 1844 S.Fort Apache Rd, Camp Verde,AZ 86322
Home/Cell Phone: none – I have a hearing problem and don’t use phone. Use e-or postal mail instead.
Occupation: RETIRED
Age: 86 years old

On contacting him with your details your files would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of 360us dollars via Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order. After which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee or any authority raising eyebrow.

Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive your ATM CARD Shippment Confirmation within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.

Once again we are so sure of you receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty to monitor everything in other to cub cyber crime that is perpetrated by those impostors.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

ROBERT S. MUELLER,

DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: 206-666-5283
FAX: 206-666-5283

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Edwin Clark of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office via the above fax number so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.


Jul 15 2010

Unbelievable!

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 9:56 pm

I would like to take a few blogs to go over this email I recently receive.  As you will read below, this email is supposedly from the FBI.  It is not hard to understand that the FBI would not send an email blast with this information.  Below is the first half of the scam for your review.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC

Attention,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Anderson, Wallace Fred, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Smith Williams, Daniel Wilson, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Philip Morgan, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (ICCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us.

We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling Two million and three hundred thousand us dollars will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of Three thousand us dollars a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should be the only way a which you are to receive your payment because it?? more guaranteed, since over Fifteen billion us dollars was lost on fake cheque last year 2009.

We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your Two million and three hundred thousand us dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as its our duty to protect citizens of the United States of America. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as he has always believed Our Time for Change has come because Change can happen).




Jul 11 2010

And the Lies Continue Part 2

Category: Uncategorizedadmin @ 11:40 pm

Dear Friend,

I apologize if the content of this e-mail is against your moral belief. Nevertheless,i will advise you pay close attention to the information i am about to divulge to you with utmost confidentiality. You might probably think this is just another scam or scheme, but i assure you that you can only know the truth if you read
carefully the content herein.

My name is Angelina Carter presently in Europe for medical treatment. I was hospitalized and bed ridden after a ghastly auto accident involving my entire family on our way back from camping in Canne, South of France. Myself and husband survived with major injuries. But, he died one week after the accident as a result the injuries sustained in his brain. Moreso, the doctor has informed me that my health condition is getting worse.

This is as a result of the head injuries i sustained from the accident which has affected my brain and caused a major damage to my spinal cord. I am told that i have a few months to live after a series of surgeries and tests had being
conducted. Knowing this sad development, i have decided to dispose our estate and fund to a prudent and God fearing person; who will disburse the money wisely for the work of charity and other ventures as he deems fit.

This decision is based on the fact that i am the only surviving person in my family, with no extended relatives to inherit these properties. I hate to think that the bank and security firm where we have these assets lodged will confiscate and declare it unserviceable after my death; Hence, my reason for this bold decision. Although, i am a stranger to you and for all you know i could be just another of those Internet con-artists. However, i will implore you to respond to this e-mail with a clear conscience and “opened-eye” every step of the way until these funds are successfully in your possession. All that you are required to do is assist in safe-keeping this fund valued at US $25.5 Million United States

Dollars deposited in an Escrow account with a security consultancy firm in Madrid,Spain,before it gets confiscated or declared un-serviceable.

Therefore, i seek your consent to present you as the Trustee/ForeignInvestor to my late husband, so that the proceeds of this account can be paid to you. I have all the necessary information, guidelines and documents given to me by my husband before his death. Your honest and full co-operation is all that is required to enable us see this transaction through. But it is imminent I state to you clearly now that this transaction will be executed through normal banking proceedings. Although, i guarantee that this will be executed under a proper arrangement that will be sternly monitored by me every step of the way.

I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality and discreetness in this matter until the task is accomplished, as i do not want anything that will Jeopardize this transaction. I know i have never met you in person, but my intuition tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely. Note that, 30% of the total fund will be given to you and family upon the successful release of this fund, And the rest should be used in charitable work because I am now too weak and fragile to do things myself.

Please, include your full name, resident address and phone numbers when responding to this e-mail.

My best regards to your family,
Angelina Carter


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