Email Scam corner

[Rerb]

I didn't know if this should be here or in the humour section.

Anyway post your email scams here (edit out any personal details if there are)

I'll start us of with this little gem from the FBI

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ROOM 4-230, KALANIANAOLE FOB
300 ALA MOANA BOULEVARD HONOLULU,
HAWAII 96850-0053.
FBI — Federal Bureau of Investigation Homepage


Attn: Honorable Beneficiary.

We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of
America have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that
you have a transaction going on as either inheritance payment,Lottery or
contract payment in a tone of Millions of United States Dollars which have
been approved but have not been settled.
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /
inheritance file after close monitoring and found out why you have not
received your payment, both on your part and on the part of your debtors.

Secondly, we have been informed that you are still dealing with the non
officials in the bank who are attempting to secure the release of your
fund to you. We wish to advise you that this is illegal and you should
stop further communication with them forthwith because such an illegal act
like this can lead to cancellation of your fund.

we have been having so many complains from people who have been scammed
arround the world hence, after concluding in a meeting with members of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), we came to a conclusion that every
payment will be made through the SKYE BANK OF NIGERIA (SBN).We also
concluded on the use of ELECTRONIC ATM PAYMENT SYSTEM as the only direct
means to pay all beneficiaries.

By this method, your funds will be loaded in TWO BATCHES into an ATM
card,and sent to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of
us$20,000. per day from any ATM machine worldwide, BUT from the financial
houses there is no limit.

So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your
following nformation to the paying bank.

(1)Your Full Name: __________________________________________
(2)Your Complete Address ____________________________________
(3)Name of Country City ________________________________
(4)irect Telephone Number:_____________
(5)Age:______Sex:______
(6)Occupation:___________________________
(7)Working Identity Card/Int'l Passport:___________

Below are the contact details of the PAYING BANK (SKYE BANK OF NIGERIA
PLC.) in the Federal Republic Of Nigeria to whom you will send your
information for the processing of the ATM card as soon as possible:

CONTACT PERSON: DR MARTIN WHITE
HEAD OF OPERATIONS,ATM CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM
DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION, SKYE BANK OF NIGERIA.(SBN)
EMAIL: skyebankplc14@gmail.com

The DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION has been mandated to issue out your
payments for this fiscal year 2009. Also for your information, you have to
stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) who
claim that to be established agents using it to defraud innocent people
worldwide.This is to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.

THANKS FOR LISTENING TO OUR ADVISED.

Faithfully Yours,

MR .ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI Honolulu)
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

[Rerb]

One of the many from banks I don't use.

Irregular activity on your card.


Dear Barclays client,


We detected irregular activity on your card. For your protection, you must verify your account before you can continue using your card.

Please use the link below to verify your account immediately:

http://www.barclaysco-uk.com/olb/signin.html

We will review the activity on your account with you and upon verification, we will remove any restrictions placed on your account.

Sincerley, Barclays

[Rerb]

PLEASE, CONTACT DR. JACK THOMAS IMMEDIATELY

--
European Commission
Enterprise and Industry DG
Communication and Information Unit/R4
BREY 13/ 092
B - 1049 Brussels (Belgium)

Released: June 2009.

We bring to your notice the decision by the board of trustees of The European Union to choose you as one of the final recipients of a cash grant/donation for your own personal, educational, and business development (SME funding).

To promote growth and creating new jobs in the European economy, we are giving out a yearly donation of £402,000.00 (four hundred and two thousand pounds) to 10 lucky recipients who have been selected from over 25,000 websites all over the globe, as funding/aid from the European Union, European Commission, and the United Nations in accordance with enabling acts of Parliament.

Please contact paying office (England)

Name: Dr. Jack Thomas
E-mail: j.thomas09@live.co.uk

Remember to quote your identification numbers. Find your identification numbers below:

BATCH NUMBER: EU-RVN90826
UNIQUE NUMBER: GRANT482009

Note that these numbers fall within your location file.

Thank you and accept my congratulations once again!

Ms. Victoria Haulgard
Information Officer and Coordinator,
Scottish European Resources Network

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+++++CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE+++++
the information in this e-mail may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and its attachments, if any, or the information contained herein is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail from your computer system. Thank you.

[Spree]

I wonder what the hit ratio is for the scammers with these bloody emails?

this is for a paypal account that I don't have with this e-mail address .....


Activat Your PayPal Account! RXI0048‏
From: service (service@suite.fr)

Sent: 04 July 2009 21:20:26


Hello,

For safety, we regularly monitor the activities PayPal. We recently noticed a problem with your account.

By studying your account, we realized that we needed additional information to provide you with secure service.

Reference Number:

We have temporarily limited access to your account. We revisit this restriction when you provide the information requested.

To remove this restriction, access the Manager disputes. To learn more about this restriction, go to litigation manager and click on Contact Us.

Click here to restore your account.


We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.

Thank you,

PayPal

Please do not reply to this email. Messages received at this address are not read and do not receive any response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link at the top right of any PayPal page.

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Copyright 1999-2009 PayPal. All rights reserved.

PayPal (Europe) S. r.l. & Cie, S.C.A.
Limited Partnership by Shares
Registered Office: 5th Floor 22-24 Boulevard Royal L-2449, Luxembourg
RCS Luxembourg B 118 349

No PayPal Email PP522

This is for a bank account I dont have ....


Dear Online Banking Customer,

The primary email for your HSBC Account was changed on July. 07, 2009.

If you did not authorize this change, please contact us using the link
below and complete our steps:

https://Securityalert.HSBC.co.uk/1/2/

© HSBC Bank plc 2002 - 2009. Registered in England. Registered No: 1873567.

Maybe I've won a windfall of J2O's?


You have a chance to obtain Ј99‏
From: survey@alliance-leicester.co.uk (survey@alliance-leicester.co.uk)

Sent: 09 July 2009 05:21:25

Dear client,


To let you know how important you are to us we will
give you Ј99 guaranteed.
Please click on the link bellow to our secure website
and read the announcement:


http://www.allianceleicester-survey.com/


Alliance & Leicester is now part of the Santander Group,
one of the world's largest bank.

[eddie1234]

Internet Banking update.
Our Maintenance Department is doing an arranged Internet Banking Service upgrade. To upgrade your identity and your account security changes. Please Sign in to Secure Your Online Banking to continue to the verification process.
(Failure to verify your account details for online service changes will lead to account disconnection)
How secure are you?

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Test your knowledge with our quick security quiz and you'll also learn some important information along the way.
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Regards
Halifax Online Security

[eddie1234]

Dear PayPal Member,

As part of our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment for the online community, we regularly screen account activity. While reviewing your PayPal accounts, we observed activity that we would like to further verify. For this reason, limitations have been placed on your account until your will review your registered intormation. In order to resolve the account limitations, complete our online form by clicking on the following link :


Log into your PayPal account




After we have gathered the necessary information, your account will be reviewed for reinstatement and you will be notified by e-mail of our decision.

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter and apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Account Review Department

[eddie1234]

this is a pretty new one that i havent seen before but had hitting my mailbox recently......but the guys a reverend so it must be legit

BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors-
Cranbrook,Kent. UK - TN17 3DN


My name is Rev Richard Cooper, I am emailing you on behalf of BellHouse Fabrics & Interiors, United Kingdom. I would like to know if you would like to work online from home and get paid without affecting your present job or even affecting your day-to-day activities of any kind, actually we need a representative who can work for our company as an Online Payment Processor.

We are presently making waves in the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland fabric markets, we intend expanding our business towards the United States of America by accepting orders from both individuals and companies within USA. We recently placed Ad's on online websites for sales of our fabrics and got a very good number of requests for our products,however it is against our company policy to accept International Payments such as : UK Bank Wire Transfer , USA Bank Wire Transfers. Therefore, we are requesting your partnership to assist in receiving payments on behalf of our company.

We are willing to pay you 10% for every payment processed through you from our clients/customers who will pay for their products which are purchased from our secure website stated above. These payments are coming from these clients within USA and will be sent to you directly from our customers, all you have to do is lodge and cash each payment, deduct 10% and forward 90% to our Payment Processing Center via Western Union Money Transfer / MoneyGram Money Transfer. All sending fee's are to be deducted from our 90%, however you will be required to have a valid checking account in which our customers might request to make payment either via Wire Transfer (Bank to Bank Transfer) or either via Certified Check.

You do not require any special skills to work with our firm, however in order to apply for this job you need to ensure you have access to your e-mail regularly and reply to our e-mails promptly. You will also need to provide us with a valid phone in which you can be reached at anytime in case of any special update, in order to accept this job kindly fill the form stated below :

Please if you are interested forward to us your following details:

1. Full Names: ................
2. Contact address: ...........
3. Telephone/mobile and fax number...
4. Gender......
5. Age.......
6. Occupation: .......
7. Bank Name.......

E-Mail: rev.richardcooperonline@gmail.com

P.S: You must have a valid checking account in which can be used to receive payments being sent from a customer, this might be via Wire Transfer or Direct Deposit.

Kindly get back to me ASAP by filling the form stated above, once i hear from you i will immediately send you a reply with further information.

Regards,

Rev Richard Cooper.