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STRICTLY FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Catching up on a bit of a backlog here so I had to cherry-pick some spam messages from the last month or so to post.

Extremely typical “419 scam” e-mail message here with a little bit of a twist that I have not seen too often. Instead of claiming to be attempting to smuggle a fortune out of another country, this one decided to make the claim that he’s in Atlanta, Georgia. This was probably done to make potential victims feel a bit more comfortable about cooperating with this maggot since many people are probably quite skeptical about involving themselves in an “offer” like this from overseas.

Typically, these scammers – who are most likely sending these e-mail messages from another country – give themselves away with their poor English skills and other obvious mistakes. As you can see below, this one cannot decide whether to spell the name of the Atlanta airport as “Hartsfield-Jackson” or simply “Heartfield.” Kind of strange coming from someone who claims to work at the airport!

Don’t be fooled by the telephone numbers that appear to be U.S.-based numbers. Various online telephone services allow users to have numbers assigned to them from thousands of U.S. telephone exchanges and these numbers can easily be forwarded to telephone numbers in other countries. This is probably another clever trick these scammers are using to make their potential victims more confident about cooperating with them.

Subject: STRICTLY FOR YOUR ATTENTION
From: "LARRY JOHNSON"<msg46@globomail.com>
Date: 12/19/2011 10:08 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

MR. LARRY JOHNSON
INSPECTION UNIT
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
 
Hi,
 
I am Mr. Larry Johnson  Director Inspection Unit United Nations Inspection Agent in Heartfield International Airport Atlanta Georgia.
 
During our investigation, I discovered An abandoned shipment from a Diplomat from United Kingdom under iship forwarder was transferred from JF Kennedy Airport to our facility here and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box weighing approximately 110kg each.
 
The consignment was abandoned because the Content was not properly declared by the consignee as money rather it was declared as personal effect to avoid diversion by the Shipping Agent also the Diplomat inability to pay for Non Inspection Fees.
 
On my assumption, each of the boxes will contain more that $3 to 4M and the consignment is still left in storage house till today through a registered shipping Company, Courier Dispatch Service Limited a division of Tran guard LTD. The Consignment they are two metal box with weight of about 110kg each (Internal dimension:  W61 x H156 x D73 (cm). Effective capacity: 680 L.)Approximately,
 
The details of the consignment including your name are tagged on the Metal Trunk box.
 
Provide your Phone Number full address, name of nearest Airport around and other details or disregard. You can send the required details to me for onward delivery.
 
All communication must be held extremely confidential. I can get everything concluded within 4 hours and proceed to your address for delivery. But i must get assurance from you concerning my 50% before i will proceed.
Also i don’t want any other person or party to get involved or communicate with me on this transaction except only yourself because i do not want any exposure.
 
I want us to transact this business and share the money,since the shipper have abandoned it and ran away.I will pay for the Non inspection fee and arrange for the boxes to be moved out of this Airport to your address, Once we are through i will deploy the services of a secured shipping Company geared to provide the security it needs to your doorstep. or i can bring it  myself to avoid any more trouble. But we will split 50% to you and 50% to me. But you have to assure me of my 50%. If you agreed with my condition hear is my email address(msg45@globomail.com).
 
Below are my direct telephone number (404-8569493 OR 718-2858963) and i wait to hear from you.
 
MR. LARRY JOHNSON
INSPECTION OFFICER

Special Situation Report

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here and since it has been quite some time since I’ve seen any pump-and-dump stock market spam I decided this was a great time to break the cycle and try to get back to posting more regularly.

This kind of crap is flying all around the internet constantly and I used to get a lot of it but for some reason I stopped getting these kinds of messages for a long period.

Although the senders of these kinds of messages do their best to convince recipients that the stock they are promoting is a great buy, just the opposite is true. Any stock you see touted in a message like this is one you want to stay far away from!

Briefly, the idea is to get people to buy shares of this stock which – if successful – will drive up the price. Once the price reaches a certain point, the scam artists behind these e-mail messages sell off the shares of the stock they had previously purchased at a much lower price. Since the number of shares they purchased may be substantial, the shares being sold off may trigger a larger sell-off and drive the price down quickly.

Penny stocks, such as the one this e-mail is promoting are notorious for their volatility and investors can find themselves on the losing end of a transaction very quickly. Sure, some people do very well with penny stocks, but the vast majority of folks who try to trade them end up losing.

I don’t know anything about the company that is being promoted with this spam. It could be a great company for all I know and the company officers and executives are probably just innocent by-standers to a spectacle like this where pump-and-dump scam artists try to manipulate the price of their stock.

Bottom line: When some anonymous jackass like “pandaelg@aol.com” sends you a “stock tip” it’s not because they want to do you any favors!

From:    pandaelg@aol.com
Sent:    Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:26 AM
Subject:    Special Situation Report

Hello All, 

Symbol AUMY
Price .02
Target .35+
Rating 10 of 10
 
 
**"THE NEW MAJOR REPORT"**
 
I am confident that you are extremely happy with the recent string of winners that we have supplied. Our research reports and in-depth analysis is second to none! It is time to put AUMY on your radar watch list immediately.
 
Top 4 Investor Highlights for AUMY in Today’s Market!
 
1. AUMY is positioned in a precious metal sector that has all of Wall Street’s attention at the moment hence giving it an immediate from a market standpoint. AUMY is offering plenty of potential upside due to it’s emerging growth capabilities in the Hottest industry in the market place today.
 
2. AUMY and their gold properties are expanding with the acquisition of the Little Prince Mine in the rich silver belt mine has been a producer with a long history of production adds further depth to this undervalued company.
 
3. AUMY offers robust upside to investors and traders alike at these deep discounted price tags while management continues to stay aggressive rolling out further investor relation press to all of its shareholders.
 
4. AUMY is a leading, mining innovator in the sense that it utilizes only the latest technology coupled with in-house engineering which equates to a successful cost effective growth play over the near term.
 
Those are just 4 Major reasons of the many catalysts AUMY has set up over the near term.
 
Make sure AUMY is on your watch list TODAY!
 
Quote of The Day
 
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Direct_Deposit payment ID rejected 84e588824cb38baa

Quite a few of these have been showing up in my e-mail lately. Obviously, someone is pulling out all the stops to get this message out to as many people as possible.

Each one of these messages had a link to a website which was most likely a “phishing” site that was set up to try to trick visitors into entering some type of personal financial information. I tried visiting one of the sites in question but only saw a “Please Wait…” message that stayed on the screen. That’s most likely because I have scripting disabled in my web browser which stopped their program from continuing. I never visit any of these potentially malicious sites without making sure scripting is turned off and even then I only visit these types of sites rarely since they could be set up to infect visitor computers with malware. Having scripting turned off will usually protect against that, but I still avoid visiting those kinds of sites most of the time anyway.

The cyber crooks are always looking for new ways to get people’s attention. Surely, when someone receives a message about a direct deposit that failed, they are going to become concerned if they normally receive any type of payments that way. This may not be the first time this trick has been used, but it’s worth mentioning for those who have not yet seen it.

Needless to say, do not visit any of the websites that are included in these e-mail messages and surely do NOT enter any of your personal information on any site unless you are 100% certain that the site you are on is legit.

From:    The Electronic-Payments-Association <dpmatoscnn@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Monday, November 28, 2011 7:50 AM
Subject:    Direct_Deposit payment ID  rejected 84e588824cb38baa

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From:    Rajani Somatra <khcsomatra67@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:07 AM
Subject:    Your Direct Deposit paymentsp were  disallowed 5fa4a535d8cf9313

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From:    ACH Network-Rules_Department <thompsoncraigkjr@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:06 AM
Subject:    Regarding_your Direct_Deposit_via ACH badff42f6c9dcefa

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From:    The Electronic_Payments-Association
<nirbhayvprateek85@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Wednesday, November 30, 2011 5:04 AM
Subject:    Re: Your Direct Deposit-declining 7dbdc0387f283728

RJHLUHCPLIGNACH Network Rules-Departmentâë

From:    NACHA 755413 <junankerhh63@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:36 AM
Subject:    Your Direct_Deposit-software_is_out-of-date 20444

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FINAL DELIVERY FOR YOUR CHEQUE.

For a “Barrister,” which I believe is the term they use for an attorney in the U.K., I’d have to say the grammar in this e-mail message is pretty pathetic.

Of course I have no illusions that this was sent by an attorney. More likely it was sent by some low-life scam artist hunched over a laptop in an internet café somewhere in Nigeria or one of those other countries that is so well known for their internet criminals.

I would strongly suggest this one use some of his ill-gotten gains to take some English lessons because this one is so poorly-written that it’s hard to imagine anyone falling for it.

Sorry, maggot, but I cannot even give you a “nice try” for this pathetic piece of trash.

From:    Office Centre. <cefileoffi@yahoo.com.ph>
Sent:    Sunday, October 30, 2011 2:32 PM
To:    undisclosed recipients:
Subject:    FINAL DELIVERY FOR YOUR CHEQUE.

 
 
My Dear,
 
We have finally wrote a Cheque of $3.5 MillionUSD to your name today made for you to received it through Via Sky View Delivery Company Benin, The instruction was giving by the board Management of the Financial Ministry which to avoid you lost your money here.
 
So with all the arrangement was made that you will received it within 2days Service from the Company by in as soon as you contact them to received it and it was agree  that you will only pay $85.00 for thier Safe Keeping fee before they can be able to insure the Cheque and have it be delivery to you.
 
This is their Contact  address :D r.Jude Vanna.
E-MAIL: (  skyview_ccb00025@hotmail.com ) 
TELE PHONE:+229-99158214, 
 
Your address also needed by them, Re-confirm it to avoid any wrong delivery;
 
Your Full Name…………
Current Home Address………
Private Tell Phone Number…….
Country  Locate………….
Copy of your Id or Pic……….
 
Thanks and update us once you received it
Regards
 
Barrister Theresa Moore

Re: Get your rate with your ideas online

Apparently I should not wait too long to check out the websites that scumbag scam artists like this one are attempting to promote. Upon clicking on the link to see exactly what kind of get-rich-quick scam this one was, I was met with a  “Server Not Found” message.

The obviously-bogus website that was using the domain “home143wealth.com” appears to have been taken off whatever system was hosting it. The domain was registered by someone using the name “Svetlana Poltavceva,” which could very well be a fake name used by spammers to register the domain.

As you might suspect, our friend “Svetlana” is, according to the registration information, located in Russia. The server that was hosting the website was listed as being located in Romania.

For whatever reason, the site is no longer online – at least from my location in the U.S. Perhaps that will save a few desperate individuals from losing money to these spamming maggots.

From:    hiuh uygyfgy <tranhien277@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Thursday, October 27, 2011 2:58 PM
Subject:    Re: Get your rate with your ideas online

Good Morning, I was bored at school as per usual skimming on PBS’s local self-employed section last tuesday & became obsessed with this new online based career that helps college professors constantly make up to $3100 every 5 days of course I did not really understand some of it at the beginning yet for
some reason i really had to see it for myself and I’m happy I did because I’ve actually made $499.15 on my very second day working. It is surprisingly easy I’ve already gotten paid with direct deposit! it is probably the best oppurtunity that’s happened to me in my life,

Here’s the article:  http://home143wealth.com/?wzlzix  I really think nearly everyone that has access to a computer can perform the thing which is why I’m updating all my friends & fam.. Id like you to start and earn some profit your self. you can send this mail with everybody you know that needs extra money
so we can all beat the deep recession.

 

Quote of the Day

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confidence. The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to after-reckonings, and retire from the public laden with the

Re: Put on with your abilities

I think there’s a special place in Hell reserved for those who try to take advantage of other people during bad times.

Here’s yet another get-rich-quick scheme that attempts to play on people’s emotions and make them believe they can make big money on line with very little effort.

However, this one comes with a bit of a twist. The method they are promoting with the screenshot on the first webpage this spam advertises is actually a decent way to make money online. Just don’t believe the lies about making over $100 on the first day. That might be possible, but let me promise you this: That kind of result would be extraordinarily rare.

Getting back to the method they are promoting with the $700 screenshot on that first webpage with the title “Working From Home Leads To Shocking Money Results,” here are some other interesting tidbits:

The work is not as easy as they make it sound. You’ll need to come up with content to populate your own websites with. In other words, you’ll have to do a lot of writing or hire someone else to do it for you. And when I say “writing,” I don’t mean just throwing together a bunch of words on any topic you happen to have a fondness for. Making a lot of money using this method requires the creation of useful, quality, unique content that people want to read. It’s not even close to being as easy as this low-life spammer claims it is.

There are various short cuts some people use when they set out to make money with this method including stealing content from other websites and using computer-generated content. While these methods might work for a while, you are guaranteed to be shut down and have your business disappear before your eyes just as you begin to think you’re getting somewhere if you try those methods.

As expected, a visit to the website this spammer is promoting led to a rat hole that took me to other websites that carefully conceal the price of the “system” they are pitching until you enter in your name, e-mail and zip code at which point the site informs you that just two “opportunities” are available to take advantage of this offer in your area. A classic “scarcity” tactic to make potential buyers think they have to make an immediate decision about buying into this crap or miss out on the chance to make big money online. Don’t fall for that crap. Check back in a week and those “opportunities” will still be there. Just for curiosity’ sake.

Without dissecting the remainder of their run-of-the-mill sales tactics, here’s some good news: All the information you need to make money online is available for anyone to take advantage of for free. There are numerous blogs that have instructions for novices that want to make money online using legitimate and proven methods.

In my opinion, the best place for novices to get started is at a site that teaches using a method call the “30 Day Challenge.” It’s an excellent program that is designed for people who know nothing about making money online and it’s all 100% free. Once you get started with the “Challenge,” you’ll begin to discover new money-making opportunities that actually work.

Remember, this stuff takes work. Making money online can be a great way to make a living for a lot of people, but it’s never as easy as spammers like this one want you to believe.

Save your money and go to http://www.challenge.co/?ref=default and check out the “30 Day Challenge” if you want legitimate information about making money online without paying a dime.

 

From:    Chong Huei Tze <chtze@yahoo.com>
Sent:    Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:05 AM
Subject:    Re: Put on with your abilities

Hi, so I was at home and began browsing on AOLs hometown self-employed testimonials on last thursday & studied about this brand new make money at home career where retired veterans continue to earn up to $1900/week+ & we did not really understand it at the beginning but for some reason we
really had to try anyways & its a good thing I did since I actually made $101.67 on my 1st full day. its seriously not hard I’ve already been paid once right into my bank… it’s definently the greatest thing thats happened to me in my life..

Here’s the page  http://home59wealth.com/?peizbx  I really think just about anybody that has access to a computer could do the thing so Im informing all our friends & those i care about. I want you to signup and make lots of cash your self. you can share this e-mail with everyone you know that needs extra
income so we can all eliminate this economic recession…

 

Quote of the Day

largest timber-trees, for oars and masts, wherein I was, however,

(Lane presents several letters on a salver to Algernon. It is to be surmised that they are bills, as Algernon
after "Where are you now?"

Attn:Investment Funds

I’ll tell you one thing: If other people are getting as many spam e-mail messages as I do from people who claim to want to give me money and they don’t realize that these promises are too good to be true, perhaps those people should consider getting off the internet entirely to protect themselves.

I’ve been getting a steady stream of messages similar to this for at least 6 or so years. At first it’s easy to have a little bit of doubt in the back of your mind with regard to the legitimacy of a message like this. However, it’s very important to be aware of the red flags that will inevitably rear their ugly heads if you actually answer one of these messages.

Eventually, it will reach the point where these scam artists are asking you to send them money (for any number of reasons) or provide them with your bank account information. They might also press you for your phone number so they can get you on the phone and really put the pressure on you. If you had any doubts prior to that, you can put them aside and rest assured that someone is trying to scam you.

Subject: Attn:Investment Funds.
From: "Funds for Investment"<infosu01@aol.com>
Date: 10/24/2011 1:54 PM

Funds for Investment

Dear Friend,

RE: Funds Investment and Management Placement of $12.5 Million.
We solicit for a private investor who wants to invest his financial estate in long-term business venture in your country/company under your supervision.
You will be required to;

[1]. Receive the funds.
[2]. Invest and Manage the funds profitably.

My client is willing to negotiate Management sharing percentage after your acceptance. We expect to ear from you urgently as this is a high priority Investment Placement and kindly send your information to enhance communication.
Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Tang Kam Sun
Email:tangkam10@aol.com
Website: www.icbcasia.com

*HELLO* (Can we work AND share % this together ??) 1.8…

These scam artists are really grasping at straws.

The internet link they provided leads to a story of a couple of U.S. soldiers in Iraq who supposedly stumbled upon a fabulous treasure worth $700 Million back in 2003.

I guess those of us that receive this message are supposed to believe that the guys that found this treasure are now trying to find people to share it with some seven years later.

I suppose these scammers are figuring that a message that appears to come from a U.S. soldier will make the recipient more trusting.

For all I know there may be a real “Lt. S. Kilkoyne” in the U.S. Army, either by coincidence or because that have knowledge of someone with that name.

In contrast to what the sender of this message said about holding back “certain information” for security reasons, I won’t hold back a thing:

THIS IS A SCAM!

Subject: *HELLO* (Can we work AND share % this together ??) 1.8…
From: "Lt.Shannon Kilkoyne"<test@hzmind.com>
Date: 10/16/2011 4:17 PM

Hi,
My name is Lt.S.kilkoyne US ARMY.I would like to share classified information about my personal experience and role which I played in the pursuit of my career in lraq.I will hold back certain information for security reasons. until you have visited the website below to enable you have an insight into what i intend sharing with you for our both benefit.
http://www.jonathanforeman.com/military/nyp_iraq/04192003_chest.html
Confirm if you have visit the site.
Thanks,
Lt.S kilkoyne.
Email back to: skilkoyne@yahoo.cn

Winner Notification!

I think “Loser Notification” would be a more appropriate subject for this e-mail message.

That’s because anyone who follows through with the instructions in this message and provides the sender with the information they are seeking (which they will likely ask for later) will end up losing money.

These lottery scams are flying all over the internet on their way to recipients that the senders hope will become victims of their scams.

Common sense dictates that you cannot win a lottery that you never entered, right? The idea that some big company is handing out large amounts of money by picking from a random collection of e-mail addresses is ludicrous. Forget it, delete it and move on with your life.

Subject: Winner Notification!
From: "Shell Lottery Award UK"<notice@shell.com>
Date: 10/13/2011 1:32 PM

The Shell Petroleum Development
Company Limited.
P O Box 1010, Liverpool,
L70 1NL, UNITED KINGDOM

Ticket Number—————- 644 79543465 B448056490902 Serial Number———- —- -4708-325
Lucky Number—————– -4-13-33-37-17 File ref.——– —– ———-ILP/HW 7509/02

Dear Winner,

You have been declared the winner of GBP 650,000.00 (Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand British Pound Sterlings).This is the concluded selection that was conducted over the internet with our automated email selecting machine.This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (United Kingdom) as part of their social responsibility to alleviate poverty.We hereby congratulate you on this huge prize monies.You are required to contact Mr. Dayton for immediate verification and disbursement of your prize using the contact details below:

Fiduciary Agent’s Name: Michael Dayton
Email: office@online-shellpromo.com
Telephone: +44. 746 666 2852
Fax: +44. 207 681 3498

You are to send the following information to Mr. Dayton as required for your prize disbursement.

(i) Your Full names…….. (ii) Contact telephone/ fax numbers………..(iii) Contact Address…………(iv)Your winning numbers…………..(v)Amount won………….(vi) Age…………(vii)Occupation…………….( viii) Ticket Number…………….

For your security, you are advised not to expose your winning numbers to avoid double claiming or voiding of your winning and also do not reply via this email as it is not monitored.

Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Goddy Jenkins
Regional Coordinator
Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM.

Confidential Request!

If I get any more “confidential” e-mails, I’m going to start to feel like a secret agent!

Here’s another steaming crock of crap where the low-life author of this e-mail is using actual events in order to lend credibility to their scam.

To say this messages may not “meet my personal ethics” is such a nice touch. Personal ethics? I’m surprised the sender of this crap even knows what that is!

Remember, these scam artists like to use words like “confidential” in order to discourage recipients from telling others about this e-mail since there’s always a chance that someone they tell will clue them into the fact that someone is attempting to scam them.

Hey “Maxwell," is posting it here for everyone to see confidential enough for you?

Subject: Confidential Request!
From: "Maxwell Green"<maxwell.green1967@googlemail.com>
Date: 10/12/2011 1:24 PM

Dear Partner,

Please do accept my sincere apologies if my e-mail does not meet your personal ethics as I wish to use this medium to get in touch with you first. My name is Maxwell Green, a financial consultant and business analyst based in London.I was the former financial consultant and analyst to an American investor who unfortunately lost his life in the German Concorde AF4590 airplane which crashed on the 25th July 2001, including his wife and his only daughter.For more info about the crash you can visit this site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I have decided to contact you purely on the personal conviction of trust and confidence to assist and partner with me in claiming the funds left behind by my client. My deceased client, had a deposit of Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand British Pound Sterling (GBP 5.5 Million) which I helped him and deposited in one of the leading banks here in London two years before his untimely death. Being his former financial and business consultant,I still possess the evidence and the whole paper documents of this deposit with his bank and hence the bank has issued me a notice to provide his next of kin or beneficiary, otherwise the account would be dormant and hence the funds confiscated, since nobody has come forward to lay claims on the money since his death.

My search for his relative has not been successfull and hence ,why i seek your consent and to present you as a relative/next-of-kin and beneficiary to my late client, so that the proceeds of this account could be paid to you and we then share the money on a mutually agreed-upon percentage, 60% to me and 40% to you. Kindly note that all legal documents to back up your claim as my late client’s next-of-kin will be provided, what i require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through. Moreover, this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Also I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter extraordinary confidential, whatever your decision is, do let me know as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Maxwell Green