Below is the exactly email content I received from this email address nn–890@att.net with a name of “yahoo claiming award”. Before opening this email, I was not surprised anymore with the content saying that I am a winner of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS. Because in the first place, I always received this kind of email and it goes directly to my spam folders which is really strange. Second is there is no such thing as yahoo lottery, even if you search in Google all results will probably articles about scams.
I suggest when you encounter this kind of email; don’t immediately jump into conclusion that you are really a winner of a lottery or any online raffle because it is obviously a spam email especially if it goes directly to your spam folder. It is always good to check, do some research about it, before communicating to the sender of the email or to the address/phone number indicated on the email. I hope this can help, always remember it is better to be safe than sorry.

YAHOO LOTTERY RESULTS 2011

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Yahoo! announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Yahoo lottery Award of the Year Held on 20th of February 2011.

All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS (USD$1, 000000)

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of (USD$1, 000000) will be released to you from this regional office in Bangkok Thailand.

Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Payment have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Ticket number…………………063-14628115-20
Serial number…………………..77710-0
Lucky number……………….02-09-12-27-18-04,10
Ref number……………….N.EGS/42275486009/16

To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Coordinator as follows,

Email: donalsoniva@yahoo.co.th
Name: Donalson Iva
Tel: +(066) 817752351

You are to send the completed verification form below to the coordinator whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money.
Congratulations once more!!

1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADDRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
6. FAX NUMBER
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. TICKET NUMBER, SERIAL NUMBER,LUCKY NUMBER AND REF NUMBER.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 27th of February 2011. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTY’S DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.

Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Coordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.

An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Bank UOB Bank Bangkok Thailand.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.

We wish you continued good fortunes.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Mark Hisashi
Vice President Yahoo! Lottery Org.

Mrs. Rose Akira,
President Yahoo! Lottery Org

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Almost 2 consecutive weeks from now, I am continuously receiving these kinds of emails that are really strange because I received this in my spam folder. Try to read both emails; they have almost the same formats and content. I tried my best to research about this kind of emails and it is really a dating scam emails. I don’t even know them, so why they are going to send me emails like this. And I am a female, obviously in their email they are looking for a male partner.
Based on my research this is the way how they work:
1. They will first act like an angel and will get your attention every now and then.
2. They will agree on your sentiments and everything you say to them is like making them happy to get your trust.
3. Here comes there drama telling that they need money for food, utility bills, hospital bills etc.
4. Since you already trust her, you will give her the amount she needs, after that your money fly way!
Another thing is, sometimes they are not going to asked for money but they just need your email address, chances are you’re not the only one who receive this kind of email because they are trying to collect emails as many as they can, so once you replied on emails like this expect to receive as many spam emails in your spam folders. The emails they collected were part of their marketing plan or they just sell it to others.
So I just suggest don’t ever replied to this kind of emails! Unless you really know them and it is a verified email. Just read the emails below to find out the truth, those emails are not edited, it’s the original email I received.
From: lenny dan

To: lennydan22@yahoo.com – look at this: my email should be in this area but that’s not my email address, I think they are using some sort of program to generate and send emails.

From: lenny dan

To: lennydan22@yahoo.com – look at this: my email should be in this area but that’s not my email address, I think they are using some sort of program to generate and send emails.

lennydan22@yahoo.com
Hello
My name is Lenny, i saw your profile and it was interesting so i would like to know more about you. It will be a pleasure to read from you, if you wouldn’t mind, you can email me in private at ( lennydan22@yahoo.com ) so that i can reply you quickly and also send my picture for you to know me. I want you to know that real love matters. I will be expecting your mail soon, kiss.
Your lovely new friend,
Lenny

From: inocencia

To: - When I received this email, this area was blank but why I received this email if I did not see my email address in this area, please look at the above explanation.

Hello dear
My name is Miss inocencia i i come acrossyour email address at internet google today that is the reason why i write to you to get accquintance with you, I will like you to contact me back with my private email so that i will send you my pictures for you to know whom i am,although i came on line searching for a true and honest man .I believe we can move from here!!!Remember,color,language or distance does not matter,but love matters a lot in life.
best of my regards
From inocencia.

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Anti-Terrorist And Monetory Crimes Division
FBI Headquarters In Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attn: Beneficiary,

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $800,000.00 USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via a Certified Cashier’s Check.

Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed by your local bank. We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the United States Of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $800,000.00 USD has been deposited with Bank Of America.

We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in United Kingdom. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following -

(1) Deposit Fee’s ( Fee’s paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is – Bank Of America )
(2) Cashier’s Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier’s Check )
(3) Shipping Fee’s ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier’s Check to your home address )

The total amount for everything is $200.00 (Two Hundred-US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $200.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited at Bank Of America and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore you will be required to pay the required fee’s to the Agent in-charge of this transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Bruce Hutchinson ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: Mr. Bruce Hutchinson
E-MAIL ADDRESS: brucehutchinson00@gala.net
Telephone Number : +234-802-959-2149, 0092348029592149.

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:

You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the required $200.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier’s Check drawn from Bank Of America, also include the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-910.

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $200.00 ONLY to Mr. Bruce Hutchinson via information in which he shall send to you, if you do not receive your winning prize of $800,000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $200.00 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you (The Winner).

Robert Mueller
Washington DC FBI.
Room, 7367
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. Bruce Hutchinson via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $200.00 to information in which he shall provide to you

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Beware of TUNDE FOWLER, who purports to be from the Office of the Presidency. He is a consumate liar and cheat as is his Greek counterpart, DR. CHRISTOS TSIKOUDIS.

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UN DIPLOMATIC & COURIER COMPANY
Office Address
38 Airport Road
Benin City
Edo State
Nigeria
Tel: +2348137053694
Email: idsc@diplomats.com

Attention: Check Owner,

This is to bring to your notice and reminds that your Cashier Bank Draft worth of Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800,000 USD) is still here with us in our office Un Diplomatic Security Company.

I am Angela Scott the director of this company which i simply making it up to you that Mr. Hansen Ahmad was the one who brought cashier check and deposit with us before he travelled to Japan, under the securation of your package delivery to you.

Important Notice: We have been waiting for you all this while for you to pay the Un Diplomatic Security Keeping charges that was require in your previous mail which is $80 USD only to release your cashier Check to you.

I hereby notify you to understand that you are given 14th of January 2011 which is the final deadline to claim your check, if we do not receive your payment of security keeping fees for safe protecting of your check parcel delivery. Note that after this day your check will return back to the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA as Government property if you do not pay the security fee of your check.

This is the reason we are writing to inform you that you have to claim your cashier check before the deadline date issue to you. I advise that you should proceed with us and send the security fee for safe protecting of your check $80 USD via Western Union to the name below:

RECEIVER’S PAYMENT INFORMATION

NAME: CLINTON OJO
CITY: BENIN
STATE: EDO
COUNTRY: NIGERIA
TEXT QUESTION: COLOR
TEXT ANSWER: PURPLE
AMOUNT SENT: …………
MTCN NUMBER: ………….

As soon as your payment of $80.00 has been sent quickly E-mail us with the payment details or a scan copy of the western union payment slip for verification purpose.

Once your payment is confirmed your cashier check will be delivered to you via first class courier in next 2 days.

Thanks.

Regards,
Angela Scott
Package Dispatcher

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From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue, Nw Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

Attention:

This is to officially inform you that a foreign bank from West Africa have transferred funds worth Millions of United States Dollars with your name as the beneficiary. This foreign bank knows that they do not have enough facilities to effect this payment from their location to your account and therefore they used what is known as Secret Diplomatic Transit Payment (S.T.D.P) to do this transfer and they are currently awaiting a confirmation from you for final crediting to your account. Secret diplomatic payments are not made unless the funds are related to terrorist activities, so if you are not intending to finance terrorism and your transaction is legitimate, why then did you agree to receive these funds through this means that was used instead of a direct transfer to your account?

Our findings shows that this method of transfer was used in the past to finance terrorist acts, so there is need to correct this problem now to avoid you getting into trouble when the funds reflects in your account. Under the United Nations monetary rules it is our duty as a world wide commission to correct this little problem before this fund will be credited into your personal account. Due to the increased difficulty and security measures set up by the United States for the transfer of funds from foreign banks, the FBI foreign bank commission have stopped the transfer on its way to debit your reserve account and pay you through a secured diplomatic transit account (s.d.t.a) We govern and oversee funds transfer for the World Bank and the rest of the world.
We have decided to contact you directly to acquire the proper Verifications and proof from you in order to ensure that the money you are about to receive is clean and legal . The funds are right here in United State in your name, but the bank has been instructed not to release the funds to anybody until we have finalized our investigations. Note that the funds will not be credited into your personal account until the needed document is provided.

Your duty is to proof to us that the funds you are about to receive is a clean and the only way to proof that is by sending us this Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer(DIST). You are to forward this document to us immediately if you have it in your possession, if you don’t have it let us know so that we will direct you to where you will obtain it so that your funds can be released. This document is to be issued to you from the location of the foreign bank to effect your funds transfer.

The Diplomatic Immunity Seal Of Transfer (DIST) often referred to as a Criminal History Record or Rap Sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. This Condition is Valid until 3 days after which the funds shall be confiscated and legal action will be taken against you. Guarantee: Funds will be released upon confirmation of the DIST document.

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Final Instruction;
1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries bank in can only release funds.
4. Upon confirmation from the world bank / united nations.
5. Bearers must clear bank protocol and validation request.

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NOTE: We have requested for the DIST document to make available the most complete and update records possible for the enhancement of public safety, welfare and security of Society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the Document to us, we will charge you with the financial crimes. The United Nations Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI Identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own Record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) Division processes these requests to check illegal activities.

ROBERT S. MUELLER III,
FBI Director.

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*SCAM I don’t believe the FBI would help anyone reclaim lottery winnings. LOL

FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001

REF: US/28028/8A28/11

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ATTN: RECIPIENT

This is to officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $800,000.00 USD. from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via a Certified Cashier’s Check.

Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed by your local banks. We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the United States of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $800,000.00 USD. has been deposited with Bank Of America.

We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Lagos, Nigeria. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following -

Deposit Fee’s (Fee’s paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is – Bank of America)
Cashier’s Check Conversion Fee (Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier’s Check)
The total amount for everything is $250.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty USD.) We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $250.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited at Bank Of America and cannot be accessed by anyone except the legal owner (you), the winner; therefore you will be required to pay the required fee’s to the Agent in-charge of this transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.

In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge (WAYNE KING) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:

CONTACT AGENT NAME: WAYNE KING

E-MAIL ADDRESS: agent.w.king001@gala.net

You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to send the required $250.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier’s Check drawn from Bank of America, and also include the following Fund Reference Identification : EA2948-910.

This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $250.00 ONLY to Mr. WAYNE KING via information in which he shall send to you, if you do not receive your winning prize of $800,000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you (The Winner).

Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Public Affairs Director – Robert Mueller

Robert Mueller
Public Affairs Director – FBI. NSB SEAL ABOVE

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NOTE: In order to ensure rapid response for the Fund won, contact Mr. WAYNE KING as soon as possible providing the required information needed from you above

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CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE,VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS-NIGERIA
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS-NIGERIA

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
MALLAM SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI.

Dear ROGERICK SEE,

I received your mail and the information. The information is correct with the one before me on my desk. Your ATM Card shall be taking to the company in charge of delivering your ATM Card for official registration and finally dispatched for onward delivery. Note that the limit of daily withdrawal is $2,500 till you withdraw the total sum of 7.5 Million US Dollars loaded in the ATM Card, the PIN Number will be released to you immediately your card is registered. Find attached the copy of your ATM Card.

Based on the successful verification of your data, you are to pay a delivery fee of $220 upon the confirmation of reciept of payment your ATM Card will be dully registered and delivered to you within 48 hours.

Below is the payment information:

Receivers Name: John Okafor

Destination: Lagos Nigeria

Amount: $220

Text Question: Urgent?

Ans: Yes

Expecting your quick response.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Adams Philip
ATM Account Officer
Foreign Payment Due Process Unit
+234 813 050 1106

— On Tue, 6/15/10, ATM CARD OFFICE wrote:

From: ATM CARD OFFICE
Subject: Your ATM Visa Card Is Ready For Pick Up
To: atm@msn.com
Date: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 7:22 PM

Instruction has been given by the Office of the Presidency and United Nations (UN) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to transfer Your funds through International ATM Debit Card valued at Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($7,500, 000.00) being compensation funds from the World Bank as detected on our data base which you can use it in near cash point,shopping mall or banking hall.

You can withdraw money from your International ATM Debit Card from any ATM MACHINE location or center of your choice nearest to you, in any part of the world. You are advise to reconfirm your address with your mobile/cell phone number included, where Diplomatic Courier service will dispatch your ATM Card to you within 48hrs.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.Adams Philip
ATM Account Officer
Foreign Payment Due Process Unit

this email was sent to me thanks

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Ho Chen Tung scam

Dear Friend,

Thank you so much for your response to my email. It is only natural that you be a bit apprehensive haven received such a mail from somebody that you barely know. Therefore I would want to start by properly intimating you of who I really am. My name is Ho Chen Tung Foreign operations Hang Seng Bank Ltd. (Hong Kong). Moreover, I believe that you will be anxious to know the kind of business proposition that I have in stock for you. Well, I am soliciting your assistance to be able to transfer a huge amount of money US$21,300,000.00 from my bank that is lying idle with no one ever coming to lay claim to it. Before I go ahead let me tell you how the funds came into existence in the first place.

We had a client sometime ago by the name of Mr. Fayez Abdulaziz Abiri from Iraq and he was a member of the Iraqi forces and also a business man. He made a fixed numbered deposit with a value of US$18,796,000.00 only for 24 calendar months in my branch and this was before the USA and Iraq war.

When the 24 calendar months elapsed, we sent a notification to him so he will advice if still want to extend his term of deposit or not but we did not hear from him. After sometime we tried contacting him again and still there was no reply from him. As his banking officer, I decided to carry out my own investigation as to the where about of Mr. Fayez Abdulaziz Abiri only to find out Fayez Abdulaziz Abiri had died of Kidney infection at Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was.

It is obvious that you would now want to ask if Mr. Abdulaziz Abiri did not have a next of kin. Interestingly, he did not leave a next of kin on his official document. In fact I asked him some time ago if he was sure that he will not want to include a next of kin in our record and he told me that none of his relative is aware of the account and he wish that it remain so. And to date this money has accumulated interest. Therefore, nineteen million five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. However, according to the laws of my country at the expiration of six {6} years the funds will revert to the ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Fayez Abdulaziz Abiri so that you will be able to receive his funds.

If you are interested in doing this business with me, please go ahead and contact me again with you full names, contact address and telephone numbers. I want you to know that I have carefully planned out the modalities of this business and I will be intimating you of it upon confirmation that you are willing to move ahead with me. You will be made the next of kin thereby putting you the position to inherit this huge amount.

Finally, I need you to know that I have evaluated the risk involved in this deal and I guarantee that if you follow my instructions religiously, it will be hazard free. As far as I am concerned it is worth undertaking and I implore you to come along with me because the reward will be great for both of us.

I anticipate hearing from you again soon and I hope it will be positive because I really want us to work together as partners in harnessing this once in a life time opportunity.

Regards.
Ho Chen Tung.

Thanks

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Without the victim a con-artist is nothing. The scam artist can do NOTHING without the full belief, faith and resources of the victim. The scammer’s source is the victim. If we remove the victim the scammer dies of starvation.

DO NOT BE A VICTIM!

From The Victims Perspective
More important than the loss of money and time, you lost your hope in a dream of being with someone you thought you could finally connect with. For a short time there was no more loneliness. You took a risk with your heart and allowed yourself to believe in love. But you found out your love was for a false profile and a false identity created by a desperate person who is in a third world country on the other side of the world.

Why me? I was only trying to love, but instead I got betrayed by greedy, selfish people that only care for themselves.
Now who can I turn to? Who can I talk to? Anyone tell will just think I am a fool for giving money to a stranger online. No one will understand that.

These are the emotions of a victim of the romance scam.

eHarmony, match.com and other online dating sites claim to be the cause of 1 out of every 5 relationships. I believe it, but what goes unsaid is the larger percentage of scams there are on these sites. Romance scammers are people who get in close to you, get in a relationship with you than start asking for money. The hook is to make you care for them and their life, their situation. Then they take as much as they can from you. Their intention is NOT love, it is your money. So they probably have three or four “relationship” with people just like you. Their favorite is the one that gives the most cash.

Scam Warning Signs

Asks for money to see her on webcam?
Asks for money for education?
Asks for money for food or rent?
Asks for money for plane tickets or visas?
Asks for money for a medical emergency?
Professing love at first sight?
Multiple requests for Money?

Onlinedatingtips.com

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***SCAM***  The is a common scam email in circulation

From: Mrs. Maria Bongi Ntuli

Deputy Minister, Social Development

Rep. of South Africa.

Email: maria_nbongi@minister.com   <—This is not her real email 

 

My Dearest in Christ,

 

My name is Mrs. Maria Bongi Ntuli currently the Deputy Minister of Social Development, Rep. of South Africa and has served in many capacities towards nation building.

 

You can view my profile at www.gov.za by clicking on government leaders, click on deputy ministers and locate Social development and read about me. I am married to late Mr. Zuma Ntuli and the marriage lasted for 25years with only a child before he died of an illness that lasted only for 6weeks but when he was alive we deposited the sum of USD30.5 million in a financial institution here in my country which was emanated as a result of an over invoiced contract he did with my former ministry. Though I assisted him in securing the contract but never knew he over inflated the contract and the government we are in under Comrade Jacob Zuma came up with a policy to review contracts awarded years ago and he is poised to confiscating funds with irregular tender, hence my contacting you.

 

Recently, my doctor told me that I will not last up to 6months because of my diagnosis of cancer and my most pressing problem is the stroke which I am managing before this new medical case. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a church or better still, a Christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in.

I want a person or church that will use this fund to churches, orphanages, research centers and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.

However, I and my late husband decided to use some of the money to work for God and live some for our son to have a better life but our son is just 15years old now having low maturity hence the reason for taking this bold decision and will like you to understand that my contact to you is by a divine direction; As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance/bank and will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the new beneficiary of this fund.

 

Please contact me immediately you receive this email so that I will instruct the finance/bank to proceed in transferring the fund into your account immediately while I am still alive. PLEASE DO NOT CALL MY OFFICE LINE BECAUSE OF THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS MONEY! I WILL GIVE YOU MY PRIVATE DIRECT LINE ON YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS EMAIL.

 

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Maria Bongi Ntuli

Deputy Minister, Social Development

Rep. of South Africa.

Email: maria_nbongi@minister.com

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*SCAM EMAIL* Currently in circulation

FROM MR FABRO MORGAN
THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (FNB)
PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA
Email:fabromorganblumail.org
ATTENTION: GOOD FRIEND,

I am Mr. Fabro Morgan, the chief accountant of First National Bank of South Africa (FNB) a division of FirstRand Bank limited South Africa I am making this contact with you based on the
need for an individual/company who is willing to assist me with a solution to a money transfer.    First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.
In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected and honest person to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and confidentiality. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.
There is an account opened in this bank in 1997 and till 2003 nobody has operated on this account again after going through some old files in the records, I discovered that if I do not
remit this money out urgently it would be forfeited for nothing. This deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made effort to contact my client, l could not reach him. I was forced to travel to Germany and there I got the tragic news that, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law Christian, and their children Maximilian and
Katharina, all perished on the Monday, 31 July, 2000 plane crash in western German city of Moenchengladbach. No other person knows this account or anything concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that his company does not know anything about this account and the money involved is USD$25,000,000.00
(Twenty Five Million United Dollars Only).
View the web site bellow for more information on our late client.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I want us to first transfer USD$10 Million from this money into your safe overseas account before the rest and this is to avoid any breach of law to both Countries. I am seeking your
assistance as a foreigner, since as civil servant I am not allowed to operate foreign accounts.  Should you be willing to assist in this transaction your share as compensation will be USD$10,
000,000.00 (40%), while I will receive USD$15, 000.000.00 (60%).
The business is completely safe and secure, provided you treat it with utmost confidentiality. It does not matter also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I have reposed confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.  And this is 100% risk free. Kindly notify me by sending your secured mobile phone and fax numbers for further details upon your acceptance of this proposal.
Thank you in anticipation of your co-operation.
Regards,

MR.FABRO MORGAN
THE CHIEF ACCOUNTANT,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA (FNB)

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I received an email from “Ho Chen Tung”

email from: fasantos@cnpq.br

SUBJ: contact me immediately

“contact me with acceptance to transfer $21,410,000.00 to you. I will tell you more information after I get your reply.”

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other variants:

contact me immediately for more details for the transfer of US$ 21,300,000.00 to you. this money initially Belongs to a client who died and had no next of kin in his account-opening package. in other to achieve this, I shall require your full name and telephone number to reach you. Most importantly is a confirmation of acceptance from you after which I shall furnish you with the dynamics of this transaction

Please treat as urgent and confidential.

Regards.
Ho Chen Tung

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–> based on its neutral standing, this source has had other threats.

military-scam

Hi,
My name is MAJOR KELLY COLLINS,

serving the World and my country in the

most honorable way I know I can, in AFGHANISTAN right now, in a nutshell With a very desperate need for assistance, I found your contact
particulars during my email search and picked up courage to contact you for your assistance.

Some money in various currencies were discovered in a room at a farm
house near one of Osama Bin Laden’s old house in Kabul-Afghanistan during
a rescue operation, I happened to be one of the soldiers that lead that
operation that day, so it was agreed by Col. William E. Cole the head of
our battalion that some part of this money will be shared among both of
us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw the money
first. This was quite an illegal thing to do, but I tell you what? No
compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives in
this hell hole, my brother in-law was killed by a road side bomb just few
months ago.

Now i found a very reliable way of sending a trunk metallic box
containing the amount of United States Dollars worth ($20,000,000) as
you must agree with me it has been hell on earth trying to keep this
money safe from people’s eyes for all these while and with this
opportunity all I need is just someone capable I can trust 100% I can
send the box to. So if you can assure me of your honesty I will go ahead
and send the box to you for safe keeping till I am back home and I will
gladly give you 30% of the money. If this okay with you please get back
to me with the following so i can get the box across to you.

1. Your full name: …………………………. 2. Contact
address………………………..
3. Telephone number: ……………………… 4. Occupation: ………………………….

Contact me on my private email address:(collinskelly307@

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*This is a scam targeting citizens in the UK*

*DO NOT OPEN the attatched document “SHELL OIL_UK COMPANY_60YEARS ANNIVERSARY.doc”*

shell-anniversary-scam

*Attack Vector: email, 419 scam*

Shell Centre,

London,SE1 7NA -United Kingdom

Incorporation Barley House, Hare Road

Sutton, Great Britain SM1 4te United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,
We are happy to inform you of the Shell Oil Company United Kingdom (UK) 60years Anniversary Promotion,held on the (10TH MAY 2013) for Email Address Users Worldwide Promo,

Your Email was luckily drawn by a computer balloting system as one of our winners in our online promo bonanza from the prestigious UK SHELL OIL COMPANY ONLINE E-MAIL PROMOTION. Thus, making you the winner of the sum of £500,000.00GBP(Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling’s)

PLEASE KINDLE CHECK THE ATTACHMENT

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There is a fraudulent document / phishing attack using UNFCC as a way to get people’s personal information.

The REAL UNFCC.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is a treaty that is developed at United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (aka Earth Summit).  There goal is to reduce the potential adverse affects that humans have on the Earth’s climate.  

FAKE UNFCC

Here is the fake form:

UNFCCC Scam pdf

To Celebrate the 18th Anniversary of the UNFCCC, the UN  is giving out a yearly award of $900,000 to 18 lucky recipients.

Below is your award information

Email Code number: UNFCCC/18/NMF/12

BATCH NO: (N-222-6747,E-900-56)

Amount WON: US$900,000.00

PRIZE CLAIMING INSTRUCTIONS:

1. name…
2. Country..
3. Contract Address..
4. Telephone Number..
5. Fax Number
6. Marital Status
7. Occupation
8. Date of Birth
9. Sex
10. Alternative Email Address

As you can see the form as asking for personal information.

Consultant contact details:

Name: Prof. Michael Clarke

Tel: +44 703 593 7829

Emails: Prof.clarkemichael@outlook.com

Prof.michaelclarke@outlook.com

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Someone is sending an email to people on your contacts list claiming to be you.  They are trying to get your contacts to click a link or send personal information.  You are sure that you did not send the message.  This is called e-mail spoofing.  

What attackers do is to use some email spam software to anonymously send out emails to all the contacts on exploited email accounts.  This is sometimes done with an “anonymous remailer” reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer

Why e-mail Spoof?

The motivation behind it is to conceal the emails original point of creation while at the same time using a list of your contacts (some of whom trust you) to get them to go to a site.  That site can have a variety of intentions.  Its not always about malware, the site can also be used as an aggressive blackhat marketing campaign to get people to go to a site or sell products and/or service.

But its also used for phishing attacks, network infiltrations, gathering insider information, and getting malware on systems.  Whether its advertising or malicious, e-mail spoofing is counting on the user to be unaware of the true nature of the email.

Taking Action

See if you account is just spoofed or hacked AND spoofed.  There is a difference.  If they are spoofing and somehow got all your contacts.. Honestly, SMTP (email) is not very secure by itself.  So there is not much you can do if your email gets spoofed except notify your contacts.  Imagine trying to stop someone from sending snail mail to your contacts with a return address that says its from you.. how do you stop that?  How would you even find out where they sent it from?

If you account is being actively infiltrated and THEN spoofed there is something you can do.

The first thing you should do is change your password.

A spammer may have altered your account information, allowing them to access your account again even after you change your password.

Visit your Account Information page. — yahoo

Click Choose how Yahoo contacts you under “Contact Information.”

Change the email address on file if you don’t recognize it.

- For help, see adding an alternate email address to your account.

Ref: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-account/sending-spam-sln3417.html

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scam paypal – customerfeedback.com

**SCAM PayPal**

If you received on email with a paypal-customerfeedback.com link, its a scam.  Do not follow the link, do not respond:

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*SCAM**

Subject: United Nations Fund Verification Department

You have been approved to receive a Grant/Donation of 800,000.00 GBP from the UN Development Programme 2014.

 TO FILE FOR YOUR CLAIMS

CONTACT;-

(United Nations Fund Verification Department)
Email: undevprogramme@e-mail.ua

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These UN Fund Scams usually try to gather more and more information from you and attempt to earn your trust until they get bold enough to ask for money.

1.FULL NAMES OF DONATION BENEFICIARY:……………
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:…………………………
3.DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:………………………..
4.WINNING EMAIL:………………………………
5.PHONE/FAX NUMBERS:……………………………..
6.NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN:…………………
7.SEX:………………………………………….
8.OCCUPATION:……………………………………
9.MARITAL STATUS:………………………………..
10.COUNTRY:……………………………………..
11.NATIONALITY:…………………………………..

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With Great Honor, the family of  Chris and Colin Weir announces

their donation of 800,000.00 Great British Currency to you. Send
Name—
Address—
Mobile #—–
Age—–
Occupation—–

Congratulation to you.

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The real story of of Chris and Colin Weir:

chris colin donation

But the First Minister did suggest the Prime Minister would be in a “difficult position” if it was judged he did not “try his hardest” in the campaign.

The comments came after it emerged the pro-independence side had received £2.5 million in the past year from EuroMillions lottery winners Chris and Colin Weir.

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