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Friday, October 17, 2008

LV Electronix

 

Fraud. Note the subtle change of company name.

One out of five!

Greetings.
My Name is Leonard Verdino. I`m president of LV Electronix Inc.
Our company is looking for new business partners in United States.
If You are owner of private business, we have an exclusive business partnership offer for You!
Additional 50-100K+ every month!

For more details: lvelectronicinc@aol.com

Regards,
MR. Leonard Verdino


Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you. I just got this fraud email.

Saturday, October 18, 2008 1:17:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I got this TWICE this morning, sent less than 2 hours apart, with the identical letter and e-mail inside, but from 2 different "people".

Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:13:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Check. We got exactly the same email, and the address was taken from our contact page. Thanks for the heads up, as we are an electronics company....

Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:44:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Asked the fraudster a question, and the reply was to send the original email to me five times an hour, in hopes I would forget the question he wouldn't answer.
"Does my money leave my account for yours, before I can verify your deposit?" Of course it does, the long and short of the scam!

Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:42:00 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I got more than 5 instances of this spam over the weekend masked as being from various poor people who had responded, but all pointing to the same AOL account: lvelectronicsinc@aol.com. If it's a "business" and they don't have a dedicated domain they're probably hacks.

Monday, October 20, 2008 7:00:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I got this twice in one week. I reasoned: Even if it is not a fraud, who want to go to hell let alone taking a business risk in hell! But, it is probably a fraud because it exploits some people's ignorance.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:02:00 am  

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