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Sunday, January 18, 2009

419s - January 11-17 2009

 

These are 419s and other related scams for the week of January 11th to January 17th, 2009.

11th January

Vesna ILINCIC - Banco CaixaCatalunya - Usual banking crap - U/R
Bernard Liew Kin Jong - Malaysia - Usual tsunami crap - U/R
Magret D. Juncker - God Tosser and supposed cancer victim - U/R
Brian Vastola - NatWest Bank - Usual banking crap - U/R
John P. Olejcza - Funds from nowhere

13th January

J C Williams - ATM Card - U/R
Paul Martins - Funds from nowhere - U/R
John Wilson Cole - Central bank of Nigeria - Scam victims fund - U/R
Anthony Aka - International Commercial Bank - Funds from nowhere - U/R
Paul Freeman - Sears Textiles - Job offer for money laundering

14th January

Peter Jim - One of the green ones! - His e-mail has failed.
Chris Michael - Money laundering job offer - U/R
Thomas Hernandez - Funds from nowhere - U/R

15th January

Mrs. Regina Robert - Usual crap and a God Tosser - U/R
Jewel C Taylor - Don't you just get bored - U/R
Dongguan Yueming Laser Technology -Money laundering job - U/R
Sandra James - Money from a cocoa merchant
Jude Womack - Short, sweet and crooked - U/R
Dike Abraham - Fedex rubbish - U/R
Robert S Mueller - Nigerian rubbish - U/R
Jessica Brown - Swiss account in Paraguay - U/R
Career Builder - Fake Alert

16th January

Assan Ibrahim - E-mail change rubbish
Elizabeth Gates - Fedex rubbish - U/R

17th January

Farida Waziri - Nigerian crap - U/R
Patrick Blaise - E-mail change rubbish
Kelly Smith - World Bank of Switzerland - Usual rubbish - U/R

I've started to add U/R, where the scame is to undisclosed recipients. This always means it's a scam. What if everybody got the millions?

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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