419s - January 4-10, 2009

 

These are 419s and other related scams for the week of January 4th to January 10th, 2009.

4th January

James Barry - Crooked American soldier - U/R
John Foothman - Bank of England - Typical long-winded crap
Leong Hang - Tsunami victim scam - U/R
David Richard Blair - Crooked business transaction - U/R
Peter Van Hansen - Western Union Scam - U/R

5th January

General Aliyu Mohammed - More Nigerian crap - U/R
Mark William - Money Laundering Job Offer
David Mark - ATM rubbish from Nigeria - U/R
Azize Kebe - Inheritance - U/R
Federal Reserve - Notice of problems
Julia Turner - Money Laundering Job Offer
Paul Smith - Nigerian rubbish - U/R

January 6th

Andy Uwazuike - Swift Card from Nigeria - U/R
Johnson Grandt - European Union Investment Bank - U/R

January 7th

Gavin Welman - Unza Group - Usual job offer - U/R
Joseph Smith - Zimbabwean farmer - 419 - U/R
Julia Turner - Replaced Lisa Bailey

January 8th

Adeakunle Elvis - Nigerian 419 - U/R
Ashley Kelly - Association Of Charity Foundations - U/R

January 9th

Ann Zaky - God-Tosser 419 - Eight of them!
Robin Gibb - Heritage Foundation - Believe this and you'll believe anything - U/R
Ifeanyi Michael - Spam address change
Richard Gomez - UN - Usual bank rubbish

January 10th

Michael Kamara - Usual crap in duplicate - U/R
Steve Bent -Short, sweet and crooked - 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.