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Sunday, January 25, 2009

419s - January 18-24 2009

 

These are 419s and other related scams for the week of January 18th to January 24th, 2009.

18th January

Odion Monday - Fedex rubbish - U/R
Dave Allen - Honeywell International - Fake job offer to be a money
    launderer - described separately - U/R
James Williams - UN Money Order - U/R
Pere A Danis - Usual crap - U/R

19th January

Donna O Kean - Fedex crap from Nigeria - U/R
Ferdnand Douglas - UBS - Floating fund rubbish - U/R
Captain Henry A. Roper - US Soldier in Iraq - U/R
James Alaribe - Gold fraud from Ghana
Peter Brumley - Atlanta physician with Richard Gray in
    Plymouth - U/R
James Morgan - Applied Materials - Described separately - U/R

20th January

Emerging Europe Monitor - Job Fraud - Described separately
Peter Anderson - E-Mail address change rubbish
Bambang Suharto - Short, sweet and crooked

21st January

Point Focus LLC - Job Fraud - Described separately
Karl Adelson - Job Fruad - Described separately - U/R
Sandra Brown - Usual Fedex rubbish

22nd January

Rita Rahim - She's got a dormant account
Don Kelly - Rubbish - U/R

23rd January

Brown Lennon - Land for sale in Ghana

24th January

Green House Supply Inc - Job fraud - Described separately
Guston Wen - Job fraud - Described separately - U/R
Alex Abiere - E-mail address change rubbish

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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