Monday, June 14, 2010

They Just Won't Quit

Damn. These 419 scams are getting ridiculous! If you can stomach it, read the one below. I got this in my spam box. And by the way, do not visit any of the links in the quoted e-mail below. Your computer could get ate up by viruses.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
J.Edgar. Hoover Building Washington D.C.
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
For more information call during working period
Telephone number: 2033330996

Attention Beneficiary,


Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have also noticed that over the past you have been transacting with some imposters and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some imposters claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.


The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) formerly known as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) of how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these imposters. As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us.We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $6,100,000.00 will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $5,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world were you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). We have advised that this should be the only way at which you are to receive your payment because it’s more guaranteed, since over $5 billion was lost on fake cheque last year 2009.



We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your $6.1 million United States Dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as it’s our duty to protect citizens of the United States of America and aslo Asia and Europe including Canadians. (This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owed to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared for the betterment of the current economic status of the nation and its citizens as he has always believed “Our Time for Change has come” because “Change can happen”).Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from UPS website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully.

Name :Racheal Frank :UPS Tracking Number...1z89249r2210011070 (www.ups.com)
Name :Zaidi Mohammed :UPS Tracking Number...1z89249r2210011025 (www.ups.com)
Name :Stephen Medaris :UPS Tracking Number..1z89249r2210011089 (www.ups.com)
Name :Seddek Farhard :UPS Tracking Number..1z89249r2210011098 (www.ups.com)


To redeem your fund you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $135.00 only nothing more and no hidden fees as everything else has been taken cared of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $135.00 only.



Contact Information
Name: Dr. Fred Williams,
Email: wdrfred@yahoo.com.hk
Phone: +234-807-625-4991


Do contact Dr. Fred Williams of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:


Your full Name:
Your Address (where you will like your ATM CARD to be sent to):
Home/Cell Phone:
Occupation:
Age:
Bank Info:


On contacting him with your details your files would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $135.00 via Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order. After which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee or any authority raising eyebrow.Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 24 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive your ATM CARD Shippment Confirmation within the next 24hrs after you have made the payment for shipping.Once again we are so sure of you receiving your payment at no any other cost as we have taking it upon our duty to monitor everything in other to cub cyber crime that is perpetrated by those
impostors.


Thanks and hope to read from you soon.


ROBERT S. MUELLER,DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: 206-666-5283
FAX: 206-666-5283

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM card, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Dr. Fred Williams of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office via the above fax number so we could act upon it immediately. Help stop cyber crime.

4 comments:

  1. First, this is American so we don't have a Ministry of Finance. And it is check, not cheque. And the feddies don't send money to us. Particularly not via email. And if they did, it would be written in better English than this disaster.

    And Robert Mueller is not the Director of the FBI. Nor is FBI communication written so casually.

    Who falls for this crap? I mean, if you are going to scam me - at least be good at it!

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  2. Apparently, people still fall for this crap making a few con artists rich for a while at least. Maybe not as much as when this stuff first started.

    I know someone who got scammed like this. She had a mental breakdown after realizing she was duped. She lost her life savings and now battles mental instability and clinical depression. It's really sad. Maybe she was already unstable and this was a trigger. But when she fell for the scam, she unraveled. Now her brother takes care of her because of her mental condition and loss of funds.

    Credulity + Desperation = Victim

    If certain psychological principles are applied to victims just right, a con artist can get away with a ton of things-- things that the more skeptical minded can spot as phony up front or with a small bit of inquiry.

    Some people like to reverse things and play the joke on them. Some string the con artist along and try to cost them money and make them do embarrassing things to "prove" they are legitimate.

    I saw where 60 Minutes (or Dateline, maybe) investigated one of these con artists. They played along and sent him some money. They finally flew out to meet him. Sat in a nice hotel and finally sprung on him that they were journalists.

    They interviewed him. Caught red handed, but he still tried to justify himself. He finally left the interview. I think he got arrested shortly afterwards.

    People just fall for it. I dunno how. They just do.

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  3. "Credulity + Desperation = Victim"

    Actually, I think the equation is wrong. Desperation (perceived or real) creates credulity, which make for an easy victim. Even knowing how the scams work doesn't seem to help.

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  4. "Desperation = Credulous Victim", huh?

    I can see that. I can see that . . .

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