[HOME] 10:17 AM February 15, 2010

Fake! Fraud!! Phishing!!!

The following are emails I have actually received. I've posted them here to show you some things to avoid.

This fake email has been circulating forever. I don't know how many copies I received over the years.


>
> Hey it is tara and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption but
> msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are
> taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one
> person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your
> account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your
> account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no
> joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks. WHO EVER
> DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU WILL COST
> 10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. NOW YOU
> KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE EMAIL.
> GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR YOUR
> ATTENTION. It's no joke if you don't believe me then go to the site
> (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm ) and see for yourself.
> Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn dude
> will become blue. please copy and paste don't forward
>


marielle

You get an email claiming warnings about virus that was on the news. But they are fake. The virus or event doesn't evn exist. The warning about not opening email and attachments from people you do not know, that is the only thing that should be taken seriously!

THIS IS NO JOKE
 
IF A PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON CONTACTS YOU THROUGH EMAIL DON'T OPEN THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT BECAUSE HE IS A HACKER!!

TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE FOR THEM AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO!!!!!...
 
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.  This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled  'Mail Server Report'

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying:  'It is too late now, your life is no longer  beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC,
And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your  name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the  anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it .

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself  'life owner'.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

If I could only get a fraction of all the money I have won from all of the contest/sweepstakes I did not enter.

Subject: Confirmation Email Ref No: (XBL-37-14-29-33)
From: "Moore, David" <David.Moore@kent.k12.wa.us>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 08:50:03 -0800
To: Undisclosed recipients:;

Confirmation Email Ref No: (XBL-37-14-29-33)

Reply to Email: millioneuro108@luckymail.com

You have won 1,000.000.00 Euro ( One Million Euro ),in the Euro

millions Email Sweepstakes Program Corporation, held on the January 25, 2010.In Madrid Spain .

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office

immediately. For the claim.

Contact Person, Mr Van Murphy.

TEL: 0034-672-815-398 or 01134-672-815-398

Reply to Email:millioneuro108@luckymail.com

Winning Information's

Reference No: (XBL-37-14-29-33)

Serial No: Du173858/31527

Ticket No: 28-20-15-19-22

Lucky No: 4-16-17-20-29/*5*7

Batch No: 3-12-30-8-42-10

Your Full Name & Telephone Number.

Note: all winning must be claim not later than 30th working days

Your Sincerely,

Mrs. Charlotte Ullmann

Promotion co-ordinator

CONTACT: Mr Van Murphy.

CITY/ COUNTRY: Madrid Spain .

TEL: 0034-672-815-398 or 01134-672-815-398

Email: millioneuro108@luckymail.com

Subject: ATM AWARD
From: "OCEANIC BANK PLC" <info@lotto.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:29:26 +0200 (EET)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;



Dear: Beneficiary,

This is to officially inform you that an Inter-Switch ATM Card with a fund
worth ($900,000.00 USD) Nine hundred thousand United State Dollar has been
accredited in your favor by Oceanic Bank Of Nigeria plc.Your Personal
Identification Number are ATM-4918691859180912. The ATM Card has a daily
withdrawal limit of $4,000.00 USD per Day.
You are advised to contact Mr Kennedy Ibong.
DIRECTOR ON FOREIGN COMMITTEE ATM(Automatic Teller Machine) PAYMENT WITH
THE FORM BELOW.
(1)Full Name:
(2)Age:
(3)Sex:
(4)Occupation:
(5)Phone Number:
(6)Delivery Address:
(7)Country of Residence:
KENNEDY IBONG CONTACT INFORMATION
Email:oceaniccardatm01@officeliveusers.com
Tel:+234 705 862 1865
This is to ensure that you receive your ATM-CARD grant Award on time to
avoid delay.And you are also advise to keep your grant award confidential
to avoid unscrupulous act by some people.
Regards,
Dr.John Aboh
Chief Executive Officer,
OCEANIC BANK OF INT' PLC.

Subject: Reference Number: 2977251182
From: "Lidia Pirraglia" <lpirragl@georgebrown.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:33:05 -0500
To: <info@notice.com>

Dear Winner,
Winning Notification This is to notify you that your email has won $1,000,000.00 USD for this year 2010 Financial Grants Programmes which is organized by Ecowas Financial Grant Unit in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by computerised balloting, powered by the Internet. Your email address was amongst those chosen for this period.
Batch number: NZY0/22/8377
Reference Number: 2977251182
Winning number: 872.278.20882.92
Draw (#1187)
To claim your prize, please contact:
Claims Officer Mr. Frederick Mixwell
Telephone: +2347023048266, +2348029196261
Email: ecowasclaimdept@btinternet.com
with your Name, Full Address, Country, Gender, Occupation and Phone.
Yours faithfully,
Walker, Dena

Some theives are complete morons. These people claim I've won a prize but then pretend to be from the Paypal service claiming someone was trying to hack my Paypal account, you know, the one I don't have.

Subject: You won a BONUS CODE 2010/ JWNUHUVDMP
From: "|Pay`Pal.|NC Online"<websslllll@ssecurity.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:08:00 +0100
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Identifying Unauthorized Logon Attempts on February. 01, 2010: (Error Message No.
FE09POQVHAK48)
Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):
______________________________________________________________________________
1. We would like to ensure that your account was not accessed by an unauthorized third
party.
Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited
access to sensitive PayPal account features.
_____________________________________________________________________________
2. Unusual account activity has made it necessary to limit account access until additional
verification information can be collected.
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. If your account was hijacked, the PayPal account attached is vulnerable too. Please
respond
as soon as possible!
PayPal Confirmation link: http://www.floridasouthbeachrentals.com/webeditnx/update-pay-pal/index.php

Once you complete all of the checklist items, your case will be reviewed by one of our
Account Specialists.
We will send you an email with the outcome of the review.
If, after reviewing your PayPal account information, you seek further clarification
regarding your
account access,
please contact PayPal Online Banking by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact
Us".

Thank you.
PayPal Team.

01/02/2010

Copyright ? 1999-2010 PayPal. All rights reserved

This one claims to be from Facebook. The attachment did not exist. My guess the email servers automatically deleted the attachment that most likely contained a virus. The attachment according to the the email header was named: Facebook_password_4891.zip

Subject: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Important Message
From: "Facebook Security" <change@facebook.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:06:03 +0800
To: <trudykyme@yahoo.ca>

Dear user of facebook,

Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed.
You can find your new password in attached document.

Thanks,
Your Facebook.

The following two, I'm sure they are another attemp of Fraud. I have treated them as such anyway. I always do with this type of email

Subject: Hi
From: "Elena"
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:25:05 +0300
To:

Hi

My name Elena, I am 32 years and I live in Russian province. I work in library and after my work I can use computer when it possible. I finded your address in internet and I decided to write you this letter.

I have 7-year daughter Angelina, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother.

Due to the crisis in our country my mother lost job and our situation became very difficult. The price for heating our home is very high and we cannot afford it anymore.

The weather is very cold here already and we don't know what to do.

We need portable stove which give heat from burning wood. We have many wood in our region, but we cannot buy the stove in local market because it cost equivalent of 192 Euro and very expensive for us. If you have any old portable wood burning stove, I pray that you can donate it to us and organize transport of its to our address. We live 200km from Moscow. This ovens are different, usually they made from cast iron and weight about 100kg.

Please let me know if you can help and I will write you our home address.

I downloaded our picture to free website and you can see it at http://elegala.nextmail.ru/ourpic.jpg

Elena.

Subject: My Dear!!.
From: Sarah Clement
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:30:40 -0700 (PDT)
To: sarahclement1a@yahoo.com.ph

Dearest One ,
 
How are you dear,i saw your profile today in my private search when i was looking for someone  that can be trusted,so i decided to contact you  and i hope you will be able to assist me in this.Please after reading this mail have pity on me.
 
I know this mail will come as suprise. My name is Miss. Sarah clement from Cote d'ivoire. I am 21 years old,It is my  pleasure communicating with you for the first time and believing that it  will lead to a better relationship between us. I have an inheritance that my late father left in one of the big bank here,before the death of my father on feburuary 2006 in a private hospital here in abidjan.He secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a total sum of  7.5$ million dollars ( Seven million Five hundred thousand dollars left in a account in one of the big banks here which i will disclose or forward the bank contacts to you when i see your willingless.
 
I want  you to stand as my father business partner in claiming the fund from the  bank here. I am ready to part with % of the  total sum to you if only you assist me to claim the fund and assist me also in investing the money in any lucrative business.
 
Please I know that this letter may sound strange and incredible to you but I want you to do this for me because of my life and future. Therefore for the sake of God and humanity give an immediate positive consideration and reply to me by my e-mail address.I will willingly agree to any suitable percentage of the money you will propose as your compensation for your assistance with regards to the above. Please in view of  my sensitive refugee status and as i am still conscious of my father 's enemies .I would like you to give this a highly confidential approach . I will call you on the phone once you send your phone number.
 
I will give you  more detail and forward all vital information as soon as I hear from you.
 
Best Regards.
Miss Sarah

I know your getting tired of hearing it but don't open emails and or attachments from strangers. Keep your security systems updated. Keep Windows Updated.

My former posts on this subject:

http://hitanykey.webs.com/Phishing.htm

http://hitanykey.webs.com/phishing2.html