Scam From "Steve Jobs"

Dear oh dear, the scam merchants really are scraping the bottom of  barrel these days.

I received this email today, purportedly from the executors of the late Steve "Job" (sic).

Aside form the obvious point that the late CEO of Apple was in fact called "Jobs" not "Job", why on earth does the scammer think that I would be stupid enough to believe that Jobs (who would have never heard of me) leave me any money?

Oh, and by the way, what is "Fourthy"?

Cretin!

SUB: LATE STEVE JOB'S WILL


On behalf of the Trustees and Executors of the late American Philanthropist Steve Job, chairman & CEO at Apple Inc. + Director at The Walt Disney Company. We wish to notify you once again that the late Steve Job. made you one of the beneficiaries to his (WILL), he bequeathed the sum of Four Million Great British Pounds Sterling Only GBP 4,000,000.00) to you in the codicil and last testament to his (WILL) which is eleven (10%) of his total funds of GBP 40,000,000.00 (Fourthy Million Great British Pounds Sterling.


This may sound very strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely popular traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends here or abroad who wished you well. Late Steve Job, the reclusive American-born philanthropist born in San Francisco, California.USA.


According to him this money is to support religious and humanitarian activities and to help the poor and the needy in your society. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. I hope to hear from you in no distant time.


For more information contact me at my email: bnpwell13@blumail.org


We look forward to hearing from you.


Yours in services,


Barr. Nelson Powell Esq Email: bnpwell13@blumail.org

Colonel Gaddafi's Daughter Writes

LOL, this scammer claiming to be Colonel Gaddafi's daughter has written to me.

The usual shite about boxes containing vast sums of money etc etc.

Aside from it obviously being bollocks, methinks the Gaddafi's daughter would write far better English than this scammer were she really to write to me!

"Greetings, 

My name is Ayesha Gaddafi am the only daughter late president Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011. During the period of his stay in office, he made me go into money exchange and gold business but due to the up rising/crisis in libya now he died a careless death as a result of that i made a bold decission that i was going to leave the country so that i will not fall a victim like my father did because the way things are going on,no body is safe. 

However before the death of my father he deposited $20 million to a bank in London Uk, which i will provide you with the contact information. And also as people were evacuating the country i packaged 85 kilogram of Gold in an italian safe as a mattar of fact i saw a UNITED NATION humaniterian aid worker he was going to London UK and i secure the two boxes on his care but i did not disclose the original content of box to him.I asked him to help me to convey the boxes to his country in the United Kingdom,i told him that the content of the boxes is my father's properties documents both home and abroad,i told him to help me secure it till my country is calm then i will give him instruction on that,so he to issue to me the certificate of ownership of the boxes with my name which i will forward to you for the collections of the boxes because he said that whoever that is coming to claim it should present the ownership certificate that was our agreement. 

As i was making searching in the internet i got your email address and i said to my self that i was going to do busines with you in your country. i am happy the diplomat had now arrived to London safely with my frist son and he has called me and i told him that somebody will call him about the boxes i gave him and he said no problem that my boxes are safe and i am free any time for it. Having gone through my mail massage i will like us to work together in your country with the money US$20 Million so if you have accepted with me then get back to me with your full name,your country of origin,your age and sex,your private telephone number,your current occupation and lastly any of your valid identification card. with all this it will enable us to proceed and please remember not to disclose this to any body for security reasons,If you have accepted then i will give you the contact to contact the Diplomat for the boxes of gold and the contact information of the bank were the money is been deposited in United Kingdom and as soon as every thing is concluded i will fly to your country to settle down there for the rest of my life and we will invest the money and sale the gold. Waiting to hear from you as it will enable me to stop searching for another helper. 

Best Regard 

Ayesha Gaddafi 

only daughter late president Muammar Gaddafi"

Advice To Scammers

When you write to me purporting to be Western Union, at least have the brains to spell the name of the company correctly in your fake email address!

"wiesternunion@prokonto.pl

Attn: Scam Victim, From Western Union Money Transfer, Please view the attachment for more information."

Ugg Boots

What is it with spammers and Ugg Boots?

I am inundated with spam trying to get me to visit various sites selling Ugg Boots.

A Trip To Nigeria

My thanks to the spammer who sent me this "kind" message.

As to ever coming to Nigeria "for a discussion", "when hell freezes over" is my response to that!

"I think i’m interested in you. Get in touch with me on my email I will want to you to come down to Nigeria for more discussion."

Moron

Full marks for stupidity to the scammer who sent me this pile of shite.

Starting off by asking me if I am alive or dead is remarkably idiotic, even by the standards of the scam merchants!

 

Ugent Confirmation.

Are You Dead or Alive?.

Attn:

 

 

My name is Funsho Babatunde, I work in the Accounts and Audit

Dept. Cbn ,in the course of our General Auditing and Account revision

of the last quarter of the year 2011,we discovered that the Bank

Accounts belonging to some Benefactors have been changed on the basis

that the owners have died some time last year or have given out an

authorization note of change of data. (DEED OF ASSIGNMENT)

 

 

 

After the investigations, however, it was revealed that there are

Foreigners who are collaborating with Retired Staffs to make these

changes illegally without the knowledge of the Bonafide Benefactors

and one traced to your own change is this Mr.Howard Hays who said you

are dead, hence they have forwarded some documents of funeral service

held for you so as to divert your fund. They have also forwarded the

below bank account as the new account that will receive the approved

gazetted amount of $18,500.000.00.

 

 

Bank Name: Bank of America

Bank address: 510 Branson Landing Blvd. Branson, Missouri 65616

Bank fax: 417-337-5839

Account number:354006400237

Account name:Reba's

Routing number: 081000032

 

 

But we wanted to confirm if actually this is true and hence decided to

write to your email address which after 2 days from now and there is

no response, we will then know that you are dead indeed and go on with

the transfer. If proved otherwise by you that you did not die, please

forward to us all the related Benefactors particulars including your

Telephone number, contact address. These details from you will help to

assist us reach a conclusion that you are not dead.

 

Anything contrary to this claim will help us charge this man to court

and prosecute him while your fund will be paid to you immediately

without any further delay.

 

You have to get back to us on time for us to commence legal

proceedings against Mr. Howard L.Hays and his accomplices

if you are still alive and did not sent him.

 

We do await your positive response.

 

Yours truly,

Mr. Funsho Babatunde

Accounts and Audit Dept.

International Banking Unit.

Central Bank Of Nigeria

Tel:             +2347089118143     

Sun Hacked

The Guardian reports that News International on Monday emailed thousands of people to warn them that one or more hackers have copied personal details of thousands of people who entered competitions and polls on the Sun's website and are posting them publicly on the internet. The hack took place several weeks ago, on 19th July.

Chris Duncan, the director of customer data for News International, wrote in the email:

"..some customer information from competitions and polls was breached...

No financial or password information was compromised.."

Given that names, addresses, dates of birth, emails and phone numbers were taken this exposes people to the risk of id theft and fraud (whatever Duncan may claim).

Phishing

Be warned, phishing is becoming more sophistcated, costly and dangerous.

Military Email Addresses Hacked

The Telegraph reports that 90,000 email addresses have allegedly been stolen from Booze Allen Hamilton (which provides technological services including cyber-security consulting to the military and other US government agencies).

The "online collective" Anonymous claims that it has posted the details on the internet.

Seemingly 53,000 of the hacked emails carried the military “.mil” domains.

Google+ Hacked

Be warned, the Telegraph reports that Google+ (the new social network) has been hacked. The hackers are now sending out bogus invites to Google+, which instead directs users to a pharmaceutical website.

Sony Hacked Again

Much like the return of an unloved season, it appears that hacking Sony's systems is becoming a tedious regular event.

LulzSec, a hacker group, have attacked Sony Pictures (the entertainment distribution division) and stolen/published the private details (including names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords) of more than a million people.

The Telegraph reports that LulzSec claims that the hack was designed to prove how vulnerable Sony was to "simple attacks".

All very, maybe. However, why then publish people's private details and leave them open to abuse by criminals, stalkers, phishers, scammers and other dross?

The Auditor General

Badly written, unsolicited, untrue and garbage.

Yes, it's a Nigerian scam!

Dear Beneficiary,
I read your contract payment file with great pain and tears following all you had to go through without success in the release of your fund.I work directly with Auditor General,Federal Republic of Nigeria.It was in the course of carrying out my primary duty as the personal assistance to Auditor General, why arranging contractors payment file that i saw your file and I was moved realizing the trauma you must have gone through concerning your inheritance,so out of compassion I quickly went to report your predicament to my boss who said i should write you immediately.He stated categorically,that if you are alive ,we should process your payment within 48hours.You are hereby advise to get back to us quickly.
Regards
Mr.Larry Chukwuemeka