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

Coca Cola - Cola Coca

Here is an example of how the Nigerian scammer fails to check the text of the scam email that he sends out.

This one purportedly comes from Coca Cola:

"Congratulation

Your email address has won YOU Sum of £750,000.00 GBP the ongoing Coca Cola Bottling Company New Year Promotion United Kingdom.

For claims provide;
1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Phone/No:
4. Age:
5. Occupation
6. Sex:
7. Country:
8. State:

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Contact: Dr. Henry Jerry
Email:coca-colasweeeptakers@hotmail.com
Phone No:+44-701-423-7356"

Aside from the poor grammar, the scammer made one fundamental error in the header of the email:

COLA COCA award PROMOTION

Wicked Officials

This scammer was so worried about me falling prey to those "wicked officials" that she sent me the same email twice.

Oh those "wicked officials"..LOL:)

"Good day to you

Hurry now and claim your fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria or your fund will be confiscated by the wicked officials of the CBN. My name is Rosemary Helen. I am a Computer Scientist working with Central Bank of Nigeria CBN. I am 25 years old, just started working with CBN. I came across your file marked X and your released disk painted RED.

I took time to study it and tried to find out why the funds were not released to you. Those evil officials can never tell you the truth that they won't release the fund to you; instead they allow you spend your money unnecessarily. I do not intend to work here forever; I can help you claim your fund if you can certify me of my security and assure me that you would settle with me after you must have received your payment.

I must do this because you need to know the status of your payment and cause for the delay. This is like a Mafia setting in Nigeria and you may not understand because you are not a Nigerian. The only thing needed to release this fund to you is the Original Anti Drug/Terrorist Clearance Certificate, which will be tendered to any of your nominated bank and the Internal Revenue Service IRS for clearance of the transferred amount in your account.

Once the Original Anti Drug/Terrorist Clearance Certificate is cleared, fund will immediately reflect in your bank within 10 Minutes. The only authorized and sincere person who will issue you the Original Documents is Mr.Richard Clifford. Make sure you indicate your file letter X and tell her its painted color Red so she will be able to recognize your file. The president made a compensation fund release for all unpaid beneficiaries/contractors.

Therefore, you are not going to receive your original initial fund, the compensation fund release bonus will be added to your original fund payment. The whole funds both your initial payment and the compensation payment shall be transferred to your bank account as soon as the Original documents are cleared.

Do get back to me ASAP if you are still interested in claiming your fund.

Yours sincerely,

Miss. Rosemary Helen"

FBI Scam

Here is a fine example of a poorly presented scam purportedly from the improbably named Fang Hollowen, who claims to work for the FBI in Nigeria.

Suffice to say this is a scam!

FBI Headquarters in Washington,
D.C.Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW Washington,
D.C. 20535-0001(202)
324-3000

Attn: Beneficiary,

Compliments of the day, I Wish to inform you that your Payment of $800,000 Thousand Dollars has been approved and it will be released to you as soon as possible so you will need to contact our Department in Nigeria to thepayment Officer Mr Fang Hollowen with the information as stated below.

CONTACT INFORMATION
NAME: Mr Fang Hollowen
EMAIL: investigations_fbi1@qatar.io

Do contact Mr Fang Hollowen of the ATM PAYMENT CENTER OFFICE with your details:
FULL NAME:
HOME ADDRESS:
TELL:
CELL:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:
BANK NAME:
AGE:

Also please be informed that all necessary Documents has been put in placeall you will have to do is to make sure you can be able to afford $132Dollars for the Delivery of your Funds which is to be sent to you via an ATM SWIFT CARD using FedEx International Courier Service. we do await your response so we can move on with our Investigation andmake sure your ATM SWIFT CARD gets to you.

Thanks and hope to read from you soon.

Regards,

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR,
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20535
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

Barclays Phish Warning

Be warned there is a phish doing the rounds purportedly from Barclays.

Do not click on the link if you receive any such email, it is a phish designed to trick you into revealing your pass codes etc.

Barclays Security Notification

We noticed a violation of our services on your account, this
may have occurred due to a viral infection on your computer
when you last accessed your account online.

For security reasons, we have temporarily disabled access to
your account until you complete the account restore process.

Please Click Here To Restore Your Account

Best Regards,
Barclays Customer Services

Rumours Of Another Hack on Sony

CVG report rumours of another possible hack on Sony, coming this weekend.