George Osborne Writes

I am touched and flattered that "George Osborne" (Chancellor of the Exchequer) has written to me personally,  offering me $16.5M.

However, I am surprised that "Osborne" doesn't know that it is in fact "Her Majesty's Treasury" not "Her Majesty Treasury".

Could it be that this is a scam?

Surely not!

URGENT AND IMPORTANT MATTER/Her Majesty
Treasury
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Correspondence & Enquiry Unit
2/W1 HM Treasury
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ

Attention: Beneficiary,


My name is Mr. George Osborne, The Chancellor of the Exchequer,Correspondence & Inquiry Unit, Her Majesty Treasury Adviser to the Her Majesty Treasury. I'm directed to contact you by the Queen's Counsel to confirm from you, if actually you know one Mr. Fredrick Williams who claim to be your business associate/ partner in London.

The said Mr. Fredrick Williams who claims that you are dead, and that he is the bonafide beneficiary of your funds in our possession. That he will like to change all the Information that you gave to one of our bank here in London. To avoid what happened in the past, the Queen's Counsel has concluded arrangement through diplomatic means to have this fund delivered to you.

This development is coming now that HM Treasury want to offset all our outstanding payments to all our legal foreign beneficiaries’ around the world in which your payment file was affected.

As you may know, the total amount in your favor is a total sum of $16.5million U.S Dollars. We need to confirm from you if it's really true that you are dead. If we do not hear from you, it automatically means that you are actually dead and the information passed to us by Mr. Christopher Gonzales is correct.

You are to contact me through my email address as soon as you receive this message so as to know the true position of things, by using diplomatic means. HM Treasury is trying to avoid the mistake of remitting your out-standing payment to a wrong person/account.

Your swift response will help this ministry allot. Do email me with your information below:

1. Full Name:
2. Resident Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Age/Date of Birth:
5. Profession, age and marital status:
6. Your Office; Telephone and fax. Phone:
7. Mobile Telephone:
8. State of Origin: Country:
9. Copy of valid International passport or Drivers License:
10.Your private email address:

Upon the receipt of this mail kindly send the required information for more directives.

Best Regards,

Mr. George Osborne.
For Queen's Counsel Her Majesty Treasury.

Advice To Scammers

I think you will find that the phrase "Dear beneficiary" is more "plausible" than "Dead beneficiary".

Scam HMRC Emails

Scam Alert

I have received three email messages today from a "Ms Lin Homer" allegedly of HMRC (Ms. Lin Homer (mslin.homer@hmrc.gov.uk).

The emails contain a document that the sender wants me to open and download.

In the event that you receive one of these under no circumstances open or download the document, it will most likely contain a trojan that is designed to access your pin codes etc stored on your pc.

HMRC do not sent out emails like this.

Scam Phone Calls

Not all scammers and fraudsters use the Internet to con people, some use phone calls.

Beware calls from this number 02392997556, according to this thread it is a scam designed to acquire your bank details.

Something For The Weekend?

My regular spammers have been outdoing themselves this morning, clearly expecting me to have a very busy weekend, I have had numerous offers for:

- erectile dysfunction treatments
- keep it up pills
- bras (eh?)
- "party herbals"

I declare the weekend well and truly open!

A Scam Wrapped Up In A Scam

How gemusing to see a scammer telling me that I am a scam victim!

This is of course a scam wrapped up in a scam, where the scammer can't spell "governments".

"Scam Victim !!

We confirmed you as a scam victim and you fall in the list of those to be compensated with $500,000.00 from USA/ NIGERIAN goverments. Sponsored by world bank.

If you are the rightful owner of this address please reconfirm your full contact details and enclose it with your personal Identification and forward to this address immediately for onward verification and payment to your designated bank account in your Country.

Regards,

Mike Dave.

Rep. World Bank and accredited attorney to the compensation committee.

All correspondence to mikedave222@yahoo.com.au"

Advice To Spammers

There is no such thing as "Viara"!

Advice To Nigerian Scammers

Adopting the pseudonym "Mr Honest Kelly" is a tad "unwise".

Scammers Impersonate Stephen Hester

Evidently the cretinous scammers are not aware that RBS is not having an easy time of it these days, otherwise they would never have sent the following missive (twice) allegedly from Stephen Hester CEO of RBS:

"From Mr Stephen Hester. 
P O Box 10720 
Victoria Street 
London 
WC2R 1AP 
www.rbs.co.uk 

Good day, 

I am Mr.Stephen Hester, the Group Chief Executive of Royal Bank of Scotland. I personally discovered a dormant account with a total sum of GBP35,000,000.00 [THIRTY FIVE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS] during our Bank's Annual Year Account Auditing. Since the death of the deceased, nobody has operated in this account till date. Moreover, this account has NO BENEFICIARY attached to it. 

Definitely, this fund will be confiscated by our BANKING CODE OF ETHICS if it remains dormant for a period of [10] year without any claims. In this regard, I earnestly need your full cooperation in transferring this money out of our bank to avoid our bank confiscating this fund. 

HOW THE TRANSACTION CAN BE HANDLED: 
As the Group Chief Executive of our bank, all our client account details and file are in my possession and that makes it easy for me to include your name as the beneficiary of the fund in all necessary documents involving the money we wish to transfer out from our bank. Most importantly, you will be required to: 
 (1). Act as the original beneficiary of the funds. 
(2). Receive the funds into a business/private bank account. 
(3). At the completion of this transaction, the sharing rates shall be 50% for me while 50% for you. Note: I will split the transfer into two 2 stages for easy and smooth transfer. 

Firstly, the sum of GBP30,000,000.00 will transfer to any valid foreign account you will nominate, then upon a successful transfer without any disappointment from our side; I will then fly to meet you in your home destination for sharing, thereafter we will jointly transfer the remaining balance of GBP5,000,000.00. 

I will also like us to invest some part of the money in your country. If you accept to work with me, you will be given 50% of the total money as your share and 50%. So the main question is, will you partner me in this transaction. If you are willing to cooperate in this project, 

Kindly view my identification link below and also contact me through my private email: mrstephen_h@yahoo.co.uk http://www.rbs.com/about-rbs/g1/our-board.ashx 

 I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY. 

 Best Regards 
Mr Stephen Hester 
Group Chief Executive Royal Bank Of Scotland"

Advice To Spammers

My name is not, nor has it ever been, Hornfrog!

Advice To The "World Bank" Scammer

When attempting to scam people by posing as "the World Bank", it is inadvisable to use the word "massage" in the subject line of your email.

Advice To Spammers and Scammers

It is inadvisable to adopt the surname "Swindle" as your fake id!