fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: James Wood <mrjames5woodxx1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: james50wood@myway.com
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:00:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: HELLO
The Manager,
Bank of Scotland Limited,
HBOS Treasury Services,
33,Old Broad Street,
London EC2N 1HZ.
Greetings From JAMES WOOD
..
This letter is not intended to cause any form of embarrasments, but
ratherintended to contact your highly esteemed self. I am writing to seek
your consent in a private and confidential matter regarding some
funds unaccounted for in our bank here in London during the last 2006
business year.I need assistance from a trustworthy and reliable Foreigner whom I will fillin as the beneficiary.
Your major role would be to provide either an existing bank account or
to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive this money and
get 30% of the total funds as commission. There are practically no risks
involved, thetransaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law, it will be simply a
bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the
eneficiary (next of kin)so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bankaccount under few working days.
I am JAMES WOOD, the regional manager of Bank Of Scotland Limited,
and I write you this proposal in good faith; I am married with five lovely kids. It is my duty as the regional manager to send in financial
report to my head office in the capital city at the end of each business year. On
the course of the last year 2006 business report, I discovered the sum of
Twentysix million eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings
26,850,000.00. Thefund is of clean origin. The owner of this account is a foreigner, a
program leader.Untill his death. The Late Prime Minister, Mr. Rafik Hariri. I
willprovide all necessary information needed in order to claim this money.
Hoppingin God that you will never let me down now and in future. ok! Rafik
Bahaa EdineHariri (November 1,1944 - February 14, 2005), was a Lebanese self-made
billionaire and business tycoon,and was five times Prime Minister of
Lebanon(1992-1998 and 2000-2004) before his last resignation from office on October 20, 2004.
The late Rafik Hariri died on February 14, 2005 when explosives
equivalent to around 300 kg of C4 were detonated as his motorcade
drove past theSaint George Hotel in the Lebanese capital. Our head office is not
aware of Funds and will never be aware of it. I have placed this funds on what we
call escrow call account with no beneficiary and as an officer of this bank I
cannot be directly connected to this money, hence i contacted you. If you accept
to work with me I will appreciate it very much as you are the first and the
only person I am contacting for this particular transaction.
We will start the first transfer with sixteen million pounds, upon
successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we
shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account. A this
juncture i wish to tell you what prompted me to package this deal. I have a 9-year
old daughter who has leukemia, disease of the blood, and she needs a bone
marrow transplant or she will die. I want this transplanting to be done in any good
children hospital in your country if there is one.
Once this fund is transferred into your account, I shall resign from
my job and bring my family to start a new life in your country. I would
begrateful if you would help me in looking out for good investment
oppurtunities with my own part of the money in a very profitable business.
I have worked for this bank for the past 15 years yet I have nothing to
show for it, I really need your assistance to secure this fund as
soon as possible. as soon as you receive this message if you think we can
work together, so that we can go over the details. Send also your Private mobile phone and fax nos: for more proper elaborrations.PLEASE GET BACK TO ME WITH MYPRIVATE EMAIL FOR EASY CONTACT( james50wood@myway.com)
Truly yours,
JAMES WOOD
---------------------------------
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
---------------------------------
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
Anti-fraud resources: