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Chriss
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 Posted: 09:25 - 20 Nov 2007  Post subject: Scam Emails |
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I've never really suffered from spam, but over the last month or so, I've started getting loads of scams, asking for all my personal details, so they can send lots and lots of money to me. Some appear to be from the national lottery, telling me I've won, and email blah@yahoo.com with my details and they'll send a cheque out (why would the national lottery use yahoo?) others are outright asking me to participate in fraud!
I know they're all scams, so how can I block them? Does anyone have a good trick or something, or managed to stop them?
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| Posted: 09:48 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: Re: Scam Emails |
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| Chriss wrote: | I've never really suffered from spam, but over the last month or so, I've started getting loads of scams, asking for all my personal details, so they can send lots and lots of money to me. Some appear to be from the national lottery, telling me I've won, and email blah@yahoo.com with my details and they'll send a cheque out (why would the national lottery use yahoo?) others are outright asking me to participate in fraud!
I know they're all scams, so how can I block them? Does anyone have a good trick or something, or managed to stop them? |
Have you given out/posted in full your email address lately? Sounds like something has suddenly got you onto a 'mugu' list.
Now I think ignoring and marking as spam/junk (depending on what email you use) is all you can really do, and hope they decrease.
You could also post a couple of the emails up here (blocking out your personal details, of course) and myself and maybe other BCF-ers might indulge in a bit of scammer baiting , see how much of their time we can waste...
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Chriss
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| Posted: 10:20 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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That's the thing, it's an email address I never give out, I have a domain name that does email forwarding...
These are the ones received within the last day.
| Quote: | This is to inform you that have been selected for a Cash prize of
£600,000.00.GBP(Six Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds)and a brand new
Toyota Prius car International programs held November 2007 in London
Uk.Contact For claims below
Mr.Kelly White
Email: agent_claimskellywhite@yahoo.co.uk
When contacting him, please provide him with your secret pin code
TY7448500 and your reference number 799BV90.You are also advised to provide
him with the under listed information as soon as possible:
CLAIMS REQUIREMENT:
1.Name in full :
2.Address :
3.Nationality :
4.Age :
5.Sex :
6.Occupation:
7.Phone/Fax:
8.Present Country:
Accept my hearty congratulations once again!
Regards
Mr.Tedy Lee
Lottery Manager. |
| Quote: | CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
TINUBU SQUARE,VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS-NIGERIA
SUB: TRANSFER FUND:
PAYMENT OF US$10 MILLION ONLY.
PAYMENT BILL NO: CBN/4071/DRC/1806/CTFC-313/00.CBN/GOV.
FILE NO:FGN/87653
ALLOCATION NO:10x453aa/765
PAYMENT CODE:43900aa
SEQUENCE NO:PPP/3348/68
Attn:Beneficiary,
This is a receipt Confirmation in Central Bank of Nigeria coming
from office of Presidency and Federal Ministry of Finance,Please note
that your approved payment with Federal Government of Nigeria is now
placed on hold in this office for final official file review Vetting
necessary for the transfer payment to take place into any of your
authorised designated Bank Account.
To reconfirm the originality of beneficiary claimant and information
particulars please submitted to us by the concerned authorities, and
kindly give answers to the below question correctly for Verification
and send it back to this office without delays.
1)Beneficiary's Name:..................................
2)Beneficiary's Address:.............................
3)Beneficiary's Phone and Fax Number:...........
4)Amount to Receive:..................................
5)Beneficiary's Bank Name,Address E.T.C:.........
In addition, send us a copy of your Driver's license or International
passport or any other certified ID for record purposes. As soon as we
receive the completed form, we shall vet your payment accordingly.
(NOTE: privacy of your personal information is an important part of
this office providing you with quality services. As such we would
like to inform you of our commitment for collecting, using, securing
and sharing non-public personal information. Our principles for
protecting your personal information are based in United Nations
System Standards Association Model Code as set out in World Bank's
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
It is important to us to provide this service to our clients/costumer.)
We will be looking forward to hearing from you. For more information
on your payment, kindly reach the under sign at 234-80-34334887.
MR. EMMANUEL ORJI,
FORIEGN OPERATIONS,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN).
DIRECT NUMBER:234-8034334887,
DIRECT FAX NUMBER:234-1-759-9123.
**This communication (including any attachments) is intended for the
use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain information that
is confidential, privileged or legally protected. Any unauthorized use
or dissemination of this communication or in part is strictly
prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please
immediately notify the Central Bank of Nigeria by return e-mail
message and delete all copies of the original communication. Thank you
for your cooperation.*** © 2007. Central Bank Of Nigeria(Nigeria Apex
Bank). |
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NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010,
Liverpool L70 1NL
United Kingdom
(Customer Services)
OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
draws
of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The
online
cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail
addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced
automated
random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After
this
automated computer ballot, your e-mail-address emerged as one of the
winners
in the category \\"A\\" You are therefore been approve to claim the sum
of
1,350,000.00(One Million Three Hundred And Fifty Pounds Sterling) with
the
information below:
Ref: XYC /26500460037/08
Batch: 74/00319/IPD
Mr. Garry Murphy
E-mail: uk.claimsofficer_uknl@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44-704-576-4180
+44-704-572-1030
Fax:+44-707-515-8123
PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY.
(4) DATE OF BIRTH
(5) OCCUPATION
(6) TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7) SEX
Submitted Form will be manually verified and processed by the assigned
Claims Processing Officer (CPO) the Processing of your form will be
Completed within the next 24 hours of receiving your LOTTERY CLAIMS
APPLICATION FORM You will receive an update on the status of your
Application once completely processed
Congratulations from all our staff for being part of Uk National
Lottery PROGRAM. 2007
Sincerely,
Mrs.Caroline Bryan
(Lottery Co-ordinator)
Uk Lottery Organisation
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© UK LOTTERY. All rights reserved. Offer valid to winners who are
at least 18 years of age. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary
to claim winning prize. You will need to meet all of the steps to
redeem
as outlined in the Terms & Conditions before you can receive your
promotional prizes. |
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| Posted: 10:53 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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If you have a domain name they will have picked it up that way. I get tons of the stuff, most now filtered via the co my domain is reg with. Look in the email option, most will have some kind of spam filter to enable. Other than that you need to do it on your pc via your email client.
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Chriss
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| Posted: 15:58 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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Most of my emails I collect through my mobile phone, so something locally isn't much good.
I have a @mydomain which doesn't collect any spam yet, and @btinternet.com and that's where it's coming to! 
I might try and block them using key words in yahoos filters. :/
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| Posted: 17:10 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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Ohh good, another one.
| Quote: | I am William simon,when i saw your Email Contact on internet when Searching,i decided to tell you about my situation,i have been diagnosed with
cancer and i need your help in distributing my funds of $58m to charities.please get back to me on my private email is below if you will help me:
williamsimon2010@yahoo.com.cn
God bless you
William Simon.
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It annoys me, as when I check my emails from my phone, it costs me, so each spam email wastes me money.
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| Posted: 17:14 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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I use spamato proxy, which sits almost like a local mailserver and does all the spam filtering using 6 different filters. It also 'learns' the filters based on other users, as it updates itself from a central server as well as updating the server with info on mails you mark as spam yourself.
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| Posted: 17:44 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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Home Linux server with filtering. Spam gets dropped at the port. Sweet. 
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| Posted: 18:32 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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If there was an easy way of moving my account to Gmail I would.
I'm not sure how I'd access a local server from my phone.
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| Posted: 22:03 - 20 Nov 2007 Post subject: |
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After seeing this thread i revisited my 'scam-baiting' email account.
I had planted that email a few weeks ago in a mugu guestbook to harvest scam emails.
I had 71 of them. 
Lottery 'wins', african beneficiaries with money to move, and quite a few 'my husband died, I'm dying, help me give to charity' ones - with identical text but different 'names'. Oh and a couple of quite nasty virus urls to try to take over my PC.
Shocking.
If I get chance I wil try to mess with a few of them, just getting inspiration for the zany characters I will pose as.
Like to do my bit to waste their time, it means less time for them really scamming the vunerable.
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