Thursday, May 22, 2008

ATM e-mail Scams

The first two e-mail scams listed here are the same from two different sources. How could anybody not recognize these as scams?
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E-MAIL SCAM #1
Goodday,
I wish to inform that I have dropped your ATM MASTER CARD worth $800,000 USD with FedEx Delivery Services. Insurance and delivery charges have been paid for, but the only fee remaining is the security safe keeping fee of $193 USD which you will be required to pay before delivery. I did this because I was unable to make the funds transfer to your home account in your country and I am going out of Nigeria to Iraq for a period of 4 months to see my boss.

However, this was not paid for because of demurrage. Well, I did forward them your delivery address, but a re-confirmation is important and when contacting, I advise you quote the parcel and shipment code to them for onward delivery to your re-confirmed address. The ATM MASTER CARD has pin number 8876.
Forward the following when contacting FedEx Delivery Services:
Your Name, Your Delivery Address, Your Phone Number and code below.
Find FedEx Contact Information Below:
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Contact Officer: Mr. Fred Oliver
E-mail: fedexcustomerservice-nig1@live.com
Shipment Code: FED/00987-887641
Parcel Number: 9972201-003
Regards,
Mr. John Walter
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E-MAIL SCAM #2
Goodday,

I wish to inform that I have dropped your ATM MASTER CARD worth $800,000 USD with FedEx Delivery Services. Insurance and delivery charges have been paid for, but the only fee remaining is the security safe keeping fee of ($185) USD which you will be required to pay before delivery. I did this because I was unable to make the funds transfer to your home account in your country and I am going out of Nigeria to Iraq
for a period of 4 months to see my boss.

However, this was not paid for because of demurrage. Well, I did forward them your delivery address, but a re-confirmation is important and
when contacting, I advise you quote the parcel and shipment code to them for onward delivery to your re-confirmed address. The ATM MASTER CARD has pin number 8876.

Forward the following when contacting FedEx Delivery Services: Your Name, Your Delivery Address, Your Phone Number and code below.

Find FedEx Contact Information Below:
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E-mail:fedexdeliver_customerservice@live.com
Tel: +234 805 602 0309
Shipment Code: CPEL/OWN/9856
Parcel Number: EG2272-NG
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Full name......................
Home address............
Country....................
Telphone...............

Thanks.
Mr.Barrister Felox.
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E-MAIL SCAM #3

This scam attempt has a little different twist - but it is still a scam.

Charles Bouchard

bouchard30@yahoo.com

Attention friend,

I am Charles Bouchard, Account Credit Officer of Deutsche Bank (DB) of Spain . It is with strict confidence and trust that I am contacting you independently of my discovery to seek your kindest assistance for this subject which requires your urgent attention.

There is a fund which is to the tune of US$17,900,000.00 (Seventeen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand US Dollars) which has been floating in this account # DB-71358757-42609 since 2003 after the death of the investor, late Michael Schmidt. In the course of doing my job I discovered this account and it is upon this discovery that I decided to contact you to collaborate to pull out this fund as the surviving relation since you share a name that can stand as next of kin to this late customer. My proposal therefore, is that you cooperate with me to transfer this fund to your bank rather than watch it unclaimed.

Be aware that at the end of a five year depository mandate of any bonded depository account, if such an account is not claimed or renewed to commence another tenure of 5 additional years, a 6 months period of grace is granted to the account holder or its designated beneficiary and a probate order of Memorandum is then issued to provide such a beneficiary whereby, failure to do so at the end of its expiration that is (the period of grace) these funds will be quarantined and declared unclaimed at the end of the fiscal year.

In view of this, I seek your fullest and urgent cooperation to claim this fund as the closest surviving relation to this late client as I have every access opportunity and connection to records in the bank for these claims. Please kindly send to me your bio-data information to work out all the relevant change of ownership mandate. Once this is done the attorney will present these claims document to the bank. After having certified these documents the bank will contact you within three working days for the funds release. I want you to please look at this opportunity as a good cause and remove every form of guilt from your mind to claim this fund.

If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity and also some level of detachment from conventional processes. There is no living beneficiary to this account yet as his bio-data form was blank of next of kin. In the field of private banking opening an account with us means no one will easily know of its existence, as account is rarely held under a name. Depositors use numbers and codes to make their account anonymous. Please I would be most grateful if you will be kind enough to execute this transaction with me without delay. In this case I will instruct you on how to claim this fund as the next of kin to this late client so that these funds could be transferred to your bank account for me.

As soon as everything is put in place I will seek for a short vacation time from my work to travel to your country for my share of this deposit. The sharing of this fund will be 70 percent for me and 30 percent for you including the process settlement of this transaction.

I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequence to my career if you alert my bank. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking. Please contact me through the above email account to urgently commence the working process to a conclusion.

Thank you,

Charles Bouchard.