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Yeah, right !
(and I dont even have an account!)

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It’s called phishing and there have been lots of this kind of message flying round the UK for around 12 months, or maybe a bit longer.

Do you ever get Nigerian scam messages? They can be quite funny.

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I don’t know why they pick on citibank, I get maybe 20 a week of those phishes, and they are almost all for citi.

Talking of the Nigerian scams, this one is courtesy of The Register

Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT NIGERIA

Dear Mr. Sir,

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Dr. Bakare Tunde, the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde. He was the first African in space when he made a secret flight to the Salyut 6 space station in 1979. He was on a later Soviet spaceflight, Soyuz T-16Z to the secret Soviet military space station Salyut 8T in 1989. He was stranded there in 1990 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. His other Soviet crew members returned to earth on the Soyuz T-16Z, but his place was taken up by return cargo. There have been occasional Progrez supply flights to keep him going since that time. He is in good humor, but wants to come home.

In the 14-years since he has been on the station, he has accumulated flight pay and interest amounting to almost $ 15,000,000 American Dollars. This is held in a trust at the Lagos National Savings and Trust Association. If we can obtain access to this money, we can place a down payment with the Russian Space Authorities for a Soyuz return flight to bring him back to Earth. I am told this will cost $ 3,000,000 American Dollars. In order to access the his trust fund we need your assistance.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account or subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 20 percent of the transferred sum, while 10 percent shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance 70 percent to other accounts in due course.

Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include downpayment in this financial quarter.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this message via my direct number 234 (0) 9-234-2220 only.

Yours Sincerely, Dr. Bakare Tunde
Astronautics Project Manager
[email protected]

http://www.nasrda.gov.ng/

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yup, i know, they wanted me to enter all details on the web site, whioch is why i said, yeah, right, LOL :wink:
i sure hope know one else does though!
yup, we got the nigerian things,still do sometimes…i rang one of them up once, to find out more detauils.
they wanted us to get them to NZ, and arrange a bank account and job,…then we would get 20% of the money out of south africa…less costs…

i then gave them a URL to a online banking web site, and said I had talked to the bank, and that a person from overseas could open a bank account vai the internet…they just need a passport…you do have a passport, dont you?
(i was fishing)
yeah right
that was when i was a bit nieve

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I just recently got a email from Gambia, “from” a women. It is nice to see they are using other countries and not being sexiest :lol:

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I don't know why they pick on citibank

I’ve had the odd one for Citibank, but a fair few for the other major UK banks as well. I guess they might be targetting .co.uk addresses (which my main email address is) with UK banks and .coms with Citibank?

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I can see a phishing one called “Abbey Security Update” supposedly from Abbey National in my webmail inbox at the mo - no way will I open it. Thankfully when I actually get all my emails into Outlook my spam filter will get rid of that, which is the best possible thing to happen to cr*p like it.

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For some reason someone thinks I would actually buy meds from a message like this one

[quote]t D---- A man was condemned to death for murder.

-----Original Message-----
From: Moriah Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
To: marshall correiaroosevelt sprockjoseph zentsjon mixtimothy toomey
Sent: Thursday, July, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: Please ask your fr-.ie`nd for reference on this

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We only carry m_'ed’s in several categories. We do carry the most popular m-ed^_ica~tions like dar.von for pain relief, Xe^nical for w`eig’ht l^o~ss and Le.vitr~a for men’s health. levantisk 12l

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It’s just amazing, I guess somebody must buy something otherwise they wouldn’t bother, I was looking for an example like that to post. I’ve recently gotten a whole bunch of “your mortage is approved” phishes that were equally incomprehensible, jeez, if you get caught by something that bad maybe you deserve it?

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what amazes me is that someone has the time to do this sort of stuff. I have a spamblocker so Ican have most of this stuff deleted, but thoes were a few.

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Even more amazing this guy http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.aspx has kept every bit of spam he has received since 1997 8O

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I get about 10 -15 bits of stuff. I used to use the outlook rules but had so many, it was getting a bit slow. I wish I could send each one of these nerds ( no offense to nice nerds :oops: ) their own emails. I did that with some butt head at work, as soon as he emailed me , it was forwarded back to him.

I use one by Cloudmark. it is fairly accurate and the learning curve isn’t long. What I do is have it dumped into a folder and then I can scan and see if it might be something that accidently found is way there.

The one the school district has is a real bear to deal with. All the weather bulletins from WD via my station to my school are found in the spam file. I haven’t had the chance to contact them and find out why. I’m having txt messages sent, yet it thinks they are spam. At home, not a problem.

Technology ain’t it wonderful?

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I got the Nigerian scam a few weeks ago

ABACHA ROYAL FAMILY.
Dear Sir/Madam,

It is my humble pleasure to write you this mail irrespective of the fact that you do not know me.Forgive me for the rather unorthodox way of contact however; I got your contact through a consulting firm,here in London.

I am Mr. Abbas Abacha the Third son of MRS. MARYAM ABACHA, the former first lady and wife of the late GEN. SANI ABACHA, the former head of state and Commander in chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am currently in England foreseeing the high court proceedings on behalf of my family. Due to the fact that the British government is trying to hand over my family bank accounts to the Nigerian government.

My mother (MRS. M. ABACHA), has, as a result of the trust and Confidence she has in me, mandated that I search for a reliable and trustworthy foreign partner,who will help receive some funds, which we have in cash Totaling US$150m (One Hundred and Fifty Million United States Dollars Only) into a personal, company or any Reliable foreign bank account for safe keeping for a short period of time, since our family bank accounts within and outside the country have all been frozen by the authorities. (I would refer you to these few Websites for further information about these monies and my family)

http//www.news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_980000/980845.stm
http//www.query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F40B15F93D5B0C7B8DDDAD0894DA404482
http//www.jubilee2000uk.org/worldnews/africa/nigeria200502.htm
http//www.onlinenigeria.com/abacha.asp

This money in question has however, been carefully deposited with a security Company in London. You may therefore be required to travel to any of the branches to collect the money on behalf of my Family for safekeeping.

It may also interest you to know that my mother (MRS.ABACHA) and some of our family members have,since the inception of The present democratic government, been placed under Partial house arrest,with their international Passports withdrawn pending the resolution of current fund recovery face - off between them and the present RTD GEN. OBASANJO led Federal Government, which from all indications will not exceed this year.

We have decided to offer anybody who will be willing to render this tremendous assistance 35% of the total Sum, while 5% shall be set aside for incidental Expenses. Note that this transaction involves no risks whatsoever, as you will have no dealing with my country, Nigeria. Rather, you will deal directly with The Security Company in London.

Let me have your confidential Tele, Fax and mobile Numbers and also a contact address in response to this proposal, That would enable me to send you some of my pictures and ID I shall let you into a complete picture of this mutually beneficial transaction when I have received your anticipated positive reply. This matter should be treated as urgent and confidential.

This is very important.

Best Regards,

MR. ABBAS ABACHA

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This E-mail was sent through Albawaba E-mail. Get your own at mail.albawaba.com

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That’s obviously a scam. They wrote to me a few weeks ago. I’ve already done the work and taken the 35% + 5% they offered, so there’s no money left to pay you :wink:

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I just got this one from poor Miss ROSEMARY USONGO :roll:

[quote]From Miss ROSEMARY USONGO
Abidjan. Cote D’Ivoire
West Africa.

Hi

I am the only Daughter of my late parents Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Usongo. My
father was a highly reputable business magnet who operated in the
capital of Ivory Coast during his days.

It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one
of his business trips abroad on the 12th September 2003. Though his
sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by
an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time.

But God knows the truth!

My mother died when I was just 6yrs old, and since then my father took
me so special. Before his death on September 2003, He secretly called
me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of USD$13.5M (Thirteen
Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S),deposited in a Security Company in
(Abidjan C

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LOL!

that was nice of her to tell me that $13.5 million is Thirteen Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S

they all do that
they must think it makes it more official?

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Most of these are known as phishing attempts. Spoofed email to get you to use your browser to give up your Credit Card or account info.

http://www.antiphishing.org/

Many of the “My Husband was killed so I need your help to steal the money” mails are virus generated. Few of them have websites reallated to them and most of them can be squashed with a decent SpamAssassin rule set. We don’t see these any more since the rules make the spam score so high we just deny them now.

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There’s a site www.419eater.com (not working very well at the moment) which includes some amusing “scam the scammer stories” related to the Nigerian funds spam.

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the one’s that really frost my hind quarters 8O are those that want to solve some medical condition that I didn’t know I have with some drugs from some bimbo who can’t spell . Yep, I am sure niave enough to go for it. :roll:

Now if the bimbo in question would be offering weather station parts, a large tower, etc… then maybe I might bite :smiley:

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A number of years ago a Judge of the High Court of Nigeria rang me telling me that a person xpat from Christchurch, NZ had left our organisation $5,000,000 US. The Judge had all the details about our group and he gave us his personal phone number so we would not have to go through his staff. Just for fun we decided to go along for the ride.
We contacted the local phone co and the traced the phone number to the above said judge.
On the secong or third call we were asked for copies of our passports. We contacted our lawyer and she joined in the fun. And gave us a letter proving who we were. The judge was not happy about that but finally thought it ok.
These calls went on for about two or three months untill finally he asked us for a cheque of 100,000 dollars to cover the costs. We asked him to take the $$ out of the $5,000,000 and send us the rest.
We never heard from him again. It was fun while it lasted. :x-mas: