I get too many mails like the belo from “Mrs. Rebecka Garang”, where none of my e-mail addresses is listed in the to-field. If it was, I might actually take them more seriaously. Now I don’t actually now anything about John Garang, and he might just have a widow named Rebecka, but I have a distinct feeling that the below mail is the first bait in a scam setup. It has every sing of it.

from    Rebecca Garang <mrsrebeccagarang02@yahoo.fr>
to    mrsrebeccagarang02@yahoo.fr,
date    Dec 30, 2007 2:01 PM
subject    From Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
signed-by    yahoo.fr

From Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
Khartoun Sudan

Greetings in the name of the most high GOD. The source through which I got your contact gave me the confidence to reach you.

I am Mrs. Rebecca Garang the widow of late John Garang who was untill his death the vice president of Sudan in Africa. In brief, my late husband was a strong opposition for over 20yrs untill he was appointed the vice president on the 9th of July 2005 by the United Nations Peace Team as an avenue to quench the 20yrs civil war in Sudan. He died on the 31st of July 2005 following a helicopter crash alongside with 12 others just 22days after his appointment as the vice president. What led to the helicopter crash is still unclear but I know that my husband was the target.

I have a problem I believe you will be of great assistance. Please kindly permit me to have your responce to enable me contact for better explanations.

Remain blessed in the Lord Jesus.

Yours in Christ

Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
Khartoun Sudan

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Yesterday I tried to communicate with a friend in Zimbabwe via SMS. The first SMS message I sent got through alright, even if it took a few hours. After receiving a reply I wanted to send a follow-up and it turned out to be quite long. It spanned 3 messages, but I sent it anyway. Promptly I received 3 messages from another Zimbabwian number saying

“You are barred from using this service.”

That sounded kind of sinister, and I worry a bit about it, since the message involved a message about moving to Sweden. It might have been held by censors, and my number blocked from sending more messages until after an investigation. I hope I haven’t caused my friend any problems…

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Spam levels are up this christmas. Not only from scammers trying to take advantage of the charity spirit of the season, lottery scammers trying to make people believe that there is a chance to win big sums of money without even purchasing a lottery ticket (and now they even started commenting on my blog).

There is also the e-marketeers who didn’t make it this christmas either, and takes desperate measures to drive people to their e-stores at the last secondd before christmas.

My spam basket has never been this full, and I’m happy that my serverside spam filters catch the majority of all the crap rolling in.

Here’s a nice little music video about the other kind of spam, the kind of spam that isn’t powered by Microsoft.

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If you received the below mail fron “Mrs. Jennifer Wilson” you might wonder how a mail where somebody is willing to include you in their will might end in a fraud attempt where you are actually separated from some of your own money. The woman just wants help with finding goood causes you think. Well, that is probably not entirely the case. You will probably first be asked to show some good faith by paying for lawyers, bankf fees, or even contribute with some small sums to a charity project that just happens to be run by the person behind the Jennifer Wilson alias.

from    Mrs. Jennifer Wilson <jeniferwilson23@aim.com>
reply-to    jeniferwilson23@aim.com,
to    [a publicly published]@lindqvist.com,
date    Dec 18, 2007 8:35 PM
subject    WILL FOR CHARITY

Assistance

This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have Not yet met. I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any Pains so I decided to contact you through this medium. I got your Contact through a personal search via the internet. As you read this, I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, because, I Believe everyone will die someday.

My name is Jennifer Wilson I am a dying woman who have decided to donate What I have to you/ church/charity Organizations. I am 64 years old and I was diagnosed with esophageal Cancer for about 7 Years ago, immediately after the death of my husband who lived all his Life in America, who has left me everything he worked for.

I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared For anyone. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focus on my self as that was the only thing I Cared for. But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world. I Believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would Live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that I know My time is near I have been touched by God to donate from what I have Inherited from my late husband for the good work of God, rather than Allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.

So far, I have distributed money to some charity organizations in the U.A.E, London and Ireland. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I once asked members of my family to Close one of my accounts and donate the money, which I have there to Charity organization in Bulgaria; they refused and kept the money to Themselves.

Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended With what I have left for them. The last of my money which is the huge Cash deposit that I have with Financial Firm Abroad .I will want you to Help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations And let them know that it is me Jennifer Wilson that is making this Generous donation.

I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses you to support and assist Me with good heart Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to Forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be Going in for an operation in less than few days. I decided to WILL/donate the money to you for the good work of the lord, And also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the Assistance of the widows according to (JAMES 1:27).

I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit This money and my husband relatives are not inclined to helping poor Persons and I do not want my husband’s hard earned money to be misused Or spent in the manner in which my late husband did not specify. At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the Fact that my relatives are around me and my health status. I wish you All the best and May the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use The funds well and always extend the good work to others.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until The task is accomplished as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize My last wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don’t Want my relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.

Regards,
Jennifer Wilson
Please contact me through the email address below
jeniferwilson23@aim.com

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If I am to believe, Mr E Dominique, the forgotten funds belonging to a Mr Martin J Hillenbrand is to become partly mine. And who would say no to a chance to get 40 % of almost 30 million dollars?

Well, I do. I say no since I don’t believe a word of what the scammer alias “Mr E Dominique” is writing about. Hopefully, nobody else does either, since this is a typical scam mail, even if it has a twist, since the scammers have chosen a bait where it might be quite hard for pages like this, that strive to expose there scam to show up in the search results. The real Martin J Hillenbrand was an American diplomat serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1970s.

from emmanuel dominique <emma_dom089@hotmail.fr>
reply-to emma_dom01@yahoo.fr,
to undisclosed-recipients,
date Dec 15, 2007 2:26 AM
subject *****SPAM***** FROM Mr.E.Dominique

Mr.E.Dominique

ACCOUNTING OFFICER IN FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICAN OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO .

All the pleasure is mine to write this message to you in order to request your invaluable partnership for the realization of a very important transaction which must be treated with great discretion.

I ask of you from this very begining to excuses me for all the inconveniences which my mail may cause you; all the same though we do not know each other personally and we have never meet before. I believe firmly that a true confidence can be born from our communication and thus support a true partnership between you and I.

I am audit manager, in foreign accounts department here in Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso; I have been working in this banking institution for the pass 14 years.

It was during my investigation in the bank I discover that the deceased customer Deposited the sum of $29,850,000 dollar (Twenty Nine Million Eight Hundred An Fifty Thousand Dollars) and I notice in the file that during the deposition of this money with the Bank he did not indicate is true next of kin to the board of directors in is Paper work with the bank of Africa here in Burkina Faso west Africa.

After all intensive routing Investigation I find out that no body has ever come to put claim over the released of this money, it is upon this I am now seizing the privilege and opportunity to contact you as to apply to the bank as a business associate to the deceased customer Mr Martin J. Hillenbrand.

As a foreign partner which this money will be transfer into your account, you Are entitle to 40% of the total money why 55% will be for me as the moderator of this transaction and 5% is been mapped out for measeallanouse expenditure that may be incur during the course of this transaction

PROFILES OF THE DECEASED CUSTOMER
Mr Martin J. Hillenbrand.

The late customer Martin J. Hillenbrand he death on Friday July 5, 2003 at Commemorative Centre of Cancer of a Crisis Cardiac here in OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.

Appointee: Foreign Service officer.
Title: ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Appointment: May 1, 1972 and Presentation of Credentials: Jun 27, 1972 Termination of Mission: Left post, Oct 18, 1976.

The Late Ambassador becomes Businessestacom in his Country and here in Ouagadougou BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA.

I will urge you to go through this proposal properly and let me know if you are willing to accord me this assistance for us to achieved this golden opportunity for the betterment of our life, I also want to let you know that this transaction is 100% risk free there is nothing for you to be afraid off, all loopholes have been properly taking care before contacting you.

Anxiously waiting for your prompt response.
Yours faithfully

Mr.E.Dominique

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Cultural differences are never as obvious as in this type of scam mails. Now if I was to choose an alias that would fill my potential scam victims with trust, I wouldn’t choose an alias such as Godswell Dikko. Neigther would I write that i got a list of names that I prayed over, and then send my mail to myself, bcc:ing the true recipiants.

I can’t help but hope that someone studying anthropology reads these 419 mails and some day writes a thesis on them.

from Godswill Dikko <godswill_dikko222@yahoo.com>
to godswill_dikko222@yahoo.com,
date Dec 15, 2007 1:10 PM
subject i need your help
signed-by yahoo.com

From: godswill dikko

Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Dear Sympathetic one,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your name and contact from the Ivorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I prayed over it and selected your name among other names due to it’s esteeming nature and the recommendations given to me as a reputable and trustworthy person I can do business with and by their recommendations, I must not hesitate to confide in you for this simple and sincere business.

I am godswill dikko, the only son of late Mr and Mrs christopher dikko.I am 19years old. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast before he was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business deal. When my mother died on the 21st October 1996, my father took me so special because I am motherless.

Before the death of my father on the 20th of May 2007 in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of US$7.500,000(seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) left in a suspense account in a local bank here in Abidjan,he told me that he used my name as his only son for the next of kin in deposit of the fund. He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth he was poisoned by his business associates. That I should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose, (such as real estate management).

Sir, I am honourably seeking your assistant in the following,

1) To provide a bank account where this money will be transferred.
2) To serve as the guardian of this fund
3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and also to secure a residential permit for me in your country.

Moreover sir, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort input after the successful transfer of this money to your nominated account.
Furthermore, you can indicate your option towards assisting me as I believe that this transaction would be concluded within Seven (7) days you signify interest to assist me.
Please dear sympathetic one this is my private telephone number 00922566450555.Please dear one i will like to have your private telephone number so that i will call you.
please this is my private email box(godswill_dikko111@yahoo.com)
Anticipating hearing from you soon.

Thanks and God bless.

Your sincerely,
godswill dikko

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