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Mrs. Grace Beatrice Minor wants assistance

Nikke Lindqvist — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:29:28 +0000

There are lots of instances of the below mail on the web, and I’m afraid that there is also a real Grace Beatrice Minor, the name that these scammers use in the below scam mail. Actually, there is no chance at all that the below mail is sent by the Grace Beatrice Minor who is the undersigner. The other alias in the mail, Mr. De Koster Thierry, might or might not be a real person, but I think not. Anyway, it’s one of those more complicated scam setup.

from         samuel sendize
to         undisclosed-recipients <>
date        2008-mar-12 16:53
subject        CONFIRMATION EMAIL

Good-day,
I got your contact after a diligent search of a foreign partner who will be of immediate assistance to me believing that this business proposal will be of mutual benefit to both of us and that you wi ll not betray me.
I am Mrs. Grace Beatrice Minor, You can find out who I am and why I need your assistance in a very confidential manner from the following sites:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2005/066.htm
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc8176.doc.htm
There is a total sum of 55 Million Euros deposited in a financial Institution abroad that requires urgent clearance and re profiling thus the reason why I am contacting you to come and act as my Proxy.

You will be compensated with 25% of the total if you can move the funds to your city where it will be invested in any Blue chip investment. Therefore you are advised to send your letter of intent to my
confidant/representative in Belgium as follows: Mr. De Koster Thierry.
Email: dekoster123@gmail.com,
Contact him now for further details of what you are to do next. Please note that everything about this transaction must be strictly confidential and all correspondence should be directed to Mr. De Koster Thierry as stated above.

God bless you.

Mrs. Grace Beatrice Minor.

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Mr Ahmed Usman wants to donate 500,000 pounds

Nikke Lindqvist — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:13:37 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted the last scam mail here. Not that I haven’t received any, it’s more that they seem to come in at such a steady stream that it sometimes seems futile to even think that I can publish them all.

Anyhow, here’s a mail that seems to come from a newcomer in the field of internet scamming. And again, the main giveaway is that the mail has been addressed to an anonymous list instead of directly to me, the alleged beneficiary.

from    ATM GRANT AID
answer-to         atmpayoutofficer1@yahoo.com.hk
to         “.”@bellnet.ca
date        2008-mar-13 01:24
subject        DEAR BENEFICIARY

DEAR BENEFICIARY,
CONGRATULATIONS WE BRING TO YOUR NOTICE!!!THE OFFICE OF THE SENATE
HOUSE HAS CHOSEN YOU BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE AS ONE OF THE FINAL RECIPIENT
OF THIS NEW YEAR 2008 PROMOTION CASH GRANT GRANT/DONATION (500,000.00pounds)
TO CELEBRATE THE 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATE.THE ATM GRANT/AID ONLY COLLECT EMAIL
ADDRESS OF FINAL RECIPIENT.FROM DEFFERENT COUNTRY: UNITED STATS, GREECE,
SAUDI ARABIA, EUROPE, ETC.AND WITH AN ELECTRONIC BALLOTING SYSTEM,
WITHOUT THE RECIPIENT APPLYING.
(PAYMENT REMMITANCE CONTACT)
Mr.AHMED USMAN.
E-Mail:atmpayoutofficer1@yahoo.com.hk
Phone:+2348027539847
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND DOWN THIS FOLLOWING INFORMATION
1, NAME
2, COUNTRY
3, ADDRESS,
4, STATE,
5, PHONE NUMBER
6, DATE OF BIRTH
7, AGE AND SEX
8, OCCUPATION
WINNING BATCH No:(W-342-8876,U-500-32)
WARNNING!!!: FRAUDULENT EMAIL ARE CIRCULATING THAT APPEARS TO BE USING
THE ATM GRANT/AID ADDRESS, BUT ARE NOT FROM THE ATM GRANT/AID BOARD.
HOUSE,SO BEWARE!!!.

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Anti-Valentine

Nikke Lindqvist — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:18:26 +0000

Once again, it’s the time of year when love and affection has to be manifested in pink, with baloons, roses, hearts and of some weird reason, chocolades. Each year I return to this old post, and this Anti-valentine card. It’s now published together with others, like it at meish.org/vd

I just love it. Please visit meish.org/vd and send it along to your anti-valentines. Here’s a quote from the original site, where it was first published:

“Just like the poor, VD will always be with us and like herpes, just when you think its gone for good, it rears its ugly head once more.

Yes, Valentine’s Day is upon us once more: that special time of year when chocolate manufacturers and greetings card companies encourage you to demonstrate the extent of your fondness in cold, hard, cash (or the satin-hearted equivalent) on February 14th.”
(Originally published on 02/14 2005)

Added on Valentine’s day 2005: Google’s in a valentine mood, this year as every year. And you won’t find that anti-valentine spirit there…

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Abdul Isa of African Development Bank, Burkina Faso

Nikke Lindqvist — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:53:08 +0000

This e-mail from the alias of Abdul Isa, from the African Development Bank in Burkina Faso must be one of the longest bankscam e-mails I have ever received. It has all the markings of a scam, with the bait, the re-assurments, and the wow of silence. The first rule of a bank scam is “don’t talk about the bank scam”. Because if you do, as I do here, others, like yourself, will find out that others have also received the same mail, and will maybe realize that it is all a scam. But then, when sending out e-mails to an undisclosed mailing list, there is no real feeling that this mail was for my eyes only. Is there?

from abdul isa
reply-to abdul41@myway.com,
to undisclosed-recipients,
date Jan 11, 2008 4:51 PM
subject *****SPAM***** RE: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

MR ABDUL ISA
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
ATTN:

This message might meet you in utmost surprise,However,Its just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction,I am a banker by profession from Burkina Faso currently holding the post of a director auditing and accounting section of the bank.I have the opportunity of transferring the left over fund($30 m USD) which bellongs to one of my client who died along with his family in a plane crash on 31 july 200

After further investigation it was discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Thirty million United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration seven years six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct ADB BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you 60/30 while 10% will be mapped for expenses that may be incured in the preoccess of transfering this fund into your account. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the procentange 60/30. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit.

I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased person I will then officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.

I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by.

I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.

I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets
share the blessing.

If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for you .

Further more be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner give you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with him in a plane crash and I can not use my relation because its not accepted here in Burkina Faso. Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from the time been is your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the nest one weeks.

Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through international banking laws and all the necessary information will be given to you in later.I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.

Futher detailes of the transfer will be sent to you as soon as i receive a positive response from you.
Thanks.
MR ABDUL ISA

Wew! Well sorry Mr Abdul Isa. I broke the first rule of the Don’t reply. This has so many scam markers you cannot believe it. And I broke the first rule of the ADB scam. I talked about it, to warn others from biting on your bait.

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United Kingdom National Lottery in a new flavor

Nikke Lindqvist — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:59:23 +0000

First of all. There is no “E-mail address ballot lottery international program” with the UK National Lottery. And we’ve been through this so many times on this site, that it feels as if I’m repeating myself. The below e-mail is a scam. An attempt by fraudsters to cheat me, and whowever else got it, on their money. It has all the markings of a lottery scam. It’s sent from one e-mail address (that resolves to a Virgin free e-mail service), it has a free-for-all yahoo.de reply-to-address. It is sent out to a hidden mailing list and it is actually quite funny that it is originated from an IP address routed to Denver? Wasn’t The Camelot Group supposted to be situated in Liverpool?

However. Don’t believe a word of this garbage. It is nothing but a scam.

from The United Kingdom National Lottery
reply-to uk_lotteryclaimoffice070@yahoo.de,
to info@lottery.net,
date Jan 4, 2008 7:02 PM
subject ***Confirmed Reciept Lucky Winner***

The Camelot Group,:
operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD

WINNING NOTIFICATION

The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain held on the of 4th febuary 2007. Your mail account have
been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one
thousand,nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds £891,934.00

pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF
NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742006. This is from total prize money of GBP
4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this
category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over
100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that are listed
online.This promotion is this year\’s United Kingdom National Lottery
New Year bonanza. All winning must be claimed not later than 14 working

days from this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will
be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in
order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your reference number in all correspondence.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program.Contact details below

MR.Brain Johnson.
Customer Care
Tell:+44-70457-13755
Tell:+44-70240-94597
Tell::+44-70240-94349
Official Email: uk_lotteryclaimoffice070@yahoo.de

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money.

Note below your winning details:
Ticket Nº: 22-1356-4096-988
Serial Nº: A069-07
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742006
BATCH Nº.: 2006UKL-01

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULL

NAMES:____________2.ADDRESS:______City_________State_______Email______Address_______Postcode_____
__Country__________3.SEX:_______________4.AGE:________5.OCCUPATION:__________________

6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________

Final Notification/REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742006

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Rebecka Garang wants help

Nikke Lindqvist — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:06:49 +0000

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
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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I’m barred from texting to Zimbabwe

Nikke Lindqvist — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:13:42 +0000

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, spam, spam

Nikke Lindqvist — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:39:08 +0000

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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Will for charity - Jennifer Wilson

Nikke Lindqvist — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:14:22 +0000

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
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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E Dominique and the millions belonging to Martin J Hillenbrand

Nikke Lindqvist — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:00:53 +0000

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
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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