Steve Mackay (or Steven Mackay) and Helen Mackay are two e-mail aliases used by a gang of scammers that buy cars, television sets, dogs, skies, and various items that are sold via the web. The scam is setup by a buyer that contacts sellers and agree to buy whatever is sold. He or she then [...]
Jacinta Malaki – 419 scammer
2007-09-30 Av Kommentera
Jacinta Malaki isn’t a new name when it comes to 419 emails, but she seems to have changed her address since earlier mails. (She also seems to have moved from the Ivory Coast to Sierra Leone since the last attempt.) It’s a classic 419 setup with a young girl asking for assisntance, and you will [...]
Princess Jovita Kamara
2007-09-25 Av Kommentera
Major Paul Bruces and Lt. Col. Ralph Harland wants to smuggle out funds
2007-09-25 Av Kommentera
This is the first time I’ve seen a Nigerian 419 mail from someone masquerading as a UN army officer. It has all the classic signs of a 419 mail, with the large hidden funds in need of an outsider acting as a go-between, promises of a 100% risk-free business, the phony details (two large metallic [...]
Two mails from the Central Bank of Nigeria
2007-09-24 Av 197 kommentarer
Yesterday, I received a funny-looking html-formated mail from a »Barrister Goldstein«, acting for the »Central Bank of Nigeria«. It was quite difficult to understand anyting of it, and it had a funny bang of officiality, with beaurocratic wordings, Nigerian flags, an official logo… and centered text with links to a website that looks as if it hasn’t been updated since year 2000. Today I received the followup, which in part explains the first mail.
Esther Koffi – a do-gooder scammer
2007-09-18 Av Kommentera
We are clearly into the iscammer season, with at least one new Nigerian 419 type of fraud attempt every day in may e-mail (and then I’m only counting the ones that aren’d auto deleted by my serverside anti-spam tools or buried in GMail’s junk mail filter). This one, from an Esther Koffi, isn’t actually new. [...]
James Kwame: Funds for Investment under your care
2007-09-14 Av 2 kommentarer
After a quiet period, I’m suddenly swamped with shady business propositions. Today, there is a scammer that claims to be working att Fidelity Investment International, the world’s largest funds management company. The setup is that Mr. Kwame has found a way to transfer forgotten or lost funds into my care. The share with James Kwame [...]
Compasation? A mail from Dr Peter David
2007-09-13 Av Kommentera
Somebody calling himself a philanthropist, going under the name of Dr Peter David, has written me a mail with an offer of ‘compasation’ (which I guess should have been compensation). However. Since I got it, it has probably been sent to many others as well. And since the contact phone number has a Nigerian area [...]
I wouldn't contact Prof Ola Williams
2007-09-12 Av Kommentera
This is such an inbelievable 419 scam that I don’t quite know where to begin. I consists of a wrongly addressed mail, where we (the potential victims of the scam), are supposed to believe that we have the opportunity to claim money from a fund in Nigeria. Nigeria being one of the most poverty stricken [...]
A sensitive brief from Bank of China
2007-09-03 Av Kommentera
I just love it when I get shady 419 propositions from new markets, such as Hong Kong. This one, which is a combined bank scam and 419 scam, just arrived in my mail, and it seems to be from some Johnny-come-lately beginners at iscamming. They don’t even mention how many million dollars they want my help in moving…
Ahmed Kaddia thinks I'm J. C. Lindqvist's relative
2007-08-17 Av 15 kommentarer
It’s been quite some time since one of these lost relative scams ended up in my inbox (see below). Probably only thanks my double spam protection. But this mail, sent from a yahoo.fr account, is a classic example of how scammers try to find victims. I have no relative with the initials J. C and [...]
A blow on 419ers or not?
2007-07-05 Av Kommentera
The register has all the relevant articles on the large arrest of 111 suspected west African scam artists in June. Quite an interresting read, just as the comments from Akin, who also has a gret interpretation to the lyrics of the well known Nigerian top-hit I Go Chop Your Dollar: The Register: Dutch police arrest [...]
ScamNet – an initiative from Western Australia
2007-06-14 Av 2 kommentarer
One of the very few official anti-scam initiatives, and by far the best when it comes to simplicity and down-to-earth advice, comes from the government of Western Australia. It is called ScamNet, and is run by the departement of Consumer and Employment protection. The site is packed full with good advice around anti-scam. An excellent [...]
EU Award Lotto – Jose Maria Thomas
2007-06-13 Av 6 kommentarer
This lotto award notification that just arrived in my GMail inbox looks new. At leas, I’d say that the Turkish footer is completely new to me, as the lack of reasonable contact info. Maybe a sign of a newcomer in the lottery scamming business? The names are all wrong, the email address could have been [...]
Honda Car International Promotion Program
2007-06-08 Av 117 kommentarer
Many thanks to John Jones who sent me this ‘award notification’ from the Honda Car international promotion program. Yet another scam played at newcomers on the web who are led to believe that they have won one and a half million Brittish pounds in cash. If you receive a mail or letter like this, just [...]
PayPal phishing from Paypals.com
2007-05-06 Av 3 kommentarer
Phishing is a technique where scammers send out mails where you are lead to think that you log in to a service, supplying your credentials such as username and password. Only, you aren’t even close to the real site. This example is one where I think several people might be fooled. Notice the red markers [...]
eLoterie International 2007
2007-04-18 Av 56 kommentarer
The Netherlands Staatsloterij and the fake Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program
2007-04-18 Av 278 kommentarer
Even if the below mail, is quite similar to the previously published Dayzers Lottery scam, it is also very different, and needs a post of it own. Thanks to Gita, who submitted it in a comment. The Dayzers Lottery does in fac exist, but they don’t have any free-for anyone e-mail ballots. They even have [...]
Asia Online International Lottery
2007-04-04 Av 99 kommentarer
A new brand of the online lottery scam has opened. This time said to be based in Malaysia, and under the name of Asia Online International Lottery. It’s a scam for sure, and my faithful server-side spam filter has stamped it as spam, but let it through anyway. It’s a weird detail that these scammers [...]
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