Another benevolent scammer has turned up. Mrs Maryann Gbagbo is just one more of the scammer aliases that involves our gread. Who would not want to lay their hands on her inheritance of 2.8 million dollars? This is a classic 419 scam, where a childless widow wants to give her money away to charity projects. […]
iScams - scams on the internet
The web is allways full of gullable people, just like you and I. And there are lots of scammers ready to try to cheat us on our money.
New Aliases: Peter Raymund and Margaret Ferguson
I don’t know if the lottery scammers have taken to writing more and shorter mails because of sites like this, but the last few days I have received several e-mails like this one. Very short, and with very few searchable keywords execpt for the names of the person who writes them and the so-called payment […]
Yahoo! International Promotion Program scam
Lately, a large number of lottery, and 419 scammers have been using Yahoo! addresses. They are much more common than Google’s Gmail service. However, and ironically, not this one, that claims to be a winning notification from the ”Yahoo” International Promotion Program”, is a scam email that doesn’t use a Yahoo address, even if they […]
Jane Furness Gordon and the Powerball prize award
Some spammers are easier to detect than others. The first giveaway is that they tend to use strange Yahoo! domains for sending their mail. This one, acting under the alias of David Thomas Clark, urges me to contact a Ms Jane Furness Gordon, who is supposed to be working for a company in England, but […]
Another Microsoft Lottery scam
Scammers have been using well-known brands as originators for lottery scams for several years now, and Microsoft isn’t a new name. This lottery scam, from the alias Ben Clark, must however be one of the worst written notifications I have ever seen. The lack of formatting, the ridiculous sum of a million pounds and the […]
Confidencial letter from Mrs Aminah Osuman
The do-gooder scammers are a very special category of 419 scammers. Their purpose is to invoke our own scammer within. To make us want to lay our own greedy hands on a large sum of money that the scammer sais to want to give away to a good cause. In this case, we are to […]
Pastor Powell has willed me his money
Pastor Powell and Armed Hassan are two new scammer aliases that I haven’t come across earlier. I cannot find any other accounts of these aliases, but the content of the mail is a good example of a classic 419 scam, and the originating computer has the IP Address 77.70.128.170 which is registered in Nigeria.
Don't sell anything to Steve Mackay
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
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
It’s not every day you get an appeal for urgent business assistance from a princess, and given that the below mail has every sign of being a 419 mail, I probably haven’t got one yet. But I like the tone in this mail, even though the scammer posing as princess Kamara has quite a lot […]