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 […]
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.
Hajia Maria or Hajia Mariam wants to give me 12.6 million dollars
There are people who frown on my attempts to publish all iscams that find its way into my mailbox. But I can’t help to publish the really bad ones like this one, where the scammer haven’t bothered to keep track of the sender name. In the mail header it’s Hajia Maria, but in the signature […]
Two mails from the Central Bank of Nigeria
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
ScamNet – an initiative from Western Australia
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 […]