How to wash laundry…ahem, money - by Dr. Roger Amar

Dr. Roger Amara, a doc from Malaysia explained me today how his client and himself wanted to transfer money from one account to another in order, probably to loose it’s track. Only one problem appeared: his client died, and now I would be the one who’d need to continue the process. Too bad it’s a scam.

ESTEEM GREETINGS

Good day to you.I would have contacted you through surface
mail, but because of time and for security reasons,I had
to reach you by email I apologize for breaking into your
privacy.

Meanwhile,let me introduce myself to you.I am Dr.Roger E.
Amar,I am a doctor at Hospital Queen Elizabeth
Malaysia,For the past six years,I have been the private
doctor to her Excellency,Chief Mrs.Stella Chincona
Obi.Last month,she came to our clinic for a liver
transplant and my assistant (Agathe Dawson) helped me in
the transplant operation.

The liver transplant was successful,but minutes later she
had some Complications that threw her into a terrible
coma.all the efforts we made,she died.A day before the
transplant operation,she came to my apartment to finalize
a deal with me,She has already called me from her country
two weeks before her arrival in Malaysia,to inform me
about this transaction and what she want me to do for
her.the main plan is to use my position as a reputable
doctor with the hospital,to remit the sum of $4.5 million
into Hospital Queen Elizabeth account with our bank.

The whole arrangement was completed and the fund was
carefully deposited with our bank.Her plans was to
transfer the fund into some private bank accounts in
Switzerland once she gets back to her country,so that the
management of the hospital will not know about the fund
and claim it. But unfortunately.she died some hours after
the liver transplant.

My main reason for contacting you is for you to assist in
transferring this sum of $4.5 million by presenting you
as a business partner or beneficiary to the deceased since
she has no next of kin,and more over no one knew about
this funds apart from me and her,because some auditors
will be coming in to check and balance Hospital Queen
Elizabeth account by next month and they will surely
discover the fund. Then,the hospital management will claim
the fund.

based on this secrecy of this fund,I would not be able to
handle this transaction alone.I need somebody that is not
related or connected to me in anyway,to be able to secure
this fund,as soon as possible.So,I consider it necessary
to intimate you on the profitable venture.I am even
thinking of us going into partnership,we can invest the
fund in any profitable business there in your country and
you will be in charge of all the affairs there.Which ever
way you want it is okay by me.

We don.t have much time to waste,so please,reply
immediately to enable us arrange on how to get this fund
transferred before the hospital claims it.

My sincere regards,

Dr.Roger E. Amar.
d602rogar@pisem.net
d601rogar@krovatka.su

Oh well, I got another million… by Mr. Song Li

I have to be the most lucky guy in the world: there’s no day when I don’t inherit or win a few millions. At least that’s what the emails i get state. Like the one below:

Good Day

Compliment of the day to you, although you may be skeptical receiving this
email as we have not met before, I am Mr.Song Lile I work with Hang Seng
Bank Ltd.I have a business proposition involving the sum of
$24,500,000.00usd in my bank which I know we will be of mutual benefit to
both of us, and I believe we can handle together, once we have a common
understanding and mutual cooperation in the execution of the modalities.

Should you be interested, please forward the following to me:

1.Full names,
2.Occupation,
3.Private phone number,
4.Current residential address.

Via this email address: info_songlile02@yahoo.com.hk
Your earliest response to this mail will be highly appreciated.

Best Regards

Song Li.

It is clearly a scam. I’m not going to answer this one, but if I would, the phisher most likely would ask me to wire or deposit some money in a bank account which would cover the expenses of the transfer. Nonetheless to say that I would see nothing in return. He would be happy, me not.

Confidential Spam from Ahmed Moola

Since is extremely confidential, I’m going to publish it.
The mail arrived to me in this format, without linebreaks or any formatting whatsoever, so don’t blame me, please.
This is a scam and if you received this e-mail too, please, don’t answer it.

Mr. Ahmed Moola. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT ABSA BANK LTD. JOHANBNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. TELL: 27732401244 Re: to accountant-moola@webmail.co.za ahmed.charteredaccountant.mool@gmail.com URGENT REPLY NEEDED Attn: I am Mr. Ahmed Moola, Chartered Accountant of AMALGAMETED BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA.(ABSA)I have decided to contact you through this medium based on a business proposal which will be of mutual benefit to both of us. However, I got your contact through a BUSINESS TRADE MANUAL in South African Chamber Of Commerce in my search for a foreign business partner whom I will transfer this fund in his personal or company’s account . During the annual bank auditing, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$ 42,000 000:00 (FORTY TWO MILLION US DOLLARS ONLY) in an account that belong to one of our foreign customers (Dr. Mohamed Gale) a citizen of Saudi Arabia, who lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 2003.View this website;(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm ). Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money, because we can not release it unless some bodies apply for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money. It is based on this, that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting you. If you indicate interest in this transaction I will let you know they steps to take for a smooth transaction for the approval of this fund from the Bank in your favor. The mode of sharing after the transfer of the money into your nominated bank account will be as follows: 65% for me and my colleagues, 30% will be given to you for your assistance and 5% will be mapped out to offset expenses during the course of the transaction. In receipt of this mail, call me immediately via the above phone or email and kindly send me your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Please treat this business proposal STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Hoping to hear from you soon. Best Regards, Mr. Ahmed Moola. http://www.absa.co.za/absacoza/content.jsp?/Home/Personal/Our-Customers/Islamic-Banking/About-Islamic-Banking/Management-&-People

Mr. Zafar Habib Khan sais I’m a millionaire… again

United Arab Emirates. One of the coolest places on the planet. This time I got a letter from Mr. Zafar Habib Khan, who, as he states works for a bank in the UAE. As usual, his client died, money is frozen in his bank and he needs my help to grab the money. Here’s the full story:

Greetings from Dubai,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe
it is only a day that people meet and become great friends
and business partners. I am Mr. Zafar Habib Khan,currently
Chief Investment Officer with a reputable bank here in U. A. E.
I write you this proposal in good faith,believing that I can
trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition
for you. On November 6, 2000, an Iraqi Foreign Oil consultant
/contractor with the CHEVRON PETROLEUM CORPORATION, MR MOHAMMAD
AL NASSER made a (Fixed deposit) for 36 calendar months,valued
at US$17,500,000.00 (seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand
Dollars only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer
before I was moved to my present position recently. Upon
maturity in 2003, as his account officer and as well the bank
manger, it is my duty to notify him on the maturity date so I
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but the
letter was returned undelivered.

After sometime, I tried sending back the letter, but it was
again returned and finally I discovered from his contract
employers, Chevron Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Mohammad Al
Nasser died as a result of torture in the hand of Saddam
Hussein (former Iraqi President) during one of his trips to
his country Iraq, as he was accused of leaking information
to the Americans. On further investigation, I discovered
that Mr. Al Nasser’s family wife and two sons died during
the Gulf War in Iraq and was the reason why he did not declare
any next of kin or relation in all his official documents,
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank and did not
leave any WILL. This sum of US$17,500,000.00 have been
floating and placed under dormant/unserviceable account by my
bank management since no one have heard from the owner since
2003. I wish to let you know that all the investigation I
have made so far, my bank management is not aware of it, I am
the only one that have the information.

With the recent change of government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating
terrorism aid in the U. A. E. By end of this year, the
government will pass a new financial control law which will
give the government authority to interrogate account owners
of above $5,000,000.00 to explain the source of the funds,
making sure it is not for terrorism support. If I do not
move this money out of the country immediately, by end of
the year the government will definitely confiscate the money,
because my bank cannot provide the account owner to explain
the source of the money.

I cannot directly transfer out this money without the help
of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an
assistance. As the Account Officer to late Al Nasser,coupled
with my present position and status in the bank as Chief
Credit & Risk Officer , I have the power to influence the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the
next of kin to the account, with the correct information
concerning the account, which I shall give you. All documents
to enable you claim this fund will be carefully worked out and
there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of law, beside U. A. E is porous and anything
goes.

If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you
wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both
parties will be satisfied. If you are interested, contact
me as soon as you receive this message so we can go over
the details. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you.
Please, treat with utmost confidentiality. I shall send
you copy of the

deposit certificate issued to Al Nasser when the deposit
was made for your perusal.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,

Mr. Zafar Habib Khan.

Gone fishing… Sorry, Phishing: 4 million dollars and me

Gucci, Rolex and Viagra. These are the offers of the spammers without imagination. But sometimes there are men who are clever enough and go another route: offer people high amount of money in exchange for their personally identifiable information, like name, address and so on.

This day is a great day for me, because Mr. Peter Wong offered me 50 per cent of 8 million US dollars, if I send some of my details. The bad part is, that — in this story –, this money belonged to an Iraqi family. 8 million dollars, huh?

Read the message, should be interesting:

Dear Friend,

I am Mr.peter wong Executive Director of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,
hong kong.

An Iraqi named farouk bassem,a business man made a numbered fixed
deposit for 12 calendar months, this is valued to Eight Million
United State Dollars only in my branch.

Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even during the war,
four years ago(2004).Again after the war another notification was
sent and still no response came from him.

We later found out that farouk bassem and his family had been killed
during the war in a bomb blast that hit their home at Mukaradeeb.

After further investigation it was also discovered that farouk bassem
did not declare any next of kin in his official paper s including
the paper work of his bank deposit. My proposal is to put you as next of
kin and have the funds released to you for us to share 50/50 for your
assistance.

Should you be interested in executing this with me; indicate your
interest by sending me Your response with your name,address,
occupation and phone number to reach me at my personal email address below:

peter.wong44@yahoo.com.hk

Sincerely,
Mr.peter wong

My public answer for Mr. Peter Wong: Currently I’m not in need of 4 million dollars, sorry.

Gone fishing… Sorry, Phishing: For my speccial attention!

A day without spam and phishing messages: priceless.

My attention is NOT special, Mr. Patrick K. W.Chan. Also, please understand that I’m apprehensive regarding your offer because it seems to be as dark as the side of our Moon we never see.

If you loose your job because I didn’t delete, more than that, I published your email here, you’ve made it with your own hands, and perhaps you will learn to not send unsolicited e-mails to unknown people.

So, as I promised, the e-mail:

FROM: MR. Patrick K. W. Chan
(Executive Director & Chief financial Officer)
Hang Seng Bank Limited
83 Des Voeux Road, Central
Hong Kong SAR

FOR YOUR SPECIAL ATTENTION

It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because
you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual
interest to share with you. I got your reference in my search for someone
who suits my proposed business relationship.

I am Mr. Patrick K. W. Chan Executive Director & Chief financial Officer of
Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have an obscured business suggestion for you. I will
need you to assist me in executing a business project from Hong Kong to your
country. It involves the transfer of a large sum of money. Everything
concerning this transaction shall be legally done without hitch. Please
endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters concerning this issue.

Once the funds have been successfully transferred into your account, we
shall share in the ratio to be agreed by both of us

I will prefer you reach me on my private email address below
(kwchan_patrick@yahoo.com.hk or patrickchanhsb@gmail.com) and finally after
that I shall furnish you with more information’s about this operation.

Please if you are not interested delete this email and do not hunt me
because I am putting my career and the life of my family at stake with this
venture. Although nothing ventured is nothing gained.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Mr. Patrick K. W.Chan

Gone fishing … Sorry, Phishing: I’m helping a millionaire spending his money

Now this e-mail beats the previous ones with its creativity, the fact that the writer wanted to touch my feelings and with that it tried to manipulate me. Many doesn’t know, but others manipulation is not an easy job. You have to be smart, clever and creative, else you will not be able even to come up something which can be considered manipulation.

So, read below, have fun.

Hello

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 .As you read
this, I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone
will die someday.

My name is SALAM JAFER, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E. I have been
diagnosed with prostate and esophageal Cancer that was discovered very
late due to my laxity in caring for my health. It has defiled all
form of medicine and right now, I have only about a few WEEKS to live according to medical experts.I have
not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone not even myself but my business. Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always
hostile to people and only focus on my business 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 willed and
given most of my properties and assets to my immediate and extended
family members
and as well as a few close friends and Schools in the UAE. I have
decided to give alms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one
of the last good deeds I do on earth. 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 I SALAM JAFER 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

God be with you.
MR. SALAM JAFER

The message came from the RIPE network, Netherlands and was routed through a Russian server.

Gone fishing… sorry, phishing: Mrs. Susan Fernando and her 18 Million dollars

OK, I won’t comment on this one. Read it; it’s so pink I might even start to cry. Pathetic.

ENDEAVOUR TO USED IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD

Mrs Susan fernando.
I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr SAZON FERNANDO
who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he
died in the year 2005.We were married for eleven years without a child. He
died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his
death we were both born again Christians.Since his death I decided not to
re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is
against.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 18Million
Dollars (eighteen Million United State Dollars) with one finance/security
company in Amsterderm-Netherlands. Presently
This money is still with the
Security Company. Recently
my Doctor told me that I would not last for
the next three months due to cancer problem. Though what disturbs me most
is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this
Fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize
this money the way I am going to instruct here in. I want a church that
will use this funds to fund churches
orphanages and widows propagating the
word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible
made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this
decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and
my husband relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my husband’s
hard
earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don’t want a situation where
this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking
this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am
going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS
14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I
don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health
and because of the presence of my husband’s relatives around me always. I
don’t want them to know about this development. With God all things are
possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of
the Finance/Security Company in Amsterderm-Netherlands. I will also issue
you a letter of authority that will prove you as the original- beneficiary
of this Funds. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the
lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy
Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit
and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in
your reply will give me room in sourcing for a church or christian
individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you. I have set
aside 20% for you and for your time and 10% for any enpense if there is
any . Remain blessed in the name of the Lord. Yours in Christ
Mrs. susan fernando
Note: reply email to mrssusan2008@aim.com

Gone fishing… sorry, phishing: I’m a millionaire

Well, at least that’s what the email I got the other day states.

Basically, all I have to do is to email back to an “agent” with some of my, personally identifiable details.

I might even answer, let’s see what they say. Below is the message:

PRIZE/PROMOTION AWARD DEPT.
LOTTO NL.

CATEGORY “A” WINNER
Ref No: TYM-101/8231
Batch Number: NL 80 OS 94144448
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00

Dear Internet User

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lotto NL. Internet
Promotional Draws. All email addresses entered for this promotional draws were
randomly inputted from an internet resource database using the Synchronized
Random Selection System (SRSS).

Your email address was selected in the Category “A” with Reference
Number TYM-101/8231, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand
prize award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The
payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and
satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email
address.

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish
contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the
particulars below:

Name: Mr.Frank van Boss
Phone: +31-647-283-937
Email: deptfvanboss@yahoo.cn

You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the
following information for processing the payment of your cash award.

DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:

Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this notice
will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims
process immediately, by contacting the claims agent (Mr. Frank van Boss) who would
be guiding you through the Claims process.

Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your
payout soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Sarah E. Cabrera
Lottery Co-ordinator

I need some enlightenment guys. First, what’s a “Synchronized Random Selection System” and what is synchronized with what? Secondly, why didn’t you choose a lower sum, don’t you think 2.5 million US dollar is a bit, well, weird?

I will report back to let you know what happened.

Google Adwords Phishing messages

Be aware, that nowadays a great mass of phishing messages travel on the net which tries to steal your Google AdWords credentials. Please do not answer or click links from these e-mails, or if you already provided the phishers your login credentials, contact AdWords support as soon as possible.
Also, if you get emails which smells fishy, contact Google as soon as possible, forwarding them the phishing email and if possible the email headers, too.

Here is an email I got a few minutes before, it’s the 7th I got this week.

Our system was unable to process a payment for your outstanding Google AdWords account balance using your primary credit card. For the time being, your account is still open, and your ads are still running. However, we require you to update the payment information in your AdWords account very soon in order to ensure continued ad serving.

Please update your credit card information in order to trigger our billing system to try processing your payment again. If you plan to use the same credit card(s), please use the ‘Retry Card’ button on the Billing Preferences page of your account. Otherwise, please follow the steps below to update the information in your AdWords account.

1. Log in to your AdWords account at: http://adwords.google.com
2. Click the ‘My Account’ tab.
3. Click ‘Billing Preferences’ link.
4. Click Edit next to the appropriate ‘Payment Details’ section.
5. Enter your new or updated payment information.
6. Click ‘Save Changes’ when you have finished.

In the future, you may wish to use a back up credit card in order to help ensure continuous delivery of your ads. You can add a back up credit card by visiting your Billing Preferences page or visit the AdWords Help Centre for more.

Tip: You can review the status of your billing on the Billing Summary page, under the ‘My Account’ tab. If a payment has been declined, click ‘Payment Declined’ beside the line item to review information for that particular payment. Once your payment has been processed successfully, you can view and print an invoice from your Billing Summary page.

—————————————————————— This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions, please visit the Google AdWords Help Centre at https://adwords.google.com/support/?hl=en_GB to find answers to frequently asked questions and a ‘contact us’ link near the bottom of the page. —————————————————————-

Thank you for advertising with Google AdWords. We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising available.

Sincerely,

The Google AdWords Team

The first link, which points nowhere taken me to the page which is shown on the picture on the left and each link taken me to a page where I’d had to provide some of my details, including credit card number/expiration or adwords account credentials.

If you get emails like this, please forward them as soon as possible either to Google’s phishing reporting address (phishing@google.com) or to Devoracles (catcher@devoracles.com) and we’ll forward them to Google.

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