This is a typical example of a password phishing scam message, and it came with an attachment — something you should never open unless you know and trust the specific sender. (The attachment is deleted here for safety.) Scammers blast thousands of messages like this to random email addresses in the hope that someone will fall for the trick and enter their account information as requested on a fake website that has nothing to do with the actual bank. Once the scammers have your bank account number and password they will proceed to empty your account and then disappear.
From: Navy Federal alerts-CelyWLn@navyfederal.org
Subject: Suspicious Account Activity Reference
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:35:32 -0400
We have reason to believe that your Navy Federal Credit Union Banking Card may have been compromised. We have attempted to contact you by phone to speak with you personally but have been unsuccessful. As a precaution we have reduced your daily purchase limit. We now need to re-confirm your account information with us.
Please verify your identity immediately in order to confirm your recent account activity and restore your purchase limit.
You will need to download and open the document attached to this e-mail in order to verify your records. Please follow the instructions from the document.
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This message, probably received by tens of thousands of people around the world, is an example of a typical charitable-donation scam. It purports to come from an organization that wants to award you a large prize (even though you haven’t done anything to earn the prize and have never even heard of the group). In reality this message is an advance-fee fraud: if you take the bait and contact them, you’ll be told that before your winnings can be delivered you have to send in a “transaction fee” or “customs charge” or something similar — and then once they have your money in their pockets the scammers will vanish without a trace.
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street.
P.O.Box 814,
Al-Bateen Area,
Abu Dhabi.
United Arab Emirates.
The Abu Dhabi Foundation is a non-religious, non-political and non-profit organization chaired by His Highness late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai here in UAE, and was established in 1971. The Abu Dhabi Foundation in conjunction with the European Union just commence yearly charity donation. These Donations are freely given to (3) Lucky Winner’s for their business,educational and personal development. Congratulation, You are among the (3) lucky beneficiary selected to receive this donations award sum of £1,000,000GBP (One MillionGreat Britain pounds)each as charity donations/aid from Abu Dhabi Foundation. For more details on how to receive your Donation Bank Draft, please contact the President of Abu Dhabi Foundation with your pin number (Abu-Dh82-X9M) Full name, contact address and phone number.
On behalf of the foundation, we say congratulations to you.
President Of Abu Dhabi Foundation,
Dr. Abdul Raheem.
Reply To: dhabi551@hotmail.com
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This is an example of a basic advance fee fraud, although it is a little unusual in that it doesn’t invoke any deposed dictators or dying widows. It’s structured a bit like a lottery scam: your money has been awarded and you just need to call us to pick it up. There is of course no real “Mr. Gorge,” and Western Union, which is a real company, is not actually involved. A scammer is just using these names to try to get money from you.
We have deposited the check of your fund ($1.500`000`00USD) through Western Union department after our finally meeting regarding your fund, All you will do is to contact Western Union director Mr. gorge. He will give you direction on how you will be receiving the funds daily. Remember to send him your Full information to avoid wrong transfer such as,
Though, Mrs. Sandra Synder has sent $5000 in your name today so contact Mr. gorge or you call him +229-99-79-66-23 as soon as you receive this email and tell him to give you the Mtcn, sender name and question/answer to pick the $5000 Please let us know as soon as you received all your fund
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Poor George Bromley. (Or George Brumley — the spelling varies.) He was a real person who did indeed die in a plane crash, but his name has lived on in thousands of messages sent by African email scammers. They all claim to have access to old George’s abandoned bank accounts, which contained millions. If you can assist in the extraction of this money by posing as his next-of-kin, you can have a percentage of the proceeds. Too bad there are no such bank accounts and the whole thing is a scam designed to extract money from you.
I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business proposal. First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr. Alfred Best, an account manager with Clydesdale Bank international United Kingdom. I came to know you in my Private Search for a Reliable and Reputable Person to handle this Confidential Transaction, which involves the transfer of huge sum of Money to a Foreign Account requiring Maximum Confidence.
In my department, i discovered an abandoned sum of £5million (FIVE MILLION BRITISH POUND) Only, in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa, the bank now expects a next of kin as beneficiary. Valuable efforts are being made by the Bank to get in touch with any of the Bromley’s remaining family or relatives but all to no success. The Late DR. GEORGE Bromley is a known Philanthropist in Africa and U.S.A.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or business associate to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the funds to you via your foreign bank account by standing as the next of kin/Business associate to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the HM treasury account as unclaimed fund.
The sharing of the fund is thus: 40% for you the account owner, 50% for me and the remaining 10% for expenses for both parties. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not make undue advantage of the trust i have bestowed in you. On your interest, kindly respond with your details, such as: 1. Your Full Names: 2. Cell Phone Numbers: 3. Fax Numbers: 4. Postal Address: 5. Occupation and 6. Date of birth. Reply to my private email: alfredbestprivate5@gmail.comand mine as well shall be sent to you for you to know whom you are dealing with.
Best regards,
Mr. Alfred Best
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The message below is an example of a standard African advance fee fraud message, although it’s a long one. “Dr. Ibrahim Aziz” claims to be a bank official with access to a fortune in a forgotten bank account. If you’ll just help him get it out of the country he’ll cut you in on the proceeds. In reality, if you take the bait you’ll find that he needs you to provide “transaction fees” or “money for bribes” to help the deal move along. And then once he’s got these fees from you, he’ll vanish, never to be heard from again.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2015 01:22:14 -0400
From: Dr Ibrahim Aziz dribrahimaziz01@gmail.com
Reply-to: dribrahimaziz2@gmail.com
ASSALAMU’ALAYKUM!!!!!
With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose, I make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me. My name is Dr. Ibrahim Abdoul Aziz, from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO , West Africa . Presently I work in the African development Bank as telex manager. I have been searching for your contact since you left our country some years ago.I do not know whether this is your correct email address or not because I only used your name initials to search for your contact. In case you are not the person I am supposed to contact, please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top secret.
I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.
I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They laundered over $5b Dollars during the process. As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert thirty five million united state dollars ($35m) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds.
It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The ($35) Million Dollars has been LAYING waste but I don’t want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you.There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything. I only want you to assist me by providing a bank account where the funds can be transferred. You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you DETAILED information on what to do. For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face any problems. This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no one in the bank knows about the funds.
Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this project I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear from your confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.
Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Ibrahim Abdoul Aziz
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This is a standard phishing scam message, designed to steal your passwords or account information. (We have deactivated the dangerous link, as we always do here at scamhunter.org.) Phishing messages are often sent from hacked email accounts, so you should always assume than any real person named in the message isn’t connected with it (and probably doesn’t even know the messages are going out from their hacked account). Messages of this kind work by tricking you into visiting a phony website — “bravenetwebbysite33” in this case — and then telling you to enter your username and password. The scammers then take your username and password and use them for their own nefarious purposes.
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One of the most common types of advance fee scam is the widow-dying-of-cancer scam. These are so common you would think they wouldn’t work any more, but if they didn’t work the scammers wouldn’t keep sending them, so you know some people do still fall for them. The example below is shorter than most — some scammers go into great detail, but others figure if they can hook you with a short message they may have a better chance of reeling you in.
I am Mrs. Christy Xavier an aging widow suffering from cancer, I have some funds I am willing to donate through you to non-profit charitable organization amounting £8.3Million pounds and my estate in Indiana (USA). 50% of the total sum should be transferred to any orphanage home. You can help your community with the remaining 50% and for your services to carryout this last wish for me
UPDATE: Christy Xavier is persistent! A few days after sending the message above she sent a followup:
The “dying widow scam” is a standard type of advance fee fraud. In the example below Teresa Roman, “your sister in Christ,” needs your help to distribute her fortune. Alas, there is really no “Teresa Roman” and no fortune to be distributed. There’s only a scammer trying to separate you from your money.
I am Mrs Teresa Roman, suffering from cancerous ailment. I was married to Mr.Raymond Roman, my husband worked with Chevron/Texaco in the United Kingdom for twenty years before he died in the year 2003. My late husband deposited the sum of 0 Million (Ten Million Pounds) with a Bank in United Kingdom.
Recently, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the stroke and cancerous problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate these funds to you and i want you to use it for the upkeep of widows and charities worldwide. I took this decision because I do not have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are bourgeois and very wealthy persons and I do not want my husband hard earned money to be misused.
Awaiting your urgent reply via my email.address: teresaroman@blumail.org With God all things are possible.
Your Sister in Christ,
Mrs. Teresa Roman
Email: teresaroman@blumail.org
If you make the mistake of answering “Teresa,” she will spin you many elaborate stories; but then she will reveal that she needs some advance payments from you before her supposed fortune can be released. If you make the bigger mistake of paying her, she will disappear with your money, never to be heard from again.
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One common type of online scam is a message from someone who needs your help to stand in as the next-of-kin to a deceased millionaire. If you’ll just pretend to be the legal heir of the deceased person, the money that person had locked away in a dormant bank account can be released, and you can have a percentage of it. If you don’t help, the money will just revert to some foreign government, and you don’t want that to happen, do you? In reality, unfortunately, there is no dormant bank account and no deceased millionaire. There’s only a scammer trying to make himself rich at your expense. He may present himself as a bank official, or as a lawyer who finds lost heirs, but he’s actually neither, as you will discover to your regret if you fall for his scheme.
Good day, my name is Yang Ming I worked as a senior Investigation Officer for Heir Hunters International Probate and Genealogy Research. Our firm has been conducting world-class research for over 30 years, and has dealt with over 7,000 inheritance cases. Since 1991 alone, we have enabled our clients to inherit over ¢G800 million. We assist the legal profession in tracing and locating missing or unknown beneficiaries. The majority of our work arises from intestate estates where the deceased person has died without leaving a will. In these cases we will trace the statutory next of kin of the deceased according to the Laws of Intestacy. Alternatively, we might work on the estate of a person who has died leaving a valid will but the whereabouts of the Executors, Trustees or beneficiaries may be unknown I worked as part of the team that covered the entire Asia region. I have gone to great lengths to find your contact details through great personal endeavours.
My job was to trace relatives of people who left no will before their death. Before my new assignment here in Estonia I discovered that an unclaimed estate worth ¢G25,000.000 (Twenty Five Million Pounds) belonging to a client Deceased Eight years ago. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of my late client Executors are unknown. If his estate is unclaimed it would automatically revert to the government. I do sincerely sympathise his death but I think it is unprofitable for this fund to be submitted to the government of this country or some financial institution. My aim is to retrieve this fund and let it be claimed by the deceased family name. For this I seek your assistance since I have been unable to locate the relatives for almost Five years now.
I have reasoned very professionally and I can use a legal means to present a next of kin of the deceased. This is legally possible and would be done in accordance with the laws of the land. On this note I decided to search for a credible person and finding that you are of the same nationality, I was urged to contact you, that I may, with your consent, present you to the “treasury” as the Late Edgars Martins Prynne family member so as to enable you to put up a claim in the capacity of next of kin to the Late Edgars Martins.
I find this possible for the fuller reasons that you bear the same last name and of same nationality with the deceased making it a lot easier for you to put up a claim in that capacity. We can obtain all vital documents that would confer you the legal right to make this claim. I have all the information and guidance to enable you and I realise this opportunity. I have evaluated the risk analysis and there is none to you, as long as you maintain confidentiality.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this proposal is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any fears as the required arrangements have been made for the completion of this transfer. As you should understand, I am taking a great risk contacting you and making this proposal. Therefore, you should understand why I must say no more about this transaction until I receive an email from you confirming receipt of this mail. Once secured communication has been established between you and me, detailed clarifications will be dealt with, such as what each party stand to benefit and time scale and procedures. Time is not in our favour. Please establish secured communication with me on yan.mingxx@gmail.com
I look forward to a mutual beneficial relationship with you.
Yours sincerely
Yan Ming
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This is a classic example of the “dying widow scam.” A wealthy foreign businessman died and left his widow a fortune. She is now dying, and needs someone to dispose of her estate. Wouldn’t you like to help? She can give you a percentage of the money if you like. She’s a Christian, so you know you can trust her. Alas, it’s a scam from beginning to end: there’s no wealthy businessman and no dying widow. If you respond to the message she’ll be delighted to hear from you, and say she only needs you to send the banker’s fees to finalize the money transfer. Once she’s got those “fees” in her hand, you’ll never hear from her again.
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2015 17:24
From: Justina Marthin sunsanwong008@yahoo.co.jp
Reply-To: Justina Marthin justina.marthin@yahoo.com.hk
Subject: Dearest in the lord .
Dearest in the lord .
I am Sister. Justlna Marthln from Bahrain .
I am married to Dr. phillip Marthln who work with bahrain embassey here in abidjan cote d ‘ ivoire for nine years before he died in the year 2004. we were married for eleveen years and survived with only one child name micheal . and my husband died after a brief illiness that lasted for only four days.
before he died we were both born again christains , since his death i i decided not to remarry since i have a son that is against my matrimonial home which the bible is against. when my late husband was alive he deposited the sume of (6 million u.s dollars) in a bank here in abidjan cote d ‘ ivoire . presently, this is still in the bank and recently my doctor told me that i would not for the next three months due to cancer problem .
though what disturb me most is about my son micheal and my stroke , having known my condition i decide to donate part of this fund to churches , orphans and widows and use the rest of the money for my son’s education that is why i am looking for a better christain individual that will utilize this money the way i am going to instruct here in .
I want you to use this fund to churches , orphanages and widows propagating the word of god and to ensure that the house of god is mentained. the bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth . i took this decission because i know that i can not live inherite this money and my husband relatives are not christains and i don’t want my husband’s hard earned money to be misused by unbeievers ..and i don’t a situation where this money will be used to ungodly manners . hence the reason for taking this bold decission.
I am not afraid of death hence i know that my son is alive, but my problem is to take care of him because i know that i will soon be going to be in the bossom of of the lord . exodos 14 vs 14 says that the lord will fight my case and i shall hold my peace.
please i don’t need any telephone communications in this regard because of my health and because of the present of my husband’s relatives around me always and i don’t want them to know about this development is only you and my little son knows about this and i believe with god all things are possible .as soon as i recieves your reply i shall give you the contact of the bank here in abidjan cote d ‘ ivoire .
i will also issue a letter of authority that will you as the original beneficiary of this fund . i want you and the church where you worship to always pray for me because i know that the lord is my shephard. my happiness is that i lived a life of a worthy christain.
who ever that want to serve the lord must serve him in spirit and truth. please always be prayerfull throughout your life and any delay in your reply will me and my son a room in searching for a church or a christian individual for this same porpose.
please asure me that you will act accordingly as I started here in .for security reasons i mean my husband’s relatives and i want you to fast and pray for god to take absolut controll of this fund untill it get to you . please endeavour to use it for the children of god, with trust.
Thanks and god bless you in all
Yours in the lord,
Sister Justina Marthin.
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Please be aware that scammers often use the names of real people and legitimate businesses in their fraudulent messages. Why? To lend an air of legitimacy to their criminal enterprise. Just because the name of a real person or a real bank or a real government agency appears in a scam message that doesn't mean the person or organization in question is involved in the scam in any way. The scammers are just stealing these names in order to make themselves look legitimate.
