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Email scams and frauds that are associated with the country of Italy.

Rosemary Rwasa (rich orphan scam)

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The message below is a classic example of the “rich orphan scam.” Little Rosemary Rwasa is only 16 years old, but she’s very rich. And she needs your help to manage her money. Who wouldn’t want to help a poor rich orphan? Alas, “Rosemary” is probably a 30-year-old man operating out of an internet cafe somewhere in Africa, doing his best to earn a living by picking your pocket.

Subject: HI
From: “Mary” pvalenti@cinet.it
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016
Reply-To: rosemaryrwasa@gmail.com

Good day, My name is Rosemary Rwasa, 16 years old I am from Burundi, East Africa. I am the only daughter to my late parents Mr/Mrs Victor Rwasa. I am contacting you because I need you to stand as my guardian in the management of a sum $10.5 million u.s dollars that my late father left for me before he died. Please I am ready to offer you 30% for your help and I will donate 10% to the orphans just like me, and you will help me to invest the balance in your country. Please take me like your daughter or your sister. Thanks and I will give you more details as soon as I hear from you.Email me here: rosemaryrwasa@gmail.com

Sincerely Yours,
Mary

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Mr. Miki Williams, Special Investigator (scam)

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This is an example of what I call a “meta-scam” — a scam message about scam messages. You’ve gotten lots of scam messages in the past, right? Well “Miki Williams” is here to set everything right, and get the real payment to you that those other scammers have tried to trick you into giving up. “Miki” is a “Special Investigator” you see:

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016
From: United States Special investigator alessandra.backoffice@alice.it
Reply-To: specialinvestigator@hotmail.com
Subject: HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS?

HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS?

I ‘m contacting you by your email however, I feel it’s best and more convenient for me to explain why I am contacting you. I’m Mr. Miki Williams a United States Special investigator, I work hand in hand with the United States Fraud Unit of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID). I’m specialize in Background Investigations on funds which include [COMPENSATION/ INHERITANCE FUNDS OR NEXT OF KIN, Consignment Box, Lotto® JACKPOT, LOANS] and I notice that you have being receiving numerous emails from people who claims to have funds coming to you but I advise that if you’re still in communication with any of them on issue of funds however, you’re hereby advise to stop every communication right now because those people has being investigated and confirmed to be a Fraud.

I wish to announce our successful investigation which was carried out few days ago; I guess it will interest you to know why this investigation was conducted. For your information, it was truly confirmed that you have 100% Legitimate unpaid transaction and you have every right to claim this funds as you’re been confirmed to be the right Beneficiary of the said amount $5.5 Million usd COMPENSATION/INHERITANCE FUNDS OR NEXT OF KIN however, Due to the delay of getting this funds to you, your funds has now been increased to $6.5 Million United State Dollars approved for payment by International Monetary Fund (IMF) here in United States.

I’m informing you this today because I came to notice that you’re not communicating with a legitimate person who is in charge of getting these funds to you.This announcement has to be made open to you however because you may have being swindled by those unscrupulous people whom you have sent money in the course of getting one fund or the other which is not real and for this reason, I have decided to help you get your funds directly from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) here in United States because your Legitimate funds remains unpaid.

I want to know if you’re interested in receiving your unpaid legitimate funds value $6.5Million usd however, I will only be of help if you agreed to follow my instructions.If you’re really interested in receiving your unpaid $6.5 Million USD, I advise that you get back to me immediately. All I need is your cooperation and understanding.

Please you can contact me back on my email by clicking your Reply.

Regard
Mr. Miki Williams

United States Special investigator

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Samantha Di Clemente (Google scam)

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This is a variant of the typical kind of lottery scam message, using the name of Google, a respected company, to try to lure you into the scam. (The real Google has nothing to do with the message, of course.) The message comes with an attachment (deleted here), and you should always remember not to open attachments from unknown senders.

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016
From: “Google Inc.” sdiclemente@hearst.it
Subject: Re:Hello

Dear User,
We are pleased to notify you that you have emerged as one of our lucky winners. Please see attached document for details.

Regards,
Samantha Di Clemente
Google Announcer

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INTERPOL Bank Scam

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This scam message has all the elements of a dramatic crime novel. A wicked conspiracy! Corrupt judges! Secret computer funds transfers! Alas, “Harrison Wood” isn’t really a whistle-blowing bank clerk, he’s just another scammer trying to pick your pocket. He doesn’t work for INTERPOL or a finance agency — he probably works out of a cheap Internet cafe somewhere in Africa, and with a disposable cell phone he does his best to cheat people all around the world.

Sender: t_mr101@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015
From: Harrison Wood starfiles744@gmail.com
Reply-To: Harrison Wood harrisonwood391@gmail.com
Subject: The Truth About Your Fund,

International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL
Attention My Dearest Lawful Beneficiary.

The Truth About Your Fund,

I felt expedient to write and inform you on the wicked conspiracy hatched by the duo of JUSTICE T.Y Waziri and Mr. Lanre Williams of the Ministry of Finance and some of the Finance Ministry staffs with numerous fake names to divert your money to their designated account in Europe.

From my position as a lowly clerk in this office, I discovered that they moved the fund from Africa to London, UK and then moved it last week to Banco Italiano in ITALY. Today I found out through the central computer database that they are about to re-route back your fund to a security company in USA. With this, I felt that it is important for me to alert you on this development that the departments of homeland security USA are holding this money for clarifications.

They are still using your name and contract won /inheritance compensation identification number as the beneficiary but they have changed the account co-ordinate and this is the reason they are frustrating you by asking for endless fees in other to buy time pending on when they will transfer your funds to their designated account in Cayman Islands.

I have the reference number of the transaction and also I have the number of the official who is directly in charge at the SECURITY VAULT of department of homeland security in USA where the funds is present on-hold. Your payment is supposed to go through the International credit control financial clearing house before finally put into the SECURITY VAULT of department of homeland security in there in USA on-hold for clarifications.

I repeat, please do not expose my person, it is not easy to get jobs around here and I cannot contend with these powerful individuals because they can eliminate me just like that.

I waited for your response so urgently,

God bless you.
Harrison Wood (Sgt)

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Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala (scam alert)

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This message is a classic Nigerian scam message with all the trimmings. “Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala” says he knows you have been scammed before, and now the Nigerian government is going to set everything right. There is an ATM card waiting for you and all ready to be delivered — you will get the fortune you deserve very shortly.

Alas, there really is no fortune and no ATM card, and “Dr. Iweala” is just another scammer trying to trick even more people out of their money.

Reply-To: ngoziokonjoiweala2006@yahoo.it
From: “Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala” secretariagabinete@cubatao.sp.gov.br
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD 2015 S20.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015

Dear Sir/Madam,

NOTIFICATION OF YOUR PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD 2015.

This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract payment.Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately.

After the Board of director’s meeting held in Abuja in conjunction with United Nations and G8 countries, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem. We have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT With Central Bank Of Nigeria, this is part of the mandate passed by the Senate in respect to overseas contract payment and debt re-scheduling. And also the Nigerian Government is using this means to reward all the citizens of the United states and all part of Europe including Asia, Australia, South America, Canada, Antarctica e.t.c and all those who have lost their funds in either scam, or an uncompleted business, or otherwise, You should know that if you are interested to receive your ATM card which will be credited with $5,000,000.00 united states dollars before it is being sent to you direct to your doorstep through the FedEx courier service, you will have to respond to me with your full information’s, After your response you will be directed to the FedEx shipping courier representative

He will send you your ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money via ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, and the maximum daily limit is Fifteen Thousand United States dollars ($15,000.00) only. And also note that the Nigerian Government has taken care of the shipping fee of your ATM card, so if Mr. Edward is requesting for another shipping fee, you will have to report him to me immediately. As soon as your ATM card is dispatched i will immediately send your withdrawal pin code to you because your Atm Card has already been activated.

If you like to receive your fund this way, kindly contact me with the following information’s below.

(1) Your Full Name
(2) Full residential address
(3) Phone and Fax Number
(4) Occupation.
(5) Personal Identification. Driver’s license or International Passport.
(6) Age
(7) Marital Status
(8) Sex

This message is supported by the Nigerian Government. Note that you might receive this message in your inbox or spam or junk folder depends on your web host or server network.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Respectively

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Minister, Federal Ministry of Finance

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Pretrial Requirements (phishing scam / virus)

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This is a dangerous type of scam message, one that arrives with an attachment that probably contains a computer virus. It attempts to frighten you into opening the attachment (which is deactivated here) by implying that you are supposed to appear in court and need to respond immediately to acknowledge the conditions of your trial.

From: Stella alberto.battaglini0@alice.it
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015
Subject: Pretrial requirements

Please read pretrial requirements in attached document.
Waiting for your reply

pretrial_requirements.zip

Shortly after the above message arrived, I received a second copy from a different email address, showing that the sender’s account in each case has probably been hacked and is sending these messages without the true owner’s knowledge:

From: Belle gioian3@alice.it
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015
Subject: Pretrial requirements

Please read pretrial requirements in attached document.
Waiting for your reply

pretrial.zip

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VISA MoneyWise Card (mystery scam)

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Very short “mystery scam” messages seem to be getting more common. They are the email equivalent of a telephone salesman who just leaves a messages saying “I’ve got a deal for you — call me!”

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This one promises you a fortune, and all for free!

Reply-To: absapaymentonline@qq.com
From: diegosax@tin.it
Subject: VISA MONEYWISE CARD AVAILABLE
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015

A GRANT OF 750,000.00USD HAVE BEEN DONATED TO YOU, FOR MORE INFO EMAIL: prowumt@qq.com

But why would anyone donate $750,000 to you — someone you’ve never heard of? And why would it involve email addresses from Italy and China? (The qq.com domain is often used by scammers to create free email accounts.)