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I've finally been sent a phishing mail! I'm soooooo thrilled!
Gingernutty
Posts: 3,769 Forumite
I can join the club! :beer: I've spent all this time feeling deprived! 
"john cole [EMAIL="j.cole@blumail.org"]j.cole@blumail.org[/EMAIL]
to undisclosed recipients
GREETINGS:
My name is John Cole. I work as an executive partner for the firm Capita Advisory Services, UK. We are conducting an end of year consolidated financial statement for the year ending March 2011 under conjunctional agreement with HSBC Bank Conglomerate banking giants. This notary enquiry involves a client who shares your surname and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at HSBC Bank offshore group a commercial and investment arm of the parent Bank. It was brought to our knowledge that the for mentioned client died intestate and nominated no next of kin to the title over the investments made with the Bank. We came to know of you via the United Kingdom Global Database Center (U.K.G.D.C.) Hence we are making this contact.
The essence of this communication with you is to assist us in our investigation by providing us with information you may have regarding this inquiry on any of the 3 KEY issues.
1. Are you aware of any relative/relation who's last contact address was Brussels, Belgium?
2. Who shares a similar name?
3. Who's date of birth on file was 27/07/1932.
Thank-you for your co-operation and best regards,
Sincerely,
Mr. John Cole.
Capita Advisory Services, UK.
71 Victoria Street, Westminster,
London SW1H 0XA.
Registered in England No. 2299747.
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
This transmission is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information belonging to the sender which is protected by the business-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, Please immediately notify the sender by email, Or Permanently delete it from your computer system.
Thank you."
So, John. You work for Capita Advisory Services who are such an almighty bunch of meanies that they don't even have an email service.........riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Notice as well, it doesn't mention any surname let alone my fairly distinctive one.
I won't reply, eh?
"john cole [EMAIL="j.cole@blumail.org"]j.cole@blumail.org[/EMAIL]
to undisclosed recipients
GREETINGS:
My name is John Cole. I work as an executive partner for the firm Capita Advisory Services, UK. We are conducting an end of year consolidated financial statement for the year ending March 2011 under conjunctional agreement with HSBC Bank Conglomerate banking giants. This notary enquiry involves a client who shares your surname and also the circumstances surrounding investments made by this client at HSBC Bank offshore group a commercial and investment arm of the parent Bank. It was brought to our knowledge that the for mentioned client died intestate and nominated no next of kin to the title over the investments made with the Bank. We came to know of you via the United Kingdom Global Database Center (U.K.G.D.C.) Hence we are making this contact.
The essence of this communication with you is to assist us in our investigation by providing us with information you may have regarding this inquiry on any of the 3 KEY issues.
1. Are you aware of any relative/relation who's last contact address was Brussels, Belgium?
2. Who shares a similar name?
3. Who's date of birth on file was 27/07/1932.
Thank-you for your co-operation and best regards,
Sincerely,
Mr. John Cole.
Capita Advisory Services, UK.
71 Victoria Street, Westminster,
London SW1H 0XA.
Registered in England No. 2299747.
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
This transmission is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information belonging to the sender which is protected by the business-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, Please immediately notify the sender by email, Or Permanently delete it from your computer system.
Thank you."
So, John. You work for Capita Advisory Services who are such an almighty bunch of meanies that they don't even have an email service.........riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Notice as well, it doesn't mention any surname let alone my fairly distinctive one.
I won't reply, eh?
:huh: Don't know what I'm doing, but doing it anyway... :huh:
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I love these - I had one once where a lawyer was handing out money on behalf of Yahoo, but used a Google email address
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OP welcome to the club.
I am a millionaire by all rights as without me evey being to the USA i won 35 million USD in a las vegas casino that is being held in a USA bank i just needed to click a link to be able to release this.
I thought to myself i dont really need the money so i will just let it sit their earning interest and i will let someone else click the link.0 -
I've been using a spam washer for the past 10 years and it's been ages since I got a decent phishing e-mail!
I really miss the bad grammar and spelling from senior executives, the use of dollars in an e-mail from HMRC, senior government officials who use yahoo mail addresses, the Nigerian businessmen who don't have access to their bank accounts etc.
Just think of all the millions I could have had access to!0 -
Technically not a phishing email, as they are after your personal details to use. This is a classic 419 scam, or advance fee fraud.
Always good fun these.
Stick it on www.419eater.com and let them have fun with him 0 -
I rarely get spam. Probably twice in the past 5/10 years, Was the email client I used at the time that let them through. I prefer either Thunderbird, or MS Outlook, my current one.0
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Every time I read the wonderful creations on 419 eater my brain automatically does it in the voice of George from Fonejacker!!!0
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Look what I got last night!
An emailed attachment telling me that confidentiality was key!
In other words.....how to keep a scam victim's silence ......:mad:
Bruce Morgan, Processing Manager for the Ontario Lottery Corporation - you are filth :mad:
Yes, I do know that's not his real name.......:huh: Don't know what I'm doing, but doing it anyway... :huh:0 -
Gingernutty wrote: »Look what I got last night!
An emailed attachment telling me that confidentiality was key!
In other words.....how to keep a scam victim's silence ......:mad:
Bruce Morgan, Processing Manager for the Ontario Lottery Corporation - you are filth :mad:
Yes, I do know that's not his real name.......
Believe me it gets worse. When people finally realise they were being ripped off, scammers pretend to be FBI getting you your money back...just need some taxes paying fist...etc. Scammers pose as hit-men to just straight extort money with threats on your life. Scammers will fall in love with you in a heartbeat (very effective with lonely ladies and gents) and get you handling stolen cheques/money on their behalf with thin stories, whilst still robbing you. Scammers hop on every gumtree advert for property and housing offering to overpay in the form of a cheque (bounces, leaving you in debt). Scammers set up false Au Pair agencies (lots of upfront charges of course) to steal from people hoping for work overseas. Absolute filth.
The site 419Eater.com did an analysis of email headers for scams like this - the overwhelming majority (it was something like 85%+) came from West Africa, and of those nearly all from Nigeria. What a sad state of affairs with such mineral wealth and large population that the main export by volume is theft and lies. It causes such damage to the reputation of the country and its people for business.
Even the excuse that they are so poor and we are so rich doesn't wash - there are many poorer countries, and successful scammers are hardly redistributing the wealth - guns, drugs and gold are popular purchases amongst scammers. Internet connections cost real money, even cybercafe's cost real money. A starving man doesn't spend his last Naira on stolen credit card numbers, web hosting, bandwidth, formats, police payoffs, etc. Make no mistake this is organised criminal gangs, and big money is at stake. A few hundred $ to start, but hundreds of thousands of $ from some victims. It is a vile trade.0 -
Believe me it gets worse. When people finally realise they were being ripped off, scammers pretend to be FBI getting you your money back...just need some taxes paying fist...etc. Scammers pose as hit-men to just straight extort money with threats on your life. Scammers will fall in love with you in a heartbeat (very effective with lonely ladies and gents) and get you handling stolen cheques/money on their behalf with thin stories, whilst still robbing you. Scammers hop on every gumtree advert for property and housing offering to overpay in the form of a cheque (bounces, leaving you in debt). Scammers set up false Au Pair agencies (lots of upfront charges of course) to steal from people hoping for work overseas. Absolute filth.
The site 419Eater.com did an analysis of email headers for scams like this - the overwhelming majority (it was something like 85%+) came from West Africa, and of those nearly all from Nigeria. What a sad state of affairs with such mineral wealth and large population that the main export by volume is theft and lies. It causes such damage to the reputation of the country and its people for business.
Even the excuse that they are so poor and we are so rich doesn't wash - there are many poorer countries, and successful scammers are hardly redistributing the wealth - guns, drugs and gold are popular purchases amongst scammers. Internet connections cost real money, even cybercafe's cost real money. A starving man doesn't spend his last Naira on stolen credit card numbers, web hosting, bandwidth, formats, police payoffs, etc. Make no mistake this is organised criminal gangs, and big money is at stake. A few hundred $ to start, but hundreds of thousands of $ from some victims. It is a vile trade.
They are employed to do this, they don't use cafes at all. A room in a building and get bonus each one they scam. So its just a job for them.0
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