913 Scam email...

danmanchester

This just popped in my inbox:

"THIS INFORMATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE PERSON ORENTITY TO WHICH IT IS ADDRESSED AND MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PREVILEGED MATERIAL. ANY REVIEW, RETRANSMISSION, DISEMINATION, OR OTHER USE OFF OR TAKING OF ANY ACTION IN RELIANCE UPON THIS INFORMATION BY PERSONS OR ENTITIES OTHER THAN THE INTENDED RECIPIENT IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS IN ERROR, PLEASE DESTROY THE COPY. THANK YOU. DEAR DANIEL (STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL) My name is Raymond.H Yengeni a south African citizen I got your Contact through a personal research. I am the brother to Mr. Tony Yengeni. Mr Yengeni was the chairman of parliament's in south Africa and the former chief whip of the ruling political party ANC. My Brother (MR. T. YENGENI), has as a result of trust and Confidence he has mandated that I search for a Reliable and trustworthy foreign partner, who Will help receive some funds, which we have in cash Totalling US$ 25, 000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million United States Dollars) into a personal,company or any reliable foreign bank account for safe keeping for a Short period of time, since our family bank accounts Within and outside the country have all been Frozen by the authorities. I would refer you to these Websites for further information About my family. 1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2756861.stm 2)http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/03/safrica.arms/index.html However we have managed to push the money abroad and it is presently in the custody of a security company in LOME-TOGO through a diplomatic means it was the only the money could leaves South Africa. I hope you are trustworthy and will not sit on the money when you receive it. The total sum will be shared as follows: 25% for you , 70% For my family, and then the remaining 5% will be used for the reimbursement of all the expenses we will incurre in the process of this transaction where you will take delivery of the funds, There is no risk involved what so ever on this transaction, these funds will be received in your favor upon proper application. If you are interested in this business, please contact me back immediately. Please endeavor to keep this business confidential. I will be most grateful if you can come forward and help me so that I will give you more details. Awaiting your urgent reply. Thanks Yengeni." End of email...

Now my only question is what's 25% of 25,000,000 USD? because I'm already mentally planning my retirement on this stroke of good fortune ...hawaii..maybe bahamas...hmmm decisions decisions!

Thank you Mr.Yengeni I'll be in touch :rolleyes:

mrcow

Unfortunately the exchange rate has not been great over recent times, but lucky you anyway!

You must be so excited!

BrokeBrokeBroke

danmanchester wrote:

), I would refer you to these Websites for further information About my family. 1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2756861.stm 2)http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/10/03/safrica.arms/index.html :

Hmm, I'd be really proud to be in that family! Not sure what the point of putting that in the email was.

pinkvixen

danmanchester wrote:

This just popped in my inbox.

Thank you Mr.Yengeni I'll be in touch :rolleyes:

And.... this one has jut popped into my inbox:

It is disappointing that people you have purchased from or sold to can abuse your information and how they can be manipulated in this way.

I have taken out the list of names for their protection only - though why I should is debateable as they are in effect participating in chain mail type money making schemes, blatantly abusing the good faith of a past buyer/seller on ebay (or wherever). I do realise that it is up to the recipient whether they wish to respond or not but money is sooooo tempting and this can get you into a certain amount of financial trouble if you aren't careful.

I have received this type of letter in the post and binned it, the names and addresses are taken off a mailing database, which is available to the public for a fee. However, emailing members of PayPal accounts smacks a little of invasion of privacy - well to me it does anyway.

I have contacted PayPal who say pretty much say I don't care and advised me to just block the sender's address and have it filtered out. I had hoped that they would try to block the sender from using PayPal. I replied to PayPal and told them that it wasn't doing their reputation much good and at this particular time, that's not good as they are getting a hammering over it as it is.

I have yet to contact ebay and see if I get the same result.

This is the mail:

Good day!

Apologies if you have already recieved this from myself but i have had
such an exceptional response that i've decided to send out more emails.

Please read this email and make sure you understand it as it could be
important to you!

I am sending you this email as you are a past contact of mine who I
have sold something to or bought something from through ebay between January 2004 and now (feel free to check....my ebay name is xxxxxxxxx)

I have received this email myself from an ebay contact of mine and have
to admit to being a bit cynical, however, having read through how it
works, I don't see how it can fail (unless everyone ignores it!). So, as
curiosity has got the better of me, (and I've spent lots of money on things like the lottery in my time with no return!), I have decided to give it a go.
After all its only ? and a bit of fun.

Please read all instructions below and GOOD LUCK!

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT PLAN.......JUST TRY IT FOR ?. YOU'LL WANT TO KICK
YOURSELF IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES AND IT WORKS FOR THEM. AND THE SOONER YOU ACT....THE BETTER CHANCE YOU HAVE!!!!

xxxxxxxxxxx

****************************************************************************************************

This is a copy of the original advert that I have now taken part in. If I have joined then I can only guess that many others will too, and that’s how the whole thing works.

You may have seen an email floating around about making huge amounts of
money through your Paypal account? Whether you have or not, I'm sending you
this to tell you that the scheme actually works and Paypal have actually
admitted its legal!

Please read on and see what you think. If you want to participate,
please just copy this email, replace my message with your own and send it to
all your contacts - *YOU CAN GATHER ALL PAST CONTACTS EMAIL ADDRESSES
THROUGH YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT HISTORY*. You will have to go through a log and take out the email addresses....but for what you get in return.....what half an
hour???

Before we go any further I would like you to know straight away that this will cost you ? and about 20 - 30 minutes of your time. If you are still interested please read on.

Now I am not promising that you are going to make ££££?s in 30 days but I
must admit the odds look excellent, and the 2nd excellent thing about this
business plan is that it can be done by anyone, anywhere in the world and
your total investment stays at just ?.

These are some of the email's and proof that I came across which finally
made me decide that I wanted to try this.

"What an amazing plan. I followed the instructions just 3 weeks ago,
and although I haven't made 10 grand yet, I am already up to ?,135. I am
absolutely gob smacked" - Alan Humphries, Leicester.

"Well what can I say? I sent out 40 email's like the plan said then I
just forgot about the whole thing. To be honest, I didn't really think
anything would come of it, but I checked my Paypal account a week later and
there was over ?000.00 in it!!! After 30 days I now have over ?1,000 to spend"
-Lisa McDonald, Northampton

"I was shocked when I saw how much money came flooding into my Paypal
account. Within 3 weeks my account balance has ballooned to ?,449. At
first I thought there had been some kind of error!" - Richard Barrie,
Cirencester

Well that's it. I hope that you decide to go ahead with it. If you
decide that this isn't for you I wish you all the best in the future and
please remember you can always pass it on even if you don't wish to do it
yourself.

INSTRUCTIONS- VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND


The first thing you need to do is send a ?.00 payment from your Paypal
account to the FIRST email address in the list below, along with a note saying "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR LIST". Instructions on how to send a payment are under "SEND
MONEY" at the Paypal site. It is very easy.
The current list is:

1. xxxxxxxx

2. xxxxxxxx

3. xxxxxxxx

4. xxxxxxxx

5. xxxxxxxx

The last thing you need to do is copy and paste this page (and make any necessary changes)

Remove the email address from the number 1 spot,move all the others up a
space,and insert your own email address in the number 5 spot.
Then send the page to as many people as you can,a good way is to send
it to all the people in your paypal history.

You may also wish to advertise this on message boards,auction sites etc

In no time at all,you should have reached the number 1 spot and the
money will start coming to your paypal account !!!!!!

ALL I WOULD LIKE TO DO NOW IS WISH YOU GOOD LUCK

IF YOU ARE STILL UNSURE OR EVEN IF YOU WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS PLEASE READ ON. Remember......this only takes 5 minutes to read
for a lot in return.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

When you send out your email, your email address will initially be at No 5
on the list. That is the best position that you can be in if you want to
earn serious money. The response rate for this programme is much higher
than any typical email marketing campaign for a number of reasons, which are
explained later on. As long as you send out your email's to people whom are
likely to be interested in this program, then on average you can expect a
response of around 25%. But let's be extremely conservative and assume
that the average response rate is 12.5%!

If you send out your 40 email's, you can expect at least 5 of those people
to do exactly what you did (12.5% of 40 = 5 people). By the time your
email address will have moved up to No 4 in the list, and this list will now have reached around 200 people (5 people x 40 email's = 200 people).

Out of those 200 people, you can expect at least 25 of them to
participate (12.5% of 200 = 25 people) so you are now reaching around 1000 people
(25 people x 40 email's = 1000) and you are now at No 3 on the list.

Out of those 1000 people, you can expect at least 125 of them to
participate(12.5% of 1000 = 125 people) so you are now reaching around 5000 people
(125 people x 40 email's = 5000) and you are now at No 2 on the list.

Out of those 5000 people, you can expect at least 625 of them to
participate (12.5% of 5000 = 625 people) so you are now reaching around 25000
people (625 people x 40 email's = 25000) and you are now at No 1 on the list.

Out of 25000 people, you can expect at least 3125 of them to
participate (12.5% of 25000 = 3125 people) so since you are at the No 1 spot you
can expect to receive around about ?,375 (3125 people x ?.00 = ?,375)

So when your name hit's the No 1 spot, it will be YOUR turn to collect
the money.

Over the course of 30 days, this money will be sent to you by a few
thousand people just like yourself, who are willing to invest ?.00 and 20
minutes of their time to receive around ?0,000 or more in cash. The first payments will arrive within a few days and then they will continue at the rate of about 100 payments per day for about 30 days (obviously this will depend on how quickly you act and how quickly
people take you up on this offer and then pass it on). After that time, the volume
of payments begin to taper off as your email is removed from the No 1position.

That's all you need to do! There will be around ?0,000 in ?.00 payments
waiting for you in your Paypal account within the next few weeks. ?0,000
for just 30 minutes work! This is real money that you can spend on anything
you wish! Just deposit it to your own bank account or spend it directly from
your Paypal account!!! It's just that easy!!! I think it's WORTH IT, don't you?

Remember, the 12.5% example above is assuming that 35 out of the 40 people
you send your email to will do absolutely nothing except delete your email.
However, if you follow the plan correctly and send your email's only to people who are likely to want to participate, you can expect a typical response-rate of around 25%. Hence, the 12.5% example is only given as a worst-case-scenario.
Additionally, the above example assumes that each participant will only send
out 40 email's. Imagine what would happen if each participant sent out 1,000
email's instead of just 40! Believe me, many people will do this and much more!

Unlike many other MLM programs, this 5-LEVEL PROGRAM costs you only ?.00
which is much more realistic and provides much, much faster results.

Only the first person on the list gets your ?.00 gift, but everyone in the list will rise to that Number 1 position as thousands of email's are being sent out. No cheating can occur (don't be fooled by claims that this system can be cheated) as Paypal only allows one account per person. Because it is so easy, the response rate is VERY HIGH and VERY FAST -Internet email FAST, and you will start seeing dramatic results in less
than one week! JUST IN TIME FOR NEXT MONTHS BILLS!

Thank you, and good luck in your ventures


PS . You can download your paypal history as a MS Excel file, this is a great way to quickly access all your stored email address's from your paypal transactions, to send this email on to others.

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soolin

Pinkvixen, send the email with all headers to spoof@paypal.com and complain that your privacy is being violated by a member sending you spam.

These Paypal pyramid schemes are unfortunately becoming very common and we all need to make sure we go as far as possible to get their accounts with ebay and paypal pulled.

Also, send it to ebay, again with all headers. You can get the users ebay id by doing a search on ebay using the email address.

Lastly, complain to the ISP of the person sending it to you, some ISPs take spam more seriously than others and there is also a chance that their whole email account will be suspended. If you look over on the ebay board there is a sticky about spoof paypal and ebay emails and this chain letter has had a couple of mentions already. It is becoming all too common now.

EDIT Sorry, I just re read your post and see that you did send it to paypal. The last one I reported to them they took quite seriously, it seems a shame that they didn't treat your report with more concern.

Soo

pinkvixen

soolin wrote:

Pinkvixen, send the email with all headers to spoof@paypal.com and complain that your privacy is being violated by a member sending you spam.

These Paypal pyramid schemes are unfortunately becoming very common and we all need to make sure we go as far as possible to get their accounts with ebay and paypal pulled.

Also, send it to ebay, again with all headers. You can get the users ebay id by doing a search on ebay using the email address.

Lastly, complain to the ISP of the person sending it to you, some ISPs take spam more seriously than others and there is also a chance that their whole email account will be suspended. If you look over on the ebay board there is a sticky about spoof paypal and ebay emails and this chain letter has had a couple of mentions already. It is becoming all too common now.

EDIT Sorry, I just re read your post and see that you did send it to paypal. The last one I reported to them they took quite seriously, it seems a shame that they didn't treat your report with more concern.

Soo

I did! As I said in my post, the reply I got was this:

Dear ,

Thank you for contacting PayPal regarding the email you received.

While it may appear to be associated with or sent by PayPal or eBay, it
is not. At this time we have been unable to link the sender of this
message to a registered account. You have the option of reporting this
email to the sender's ISP for their further review and investigation.

At this time, you should consider blocking this email address through
your email program. Normally, this can be accomplished by setting mail
filters. Doing this should eliminate repeat emails from this address
entering your inbox. For instructions on setting up filters, you should
review the help section of your email program or contact your email
provider.

If you have any doubt about whether an email message is from PayPal,
please forward it immediately to spoof@paypal.com. For eBay spoofed
emails, please forward those to spoof@ebay.com. Please do not respond to
it or click on any of the links in the email message. Please do not
change the subject line or edit the email in any way.

Once again, thank you for alerting us to the email you received.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department
PayPal, an eBay Company
_________________

Fact is - IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH EBAY/PAYPAL!! That's where they got my email address from in the first place - it was someone I had bought from or sold to. Waste of time.... :mad:

Thanks anyway Soo

burbs_2

I got this exact same email off North Devon Computers a while back. An offer was posted on here regarding some cheap ink cartridges so i bought some. A while later i got the Paypal email from someone who is meant to be running a business but using the emails he collects for business means to send me emails regarding paypal scams. disgusted with them and wont be going back

andy88_2

Give everybody a different email address for you, then it might be easier to spot where they are coming from.

You can do this if your ISP allows the username after the @ sign - use a different prefix.

I've received only 10 junk emails in 2 years.

pinkvixen

andy88 wrote:

Give everybody a different email address for you, then it might be easier to spot where they are coming from.

You can do this if your ISP allows the username after the @ sign - use a different prefix.

I've received only 10 junk emails in 2 years.

Yahoo offers a service called Address Guard wherein you can do this. Basically, its a disposable email address within your primary address that can be used as a one-off if you think that the other person is a bit 'iffy'. Having said that, I wouldn't have thought that I would have had to use a pseudo address for PayPal.
This service is only offered if you pay Yahoo for an upgraded mail account with extra storage for mail etc. I do have this facility and have found it useful in the past as you can trace the source of junk mail. e.g., if you'd given the ink company the incognito address and then suddenly junk mail was reaching your inbox with this same address, you can be assured that it was the ink compnay who has passed on your pseudo address. The beauty of this facility is that once you have sourced the junk, you can delete the pseudo address and therefore the junk and the ink supplier would just keep getting mail bounced back at them, as the address no longer exists.