Bogus email re ATM pin code

summersnearlyhere

I received the following email and would like to report it but have absolutely no idea who to or where? Any ideas would be welcome. This sort of thing makes me really mad - if this had gone to mother I would have had half an hours ear ache while she worried about it!


Re: ATM PIN CODE 4880.‏

Atten: Sir/Madam,

As part of our security measures, we recently noticed a recent transfer
(your ATM CARD valued 1.2 million) USD registered with your name from a
temporary account .this account will be suspended if not clear this week
.

In order to provide you with secure service however, your advised to
immediately reconfirm your telephone and current contact address, your
Passport or Id Card to this e-mail address in order to provide you with
secure service and you are required to make a payment of the dispatch fee
of $85 via western union with the Receiver Name: AWOUNOU AHMED country
Benin Republic, MTCN:.......... to allow the ATM CARD reach you on time.
make sure you call me for more details and you are advice to send all
information's to the below email: [URL="mhtml:{F3EE5947-BA7E-45C9-99AE-A6872B94E4C1}mid://00000457/!x-usc:mailto:david_egobiah33@hotmail.com"]david_egobiah33@hotmail.com[/URL]

Your Service,

Mr. David Egobiah

Director, ATM Payment Department Apex Bank
Tel: +229-930-91080

suckmaster.burstingfoam

I refuse to believe anyone could ever be taken in by something like that though - it looks like it was written by a five year old.

summersnearlyhere

I would agree but then you haven't met my mother!!!!

maninthestreet

Does your mother have 1.2 million USD in any of her bank accounts?

HugoRune_2

maninthestreet wrote: »

Does your mother have 1.2 million USD in any of her bank accounts?

course she does, the deposed finance minister of Umboto transferred it into her account

superscaper

If I was going to report it personally I'd look in the email header to determine what the origin IP address is then report it to the ISP responsible for that IP range. You may also want to report it here http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/ although not sure if they can actually do anything about it as it looks like it'll be outside of UK juristiction (and phishing is so prominent anyway I'd be surprised if they have the resources anyway).

If it happened to me I'd also report it and take it as far as I can with the company that passed on my email address but that's probably because of the way I've got my email set up that I can determine that, presumably you're only using one email address and so have no way of knowing who passed on your address to them or how they got it.

Butlers1982

Id just delete it and forget about it.
If anyone is stupid enough to fall for this then thats their own fault

summersnearlyhere

Thank you Superscraper. I looked at the header but had no idea how to find the ISP from that so did a search and found SpamCop.net which deals with it for you and forwarded it to Spam@[EMAIL="UCE@FTC.GOV"]UCE.GOV[/EMAIL] "so the spam gets included in the Consumer Sentinel law enforcement database".

The site I used quotes "Even though most of these spams are ridiculous, and are good for a laugh, they are still trying to cheat people, and some unfortunate souls are still going to get swindled. After all, if a spammer sends out a million email spams odds are they are going to defraud someone."

Unfortunately Butlers, HugoRune, mainthestreet, the people who actually try and stop these fraudsters don't agree with you.

Whether there was enough money in a persons account or not some people would be really worried by these ridiculous emails. This type of thing annoys me as do rude and careless replies that are of no help to anyone!

maninthestreet

summersnearlyhere wrote: »

Thank you Superscraper. I looked at the header but had no idea how to find the ISP from that so did a search and found SpamCop.net which deals with it for you and forwarded it to Spam@[EMAIL="UCE@FTC.GOV"]UCE.GOV[/EMAIL] "so the spam gets included in the Consumer Sentinel law enforcement database".

The site I used quotes "Even though most of these spams are ridiculous, and are good for a laugh, they are still trying to cheat people, and some unfortunate souls are still going to get swindled. After all, if a spammer sends out a million email spams odds are they are going to defraud someone."

Unfortunately Butlers, HugoRune, mainthestreet, the people who actually try and stop these fraudsters don't agree with you.

Whether there was enough money in a persons account or not some people would be really worried by these ridiculous emails. This type of thing annoys me as do rude and careless replies that are of no help to anyone!

If people are going to fall for these emails, they're not going to be savvy enough to check the 'Consumer Sentinel law enforcmement database' in the first place, are they? Literally millions of emails like the one you received are sent each and every day. Law enforcement agencies worldwide are doing little, if anything, to fight fraud like this, as it's not a priority for them.

moonrakerz

I am always amazed by the number of these huge banking corporations that have to use hotmail addresses !! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

eyelinerprincess

And gmail addresses.