I never did understand much about the telephone numbering system in the UK, but I did learn a little something about 070 codes. Specifically, that scammers outside the U.S. and the UK love to use them in connection with the British +44 international dialing code. I do occasionally see an American area code such as 206, though. See this article at 419scam.org.
This scam, supposedly from some UK "barrister" who is not listed in the Bar Standards Board, claims that his "client," a late "Engr Rollins," has made you beneficiary to his estate of 1.2 million GBP. Then he goes on to say that the money is for the needy, less fortunate, and for yourself as well. It sounds kind of reasonable, but no self-respecting lawyer is going to send you an e-mail about it without also posting you a paper letter complete with documentation. Other than that, it looks sort of okay until you get to the phone numbers, which begin with +44-701 and +44-709, and the names of his "partners" at the bottom. I ran across a Yahoo Answer about this scam from someone who says he's a lawyer. He said, "Barristers offer legal servcies [sic] via chambers and are self-employed. They are not permitted to join forces and become a firm." Click Here Further, according to Google, there is a William Moore Law Firm in Florida. "Welcome to the website of William Moore. We maintain offices in Ft Lauderdale, N. Miami Beach and W. Palm Beach." Click Here. There are several more attorneys named William Moore located throughout the U.S., but the only Barrister William Moore is listed in Anti-Fraud International and Bitten Us as a scam. Click Here and Here. There's some good natured ribbing about William Moore Law "Frim" LOL. This entry is linked here, and there are a couple of different inheritance scam videos located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! These scams are easy to figure out, I have no idea why they even bother with these, and it makes me angry that they try something this simple. I guess they think we're stupid dogs or something, I really don't know. The claim goes that you personally helped this trash "transfer some funds with all past efforts" but that it "failed somehow." Unless you were sleepwalking on multiple occasions, you know that you didn't help anyone transfer anything, and you're thinking "WTF?" So now they want to offer you a bunch of money as "compensation" for something that failed, because I guess the trash "feels bad" or whatever. I'd call it desperation. This just isn't going to make any sense to anyone at all, because each of us knows darn well it never happened! Some scammers are the Scarecrow I guess - no brains. I hate to say it, but anyone who actually falls for this can't be any smarter than a grapefruit. This entry is located here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Here's another Western Union scam, and it's funny, or at least I think so. You supposedly have a $1.2 million "inheritance" coming to you, without the scammers explaining why, through WU because the "President of Benin" doesn't want the money going to any "fraud stars" LOL. You're to pick up $5,000 each day until the "fund" is "finished." As I've already explained so many different times, none of the money ever exists, and as I explained recently, attempting to pick up wired money that's not in your name is a crime in the U.S., and probably in other countries as well.
Also notice that the scammers do not have the American name format right, as the "Western Union manager's" name is "Dr. Austin Joe." They're completely oblivious to the fact that "Joe" is usually a nickname, but don't help them. Let them figure it out on their own. There are people whose first name is Austin, of course, but it's glaringly obvious that they meant Joe Austin, and that's why you will see such names as William Thomas or Thomas Barry; the names are interchangeable. This entry will be linked here for awhile, in the upper right hand column, and a "top four" money scam video is located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! I am sorry to say that even if you have been scammed in the past, there is no such thing as any "compensation" for it. I received this Western Union scam-mail last night, and it claims that as a "beneficiary," I am somehow "entitled" to $1.5 million as "compensation" for being a "scammed victim." Apparently, in an attempt to keep off of the U.S. IRS's radar, I was supposed to pick up $3,500 with each MTCN number, until I had been paid the full amount. Scammers today are well aware that financial institutions have to report any cash received by a U.S. customer, that's $10,000 or more, to the IRS, so they attempt to steer clear of their radar, and any other nation's taxing authorities as well. That's as if the money ever even existed, which it doesn't, the scammers just want to convince a mark that the money is real. Included with the scam-mail was an MTCN, a sender's name, a test question, a test answer, that $3,500 was available for pickup, and all I had to do was send the scammer $75 as an "activation fee." I went to Western Union's website, and indeed, this was a real MTCN which said the money was available. It isn't any longer.
What's new about this is that it got me to play devil's advocate. "Could I scam the scammers and get their money?" I had a nice little fifteen minute chat with John at Western Union's Consumer Fraud Division. He said that no, unless the order specifically indicated that I was the person to pick it up, then I could not receive it, regardless of whether I could quote the sender's name, MTCN, test question and answer, or not, unless I were willing to break some federal regulations in an attempt to obtain it anyway. He also told me that the spam only claimed that $3,500 was supposedly sent, but that it most likely wasn't true at all, and was probably much less, as little as a dollar. He also said it could very well be a stolen MTCN. The scammers, of course, do not know virtually any of the names attached to e-mail addresses they spam, so they do not include any names as to who is supposed to receive the "cash," if there's any at all. He simply took down my information, more about the scam-mail itself, and I said thanks for the help. You can also report these WU scam-mails, complete with full headers, to [email protected] So, if you guys get these Western Union scam-mails, do not ever send the scammers any money. You will always lose it, and you will never get anything in return. Attempting to receive unclaimed money in the U.S. that's not in your name is a federal crime. This entry is linked here, in the upper right hand corner for awhile, and there's a Top Four money scam YouTube video about it located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! U.S. military personnel sometimes do find a great deal of money in the Middle East. If it is U.S. dollars, I don't believe they are allowed to keep any of it. It seems it's a different story with foreign currencies, however. I heard a story from a reserve soldier though, of another soldier, a friend of the reserve guy, who took home 400,000 Kuwaiti dinar when they were worth a dime each, before he was redeployed. Back when our boys kicked Iraq out and left, the dinar shot right back up to its older previous value, and beyond. When the soldier heard about it, he phoned back home and told his wife to deposit the money, and they made a cool $3 or $4 million bucks. The Kuwaiti dinar currently stands at US$3.63. Whenever scammers see news in the media about U.S. soldiers finding money, they take advantage of it right away, and spin their stories about how you can get your hands on it, too. They aren't anywhere near the Middle East, of course, nor are they in the military, so they have no way of getting their hands on any of it. The money they supposedly have doesn't exist, and it never does. This entry is linked here, in the upper right hand corner for awhile, and five different military scam videos are located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Clickable Link Wow, I haven't posted in a week. I'm getting lazy LOL. Here's another interesting banking / ATM Card scam. This one claims to come from some sort of company in Taiwan, which it didn't, of course. You don't even need to use Google Translate to ascertain that. They want you to respond to a John Mercury, at an e-mail address @chasebank-ny.com, which attempts to make this scam look real. In looking it up on Google, I also ran across another domain, where they also wanted you to respond to a John Mercury @chasebank-ebanking.com, a domain which no longer exists. I wonder why LOL. The chasebank-ny.com domain had to be paid for, there's no question about that, as did the other. But if you go to the active website, it says "VistaPrint: Make an impression. Website [sic] are FREE at vistaprint.com/ websites. Create Your Website in Minutes." It very obviously has nothing to do with JP Morgan Chase at all. Then if you go to the VistaPrint site, you can see that they offer to host websites with a month long free trial. This is a good way for VistaPrint to promote their business cards, but scammers are taking advantage of the trial offer in an attempt to scam us. This entry will be linked here in the upper left for awhile, and there are some ATM Card "skimming" videos located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! M.S.L. Sanusi Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi really is the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Click Here. You've seen the scams before. I get so many from these scammers, I gave him his own page. I have two different entries located here, in the upper left hand corner, one below the other. See the cartoon in the upper right :o) There are some good 419 Documentary videos located here as well, and over 6,000 games. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Sorry, folks. Weebly did some sort of update last night, and told me to "get out" for awhile. Anyway, let's see, where to start. There's no indication anywhere that there is anyone named "Laura George" at the UN, and that's a new name I haven't seen before. The scam is an old one, however, and rather convoluted. Sometimes these say that this "UN official" has received "numerous complains" from "security officials" all over the world, including Antarctica! LOL! Sometimes they say they are "compensating" people for having been scammed, but this one only says that "fund payments have been delayed," without saying which "fund" it's talking about. This "UN official" has "directed" the Nigerian government to pay out $1.5 million to "beneficiaries" in an ATM Card, which I refer to as a "BS" Card, because that's what it is: pure 24 karat BS. Oh, and you're one of the "beneficiaries," of course! Neither the card nor the money ever exist. This entry is linked here, in the upper left hand corner, and there are a couple of good Nigerian 4-1-9 Scam videos here. Thanks to everyone for following me on Twitter @inscamerated, and I thank those for doing so last night! It's appreciated! Be vigilant everyone, and Don't Get Burned!
This is getting kind of discouraging, waiting for fresh, original material. It seems that all day today I got nothing but dying and loan scams, very old stuff. I did get something new, however, and in a different language to boot. I ran this particular scam-mail through Google Translator, because I originally got it in German. So I posted it on my site that way, in the upper left hand corner, and then provided an imperfect translation below it, linked here. It claims we've "won" the European Social Fund, as if it were some kind of lottery. It isn't, but I put it in the lottery section anyway. This is how people really participate in ESF Actions, as stated on their website, at this link. Feel free to explore their site, which has something to do with the European Commission, and you can see that it has nothing to do with Euro Millions. Hey, it's tough enough keeping up with American politics LOL! Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Okay, so Africa has more gold and diamonds than anywhere else on Earth. Big deal. This guy claims to be a "sales consultant" for Catholic Missionary Ghana Gold Dust. CMGGD might be a real seller of gold and diamonds, but it sure doesn't come up in Google, other than with other scam sites warning about it. It actually sounds reasonable; the only two things wrong with it are that I didn't ask for it, and they want us to respond to one of two free e-mail addresses. Don't fall for this crap. This entry is located here, and there are some gold related scam videos linked here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! |
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AuthorMy name is Gary, and I live in the Midwestern United States. This site is intended to expose the frauds and scams that are so pervasive on the internet, especially today. One hundred per- cent of the e-mails you get that promise you millions are never, ever real. They'll tell you they're "dying," trying to gain your sympathy. They're not dying, they're lying. Click Here for the "Dying" scams. Don't fall for it, and never send them any money, no matter what they tell you. Oh, and good luck hacking this website. It's got a nice strong password on it. Archive
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