I thought I had another African nation to add to my list, but it turns out it wasn't so. This one claims to have come from a city called Minna, in "Niger State," so at first I believed they were talking about the African nation of Niger, which shares a border with Nigeria. This guy is just trying to cover up that it came from some other city in Nigeria other than Lagos, not that you ought to trust anything that comes from anywhere in Africa. Other than that, this is the usual 4-1-9 stuff. You are supposed to "reconfirm the following information" about yourself so that $25 million, which does not exist, of course, can be "approved" for release to you by the governor of Niger, rather than the president or the central bank governor, as they usually say. This entry is linked here, in the upper left hand corner, and there are some 4-1-9 scam videos located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
We're disappointed that these guys can't be more original, and come up with their own scams, but it appears that they just copy and paste. Sometimes they mess up on pronouns and call Jennifer "him," for example. This one's just another rehash of the old "United Nations ATM Card." We call these "BS" cards or "BS SCAM" cards, because they don't exist, and they never do. This one claims that the scammers have $5.2 million for you, and they want to send you a BS Card. If these things were really true we'd have been trillionaires by now LOL. This entry was made here in the upper right hand corner, and here are some ATM Card "Skimming" videos, which is a real problem today. Carefully examine the ATM machine you put your card into, because it could have a skimmer attached! That goes for any ATM card reader, including at the fuel pump. Watch the videos, a total of about ten minutes, and you'll see what we mean. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Not From: Sgt. William Moore [email protected] Do Not Reply-to: [email protected] This is a free e-mail address that nearly anyone in the world can sign up for. These scams are never from someone in any nation's military. Date: Sun, Aug 28, 2011 Dear Sir / Madam (Intended Victim), I have a good business proposal for you. There are no risks involved and it is easy. Please reply for briefs and procedures. Best regards, Sgt. Williams Moore We love these damn things. Well, sort of. Yes, U.S. troops do sometimes find money in the Middle East, and lots of it. The scammers are actually dumb enough to believe that any nations' troops would themselves be dumb enough to pull something like this. These are more or less targeted at civilian women, however, who might be tempted to send a soldier something because they're undergoing some extreme hardships. Don't ever believe these "military" scams, they're never real, and neither is the money. As always, the scammers want you to reply to a free e-mail address, and they are always trying to take your money. There are five different military scam YouTube videos linked here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Sigh. I don't know why the scammers even try to attempt this one. They've got to be relying on 100 percent pure greed is my guess. It's either that, or they are simply using blind stupidity in a desperate effort to make a buck. If you see any e-mail at all with an offer for a large sum of free money right out of the blue, it is always a scam, and they are hoping you will jump on it right away, without thinking about what you are doing. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you can't think with your eyeballs, and this scam is much too quickly and easily picked apart. Please do not act rashly only to get ripped off. They want you to wire a small amount of money to them, usually around $100, or in this case, £98, in exchange for a larger amount. If you just take time out to check up on this, you can quickly find out at Western Union's website that this MTCN doesn't even exist, without even picking up the phone or leaving your chair. The fact that they want you to respond to a free e-mail address, as always, is just another enormous red flag that it is, in fact, a scam. Do not wire them any money, for you will never get anything back, ever. This entry is located here. You can watch the Top Four Money Scam videos, including Western Union, linked here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Today's entry is linked here, under "Scam Victim Payment Notification 2011," in the upper left hand corner, which is another ATM Card compensation scam. You've seen them before. Someone has millions of dollars for you that doesn't exist, and they want to send it to you on an ATM card. Don't respond to these, either. All of them are just scams.
However, we want to direct people's attention most of all to the problem of ATM card skimming, in which thieves steal your card's information. In the first video, ADT recognizes the problem and is now helping the City of Boca Raton. Many more of ADT's new security devices are due to be installed, but until then, ATM card skimming is a serious problem. There are two more videos about it linked here, below the first. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! We get kind of disappointed with these guys sometimes. They can't think of anything more original than the ancient "next-of-kin" scams that used to circulate in the postal mail and on fax machines before there was an internet. We picked this one because the "client's" name is so unusual. Qvortrup Sadou? Hmm. And yet that name apparently did show up in The Guardian article that's listed with this entry at "Urgency Needed" in the upper right hand column. Listen to "Whackhead" piss off a Nigerian scam artist in this video clip :o) Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Usually what these people say in these dying scams is that they were married for a long time and yet never had any children. This is a variation on that theme in which they claim that their only child died along with their spouse in some "accident" that really happened, which was reported in the media sometime in the past. They offer a link to that story in an attempt to show you that they are on the "up & up," as we say in America. In addition, this scammer identifies "herself" as "Mother Jennifer." I don't know much about the Catholic faith, but I'm pretty sure that all Catholic mothers, such as Mother Theresa, are nuns, and they are not permitted to marry or have children. Also, "Mother Jennifer" says she cannot "precisely say" why she has "chosen" you. She did not "choose" anyone, she simply spammed several hundred people. There are many more samples of these dying scams linked here, and a YouTube video is here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You!
Wow, we'd say a scammer was actually attempting to get creative for once. A search for a "Karen Mangi" doesn't turn up a lot of results, but it appears that she really is a twenty-something year old student in South Africa. Her name appears on a couple other websites that warn about scams. This scammer is pretending to be her, for some reason, rather than some government official, and "she" wants to invest $9 million in "your country," because "she" had no idea where you live. Something about the Republican Party of Pennsylvania was brought into this, which becomes clear by the end of the scam-mail. If you can manage to contact her, or if you contact the Republicans in Harrisburg about this, they will have no idea what the heck you're talking about. And yet at the bottom of the scam-mail, it says "Paid for by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania." This is just flat illegal on so many levels, we don't even know where to begin LOL. This entry can be viewed here, in the upper left hand corner. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! To anyone who is brand new to the internet, and its subculture of spams and scams: Each and every one of these "stories of riches" are always scams, they are never real. The person or people contacting you are never who they say they are. You will never, ever get millions of dollars in exchange for a small advanced fee. That is why this is known as "advanced fee fraud," and this is only one of many variations of it. The "millions" does not exist. It never existed, it does not exist, and it never will exist. These are always scams, 100 percent of the time, and there are no exceptions whatsoever.
This is just another scam where someone died, of course, but I speculate that this might indicate that they are catching on to the fact that the "next-of-kin" scams aren't working as well as they used to. After so many years of flooding the world with these stories, both before and after the internet came to be, I'm really surprised that people will still fall for these things. Apparently they do, though, or the scammers wouldn't be putting them out. Please do not be tempted by these scams. None of them are ever real, not one. This entry is linked here, in the upper right hand corner, and there are some inheritance scam videos from YouTube located here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You! Many persistent spammers and scammers are actually located right here in North America. Overseas, though, more experienced foreign scammers whose first language is not English seem to be better with it than their peers, or that's the way it looks to me, anyway, but that's only a personal observation that isn't necessarily true. At the same time, I don't believe that I'm competely full of BS, either LOL. It's just really tough attempting to generalize without purposely stereotyping individual people. These experienced foreign scammers, according to my theory anyway, still make mistakes with English, though, and please do not help them. Scams appear in every language known to man, but English is "the language" that business seems to accept worldwide. And yet it is only the ninth or tenth most commonly spoken. MSN had an article about that.
I've noticed that today, these scammers also seem to be recognizing that using free "ordinary" western e-mail addresses largely does not work anymore, as I have been seeing a lot of strange looking free e-mail addresses these days. The free western addresses are those that the English speaking world is used to seeing everyday, although they do exist in Spanish, French, and Portuguese. I believe those are the "Big Three" languages in the Americas spoken other than English. These free e-mail services include ones offered by Microsoft Live, Google, and Yahoo in Qatar, India, China, Japan, or Mongolia, and a few others, so they use more esoteric (to Westerners, anyway) free e-mail address services based in the East, such as in Poland and others, where the websites do not appear in English. It's a good thing for us that Google came out with its free translator :o) Anyway, nevermind me, I'm just rambling LOL. I'm just saying that the scammers are always improving themselves, trying to fool you, but I for one will not be fooled. You have to wake up pretty dang early in the morning to scam me. You can see more of these scam samples, linked here (see "Attention Beneficiary," top left), and some Western Union scam videos from YouTube located 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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