BEWARE of Fishing – Spam Emails Demanding Bank Account details,Address or Personal Information

October 17, 2008 50 Comments

Beware of Any Spam / Fishing Emails you receive from unknown people or unknown banks or sometimes People who make email addresses of well known banks(Punjab National bank,PayPal) and send you emails asking you to update your Bank Account Details. Some mails say that they will share money with you,and they have large amounts of wealth with them which they may want to share with you. Just Keep away from all such Frauds.

Many People will get cheated be these scams,because they make up good stories and as many of my fans and visitors are giving their email address in Comment Boxes i thought that it will be best to inform all My Dearest Fans to be Vigilent of any such Scam emails and Report them to concernd authorities or to the Email service Providers. Never Disclose personal information to anyone especially your Bank accountDeatils,credit card or Passwords,Because Internet is a Place where all dangers can happen. Dont Trust people who act like friends and demand your details. Many Business men,Women and Children have fallen on such Traps.

EXAMPLES OF EMAILS YOU HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON AND MARK AS SPAM

EMAIL 1

Dear Friend,

I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. I am the Auditing and Accounting section manager with African Development Bank, Ouagadougou Burkina faso. I Hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of ou both families.

I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($39.5)million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim.I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer late Mr.George Small who died along with his supposed next of kin in an air crash since October 31st 1999.

I don’t want the money to go into government treasury as an abandoned fund.So this is the reason why I am contacting you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 30% of the above mentioned sum if you agree to handle this business with me.

EMAIL 2

National Lottery Commission

2 springfield Street,

London SW1P 6AW,

United Kingdom.

ATTN WINNER,

Your email has just won the sum of £1,628,360.00

in cash credited to a file in the just concluded

International Award Programme held 28th June 2008

Your e-mail address attached to:

Ticket Number: 8603775966738

Reference Number: UK/776090X2/23.

WINNING NUMBERS: 7, 12, 19, 23, 46, 48 (bonus.28)

WINNING DATE: 30th June 2008

For Claims,Contact:

Name:Bar.David Green

Foreign Services Validation Officer,

Congratulations

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs.Lara Graham

For UK National Lottery

EMAIL 3

The Irish Lottery

11 G Lower Dorset street,

Dublin Ireland.

Ref: LSYU/8791/8161/09

Batch: B2/D453-59

DEAR SIR/MADAM

We are pleased to inform you of our announcement today 13th June 2007, of

winners in the IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY Promotional draw held on the 28th of june.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from

2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America,

Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our

electronic business Promotions Program.

You qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various e-business

website we are running on the Internet.A ticket number 100-309-7482,with

serial number 111 410-887 was attached to your entry which drew the lucky

numbers 1 10 29 37 45 49 and consequently won in the second category.You are

therefore awarded a cash prize of £820,000.00, which is the winning payout

for Second category winners.This is from the total prize money of

£20,550,000.00 shared among several international/local winners in the

Second category.

You are to file in your claim to the director of claims

department with the information below to arrange for your payout,

name….

age…..

sex….

occupation…

phone no….

addresse…

winning numbers…

MR.CHRIS TONY.

Ensure that you contact the claim department not later than 21 days from the

day you receive this notification message.Good luck from me and members of staff of the IRISH LOTTERY.

yours faithfully,

Mr. barry howarth.

Online coordinators for IRISH LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International

Programme.

EMAIL 4
Security Advisory From ABN AMRO Bank

Dear Customer,

This is to caution you that our security team had observe some login attempts in your NetBanking Account from many blacklisted IP Addresses so that we have send you a mail to inform you and verify your NetBanking Account to provide you highest standards of security. However, if you didn’t verify your account we will block your account to prevent any misuse of your account.

We do this because whenever you or any third party wants to login from outside India, Our Security team got a caution message to prevent your account from any Unauthorized access.

We seek your cooperation for serving you better.

Thank you

Sincerely,

ABN AMRO Bank

EMAIL 5

From Sgt Dave Godwin.

Good Day,

I found your contact particulars in an E-mail address guide that was provided to us here, as I desperately needed an urgent help to do this deal. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the sum of $15m {Fifteen Million U.S Dollars only} to you; as far as I can be assured that my share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here.

SOURCE OF FUND: A lot of money in various currencies were discovered in barrels at a farmhouse near one of saddams old palaces in Tikrit in Iraq during an operation Conquest in Fallujah north of Baghdad, and it was agreed by Staff Sgt. Kenneth Buff and I that some part of this money be shared among both of us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw the money first. This is quite an illegal thing to do, but well tell you what? no compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives in this hell hole, of which my brother in-law was killed by a road side bomb last time.

The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a British Contact working here, at Southern Basra British fortified green zone, whose office enjoys some immunity, I was able to get the package out to a safe location entirely out of trouble spot. He does not know the real contents of the package, and believes that it belongs to a British/American medical doctor who died in a raid here in Baghdad, and before giving up, trusted me to hand over the package to his family in United States. I have now found a much secured way of getting the package out of Iraq to you, for you to pick it up, and I will discuss this with you when I am sure that you are willing to assist me, and I believe that my money will be well secured in your hand because you have fear of God.

I want you to tell me how much you will take from this money for the assistance you will give me. One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with anybody, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please and please destroy this message as any leakage of this information will be too bad and catastrophe for soldiers here in Iraq. I do not know how long we will remain here, but I hope to have a shift very soon for me to return back to the States. I have been shot and wounded twice and I have survived two terrible suicides bomb attacks just by special grace of God, this and other reasons I will mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I will honestly want this matter be resolved immediately.

I thank you so much for everything and anticipate that you will be trustworthy and handle this transaction to the best of your ability to benefit both of us.

God Bless you and your family.

Yours Sgt. Dave Godwin

EMAIL 6

FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION.

COULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER TO HELP ME TO RELOCATE THIS SUM OF FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS (US$15.000.000) TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR ESTABLISHING AN INDUSTRY IN YOUR COUNTRY.

THIS FUND WAS DEPOSITED IN OUR BANK BY MRS JOYCE LAKE AN AMERICA CITIZEN WHO DIED IN A PLANE CRASH IN 2000.

WE HAVE TRIED TO CONTACT HER FAMILY TO COME FORWARD FOR CLAIMS BUT COULD NOT SUCCEED.WE DISCORVERED THAT THE LATE AMERICAN DIED ALONG SIDE WITH

HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HER NEXT OF KIN.

I WILL GIVE YOU ALL VITAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE AMERICAN AND THE $15.000.000 IN OUR CUSTODY SO THAT YOU WILL CONTACT MY BANK FOR THEM TO RELEASE THE MONEY TO YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO THE DESEASED PERSON .

YOU WILL HAVE TO ESTABLISH CONTACT WITH THE BANK WHILE I WILL QUIDE YOU ON THE STEPS TO FOLLOW TILL THE TRANSFER OF THIS FUND TO YOU

AS ONE OF THE BANK DIRECTORS,I WILL PLAY A ROLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE FUND IS RELEASED TO YOU.

AS SOON AS I RECIEVE YOUR REPLY,I WILL GIVE YOU AN INSTRUCTION ON WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.

REPLY AND LET ME KNOW YOUR FULL NAME,AGE,ADDRESS,OCCUPATION,AND YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBERS .WE SHALL DISCUS OUR INTEREST ON THE LOT AS WE PROCEED .

I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.

MR. ABU ISSOUF.

PLEASE BEWARE OF ALL SUCH SCAMS YOU MAY FIND ALLOVER THE INTERNET AND SOME OF THE LINKS IN THESE MAILS ARE ALSO LOADED WITH VIRUSES THAT CAN DESTROY ALL YOUR DATA AND THEY ALSO CAN INTERFERE AND USE YOUR COMPUTER WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND GET YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS AND PASSWORDS.

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