Now I must be the LUCKIEST person in the world, yesterday I "won" $400,000 and today I "won" $700,000! Lol Is there anyone I can report these idiots to???
Can I report email lottery scam?
Congratulations! Can I borrow $125,000?
Check with your State Attorney Generals website and look for consumer fraud or e-mail fraud, and send the data to them.
Honestly, all you can do is to block the addresses, mark them as SPAM and be done with them.
Reply:You **can** report them to the "abuse" e-mail address of the ISP they were using (mail-abuse@yahoo-inc.com, for example), but it's usually not worth the bother. The most that will happen is the ISP will shut down the offending mailbox, and the most the ISP will tell **you** is that they have taken appropriate action against the offending account and that they are unable to disclose the specific action to a third party.
It won't bother the scammers much, because they're probably using several dozen free accounts to send their stuff out. But even aside from that, you don't even get the satisfaction of knowing you chopped off one of the hydra's heads (figuratively, of course) because the ISP won't disclose specific actions.
"Delete it and forget it" is the best policy for e-mails like those. Also, if you have friends who aren't so well-informed about e-mail scams, make sure you tell them all about it so they don't get suckered.
Reply:yes forward it to your email host: like mine is : spoof@yahoo.com. they send it to the appropriate folks. but quit opening those emails they knowwhen you click it open, just delete or press the spam button after you forward it to the host
Reply:Your email provider should have some kind of email you can forward these to...the only problem is that you would have to open up the email which isn't the greatest idea. It should be an abuse department or fraud department of some sort.
Reply:Yes go to this link :o)
http://nekkidtruth.blogspot.com/2007/01/...
Reply:Most all of this sort of fradulant e-mail activity originates from Nigeria, where the laws are weak and the authorities are easily bribed. Little can be done to prevent it.
To be quite honest, for a poor country such as Nigeria, these internet scams are a major source of "hard-currency"(US dollar, UK pound etc) for their local economy. The officials there simply "look the other way"
About the best one can do is scambait the b@$^@#ds and have some fun in the process.
"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves."
"It doesn't matter if you are new to this sport or a hardened veteran; if you are wasting the time of a scammer, or frustrating them in any way well that's good enough for us, and we would welcome you to join with our now very large community."
More at:
http://www.419eater.com/
Enjoy :-)
Reply:Not sure...but avoid opening them as there can be hidden surprises! Also block the email address and mark it as spam/junk.
Monday, May 24, 2010
I just got an scam email from a yahoo address. You may want to close it down. gloriamartins36@yahoo.fr?
Here's part of the email:
From: martins gloria [mailto:gloriamartins50@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:32 AM
To: gloriamartins50@yahoo.fr
Subject: Subject: Assistance
From Gloria Martins,
ABIDJAN COTE D' lVOIRE.
Dearest one,
Subject: Assistance
Please do not be embarrassed or offended that a total stranger is writing to you. At this point in my life, I have no other option than to seek assistance. Any way, I can get it due to my present predicament.
Introduction,I am Gloria Martins 21 Years old daughter of late Mr Daniel Martins a Sierre Leonian who operated /deals in Cocoa Business in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire under partnership but unfortunately his Business associates poisoned him in order to claim his wealth in a cocktail party held in his honour as the director of the company.
Two days before his death in the Hospital he told me that there is a fund which he deposited in a security company in Abidjan on my name as the inherit this sum in his
I just got an scam email from a yahoo address. You may want to close it down. gloriamartins36@yahoo.fr?
It's useless to post this here. Forward the email to Yahoo Customer Service and they'll handle it.
Reply:It is just one of the many scams that permeate the internet. Just push the "delete" button, and forget about it.
From: martins gloria [mailto:gloriamartins50@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:32 AM
To: gloriamartins50@yahoo.fr
Subject: Subject: Assistance
From Gloria Martins,
ABIDJAN COTE D' lVOIRE.
Dearest one,
Subject: Assistance
Please do not be embarrassed or offended that a total stranger is writing to you. At this point in my life, I have no other option than to seek assistance. Any way, I can get it due to my present predicament.
Introduction,I am Gloria Martins 21 Years old daughter of late Mr Daniel Martins a Sierre Leonian who operated /deals in Cocoa Business in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire under partnership but unfortunately his Business associates poisoned him in order to claim his wealth in a cocktail party held in his honour as the director of the company.
Two days before his death in the Hospital he told me that there is a fund which he deposited in a security company in Abidjan on my name as the inherit this sum in his
I just got an scam email from a yahoo address. You may want to close it down. gloriamartins36@yahoo.fr?
It's useless to post this here. Forward the email to Yahoo Customer Service and they'll handle it.
Reply:It is just one of the many scams that permeate the internet. Just push the "delete" button, and forget about it.
EMAIL MONEY SCAM ALERT AT YAHOO AND MATCH.COM jenbaby_cute007@yahoo AND antiquesjen1975?
thank you i am sure everyone who sees this is very greatful keep the work up and expose these trifle individuals whom have nothing better to do but to use good people.......Good looking out!!
EMAIL MONEY SCAM ALERT AT YAHOO AND MATCH.COM jenbaby_cute007@yahoo AND antiquesjen1975?
ok
Reply:oh. ok. i am not into that . my opion?
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EMAIL MONEY SCAM ALERT AT YAHOO AND MATCH.COM jenbaby_cute007@yahoo AND antiquesjen1975?
ok
Reply:oh. ok. i am not into that . my opion?
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Scam Email>>>From:"Yahoo Microsoft Awarded Promo"?
Attn: Winner,
You won the sum of 拢1,000,000.00 GBP from our monthly sweepstakes, you are hereby advice to get back to us, to claimed your prize.
Contact Mr. Frank David
Executive Secretary/Claims agent
Email: mr.frankdavid_dept@yahoo.co.uk
Claims Requirements:
1.full name:
2.Home Address:
3.Age:
4.Sex:
5.Marital Status:
7.Phone Number:
8.Nationality
9.Country Of Residence.
Steve Ballmer
Online Co-coordinator
Microsoft Yahoo!
AS FARE AS I KNOW
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS
MICROSOFT YAHOO
Scam Email%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;From:"Yahoo Microsoft Awarded Promo"?
This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams. There is also an online form for the reporting of such. (with links for your own country.) This site also gives excellent advice on what steps you can take to achieve a spam free inbox :
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Check out these sites for further information :
http://www.scambusters.com
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Reply:Oh boy, this is a scam of the first degree. Steve Ballmer is president of Microsoft, so how would he be the Online coordinator for Microsoft Yahoo? There is NO such thing. Yet! May never be, either. This is a big scam. It is, of course, spam email and you really shouldn't have opened it. The last one I saw was from David Frank, and yours is from Frank David. Guess what? Neither one exists.
Trash this one!
Reply:That certainly is a scam. All the phishers want is your personal information. Don't give it to them at all!!!! You'll risk identity theft and financial ruin. Turn around and have that fraud message spammed straight into oblivion ASAP. You'll never get anything out of this "bogus" lottery.
Reply:it's a scam email...just delete it. if you give out all of the information they require...they could probably get a bank account in YOUR name!
Reply:Never give out you personal details to any thing.
Reply:It's a scam!!
Run to the hills, spam is invading planet Earth!
You won the sum of 拢1,000,000.00 GBP from our monthly sweepstakes, you are hereby advice to get back to us, to claimed your prize.
Contact Mr. Frank David
Executive Secretary/Claims agent
Email: mr.frankdavid_dept@yahoo.co.uk
Claims Requirements:
1.full name:
2.Home Address:
3.Age:
4.Sex:
5.Marital Status:
7.Phone Number:
8.Nationality
9.Country Of Residence.
Steve Ballmer
Online Co-coordinator
Microsoft Yahoo!
AS FARE AS I KNOW
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS
MICROSOFT YAHOO
Scam Email%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;From:"Yahoo Microsoft Awarded Promo"?
This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams. There is also an online form for the reporting of such. (with links for your own country.) This site also gives excellent advice on what steps you can take to achieve a spam free inbox :
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Check out these sites for further information :
http://www.scambusters.com
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Reply:Oh boy, this is a scam of the first degree. Steve Ballmer is president of Microsoft, so how would he be the Online coordinator for Microsoft Yahoo? There is NO such thing. Yet! May never be, either. This is a big scam. It is, of course, spam email and you really shouldn't have opened it. The last one I saw was from David Frank, and yours is from Frank David. Guess what? Neither one exists.
Trash this one!
Reply:That certainly is a scam. All the phishers want is your personal information. Don't give it to them at all!!!! You'll risk identity theft and financial ruin. Turn around and have that fraud message spammed straight into oblivion ASAP. You'll never get anything out of this "bogus" lottery.
Reply:it's a scam email...just delete it. if you give out all of the information they require...they could probably get a bank account in YOUR name!
Reply:Never give out you personal details to any thing.
Reply:It's a scam!!
Run to the hills, spam is invading planet Earth!
Scam email received?
Hello.
I have received this emails:
Hello
Before we begin giving you more information on the apartment we need to know if you are currently up to date with your credit report. Obtaining your credit rating for free is easy, using the following link:
http://creditreporteveryone.com/creditch... (The process is free and safe and only takes a minute to fill out).
We have had a large number of defaulting tenants who came from Craigslist, so before we can set up an appointment with you we need to verify you are a credible tenant.
Once you have completed the application please e-mail us back.
IT IS A SCAM OR NOT?
PLEASE HELP.
Scam email received?
Every email you don't know who it is 80% a scam message. Just to let you know, NOTHING is free.
Reply:I don't6 think it's spam i think they just sent it to the wrong person.You had better tell them that or they might bill you for something you don't deserve.
Reply:scam
Reply:I believe it is a scam. i received the same email in response to a craigslist ad for an apt in baltimore. it stated that there was an open house today but it had no info as to where the open house or the apt was. So I emailed and got the same exact response. First of all, no one gives credit reports for free except for the government through www.annualcreditreport.com (i think that is the correct site). So before i was going to click that link, i googled the site w/ and w/o the spaces. I also googled the email that the person sent. Nothing, nada. In this instance my gut says SCAM... do not go to this site and input your info cause once you do, its all over if it is a scam. It is better to be safe than sorry.
BTW, there seems to be a few of them like that. I work for a rental company and no reputable company will let you bring your own report. It could be someone else's so we pull our own. In fact, you have to be licensed in order to do that. My advice: BEWARE!!!
single
I have received this emails:
Hello
Before we begin giving you more information on the apartment we need to know if you are currently up to date with your credit report. Obtaining your credit rating for free is easy, using the following link:
http://creditreporteveryone.com/creditch... (The process is free and safe and only takes a minute to fill out).
We have had a large number of defaulting tenants who came from Craigslist, so before we can set up an appointment with you we need to verify you are a credible tenant.
Once you have completed the application please e-mail us back.
IT IS A SCAM OR NOT?
PLEASE HELP.
Scam email received?
Every email you don't know who it is 80% a scam message. Just to let you know, NOTHING is free.
Reply:I don't6 think it's spam i think they just sent it to the wrong person.You had better tell them that or they might bill you for something you don't deserve.
Reply:scam
Reply:I believe it is a scam. i received the same email in response to a craigslist ad for an apt in baltimore. it stated that there was an open house today but it had no info as to where the open house or the apt was. So I emailed and got the same exact response. First of all, no one gives credit reports for free except for the government through www.annualcreditreport.com (i think that is the correct site). So before i was going to click that link, i googled the site w/ and w/o the spaces. I also googled the email that the person sent. Nothing, nada. In this instance my gut says SCAM... do not go to this site and input your info cause once you do, its all over if it is a scam. It is better to be safe than sorry.
BTW, there seems to be a few of them like that. I work for a rental company and no reputable company will let you bring your own report. It could be someone else's so we pull our own. In fact, you have to be licensed in order to do that. My advice: BEWARE!!!
single
Scam email? Where might it have come from and anything I can do?
Email read as follows:
Dear sir/ madam
I am the auditing and accounting manager bank of Africa (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso . In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of us$10.5m dollars (ten million five hundred thousand us dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (Mr Richard Burson from Florida us) who died along with his entire family in 1999 in a plane crash.
Since I got information about his death, the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased customer as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws.
But unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased customer for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me.
I will send to you by fax or email the text of application form. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made by me.
My regards to you and the family
Mr James Mustaf
I particularly hate the 'regards to you and the family bit' at the bottom. I can see why some people may actually fall for this. I have been on the bank of africa website and to the section for that particular country but can't seem to find any evidence of this man there, and it's all in french which doesn't help! Any ideas how he might have got my email? As I dont give it out much. Is there anything I can do to help stop this email being sent to someone else?
Scam email? Where might it have come from and anything I can do?
These are common scams, we all get them. You have to give them some money up front in good faith to pay for the transfer and taxes. Just spam it, it's easy for them to get our email address.
Reply:It is a scam to get your personal information and/or money.
Do not respond to it.
Report it to yahoo, so they are aware.
Forward to spam@yahoo.com or spoof@yahoo.com (If it involves a lot of money)
And for your E-mail safety, remember:
Never open E-mail unless you are absolutely sure of who sent it, treat ALL others as spam.
Never give your personal information out to anyone, be it E-mail, snail mail, phone calls or at your front door.
Reply:SCAM
They get your email from many sources. There is no way to predict when you get on their list and no way to remove yourself from the list.
Also, spam filters find it difficult to predict these scams without creating false positives for ordinary messages.
I get my revenge using thunderbird to extract the full headers with the message and send that via abuse.net to the domain the scammer asks you to replyto.
Note, the originator is either spoofed = nothing you can do, or a spambot virus = if an educational organisation is implicated, complain to the domain administrator that their network is being abused by an infected computer.
Dear sir/ madam
I am the auditing and accounting manager bank of Africa (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso . In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of us$10.5m dollars (ten million five hundred thousand us dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (Mr Richard Burson from Florida us) who died along with his entire family in 1999 in a plane crash.
Since I got information about his death, the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased customer as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws.
But unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased customer for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after ten years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me.
I will send to you by fax or email the text of application form. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made by me.
My regards to you and the family
Mr James Mustaf
I particularly hate the 'regards to you and the family bit' at the bottom. I can see why some people may actually fall for this. I have been on the bank of africa website and to the section for that particular country but can't seem to find any evidence of this man there, and it's all in french which doesn't help! Any ideas how he might have got my email? As I dont give it out much. Is there anything I can do to help stop this email being sent to someone else?
Scam email? Where might it have come from and anything I can do?
These are common scams, we all get them. You have to give them some money up front in good faith to pay for the transfer and taxes. Just spam it, it's easy for them to get our email address.
Reply:It is a scam to get your personal information and/or money.
Do not respond to it.
Report it to yahoo, so they are aware.
Forward to spam@yahoo.com or spoof@yahoo.com (If it involves a lot of money)
And for your E-mail safety, remember:
Never open E-mail unless you are absolutely sure of who sent it, treat ALL others as spam.
Never give your personal information out to anyone, be it E-mail, snail mail, phone calls or at your front door.
Reply:SCAM
They get your email from many sources. There is no way to predict when you get on their list and no way to remove yourself from the list.
Also, spam filters find it difficult to predict these scams without creating false positives for ordinary messages.
I get my revenge using thunderbird to extract the full headers with the message and send that via abuse.net to the domain the scammer asks you to replyto.
Note, the originator is either spoofed = nothing you can do, or a spambot virus = if an educational organisation is implicated, complain to the domain administrator that their network is being abused by an infected computer.
Scam email?
anyone else getting emails from people from backs from africa and that saying you got money which is obviosly a scam, is doing my head it i just send them back a mouthfull of what i thing, you should do the same, you should all give them a mouthfull, what do you say
Scam email?
Some people scam the scammers and rub them the wrong way, i've no personal experience with these people, but i've heard about people doing this and found this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_Aga...
Reply:i know how to trace ip addresses and the vast majority of those emails never went anywhere near africa, or china, or any of the other places they claim tobe from...so i inform them of this, and then tell them i reported them to a site that keeps track of all that stuff, and not to mess with people who took classes in computers and obviously know more than them.
Scam email?
Some people scam the scammers and rub them the wrong way, i've no personal experience with these people, but i've heard about people doing this and found this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artists_Aga...
Reply:i know how to trace ip addresses and the vast majority of those emails never went anywhere near africa, or china, or any of the other places they claim tobe from...so i inform them of this, and then tell them i reported them to a site that keeps track of all that stuff, and not to mess with people who took classes in computers and obviously know more than them.
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