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The Eye on the Scams

Scams, Rogues And Thieves

In every walk of life you will find the ultimate thief who is desperately trying to get at your money. The legitimised ones offer you something in return we call this tax. But there are always the ones that do not want to give you anything in return; these are the rip off merchants.
With the expansion of the Internet these scams are becoming a daily occurrence, judging by the Spam in my box then the true facts would be about five to ten daily
There is of course ways to block out these unwanted mail but if your e-mail has been put onto a list and then sold then you will more than likely have had some
It never ceases to amaze me the type of emails that arrive on my desk.

To show these scams up is something i feel i need to do. I have collected some of the most prominent scams at the moment. I have numbered them so you can tell the difference .

If you have come accross a scam lately and you want to warn others . Then please post a reply on this blog . Replys will be monitored and checked for genuine posts.


And Hopefully our subcribers to our network will be aware of the newest and cleverset scams out there .

Watch this space scam rss feeds ?




1.

I received one that gave me a long sob story about his wonderful wife and kids blah de blah and how much he was struggling to cope financially could I find it in my heart to buy some of his work, really, how pathetic. Get a job.


2.

Hello,
It is with trust and confidence that I make this urgent, important and confidential Personal Proposal to you. I am a fourty one (41) year old Attorney in practice here in London.
Aye right an attorney is going to write to me and trust me with his money after all I am only a perfect stranger. (And spell forty right )
All I have to do is open a bank account into which he will put large checks and then we take the cash out and send it to him in the meantime just after you have posted the dosh your bank phones to say the checks have bounced! Oh dear how did that happen?

3.

I am blah de blah, an accountant in the Ministry
of petroleum Resources (MPR) and a member of a
seven-man Tender Board in charge of contract review
and payment approvals.

I came to know of you in my search for a reliable
person to handle a very confidential transaction that
involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a
foreign account
Another scam do you think I am buttoned up the back

4.

The most recent is the winning of the national lottery the Australian one I have never been to Australia let alone buy a ticket and lets face it when you buy a lottery ticket in the real world do you give the shop assistant you re-mail? No I didn’t think so

5.

A real cracker from the desk of barrister Michael king brown…. well I am famous all these lawyers and barrister know me
Wanting to know if I can help him “I am contacting you to assist in repatriating this huge amount of money left behind by my client before the Bank get it confiscated or declared unserviceable by the BANK/INSTITUTION where these huge deposit is lodged.”
So basically he says the boy died with his wife and only daughter died in a ghastly motor accident in London and could I lie and say I was a relative to claim the cash He would give me the details no doubt as long as I send him a couple of thousand first.

6.

I am Mr.Tzou Jin a personal secretary to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Larges Oil Company) he wants to put $120million into my account now isn’t that kind of him.

7.

I am Mr.Brian Capon the system and control director at the NATIONAL WESTMINISTER BANK.I am writing this letter to solicit for support and assistance from you to carry out this business opportunity in my bank.

Lying in an inactive account is the sum of 11million pounds sterling belonging to a foreign customer
How nice and I suppose you want me to take It out after posing as a relative

8.

But my all time favourite has to be the letter from sunny Spain I
have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer etc etc. Who basically admitted being a bit of a rogue in his life but now because he was loaded he wanted to buy his way into gods favour as he was dying
You get the picture anyway
He goes on and on about his call to god and says he has tried to give all his money away to charity and he is no longer well enough and he doesn’t trust his family to do it
($10, 000, 000.00) is left and he states where he wants it to go and because he doesn’t trust his family he wants to trust me! A complete stranger! With all that money. He can’t phone me as it’s a secret and his family will find out.
So what do I have to do bud to get this money? Oh right send a thousand… only one? Blah de blah
He has a cheek to sign the letter, god be with you


But whatever the scam it is all much about the same format. A fancy name with bells on, an important job with the bank/lawyers/oil company/lottery/ whatever. And above all it’s a secret don’t tell anyone. Well of course it would have to be a secret if you told anyone what you were involved in they would tell you it was a scam ..

quine

posted by quine @ 12:40 am