almost funny--another bank scam email

[Ernest Burden III]

These web-based felons aren't even bothering to write these things is proper English anymore? I guess once the most aware people are no longer foolable, they can go for the mere fools. In writing this they must have had a chuckle or two at the irony:

 

At the North Fork Bank, we take protecting your financial information very seriously. We recognize and respect your right to privacy when it comes to your personal financial information. Please attend to our request to our active consumers to protect them of online fraud and frequent rising scam attacks against our financial institution.

Actually, we are performing security improvements of our banking community and enforce customers to register their sensitive information for an additionally created free security service to prevent any fraudulent activity against their assets and savings. We, hereby ask you to respond within few hours of current notification and complete security application form via our SSL protected website to apply for this service absolutely for free, otherwise your account(s) may not process posted transactions correctly and on time.

Please visit us to apply : http://XXXX://www.XXX [links to http://XXXX://XXX.XXXX.php]

 

It's gets better at the end:

 

use your Account Number as Username, and your Social Security number as Password!

Thank you for your patience and understanding!

 

Scary that thieves are that bold and also that some people, either dumb, or maybe just overworked and tired, will fall victim to this and all the others like it.

[DennisHolland]

How about the Nigerian scam mails? Even more bold, starting with:

 

'Dear mr. blahblah,

 

My name is Dr. Prof. Maharashblabberblah from the national trust of Nigeria. I will pay you 10% of fivemilliontwohundredfourtysixthousand US dollars if I can use your European bankaccount. Please provide me with your full name etc and securitycodes. The money will be transferred immediately'.

 

Scary part is that they already know your name and adress. There's also an American stockbroker stalking us with nasty phonecalls every other month. I keep telling them i actually saw 'the boiler room' the other week.

 

hhmmm...tricky business!

[STRAT]

i really am curious - i recieve sh**e like this daily, and they're laughable obvious scams, and makes me wonder why to they bother??? i know they're probably all automated when sent out, but does anybody in www land out there actually believe and fall for this rubbish?

 

they probably do actually

[Sindala]

sometimes I get also e-mails which are clearly translated with babelfish, or a another programme because of this are correct also nothing of the text then I my girlfriend exactly met I sent her sometimes mails which with babelfish of Dutch to Spanish products translated. the results can be very funny.

 

I think that they go out of it that if you send the mails but to as many people as possible that there always, however, a sukkel sits between that kicks.

 

(translated with babelfish)

[IC]

I would really like to have a forwarding address to send these things to because I don't feel I've been very responsible just to delete them.

 

For every 1000 of us who does delete them some poor sod probably thinks it can only be genuine.

My Dad has recently got into Interent Access and I worry about who might target people like him. He's not stupid but the more he delves the more trust he puts in the whole thing.

[Ernest Burden III]

My Dad has recently got into Interent Access and I worry about who might target people like him. He's not stupid but the more he delves the more trust he puts in the whole thing.

 

I think these thing largely target older users, who have not had the experience of the 'wild, wild, west' nature of the Internet. It looks like it came from my bank, it must be from my bank. Most of us have an ingrained distrust of anything on the web, but newer users do not.

 

And then anyone can be fooled if they are tired, busy or distracted. You don't have to fool very many people to make money off a scam like these. Clean out the account of a few old ladies and you can do quite well!

[mbr]

PC Mag did a thing on the Nigerian scam a year or so ago. The neighbor of the guy writing it lost something like $10k in it, so it really does happen to educated folk. I believe they said it started in the early 70s as a mass mail scam. It's stupid, for sure, but it's a damn successful scam. When I first saw it I had no idea what to think. If it wasn't for the fact that I quickly got dozens of similar versions, I would have thought about it (although I am no sucker with these things).

 

I can imagine people in their 60s having a hard time comprehend what's real and what's not. I think Yahoo's spam filter is pretty incredible and get's about 99.9% of my spam.

[DennisHolland]

This type of mass-mail scamming was born in the late 70s. My father had a real telexmachine (first office on the block) back then for his communication (with the yellow, pierced datarolls) and recieved a long and beautifull request from the son of the cousin from 'sheik paulaabdul the 1st' for an investment in a couple of oilfields. He, as a well seasoned fellow in the offshore business worldwide (fasteners and stuff) actually replied with some indept questions to check it out, never recieved an answer. Strange...

 

Right now (72 yr) he's warning us 'don't pay attention guys, that must be a scam' Oh, do you think so dad?

[4DM]

Another one is this: you sell a car, perhaps on eBay (?), for, say, $5000.

 

The guy who buys it tells you he is due to receive a cheque for $10000 from someone who owes him money. He offers to get the guy to pay you that cheque, but you then have to pay the first guy back a cheque for the balance( ie the other $5000).

 

He may even offer to let you keep an extra $500 for your trouble.

 

Nothing wrong so far, you might think.

 

But, you will find the $10000 cheque bounces, or is stolen, and you have lost not only your $5000, but possibly your car too!

 

How people can fall for this scam is sad, but I am sure it happens to the greedy/unwary with depressing frequency.

 

D.

[vizwhiz]

i like to collect These mysterious offerings so far i have more Than 120 emails

 

if only 10% of This was True i would be rich, yea right (wishfull Thinking)

 

There should be a way to fast forward all of These scam emails

To The other "senders" and overload Their computers with SPAM

 

**

 

There are only 3 Things in This world That are guaranteed, Death Taxes and SCAM SPAM

 

**

 

Randy

[Sindala]

Just this morning i got an email from paypal, looked exactly like paypal, with all the logo's etc. asking me to update my account. together with a link to the paypal site. It all looks genuine only when hovering over the link you could see it doesnt lead to paypal at all in the status bar.

 

imagine if i was just setting up a paypal account yesterday. i could be fooled!

[DennisHolland]

Randy and all others. This is the saddest story i've ever heard. Please scrap up a couple of bucks and give the man a helping hand!

 

Here's a fresh one for your collection. Watch it, it's still warm. I got it today from a very friendly person who needs help. I think I will do the man a favor and post his emailadress as well:

 

 

_________________________________________________________________

FROM MR DANIEL ONUDU

Abidjan Republic of Cote D'Ivoire.West Africa

 

Please email me with this email d_onudu33@yahoo.fr

 

Dear,

 

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you, I got your name and contact from your country directory, please i need a trust-worthy person that will help me to transfer this money.

 

I am DANIEL ONUDU, the only Son of late Mr and Mrs EKWU ONUDU. My father was a very wealthy Gold Merchant in Monrovia the Gold Capital of republic of Liberia all in west africa my father was poisoned by his business associates while my mother died when i am little and my father took me so special because I am his only son.

 

Before the death of my father on 4th November 2004 in a hospital here in Cote D'ivoire, he secretly called me and told me that he has the sum of(USD $15 MILLION FIFTEEN MILLION U.S DOLLARS )which he deposited in a bank here in Cote D'ivoire.

 

He also made me understand that it was because of this money he was poisoned by his business associates while on a business trip with them and he instructed me to look for a foreign partner who will help me transfer this money out of this Cote Divoire and invest it for me, my purpose of contacting you is for you to help transfer this money to your country before this peoples who kill my father will kill me too.

 

I'm now hiding in a local place here and I will compensate you with 30% of this money if you help me to transfer the money to your account l hope you will not betray the trust i have on you because this money is my only hope in this life and you will also help me to come over to your country to continue my education while you will invest my own share of the money for me.

 

i can assure you there is No Risk involve the money is an inheritance from my late father

 

I am waiting to hear from you,

 

Daniel Onudu

 

Please email me with this email d_onudu33@yahoo.fr

_________________________________________________________________

 

He even called me 'dear'...

 

Dennis

[Sawyer]

Yeah well I have been meaning to tell you guys I have quit my day job I have won 3 different South African lotteries this week!

[vizwhiz]

if it wasnt such a total waste of Jeffs forum space here at cgarchitect

 

we could send off some replies and post the following correspondences here

 

just to have some fun

 

just an Idea (not a very good one, This Time)

 

Randy