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ALL the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent or mystery shopper jobs and business proposals offering huge sums of money are SCAMS. You CAN'T WIN a lottery or prize draw you HAVEN'T ENTERED. Please don't post comments asking if the SCAMS you have received are real. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS IN A COMMENT ASKING SCAMMERS TO CONTACT YOU (yes, people really do this regularly!)

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How unusual – a Nigerian advance fee fraud.  Nigerian?  It says the receiver is in Nigeria.  Advance fee?  It asks you to send $160.  If you send the money, you will lose it.  You aren’t expecting a trunk stuffed full of money are you?  It’s all a scam.  Just delete the email.

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Re: Beneficiary,

We have been waiting for you [Continue reading YOUR FUNDS ARE READY FOR SHIPMENT..CONTACT MR ROB HILL Tel Phone: +234-806-728-0222]

Care.com

This was sent to me by a reader.  It was received  by a friend of hers AFTER the friend applied for a job that was advertised on care.com.  Her friend spotted the obvious signs that the job was a scam and didn’t reply.  

If you answer any online adverts, please keep your wits about you and remember that scammers don’t just operate by sending out random emails.  Whenever you reply or correspond with [Continue reading Care.com]

Attn My Good Friend

Some scammers just don’t get it,do they?  This scam was left as a comment, by the scammer, complete with his email address.  I decided to give it the attention it deserves – a post of its own.  So here is the scam email, as left by the scammer.  What an idiot!!

(For anyone that is interested, here are the scammer’s email and IP addresses – davidbenjamin@cantv.net   41.210.33.38)

From: Mr [Continue reading Attn My Good Friend]

NEW DEVELOPMENT ****PLEASE GET BACK TO ME****

Do you know Mrs Martins?  Have you spoken to her before?  Are you expecting a cheque?  From Nigeria?  No you aren’t, are you.  Of course you aren’t.  There is no cheque.  This is a scammer hoping to get his/her hands on your money by charging you fees.

Delete the email and don’t reply.

Attn: The Beneficiary

This is to inform you that since i did not hear from you,I had to deposit [Continue reading NEW DEVELOPMENT ****PLEASE GET BACK TO ME****]

Strictly Private and Confidential

Mrs Raju isn’t looking for a business partner to invest her money, she’s looking for a victim that she can take money from.  If you don’t believe, read the victim’s stories section of this site.

Meanwhile, delete this email and don’t reply.

Dear Executive,

This is a Management Placement on behalf of Mrs. Nandini Raju.

Mrs. Nandini Raju is looking for an experienced business person/company that can profitably invest monies in excess [Continue reading Strictly Private and Confidential]

Company Representative Needed

The Dongguan Co don’t need anyone to process payments and they certainly aren’t going to pay you 10% of anything.  What this scammer wants is a victim to take money from.  

To see how this scam works, take a look at the victim’s story from Feb 09 on this page of this blog.

Delete this email and don’t reply. Dongguan Yueming Laser Technology Co., Ltd. Xianyong Station(107 National Way), Wanjiang [Continue reading Company Representative Needed]

Deadly Belated Reply (DBR)

Dr or is it Prof Al Wady-ramahi’s stroke might not have been as “deadly” as his reply, but it seems to have left him confused.  Is he a Dr or is he a Prof??

Who cares.  He’s a scammer.  The only thing “deadly” about this email is the effect it will have on your bank balance if you fall for his scam. He will start asking you for money.

Ignore him and delete the [Continue reading Deadly Belated Reply (DBR)]

Good Day Customer

 Are you expecting $300k from Mr Alex at Fedex?  Of course you aren’t, so why are you reading this?????  It’s a scam.  Yet another advance fee fraud.  ”Advance fee” because they are asking you to send them money.  Don’t.  Delete the email and don’t reply.

Good Day Customer, Mr. Collins Alex  Of the FEDEX Courier Company, Have a Confirmable Bank Draft of $300.000.00 (Three Hundred Thousand United States  [Continue reading Good Day Customer]

No Subject

This scammer is severely lacking in imagination.  No subject line.  Nothing. “You won”.  Yeah, right.  On yer bike sunny.

It’s rubbish – you haven’t won anything.  Just delete the email and don’t reply.  (I’ve a feeling Simon Perez is the president of Israel – if so, I’m sure he has better things to do with his time)

You won a prize of 250,000.00 Euros contact Dr. Simon Perez via sp108862@googlemail.com +34-634-124-298

We have a mystery shopping assignment.

This was sent to me by a reader – who tells me it comes with an attachment that her malware filter will not let her open.

I hope you can see that this is not a genuine “mystery shopping” job.  For a start, the email address that this was sent from is apparently unrelated to the email address you are told to reply to.

Delete the email, don’t reply and don’t open the attachment [Continue reading We have a mystery shopping assignment.]