Some most common email and internet frauds, warning and information.
Internet Hoaxes
Advance fee fraud
I know many of you as have I have received or will receive email stating that the person is willing to transfer some big amount of money to you for safekeeping and you will get a share for doing this. This is common coming from Nigeria but also from other African countries and it is a fraud. The perpetrators of this are seeking an advance fee in conjunction with transfer of funds that never exists in the first place. These people pray on everyone’s dream of obtaining wealth the easy way, greed and just plain ignorance.
Fake Lotto winning
Many people have caught on to this fraud and so the morphed into UK and other European countries Lotto as the mail states you have won. They even pray upon churches and Charitable Organizations now.
Counterfeit Check Processing and fake loan companies
Another common fraud is employment to act as agent of cashing checks in your country some even coming from China. These are gangs or criminal organizations laundering counterfeit checks. Often a bank will honor a check and pay out before known to be counterfeit. This leaves the victim responsible for paying the money back to the bank. The best way to protect yourself is never send, cash or spend money from a check that has not cleared the bank.
Fake loan offers at 3% or close requiring fees. Look for free web based email replies 44UK but 70 after fowards to Nigeria.
Bible Hoax
There is a new one they have come up with a person will write asking for donation of Bibles for a ministry in their country. What happens is they will take the bibles and sell them for a small price undercutting the market. Never used for a ministry.
Dating, girlfriend and mail order bride hoaxes
Often criminals will take pictures of a beautiful women and contact single men looking for a relationship. They scope out dating sites, profiles and IM pages for their victims. These criminals will often sweet take victims into sending money for visas, family problems or other hard luck stories and a lot of these based in Russia or former Soviet block countries but also some from Africa as well. Be skeptical of supposed internet girl friends fast at falling in love because the criminals want to work fast at getting to their deeds to waste no time or effort.
Conclusion
The internet is a great place to find good information, make friends keep in touch with others, and do business. There always are other sides as long as there is a criminal element. Please be careful, learn, and watchful as said before “If it is too good to be true most often it is”.
Please feel free to link this to email and forward to friends. Not saying that a miracle will happen or you punished for not forwarding but just to protect others from falling for some bad things happening around the globe.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
the 419 will die these people are getting stupid same old stories some can even release their caps lock. Look at this comment stupid mugu cannot even release his caps lock. I guess mugu gets a taste of his own medicine
September 8th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Yes and they are irate this site has been launched around a bit. Hopefully I prevented some people by falling for all this.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I have won $700,000 usd and it got to me
what do you have to say about that????
your site is not doing any good.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Do you see the last comment is an attempt by one of these fraudsters to claim that he is a winner when we know this is a hoax I explained how you determine, free web based e-mail, To:undisclosed-recipients, The fact that if you do not enter a lotto then I am sure your e-mail will not be picked randomly as most frauds say, they will indeed ask for money for some reason before you get any reward. If they send you a check it is counterfeit and never present this to a bank without having them scrutinize and positive it is for real. I had fun playing a game with one of these supposed sweepstakes coming out of Canada, I received a check from them I turned it over to security at Chase bank and these criminals where arrested.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:38 am
I am Mrs.Veronica Geo a registered private money lender.We give out loans to assist people,firms who need to
update their financial status all over theworld,at a very low 3% interest rate.Interested person should contact us
Fill The Loan Application Form Below
First name………………………………………..
Middle name……………………………………..
Last name………………………………………..
Amount Needed…………………………………
loan Duration…………………………………….
monthly income…………………………………
Residential Address(Not P.O Box)………….
country of Resident…………………………….
Age………………………………………………..
Marital Status……………………………………
Nationality………………………………………..
Home phone……………………………………..
Cell phone………………………………………..
If you are not interested and you received this messsge plesae accept my apology.
Please do not click reply to this email,All Replies should be forwarded to
E-mail: mrs.veronica_inco@live.com
Contact Name: Mrs.Veronica Geo
N/B:
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January 26th, 2009 at 6:08 am
***FRAUD ALERT***
The last comment is an example of those scams I explain. This is most likely a Nigerian trying the loan fraud another derivative of continuous effort.
This piece is e-mail blasted. One of my warnings got to a Nigerian fraudster and he or she decided to try it on me and every one that reads my material.
DO NOT BUY THIS IT IS A FRAUD
Most companies especially loan companies have their own private company named email not live mail or free web based e-mail.
If you notice Mrs (so called) Veronica uses live mail.