Hotmail spam

This mail is not scam but is anoing spam.

READ THE PARAGRAPH IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR HOTMAIL ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Hotmail User,

Because of the sudden rush of people signing up to Hotmail, it has come to our attention that we are vastly running out of resources. So, within a month's time, anyone who does not receive this email with the exact subject heading, will be deleted off our server. Please forward this email so that we know you are still using this account.

WARNING WARNING

We want to find out which users are actually using their Hotmail accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass this e-mail to every Hotmail user that you can and if you do not pass this letter to anyone we will delete your account.

E-gold Security Alert

On E-gold site, there are explanation about fake E-gold scam-spam mails.

Fake Emails purporting to be from e-gold

NEVER ACCESS YOUR E-GOLD ACCOUNT BY CLICKING A HYPERTEXT LINK IN E‑MAIL.

NEVER VIEW, OPEN, SAVE, OR RUN ANY ATTACHMENT IN E-MAIL PURPORTING TO BE FROM E‑GOLD.

There are numerous fraudulent emails in circulation spoofing e-mail addresses in the e-gold.com domain. These emails always rely on your ignorance (and inclination to trust) and frequently also appeal to fear or greed to induce or entice victims to either click a hypertext link and/or open/view/install/run an e-mail attachment.

These emails may say your account has a value limit, you have received fraudulent funds, your account will be closed for inactivity, or that e-gold is paying monthly interest payments. Alternatively, the fraudulent e-mail may instruct you to install a "Security Patch" or some other software either by opening an included e-mail attachment or by clicking a hypertext link.

Regardless of the subject matter of the fraudulent emails, they always have one thing in common: their intent is to gather pieces of information needed for a criminal to gain access to the victim's e-gold account and divert the value either via a phishing attack, a Trojan horse attack, or both.

Phishing Attacks...

The hypertext link in fraudulent email will appear to be to the e-gold website, but if clicked, it directs the victim to a fraudulent website, designed to ensnare the careless by mimicking the appearance of the real e-gold website. Phony login forms are used on these "phishing" websites to collect victim's e-gold account number and passphrase. If victim has disabled e-gold's AccSent protection, e-gold account number and passphrase are all the criminal needs to log in to the victim's e-gold account on the real e-gold website and divert the value.

Trojan Horse Attacks...

Counterfeit websites may also attempt to trick User into downloading a Trojan horse with the objective of gaining control of victim's computer.

The email attachment in fraudulent e-mails usually is a Trojan horse. Again, the objective of Trojan horse may be to gain control of victim's computer.

We urge Users to:

1. Never click hypertext links in HTML formatted e-mail to access your account.
2. Confirm that you are on the e-gold website before entering your e-gold passphrase into either a logon form or a payment authorization form (see note below about e-gold shopping cart interface):
• Verify the address/location/URL starts with: https://www.e-gold.com/
• Verify the site is secure (look at the SSL Lock icon at the bottom of your browser window)
• Verify that the site certificate is issued by VeriSign to www.e-gold.com
3. Never open/view/run/install an attachment in e-mail purporting to be from e-gold
4. Follow the e-gold Security Recommendations listed here.

e-gold Shopping Cart Interface (SCI)
Merchant sites using the e-gold SCI will pass you to the e-gold website at checkout to authorize payment. The e-gold SCI will pass you back to the Merchant's site after you have received confirmation of your e-gold Spend. All of the above criteria for verifying you are on the e-gold website also apply to Spends made via the e-gold SCI.

Confirm your Online Paypal account

LEGAL NOTICE


Dear PayPal Client ,

PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information to help us provide you with secure service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.


- Why is my account access limited?

- Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):


- * April 2, 2006: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

(Your case ID for this reason is PP-112-912-066.)
(Your case ID for this reason is PP-123-544-089.)
How can I restore my account access?
This limitation cannot be appealed.
- We encourage you to restore full access as soon as possible.


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Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account

Best regards,
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Yeah, right LOL

Account trouble - E-gold scam (phishing)

Account trouble

We are contacting you to remind you that on 06.20.06 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. In accordance with e-gold´s User Agreement and to ensure that your account has not been compromised, access to your account was limited. Your account access will remain limited until this issue has been resolved please log in your account or click on the link bellow:



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EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY.

EuroMillions Lottery.
Hoge Wei 28, 2011 Zaventem,
Belgium.
Euro Millions are Affiliate of Belgium National Lottery (BNL).
Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON -1,000,000.00.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of EuroMillions Lottery, which
was held on the 15th,May 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number: 05-32-44-45-50 (01-07) ,
with Prize Number (match 5): 106285612 drew a prize of -1,000,000.00 (One
Million Euros). This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the
Sweepstake.
You will receive the sum of -1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) from our
authorized bank. Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including
the time limited placed on the payment of your prize:
-1,000,000.00, we advice that you keep all information about this prize
confidential until your funds: -1,000,000.00 have been transferred to you by
our bank. You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay
with the release of your funds to your person. This program has been abused
severally in past, so we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence
of false claims.
This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000 spectators.
Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket number 05-32-44-45-50 (01-07) was
selected and; it came out first by an e-ballot draw from over 250,000 e-mail
addresses (personal and corporate e-mail addresses).
This program is sponsored by CFI to compensate faithful internet suffers
around the globe.
Congratulations for becoming one of the few lucky winners.

With your permission, your e-mail will also be included in the next
sweepstake of -5Million.
You must claim your prize: -1,000,000.00 not later than 7-days from the
moment you receive this e-mail.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank; please
contact them immediately, and quote your winning and personal information
now, and in all your correspondence with the bank. Here is the contact
information:
Bank: Laagste Heypotheekofferte Bank. N.L.
Attention: Dirk Garvin.
Karspeldreef 6A, 1101 CJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
E-mail: laagstebankers.at.aim.com
Telephone: +31616 209 526.
Fax: (+3184) 7 176 706.
Furnish them with the following:
(i). your name(s),
(ii) Your telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Your contact address
(iv) Your winning information (including amount won).

Congratulations.

Yours faithfully
Vjertis Von Adrian (Ms.) CPA.
Coordinator: EuroMillions.

REPORTS ABOUT (your email address) AT WORD-OF-MOUTH.ORG

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HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS - scam mail

Subject: PLEASE HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS, HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS

HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS, HELP TSUNAMI VICTIMS.

THE RED CROSS INTERNATIONAL AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS ZONE (B) HEREBY APPEALLING TO YOU FRIENDS,PUBLIC,FAMILIES AND COMPANIES, TO HELP US WITH ONLINE FUND RAISING TO ENABLE US TREAT OVER 1.5 MILLION CHILDREN AFFECTED WITH QUAKE/TSUNAMI DESASTER ACROSS ASIA.VISIT WWW.CNN.COM/TSUNAMI TO SEE WHY YOUR HELP/MONEY IS HIGHLY NEEDED.

HELP THE NEEDY,POOR AND SICK,NO AMOUNT IS SMALL FOR GOD LOVES A CHEERFULL GIVER. IN ORDER TO EXPEDITE THE SENDING OF THE RELIEF FUNDS TO THE NEEDY URGENTLY, YOU ARE ADVISED TO SEND US YOUR DONATION/CONTRIBUTION IN HOLLAND BY EXPRESS MONEYGRAM TRANSFER SERVICES ( www.moneygram.com ) OR WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER ( www.westernunion.com ) THROUGH THE NAME OF OUR FINANCIAL OFFICERS MRS ( LILIAN DAVID ) AND MR ( ROBERT JOHN ) RESPECTIVELY.

YOU ARE ADVISED TO RESPOND BACK TO US THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS AND PROVIDE US WITH THE TRANSFER DETAILS INCLUDING YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS ON OUR OFFICIAL E-MAIL ADDRESS: [REMOVED]

N.B,DONATORS FROM 100 TO 4500 EUROS WILL ONLY HAVE THEIR NAMES APPEARED IN OUR RELIEF MAGAZINES AND WEBSITES WHILE THOSE DONATIONS ABOVE ( 5000 EUROS) TO ANY AMOUNT WILL HAVE A SPACE FOR THEIR FOTOS,NAMES AND BUSINESS ADVERTS IN OUR MAGAZINES AND WEBSITES AS DOES IN THE PAST YEARS.FOR THE LATER (VIP)S PLEASE SEND US YOUR FOTOS AND BUSINESS DETAILS.

WE AWAITS YOUR URGENT RESPONSE AND THANKS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATIONS AND GENEROSITY TO MANKIND.

YOURS SINCERELY,

JANZEN HALL

RELIEF COORDINATOR.

Paypal Online Service - scam

LEGAL NOTICE


Dear PayPal Client ,

PayPal is constantly working to ensure security by regularly screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed your account, and we need more information to help us provide you with secure service. Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.


- Why is my account access limited?

- Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):


- * April 2, 2006: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. Because protecting the security of your account is our primary concern, we have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features. We understand that this may be an inconvenience but please understand that this temporary limitation is for your protection.

(Your case ID for this reason is PP-112-912-066.)
(Your case ID for this reason is PP-123-544-089.)
How can I restore my account access?
This limitation cannot be appealed.
- We encourage you to restore full access as soon as possible.

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Once you complete all of the checklist items, your case will be reviewed by one of our Account Specialists. We will send you an email with the outcome of the review.
Thanks for your patience as we work together to protect your account

Best regards,
- PAYPAL INC. Team.

Twelve million united states dollars - $12.000.000

PRIVATE AND URGENT.
Mr. Bruce Raymond.
Valckenier- straat 85,
1036 XE Amsterdam,
Netherlands.

Good day,

I am contacting you because of a business concerning a huge sum of money
from a deceased deposit in the Security and Finance company where I work
here in Netherlands. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude
will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that
all will be well at the end of the day. I actually decided to contact
you due to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION;

I discovered an abandoned deposit in my company owned by one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family as a result of
an automobile crash. He actually deposited this funds amounting to
US$12,000,000.00 (Twelve million united states dollars), for safe
keeping in my company here in Amsterdam. Company file records shows that
the funds was actually for a project our late costumer wanted to start
in the near future (a multi million Dollar steel plant in Florida, USA),
before his sudden and untimely death. As such since his death none of
his relations or next-of-kin has come forward to lay claims for this
property as the heir, this is the basically the reason why I have
contacted you. My company cannot release the property unless someone
applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our
operating guidelines.

Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully
worked out by me for the funds to be released in your favour as the
beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to know that I have
secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased
beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance
of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;

1. Beneficiary full name and address
2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers
3. Occupation and position
4. Nationality and Date of birth
5. Marital status
6. Gender/sex

These requirements will enable me file letter of claim to the
appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before
you can personally appear for the claim. I shall be compensating you
with 30% of the total money while 10% will be for any expenses incurred
the rest will be mine on final conclusion of this project. Please note
that your share stays while the rest shall before me for investment
purposes.

If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of
the trust I have bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail. Please reply
to my private and confidential email: bruceraymond@indiatimes.com

Best Regards,
Mr. Bruce Raymond.

From:Miss Dian James - scam

From:Miss Dian James

Good Day
My name is Miss Dian James , the only daugther of late Mr.
and Mrs James konta of the blessed memory My father was a
very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic
capital of Ivory Coast, my father was poisoned to death by
his business associates in one of their outings on a
business trip.

My mother died when I was a baby and since then, my father
took me so special.
Before the death of my father on jenuary 2003 in a private
hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly called me on his
bedside and told me that he has the sum of Eight Million
United States Dollars left in a fixed/suspense account in
one of the prime banks here in Abidjan, that he used my
name as his only dauther as the next of kin in depositing
the fund.

He also explained to me that it was because of this wealth
that he was poisoned by his business associates, That I
should seek for a foreign partner in a country of my choice
where I will transfer this money and use it for investment
purpose such as real estate management or hotel management.

I am honourably seeking your assistance in the following
ways:
1) To provide a bank account into which this money would be
transferred to.
2) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only
21years old
3) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country
to further my
education and to secure a resident permit for me in your
country.

Moreover, I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as
compensation for your effort/input after the successful
transfer of this fund into your nominated account overseas
and 10% for expencis.

Furthermore, you indicate your options towards assisting me
as I believe that this transaction would be concluded
within fourteen (14) days you signify interest to assist
me.

Anticipating to hear from you soon .

Thanks and God bless!

Best regards,
Miss Dian James
Reply box: dian_james@yahoo.com

Williams Smith - scam

Attn: Sir/ Madam,

May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion by a formal letter of this sort. It is pertinent that a business of this magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting of you and us to enable us know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the nature of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the responsibilities and functions of parties concerned, and appropriate sharesaccordingly. However, for time factor, confidentiality and personality of people involved here in Nigeria, we choose this approach for the remittance of this Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand, U.S. Dollars (US$10.5M). Please bear with us for making the initial contact through e-mail. But my partners are insisting for a meeting in order not to fall into a wrong hand again.

I am Mr.F. Williams Smith, we are members of the special committee for Budget and Planning of the Ministry of Petroleum. This committee is principally concerned with contract appraisal and the approval of the contracts in order of priorities as regards capital projects of the past military government of Nigeria.With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves this sum of Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars (US$10.5M).

This amount was accumulated through undeclared windfall sales of crude oil during the gulf war. Hence together with two of our top officials at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), we plan to transfer this amount of money into a secure verseasaccount by awarding a sort of contract from the NNPC.To this effect I have been given the mandate by my colleagues to contact you and ask foryour assistance.What we need from you is to provide a nice account inwhich the funds will be transferred. Everything about me is nice Mr. Smith, so you've hit the jackpot here.

My colleagues and I have agreed to compensate you or the owner of the account used for this transaction with 25% of thetotal amount remitted. We shall have 70% and the remaining 5% reserved for taxes and other miscellaneous expenses in your country. It may interest you to know that last two years a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr.RogerWilliams, the President of Craine International Trading Corporation at number 135 East 57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10022 with telephone number (212)308-7xxx and telex number 6731xxx.

After the agreement between both partners in which he was to take 20% of the money while the remaining 80% for us. With all the required documents signed, the money was duly transferred into this account only to be disappointed on our arrival in New York, and we wereeliably informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that address while his telephone and telex numbers have been reallocated to somebody else. That was how we lost US$9 Million to Mr. Roger Williams. Roger, if you're reading this I hope you're feeling guilty! This time around we need a more reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable company to do business with hence this letter to you. Yes, I'm your man for reliability Mr. Smith.

So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share if this amount (US$10.5M) is transferred into your account. If this proposal is okay by you, then reply through my email urgently so that we can set the ball rolling and negotiate the modalities involved. Kindly, treat as very important and strictly confidential, I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100% risk-free.

I look forward to your response and expected co-operation and God bless you.

Regards.

Mr. Williams Smith

Nigerian National Petrolum Co-operatrion - NNPC

It is obvious that this proposal will come to you as a
suprise. This is because we have not met before but I am inspired to
sending you this email by the huge fund transfer opportunity that
will be of mutual benefit to the two of us.

However, I am Barrister Martins jide,the personal
attorney to the late Engr. Suk Hun Wufei flody, a Citizen of
Japan, who used to work with Nigerian National
Petrolum Co-operatrion (NNPC).

On the 26th of August 2003, my client,his wife and
their three were involved in a fatal house explossion at
Nigerian National Petrolum Co-operatrion (NNPC)
quaters Lagos.

Unfortunately they all lost their lives including
other people in the premises.Since then I have made
several enquiries to several Embassies to locate any
of my clients extended relatives, this has also proved successful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided
to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any
member of his family but of no avail, hence I
contacted you.

I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money
and property left behind by my client since I have no
place to locate any of his relatives. I can easily
convince the bank with my legal practice that you are
the only surviving relation of my client.Otherwise the Estate he
left behind will be confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
bank where this huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, My late client had an account with one
of the banks in Republic of Ghana valued at about
US$9.3Million (Nine Million Three Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars) which I witness the
documentations and the documents are with me.

Conseqently,The bank issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin to my client since I have been unsuccesfull in
locating the relatives.

I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$9.3Million (Nine Million
Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) will be paid into
your account and then you and I can share the money. 55% to me and 40%
to you,while 5% should be for expenses,tax as your government may require.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used
to back up any claim we may make. All I require is
your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under
a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by return email .

Yours Faithfully,

Barrister Martins jide

N.B. Please indicate your telephone and fax numbers
for easy communication in this mutual transaction.

Scam, Fraud and Phishing

Scam, Fraud and Phishing – How To Avoid The eBay Plagues
by: Brigitte Jaeger-Dabek

If you surf around a little on the internet, you can’t avoid hearing of the countless people, that have been scammed at eBay. It seems as if scam, fraud and phishing mails have become the plagues of eBay nowadays.

It’s easy to complain about all those desperados and defrauders on a gigantic platform like eBay is one. The eBay empire is a hard to be controlled multi billion dollar business and a fun flea market at one time.

If you have been ripped off, in most cases you can kiss your money goodbye. It’s much easier and the best option to avoid being defrauded.

Being a buyer on eBay, it is essential to look at the feedback of a seller. Analyzing the feedback is helpful preventing scams. Sellers who have a large history of sales and a rating of about 98% positive feedback are usually professional to deal with. More than 2-3% negative feedbacks should be a red alarm. The same thing applies for those who do not have feedback ratings at all. But even if you are careful in this point, it is still possible that a scammer has hijacked an account that has positive feedback. Do your background research, knowing as much as possible about the products and the sellers is the best way to protect yourself.

As a buyer you should always make sure to have read the entire product description on an eBay listing. Things to look out for are disclaimers, damages, current item condition, and others. If this information is not specified, it would do well for the buyer to contact the seller regarding such. By the way: if the seller does not respond at all, take your hands off! The price is the next critical point. Think a bit about the value of the item you are interested in. Do a quick research on eBay and the internet. If the price for an item is too good to be true, it not only probably but certainly is. My advice: Auctions at outrageously low prices should be taken skeptically.

As a seller, you can easily avoid many scams with by carefully choosing your payment method among the existing payment processors. eBay owns Paypal, and in most cases accepting only Paypal is indeed the payment method you should use. In case of trouble this way the buyer must dispute a charge back through Paypal.

What you hardly can avoid as a seller is a buyers bidding scam. This type of scam is run with two cooperating separate eBay accounts. A very small bid is placed on your item using the first account. This is followed by a very high bid placed by the second eBay account. This high bid discourages other bidders Seconds before the bidding ends, the high bid is cancelled by the high bidder, leaving the low bid as the winning bid.This bidding scam you can only be avoided by setting a reserve price.The lowest bid that can be placed will be the same as the reserve price that you set.

As both a buyer and a seller, also beware of spoofed emails which appear to be from eBay. The email may claim that you need to verify your information, and ask you to login to your eBay account, using the link provided. If you follow that link, the site looks exactly like eBay, but it is actually a scam to get your eBay login details, as well as your credit card details.

In this connection, one point is obvious: the passing away of common sense. It’s a phenomenon not only on eBay, where more and more people disregard the most simple safety rules in handling their eBay-accounts – wether they are buyers or sellers.

Let us just look at this example: even if you have more than one email-address, would eBay ever use another than your registered email address to send you a members question? It is easy for you to checkl it. Just go to youre my-eBay-site and look, if there is a message for you. If not, delete the mail you’ve got or report it to eBay.

There are many, many scams and phishing mails which never would damage anyone, if folks would act only a little more carefully! So the most simple advice really is: be careful, use common sense and you will already avoid the majority of scams and frauds, wether you are a buyer or a seller on eBay.

Being precise:

- never, really never answer an email that seems to be sent from eBay by hitting the replay-button,

- never, really never click on a link in a mail you’ve got to log in to your eBay-account.

Take the time, type in the URL manually, log in and then proceed. This way you will avoid by far the most phishing attacks.

About The Author

Brigitte Jaeger-Dabek is a professional writer and has written the ebook “How to start selling on eBay”. She is selling ebooks on eBay and her website http://www.infoproducts-24.com