Month: September 2007

Here’s another example of a rich person is dying scam…

From: Jenny Brooks (Mrs) <jjbrooks001@yahoo.co.uk>
Date:9 Sep 2007 14:58:05 -0500
Subject: Will from Jenny Brooks

Hello Dear

Hello complete stranger…

My name is Mrs. Jenny Brooks; I am a dying woman who has decided to donate what I have to you/church.

Me or church? Make up your mind!

I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for and because the doctors told me I will not live longer than some weeks because of my health, I decided to WILL/donate the sum of $2,500,000 (two million five hundred thousand dollars) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.

And the best way to do these things is to contact a complete stranger via email?

I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others. Contact my lawyer (Barrister Tango David) with this specified email:consultantadvocate@myway.com and tell him that I have WILLED ($2,500,000.00) to you and I have also notified him.

Did “Barrister” Tango David come up with this scheme?

I know I don’t know you but I have been directed to do this. Thanks and God bless.
NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last wish.

So much for your last wish…

From Lady Brooks

Lady? ‘Oh, I say, we are grand, aren’t we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I’m off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I die and give a fortune away to a complete stranger.’

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Here’s another scam that got by the spam filters…

From: Kemal Dinc <km1dinc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:29:51 +1000
Subject: Inquiry

Confidential

Oops!

Dear Friend,

Do I know you?

My name is Kemal Dinc of Ankara Sigorta A.S., An Insurance Company with office in Istanbul-Turkey. I got your contact from our customer service list hence i am contacting you for a possible assistance.

I’m on a Turkish insurance company’s customer service list? How curious…

I wish to request your sincere assistance for a business of Mutual Benefit to both parties which involves a Municipal Blanket Insurance Bond covering one of our deceased client. Since his demise, all efforts to locate his relatives has proved abortive and recently there has been plans to declare his Insurance Policy Unserviceable which will automatically approve the Local Government full ownership over the said Policy and properties.

And this affects me how?

I am requesting your sincere perticipation

perticipation WTF?

to enable me present you as the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the Insurance Policy and with the legal documents available to me, all process will be legal and 100% risk free but first will like to meet with you on a neutral ground to access :-

(1) Each others Ability, Personality and Trust.
(2) To draw up a Mutual Agreement on mode of sharing.

If my proposal is not against your business ethics please reply me via my official email for security purpose at (kemal.dinc@anksigorta.com)

You’re looking for some who is:

1. Willing to enter into an agreement to commit insurance fraud with a complete stranger
2. Stupid enough to fall for such an obvious scam

Good luck with that.

Sincerely Yours
Kemal Dinc
www.anksigorta.com

Kemal Dinc is claiming to represent a Turkish insurance company bu is sending this email from a computer in Australia.

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Another scam gets by the old spam filters. At least this one is brief.

From: “Mrs.Jennifer Anderson” <jejejj20.anaadd2021@bluetie.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:40:30 -0400
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS,YOUR EMAIL ID WON

CONGRATULATIONS,YOUR EMAIL ID WON

Notice how my “EMAIL ID” is never mentioned in this email.

Send the following to your claim
agent below:Ref No:UKNL/255457014/07,
Batch No: WD18/0105/05RN,

This scammer can’t even be bothered to create a unique Ref No or Batch No…

Your full name,email address,
conutry,phone and fax number
as we are happy to inform
you that your email Id just won
you the sum of £1,000,000.00

Contact name: Mr.James Ben

Fax + 44 7005 930 793
EMAIL: powerbalotto@iol.pt

sincerely

Jennifer Anderson
coordinator

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