Tag: internet scam

Here is something scarry to watch out for…….. First off let me state that im sure Bank of America has nothing to do with this scam. They are likely a victim here due to their popularity.
I got this in my inbox today. This looks like a very official email from Bank of America stating they [...]

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant.

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Attn :
now we have arranged your payment of ($2.8millions) two millions five hundred thousand united state dollars in atm payment card to be sent to you through western union money transfer payment: 
Your payment will sending to you by western union, the amount you will receive per day is $5,000
The minister trust funds of Benin Republic [...]

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DHL Package Scam.

Attn
Customer!
We have been waiting for you to contact us for your Confirmed Package that
is registered with us for shipping to your residential location.We had
thought that your sender gave you our contact details.It may interest you
to know that a letter is also added to your package.However, we cannot
quote its content to you via email [...]

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 CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
                        OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
                       TINUBU SQUARE, LAGOS NIGERIA.
                 Fax: 234-1-759-485, TEL: 234-807-496-7779
                                                                                       Date: 16th August,2008
Dear Sir,
In our response to directives from Federal Government of Nigeria to verify and effect “immediate payment”. to all foreign contractors whom their payment has long been over due.I the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria on [...]

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I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable
BankDraft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars which i promised you, but I
didnot hear from you since that time. Then I went and deposited the
Draftwith FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa, I will travell out of the
countryfor a Month Course and I will not come [...]

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INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
OCEANIC BANK OF BENIN ,
COTONOU-BENIN REPUBLIC.
 
NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT BY ATM CARD
 
Attn:Beneficiary,
 
We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you, your over due contract/inheritance fund through(ATM CARD)This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank and Paris Club, due to fruadelent activities going on within the African Region.
 
The World Bank and [...]

This scam is supposed to make you believe Yahoo has some money for you. I have seen the same from MSN, Microsoft and a few other popular sites.
These are just variations of the same scam to get your personal information in an attempt towards identity theft. Dont fall for it.
 
Yahoo coporation is pleased to inform [...]