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From Desk Of Antony J. Blinken USA Secretary of State Refund Payment Committee Federal Executive Council Washington DC USA.Good Day,This letter is written in order to change your life from today. Please note that this letter came to you as a result of information received from our monitoring network regarding so much payments which you sent through Western Union and Money Gram to Europe, USA, Asia and Africa and some other part of the World without receiving any payment to your name, further investigation reveals that you have lost hope towards receiving your payment after being deceived so many times.Following...

Ian Kar, a New York-based product manager who was sent the scammy email... said he was pretty sure his password was included in one of the big leaks in the past few years — databases have been stolen from LinkedIn, Yahoo, and eBay, for example. You can check whether your password is in one of these leaked databases over at the website Have I Been Pwned. Basically, the attackers don't actually have video of you or access to your contacts, and they haven't been able to install malicious code on your computer. In reality, they're taking a password from a...

There's a new Windows 10 upgrade email scam going around that has the ability to take over your computer if you fall for it.The scam, which was discovered by Cisco's security team, sends users an email that appears to come from Microsoft. It asks users to download a file to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. But if you install the file, it actually puts something called ransomware on your computer.The scam email looks like this:CiscoRansomware is a type of program that takes over your computer until you agree to pay the bad guy who made it. These bad guys...

At a well-received “Welcome Home” speech in Houston on Monday night, Sen. Ted Cruz managed to find a silver lining in the problems with the Affordable Care Act exchange website. “You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately,” Cruz joked, according to the Houston Chronicle. “They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.” Cruz was speaking to a tea party crowd filling the headquarters of the King Street Patriots in his hometown Monday night, and he said it was good to be back. “I’ve spent the past month in...

[dear pawns] -- We're up against a critical fundraising deadline this coming Monday, and we need your help. We know you're working hard for this campaign, but we also want you to have some fun -- and that's where George Clooney comes in. If you chip in between now and Monday, you'll be automatically entered for the chance to join Barack at George Clooney's house on May 10th. Don't miss out -- make a donation of $3 or whatever you can: https://donate.barackobama.com/Barack-and-George Thanks, and good luck, Michelle [disclaimer, way down at the bottom of the email (many spaces deleted for...

Email scammers tout assets of deposed Arab leaders (Reuters) - Scam emails supposedly from close aides or relatives of deposed Arab leaders are offering a huge chunk of their assets if recipients hand over their bank details or pay a fee up front. "The quantity of attacks of this sort that we detect is enormous," said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at Sophos, which uses sophisticated spam filters to identify scam emails. In one email, a scammer pretends to be the wife of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. She says she has managed to escape to Tunisia and is...

Joe Eboh, a conman who was persuaded to prove evidence of his initiation into the Holy Church of The Painted Breast in a reverse scam Dear Honourable Friend. Those generous Nigerians who e-mail you with promises of a fortune are themselves being targeted in a new drive to deter cyber criminals. Millions of internet users have received messages offering them a huge financial reward if they help to release money trapped in a foreign bank account. And, although the majority of these e-mails are deleted, the fraudsters still find a sufficient number of gullible Britons to cost the country millions...

Local families are receiving threatening e-mails. Police say the messages are a scam. The e-mailer tells you that if you don't send money, you or a relative will be murdered.

Attn, I am very sorry for you, is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don't comply. As you can see we are the members of the Deadly Networks in the world, which is responsible for the bombing of twin tower's in America on Sept. 11th and the bombing of London transport services on July 7th (AL-QUAEDA NETWORKS), I don't have any business with you, my duty as I am mailing you now is just to KILL you and I have to do it as I have already been paid for...

Got this email, supposedly from our military. Seems they want me to help them convert some of Al-Zarqawi 's ill-gotten gains. Funny, this Captain's use of English is rather odd..... You all have fun with the email, y'hear? LOL!

Fallen hero’s kin rip e-mail scam By Jessica Fargen Thursday, July 6, 2006 - Updated: 08:04 AM EST A Saugus family is outraged that a heartless hack is trying to make money off the back of their dead Marine son with a nation-wide e-mail scam. “The whole concept of somebody doing something so foolish with such a tragic set of circumstances and trying to play on people’s emotions, it just repulses me,” said Kevin Procopio, the father of MarineCpl. Scott Procopio, 20, who was killed in Iraq in April. The Essex County district attorney’s Office is investigating the flim flam,...

I didn't know our email addresses were available.. here is the text of the email: Dear One, This may appear a bit surprising to you but very beneficial, as a matter of urgency, i am desparately looking for a foriegn partner whom i can trust to handle some investment or fund movement. I am Mr Collins Peter son of late MR. Edward Peter, who was murdered by the Zimbabwean veterans and irrate black people. I am writing from Cote D' Ivoire . I got your address from your site http://www.freerepublic.com when am searching for honest person and trusworthy who will...

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY. UNITED NATIONS LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS An Affiliate of United nations lottery. PO Box 17, Kempsford GL8 4WZ London. UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY NOTIFICATION DESK We happily announce to you the draw (#718) of the UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on 1st March 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 74454774 with Serial number 144-66584 drew the lucky numbers: Which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) in cash...

At the risk of losing out on a million dollars, I had to share this gem that arrived in my eMail today. (Just in case, I have removed the critical reference numbers [grin].) I guess this person working for "William Henry Gates III and His Giant" is exempt from using even the rudimentary tools for spell- and grammer-checking built into Microsoft applications. MICROSOFT WORLD INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES B.V AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT snip Dear Winner, We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Internet compensation promotion programs held...

I just got this e-mail in my junk mail. Looks like I finally hit it big! LUCKY LOTTERY E-mail:lucky-lottery@tiscali.it Coolsingel 29b, 3022 EC Rotterdam, Netherlands. Dear Winner, We are pleased to congratulate and inform you of the exclusive result of the Lucky lottery program held on the 25th of July 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 34T 0012-11 with serial number: 23522-722,drew lucky numbers: 4-32-19-38-21-47 which consequently won in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay-out of 1,000,000 Euros (One Million Euros). All participants were selected by a computer ballot system drawn...

Dear Customer: Recently there have been a large number of cyber attacks pointing our database servers. In order to safeguard your account, we require you to sign on immediately. This personal check is requested of you as a precautionary measure and to ensure yourselves that everything is normal with your balance and personal information. This process is mandatory, and if you did not sign on within the nearest time your account may be subject to temporary suspension. Please make sure you have your Citibank(R) debit card number and your User ID and Password at hand. Please use our secure counter...

I just thought I'd make the announcement here, first, on FreeRepublic so all my fellow Freepers can be envious. Just a few minor details to work out and I'll be off to Tahiti. Ahhh, I can't wait... Here's the e-mail that I just received: FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,EURO WINS INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT DEAR SIR/MADAM, RR RESULTS OF SECOND CATEGORY DRAWS After a successful completion of the second category draws of EURO WINS GAMES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 10th June 2004, we are pleased to inform you of the official announcement today, 30TH June 2004, that you have emerged one...

I just received a bogus e-mail that really looked like it came from ebay. It appeared to come from ebay. by the "from tags" and all the exact use of official looking ebay "webpages". But upon further digging into the actual e-mail headers, I found it did not come from ebay, but scammers instead. It directs you to a ebay "update page" which asks for all your personal, banking, credit card, ssn. birthdate, place of birth etc. I've tried to "copy" the headers and message (without the graphics) of this email scam below.X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEpUwJX+C+q43xIHfPbV2j2 Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([193.71.199.138]) by mc10-f19.hotmail.com...

I got this at work. I haven't received one yet....but I am waiting... WARNING! KAZZA AND GROKSTER, CAN YOU BE FINED $175,000 DOLLARS AND THROWN IN JAIL FOR DOWNLOADING MUSIC? SCAMS ABOUND! Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 05:55:24 -0500 From: @ Recently the RIAA announced that it would peruse the prosecution of persons using P2P networks to download copyright music. These lawsuits involve mainly those persons that use Kazza and Grogster software. Scams have now been reported involving E-mail and phone calls threatening lawsuits if a certain amount of money is not paid to the person calling or emailing. The...

<p>A notorious e-mail scam has resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic.</p> <p>Fifty-year-old Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria's consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by an unidentified 72-year-old Czech at the Nigerian Embassy in Prague on Thursday.</p>