WARNING - NEW EMAIL SCAM!

email received ^ | 7/30/2003 | Swordmaker

[Swordmaker]

From: Nicole Brooke
DAte: Wed July 30, 2003 8:56:35 PM US/Pacific
To: Swordmaker
Subject: incoming Funds transfer notification.
Reply-To:

Payment Notification.

Your friend has just sent $164.95 to you.

This email confirms that you have received a Payment
for $164.95 from Brianna Luke (ahfemorke@aol.com)

View the details of this payment online at:
http://send-money-now.biz/

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Payment Details:
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Amount: $164.95
Currency: U.S. Dollars
Transaction ID: kpdnwcctdd

Message sent by your friend: Thank you. You really helped me.

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Withdrawal Details:
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To withdraw this payment from "Send Money Now" account, please visit this link - http://send-money-now.biz/

Send Money Now - World Wide Payment System, Inc.

[Swordmaker]

The fraudulent web site asks for your:

Credit card number
Name, billing address, telephone numbers
Security code on back of card
ATM PIN associated with the card
Mother's maiden name
Your Birthdate

All of this is requested on an open non-secure website.

DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM!

[Wil H]

I received a similar email a while back supposedly from PayPal asking me to verify my credit card information as part of an "audit" of their accounts.

I sent the offending email to Paypal.

[King Prout]

and this is why I automatically delete e-mail -unopened- from unknown sources, and almost NEVER do business on the net.
The spams that are really starting to irritate me are the ones from "Dave" and "Steve" and various others with headers reading some variation of) "service cancellation notice" or somesuch - all porn site adverts, tailored to get to folks with my email editing habits.

[King Prout]

My home ISP recently sent out a warning of a similar scam - it seems some ID theives are sending out fake "Earthlink" notices, requesting personal information.

NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFO TO ANYONE WHO IS NOT WITHIN ARM'S REACH!

These days, who can say that paranoia is not wisdom?

[Brett66]

Lousy spammers! I usually block the entire domain when I get a spam mailing, but you really can't block the aol.com domain because it's possible someone you know uses it. This should be reported to them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Scams can't work if you aren't greedy. BTW, you can easily check all your transactions online at paypal.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ahhhh...the Joys of MailWasher!

[lilylangtree]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm forwarding this notice to many cyberfriends.

[Michael Barnes]

Meanwhile, sane folks won't even consider giving out

Credit card number
Name, billing address, telephone numbers
Security code on back of card
ATM PIN associated with the card
Mother's maiden name
Your Birthdate

to anyone. But, there is a sucker born every minute.

I have to laugh at ANYONE that would be so damn stupid as to give up such info.

[Michael Barnes]

The more I think about it, ANYONE that is taken with one of these scams should be fully accountable for, for being such a damn idiot. Their next info should be given for purpouses of getting a lobatamy for being such freaking idiots!

[Floratina]

A couple of days ago I got one like Wil H did. Bill Handel on KFI had just discussed this scam on his radio show, so I was familiar with it. I don't think I would have responded to it anyway if I hadn't been warned. On the other hand, I may not have imagined that someone with such diabolical intent should end up visiting my inbox and I wonder if I might have stupidly responded out of naivete.

You've done a good thing by posting this warning.

[Drammach]

I have recieved a couple of e-mails lately containing the "Nigerian Money Swindle" scam.

One of them, the latest, is an IRAQI VARIANT.
Millions or Billions of dollars secreted in Iraq, only needs a (small) investment of $10K or so to help get it out of the country, and then You will recieve a Million Dollar Return on your money.

I have also recieved somewhat similar e-mails concerning uranium sales in Africa, business "opportunities" in Africa, China, Thailand, etc..

With the recently expanded third world access to the internet, an infinite variety of scams are going to be generated.
Be Aware.

[lowbridge]

One of them, the latest, is an IRAQI VARIANT. Millions or Billions of dollars secreted in Iraq, only needs a (small) investment of $10K or so to help get it out of the country, and then You will recieve a Million Dollar Return on your money.

Hey, that might be Saddam behind that email. :-)

[barker]

Got an e-mail from PayPal today warning against these scams.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Recently I've been shutting down the flow of spam by examining the full headers to find the originating IP and doing a lookup with the appropriate agengy whose function is to be responsible for the assignment and allocation of IP address space, Autonomous System (AS) Numbers and the management of reverse domain names:

ARIN WHOIS for North America, a portion of the Caribbean, and sub-equatorial Africa
RIPE WHOIS for Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa
APNIC WHOIS for the Asia-Pacific region
LACNIC WHOIS for Latin American and Caribbean region

Then when I figure out the originating IP, I forward the offending SPAM with full header to the contact e-dress shown in the IP lookup or simply to abuse@IPdomaingoeshere.com.

Imagine my surprise when some of the spams were originating from DOD or .mil domains!

[Principled]

only works with a single account....

[WSGilcrest]

Ripped the code from here--> http://www.payingfast.com/

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yeah, bummer. Gotta get Mailwasher Pro. I downloaded a free copy of the regular version about a year ago and have been using multiple accounts ever since. I just recently bought a registered copy. They must have changed it recently to get you to buy the Pro version.

[PropheticZero]

I guess theres a loopy sort of darwinistic justice to people that fall for it.

It seems to me that the message is designed to make people believe they got an email and the supposed money that was meant for someone else and they need to hurry to get it before the legit person does.