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by theviper2526 Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:59 am
hi all

i have been following this website for the past month and i was thinking it was my time to add some of the scam emails here to help others to avoid this crap.

i get around 3 emails a day some ranging from money waiting to be collected or someone is sick and the best one a sgt in the american army found alot of money and cant report it.

anyway here is a scam email i had got today.




Dear Sir/Madam,

There is an issue with the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER in the amount of $750,000.00 USD directed in cash credited to file WMT/9023118307-08, at the owner of this email address.

The International Monetary Fund contacted us for your compensation a couple of hours ago due to your allocated security code.

They said that they choose to send it to an email address instead of a name.We are unable to complete a transfer directed at an email address, so we require some more information to verify it with what we have on file in
order to complete this transfer and make sure we are not paying the wrong beneficiary.

FULL NAME:
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
COUNTRY:
MARITAL STATUS:
AGE:

In order to resolve this problem,Immediately we receive the above information a part payment of $10,000.00Usd will be made to you within 4hrs via the Western Union and the balance of the $740,000.00usd will be sent to your bank account within 3 working days.

When emailing, please use reference number #250-147 for our mutual convenience.

THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, OFFICE LONDON BRANCH.

Sincerely,
Mr. Peter Campbell
+447035997533
Western Union Payments



the email address is as follows [email protected] IP address 80.68.3.246 that turns out to be russian but then i guess this person is a little smarter than the norm and using a proxy.

so as from now i will add more to this for all to see and any info that is useful for others to know and names and email addresses to be on the watch for.

good luck to everyone and keep up the fight against this scum



Removed brackets for search bots to pick up address -Jillian
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by Crispy Duck Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:04 am
Welcome, theviper2526 :D & thanks for your post.

"International Monetary Fund" scams are (generally) from Nigeria (or Nigerians elsewhere in the world).

Also, the use of a "+4470xxxxx" number which we emphasise is NOT a valid UK number but a 'redirect to anywhere' number & used a lot by scammers.

Please do add any more scam emails you receive. It will help others who search for email addresses, scripts etc.
by Jillian Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:57 am
Welcome here, theviper2526. :D Thank you for taking the time to post. I have removed the brackets around the email address in your post so that it will be picked up properly by the search bots that index our site.
Again, welcome, and let us know if you have any questions.

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