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by shadewalker909 Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:18 pm
THE EMAILER IS

Investigation[at]focusedonreturns.com


Attn: Beneficiary


There is presently a counter claims on your funds that was supposed to be transferred to you through credit/ATM card by one MR. Williams Adam, who came to us trying to make us believe that due to your illness and currently been admitted in the hospital, have made him the beneficiary and even explained that you entered into an agreement with him before your severe sickness. Here comes the big question.

Did you in anyway sign any agreement in favor of (MR. Williams Adam)? He further claimed that you were admitted on the 24/02/2011 and you are not responding to treatment, thereby making him the current beneficiary with his following personal details:

MR. Williams Adam
Address: Ally Bank P.O. Box Philadelphia, Pa. 19101-9811 USA

We shall proceed to issue all payments and credit/ATM card details to the said MR. Williams Adam, if we do not hear from you within the next five working days from today.


In order for you to claim your funds and receive your credit/ATM card, kindly get back to us with your current contact information and we shall direct you to the paying bank, for the transfer or shipment of your credit/ATM card to you.

Your urgent response is needed.

We look forward to receiving your your respond and information's.


Thanks
Mr. WALMSLEY GEOFFREY ROBERT
(Assistance) Chairman
O.C.U Investigation Office UK
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by HillBilly Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:47 pm
there is no doubt it is a scam. If you look at the complete headers of the email, you will likely find it originated in western Africa, a paid VPN, or at a proxy server. Please post the complete headers here if you can. See below for help with that.

Go here to see how to reveal the complete headers: http://www.ip-adress.com/faq/view_email_header/
click on the email client you use, and it will display the instructions for you.

Then you can copy/paste it into the IP Trace page here : http://www.ip-adress.com/trace_email/
and you will get the IP of origin (with very few exceptions).

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup has a lookup that will reveal the services an IP address uses.

After you see the IP address of origin you can verify it using a DNS tool such as http://www.network-tools.com/ to see that the IP's match and the name servers of that domain (focusedonreturns.com) match. AOL apparently owns that domain, and AOL works uniquely compared to every other ISP known.

You will also likely see there are different "FROM:" and "REPLY TO:" email addresses in the complete header. That is an absolute guarantee of scams. Real people don't impersonate others or send from one address and receive at a 2nd one. Only scammers do that.

by vonpaso xlura Mon Mar 17, 2014 8:01 pm
Textbook scam script. The funds are supposedly contract/lottery payment or compensation for past scams or something like that, and you will be told to pay shipping fees for the ATM card, which for some reason weighs several kilograms.

... ni los estafadores heredarĂ¡n el reino de Dios. 1 Cor. 6:10
by Dotti Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:31 pm
The scammer wants to convince you that you are entitled to receive money, but that someone else is about to steal it. In reality, there is no money, and the other person is invented.

His goal is to make you believe that the money really exists, and he hopes you will behave rashly, and follow any instructions, out of fear that it is going to be stolen from you.

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