Services › Anti-Spam › Email Scams - March 2015
The following email scams were reported to the Electronic Messaging Compliance Unit. Links to scam web pages have been removed and spaces have been added to email addresses to ensure they do not become hyperlinks.
EXAMPLE OF CRYPTOLOCKER MALICIOUS SOFTWARE EMAIL
DO NOT OPEN THE ZIP FILE
From: "King- Stone Trading Limited" <mcsykes.nz101 @ trading.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Payment Reference.
Kia Ora,
This is with reference to the payment we made to your account and This is the second time i am contacting you on this issue without a single response from you!
For easy reference, we are attaching scan copies of the payment details is also attached in a zip folder
Kindly extract the payment details from the zip folder to your desktop and open to view the details as you may not be able to view it from the zip folder
Please don't forget to get back to me after collecting the money so i can tell you what to do next
Regards,
Margaret C. Sykes
Sales/GM of Export
(email chain) Money Laundering scam - Lizzy Lauren
From: lizzylauren @ outlook.com
Subject: Lodging Inquiry August 16th-21st 2015(5days)
Good Morning,
Will you be available to accommodate 2people from August 16th-21st(5days)?If you are not available for the quoted date let me know your available date.I look forward to read from you soon.
Regards.
Lizzy Lauren
Subject: RE: Lodging Inquiry August 16th-21st 2015(5days)
Hello Lizzy,
Yes we have a cottage available for the time you have inquired about.
From: lizzy lauren
Subject: RE: Lodging Inquiry August 16th-21st 2015(5days)
Okay what is the total cost?
Subject: RE: Lodging Inquiry August 16th-21st 2015(5days)
Hello Lizzy,
The total cost is $900NZ for the nights you require. If you wish, please view our reviews on Trip Advisor.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
From: lizzy lauren
Subject: RE: Lodging Inquiry August 16th-21st 2015(5days)
Thanks for the message and we are happy to be your guest for the date,Am out of New Zealand i will be back by Next Month,the price is okay by us and we are making the payment via Travelers cheque , Looking forward to read from you with the full payment details I.E Name and address to Issue & send the Travelers cheque and also with your phone number.
Here is our details: (New Zealand address redacted)
Regards
Subject: RE: Lodging Inquiry August 16th-21st 2015(5days)
Hello again Lizzy,
Thank you for your details and confirmation of your stay with us, for 2 people.
As requested we enclose our details for payment of your stay.
They are for : 1 cottage for 5 nights, the first night being 16th August and departing 21st August. 2015.
Please send payment to: (redacted)
Please contact us if we can assist you further.
Kind regards,
From: lizzy lauren
Subject: Reservation Deposit Payment...
Hi my friend ,
How are you doing today?. my Wife just inform me 1000 Euro Traveler Cheque has been mailed from Greece to your provided address . She doesn't know what the exchange rate may be due to currency different and am sure your bank will charge some certain amount to clear the Traveler Cheques and the exchange rate all necessary bank charge should be deduct from the money. but am very sure we still going to have some amount left with you after deducting 50% Deposit Payment for our booking . so i will advise you on how to reimburse me the amount left. how much is your 50% Deposit Payment for our stay ? i will like to the Deposit Payment immediately you receive and Deposit the 1000 Euro Traveler Cheque, also direction to where the accommodation is located . please you need to get back to me immediately you receive the cheque so i can tell you the instructions to follow before you proceed to deposit the Traveler Cheque . i'm waiting to read from your 50% deposit payment rate ?
Regards,
Lottery scam - Apple Free Lotto Globe Promo
From: TCS Express <info @ tcsexpresscourier.com>
Subject: RE: TCS Express Courier Service-Choose Delivery Option
19 Pozuelo de Alarcon St, UK
UK - Tel:+44 745 227 6272
Email: info @ tcsexpresscourier.com
Attention: ,
Greetings to you from TCS Expresss Courier Service.
As regards your email to us, Note that we are not forcing you to pay us to delivery fess to bring your winning to you. note that you have the choice to accept or refuse your winning, Once you get your winning Check of £1,000,000.00 you take in to any bank in your country with any of your ID the bank we give you your winning amount,
By the terms of service with the APPLE Free Lotto Globe Promo® Award in line with the rules and regulations of the Gaming Board of Great Britain, insurance fees must be borne by the winner of the promo, and as such we cannot dispatch any package if the full insurance Fees is not paid for.
Do not be skeptical about our company and don't doubt us. Am a man with 3 kids and a wife. I do not need your insurance payment to be rich tomorrow or feed my family with it because am a Christian and am ok with my salary as a worker of Tcs Expres Courier, our delivery charges is not high, is very low, Note that you are going to cashed your prize into your account in you country true the help of our agent that is making the delivery to you.
By the terms of service with the APPLE Free Lotto Globe Promo® Award in line with the rules and regulations of the Gaming Board of Great Britain, insurance fees must be borne by the winner of the promo, and as such we cannot dispatch any package if the full insurance Fees is not paid for.
and again be informed that we are not playing here, attached is my international passport and working id,you can check the FREE-LOTTO website to see the last winners that we delivered there prize to,
We are not trying to disqualify you because we do not have the right to do so, If you know that you can not pay for the insurance Fees, I will advice you to fill the attach below disclaims form from the BRITISH JUDICIARY CROWN COURT which can give us the authority to send back your winnings to the lottery board. Fill and get back to us with it immediately,.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Eddie Sylvester
Tel:+44 745 227 6272
Dispatching Manager
TCS Express Courier Service
Lottery scam
From: Claims dept <claims56dept @ gmail.com>
Subject: CONGRATULATION!! ONCE AGAIN; CONTACT COURIER FOR DELIVERY UPDATE
Please find attached your Winning Certificate and document for information to contact the Courier Company for your prize delivery. Please download attached form to contact courier ASAP via Email: info @ dartfordcourier-cargoservice.com
Court Date scam - the attachment contains malware
District Court (julian.whitney @ mx2982.godns.net)
Subject: Court Date
Dear name removed,
This is to inform you to appear in the Court on the March 11 for your case hearing.
Please, do not forget to bring all the documents related to the case.
Note: The case will be heard by the judge in your absence if you do not come.
You can find the Court Notice is in the attachment.
Sincerely,
Julian Whitney,
Court Secretary.
Job Offer scam
Subject: VacancyAlertV71767356-996
Dear name removed,
We would like to offer position of Administrative Assistant at our company.
Please, find more information about us and this position below.
LMP is a leading distributor of finest designer goods. Currently it is one of the most important specializing in online sales. With more than 5 years of experience in the designer goods industry. We offer a continuous renovation in our collections, following the latest trends in each country and season, thus satisfying the demand of clients. We always keep in mind that prices are an important factor when it comes to sales.
We are looking for a responsible person in Australia who will be ready to incur all necessary activities. Our candidate should be highly motivated. We believe that the experience is not the most important thing. The key to success is a fresh look and bold ideas!
The main duties of Administrative Assistant:
- Helping Entity's Sales Department as a special projects support
- Data entry and other functions as specified in the instruction
- Running reports for all completed deals and wire transfers
- Providing overall administrative maintenance such as making of letters, processing purchase orders and transaction reports etc.
- Emailing correspondence every day
Hours: Full-time or part-time schedule possible. Your schedule can be irregular. For a part time variant - you will spend 3 hours per day average, from Monday to Friday.
Salary: Essential pay for a part time job is 840AUD on a weekly basis plus 5 percent commission. Full-time job pay is 1300AUD on a weekly basis plus commission.
You will be on Probation period for your first month.
I'm sending you Application Form and short presentation of LMP(you can find it attached to this email). You can find full job description in the brochure(pages: 5,6,7). Please read it carefully, complete and send it back to me via email or by fax +1-972-294-3760. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thank you,
Daisy Hicks
Order/Invoice scam
From: elliott @ americancounters.com
Subject: Order Information Y776948633
Thanks for purchasing with our company now! Your order is currently processing. Order Total: 4810 AU Dollars
Kindly click the word file enclosed with this email to view more information about this issue.
PURCHASE INFORMATION
Purchase Number: QPK903460731
Purchase Date: 7:14 Thu, March 02 2015
Customer Email: removed
Samsung Lottery scam
From: customerservice.samsung @ samsung.com
Subject: Samsung Promo.
**************THIS IS NOT A SPAM**************
Samsung Europe
Email Messaging Center
P.O Box 732
Rotterdam- The Netherlands
Telefax: 0031-844-393-028
www .samsung .com/europe
WINNING NOTIFICATION: Coupon Number:WIN/CG-27.
The sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros with a Samsung Ativ Book9 lite and a Samsung Galaxy NoteIII have been awarded to you from Samsung database of telephone and internet email users from which your email address was attached to the winning Coupon Number: WIN/CG-27.
Congratulations!!!
Contact the notarization officer with your winning coupon number and required information for your notarization for transfer below.
CONTACT:
Claims Agent / Notarization Officer.
Andre Gustavo (Mr.)
Contact Email: win.samsung @ europe.com
Provide required information:
Full Names:
Age:
Occupation:
Address:
Nationality:
Country of Residence:
Tel number:
Email:
Mode of Payment: (Bank Transfer,Bank Cheque or Personal Claim)
Note that any leakage of your winning notification resulting to a double claim will automatically forfeit your winning prize thus we advise you to keep your winning notification message confidential and away from public notice to prevent double claims or impersonation until after remittance/payment to you.
Your's Faithfully,
Dorcas Van Eggo.(P.R.O)
Samsung Europe
© 2015 Samsung Europe. All rights reserved. Terms of use. Privacy Statement
Taranaki Basin car purchase scam
From: jlbeatson41 @ gmail.com
Subject: Re: Suzuki Baleno
Thanks for mailing back,am ok with the price and the condition,i work with New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) and we are presently offshore in New Zealand Taranaki Basin on kupe project.We do not have access to phone at the moment,its 15days off and 15days on and that's why I contacted you with internet messaging facility.Regarding the payment,i will be paying you through PayPal,please get back to me with your paypal details so i can process the payment,you can alternatively send your bsb and acct number if you have no PayPal acct.I have also contacted my courier who will come for pick up and deliver it to my place in Darwin after the whole fund has been cleared into your acct.
Await your reply.
Phishing - Quantas
From: "frequent_flyer.com.au"<frequent_flyer @ qantas.com.au>
Subject: New Update from Qantas
Dear Client,
PLEASE UPDATE YOUR QANTAS ACCOUNT INFORMATION.
We're writing to inform you that our system recorded a failed attempt with your user ID from another location, we suspect that it may have been attempted in order to gain access to your online account. Therefore, immediate Profile Update of your account is required for pending security measures to be completed.
Please update profile immediately by following this link.
Kind regards,
Qantas Club and Frequent Flyer Service Centre
Mystery Shopper
From: Mystery Shopper <tscovel @ sfsu.edu>
Subject: Become our [ MYSTERY SHOPPER ]
Need extra INCOME!
EARN NO LESS THAN 300.00 New Zealand Dollars
Become our [ MYSTERY SHOPPER ]:
Earn [ NO LESS THAN 300.00 New Zealand Dollars ] Per Venture:
It is Very Easy and Very Simple:
No Application fees:
Here's your chance to get paid for shopping and dining out.
Your job will be to evaluate and comment on customer service in a wide Variety of shops, Stores, restaurant and services in your area.
Mystery shoppers are needed throughout New Zealand and Australia. You'll be paid to shop and dine out-plus, you can also get free meals, free merchandise, free services, free entertainment, free travel and more. Great Pay. Fun Work. Flexible Schedules.
No experience required.
If you can shop-you are qualified!
Let me explain to you what it entails
What is a mystery shopper?
A mystery shopper is like being 007 at the mall. Mystery shoppers must complete their assignments and go un-detected.
Mystery Shoppers receive assignments consisting of a variety of business types such as: restaurants, food chains, automobile dealerships, retail stores, and more.
Businesses benefit from the services of a mystery shopper because they report their unbiased review from a customer's standpoint.
This enables the business to identify problems that could result in a unhappy customer and loss of sales.
As you can see, mystery shoppers have a great responsibility and are paid accordingly.
As a Mystery Shopper you can:
Earn up to 300 New Zealand Dollars per assignment have a flexible schedule and hours pick and choose what assignments you want and bring your kids with you on assignments.
Work part time or full time.
Get free merchandise
Get paid for dining out
Stay at hotels for free
Get paid for going to the movies
And much more...
What you need to do is to get back to me with the stated details below:
Your Full Name:
Residential Address:
City:
Post code:
Age:
Phone Number(s):
Banking Institution:
We are looking forward to read back from you.
Martin Sinclair.
Mystery Shopper Inc.
IRD Phishing scam
From: Inland Revenue NZ <pearle @ desu.edu>
Subject: Inland Revenue -Tax Refund Notification
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity, we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $1978.50 NZD. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 2-3 days in order to process it.
Your TRN (TAX REFUND NUMBER): NZ/811869-2015
Click link below to submit your tax refund request
Note : A refund can be delayed a variety of reasons, for example submitting invalid records or applying after deadline.
Best Regards
Inland Revenue - Te Tari Taake
Bank Phishing - ASB
From: ASB Bank [review @ asb.co.nz]
Subject: Your ASB Account Review
Dear Account Holder,
We understand that your Online Banking Account may have been temporarily limited due to questions or concerns by our Account Review Team.
Bellow here is the link to reinstate your account.
Click here to activate your account
In most situations, you should be able to activate your account in less than one minute.
Regards,
Bouery Raymond
Customer Consultant
Inheritance scam - Arnold Hayes
From: Hayes Arnold [mrhayes60 @ post.com]
Subject: Re: Your Notice
Hello Dear.
I am Mr.Arnold A. Hayes, a regional managing director (Matro bank int'l) London England, Are you a trustworthy individual or company? may I trust you? can you handle A multimillion's top secret deal? If your answers to the above questions are yes, contact me for immediate transfer of ?17.7 millions to your account hence you bear the same name with a deceased client in my bank who died in a plane last year without any next of kin.
I will be delighted to offer you 35% of the total funds immediately, Contact me in my Private E mail Address (arnold.hay @ aol.co.uk) for more details.
Kind Regards,
Hayes Arnold
Enticement scam - Roy
From: johndraper @ nhs.net
Subject: RE: Donation : To You
Roy picked you.
Details, Contact Email: cockrum7roy @ hotmail.com
Inheritance scam - Barrister Paul Dede
From: pauldede000 @ gmail.com
Subject: Wiltshire,is Urgent.
Dear ,is Urgent.
I am Barrister.Paul Dede, from Lome-Togo West Africa states and have been a personal lawyer to (Mr.Stevenson name removed) I am contacting you in respect of his deposited fund of (Us$4.2Million) which was deposited in bank called (Bceao bank) here in Togo West Africa before they met untimely death in October 6,2011 at Hawaii with his families during their long vacation visit over there. The bceao bank where the fund is deposited issued me a notice right now to present or bring (Mr.Stevenson name removed) next of kin to receive his deposited fund.This is why i contacted you so that we can both team up and transact it together because you are a foreigner and stand a better chance to claim the fund under my close supervision because you bear the same surname (name removed) with this my late client in question.Kindly let me know your intention to work out this deal together with me by sending me your:
Your full names....................
Your contact address ................
Your Country........................
Your phone ..............
Your Business ..........................
Your Age ..............................
Your yahooemail address or hotmail...........
So that I will give you more details about this deal and draft an application letter on your behalf and submit it to the bank and they will start the process of transfer to your bank account in your country.Contact me directly at my private email here (paul_dede4 @ yahoo.com)
Barrister Paul Dede.
Te: +228-92721431
Assistance required - Sister Mariam
From: mariam nasrin <mariam_nasrin @ yahoo.com>
Subject: from your sister mariam
Hello dear sister, i wanted to ask of your life first which is the first and most important thing, and i hope that you are well sounded in good health, if so may thanks be to God almighty.
My lovely sister, i saw the email you sent to me and i read it and understand every thing you told me, in fact i thank you so much for your good heart towards me and i thank God almighty who directed you to me. i did not contacted you by my own power or my own want, but it is of the grace of God almighty.
Now i want to tell you that this matter is not as you are thinking it because i can see that you are having double minded, i am not having any bad thing in mind for you. if not God i wouldn't have give any one trust in this fund, now i trusted you that you will help me and will never betray me because the trust i have in you is the faith i have in God almighty who directed me to you. i have never seen you before or know you, but i have the motives in me that you are my God sent man who will help me. but what is making me to ask questions to God is why will i trust you and you did not trust me?, is it that God have misleads me?, before i contacted you, i went through fasting and prayers and i asked God to provide to me a helper and i did not have single doubt in me when i saw you, but i don't know why my trust is questionable.
I want you to know that i am not a free person, i am living in the refugee camp and in the refugee camp is as a prison yard, we did not have internet or any communication facilities in the refugee camp, but i am trying all my possible means to communicate with you through the office computer of our reverend father, i don't have freedom of movement out of the refugee camp premises here, we are staying here as prisoners, the person that do this to me is one man that from switzerland that is trying to help me 2014 june after he try to betray me i told him that i don't want him so he do this to me God will punish him punish his generation. my sister am transparent to you i have not think evil to you i know that you are my helper is just what person do ti his fellow please forgive on that photo i did not think bad to you try to understand me.
Now i want you to know that any cheating i did to you i did it to God, i am a full Christian not for mouth but by mind and spirit, Bible said in the book of (MARK 8 vs 36): it said: For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?, so that is a question each human being supposed to be asking his or her self, after this like were are we going , for Bible also said again in the book of (Hebrew 9 vs 27) : it said: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so what matter is the life we live here on earth, money can not buy that life, and money can not buy this truth, so why can we sale our self's for money?, so please i want to tell you this because it hurts my mind.
I have nothing to say more.
Thanks.
Yours Lovely mariam .
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