Wells Fargo Bank System Phishing Scam

Just received this nasty phishing scam from your “friendly” bottom feeders. It had an attachment describing how the thief wants you to forward your personal information. This is nothing more than a phishing expedition and should be avoided like
the H1N1 swine flue.

From: ofsrep.alerts@online.wellsfargo.com
Subject: Your Wells Fargo Unauthorized Account Verification
Date: October 29, 2009 8:23:25 PM EDT (CA)

Dear Wells Fargo Account Holder,

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in
the Wells Fargo Bank system. We recently contacted you after noticing an
issue on your account.

We requested information from you for the following reason:

We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use
associated with this account. As a precaution, we have limited
your online account access in order to protect against future
unauthorized transactions.

This is a reminder to restore your account as soon as possible.

Please download the form attached to this email and open it in a
web browser. Once opened, you will be provided with steps to
restore your account access update. We appreciate your understanding as
we work to ensure account safety.

In accordance with Wells Fargo Bank User Agreement, your account access
will remain unauthorized until the issue has been resolved.
Unfortunately, if access to your account remains unauthorized for an
extended period of time, it may result in further Suspend or
eventual account closure. We encourage you to restore your Wells Fargo Bank
Account as soon as possible to help avoid this. We thank you for
your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this
is a security measure intended to help protect you and your
account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Wells Fargo Customer Service,
Thank You.
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender.
© 1999 – 2009 Wells Fargo. All rights reserved.

Dulwich Picture Gallery Employment Scam

Want to be a money mule? Just answer this email and your criminal career will commence. Since when do legitimate companies spam out job offers? What the bottom feeders are trying to do is find people to aid them to launder money that was stolen from honest individuals, usually the proceeds of identity theft. Read the description of this type of scheme here and see numerous examples of these scams.

From: info2info@btinternet.com
Subject: Employment Opportunity
Date: October 18, 2009 3:48:15 AM EDT (CA)
Reply-To: dave.godwin@sify.com

Part Time Job Opportunity
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road, Dulwich Village
London SE21 7AD.

Good Day to You

I am pleased to give you an offer for employment as a consultant with our fledgling company.
We at Dulwich Picture Gallery have a mission to help individuals with investing into the Art & Antique but due to our wide range of customers and low reach in terms of offices worldwide, we have decided to make ties with individuals around the world who are willing to be a part of our mission to make the future bright for our investors.

Job Description:
Currently, due to the abundance of Art and Antique in the West African region, we are pitching our Resource Office there besides our Head Office thats present here in the UK.We have abundant investors in the USA and Europe but sometimes have difficulties getting their investment bids across to us, your job will entail the cashing in of investment bids from our investors, in any form they
may come (personalized checks, cashiers check or cash) and sending the funds back to one of our offices through means that will be given to you when the time arises. Our seasoned workers set up this form of employment so it doesnt affect your day job if you have one.

Remuneration:
In an instance whereby you cash in an investment bid for our customer, you will be entitled to 10% of the total amount you cash. For example: if you cash an investment bid of $8,000, your pay on that bid will be $800, which is subject to change depending on the number of bids that you cash.

If you are interested please kindly get to back to me:

Your name: …..
Your full address where to send payment:……..(Not P.o Box)
Age:…………
Occupation:…………
Present Income:……….
Contact phone numbers:…………..
Email address…………

Yours Faithfully
Dave Godwin

Mr. Frank Wuddah US$3.5M. Scam

Here is a new arrival to the bottom feeders list. Once again it is nothing more than an advanced fees scam. You can get details about how these scams function in the Identifying scams section.

From: mrfankwuddah@gmail.com
Subject: Good Day
Date: October 17, 2009 1:00:58 PM EDT (CA)
Reply-To: fwuddah1@inMail.sk

Good Day,

Sorry for not having the pleasure of knowing your mindset before making you this offer as it is utterly well
confidential and genuine by virtue of its nature. I write to solicit your assistance in a funds transfer deal
involving US$3.5M.

This fund has been stashed out of the excess profit made last year by my branch office the International
Commercial Bank which I am the manager. I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for
the year 2008 to my head office here in Accra-Ghana and they will never know of this excess.

I have since then, placed this amount on a Non-Investment Account without a beneficiary.Upon your
response, I will configure your name on our database as holder of the Non-Investment Account.I will then
guide you on how to apply to my head office for the Account Closure/ bank-to-bank remittance of the funds
to your designated bank account.

If you concur with this proposal, I intend for you to retain 30% of the funds while 70% shall be for me.
Get back to me through this e-mail address: fwuddah1@inMail.sk

Regards,
Mr. Frank Wuddah
+233-26-5015664