Protect Yourself Against Scams
We all have or probably will receive, be it by land line, snail mail or email, some type of scam.
One thing is for sure scammers are an undesirable species of bottom feeders invading our society
This species does not differentiate educated from uneducated; informed from uninformed; rich from poor. In fact all are fair game to these bottom feeders.
Fortunately, there are a number of ways that one can protect oneself from falling prey to these devious criminals.
The first and primary question one must ask is the old and proven phrase; ” If it looks too good to be true, it probably is!” You should know that you can’t win a lottery if you never purchased a ticket and those emails that claim that your email address was chosen among the millions, impossible.
GENERAL RULES:
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Never pay any advanced fees in order to receive “prizes or lottery winnings”. It just doesn’t work that way. Either you won or you didn’t win and if requested to provide fees or personal information; you didn’t win.
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Take a good look at the email you just received; is it addressed to “undisclosed-recipients”? Yet it is congratulating you as if you were the chosen one? Then goes on to ask you to identify yourself as a male or female, home address, telephone number and so on. There have even been cases where they will request your email address.
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Don’t let greed and the initial excitement associated with receiving “notice” of huge amounts of winnings blind you. Read Identifying Scams before even considering sending any information or getting in contact with these scammers.
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If someone stopped you on a busy urban street corner and said ,”Congratulations you are the millionth person to cross this street corner this month and you are our lucky winner of 2.5 Million
dollars!. Just provide me with your personal banking information and the check will be deposited upon verification of this information by our legal department.” What would be your reaction?
Legitimate organizations and financial institutions will never contact individuals via email when personal information is involved.
FIND OTHER HELPFUL HINTS ON PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM SCAMMERS BELOW:
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ChrisMorgan@hotmail.com heeft mij ook een bericht gestuurd dat ik miljoenen britse pond heb geerfd,maar het leek te goed om waar te zijn
Thanks for helping to spread the word about scams!
Shawn Mosch
Co-Founder of ScamVictimsUnited.com
Shawn,
Thank you and you have a wonderful site which I will gladly recommend to our readers and have included as a resource for victims. Keep up the good work.
Gariell
How can I keep idris umar from using my e-mail account to
send his message thru it…JT
John,
There are many ways that scammers can use other users addresses to propagate their spam. We have found in the past that the best way to stop this activity is to contact your server and identify the situation. At times people’s computers can be used as Bots, to propigate spam. Again your best bet is through your server.
Cheers
Dear friends another good example of this scams, please be aware!!!
Hello,
First and foremost I say thanks for your response to my email, and willingness to collaborate with me on this transaction and I assure you that with your total cooperation and commitment, we are sure to finalize this transaction in the shortest possible time. My years in the banking section couple with business ideal had thought me that, partnership require transparency.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through, I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and I from the law and monetary bodies, to this end, I will be employing the services of an attorney here in Hong kong to prepare all the required legal paper works and documents to legitimize this, My major obligation and priority is to be fully responsible for processing the documents and also ensuring that the funds are transferred to your care for keeps for us.
To have you documented as the beneficiary to the funds, the attorney informed me that to place any body as the Next of kin, he will require the following information listed below:
(1) YOUR FULL NAMES
(2) YOUR RESIDENT ADDRESS
(3) YOUR OCCUPATION
(4) YOUR PHONE NUMBER
(5) DATE OF BIRTH
Note that, I am paying him from my pockets to have the documentation process carried out for us. Your one and only obligation in this transaction is to open AN OFFSHORE account to receive these funds once transferred from my bank, and you being the beneficiary will have to open the account in YOUR NAME with my principal Bank (sister Bank to the Bank I work for), and I will be directing you to this Bank once I receive from you all requested information above.
IMPORTANTLY, this offshore account will be opened with a sister (principal)Bank to the Bank I work for, NOTE: the reason for this is that, the money was deposited in bonds, and as such, if the bonded 20 million USD is transferred directly to your personal/existing account, we will be required to pay huge taxes which I do not want either of us to pass through, also since the money is still in BONDS transferring it to a sister Bank will also help us debond the bonded 20 million USD for our usage.Note that the Bank I will be directing you to operate same swift-telex codes,making it an in-house transfer, thereby waiving taxes, transfer cost.
From above, it is a clear indication that, when you opening the offshore account with an affiliate Bank, which I will be directing you to, the transfer from my Bank (Heng seng) to the account you opened with my principal Bank will look like an in-house transfer since both operate same telex thereby waving taxes for us and also helping us clear the bonded money for our personal use. When the funds have been deposited in the offshore account in your name with the affiliate Bank, you will then instruct them (offshore Bank) to have the funds transferred to our personal accounts in gradual-safe-bits. Having said that, be informed that you will need some amount to set up and activate this account with the affiliated Bank as opening deposit, as its been call base on the fact that its an Offshore account, the necessity of activating a new offshore account is to enable the account accommodate the 20M dollars that will be transfer into it, so that the 20M dollars does not bounce back to my Bank. I am having the knowledge to inform you of this because I am in the Banking sector and see it best to give you my professional hint regards this transaction and what it entails, for I believe so much in transparency and would be to you all the way as long as you partner with me to see this transaction through.
I have been in the Banking sector for well over 20 years and having taken about 2 years to study the files on the 20million Deposit, this is the best strategy for us. I also must be able to trust you on this, because, once you have open the account in your name and the funds eventually transferred to the offshore shore account you opened, I will no more have access to the funds but you, therefore I must have your words not to betray me in this transaction.
Be that as it may, because I have a reputation to keep at my Bank, and Couple with the fact that this transaction is my baby project I will not want it to slip by, I believe you will be understanding enough to either collaborate with me on this transaction or not, I would prefer if you don’t want to participate with me that you kindly turn down this request and not destroy my career by informing my Bank, I am a family man with reputation to keep with my work place and family. But if you feel the need to continue with me, your suggestions, opinion are welcome, but the final say has to come from me, because banking is my field, and I stand at risk here if anything should go wrong, for which nothing can go wrong in an atmosphere of peace, sincerity, trust, commitment,dedication, and these are what I want to rein in this partnership and friendship of ours. To this end, kindly provide me with all the information listed above, so I can forward them to the attorney to begin with the documentation process while I in turn furnish you with the offshore Bank contact information for you to make contact with them to open a fresh account with them for this transaction.
Your timely response will be appreciated as I would want us finalize this transaction within the shortest possible time. I will respond swiftly as soon as I hear from you.
Regards,
Mr. Yonggi Cho
Eduardo,
Thanks for your fine example and rest assured that you have helped someone from getting scammed.
Cheers
Attention,HON. CONTRACTOR
We are very sorry for the delay of your payment concerning your contract of refininary complex turn around maintainance(TAM)which you executed and concluded here in Nigeria in the year of 1995.
Based on the problems we were having in the Oil refinining sector (as the former president olusegun obasanjo did not appiont any oil ministerduring his reign.) ,we have decided to pay you your outstanding contract payment which is valued $42 Million dollars only.
Meanwhile,we will want you to assure us that you will assist us to build the rest refinary which our Government discussed with your company in the year you executed the contract- 1995.
We are also very sorry for the death of the Director of the Company.Mr President wants to send someone for condelence visit to your company but due to some reasons he could not at the moment.What you will have to do now is to send to us the name of the new Director of your company and his personal email address so that we can contact the person incharge.Notwithstanding,would you want us to use the former account that was given to us by your former director of your Company to pay you your fund =$42 Million dollars?
Once again we are very sorry for the death of the former Director of your Company. once more sorry for the inconvenience the delay in your payment may have caused you. as you know it was as a result of the political and economic policy instability occassioned by constant change of goverment from the military juntas to our current stable democratic goverment that was responsible for the late payment.Now that the current president has given priority attention to payment of overdue contractors within and outside nigeria,be rest assured that upon your response, your above overdue fund will not only be paid, but you will be considered on the next refineries projects included in this year,s budget for construction.
We will be expecting to hear from you soon with the detailed informations as requested above.
Yours Faithfully.
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Aso Rock Villa
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Hi,
Just received this E-Mail, which is a new one on me,
From: kenroice0035@msn.com
Date: 28 November 2009 07:32:20 GMT
Subject: USED RAIL TRACKS AVAILABLE(PLS DO KINDLY VIEW THE ATTACHED MESSAGE AND GET BACK TO ME).
Reply-To: kennyroice001@gmail.com
I, of course have not opened the attachment, but thought that you could add it to your collection.
Many thanks for all your good work in the eye opening department!
Tony T