Gates Foundation Email Scam

There is an email circulating that does it’s best at looking legitimate by mixing facts with lies to appear official. The scammers go as far as explaining they need money up front from you for prize delivery because it will make you appreciate the prize more?

World of Warcraft Account Management 3-hour probationary suspension

Here is a phishing attempt for people using World of Warcraft online with the goal of sending you to a website that looks real and designed to obtain your login information.

World of Warcraft Account Management
From: WoWAccountAdmin@blizzard.com
To: spdgoodperson@aol.com
Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 2:05 am

iphone Features – Where can I purchase an iphone?

I have an iphone which I’ll be trading up for the Nexus one (awesome phone!) from Google, but I received this spam today and some of the accessories are awesome, like the iphone case with built in keyboard. I’ve included the attachment as a PDF below so that you can see them for yourself.

Orange Tele Communication Prize Winner

Here is another scam, this time from Orange Tele Communication claiming that you have won a prize and simply need to respond so that they can get your personal information – once they have that, your credit is history!

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Tei Mensa Mante Eco-Bank Scam

Here is an email where Mr. Tei Mensa Mante asks you to help him steal $10,750,000.00 from Eco-Bank Kumasi Branch Ghana. Of course, it’s a scam and should you participate in such a scheme, you will lose everything (as you should if you’re the type of person to do something like this). Here it is:
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Dr Galladimah can we discussion this?

Yup, some more foreign spam :) This time it’s the manager of a bank would like like to send you 30 million dollars from a deceased customer’s account, all you need to do is send back half.

To get started, they ask that you send them your confidential information, such as your social security number.

Your personal Vaccination Profile

Here is a phishing attempt that exploits concern over the H1N1 Vaccination and appears to be from the Center For Disease Control. It tries to fool you into believing that a personal H1N1 (Swine Flu) vacation shot is wait for you and that all you need to do is provide some personal information. It’s a SCAM and I’ve included it below:

Husn Ibrahima Bare

Here is another phishing attempt, much like that of the Alia Ibrahim Bare scam that was sent to us by Norma. Norma took the time to respond and sent us their response which shown below – the first is the initial email and the second is what they sent when Norma responded:

John Swatt Micro Finance Company

Here is an offer I received today claiming that they will loan me up to $500 million dollars for just about anything, all I need to do is send them my personal information with social security number – clearly something is not right here.

I’ve attached the offer below for your review…

Mrs. Stella in Cote D’Ivoire

It’s all a scam, a big phishing attempt and I’ve included it below
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Dear Beloved One

From Mrs.Stella in Cote D’Ivoire.

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