Scambusters, Preventing Internet Scams & Phishing Attempts

This blog is dedicated to help preventing internet fraud and internet scams. Scambusters was a radio show I started in Albany Oregon, but due to defaulted payment by the radio station we took the show offline. Regardless of this issue we still wish to help prevent internet fraud and save people from internet loss. I have been interviewed and featured in various publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times & Daily News, The London Times & AARP Newsletters. Please watch this blog for latest tips and tricks and scams to avoid.

Friday, January 28, 2011

SCAM > Sgt. Cynthia Thedford: URGENT REPLY / Russia

Hello,

My name is Sgt.Cynthia Thedford ,an American female soldier with 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Soldiers serving here in Afghanistan. Please I am seeking your assistance to move Seven Million Five Hundred U.S Dollars (US$7.5 M) to you as far as I can be assured that my share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here in Afghanistan,though, I would like to hold back certain information for security reasons until I read from you soon.


Wait your urgent reply.

God Bless You.

Sgt.Cynthia Thedford
Thanks Cynthia, but since no one knows who you are, why don't you hang on to the Million's and I will keep looking for permanent work! 

Not even a good scam!

Came from Russia sgtcynthia.american@wwjd.ru


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sgt.Cynthia Thedford <dauke@aol.com>
Date: 2011/1/27
Subject: URGENT REPLY.
To:
Hello,

My name is Sgt.Cynthia Thedford ,an American female soldier with 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment Soldiers serving here in Afghanistan. Please I am seeking your assistance to move Seven Million Five Hundred U.S Dollars (US$7.5 M) to you as far as I can be assured that my share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here in Afghanistan,though, I would like to hold back certain information for security reasons until I read from you soon.


Wait your urgent reply.

God Bless You.

Sgt.Cynthia Thedford


SCAM : PROPOSAL! / Mr. Mike Bradford

Blah,

Blah blah blah, blah blah...  Blah..

Over and over again, the same scam, redone a million plus times, it never ends.  2 y/o children know this scam more than accepting candy from strangers. 

I am a NY Jew, living in Oregon, I have a few family members scattered throughout NY and Florida, what are the odds, that "ME" someone the author does not know (as the email is addressed to NOBODY" is the "kin" to some unknown stranger.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mr. Mike Bradford <mike@finance.com>
Date: 2011/1/27
Subject: PROPOSAL!
To:


Do accept my apologies if my email does not meet your personal ethics. I've contacted you because coincidentally, you've been legally privileged. This business proposal which certainly will be of a mutual benefit to us. This proposal has in it the sum of $15Miliion (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) and 50 %( USD$7.5Million) of this sum is at stake for you, if you are declared the next of kin. This transaction is legal and totally risk free. Therefore I crave your indulgence to seize this opportunity here present. However, full details of this transaction will be given to you upon request. Call my number or send me an email through my personal email address (mbradford431@gmail.com) cheers!

Mr. Mike Bradford
Account Officer
+44 7871168077

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Nigerian Scam >: CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS ON YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FILE BY MR. AURTHUR G.POUCHE.

If people don't "Assume" just by reading the title this is a SCAM, the part of the email that asks you to "confirm to us immediately by stating your authentic account details" should be a HUGE red flag.

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Headers

<tedekwa2011@hotmail.com>
reply-to ted_ekwa@qatar.io
to
dateWed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:04 PM
subjectCHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS ON YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FILE BY MR. AURTHUR G.POUCHE.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA <tedekwa2011@hotmail.com>
Date: 2011/1/26
Subject: CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS ON YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FILE BY MR. AURTHUR G.POUCHE.
To:


Barrister Ted Ekwa
Director Legal Department Central Bank of Nigeria
Dear Sir/Ma,
CHANGE OF ACCOUNT PARTICULARS ON YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE FILE BY MR. AURTHUR G.POUCHE.
My name is Barrister Ted Ekwa Director Legal Department Central Bank of Nigeria following the directives received from the office of the president, federal republic of Nigeria, as a result of petitions and counter petitions by foreign contractors over non-payment of their contract/ inheritance claims, this office has been appointed to look into all overdue payments of clients yet to be released for verification, vetting and immediate payment. Your name is among the list of beneficiaries released for verification and immediate payment. Be informed that there are different accounts submitted for payment by your local representatives in conjunction with the KTT director, central bank of Nigeria. We do not know which of the accounts to effect your payment.
Therefore, you are hereby required to verify the following immediately: -did your broker debt to one Mr. Arthur G. Pouche, from United States of America? Did you sign any "deed of assignment" in his favor, thereby making him the current beneficiary with the following account details? Wells Fargo Bank, n.a.420 Montgomery Street san Francisco ca 94104 bank routing number: 121 000 248 bank account number: 0832833016.
You are required as a matter of urgency to confirm the legitimacy of the above claim and kindly give us reason why you decided to affect the above change of account. if you are not aware of this claim, please confirm to us immediately by stating your authentic account details, for proper remittance of your fund.
Also required are documents authenticating your claim? Due to the long delay this payment has suffered, be rest assured that immediately these payment irregularities are cleared, you will receive your fund remittance analysis for clearance of funds into your account.
Note that we are bound to recognize Mr. Arthur G. Pouche claim, if you fail to promptly respond to this inquiry following the deed of assignment he submitted to claim this payment. Make sure you get back to me as soon as possible so that the necessary action will be taken immediately. Once you receive this message call me on this number: and respond accordingly to enable me start processing your payment. All correspondence should be channeled through telephone and e-mail only for security reasons.
I remain yours faithfully,
Barrister Ted Ekwa
Director Legal Department Central Bank of Nigeria

Job Scam: Current Open Position : ID - (167872182).

Very common work from home job scam, if you see this in your email box, delete it, do not contact.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Urielle Gray <corabellabaroniap640k5@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:37 AM
Subject: Current Open Position : ID - (167872182).
To: bobiendeshawn@yahoo.com


Hello.


If you're willing to work for a large company please contact with us via email.

It's not multi-level marketing, or sales position and fully free for start.


Have a good day,
Safe shopping company

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

SCAM: Attention: Beneficiary (ATM Visa Card)

Scam of course, but really not even good…

 

1.       Sent to undisclosed, so they don’t know who they “accredited” the money to…  so everyone gets 6.8 Million?

2.       Sent from AT&T and wants you to reply to a gmail.com account?

3.       The senders name is Mr. Good Luck? Really!

4.       The want to know my Sex, why would that matter to get a card delivered?

5.       There is no #5 I am too sad about this bad scam to continue.

 

From: Mr.Good Luck [mailto:ban------------wax@att.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:07 AM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: Attention: Beneficiary (ATM Visa Card)


Attention: Beneficiary (ATM Visa Card)

This is to officially inform you that your (ATM Card Number; 4278763100030014) has been accredited in your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 2900.your ATM Card Value with the $6.8MILLION USD.You are advice to contact our ATM CARD centre with the information below.

Contact Person: Mr. Hope Adim
Contact Email:efritasmith@gmail.com

FULL NAME:
DELIVERY ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER, COUNTRY:
OCCUPATION: SEX: AGE:

As soon as this information is receive we shall proceed with your swift credit card within the next 24hours to your delivery address immediately

Mr. Good Luck
ATM Visa Card Department

 

Monday, January 24, 2011

McDonald's Survey Scam

Received a couple of these today, they did a good job, well at least a fair job.  The graphics were nice and clean, the logos were McDonalds, you felt like you were going to a McDonald’s site, so that was good. 

 

The conflicts are clear…

 

1)      Said you will get $250 USD for participating by answering 5 questions.  No one is going to give you $50 per question for ticking a box.

2)      When you got to the questions you can bypass the page w/o answering, as they don’t care about answering.

3)      The final page said you will get 150 (British Pounds), why did we convert and not well for that matter.

 

Now the fun stuff.

 

They want your Credit Card number, the CCV, your Name, Address, Social and your mother’s Maiden Name.  Hmmm…   All for Verification purposes.   I really hope no one is short sighted enough to fall for this rather obvious scam.

 

>>> Return-path: getmorei@eu11.altushost.com <<<

 

From: The McDonald's Company [mailto:survey@mcdonalds.com]

Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:35 AM

Subject: ***McDonald's Survey; Happy New Year***

 

-->

Dear SALES,

 

You have been selected to participate in a public opinion poll conducted by McDonald's, a non-partisan polling organization.

The poll is about current events at the national level and your view about them. It is short and should take you only 5-7 minutes to complete. All of your answers will be kept strictly confidential and will be used only for legitimate research purposes.

To take the poll, click on this link:

 

http://www.McDonalds.com/Survey_Pool/150Dollar/XXXXXXXXXXremovedXXXXXXXXXX/Survey.html

 

Each person taking the poll will win $250

Thank you for your participation!

Sincerely,

Survey Manager

Official Rules | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy (links removed)

© 2011 McDonald's. All Rights Reserved.

Friday, January 21, 2011

US Postal Inspector Impersonator - SCAM


Wow, it takes a certain type of stupidity to impersonate a US Postal Inspector, it is safer to impersonate an FBI agent.  The Postal inspectors don't play around.

The are using a hacked email @post.com

I can't believe this scam, such a bad scam, a three leg blind dog would see through this scam. 


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UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE
PO BOX 555, NEW YORK NY 10116-0555

This is to notify you that we have intercepted your parcel from UPS COURIER SERVICE is making the delivery and we have stopped the delivery process for some security reasons stated below:

Our scanning system has detected that your parcel contains a confirmable CARD to the tune of US$1,500,000.00 USD.Such parcel coming from African /Europe/Asia is been verified by the postal inspection service.

Also for the Delivery of the Parcel to continue, you are in obligation to obtain from Spain, a Duly Sworn Affidavit from Spanish High Court which will back up the Origin of Fund. This is in line with the Anti-Terrorist Campaign which the USA Government has embarked on recently to protect our Territory from future attacks. You should therefore contact the sender of the CARD or the UPS Courier Agent in Madrid Spain to get the Sworn Affidavit for you while we wait to receive from you the Affidavit File Number to enable us forward your CARD to your address.

Below is his contact information. Note that the cost of the Affidavit is US$130 and do not hesitate to remit the amount to him.

Name: Mr Michael Kitzinger
Email address: mic.kit@blumail.org
Tel: 011 34672809778

We shall then forward the CARD to you and you will be sure of a genuine CARD that is coming to you.  We are doing this for your interest considering the rate which fraudulent and stolen checks/CARD are been sent to our innocent citizen that most times put them in problem. Always send your correspondence to our secure email: postal_inspector@post.com

Your urgent action on this notice will be appreciated.

Sincerely,
GUY COTTRELL
Chief Postal Inspector

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

SCAM > Harry Ego > Fwd: Private Notice Pls.Read.

Harry does have an EGO if he thinks people will fall for such a blatant Nigerian Scam.  Really even saying you are from Nigeria in a email is enough reason to ignore and mark it as spam.  Plus why is Mr. Ego in China?

Just because the emailer can send you a link to an authentic story does not make the email real.  I can link to Obama wins election, that does not mean I am representing Obama.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harry Ego <harryego@ccsino.cn>
Date: 2011/1/19
Subject: Private Notice Pls.Read.
To:


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am  Harry Ego the attorney to Chief James O. Ibori (formal Governor of the Richest State in Nigeria for 8years), i am looking for your cooperation in building a Tourist Hotel or Real Estate in your country with my client funds that is deposited abroad in a Trust Account because i cannot be in charge of the funds myself as the attorney in charge, i have the power as the attorney in charge to make a new heir to the funds with the consent of my client (Chief James O. Ibori).

I am sorry if this is not in line with your profession. My client Chief James O. Ibori was arrested by the Interpol in Dubai for Money Laundering recently.

Please click for your perusal...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8680569.stm

I need an experienced person like you to assist me to set up, develop the project and assume responsibility of ownership as chairman but will be bringing in profit/distribute profit monthly or annually.

You should observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured that this transaction is risk free. I shall give you more information upon receiving your response.

Regards,

 Harry Ego.


Tuesday, January 18, 2011

NNPC GROUP OF COMPANY : BUSINESS PROPOSAL/URGENT REPLY

Time is limited today but wanted to make sure this went out to my Blog. 

A complete scam of course!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: NNPC GROUP OF COMPANY <Administration@aol.com>
Date: 2011/1/10
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL/URGENT REPLY
To:


Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Engr.Richard Akinjide, the chairman of the Contract Award Committee of the OIL AND GAS Industry here in Nigeria . After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal that will benefit both of us.
We want you to assist us receive the sum of Ten Million, Six Hundred Thousand
United State Dollars (US$10.6m) cash in your country, which we have arranged to move out of here to a save place where we can have access to it and invest the money, the fund is currently at a security company. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to the ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries and was dully paid.

The contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of US$10.6m as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use.
Please note that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact (that is why I contacted you).We have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30 percent for you, 60 percent for us 10 percent for re-imbursement of expenses we may incure during the shipment of the fund to you in your country. Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk (100% risk free)hence the business was carefully planned before it was successfully executed and we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in service to our ministry.

Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us and your readiness to receive this fund from us and keep it save till we come to your country and share it, you are then required to send to me immediately the below information for security reasons and onward action towards this business deal. As soon as I receive this required information, I will process the transaction and direct the security company to immediately ship the fund to you. But before that, you have to assure me that you are not going to disappear with the money when it is successfully delivered to you in your country.

1) Your full contact address where this fund will be delivered to you.
2) Your private telephone numbers.
3) Nationality
4) Occupation
5) Age/Sex

My partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of the money in a lucrative business in your country, this is as soon as the fund is successfully shipped to you and you receive it in your country.

Let honesty, trust and integrity be our watchword throughout this transaction. Your prompt
Reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards.
Engr.Richard Akinjide
002348030535881

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

PHISH: craigslist.org Request to Reset Account

Phishing email for Craigslist, they're trying to redirect you to a site in Romania at accwontscraigslist(DOT)go(DOT)ro/login/
Although the link below looks real, always, if you feel the email is real, go to your browser, go to the real website and log in from there to see if there are any messages.  No site would send this kind of email, it will always be fake.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Craigslist <help@craigslist.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Subject: craigslist.org Request to Reset Account
To: Craigslist <help@craigslist.org>


Dear Valued Member of Craigslist
Due our recently updates on our website we need you to confirm again
 
your account details by clicking on the "verify my account" details link below :

https://accounts.craigslist.org/ (actual link removed)
 
Failure to do this will lead to restricted access to your account.
 
We apologize for the inconvenience but we want to provide you the best services.
 
Warmest regards,
 
- Craigslist Support Department

 

 


Saturday, January 08, 2011

Work at home Scam on top of a scam

Hate this scam, what makes it worse is a site that looks like a real news site making it seem very legit. This type of scam lures people into a false sense of security and the ability to make easy money at home with a small investment and a little time.

This link takes you to a fake news website (says ad on top) making you think it is real.

BOA Scam > From amaru ali / amaru_al_n3@sify.com/

B of A employee scam, found lost money, looking for next of kin, but they don’t know my name.  Horrible scam, they will just keep asking you to wire money and fees and bribery funds over and over again before they disappear.  No chance of winning this one, just avoid.  

 

From: Amaru Ali [mailto:amaru_al_n3@sify.com]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 10:17 PM
To: info@e-powersellers.com
Subject: from amaru ali

 

I am (Mr Amrru Ali.) a senior staff in file department in Bank Of Africa(BOA)I got your contact from a Yahoo google Search. When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability and reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to God or Allah about you.In my department we discover an abandoned sum of $ 50 million U.S.A dollars (fifty million U.S.A dollars)In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer MR Andrew Kim who died a long with his entier family in a plane crash on(friday december26,2003, 13:22 GMT 14:22UK ). Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was aforeigner, and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be for me, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

Your Full Name......?
Your Sex.....?
Your Age...... ?
Your Country.......?
Marital Status......?
Your Photograph.......?
Your Occupation.......?
Your Personal Mobile N.......?

Immediately as soon as you receive this letter.And with those informations i need from you, for me to process the text of application for you to apply to the bank.
Yours faithfully,

Mr Amaru Ali.

 

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JOB SCAM : Mystery Shopper Vacancy / brianheather1@aol.com

My location? What location, they don't know who I am or where we live, so any location?

If this biz is legit, why use an AOL address, well I can answer why AOL, but we all know it is not legit.  A company would not use the name brianheather1, so they phished and stole this account from the owner, and not using it to scam people.  AOL should pay more attention to this issue, however we all know AOL is not the internet powerhouse it once was.   They are also using brianheather001@aol.com.

Scam = Avoid

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brian Heather <brianheather1@aol.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:35 AM
Subject: Mystery Shopper Vacancy
To:

Good Day,

We are currently seeking mystery shoppers in your locality.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
1. You will receive funding for the assignment.
2. You will receive the Instruction for your assignment via email on the
location and details of the assignment.
3. You are to complete the assignment as fast and discreetly as possible.
4. You will be asked to visit a business location to conduct business be
it a restaurant, shopping store etc.

PAYMENT TERMS:
You will receive a flat sum of $200/ 100GBP/ 150 Euros per assignment. The
company will furnish you with all expense needed for the assignment and
any other expense incurred during the course of executing your assignment.

Note: You are to follow all instructions given to you to the fullest.
KINDLY SEND YOUR INFORMATION BELOW TO PROCEED ON FIRST ASSIGNMENT TO
(brianheather001@aol.com)

Your Full Name:
Your Address (NOT P.O Box):
City, State, Zip:
Occupation:
Phone Number(s):
AGE:


Regards
Brian Heather
Service Monitor

Friday, January 07, 2011

Nigerian 419 Scam Twist > FW: ATTENTION, STOP ALL TRANSACTIONS.

Wow, what a mess, email from privatedns.com wants you to reply to
wu_payin@w.cn (china) and they are trying to "help you" not "rip you off",
nice try, but not very good. Why would this work? If you never sent any
money to Nigeria via Western Union then the scam fails. If you did sent
money to Nigeria by this time you know it is a scam, would you really fall
for a 2nd Nigerian Scam, I hope not.

Return-path: <info@privatedns.com>
Received: from User [82.128.24.91] by d2space.cn with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-8.01) id A5C9700B2; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:46:33 +0800
Reply-To: <wu_payin@w.cn>
From: "Mark Kerry"<info@privatedns.com>
Subject: ATTENTION, STOP ALL TRANSACTIONS.
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:01:23 +0100


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kerry [mailto:info@privatedns.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: ATTENTION, STOP ALL TRANSACTIONS.

Attention,

After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and
MoneyGram Office, we found your name in Western Union database amongst those
that have sent money through Western Union to Nigeria and this proves that
you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money
to them through Western Union/MoneyGram in the course of getting one fund or
the other that is not real, right now we are working hand in hand with
Western Union to track every fraudsters down, do not respond to their
e-mails, letters and phone calls any longer as they are scammers and you
should be very careful to avoid being a victim to fraudsters any longer
because they have nothing to offer you but to rip-off what you have worked
earnestly hard to earn.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and as a consequence of our
investigations it was agreed that the sum of sixty thousand US Dollars
(US$60,000.00) should be transferred to you out of the funds that Federal
Government of Nigeria has set aside as a compensation to everyone who have
by one way or the other sent money to fraudsters in Nigeria.

***Please note that we will no longer be liable for any loss, cost or
expense whatsoever, suffered or incurred by You in connection with the
fraudsters.
Be warned!
We have deposited your fund at Western Union Money Transfer agent location
EMS Post office Lagos, Nigeria.
We have submitted your details to them so that your fund can be transferred
to you. We have paid the Registration and Transfer fees and for security
reasons we have also insured your fund to avoid misappropriation.

Contact the Western Union agent office through any of the email addresses
stated below;

wu_payin@w.cn

Yours sincerely,

Mark Kerry
Investigation Officer.

****************************************************************************
**************************************
Please note that e-mails, letters and phone calls are currently been made to
unsuspecting persons by fraudsters claiming to have access to their funds.
Everyday, people throughout the world are falling victim to scams of one way
or the other. It could be an unexpected prize draw or lottery win, or a
chance to invest in an exciting new money-making or investment programme .
In the circumstance, we unreservedly advice you to dissociate yourself from
all correspondence and transactions entered into based on evidently
fraudulent and fictitious claims.
****************************************************************************
**************************************

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Amelia Dacu Friendship Scam

Blah… blah.. I am young, pretty and lonely and will love you forever if you send me money to get me out of my country, etc… etc.. or I may need an operation before I come to you and give you the love life of your dreams.  Are people still falling for this scam? I know people are lonely but please.

 

From: Amelia Dacu [mailto:ameliad2010@att.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:33 AM
To: undisclosed recipients:
Subject: hi

 

I am Amelia Dacu. I am 23 years old girl. From Sudan. I am also a member of FaceBook. I saw your email address at (http://houseecreunion2009.blogspot.com). I will appreciate your friendship if you tell me more about you. Could you please contact me at this my e-mail address (amelia.dacu@yahoo.in) for my picture and more information about me.
Amelia.
(amelia.dacu@yahoo.in)

 

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Job Scam > REPRESENTATIVE / PERSONAL ASSISTANT /ERRAND MAIL RUNNER NEEDED

Wow, this Dalton Williams (made up name no doubt) is really hitting the email with his scam.  This is the 2nd one in two days.  See the scam below to see more details to why this is a very bad and unsafe scam (legally)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dr. Dalton William <daltonwilliam002@aol.com>
Date: 2011/1/3
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE /PERSONAL ASSISTANT /ERRAND MAIL RUNNER NEEDED
To:


Hello,

We are currently Looking for someone who can handle Personal and business errands at  his/her spare time. Someone who can offer me the following services
below :
* Receive your mail/packages
* Mail out mail/packages through UPS
*Receive  item purchase list (clothing and electronics)
*Shop for and purchase items (clothing and electronics)
* Mail out items (clothing and electronics) through  UPS and earn nothing less than $350 weekly pay.

OBJECTIVES :
------------------
Must be able to work with ease.
Must be neat and time cautious.
Must be able to shop for gift, bill payments and other business and personal
errands. Must be honest and reliable with good motivational skills. if interested contact me  for more details about the vacancy position

If you are interested kindly send me the details below for assessment and registration to: { daltonwilliam002@aol.com }

Full Legal Name :
Address ( NO P.O BOX ):
City :
State :
Zip code :
Home and Cell # :
Present Email:

Well, let me know if you are able to handle the position Thanks for your anticipated action. And kindly get back to us if you are interested or not, as
we hope to hear back from you soon.

Regards,

Dr Dalton William.
daltonwilliam002@aol.com

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

SCAM > REPRESENTATIVE /PERSONAL ASSISTANT / ERRAND MAIL RUNNER NEEDED

Surprised as you don't see many scams coming from AOL emails anymore, so someone must have hijacked someones account and is using it for now.  I am sure it is short lived, but in the meantime they can use this scam to get your information, charge any starter fees, and/or send you items they purchase with a stolen card for you to send on to other people before you get arrested for credit card fraud or postal fraud.  Either way, you lose, they win.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dr. Dalton William <daltonwilliam002@aol.com>
Date: 2011/1/3
Subject: REPRESENTATIVE /PERSONAL ASSISTANT /ERRAND MAIL RUNNER NEEDED
To:

Hello,

We are currently Looking for someone who can handle Personal and business errands at  his/her spare time. Someone who can offer me the following services
below :
* Receive your mail/packages
* Mail out mail/packages through UPS
*Receive  item purchase list (clothing and electronics)
*Shop for and purchase items (clothing and electronics)
* Mail out items (clothing and electronics) through  UPS and earn nothing less than $350 weekly pay.

OBJECTIVES :
------------------
Must be able to work with ease.
Must be neat and time cautious.
Must be able to shop for gift, bill payments and other business and personal
errands. Must be honest and reliable with good motivational skills. if interested contact me  for more details about the vacancy position

If you are interested kindly send me the details below for assessment and registration to: { daltonwilliam002@aol.com }

Full Legal Name :
Address ( NO P.O BOX ):
City :
State :
Zip code :
Home and Cell # :
Present Email:

Well, let me know if you are able to handle the position Thanks for your anticipated action. And kindly get back to us if you are interested or not, as
we hope to hear back from you soon.

Regards,

Dr Dalton William.
daltonwilliam002@aol.com