TWO TYPICAL E-MAIL SCAMS ARE SHOWN BELOW. THE FIRST SCAM HAS A DUAL PURPOSE: TO COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND TO STEAL YOUR MONEY. ANY CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS DEPOSITED FROM THIS SOURCE WILL BE EITHER FORGERIES OR NSF. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MONEY AND MAY EVEN BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES. YOUR BANK ACCOUNT WILL ALSO END UP BEING CLOSED. IF THIS SCAMMER FINDS ONE SUCKER FROM EVERY 100 E-MAILS HE SEND OUT, HE WILL BE AHEAD FINANCIALLY.

NEVER RESPOND TO THIS TYPE OF E-MAIL OFFER. IT IS NOT REAL!!

Good tidings to you as you read.

Please permit me to write you irrespective of the fact we have not met before.

I got your contact through network online hence I decided to write you. I would be very interested in offering you a part-time paying job in which you could earn up to $7,000 a month as extra income. Opening an account would have been my best choice if I was not working on a deadline that must meet a 24 hour turn around time, other options are not on my side due to time, money, and requirements.

This is why I am offering a part time opportunity to someone responsible who can supply prompt assistant and service.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Work as my payment assistant in charge of collecting and processing the payments from the associates.

1. Receive payment (inform of money orders/checks) from my Clients/Associates.

2. Cash the Payments at your Bank

3. Deduct 10%, which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed.

4. You will then forward the balance via Western Union Money Transfer according to my instruction.

REQUIREMENT:

18 years or older.

Responsible, Reliable and Trustworthy

Available to work a minimum 3-4 hours per week.

Able to check and respond to emails often.

Easy telephone access.

IS THIS LEGAL? YES

It is very legal, Doing this job is 100% safe and legal. I would be glad if you accept my proposal for an opportunity to make up 10% of each transaction completed.

YOU WOULD BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

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HAVE YOU HANDLED LARGE FUNDS, HOW MUCH AND HOW SUCCESSFULLY?

Please reply via email with complete information as requested:

A. NAME:

B. STREET ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX):

C. CITY:

D. STATE:

E. ZIP CODE:

F. COUNTRY:

G. MOBILE NUMBER:

H. AGE:

I. SEX:

J. OCCUPATION:

K. E MAIL:

All replies should be sent to: dr.collins.smith@gmail.com

Regards,

Dr Collins Smith.

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HERE IS ANOTHER SCAM OUT OF NIGERIA WHICH MANY CONSIDER ‘WORLD SCAMMER HEADQUARTERS’. IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. TO RESPOND TO THIS WOULD BE A SERIOUS MISTAKE INDEED! NOTE THE TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND POOR GRAMMAR IN THIS E-MAIL MESSAGE

Bank of Englan/UNITED NATIONS 2009 COMPENSATION

From Foreign Payment Director,

Barclays Bank of London.

Mr. Ronald Mark

E-mail {compensationoff_0@live.com}

ATTN: SCAMMED VICTIM/ 1 MILLION BENEFICIARY.REF/PAYMENTS CODE: 06654 1 MILLION USD.

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Barclays Bank of London to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims, get back to us as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1 Million compensations funds.

On this faithful recommendations, I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at London, England, it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today. In other to retain the good image of the country, the British Prime Minister is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1 Million USD each this is because British is the father of Nigeria since they are the colonel father and they gave Nigeria independent, Due to the corrupt and inefficient banking systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by Barclays Bank as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by the Bank of England.

According to the number of applicants at hand, 80 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States, we still have more 20 left to be paid the compensations of $1 Million each. Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in Lagos, Nigeria as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever, the US secret service is already on trace of the criminal.

For more vital information, please

visit:http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose, DRAFT, PAYMENTS or WIRE TRANSFERS, I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you at my private email address :

{compensationoff_0@live.com}

Yours faithfully,

Ronald Mark

This is an attempt to extract your personal information via e-mail. While it seems to be legitimate, Bank of America never request that you send this kind of information via e-mail or sends e-mail notifications of this type. 8/19/2009 7:13 PM

Dear Valued Customer :

We recently have determined that different computers have logged in your Bank of America Online Banking account, and multiple password failures were present before the logons. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us. If this is not completed by September 1, 2009, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes. We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. In order to confirm your Online Bank records, we may require some specific information from you.

To restore your account, please Sign in to Online Banking.thank you for using Bank Of America Online Service.

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Your account might be place on restricted status. Restricted accounts continue to receive payments, but they are limited in their ability to send or withdraw funds. To lift up this restriction, you need to login into your account (with your username or SSN and your password), then you have to complete our verification process. You must confirm your credit card details and your billing information as well. All restricted accounts have their billing information unconfirmed, meaning that you may no longer send money from your account until you have reactive your billing information on file. Sign in to Online Banking
Thank You.

Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions about the information in this e-Bill, please contact your biller. For all other questions, call us at 800-887-5749.

Bank of America, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender
© 2009 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved

JOB SEEKERS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT A RECENT DISPATCHER’S POSITION ADVERTISED ON CRAIG’S LIST IS A SCAM. THE COMPANY IS LEGITIMATE (N. Brown Group, PLC) BUT THAT’S WHERE ANY LEGITIMACY ENDS.  IF YOU RESPOND TO THIS AD, THE E-MAIL BELOW IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE. THE NOTICE IN RED THAT FOLLOWS WAS SENT TO THE COMPANY TO ALERT THEM TO THIS SCAM IN THEIR NAME:

N Brown Group plc

Griffin House,

40 Lever Street,

Manchester,

M60 6ES,

United Kingdom.

Dear Applicant,

We received your application for the job posted on Craig’s List website.

Thank you for your interest in a position with N Brown Group plc. Our

HR managers have gone through your resume and you have been short

listed for the offer pending final approval. Your reference number is

A116.

Our central Head Office is home to our Marketing, Merchandising,

Finance, IT, and Human Resources. Our Warehousing and Distribution

operations (Fulfilment Logistics) are based at our sites in the Oldham

and Glossop area. Our Customer Service team is based at our new

contact centre, Martin House within the MEN Arena. In addition to Home

Shopping we have a Financial Services Division, First Financial, who

market and sell a range of Financial Products.

N Brown Group plc is a trading style of J D Williams & Company

Limited, the UK’s leading direct home shopping company, operating over

20 successful catalogue brands. Our catalogues offer a huge selection

of Art, Educational materials, clothing and other products for all

ages and sizes.

All our clothes are designed to provide the best fit

at the best value, and we are specialists in the area of larger size

womenswear.

The company was founded in 1875 by James David Williams, who in 1882

was the first to make use of the UK ‘s parcel post service, to send

his company’s products direct to his customers. The formula of

providing quality, fashionable, value for money clothing direct to

customers proved increasingly popular towards the latter end of the

20th Century and J D Williams enjoyed significant growth. This

continuing growth has ensured J D Williams is the most successful

direct home shopping company in the UK today, with over 2 million

customers and 4,000 employees. For more information about us, please

visit www.nbrown.co.uk

Our Mission

We are expanding to the United States, so we want to reach out to

people in the United States and advertise our new product by

distributing the company’s catalogs to individual, offices, private

and public places. Successful candidates will work either weekdays or

weekends depending on choice and get paid weekly

Job Description

Our duties is to help them manage their finance, see to their daily

spending, pay bills sometimes on their behalf & send out checks on

their behalf. Your own job is to print out the checks whenever we need

you to print it online and drop them off for shipping. We’ll give your

a procedure to set up the online account which you’re going to use for

the printing whenever you need to work. We’ll also provide you the

courier shipping labels (UPS SERVICE) for the drop off of the

check. Below are materials you need to set up to get started as soon as

possible.

*Magnetic Versa Ink

*Versa Printer (Not needed if you have a printer at home already)

*Business size check Paper

*http://www.avanquestusa.com/ check_writing/default.asptr1=

AQ_US_PP_GO_CKS&gclid= CIvB9pTo7JQCFQqdnAod3w1Arg  (Checksoft 2009

Platinum (Premier) ) Version to download

This are what you need to get ready in order to get started. We

understand you will need to pay for all this material, kindly do so and

let us know much it cost you to get everything set up so that you can

have your money back. Concerning your pay per week, we’re offering you

$700 per week for a start & we’ll increase it later in the future

depending on how reliable, dependable and hard working you’re.Your

salary will be sending to you  via western union money transfer or

Money gram money transfer

Your Responsibilities:

* You must be efficient

* Applicant must be self motivated

Compensation

You will be paid $700 per week.

At this time, we will like to know how often you get on the internet

because our job requires much checking of your e-mail.

Await your immediate response

Regards,

Mr. James Scott

Personnel Manager

N Brown Group plc

www.nbrown.co.uk

Company Reg Number: 814103

VAT Reg Number: 148 8796 03

Tel: +442086918225

Fax: +442087112636

The attached e-mail is being disseminated in the USA in response to inquiries from an ad on Craig’s List offering a $700/week dispatcher’s job. It is obviously a scam in your name and using the credibility of your beautiful website. I suspect that their telephone response # is in fact a cell phone. You can read more about this scam at: www.scam.com. The e-mail below is what was sent to me following a e-mail to their ad asking only, “where are you located?”

Websites for social interaction are becoming more and more popular. However, some use questionable marketing techniques that you should be aware of.

Many adult-dating websites use clever but unscrupulous marketing techniques. They begin by offering newcomers “basic free memberships” with limited capabilities unless you upgrade’ to a higher level of membership that generally costs between $24.95 and $59.95 per month (less if you purchase multiple months). However, this free, basic membership comes with a catch. Unless you purchase the upgrade, you will usually be unable to communicate with people who show interest in you, send you a flirt’ or an e-mail message.

Enter the upgrade shills

Here’s where it really gets unscrupulous. Shortly after accepting that free, basic membership, you may get several hits’ from members expressing an interest in communicating with you. Unfortunately, you will be unable to reply to their messages until you ante-up an upgrade fee. Once you do, most or all of the people who have shown interest in you will vanish into the sunset never to be heard from again. No matter. The management of the website has your money, so they don’t care.

The upgrade shills may be anywhere hackneyed phrase, but it really applies to many adult dating websites. I wholeheartedly suggest that anyone considering enrolling in an adult site first go online and check for complaints. It is easily done by entering the name of the site plus complaints into your web browser. This will bring you to several sites that hold page after page of complaints about precisely this situation.

If the site you are considering is listed with numerous complaints, keep another hackneyed phrase in mind, that being “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire!” and steer clear. Upgrading will not only fail to bring you a desired connection, it will lighten your credit or debit card balance considerably.

Even on essentially honest sites, beware of scammers

Let’s face it folks, people who you would rate 10 out of 10 because they look like they just stepped out of a magazine centerfold can connect with just about anyone they wish to when walking down the street, in the supermarket or anywhere else. They certainly do not need an online dating website to make it happen. So here’s hackneyed phrases numbers 3 and 4: “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is” and “Caveat Emptor-Latin for Let the Buyer Beware’ “. Those beautiful people whose photos look like they are professionally-taken modeling shots are as phony as the day is long, probably have no similarity to the owner of the profile and are sometimes leads for illegitimate activities. The best advice is to scroll on past.

There are many legitimate sites

Not every adult website is out to scam you. But more are than aren’t. Sites whose pages are loaded with X-rated videos and provocative webcam shows that you can purchase are there primarily to sell this kind of material. If that’s what you seek, fine. Otherwise, be forewarned! And keep in mind that most dating/matching websites are classed as adult’ for a good reason. They are absolutely not for people under 18 years of age (21 in a few states).

During my investigations for this article, I discovered several legitimate sites. They, too, will charge you to upgrade, but at least you won’t be besieged by phony upgrade shills and exposed to never-ending X-rated video promotions. That doesn’t mean you can drop your guard completely. The scammers and fakers are still present although the legitimate sites quickly delete their profiles when they are suspected or discovered. Profiles of members labeled “pending review” are generally under suspicion by site management.

A few general tips:

Your early-on, interested respondents may not even be in this country, let alone near to your location. Using an IP trace program on the one or two that actually corresponded via their private e-mail addresses, I was able to trace them from a Yahoo e-mail site in Sunnyvale, California to Reston, Virginia, a well-known jumping off’ point for Internet communication with people offshore and particularly in Nigeria and Ghana. Why, I asked myself, would a person supposedly in Orange County, California be communicated with via Reston, Virginia, where the trace ended? Using some other more advanced trace programs with a few Internet tricks, I was able to trace one to Calcutta, India and another to Nigeria. Busted!

Simply stated, these early respondents’ were no more interested in me than my ex-wife. Their sole purpose was to encourage me to upgrade’ to a paid membership in the system and nothing more! They are “Upgrade Shills” who operate much like the “slot shills” in some casinos that are there strictly to encourage you to ante up your hard-earned money. Unethical? Certainly. Illegal? Perhaps, or at least it should be because this is out-and-out fraud no matter how you look at it.

Always look before you leap

This may be no two sites are exactly alike and there seems little doubt that some of them have the same ownership albeit under the surface. Here are a few good things to keep in mind if you are seriously considering this type of Internet social interaction:

(1)-Avoid sites filled with X-rated videos or provocative webcam offerings

(2)-Avoid sites that give you a FREE basic membership, hit you with a few immediate responses and won’t let you reply until you upgrade. The odds are the responses are from “upgrade shills.”

(3)-There is nothing wrong with a site encouraging you to upgrade in order to obtain the use of additional features. After all, they are in business to make money and have real expenses too. However, if they use phony come-ons from shills, avoid them like the plague. A legit site will give you a limited time period for FREE, or offer you a very-low cost trial period, both designed to give you a reasonable opportunity to determine if the site is for you.

(4)-Always check the Internet for complaints about any site you are considering. If you find a series of complaints, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Look elsewhere.

On the bottom line, if you are considering the use of an adult website for dating or meeting new friends, be aware of scams. And keep in mind that even on the mainly legit sites, scammers can slip through. So be careful and think before you spend your hard-earned money.

Websites for social interaction are becoming more and more popular. However, some use questionable marketing techniques that you should be aware of.

Many adult-dating websites use clever but unscrupulous marketing techniques. They begin by offering newcomers “basic free memberships” with limited capabilities unless you upgrade’ to a higher level of membership that generally costs between $24.95 and $59.95 per month (less if you purchase multiple months). However, this free, basic membership comes with a catch. Unless you purchase the upgrade, you will usually be unable to communicate with people who show interest in you, send you a flirt’ or an e-mail message.