email Scams – I’m Going to be a Millionaire

Posted • August 21, 2009 • 4 Comments

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I’m going to get $17,500,00 that’s seventeen million five hundred thousand dollars

I gather from the email that I had a rich relative that died.
Is this one of the current email scams or is it for real?
Let’s just examine this particular email to find out.

From: thompson.benjamin@virgilio.it
Subject: Attorney at Law.
Date: August 20, 2009 4:11:17 AM PDT
Reply-To: barr.bthompson40@sify.com

I am Barr. Benjamin Thompson,A deceased client of mine,
that shares the same last name as yours, died as the result of a
heart-related condition on March 12th 2005.
My late Client has a deposit of seventeen point five Million Dollars
( US$17.5 Million Dollars) left behind.
I can be reached on (barr.bthompson40@sify.com ) for more information.

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This was actually sent to webmaster@one of my URLs I guess the deceased client’s last name was webmaster.

I found this to be a very bold current email scam.

I noticed was this email was sent to a list. There is no to in the header, interesting.

This email is sent from thompson.benjamin@virgilio.it. According to Wikipedia virgilio.it is an Italian web portal which began in 1996 as a search engine and manually edited web directory. Subsequently it offered access to more disparate materials, organised into channels, and services such as e-mail, instant Messaging and online chat.

His return email address is barr.bthompson40@sify.com.
Sifi.com is a free email host in India.

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Sify Technologies Ltd, 1998-2008. All rights reserved. India News Portal, Sify.com hosted at SifyHosting India’s first Level 3 Internet Data Centre.
Site optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above.

This is just one of the many online scams that is in use today. The question is what can I do to help stop the email scams that are out there on the internet?

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Scam email Reporting

Your best bet is to report email scams to Internet Crime Complaint Center …a FBI – NW3C Partnership.

Where to Forward Scam emails

Your best bet is to forward your scam emails to spam@uce.gov.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will place your email in a database and use the combined information to help track down and prosecute the scammers and/or spammers.

Types of Internet Scams

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation there are plenty of internet scams in use today.
Here is a list of just a few:

Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS)
Asian Extortion Scheme
A spam e-mail claiming to be from former CBP Assistant Commissioner Thomas S. Winkowski
Nomination for the “Oprah Millionaire Contest Show”
Work at home scams
A spam e-mail claiming to be from FBI Deputy Director John S. Pistole
Tit man e-mail scheme
Phishing attacks targeting users of EPPICards

This is just a sampling of the email scams that are being reported by the FBI. If you are interested in researching more internet scams I would suggest you visit the FBI website.

All this said if you have a throw-away email address you can inundate the person that is responsible for your current email scam by asking lots of people to send emails to the accounts of the person who sent you the email.
barr.bthompson40@sify.com
thompson.benjamin@virgilio.it

Don’t send emails to the above addresses above unless you have a throw-away email address.

Late,
Gary Pool

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