Your Fedreal Tax Payment ID: 0103635405 has been rejected

On first preview this email looks like an actual email from the United States Government. They had done their homework, it was sent 3 days after the final tax deadline.

They even had a link that looked like it went to the actual ETPS website.
http://eftps.gov/R21 was the URL that was showing but…

They had even made a reasonable looking fake website at the end of the fake link.

http://s1091037.crystone.net/j5e3qu/red2.html sent you to a fake website that even falsified the URL in the address window.

On closer examination the person who put this email together has a dyslexia problem.

EFTPS ONLINE
THE EASEIST WAY TO PAY YOUR FDEERAL TAXES
Your Federal Tax Payment ID: 01037596568 has been not accepted.

Pelase, make sure that all informaiton you have sumbitted is correct and refer to Code R21 to find out the inforamtion about comapny pyament. Plaese conatct this page if you have any questions:

http://eftps.gov/R21

Reutrn Reason Code R21 – The identificaiton nubmer you enetred in the Cmopany Idenitfication Feild is not functional. Try senidng informtaion to your acconutant advsier using other opitons.

EFTPS: The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System

WARNING!
You are uisng an Official United States Government System, which may be used only for atuhorized purposes. Unauthorized modification of any information stored on this ssytem may result in criminal prosecution. The Gvoernment may monitor and audit the usage of system, and all perosns are hereby notified that the use of this system contsitutes cnosent to such monitoring and auditing. Unauthorized attempts to upload infromation and/or change information on this web site are stirctly prohibited and are subject to prsoecution under theComptuer Farud and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and 1030.

Now the clincher…
We can examine the long header and see the real route that the email made.

From: “EFTPS Tax Payment”
Date: October 18, 2010 3:07:05 AM PDT
To:
Subject: Your Fedreal Tax Payment ID: 0103635405 has been rejected.
Reply-To: customers9453@eftps.gov
Return-Path:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ssl9.glhserver.com
X-Spam-Level: **
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_MUA_THEBAT_CS, HTML_FONT_SIZE_LARGE,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no version=3.2.5
Received: from ssl9.glhserver.com (root@localhost) by whiteroseproductions.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9IA7DNi003440 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:07:13 -0400
Received: from advert-tech.biysk.ru (advert-tech.biysk.ru [194.150.140.202]) by ssl9.glhserver.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9IA76ps009079 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:07:08 -0400
Received: from 194.150.140.202 by ; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:07:05 +0600
X-Clientaddr: 194.150.140.202
X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.00.18) Educational
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-Id: <845140707.57647196820816@advert-tech.biysk.ru>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=”us-ascii”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Null-Tag: d1e120e89880762d3ac820bef26cba8b
X-Scanned-By: milter-spamc/1.13.385 (ssl9.glhserver.com [209.210.238.116]); Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:07:10 -0400
X-Ssl9-Mailscanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-Mailscanner-Id: o9IA76ps009079
X-Ssl9-Mailscanner: Found to be clean
X-Mailscanner-From: customers9453@eftps.gov

The Received: from IP address 194.150.140.202 is a file server from RinoSoft.com

(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
One last clue… This email was sent through advert-tech.biysk.ru (advert-tech.biysk.ru) if that doesn’t set off your alarms nothing will.

The US Government won’t send email through a domain for the Russian Federation.

I post the entire text in these emails from time to time so anyone who searches for some of this type information is able to find it with a search.

The actual destination URL http://s1091037.crystone.net/j5e3qu/red2.html has been removed as of this posting.

The sad part of this is that 1 in 600,000,000 recipients of this email have most likely fallen victim of this scam. That’s what the numbers are 1 in 600,000,000 people who receive a scam or phishing email will actually follow through and become victims.

Late,
Gary Pool SEO

IRS Email Scam EFTPS is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now using Gmail for their Mail Server! Well Maybe Not…

Do you ever get an Phishing email that just makes you laugh until you realize a percentage of the people receiving it will actually reply to it?

I received just such an email the day before the 4th of July. It is supposed to be from the FBI so I guess the date is appropriate.

The 4th of July Phishing Expedition

ATTENTION: FUND BENEFICIARY,

IT HAS COME TO OUR NOTICE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH AN IMPOSTER WHICH WE HAVE BEEN WARNING YOU TO TERMINATE ANY CONTACT WITH.

THIS IS ALSO TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR FUND WILL BE TRANSFER TO YOU THROUGH A NOTABLE BANK IN UNITED STATES (HSBC).

WE ALSO DISCOVERED THAT THE PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH ARE TRYING EVERY POSSIBLE MEANS FOR YOU TO PAY AN UPFRONT FEE WHICH YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO PAY. THE ONLY FEE WHICH YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE CONCLUSION OF YOUR TRANSFER IS THE SUM OF US$100 WHICH THE ACTIVATION FEE AND IT IS MANDATORY. AS SOON AS THE FEE OF US$100 IS BEEN PAID, YOU WILL BE ISSUED A TRANSFER CODE THAT YOU WILL TENDER TO ANY HSBC BRANCH IN UNITED STATES. MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT THE INTERNATIONAL FOREIGN REMITTANCE OF THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA ON HOW YOU WILL MAKE THE PAYMENT OF US$100 AND THE POSSIBLE DAY TO RECEIVE THE CODE.

CONTACT NAME: MR. HENRY BILL
CONTACT E-MAIL: HWFINANCE@CIUDAD.COM.AR
CONTACT NUMBER: +234-8139461605
OFFICE ADDRESS: 15 AWOLOWO ROAD, IKOYI, LAGOS, NIGERIA

THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) WASHINGTON, D.C, VEHEMENTLY ADVISE YOU COMPLY WITH THE MANAGEMENT COMPANY IN CHARGE OF YOUR FUND AND ADHERE TO EVERY INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO YOU, FOR SMOOTH AND EASY TRANSACTIONS, YOU’RE HEREBY AUTHORIZE TO CONTACT HENRY COLE VIA THE ABOVE INFORMATION ON HOW YOU’RE TO OBTAIN THE TRANSFER CODE WHICH WILL COST YOU APPROXIMATELY US$100 AND IF YOU’RE ASK TO SEND ANY MORE MONEY ASIDE THE ACTIVATION OF THE TRANSFER CODE, DO NOT HESITATE TO NOTIFY THIS OFFICE FOR SECURITY REASONS..

BEST REGARDS,

JOHN STEFANIDIS III
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING
935 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE,
NW WASHINGTON, D.C

More Indications of email Fraud and/or Phishing
Other than the FBI using gmail for their email server there other indications that this email is fake.

Did you pick up on the [spam?] RE:MESSAGE FROM (FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION) in the email title? This means that the message triggered server level spam detection.

To investigate this further you can view the long or full header. There is plenty of information here to let you know why the server tagged this as spam.

Here is just a some of the information available there.

(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
I post these phishing emails as a service to my readers.
I also post the entire email just in case someone is using search as a way to check the validity this particular email.

Late,
Gary Pool SEO

4th of July, FBI, Phishing, Robert Mueller III, and John Stefanidis III is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

What can You do to Verify Urban Legends and email Scams?

I am one of the promo winners of $287,500.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS).

The first thing I did was research GT Bank Plc. It turns out that Guaranty Trust Bank plc (GTB.LG) is the third biggest bank in Nigeria based in Victoria Island.

Did your Nigerian email scams alarm go off? Mine did.

Guaranty Trust Bank plc even has it’s own website. Anyone want a MasterCard from this bank?

Guaranty Trust Bank plc corporate address:
Guaranty Trust Bank plc
Plot 1669, Oyin Jolayemi Street
Victoria-Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: +234 1 448 0000, +234 803 900 3900,
+234 802 900 2900, 0700 GTCONNECT

Let’s examine the email. Take note of there being no “to” address in the email header. I didn’t remove it. This email came this way.

From: GTB@winning.com
Subject: [spam?] Fund Release Notification.
Date: March 14, 2010 7:24:01 AM PDT
Reply-To: larrywalter01@gala.net

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Fund Release Notification.

Dear beneficiary,

You are welcome to GT Bank Plc. The payment Bank for the 2010 UN Online Promo. We are pleased to be at your service. We are Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA), the financial institutions that govern all financial activities around the World, after a proper screening and verification excises that was conducted in our Bank today in addition to receiving confirmation from the UN and The ECOWAS Online Promotional board, that you are one of the promo winners of $287,500.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ONLY).

This is to inform you that your funds have been deposited in our transit account and will be available for immediate transfer into your account which you are to set up, you are advice to open a Foreign Currency Account with us where your winnings can be transferred into.

This account will be activated after you have made the initial deposit from $90 USD and above as your account activation fee or you can open an online account in our bank and make your transfer online into any account of your choice.

With our online banking, you can enjoy the convenience of managing your finances quickly and easily at a time that suits you. You can bank safely and securely – at work, home or abroad.

Our online banking enables you to do the following.

1. Check your balance, monitor transactions and print your account statement.
2. Pay utility bills, transfer funds between your accounts and to other Beneficiaries.

Once you open an online account with us we shall send to you, your login information’s, enter your user ID and password and then click the login button then change the password to the one of your choice. Once you have successfully logged on, please remember to change your password by selecting the ‘Personal’ option from the menu. It is very important you keep your security details secret at all times to prevent unauthorized access to your account.

What next?

We’ll advise that you get back to us within the next 2 working days. Upon receipt of your email we shall send you our sign up application form to be completely filled, signed and return to us which will allow us to create your account.

Please Note that no deductions of any fees is allowed because we received your money in BOND and it’s been duly insured, based on our policies and as a result of the space of time available, you are hereby advised to act fast so we can provide you with the best of our banking services.

Please contact me with this email address only Email: larrywalter01@gala.net

Yours faithfully,

For: GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC
Mr Larry Walter
MGR, E-Business & Card Services
GTBank Tel: +234-703-952-2881

(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
What can we learn from this email?

• Did you notice the “[spam?]” in front of the subject?
• Mr Larry Walter is using an emil from gala.net
• Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA)
• ECOWAS Online Promotional board is involved.
• I need to open an account with them so they can transfer my winnings there.
• No deductions of any fees is allowed because we received your money in BOND and it’s been duly insured.
• Please contact me with this email address only Email: larrywalter01@gala.net

This should be enough to verify this to be one of the email scams in use today.

[spam?] in front of the subject. This email has some spam triggering formatting and/or content.
Mr Larry Walter is using an email from gala.net. Gala.net is a Russian website. Guaranty Trust Bank plc has their own website and their own email addresses. Why isn’t Larry Walter using one?

Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA). The Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) is an independent non-governmental body, quasi-judicial body and a company limited by guarantee that regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom. Its board is appointed by the Treasury. Its main office is based in Canary Wharf, London, with another office in Edinburgh. Did you catch “regulates the financial services industry in the United Kingdom”. Guaranty Trust Bank plc is in Nigeria.

ECOWAS Online Promotional board is involved. ECOWAS has been reported as being involved in many email scams and internet scams over past years.

I need to open an account with them so they can transfer my winnings there. This sets off many of my internal alarms. How about yours? Where do I set up this account? There are no links in this email to the Guaranty Trust Bank plc.

No deductions of any fees is allowed because we received your money in BOND and it’s been duly insured. This sounds like it is a plus for me.

Please contact me with this email address only Email: larrywalter01@gala.net. Right don’t contact Larry through his company’s website or website address. Contact Larry Walter though his business email address supplied by a Russian website. Who does Mr Larry Walter think I am?

This definitely isn’t one of the top internet fraud scams. How greedy does one have to be to actually bite on such a fraudulent offer?

If you are asking who do you report email scams to ftc? You might want to check out another post “email Scams – I’m Going to be a Millionaire” where I cover scam email reporting and where to forward scam emails.

Well that does it for todays lesson in being able to verify urban legends and email scams.

Late,
Gary Pool SEO

Email Scams and Internet Scams is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

Now the URL SEOGaryPool.com is Being Used by a Guy Who Says His Name is Gary

My searching has shown up another impostor. I am and have been SEO Gary Pool.

I am now changing the focus on my identity to Gary Pool SEO.

The new perpetrator is not claming to be SEO Gary Pool even though his URL is SEOGaryPool.com. Instead he is stating. “Hi everyone, my name is Gary and SEO is on my mind day and night.”
(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)

This Gary is hiding his identity in his “who is” listing.

SEOGaryPool.com is hosted by Bluehost Inc.
1958 South 950 East
Provo, UT 84606

SEOGaryPool.com has a Google PageRank of “0″ and an Alexa Rank of “23,528,380″ as of today.

Maybe we will revisit this later.

I am still SEO Gary Pool,
Late,
Gary Pool SEO

Yet Another SEO Gary Pool in the Digital World – Well Not Quite! is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

Microsoft is NOT Responsible for any of these Christmas email Scams

As Christmas nears so does the resurgence of email scams used in the past. I have Emerged as a winner of $550,000.00 winner this time from Microsoft.

Wow what a great Christmas I will have with an extra “five hundred & fifty thousand United State dollars” to buy presents to put under our Christmas tree. That’s over a half of a million dollars.

Unfortunately there are no sugar plum fairies dancing in my head. Just who do these people in charge of the email scams think we are?

I am the “winner” and the email is addressed to “undisclosed-recipients” give me a break!
(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)

From: micrsoftcorporation@live.co.uk
Subject: You have emerged a winner in the Microsoft yearly giveaway‏
Date: October 15, 2009 8:51:15 PM PDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Reply-To: davidn_micro-soft009@live.co.uk

Microsoft Award 2009
| | | | | | | | | | < <<<<<<<<
Reference no: micro209-2
Batch: GB-16DZ65UTYJG

Dear Microsoft User,

This Email is to notify you that you have emerged a winner of the sum of $550,000.00 USD (Five Hundred & Fifty Thousand United State Dollars) in the Microsoft yearly giveaway.
We do this every year to encourage prospective internet/microsoft users world wide.

You are advised to send your Full Names--, Tel-- and Location-- to our Fund Release Officer for claims.

Microsoft Fund Release Department,
Fund Release Officer>> Mr. David Nelson
Tel: + 44 702 408 7535
Email: davidn_micro-soft09@live.co.uk

Congratulation Once Again

For Microsoft Corp,
Eng” Winfred Chabb
© Microsoft Corporation

Doing some internet searches I turned up an answer to the the validity of the email on the Microsoft Answers site by Michael Murphy a Microsoft Partner.

On June 09, 2009 Mick Murphy wrote:

Microsoft does NOT do that.

It is a Scam.

Totally ignore it.

Cheers.
Mick Murphy – Microsoft Partner

While doing a little more research into Mick Murphy I discovered he had been killed in a automobile accident October 21,2009.

In an article from the Gold Coast News dated October 24th:

Surfers mourn crash victim
Andrew MacDonald | October 24th, 2008

THE Burleigh Heads surfing community has lost one of its favourite sons with the death of local identity Mick Murphy.

The Burleigh Heads Boardriders life member and former club president, who was credited with rejuvenating club-level junior surfing in the 1990s, was the driver of a Toyota HiLux that veered off the road and hit a tree in Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Valley, on Wednesday morning.

Mick Murphy was an avid surfer, he also owned and ran a company specializing in mobile computer repairs for corporations, offices, shops and homes.

Mick has plenty of answers to Microsoft questions posted all over the internet. Even those who have never heard of Mick will eventually miss him.

It is people like this “davidn_micro-soft009@live.co.uk” that give email marketing a bad name. While I do accept the fact that the majority of email marketing is spam it is NOT a scam. It is these facts that make effective email marketing all that more difficult. It may be difficult but not impossible.

Late,
Gary Pool

Christmas Present from Microsoft an email Scam to put under my Christmas Tree is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

FBI Charged 53 in Internet Scam Cybercrime Case Involving the US and Egypt

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had charged 53 defendants involved in a phishing scheme, the largest number ever charged in a cybercrime case. The phishers were operating in both the United States and in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities have charged another 47 defendants. This brings the total charged in this case to 100.

The scheme allegedly involves collecting personal information from thousands of Internet users and using it to defraud US banks. Those involved in the US are all being charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, which carries a 20-year prison sentence, while others face additional charges.
(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
This investigation which has been dubbed “Operation Phish Phry,” actually began in 2007. The internet may move fast but law enforcement is slow and methodical.

According to the FBI, the U.S. – Egypt phishing operation collected personal information from thousands of victims and then used that information to defraud U.S. banks.

Hackers based in Egypt allegedly captured banking information and other personal details, and supplied that information to associates in the U.S. who withdrew funds using the stolen credentials and wired a share of the proceeds back to Egypt.

One Hundred Linked to International Computer Hacking Ring Charged by United States and Egypt in Operation Phish Phry

LOS ANGELES—The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime…

The sophistication with which Phish Phry defendants operated represents an evolving and troubling paradigm in the way identity theft is now committed,” said Keith Bolcar, Acting Assistant Director In Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. “Criminally savvy groups recruit here and abroad to pool tactics and skills necessary to commit organized theft facilitated by the computer, including hacking, fraud and identity theft, with a common greed and shared willingness to victimize Americans. The FBI is grateful for the assistance of its law enforcement partners in the U.S. and the Egyptian government’s dedicated cooperation, which illustrates that borders cease to exist among countries committed to the rule of law and to the protection of their citizens.

The investigation in the United States was conducted by the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, supported by the Electronic Crimes Task Force in Los Angeles and the FBI’s Legal Attache in Cairo, Egypt. Several agencies provided considerable assistance to this investigation, including the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles District Attorney, the United States Secret Service, the Culver City Police Department, the El Segundo Police Department, and the United States Social Security Administration. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Water and Power, and local law enforcement departments in various counties assisted…

Each of the U.S. defendants are facing charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, carrying a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years in prison. Some of the defendants could also face additional charges that lead to longer terms.

Late,
Gary Pool

Operation Phish Phry – Chalk One Up for the Real White Hats is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

Another email Scam: this One Appears to have Originated in the UK but it Reeks of Nigeria

From what I can tell from their email this Mr. John Butler who told the IMF that he was my next of kin and relation and I guess that I died in a car accident four months ago. And I didn’t even know that I was dead let alone that I had died in a car accident.

I feel like George Kerby (Cary Grant) in Topper. I died and didn’t even know it. Maybe the IMF is really talking about Mr. John Buttler and not me.

Using a Currency Converter the IMF has $11,160,720 waiting for me.

OK so the IMF is only going to give me “a part-payment of 7.5M EURO”.

Some of the interesting “hi-lights” of this email are:

• sent from a Yahoo email address
• return address is a gmail address
• it is sent not to me but to the golivemod-owner@yahoogroups.com
• the sent IP address is located in the UK (I got this information from the long header info)
• the english is very lacking
• they request I send them my personal details
• the email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed (golivemod-owner@yahoogroups.com)
• they/he requests “Make sure you reply to my alternative Email address (payned100@gmail.com) for confidential reasons”
• it is from the International Monetary Fund Agency

From: INTERNATIONAL OPERATION DEPT (paynedaniel78@yahoo.com)
Subject:[spam?] RE-OUTSTANDING PAYMENT
Date: October 16, 2009 6:30:56 AM PDT
To: golivemod-owner@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: payned100@gmail.com

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RE-OUTSTANDING PAYMENT

This is to inform you of your long overdue Payment outstanding our Banking records. I discover your name from our Central system among list of unpaid inheritance claims individuals and have to update your informations through this email contact for immediate confirmation.

Your name appeared among the beneficiaries who will receive a part-payment of 7.5M EURO (SEVEN MILLI0N, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO) and it has been approved already for payment months ago. However we received an email from one Mr.John Butler who told us that he is your next of kin and relation and that you died in a car accident last four months back.

He has also submitted his account informations to the office department for transfer of the fund to him as your Benefactor. We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in our Bank records before we can make the transfer into his account and for us to conclude confirmation if you are dead or not. we also want to avoid any problems that will arise if you should contact us again in future regarding this funds and transfer to you. Please, confirm response immediately before any further action to release the outstanding payment against your name listed out.

Upon this, we request you send your personal details as soon as possible to enable our office finalize the transfer of the fund release, to your nominated foreign Bank Account.Do contact our office with your below details correctly. (payned100@gmail.com)

1. Full Names……….
2. Telephone & Fax Number……….
3. Contact Address……….
4. Age……….
5. Occupation……….
6. Sex……….

NOTE: HOWEVER, WE SHALL PROCEED TO ISSUE ALL PAYMENTS DETAILS TO THE SAID MR JOHN BUTLER, IF WE DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN WORKING DAYS FROM TODAY. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MIGHT CAUSE YOU.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This E-Mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Once again, we apologize to you on behalf of International Monetary fund Agency towards this contact and proper confirmation required urgently from you if alive. Make sure you reply to my alternative Email address (payned100@gmail.com) for confidential reasons

Thanks,
Yours Sincerely
Mr. Daniel Payne
International Monetary Fund Agency
INTERNATIONAL OPERATION DEPT
……………………
payned100@gmail.com

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) even released the following news brief back in 1996.

NEWS BRIEF No. 96/14
November 18, 1996

International Monetary Fund
700 19th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20431 USA

IMF AGAIN WARNS OF FINANCIAL SCHEMES MISUSING ITS NAME

In view of widespread and continuing inquiries from individuals and companies who have been approached by parties in connection with offers of participation in various financial instruments and schemes promising high returns and unauthorizedly using the name of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Treasurer of the IMF today again warned potential investors to beware of such schemes. He had already issued warnings in the past (see News Brief Number 94/5, published February 23, 1994 and News Brief Number 94/11, published May 13, 1994). Today he reiterated that the IMF does not issue or guarantee any obligations called “Prime Bank Notes,” “Prime Bank Guarantees,” “Bill of Exchange,” or “Bill of Equity,” or extend any credit lines through commercial banks or other agencies. Moreover, the IMF does not guarantee debentures or other financial instruments issued by a member country or any other entity. It does not sponsor investment programs, “high-yield financial programs,” or issue to countries or to outside parties an “IMF Number,” “IMF Country Registration Number,” or an “IMF Approval Number for Projects.”

Other examples of bogus instruments often featured in such schemes which unauthorizedly use the name of the IMF are:

• fictitious stand-by letters of credit–falsely portrayed as risk-free and sanctioned by the IMF;
• securities allegedly backed by the IMF; and
• bonds supposedly issued by the IMF.

The IMF is an intergovernmental organization whose financial transactions and operations are carried out directly with its member countries and only through a fiscal agency designated by each member for this purpose (such as the member’s Central Bank or its Ministry of Finance). The IMF does not operate through other agents and it does not endorse the activities of any bank, financial institution, or other public or private agency.

IMF EXTERNAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
Public Affairs: 202-623-7300 – Fax: 202-623-6278
Media Relations: 202-623-7100 – Fax: 202-623-6772

So maybe I’m not going to get a part of the $11,160,720.

Should I send my personal information to them any way?

ME THINKS NOT! (it must be the pirate in me surfacing)

Late,
Gary Pool

I Have Inherited 7,500,000 Euros from Mr John Butler is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

If it looks like a pig and it smells like a pig, it is probably a pig and an internet scam too!

They are going to tell me the secret to six figure earnings.

Have you ever received one of these emails?

From: news@spottingprof.com
Subject: The secret to six figure earnings.
Date: September 14, 2009 3:02:05 AM PDT
To: gary pool
Reply-To: r.31506.7498761@spottingprof.com

This evening, you’ve been given the gift of the perfect
chance to discover how to acquire the secret to obtaining
millions on the web. with secret access to information
that will change your life! Uncover how you could hijack
the web to get your pay right through any ATM. Once you
learn the secret, it necessitates nearly no effort on
your part to fill your bankaccount.

http://spottingprof.com/L2wucGhwPzEwNDMzOCY3NDk4NzYx?enc=ckiszxpaiqzz&optionalinfo=&deployid=3729020&land=0&pid=0

Acquire more revenue in 1 night while you slumber than
lots of folks will earn during their nine-to-five jobs
all month long.

From the email I was expecting a site promoting affiliate marketing or an “own your own internet store” program.

After visiting the site the one thing that set off my logic alarm in the email was the last sentence>
Acquire more revenue in 1 night while you slumber than lots of folks will earn during their nine-to-five jobs all month long.
Am I taking these surveys in my sleep?
(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
Now “work from home” is a very popular search term. According to Nichebot predicted daily searches are estimated at 3,637.

A Google search shows 47,000,000 results for “Work From Home Survey Jobs”.

So this company workfromhomesurveyjobs.net is working a very attractive field.

Who is workfromhomesurveyjobs.net?

They have actually hired a company to hide who the actual owner of this domain really is.

Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (http://www.domaintools.com/registrant-search/?email=09e336a3a122032cf7a42bfb6041ea19)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4256960234
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St – F1
C/O workfromhomesurveyjobs.net
Bellevue, WA 98007
US

What can we find out about workfromhomesurveyjobs.net?

Workfromhomesurveyjobs.net has a Google PageRank of 0. and an Alexa ranking of 307,716.

Using “Work From Home Survey Jobs” in parentheses in the search box the website ranks:

• Google the FAQ page #9
• Yahoo the home page #1
• Bing I gave up after the first 30

How much money do I want to make?

They seem to be doing an OK job of SEO, and we know they are doing a good job of email marketing by sending out a lot of emails.
But are they legit?
On their website in small light gray text way down at the bottom of a very long page is the following text.

*INCOME CLAIM WARNING: Testimonials are not typical of most results. Photographs or images are a depiction of individuals and payment methods. These income examples are representative of some of the most successful participants in the program. Some individuals purchasing the program may make little or NO MONEY AT ALL. These claims are not a guarantee of your income, nor are they typical of average participants. Individual results will vary greatly and in accordance to your input, determination, hard work, and ability to follow directions. No person or company can guarantee profits or freedom from loss. Any and all use of this website certifies you are agreeing to our Earnings and Income Disclaimers.
*For purposes of privacy, the creator of Work From Home Survey Jobs is using the name Jennifer Brown. This story is based upon the real life adaptation of the parties involved. The Company reserves the rights to the name and any uses of it as affiliated with the product. Any improper uses by unauthorized parties is strictly prohibited.
*TESTIMONIALS – All Testimonials are 100% Real and Accurate and the attestants have been remunerated for allowing Work From Home Survey Jobs’ use of the same. For the sake of customer privacy, Work From Home Survey Jobs reserves the right to protect and/or substitute the images of attestants. The images displayed hereon are not the actual images of the attestants. The images displayed hereon have been supplied by Work From Home Survey Jobs and are the copyrighted property of Work From Home Survey Jobs.
***AFFILIATION/BRANDS – Work From Home Survey Jobs is not affiliated with, endorsed by or in any way associated with Dell, Adidas, Federal Express (FedEx), Coca Cola, Starbucks or Pepsi. Work From Home Survey Jobs does not have the express permission of Dell, Adidas, Federal Express (FedEx), Coca Cola, Starbucks or Pepsi to display the Dell, Adidas, Federal Express (FedEx), Coca Cola, Starbucks or Pepsi logo.
NOTICE – Anyone found copying Work From Home Survey Jobs’ website or using Work From Home Survey Jobs’ trademarked/copyrighted text and/or images without Work From Home Survey Jobs’ express written consent will be reported to their billing company, their hosting company, and any other related companies or necessary parties for account closure. Work From Home Survey Jobs will also follow with a copyright infringement lawsuit in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
The entire contents of this website are Copyright (c) 2009 workfromhomesurveyjobs.net. All rights reserved. This site may not be copied in whole or in part without the express written permission of the publisher. All violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Am I gong to spend the now half price of $34 a month for their service?

If it looks like a pig and it smells like a pig, it is probably a pig, an email scam and an internet scam too!

If any one has any other opinion about workfromhomesurveyjobs.net I’d like to hear about it.

Late,
Gary Pool

The Secret to Six Figure Earnings – Work from Home email Scams is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

An Internet Scam Check on one of the Current email Scams on the Internet

I received the email below promising to send me 4.2 million dollars in cash and all I have to do is send them some information about myself so they will know who they are sending it to.

This cash package will be delivered by DHL, but they don’t know they are delivering cash. DHL thinks they are delivering a box of cotton material and I can’t let the know what the real contents are.

So what’s in it for the sender?

From: Barrister Sexy Toya.
Subject: [spam?] CONTACT DHL COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE
Date: August 22, 2009 9:49:18 AM PDT
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Reply-To: westernunion2222@gmail.com

Good Day,
 
How are you and family today?hope fine.this is to inform you that i went to the issuing bank to confirm if the Cheque has expired or getting near to expire and Prof.Kofi Williams the Director of ECO BANK PLC told me that before the cheque will get to your hand that it will expire and I told him to cash the 4.2 Million USD to cash payment to avoid losing this funds under expiration. However, all the necessary arrangement for delivering of the 4.2 Million USD in cash has been made with DHL DELIVERY COMPANY here in Benin Republic.
 
Secondly,Prof.Kofi Williams the Director of ECO BANK PLC Cotonou has package the funds in cash for you and he also helped me to Register the Consignment with DHL DELIVERY COMPANY.As for our agreement with the Courier company promised that your package will leave this Country on or before 2 days from now, But the Director of the company said that they need your contacts informations to enable them meet up with you immediately.
 
Please write a letter of application to the given address below.
NAME:Dr Francis Westlaw.
TELE PHONE NUMBER +229 98447852.
Email (company.dhl58@gmail.com )
Email (dhlcouriercompanybenin78@gmail.com)
please fill this
1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. YOUR DELIVERY ADDRESS:
3. YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBER:
4. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY:
5. YOUR AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
6. YOUR COUNTRY AND CITY:
7. YOUR OCCUPATION:
 
Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX.Note this,The DHL DELIVERY COMPANY don’t know the contents of the Box we registered as a BOX of an Cotton Material and they don’t know that the contents is money. This is to avoid complication with the BOX so don’t let them know the contents of the box for security reasons.Finally I have instructed Martin Dave An Accountant of ECO BANK PLC to send you the key of the trunk box through another delivery company for the safety of this funds.
 
Regards.
Mrs. J.Samuleh.

Current email Scam?

Let’s look at some of the details of this email and we will do an internet scam check on this email. I guess you can see that I think it is a scam right out of the box.
(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)
First and foremost it is sent to an email address I use only for business and never for personal business use. The only reason I know what email address this is sent to is by what mail box it comes in to. The email is addressed to “undisclosed recipients”. This means many people received the same email.

To: undisclosed recipients: ;

Let’s see who it is from. “Barrister Sexy Toya” now that sounds like a business professional.
“Barrister Sexy Toya” must be “Mrs. J.Samuleh”.
The from and reply-to addresses are not the same. (small alarm sounds)

From: Barrister Sexy Toya. sexytoya222000@yahoo.com
Reply-To: westernunion2222@gmail.com

…Regards.
Mrs. J.Samuleh.

My server thinks the email is a spam. While not the final word it is a consideration for further inspection.

Subject: [spam?] CONTACT DHL COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE

What information are they asking for? They want a copy of my “identity” and they have shown no idea of who I am. Sure they are going to send me 4.2 million dollars cash.
This reeks of IDENTITY THEFT to me!

please fill this
1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. YOUR DELIVERY ADDRESS:
3. YOUR PHONE AND FAX NUMBER:
4. A COPY OF YOUR IDENTITY:
5. YOUR AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
6. YOUR COUNTRY AND CITY:
7. YOUR OCCUPATION:

You would think someone giving away $4,200,000 could afford to have their English checked.

Note this,The DHL DELIVERY COMPANY don’t know the contents of the Box we registered as a BOX of an Cotton Material and they don’t know that the contents is money.

This is definitely an email scam.

What Can be Done About email Scams

If you want to report your email scams and/or internet scams there is information in an earlier email scam post on scam email reporting.

If you don’t have throw-away email addresses (an email address you use when you sign up for something for free) create some. I have throw-away or spam email addresses I use for both personal and business.

How Did They Get My email Address?

When you sign up for that FREE… (this includes directory submissions) they get your email address. Many of these recipients of your email address will sell your email address to anyone. I have one email address that is over 10 years old and WOW! does it get spam.

You can also send spam emails of your own to the email addresses of the spammers. There are more of us than their are them. This will flood their email boxes to beyond use.

Here are the email addresses enclosed in this particular email: (please do not send emails with an email address that is not disposable)

• sexytoya222000@yahoo.com
  (reason: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn’t have a yahoo.com account (sexytoya222000@yahoo.com) [-5] – mta122.mail.re1.yahoo.com)
• westernunion2222@gmail.com
• company.dhl58@gmail.com
• dhlcouriercompanybenin78@gmail.com

Thanks for the emails.

Late,
Gary Pool

email Scams and Internet Scam Check – Pure Identity Theft is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician

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.

True or a scam?(Post from Search Engine Optimizician.)

My Internet Scam Check

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.

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?

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

email Scams – I’m Going to be a Millionaire is a post stolen from the Search Engine Optimizician