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You too can work from home for less than 10 hours a week and earn around $12000 a month, and while there are some jobs like this for politicians I doubt very much that Korean businesses will be sending them to me.

In related scam news, the latest one is that someone is that I have been declared dead and someone is trying to steal my million dollar inheritance fund. This scam e-mail contains the classic line Please, if you are dead or alive I want you to reply back immediately to avoid paying to the wrong account. Ignoring the bad English present throughout the e-mail which no self respecting legal company would use, its so tempting to send a reply back saying I am dead so go ahead and pay into his account.

From: Lung Kin International Korea [mailto:lungkin72@yahoo.co.th]
Sent: 05 October 2009 05:29
Subject: Work @home with Lung Kin International Korea

Dear Sir/Madam,

in this period of economic recession, would you like to work online from home and get paid weekly?

If yes, then you can work online from home and get paid weekly.

Our company, Lung Kin International Korea , would help you achieve this.

Lung Kin International Korea  is a multi million dollar marketing company which has helped improved the economy

of countries around the world including, China,United States of America, Malysia, South Africa

with the exception of European countries for the past two decades.

We were able to achieve this by establishing and maintaining marketing relationships and

networks with companies around various continents of the world.

Unfortunately, the global economic recession affected some of our partners around the world

As such we need more marketers – preferably individuals.

Also, Lung Kin International Korea  now has a need to expand its market impact into Europe

To achieve these two goals, we need capable and trusted hands to act

as the company’s representative/accounts keeper in the Europe.

At the moment, we are into supplies of Printers & Ink, PDA, Monitors, laptops,

Software, and Major exporters’ e.t.c. These we supply weekly to our clients all around the continents of the world

and now Europe. This is simple and can be taken as a part time job with no negative effect to your present job status.

Please also be informed that the average monthly income is about $12,000, and this job takes only 3-7 hours per week.

Further Rationale:

Ordinarily we would have loved to work with legal entities (companies) but the international money transfer tax for legal entities (companies) in

United Kingdom is 25%, whereas for the individual it is only 7%. Therefore, working with companies in the United Kingdom

would yield our company lesser profit but working with private individual would pay us better. Hence our Multi Level Marketing Scheme!

We need agents to receive payment for our supplies in bank wire transfers and to resend the money to us via Western Union Money

Transfer in UK while the tax shall be 7% instead of 25% which will absolutely favor our company.

THE TASK:

1. Receive payment from our Clients particularly in the United Kingdom.

2. Deduct 10% which will be your commission on each payment processed.

3. Forward the balance after deduction of 10% commission to our offices outside the United Kingdom or any other offices

which shall be provided by you as soon as the fund becomes available.

YOUR INCOME:

10% from each transaction! For instance, where you receive $5000 via wire transfer on our behalf, you will cash the money

and keep $500 (10% from $5000) for yourself!

The 10% commission is just for a start. It is subject to upward review after a creditable performance.

Please be informed that this job is very tasking. We are searching only for honest and open – hearted Individuals who

would meet our standard. Also, the number of individual needed is limited and as such our company would not consider

any other application once we reach our limit.

If you think you can perform, please feel free to reach us with your details as required below;

Names:

Gender:

Age:

Address:

City:

Zip Code:

State:

Home Phone:

Cell Phone:

We look forward to a positive working relationship with you.

Warmest Regards,

Lung Kin International Korea

Company Address:        581-11 Sanglok Dong Yeon-,

Mapo-Gu S / Korea, Seoul, South Korea

E-MAIL                   lungkin72@yahoo.co.th

Country/Region:      South Korea

Zip/Postal Code:    415200

Note the standard free e-mail address that immediately suggests scam

From: Mrs. Elizabeth Owen [mailto:maxwellstephens@icqmail.com]
Sent: 05 October 2009 20:28
Subject: Private Bank

Private Bank

Sir,

It’s very urgent you reply this mail promptly on or before 48hours because we have received an

application of claims from one Mr. Sumrall Christopher claiming to be the beneficiary of your inheritance

fund (US$6.2) Six Million Two Hundred thousand United States Dollars. He wants us to transfer your

inheritance fund into his account in United States.

Mr. Sumrall claimed that, you are involved in an Automobile Fatal Accident and you did not survive

the accident dated 1st of August that he is the new beneficiary of the fund . Please, if you are dead

or alive I want you to reply back immediately to avoid paying to the wrong account. We have cases

of diversion of fund that is why we decided to confirm from you first before transferring the fund into

his account.

We decided to accept the application of claim and Affidavit of Oath from Mr. Sumrall Christopher

because for over a long period you have not contacted us regarding your inheritance fund BUT

we decided to confirm first before transferring your inheritance fund into Mr. Sumrall Account next week.

If you are alive please, reply this mail on or before 48hrs from now so that we can stop the payment

of the inheritance fund into Sumrall ‘s Account in Denver, Co USA.

Contact: Maxwell  Stephen : maxwellstephens@icqmail.com

Treat this mail very urgent.

Mrs. Elizabeth Owen

Ignoring the Bad English, the fact I dont have a massive inheritance fund, and the lack of detail regarding which company this is from. There is also the logical fallacy that they just accept someone’s word that you are dead when they would presumably need a death certificate (which would have reference information on it). Fairly standard Phishing scam and an amusing e-mail given the bad English

Here are a few more examples of some of the dodgy deals people are trying to get me involved with, so they can eventually steal my identity and money.

These ones claim to be from Karin Ahmed, Amina Kipkalya, Azeem Igwedo and Ramatu Sawadogo.

From: Karim Ahmed [mailto:kar.ah.00128@msn.com]
Subject: DID YOU RECEIVE IT? PLEASE REPLY.

DEAREST,

MY NAME IS KARIM AHMED A STAFF OF BANK OF AFRICA ((BOA)) OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO . I AM CONTACTING YOU FOR A CLAIM IN MY DEPARTMENT WITH A VALUED SUM OF (USD$18.5M).

THE MONEY WAS DEPOSITED BY ONE OF OUR CUSTOMER DURING (( IRAQ OIL FOR FOODS PROGRAM)) IN 2003. THE ACCOUNT HOLDER DIED JULY 2005 WHEN HE TRAVELLED TO RESCUE HIS FAMILY DURING AMERICA AND IRAQ CONFLICT. AFTER OUR INVESTIGATION, WE DISCOVERED THAT HIS ENTIRE FAMILY WAS EVICTED.

THE BANKING LAW AND GUIDELINES HERE STIPULATE THAT IF AN ACCOUNT HOLDER INVOLVES IN SUCH VICTIM, A RELATIVE OR BUSINESS ASSOCIATES OF THE DECEASED THAT HAS HIS CORRECT INFORMATION IS LIABLE TO HAVE THE FUND.

IT IS UPON THIS REASON THAT I NOW DECIDE AND CONTACT YOU TO TAKE A POSITION AS HIS BUSINESS PARTNER AND I WILL BACK YOU WITH EVERY OF HIS INFORMATION TO ENABLE THE  BANK MANAGEMENT BELIEVE AND TRANSFER THE ABOVE FUND TO YOU AS THE NEXT OF KIN.

THE REQUEST OF FOREIGNER AS NEXT OF KIN IN THIS BUSINESS IS OCCASIONED BY THE FACT THAT THE CUSTOMER WAS A FOREIGNER AND A CITIZEN OF BURKINA FASO CAN NOT STAND A NEXT OF KIN TO A FOREIGNER AS THE LAW STIPULATES HERE OTHERWISE I HAVE MANY RELATIVES FOR THE CLAIM.

THEREFORE THE FUND CAN ONLY BE APPROVE AND TRANSFER TO A FOREIGNER SO IF YOU’RE WILLING FOR THE CLAIM, REPLY BACK IMMEDIATELY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL CONTACT ADDRESS: kar.ah@chaiyo.com <http://us.mc356.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=kar.ah@chaiyo.com>   WITH THE BELOW INFORMATION’S FOR RECOGNITION PURPOSE OF WHO I AM TRUSTING TO PERMIT ME GUIDE YOU ON HOW WE CAN TRANSACT THE BUSINESS WITHOUT FEAR OR CALL ME IMMEDIATELY ON + 22678784625:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

YOUR FULL NAME…………………………….

YOUR RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS………………………..

YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER…………………………..

YOUR FAX NUMBER IF ANY…………………………………..

YOUR OCCUPATION……………………………………….

YOUR AGE…………………………………………….

YOUR PHOTOGRAPH……………………………………..

SINCERELY

KARIM AHMED.

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You’re invited to:             HELLO,

By your host:            amina kipkalya

Date:        Thursday September 3, 2009

Time:        10:00 pm – 11:00 pm  (GMT +00:00)

Street:            Dearest ,I am writing this mail to you with tears and sorrow from my heart.With due respect trust and humanity, i appeal to you to exercise a little patience and read through my letter i feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business having gone through your remarkable profile, honestly i am writing this email to you with pains, tears and sorrow from my heart, i will really like to have a good relationship with you and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you, i decided to contact you due to the urgency of my situation,My name is Miss. Amina Kipkalya Kones, 23yrs old female and I held from Kenya in West Africa. My father was the former Kenyan road Minister. He and Assistant Minister of Home Affairs Lorna Laboso had been on board the Cessna 210, which was headed to Kericho and crashed in a remote area called Kajong’a, in western Kenya. The plane crashed on the Tuesday 10th, June,2008. You can read more about the crash through the below site:http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/10/kenya.crash/index.html After the burial of my father, my stepmother and uncle conspired and sold my father’s property to an italian Expertrate which the shared the money among themselves and live nothing for me. One faithful morning, I opened my father’s briefcase and found out the documents which he have deposited huge amount of money in one bank in Burkina Faso with my name as the next of kin. I travelled to Burkina Faso to withdraw the money for a better life so that I can take care of myself and start a new life, on my arrival, the Bank Director whom I met in person told me that my father’s instuction to the bank is that the money would only be release to me when I am married or present a trustee who will help me and invest the money overseas. I am in search of an honest and reliable person who will help me and stand as my trustee so that I will present him to the Bank for transfer of the money to his bank account overseas. I have chosen to contact you after my prayers and I believe that you will not betray my trust. But rather take me as your own sister. Though you may wonder why I am so soon revealing myself to you without knowing you, well I will say that my mind convinc ed me that you may be the true person to help me. Moreso, I will like to disclose much to you if you can help me to relocate to your country because my stepmother have threaten to assinate me. The amount is( $5.8 USD )Million United State Dollars, and I have confirmed from the bank in Burkina Faso on my arrival, You will also help me to place the money in a more profitable business venture in your Country. However, you will help by recommending a nice University in your country so that I can complete my studies. It is my intention to compensate you with 20% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my capital in your establishment. As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will put things into action immediately. In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely. Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Please do keep this only to your self for now untill the bank will transfer the fund. I beg you not to disclose it till i come over because I am affraid of my weaked stepmother who has threatened to kill me and have the money alone ,I thank God Today that am out from my country (KENYA) but now In (Burkina Faso) where my father deposited these money with my name as the next of Kin.I have the documents for the claims. Yours Sincerely Amina Kipkalya Kones.

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Third One

From: azeem igwedo [mailto:azeemigwedo462@msn.com]
Sent: 03 September 2009 08:39
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLEASE

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Azeem Igwedo, the  director in charge of auditing and accounting section  of Bank of Africa (BOA) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso West-Africa. I would like you to indicate your interest to receive the transfer of $9.8 Million Dollars. I will like you to stand as the next of kin to our late customer whose account is presently dormant for claims. Please once you are interested kindly send me the following details information below,

1.Your full name:………..

2.Resident address:……..

3.Private phone……..

4.fax numbers:……………

5.Country :…………….

6.Occupation:…………..

7.Age:………

I shall send you more details as soon as i hear from you.

Regards,

Mr. Azeem Igwedo,

Phone (+226 768-64-469)

Final One

From: Mrs. Ramatu Sawadogo [mailto:mrsramatus@voila.fr]
To: Mrs. Ramatu Sawadogo
Subject: From Mrs. Ramatu Sawadogo

Hello Friend

I am Mrs. Ramatu Sawadogo, the director of account/audit department in the Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso, West Africa. I got your contact from a Yahoo Tourist Search When I was searching for a foreign partner. I assured of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity when I prayed to the Almighty about you. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $22,000.000.00 million U.S dollars (Twenty two million U.S dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer Mr. Alan Williams, A British National who died along with his entire family in (20 Oct 2005) in a plane crash.  As followed in this link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tanzania/1501084/Tycoon-dies-with-family-in-Tanzania-safari-plane-crash.html <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tanzania/1501084/Tycoon-dies-with-family-in-Tanzania-safari-plane-crash.html>

Since I got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.

The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and I cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner since I am from this country. I agree to offer you 45% of the total sum as foreign partner in respect to the provision of an account, 55% will be for me while we both will take care of the  expenses incur during process of the transfer.  There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the application which you fill and send to our bank. 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.

You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly into the account you will provide to the bank. Don’t hesitate to furnish me with your private telephone for easy and effective communication. Also send me your personal information as followed

(1) Your full names

(2) Your age and occupation

(3) Your nationality

(4) Your private telephones for easy communication

(5) A copy of your international passport or recent photo for me you know your person.

Below is my residential address and email contact.

Siege social: 01BP 452001 Ouaga 01, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

Email: ramatusawadogo@voila.fr <http://us.mc1116.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ramatusawadogo@voila.fr>

Anxiously waiting for your urgent response

Thanks and God bless.

Mrs. Ramatu Sawadogo

The scammers seem to work in waves, some days I have a load of bank phishing attempts and others a lot of 419 scams, and at the moment it seems to be the turn of the 419.

I always find it amusing when they refer to “me” as reliable and trustworthy or words to that effect when they are trying to convince me to do something totally unethical. Given that they ask for a photo I take it they are going for identity theft as well as trying to con money for a “bank transfer costs”

From: Robert Maurice [mailto:robmau13@msn.com]
Subject: Read and understand.

Bill & Exchange Manager!

Bank of Africa Annex,

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Firstly’ I must solicit for your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential. Although I know that a transaction of this magnitude could make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the deal. I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, however let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am “

Mr. Robert Maurice” Manager of Bill & Exchange department at Bank of Africa Annex here in Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso.

I discovered your credentials and email contact in my private search through the internet for a reliable and reputable person who will handle this confidential Project which involves transfer of a huge sum of money to a Foreign Account and it requires maximum confidence to execute this Project. I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important business through this medium, though this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through this medium because it still remain the fastest medium of communication. This correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such.

HERE IS THE PREPOSITION;

A Foreigner who met his untimely Death in Thailand Plane Clash was banking with us at the Bank of Africa Annex here in Ouagadougou; as at the end of September 2007 he had a closing balance worth of $14,500.000.00 (Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars).After going into deep investigations/verifications i had discovered that HASSAN died on Sunday 16th September 2007, in a plane clash. For more details & information please visit: (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6997381.stm).

Bank of Africa annex now expect the beneficiary to come for the claim of the fund but a lot of effort had been made without success, the perceived possibility of not been able to locate any of the depositor next of kin is due to he had no wife neither he had a child, base upon this fact i have decided to contact you so you can stand as the next of kin and beneficiary to our deceased customer fund since nobody is coming for the claim of the fund, and i don’t want this fund to go into our country treasury as unclaimed fund, that is the major reason why i contacted you, due to the law imposed by the British prime minister GORDON BROWN  in world press conference on the 6th of December 2005, at 12:18 GMT, for more information about the prime minister decision on dormant account visit: http://news.bcc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4017381.stm

Why i need you to stand as the next of kin to our deceased customer fund, it is because you are a foreigner and the late depositor of this fund was a foreigner, i want you to understand that all information for you to apply for this fund to enable Bank of Africa annex release the fund to you and also to prove that you are the next of kin to our deceased customer fund is available, so now i seek your permission to stand as the next of kin to this fund, because it is due to your acceptance to partake in this transaction that will enable things work out smoothly, 40% will be for you and 50% for me why 10% will be set aside for any expenses that occurs before the release and transfer of the fund into your account.

I will furnish you with every necessary information you will use in applying to the bank for the release and tranfers of the fund,  please do not make undue of the trust that i have bestowed in you, if it is acceptable by you from your heart don’t hesitate to provide me with this requires” Your Picture, Your direct telephone number, Home address, and your Occupation, awaiting to receive your positive response.

Best regards,

Mr. Robert Maurice.

Yet another inheritance Scam, this time claiming to be from a Mrs C Sulak. Fairly standard e-mail aiming to attract genuinely charitable people with a sob story, and people who hope to take advantage of a vulnerable person but are too stupid to realise it is a scam.

Lets be honest, if you had a lot of money and no direct relatives to inherit would you contact random people you have never met to give it to a charity or would you instruct your lawyer to give it to a suitable charity or set up a trust fund to do it for you?

From: Mrs Sulak [mailto:msulak@o2.pl]
Sent: 21 August 2009
Subject: From Mrs.c.Sulak

>From Mrs.c.Sulak

I am the above named person, now undergoing medical treatment. I was married to late Engr M.N Sulak who worked With the Embassy for Nine years.

We were married for eleven years without a child. My late husband Engr M.N Saluk died on the 24th of April 2006 after a brief illness that lasted for only four Days. I decided not to re-marry or get a Child outside my matrimonial home, because as a good Christian my religion is agents it says the Bible and I lived a happy and good Christian life with my late husband.

when my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $22 Million (Twenty Two Million America Dollars) with one Finance house Presently in London. I have been in the hospital for eight months suffering from cancer. The 1st surgery operation has been conducted and I still have the pains in me crying every day and night looking up to God to save cure me and save my life Recently my Doctor told me that I may die any time any day because of my cancer sickness.

Having known my condition I decided to donate the $22 Million (Twenty Two Million America Dollars) my late husband deposited with a finance house in London to you a good organization that will utilize this fund very well by helping the less privilege. Like to the orphanages, Old people, homeless. I took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this Fund.

I want you to always pray for me as I have no life again says my doctor. It will be my please to receive your good response and I will contact or direct you to my late husband attorney that will help you to secure this $22 Million (Twenty Two Million America Dollars) and I want you to assure me that you will use this $22 Million (Twenty Two Million America Dollars) to help the less privilege .

Am waiting for your respond. Please your responding to this mail, email me at msulak001@gmail.com

God bless you and your good family

Mrs.c.Sulak.

After a few blissfully quite days on the scam e-mail front, I received a rather poor attempt at a false inheritance identity theft/band details theft scam. If you ignore the implausibility of me being in line for a big inheritance from someone in America, there is also the question of why would someone be contacting me for something of this importance via a Yahoo Personals message?!

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Sent:
To:
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markhensonnn@yahoo.com has sent you this information from Yahoo! Personals.
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INHERITANCE FUNDS OF $8.5M. Attention:Honorable Beneficiary, This is to officially inform you that a woman from USA came here in our Bank requested that we effected her account with your total inheritance funds of $8.5million USD, Now we are asking if you are aware of her claim? You are advice to contact, Dr. Chris via Email:(dr.chrisandersonn1@live.com) with the following information’s for the Transferring of your Fund; FULL NAME: HOME ADDRESS: PHONE NUMBER: COUNTRY: OCCUPATION: SEX: AGE: IDENTITY: Regards, Mark Henson

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