Scam emails

[967543]

Scammers very active at the moment but they really need to up their game. I received this one this evening but I think I'll give this opportunity a miss. When I'm in the mood I spend a few minutes forwarding the scammers emails to the others in my spam box or just to excite them I sometimes reply with a simple 'okay' to see what their next step will be. Anybody else have any interesting scammers contacting them recently?

Hello Dear

greetings from Burkina Faso, I am Miss Yasmine Ibrahim Coulibaly 24 years old female from the Republic of Ivory Coast, West Africa, am the Daughter of Late Chief Sgt. Warlord Ibrahim Coulibaly (a.k.a General IB). My late father was a well known Ivory Coast militia leader. He died on Thursday 28 April 2011 following a fight with the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast (FRCI). I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment which I am receiving from my step mother, you can read more about my late Father death through the below links:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/ ... -coulibaly.

I am seeking a long term relationship and investment assistance. My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$ 14.5 Million in one bank in Burkina Faso with my name as the next of kin. So If you are interested please contact me in my private email address (yasmineibrahimm@outlook.com) for more details.

Thanking you a lot in anticipation of your quick response. I will give you details in my next mail after receiving your acceptance mail to help me,

Yours sincerely
Miss Yasmine Ibrahim.

If you haven't made a move for this prize catch, do you mind if I move in and bust some moves ??

[Del.Monte]

There's a huge number of these malicious emails doing the rounds at the moment - looks very authentic to me - I'll get the kettle on for the Garda Commissioner and the ERU.

Garda Síochána na <gonsesathurnin@gmail.com>

Fri, Jun 17, 1:13 PM (2 days ago)

to bcc: me
This message seems dangerous

Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or replying with personal information.
JUDICIAL SUMMONING

For the requirements of a judicial inquiry
(article 390-1 of the code of criminal procedure)

DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF THE JUDICIAL POLICE, DIRECTORATE FOR THE PROTECTION OF MINORS

To your attention :


At the request of Madam, Jérôme Bonet elected to the president of Europol,
commissioner general of the federal police, head of the brigade for the
protection of minors (BPM I will contact you shortly after a computer seizure of
Cyber-infiltration (authorized, in particular in matters of child pornography,
pedophilia, cyber pornography, exhibitionist, sex trafficking) to inform you that
you are the subject of several Legal Proceedings in force. Child pornography _
Pedophilia _ Cyber pornography _ Sex trafficking.


For your information, law 390-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of March
2007 increases the penalties when the proposals, sexual assaults or rapes may
have been committed using the Internet. You committed the offense after being
targeted on the internet (advertisement site), viewing of child pornography
videos, naked photos/videos of minors were recorded by our cyber-police and
constitute proof of your offences. For the sake of confidentiality we are sending
you this email, you are requested to make yourself heard by e-mail by writing
your justifications so that they are examined and verified in order to assess the
sanctions; this within a strict deadline of 24 hours. After this time, we will be
obliged to transmit our report to Mrs. Mr Justice Frank Clarke, The Chief Justice
The Hon, to establish an arrest warrant against you and we will proceed to your
immediate arrest by the most appropriate gendarmerie. close to where you live
and you will be placed on the national sex offender registry. In this case, your
file will also be sent to associations for the fight against pedophilia and to the
media for publication of a person on file with the RNDS


Cordially
Le Chief Justice The Hon. Mr Justice Frank ClarkeJeremy Andrew Harris, OBE, QPM Commissioner of the Garda Síochána in the Republic of Ireland

[Del.Monte]

Apparently Enniscorthy has been redesignated as a city according to this invitation received this morning....

Hello Dear,

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Our club is just for males! 75% of single females are joining.

Our party goes on Day & Night. If you are interested, you can register for free.

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Just submit your Age, zip code, any Email, and Join. No joined charge-free for today.

If this link doesn’t work manually copy and paste on your browser: https://veronica.craigslistpartner.club/

[Del.Monte]

An unusual one this morning.....

topmanufacturer50@hotmail.com

Hello,
Good day!
Do you have need Hair Dryer in recently?
We can base on you design to estimate costing. I believe our factory can give you reasonable price and good quality.

We are very professional Hair Dryer factorys have more then 12 years.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best Regards,
Andy

[8760976543]

Getting a lot of text messaging claiming to be from AIB and BOI with a link to a dodgy website.

I just report the website to Google, Microsoft and the hosting service (usually godaddy).

Handy wiki on how to report a site

https://www.wikihow.com/Report-a-Website

[jmcc]

Getting a lot of text messaging claiming to be from AIB and BOI with a link to a dodgy website.

I just report the website to Google, Microsoft and the hosting service (usually godaddy).

Handy wiki on how to report a site

https://www.wikihow.com/Report-a-Website

The domain name may have been registered via Godaddy (it is the registrar for over 25% of all gTLD domain names) but hosting can be quite different. One of the recent scam texts for an Irish bank that I got was hosted on a Chinese webhoster. This kind of DNS abuse is a major topic in the domain name industry. Most people just delete the scam texts without reporting them. The DNS Abuse Institute launched the Netbeacon site for reporting phishing/malware etc.

https://netbeacon.org/

It is probably a better and easier way to report than contacting Google, Microsoft, the registrar and the hosting provider. It might also be a good thing to report the URL/domain name to the relevant bank as registrars will often take a domain name down quicker if the banks report it directly.

Regards...jmcc

[Del.Monte]

The very plausible PayPal/Walmart emails are appearing all over the place - a friend has had three of them in recent days - but wisely did nothing apart from reporting them to PayPal. Sadly, due to the massive scale of PayPal's operations, reporting things only triggers automated responses. Be careful out there!

https://techbuzzireland.com/2022/08/03/ ... -aware-of/

[765489]

The IMF want to give me money. Think I'll stick with the credit union. Heard them IMF interest rates can be high.


International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Office of the Special Representative to the UN.
Head quarters,

LETTER OF COMPENSATION / SETTLEMENT.


Attn: Beneficiary,


Please bear with us for making this initial contact through email, it is due to the urgency of this notification, since we are unable to reach your telephone line and to officially bring to your notice about your payment file in which you are listed as a beneficiary to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and United Nations Compensation Program, this Compensation Program is organized Seasonal program for victims of war, disasters(earthquakes, hurricane, storm, fire),internet scams and elderly one(s) and fund payment delay in which your fund payment has been delayed by some unpatriotic officers, scammers and covid 19 settlement.

[Del.Monte]

Burkina Faso must be running out of money at this stage....I've lost count of the number of emails that I've received offering loads of dosh.

DEAR GOOD FRIEND.

MY NAME IS MR. JOHN HARTWELL, I AM A BANKER IN (CORIS INTERNATIONAL
BANK BURKINA FASO) I WANT TO TRANSFER AN ABANDONED SUM OF 25.5
MILLIONS USD INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. 50% WILL BE FOR YOU. NO RISK INVOLVED. CONTACT ME FOR MORE DETAILS; KINDLY REPLY ME BACK

FILL THIS INFORMATION
FULL NAME:
DIRECT CELL NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
CITY:
AGE :
GENDER:
OCCUPATION:

PLEASE RESPOND URGENTLY
Email: john.hartwell23@gmail.com

REGARDS,
MR. JOHN HARTWELL

[Del.Monte]

Here's one for dopes. I don't what Geek Squad is but I wasn't tempted to ring to cancel my non existent sub.

[jmcc]

Here's one for dopes. I don't what Geek Squad is but I wasn't tempted to ring to cancel my non existent sub.

It has been going on for years. The idea is to get the victims to ring the number and provide their credit card details. The antivirus one is a variation on this. See at least one of these spams every few days. (I have some old e-mail addresses.) There's been an uptick in password theft e-mails in the last week or so too.

Regards...jmcc

[893456]

I had one today from a Ms.Waryk who apparently recently won a mega millions lottery and my email was randomly selected to share her wealth.All I had to do was send my bank routing number and date of birth to be a millionaire,heh.

[isha]

How about scamanna as Gaeilge on WhatsApp. I just got this...

Dia duit, níl mé i dteagmháil leat le fada, níl a fhios agam an cuimhin leat fós mé, mar sin sheol mé grianghraf díom chugat Is fada liom uaim thú go mór.Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? D’aistrigh mé go cuntas WhatsApp nua agus ba mhaith liom go gcuirfidh tú mo chuntas WhatsApp nua leis. Is féidir linn nascadh níos fearr anseo ....

Come on daoine, ná bígí ag scamadóireacht!

[Del.Monte]

How about scamanna as Gaeilge on WhatsApp. I just got this...

Come on daoine, ná bígí ag scamadóireacht!

I have had the Irish language scams myself and it shows real stupidity by the scammer in narrowing down their pool of possible victims to a tiny minority of people before they even get started.

[isha]

I have had the Irish language scams myself and it shows real stupidity by the scammer in narrowing down their pool of possible victims to a tiny minority of people before they even get started.

But maybe it's reverse psychology, Del, and they know I can understand Irish and I'm just longing now for a grianghraf of their lovely búibíní

[Del.Monte]

Another really crude attempt this evening - surprisingly I decided not to download their attachment.

[marhay70]

Scammers are really taking advantage of the season, I have enough packages awaiting confirmation to fill Amazon's warehouse.

[KHD]

My cousin sent around some whatsapp message purportedly coming from Cadburys. My father got it. I said I hope he didn't click on it but in fairness I have him to such a level that he's afraid to click on anything

She sent around another message to say "it came from someone that was a member of a church" and that she thought it would be ok ???? Best I've ever heard.

[Bishop_Brennan]

You're lucky, my scam e-mails have consisted of threats to reveal my masturbatory habits to the world. As I trundle inexorably toward even older age I can only think "chance would be a fine thing"

I got the same, It must have been some hack since it seems to get around the physical tape I always have over my laptop cam, so I can now and then
go into ingognito mode, on to p0rnhub[dot]com, pants aronund the ankles, flute in hand and rip the fuckn stomach outta myself to blonde lesbians 69ing ... jaysus getting a semi now just thinking about it ...

[DeletedUser]

I got the same, It must have been some hack since it seems to get around the physical tape I always have over my laptop cam, so I can now and then
go into ingognito mode, on to p0rnhub[dot]com, pants aronund the ankles, flute in hand and rip the fuckn stomach outta myself to blonde lesbians 69ing ... jaysus getting a semi now just thinking about it ...

I've just spat Tayto crisps over my screen at that!!

Kudos Len my old son, kudos!!

[Bishop_Brennan]

Another really crude attempt this evening - surprisingly I decided not to download their attachment.

Yes complete scam
eamzsrvicesincaccBacdrikadntugf9@kayal 2.aa.axememberservice.com

europeamazonservicesincaccBacdrikadntugf9@kayal 2.aa.axememberservice.com is legit tho....

[Del.Monte]

The poor scammers don't even get a break at Christmas.

[kadman]

Well, lucky, lucky old kadman. I just received an e mail from Warren Buffet to tell me my e mail has been chosen to receive millions from this philanthropist.My worries are over


MY NAME IS WARREN E BUFFETT AN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAGNATE,INVESTOR AND
PHILANTHROPIST.I AM THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INVESTOR IN THE WORLD I
BELIEVE STRONGLY IN GIVING WHILE LIVING,I HAD ONE IDEA THAT NEVER
CHANGED IN MY MIND,THAT YOU SHOULD USE YOUR WEALTH TO HELP PEOPLE AND
I HAVE DECIDED TO

GIVE TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED DOLLARS,TO RANDOMLY
SELECTED INDIVIDUALS WORLDWIDE.ON RECEIPT OF THIS EMAIL,YOU SHOULD
COUNT YOURSELF AS THE LUCKY INDIVIDUAL BECAUSE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS
CHOSEN ONLINE WHILE SEARCHING AT

RANDOM.KINDLY GET BACK TO ME AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE BEFORE I
TRAVEL TO THE UK FOR MY TREATMENT,SO I KNOW YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS
VALID. THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING OUR OFFER,WE ARE INDEED GRATEFUL YOU
CAN GOOGLE MY MAME FOR MORE INFORMATION WARREN BUFFET

GOD BLESS YOU.
BEST REGARD
MR.WARREN E BUFFETT BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR

[Del.Monte]

Looks genuine to me...don't forget the rest of us when you get the cheque!

[678904673]

Well, lucky, lucky old kadman. I just received an e mail from Warren Buffet to tell me my e mail has been chosen to receive millions from this philanthropist.My worries are over


MY NAME IS WARREN E BUFFETT AN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAGNATE,INVESTOR AND
PHILANTHROPIST.I AM THE MOST SUCCESSFUL INVESTOR IN THE WORLD I
BELIEVE STRONGLY IN GIVING WHILE LIVING,I HAD ONE IDEA THAT NEVER
CHANGED IN MY MIND,THAT YOU SHOULD USE YOUR WEALTH TO HELP PEOPLE AND
I HAVE DECIDED TO

GIVE TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED DOLLARS,TO RANDOMLY
SELECTED INDIVIDUALS WORLDWIDE.ON RECEIPT OF THIS EMAIL,YOU SHOULD
COUNT YOURSELF AS THE LUCKY INDIVIDUAL BECAUSE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS
CHOSEN ONLINE WHILE SEARCHING AT

RANDOM.KINDLY GET BACK TO ME AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE BEFORE I
TRAVEL TO THE UK FOR MY TREATMENT,SO I KNOW YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS
VALID. THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING OUR OFFER,WE ARE INDEED GRATEFUL YOU
CAN GOOGLE MY MAME FOR MORE INFORMATION WARREN BUFFET

GOD BLESS YOU.
BEST REGARD
MR.WARREN E BUFFETT BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR

Even though its an obvious scam. They'll still be at least one poor fool who falls for it.