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The world wide web has been called The New
Gold Rush.
With such fast growth there's bound to be some dishonest people and
organizations.
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Below are my personal bad experiences when making deals on Internet. |
| NAME/ADDRESS | PLACE | DESCRIPTION |
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Buy.com |
www.buy.com | Takes your money first and
afterwards blackmails you to divulge your personal data. When refuse to provide it, the ordered goods are not shipped and emails are not answered. |
| AIT Corp. eBay store: |
eBay USA | does not follow shipping
instructions causing material loss and not accepting responsibility. Consecutive emails are blocked. |
| G-force Marketing Inc. eBay store: |
eBay USA | selling worthless watches and overcharging on shipping |
| GreatFun by Trilegiant
Corporation Trilegiant Great Fun Service PO Box 5250 Glen Allen, VA 23058 |
http://www.greatfunonline.com/ | It tries everything not to
honor rebates offered on it's website. It makes it very complicated and
difficult. Online querries are not answered. It looks to me as if it is official company policy. |
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Below are bold scams attempts I found in my Inbox |
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| sebastinevanhans@zwallet.com | |||||||
| FROM THE DESK OF SEBASTINE VANHANS From: Mr.Sebastine Vanhans E-mail::sebastinevanhans@zwallet.com sebastinevanhans@netscape.net Attn: President/CEO Dear Sir, I am Sebastine Vanhans, Bank Manager; Long Term Fixed Deposit Department, of Tradevco Bank of Liberia. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June, 1999, an American Oil consultant/contractor with the Liberian Mining Corporation, Mr. Ron Williams made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$14,200,000.00 (Fourteen Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Liberian Mining Corporation that Mr. Ron Williams died from an automobi le accident. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Ron Williams did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$14,200,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Liberian Financial Law of unclaimed deposit, at the expiration of 5 {five) years, the funds will be transferred to Treasury Account with the Federal Reserve Bank as free funds for the Government. Consequently, the need to contact you in order to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Ron Williams so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is legal, simple and clear. I will like you to provide immediately your full name and address so that the Attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin/beneficiary to his estate. We shall employ the service of an accredited Attorney for drafting and notarization of the ‘Will’ and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favour for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world, which y ou will provide, will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me and 40% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as the branch manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via email addres s above. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Awaiting your urgent reply. Best regards Sebastine vanhans |
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| jamesswatts12@bigpond.com | CONFIDENTIAL | ||||||
| Dear sir/ Madam, I am Mr james swatts , a native of cape town in southafrica and I am an Executive Accountant with the south africa ministry of mineral resources andenerngy. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of a deal discribed here under for the benefit of all parties and I hope you we keep it as a top secret becuase of the nature of this transaction. Within the derpartment of mineral and natural resources where I work as an accountant and with the co-operation of four other top officials we have in our possesion an over due payment bills totaly twenty million five hundred thounsand united state dollars ($20.5m) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and co-operation of a foreign company/individual to recieve such funds, also we are handicaped in the circumstances as the south africa civil code of conduct does not allow us to operate off-shore account hence your importance in the whole transaction. This amount represent the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my derpartment contraction firm which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost have been paid to theoriginal contractors, leaving the balances in the tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by Key Tested Telegraphic Transfer (K .T.T) to any foriegn bank you we provide by filling an application throungh the justice ministry here in south africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of former contractors to you. I have the auothority of my partners involved to proposed that, should you be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum we be 25% of the total sum, 70% for us and 5% for axation and other expenses .I we like to inform you that the transaction of this deal is save there is nothing to fear about.Provided you treat it with utmost secrecyand confidentialty on your part. Also your area of specialisation is not a hindrance to the sucessful execution of this transaction. I have all my confidence and trust in you and I hope you we not disappoint me. I am on a year study leave here in Amsterdam holland.Contact me if you are intereted in this deal and also if you are not to enable me know my stand. I and my partners are in possition to make the payment of this funds possible provided you can assure us the safety of our share. Please remeber to treat this matter confidentially becuase we are still in service and remeber onece again that time is important in this business. Please send your reply to this Email: jamesswatts00@netscape.net I wait in anticipation for your full co-operation. Accept my special regards. james swatts ( Acct) |
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| Barrister Carlson Elu Esq. | YOUR ASSISTANCE NEEDED. | ||||||
| From: Barrister Carlson Elu Esq. Elu Jekor & Associates Attorneys at Law Nigeria. We need your assistance. ------------------------ Dear friend, I hope my letter does not cause you too much embarrassment as I write to you in good faith based on the contact address given to me by a friend who works at the Nigerian Embassy in your country. Please excuse my intrusion into your private life. I am Barrister Carlson Elu Esq. I represent Mohammed Abacha, son of the late Gen. Sani Abacha, who was the former military head of state in Nigeria. He died in 1998. Since his death, the family has been losing a lot of money due to vindictive government officials who are bent on dealing with the family. Based on this therefore, the family has asked me to seek for a foreign partner who can work with us as to move out the total sum of US$75,000,000.00 (Seventy five Million United States Dollars), presently in their possession. This money was of course, acquired by the late president and is now kept secretly by the family. The Swiss government has already frozen all the accounts of the family in Switzerland, and some other countries would soon follow to do the same. This bid by some government officials to deal with this family has made it necessary that we seek your assistance in receiving this money and in investing it on behalf of the family. This must be a joint venture transaction and we must all work together. Since this money is still cash, extra security measures have been taken to protect it from theft or seizure, pending when agreement is reached on when and how to move it into any of your nominated bank accounts. I have personally worked out all modalities for the peaceful conclusion of this transaction. The transaction definitely would be handled in phases and the first phase will involve the moving of US$25,000,000.00 (Twenty five million United States dollars). My clients are willing to give you a reasonable percentage of this money as soon as the transaction concluded. I will, however, base on the grounds that you are willing to work with us and also all contentious issues discussed before the commencement of this transaction. You may also discuss your percentage before we start to work. As soon as I hear from you, I will give you all necessary details as to how we intend to carry out the whole transaction. Do not entertain any fears, as all necessary modalities are in place, and I assure you of all success and safety in this transaction. This transaction requires absolute confidentiality and you would be expected to treat it as such until the funds are moved out of this country. Please, you will also ignore this letter and respect our trust in you by not exposing this transaction, even if you are not interested. Look forward to working with you. Thank you. Truly yours, Barrister Carlson Elu Esq. |
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| Jonathan Daniels | Transaction | ||||||
| Mr. Jonathan Daniels
Johannesburg - South Africa. Tel: +27 84 4499437 Fax: +27 84 3391045 Dear Sir, Courtesy of Business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk free transaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be precise, I am Jonathan Daniels the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Exchange/Remittance Department of NEDBANK South Africa. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$12,524,000.00 (Twelve Million, Five Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money, because we can not release it unless somebody applied for its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and nobody has come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of kin which is Son died as well). Therefore, upon this discovery I and other two officials in my department now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting you. We want you to purportedly present your good self as the next of Kin or relation of the deceased so that we can prepare documentations and release the funds (US$12.524 Million) into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and again we do not want the funds to go into the Governments account as “Unclaimed Bill”. The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury Account. Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on or before July 2004. The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin in occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner. Mode of sharing after the successful completion of the transfer is as follows, for the role you will be expected to play in the whole exercise, we have agreed to give you twenty five (25%) of the total sum, and 5% has been set aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the process of this transaction and the remaining 70% shall be for my colleagues and I. In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business. After you reply, you will be advised on the next step forward. I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from you on the above numbers as I count on your earliest response. Yours truly, Jonathan Daniels |
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| FAROUK BELLO | REQUEST | ||||||
| Attn:My dear friend I am Mr.Farouk Bello ,the Bank Manager of commerical Bank of Africa, Lagos Branch. I have urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June 8, 1999, a FOREIGN Oil Consultant/Contractor with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr.Barry kelly made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$25,000,000.00 (Twenty- five Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation that Mr.Barry kelly died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin to date has remained fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr.Barry kelly did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$25,000,000.00 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a Foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr.Barry kelly so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your full names, address, telephone and fax numers so that the Attorney will prepare the necessary documents and affidavits, which will put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the service of two Attorneys for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer. A bank account in any part of the world, which you will provide, will then facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid into your nominated account for us to share in the ratio of 60% for me, 35% for you and 5% to cover any accidental expenses on either sides during the course of this transaction. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the Attorney and my position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply immediately via this email address( farouk_b@indiatimes.com OR faroukb@gawab.com) Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and relevant documents that will help you understand the transaction better. Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your assistance to invest my share in your country. Looking forward to hearing from you soonest. Best regards, Mr Farouk Bello |
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| Bode Newton | Reply Asap | ||||||
| FROM: Mr.Bode Newton Central Bank of Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria Phone Number234-1-4751076 Fax 234-1-7592872 Dear Sir: I have been requested by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has recently concluded a large number of contracts for oil exploration in the sub-Sahara region. The contracts have immediately produced moneys equalling US$50,000,000. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company is desirous of oil exploration in other parts of the world, however, because of certain regulations of the Nigerian Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region. You assistance is requested as a non-Nigerian citizen to assist the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, and also the Central Bank of Nigeria, in moving these funds out of Nigeria. If the funds can be transferred to your name, in your United States account, then you can forward the funds as directed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. In exchange for your accomodating services, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company would agree to allow you to retain 10%, or US$4 million of this amount. However, to be a legitimate transferee of these moneys according to Nigerian law, you must presently be a depositor of at least US$100,000 in a Nigerian bank which is regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. If it will be possible for you to assist us, we would be most grateful. We suggest that you meet with us in person in Lagos, and that during your visit I introduce you to the representatives of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, as well as with certain officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Please call me at your earliest convenience at [Phone Number 234-1-4751076]. Time is of the essence in this matter; very quickly the Nigerian Government will realize that the Central Bank is maintaining this amount on deposit, and attempt to levy certain depository taxes on it. Yours truly, Bode Newton. (cbn). |
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| SPANISH LOTTERY | LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION !!! | ||||||
| MEGA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT. REF: MLI/5361-ILGI0509/45 BATCH: IPD/15/096/PTNL RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION Sir/Madam We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 7th of march 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 20511465897-6291 with serial number 472-971103 drew lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-71-64 which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$ 1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars) CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information very confidential till your claims has been processed and your prize/money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 200,000,000 company and 300,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place annually. We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year USD10 million international lottery. To file for your claim, please contact our/your fiducial agent MR pedro lopez of the, MEGA TRUST AGENCY TEL:0034-655-101-374 FAX:0034-655-101-374 Email:megatrustagent@netscape.net Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 31ST of march 2004. After this date all unclaimed,funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Sincerely yours, Mrs.veronica tang Lottery Coordinator. REPLY TO megatrustagent@netscape.net |
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