Bucket O' Guts

The United Nations must be loaded with cash, because they’ve found a way to pay $800,000 to anyone who has been “scammed in any part of the world”.

You just need to give them some information to get your check, including a “COPY OF YOUR INT’L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION”.  (Sucker!)

Hello Beneficiary,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?, You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 4 days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS Ban Ki-moon. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of $800,000 USD EACH. This includes every foreign contractors, inheritance, lottery that may have no received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems or scammers etc.

We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.You are advised to contact Mr Joseph Scott of our paying center in London, United Kingdom, as he is our representative in Nigeria, contact him immediately for your Cheque / International Bank Draft of $800,000 USD, this funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose ok? so he will send it to you and you can clear it in any bank of your choice.

1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY:
3) PERSONAL CELL PHONE AND FAX:
4) OCCUPATION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS:
5) COPY OF YOUR INT’L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION:

Note: Your Personal Contact/Communication Code With BOA Is (011), You Are Advised To Send Your Full Information To Mr Joseph Scott, International Remittance Director Headed By Joseph Scott And Make Sure You Speak With Him, With Your New Payment Code For The Release Of Your Payment And Send To Her All Your Information Now.

Contact Barrister Joseph Scott immediately for your Cheque:

Person to Contact: Barrister Joseph Scott.
Un Agent Officer (LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM).
Tel: +44-7024080484
Email: jsphscttjoseph@aol.com

Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your Bank Draft.

Making the world a better place.

Regards,Secretary- http://www.un.org/sg/

With Regards,
General Jon Wells

Olu Clifford wants to give me a commission to help transfer US$12 million United States Dollars from the estate of “one Mr. Sam Leonard”, merely by presenting me as the next of kin of the deceased.

Not to worry that I’m actually not next of kin: Mr. Clifford knows how to do this “under a legitimate arrangement that will protect all the parties involved from any breach of the law”.

Subject: 13/03/2011

RESPOND VIA:

cfordolu@yahoo.cn

Dear Friend,

I am Olu Clifford, the Human Resources Executive of Atlantic Oil & Gas
Corporation. On the 15th of May 2006, Jackson levy, an expatriate, who was
a consultant/contractor with the Corporation, was found to have died in a
plane crash along the Lekki Peninsula while on inspection tour of offshore
oilfacilities belonging to the Corporation.As the Welfare Director of the
corporation, I contacted Jacksons bankers and briefed them of this
development. The bankers informed me that since their client is dead, it
is only the next of kin to the deceased with the proper legal documents
that can compel them to pay his fixed deposit as an inherited estate. With
the position of the financial outfit, I mandated the legal department of
our firm to search for a relative of the deceased so that he can be
presented as the next of kin to the bank.

But the only relative of the deceased, one Mr. Sam Leonard who was also
the next of kin to the deceased according to his bank documents and who
was last known to have lived in Latvia Eastern Europe, died as cancer
patient some two months before his death. All efforts to trace other
relatives of the deceased proved abortive, as all available links were
exhusted. Three years after his death, with no news from any relative
living anywhere and no one coming forward, we decided to seek a foreigner
so that the fund can be transferred out of its present account to yours.

The account deposit contains US$12 million United States Dollars and it is
important that a probable next of kin claims this fund within the next
fourteen official working days. If no one comes for the claim before the
stipulated time frame, the account would be closed as inactive and dormant
and funds sent to the coffers of the government. This is in consonance
with the stipulations of the enabling laws governing foreign inherited
estates. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased.This would facilitate the payment of the proceeds of the said
account to you.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect all the parties involved from any breach of the law.

Please let me know what you intend to have as your commission if you agree
to embark on this venture.

Please reply me via my private email address

cfordolu@yahoo.cn

Best Regards,

This looks like a pretty legitimate email from United Parcel Service (UPS), and includes links to pages on the UPS site.  (The giveaway that something’s amiss is the British English “Centre” spelling instead of the American English “Center”.)

The gotcha is the file attachment that happens to include a Password Stealer.

This is an automatically generated email. Please do not reply to this email address. Dear UPS Customer,A new invoice is now available in the UPS Billing Centre. Please refer to attached file for more details Please visit the UPS Billing Centre to view and pay your invoice. Coming Soon! Effective January 2012, the UPS Billing Centre can be accessed using your My UPS ID. Current UPS Billing Centre users will be prompted to convert to a My UPS ID. Learn more   Discover more about UPS: Visit ups.com Explore UPS Freight Services Learn About UPS Companies Sign Up For Additional Email From UPS Read Compass Online (c) 2011 United Parcel Service of America, Inc., the UPS brandmark, and the color brown are trademarks of United Parcel Service of America, Inc. All rights reserved. For more information on UPS’s privacy practices, refer to the UPS Privacy Policy. Please do not reply directly to this e-mail. UPS will not receive any reply message. For questions or comments, visit Contact UPS. This communication contains proprietary information and may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, the reading, copying, disclosure or other use of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and you are instructed to please delete this e-mail immediately. Privacy Policy Contact UPS

Reply to fiduciary agent Barr.Arthur James Esq at barr.arthurjames@hotmail.com.   He’s an “Esq”, so he’s trustworthy, right?

Curious that the email is actually from a Taiwanese domain though  (m0a2@mail.ccpb.gov.tw)…

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We know that our men and women in uniform are making sacrifices for us and our country.  These emails from a couple of non-coms question whether they can trust you to do them a favor.

Reply to sgt.thomassabitzer@hotmail.co.uk if you want to help him “move funds out From (sic) the country”…

Subject: 40 percent

Hello friend,

I am in need of your assistance. My name is Sgt Thomas Sabitzer,
Engineering military unit here in Kandahar in Afghanistan,
I have some amount of funds I want to move out
From the country. I need your help to receive this fund on my behalf.

The problem is can I really trust you on this? Please get back to me for
More info. Please I hope you are most suitable for this opportunity. You
Will be entitled to 40 percent for your help.

We need to have this done one week so keep checking your email all the time.

Sgt Thomas Sabitzer

Coincidentally, there’s another soldier (Sgt Justin Clinton) with a similar problem at sgtjustinclinton1011@gmail.com.  Sgt. Clinton has been working this angle for a while and I’ve received numerous emails with this story including slight variations on the reply-to emails.

Subject:  N/A

Hello friend,

I hope my email meet you well. I am in need of your assistance. My name is Sgt Justin Clinton, Engineering military unit here in
Ba’qubah in Iraq,I have some amount of funds that we want to move out from the country.I need your help to receive this funds on my behalf.

The problem is can i really trust you on this? please get back to me for
more info. i hope you are most suitable for this opportunity.You will be entitled with 40 percent for your help.

We need to have this done

One of the emails includes a link to a 2003 BBC News story about a stash of bills found by U.S. troops in Baghdad hidden in a wall.

The BBC story also says that “It has been taken on a military cargo plane to a safe – and undisclosed – location.”, but apparently we’re to believe that Sgt. Clinton has access to that location and we’re helping him move these ill begotten funds into the U.S. (for a 40% cut of course).

This one alleges to document a transaction to pay a property tax bill in King County (the only King County I found was in the state of Washington).  The salutation is simply “Dear”.

It includes a file attachment that has a Password Stealer program.

Subject: King County Ecommerce – Payment Confirmation 1LHJTSG0DLRJ

Dear,

Thank you for completing your payment using the Property Tax Information System. Your transaction reference number is 0374244814.

The following items were paid for on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:53:56 +0200:

Product Id	Description
020100201908	King County Real Property.

The total amount of the purchase including a $2.89 convenience fee was $4374.69.

Please note that it may take up to two weeks for your property tax payment to be reflected in our records after receiving your payment.

Please print attached notification and keep it as a receipt for your records. If you have any questions regarding your transaction, please contact a King County representative. Please do not respond to this email.

Sincerely,

King County Ecommerce