Scam Alert
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I got an the following email this morning: ------------------- SUBJ: Your Order with Amazon.com (066-6346282-767016) Dear Customer, Your order has been successfully confirmed. For your reference, here`s a summary of your order: You just confirmed order #303-3599777-901651 Status: CONFIRMED _____________________________________________________________________ ORDER DETAILS Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC _____________________________________________________________________ Because you only pay for items when we ship them to you, you won`t be charged for any items that you cancel. Thank you for visiting Amazon.com! _____________________________________________________________________ Amazon.com Earth`s Biggest Selection http://www.amazon.com _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------- Hints that this is a scam: 0) The order number in the subject line doesn't match the one in the email body. 1) The same email was not only not sent to the email address I have registered with Amazon, but was sent to all 17 of the email addresses I have registered with my paddedwall domain. 2) The "ORDER DETAILS" line was a link to a page on unifiedgroup-eg.com. Amaozon sends order details actually in the email, and I've never even heard of unifiedgroup-eg.com before. I promptly blocked access to the domain in my edge router.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
I got an the following email this morning: ------------------- SUBJ: Your Order with Amazon.com (066-6346282-767016) Dear Customer, Your order has been successfully confirmed. For your reference, here`s a summary of your order: You just confirmed order #303-3599777-901651 Status: CONFIRMED _____________________________________________________________________ ORDER DETAILS Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC _____________________________________________________________________ Because you only pay for items when we ship them to you, you won`t be charged for any items that you cancel. Thank you for visiting Amazon.com! _____________________________________________________________________ Amazon.com Earth`s Biggest Selection http://www.amazon.com _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------- Hints that this is a scam: 0) The order number in the subject line doesn't match the one in the email body. 1) The same email was not only not sent to the email address I have registered with Amazon, but was sent to all 17 of the email addresses I have registered with my paddedwall domain. 2) The "ORDER DETAILS" line was a link to a page on unifiedgroup-eg.com. Amaozon sends order details actually in the email, and I've never even heard of unifiedgroup-eg.com before. I promptly blocked access to the domain in my edge router.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001I think the best scam i almost fell for, is some company said i won a contest for $5,000 dollars. Then they sent me a real check in the mail drawn on another company's bank account. The other company knew nothing of the transaction and the check was totally real and legit with proper routing and numbers. They said once i cashed the check, i had to western union them a check fee, and processing fee for overnighting the check. I contacted my local police department and told them about it and gave the check to them. They went after the criminals and busted them. I wonder how many people would actually cash the check?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain
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I think the best scam i almost fell for, is some company said i won a contest for $5,000 dollars. Then they sent me a real check in the mail drawn on another company's bank account. The other company knew nothing of the transaction and the check was totally real and legit with proper routing and numbers. They said once i cashed the check, i had to western union them a check fee, and processing fee for overnighting the check. I contacted my local police department and told them about it and gave the check to them. They went after the criminals and busted them. I wonder how many people would actually cash the check?
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." Mark Twain
My parents almost got nailed with this exact scam. Basically, when you deposit the check you get cleaned out. Here's how it works - somewhat, as I'm not entirely sure of every exact detail needed to pull this off - nor should I. As a matter of fact, this is my disclaimer, "This information is for educational use only. I am not responsible for what any one or more readers does with this information." If you're a crook, stop reading! ----- Some guy in Nigeria gets some seed money - maybe $5K to $15K. They create a "Parent Bank" in Nigeria and a "Branch Bank" in Canada. I'm not too sure how they get this done but basically it creates a relationship between a Nigerian Bank (real or not) with a Canadian Bank (real or not). Sometimes, as in my parent's incident there is also a bank in NYC, NY, USA - again, real or not. I mean, anyone can be issued a business license, yes? (sigh, yes, I know, banks are scrutinized a lot before opening now....can we move on? Thank you.). The Check issuer writes about 10,000 individual checks from the bank in Canada. Canada has (or had) more lax banking laws and hadn't placed Nigeria on any particular watch list. So, ACH transactions were, effectively, unmonitored - for lack of a better term. So, 10K checks are distributed to people in the US and a few get cashed. Now, half-way-savvy-banks in the US are immediately suspicious of Nigerian banks by default, so checks coming from Nigerian banks are going to grab a lot of unwanted attention. However, Canadian banks are cool. Right? Rigggggghhhhhhhtttt. So, someone deposits the check, and an ACH is set up to transfer money from the account to your account. Guess what. When that happens the Nigerian bank gets your account information - routing number and checking account number. Now, all they gotta do with that info is reverse the ACH transactions and deduct a few hundred dollars at a time from your account and you've just be cleaned out. ----- Fortunately, *my parents* (not the other victims) were slow to deposit the check and a few people before them had already been victim to this attack and the checks had been flagged as fraudulent. They felt stupid and they should have. Moral of the story: Don't be greedy. Don't deposit checks you don't already expect.
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My parents almost got nailed with this exact scam. Basically, when you deposit the check you get cleaned out. Here's how it works - somewhat, as I'm not entirely sure of every exact detail needed to pull this off - nor should I. As a matter of fact, this is my disclaimer, "This information is for educational use only. I am not responsible for what any one or more readers does with this information." If you're a crook, stop reading! ----- Some guy in Nigeria gets some seed money - maybe $5K to $15K. They create a "Parent Bank" in Nigeria and a "Branch Bank" in Canada. I'm not too sure how they get this done but basically it creates a relationship between a Nigerian Bank (real or not) with a Canadian Bank (real or not). Sometimes, as in my parent's incident there is also a bank in NYC, NY, USA - again, real or not. I mean, anyone can be issued a business license, yes? (sigh, yes, I know, banks are scrutinized a lot before opening now....can we move on? Thank you.). The Check issuer writes about 10,000 individual checks from the bank in Canada. Canada has (or had) more lax banking laws and hadn't placed Nigeria on any particular watch list. So, ACH transactions were, effectively, unmonitored - for lack of a better term. So, 10K checks are distributed to people in the US and a few get cashed. Now, half-way-savvy-banks in the US are immediately suspicious of Nigerian banks by default, so checks coming from Nigerian banks are going to grab a lot of unwanted attention. However, Canadian banks are cool. Right? Rigggggghhhhhhhtttt. So, someone deposits the check, and an ACH is set up to transfer money from the account to your account. Guess what. When that happens the Nigerian bank gets your account information - routing number and checking account number. Now, all they gotta do with that info is reverse the ACH transactions and deduct a few hundred dollars at a time from your account and you've just be cleaned out. ----- Fortunately, *my parents* (not the other victims) were slow to deposit the check and a few people before them had already been victim to this attack and the checks had been flagged as fraudulent. They felt stupid and they should have. Moral of the story: Don't be greedy. Don't deposit checks you don't already expect.
Interesting read This would never work in the Netherlands (or the rest of Europe), all checks are immediately suspicious and take months to get cleared (which is why it sucks so much if USians are trying to pay us by check! just do a bank transfer, please.)
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Interesting read This would never work in the Netherlands (or the rest of Europe), all checks are immediately suspicious and take months to get cleared (which is why it sucks so much if USians are trying to pay us by check! just do a bank transfer, please.)
Hrm, that may be why the bank in my parent's incident was to a NYC bank. Maybe the NYC bank is required. Victim->NYC Bank->Canadian Bank->Nigerian Bank->w00t! That actually makes a lot of sense, then, to have an in-country bank that is "in" on the scam. (I used "in" loosely, as I'm not sure how knowing the in-country bank would actually be. Carrying this thought further, maybe it was a shadow company in the US creates a shadow company in Canada to a shadow company in Nigeria. Yup, I think that's it. Bodda Bing, Bodda boom. Victims all over the place. So, no one needs to create a bank. Just have one guy in the America's creating shadow companies in Canada and the US drawing on banks there and the circuit is complete. Damn! That's spooky!
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I got an the following email this morning: ------------------- SUBJ: Your Order with Amazon.com (066-6346282-767016) Dear Customer, Your order has been successfully confirmed. For your reference, here`s a summary of your order: You just confirmed order #303-3599777-901651 Status: CONFIRMED _____________________________________________________________________ ORDER DETAILS Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC _____________________________________________________________________ Because you only pay for items when we ship them to you, you won`t be charged for any items that you cancel. Thank you for visiting Amazon.com! _____________________________________________________________________ Amazon.com Earth`s Biggest Selection http://www.amazon.com _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------- Hints that this is a scam: 0) The order number in the subject line doesn't match the one in the email body. 1) The same email was not only not sent to the email address I have registered with Amazon, but was sent to all 17 of the email addresses I have registered with my paddedwall domain. 2) The "ORDER DETAILS" line was a link to a page on unifiedgroup-eg.com. Amaozon sends order details actually in the email, and I've never even heard of unifiedgroup-eg.com before. I promptly blocked access to the domain in my edge router.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I've never even heard of unifiedgroup-eg.com before
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I got an the following email this morning: ------------------- SUBJ: Your Order with Amazon.com (066-6346282-767016) Dear Customer, Your order has been successfully confirmed. For your reference, here`s a summary of your order: You just confirmed order #303-3599777-901651 Status: CONFIRMED _____________________________________________________________________ ORDER DETAILS Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC _____________________________________________________________________ Because you only pay for items when we ship them to you, you won`t be charged for any items that you cancel. Thank you for visiting Amazon.com! _____________________________________________________________________ Amazon.com Earth`s Biggest Selection http://www.amazon.com _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------- Hints that this is a scam: 0) The order number in the subject line doesn't match the one in the email body. 1) The same email was not only not sent to the email address I have registered with Amazon, but was sent to all 17 of the email addresses I have registered with my paddedwall domain. 2) The "ORDER DETAILS" line was a link to a page on unifiedgroup-eg.com. Amaozon sends order details actually in the email, and I've never even heard of unifiedgroup-eg.com before. I promptly blocked access to the domain in my edge router.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001I get these on my home email (well, my wifes email actually). First thing that catches my eye is it states: "Your order is ready for pickup...", then the order numbers didn't match between the subject and the body. Funny thing, never knew Amazon had a pickup window... Anyway, the wife has learned enough to delete these immediately...