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It is commonly known about the Nigerian scam, which will almost have the subject in the message stating that to help in transfer of money out of Nigeria and into the U.S. and promises a cut of the funds in return. The words used in the message induce the person to go for further processing. Some of them know about the scam and they will not give much more importance to that message. But some people are investing their money for this scam. Mary Winkler, the woman blamed of murdering her pastor husband in Tennessee, was said to have been cheated by the scam, causing anxiety in her relationship with her husband. Like this a 76 year old woman lost her $42,000 to the scam which has been reported in Florida.
According to federal trade commission the number has been increased in 2005 when compared to 2002, most of the people falling in scam by receiving e-mail. Many people fall for Nigerian scam is typically under extreme financial difficulties. The secret service helps to investigate financial fraud stalking from that African country. They also get cheated by newly twisted messages to the same old scam. In another scam as an alternative of declaring to have Innate a large sum of money.
Some probable tricksters will pretense as soldiers from Iraq requiring transferring money to a U.S. bank account. Like the conventional scam, they will ask fatalities to rope them money to cover endless transfer fees and promises to cut of the final amount. Certainly, there is no final amount. Scammers offer on a particular item for sale and ask the seller to verify the mail. In some cases the casualty may receive a check, but it rebound when cashed. The recent trend of the scammers will post forged job ads and attracted parties are posed to fill out an application, absolute with personal details that comprise date of birth and social security number. The Army Criminal Investigation Command freshly concerned a press release forewarning people stationed in a foreign country beside e-mail scams.
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London: Nigeria-related financial crimes such as Internet Scams and Credit Card fraud are costing UK economy about £150 million every year.
Independent Research Company Chatham House stated that UK government was unable to keep a prior check on phishing, credit card, advance fee and other cheque frauds. The approximate loss to individuals amounts to £31,000, according to estimated report. Michael Peel, chief researcher of the company, stated that both UK and Nigerian authorities is not been prioritizing what it calls a "large and depressing problem in UK".
According to the report small numbers of people were involved in this, but their success is purely reflecting on UK authorities, who has inability to deal with the problem faced. A chief percentage of Internet users have been continuously getting emails which announce that the recipient has won an international lottery; anyhow the prize can be claimed after paying an advance fee. This type of scam is known as the "Advance Fee 419".
A large number of these scam emails, about 70 - 80 percent, were traced to Nigerian servers.
Cheque fraud is picking up day by day. While examining packages were actually from Nigeria, at Heathrow airport last year. Another common email scam is where the receiver is then asked for help in getting money out of a country. The recipients are swindled into providing their account information, using which the scammers transfer money out of the account.
Finally report ends by urging British authorities to work in closer coordination with their Nigerian counterparts in order to control and stop such crimes.
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Apparently it is becoming increasingly probable to go to jail when you get a fraudulent check. This could also happen when selling products on Craigslist and eBay (News - Alert). A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle shows that resident Matthew Shinnick tried to sell just a pair of mountain bikes on the Craigslist late last year. He attracted a buyer, got a check in the mail and ended up manacled by police in a downtown Bank of America branch and the jailed for about 12 hours.
Shinnick, it appears, to be the victim of the classic "Nigerian 419" scam, adapted in this case to easy target in unwary Craigslist users.
Typically, the scam involves a fake check being sent by a fraud person as a part of a transaction. The transaction is then subsequently canceled and, before the bank has spotted the check as a fake, the fraudsters requests some or even all of his money back- money, which the victim unknowingly pays out of his own pocket.
Certainly this is a severe case, but this problem can also become increasing annoying to customers selling products online. It will seem that the government and the police should just become more familiar with this sort of problem and not arrest first and ask questions later.
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Police inquiring a novel scam in Hamilton, Toronto and Peel region say they are zeroing in on the suspects.In the scam, two men try to persuade business owners they need large sums of cash to chemically treat money that has been blackened.
The chemical obviously restores the cash, which the men say was blackened because it was smuggled out of Nigeria.The supposed payoff for the victim is that the newly restored cash will be used to buy their businesses. Police say two Mississauga people forked over $130,000 for the chemical but finished up with nothing but fake blackened bills.
Peel police now state an apartment surveillance camera (on Queen's Quay West) in Toronto captured the suspects on tape.
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Steve rosen recently received an e-mail from 14-year old child named Edward Hunt, who was looking for someone "honest and old enough" to help him collect on an inheritance.
Here the story starts of young Edward's story. He then went on to write about how his father owned a "big real estate company" in the UK and had deposited $18 million in his bank account before being killed a year ago in a car accident. "I should have told my mother to assist me in collecting," Edward wrote,"...but my mother and father where (sic) divorced before my father died, and my father told me not to keep in touch with my mother."
That's why he needed help, or more to the point, my bank account number so the $18 million could be transferred to it. In return, I would receive 30 percent of the money, with the rest going to support young Edward of Manchester, England.
And so he wanted help and Steve's account number so that $18 million could be transferred to it. For this, Edward would pay 30 percent of the money to Steve. Steve could figure out that it was a scam. Among the red flags: misspelled words, someone needing help from a complete stranger, an urgent reply required, and so on.
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Fraudulent Internet comes on such as this one are no longer news. They have been itinerating through the ether or landing in e-mail boxes for almost since the Internet has been operating. Yet just the fact that they are still out there indicates that people carry on falling for such scams.
Christopher Butler is a normal resident agent in charge at the U.S. Secret Service office in Riverside. This agency handles Internet fraud investigations.Butler says the Nigerian scam "has been going since so many years it's hard to believe the word hasn't got out. But people are still falling for that one."
Even if you are confidence enough to avoid the Third World-based scam may be such letters don't just come with Nigerian postmarks but there are others ready to woo your money away from you.
They come in the form of international sweepstakes prizes; free travel offers and even offers to purchase items you might have advertised for sale.
The trend is now increasing.
Figures from the National Consumers League, a regulator group, show that money lost to Internet scams are actually more than doubled from 2004 to 2005, from $5.8 billion to $13.9 billion.
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The Social Security Administration and FBI have now reported two new scams, which have surfaced recently. The Social Security Administration had also received more than 25 complaints from elderly Social Security beneficiaries soon after they received telephone calls from someone addressing to be from the Social Security Administration or Medicare. According to Beaver Dam Police Chief Gary Cox, the person who call’s informs the potential victims that they are being offered with new Medicare numbers because Medicare no longer used by Social Security numbers. The person asks for the victims' Social Security numbers and the bank account information to insure, which the old account number would correspond with new one. In a few cases, the caller informed the victims that they need to replace their Social Security cards as the format of the cards is now being changed.
"In few cases, the caller already knew the victim's name, phone number, address, personal detail and sometimes Social Security number as well," said Cox. "In every case, the caller asked for the victims' bank account numbers. In few cases where the victims who refused to give Social Security and bank account information, the caller would also threaten and pester the victims until they reveal and provided the asked information." About half of the victims were contacted had provided Social Security and bank account numbers, but so far no bank accounts have been compromised. The FBI scam involves spam e-mails who are claiming to be from FBI Director Robert Mueller III and Donna M. Uzzell, FBI compact council chairman.
The scam normally appears to be a typical Nigerian scam, advising the recipients that they are recipients of a large sum of money, Cox said. It states that in order to claim the money, which recipients are required to obtain an FBI recognition record and with a certificate of ownership. The message informs the recipients that the certificate of ownership is already supplied, for a fee, by the country where the funds are originated. It requires the recipient to respond to the e-mail for further instructions on sending the money to "FBI Nigeria," which would then issue the certificate.
"At this point, the message becomes more intimidating, stating the FBI has analytical programs that could track down those who fail to give the requested documentation," Cox said. "It further states that failure to comply would ultimately result in charges being brought by the FBI. This e-mail is a trick, and all citizens are advised not to respond to such a message or e-mail. People who are contacted in either of the above two ways are requested to report such contacts to their local law enforcement agency."
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Spammers are now using the lure of a BMW car to grab users into falling for their latest scam, security firm Sophos is warning on the same. The spam emails state, which the recipients has won a BMW lottery and are entitled to €950,000 and a brand new BMW 5 Series car.
The fake message advises recipients to get in touch with the 'claims department' and includes a fake corporate address, email address and telephone number as well to enhance the legality of the ploy.
Sophos researchers believe that these emails are a variant of the frequent Nigerian 419 scams, which fools innocent users into believing that large amounts of money would be transferred into their own bank accounts. The scam is in fact designed to steal bank account information or to demand a 'handling fee' for the money transfer.
Sophos noted that this is not actually the first time a major car manufacturer has been used in an email scam. Emails claiming are to be from a Volkswagen lottery were spammed out to computer users worldwide during the year 2006.
There is little that BMW could do to prevent its name being used in this manner, and to email users who take the attractive risk handing over their personal details to fraudsters.
"The only way to stop the circulation of these messages is for users to stop responding."
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Nigerian 419 advance fee fraudsters who are operating from Amsterdam and Rotterdam have produced more copies of the websites of express transportation companies namely DHL and Lufthansa Cargo. The idea is to decoy victims into paying transportation as well as advance fees for second-hand motorbikes and cars that are never been delivered till now. Today many people are well-known with the old style 419 scam - where an email claims to come from a person who is in need of transferring large amount of money out of the country and the scammers seem to have discovered a whole new way of making a quick buck. At present, all these cars are in Spain or in the other European country frequently, the owner claims, so could the buyer please pay transportation costs? They then will suggest the exploit of escrow services with slick websites that appear legit. Some fake escrows even warn you regarding the fraud employed in Internet usages, or link to the Internet Fraud Complaint Centre. The DHL-shippers site was also created earlier this month by Angel Andonaire and then site Lufthansa-Worldwide-Cargo was also registered last month via Microsoft Office Live. Already sites such as Carbuyingtips.com declare to have shut down over 600 fake escrow sites.
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