Another version of the Nigerian Scam

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Dear Friend

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?
I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. I am using
 this opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our
unfinished transfer of fund your account due to one reason or
 the other best known to you.

But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred
the Cheque out of the company to someone else who was capable
of assisting me in this great venture.

Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you
showed at the course of the transaction I want to compensate you
 and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $1,000,000.00
(One Million United States Dollars) I have authorized the
finance house where I deposited my money to issue you
international certified bank draft cashable at your bank.

My dear friend I will like you to contact the finance house
 for the collection of this international certificated bank
draft. The name and contact address of the Person with your
 Cheque MR. Scott Gill is as follows.

                   COMPENSATION HEAD OFFICE AND FINACIAL
                   CONTACT AGENT: Mr.Scott Gill
                   EMAIL: (mr_scott_gill10@yahoo.dk)
                   CELL PHONE: +234-703-227-5572


At the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment
 projects which I and my new partner are having at hand
in the United Kingdom.


Below is my contact information in the United Kingdom in
case you want to verify or get any comfirmation from  me
but i want you to be rest assured that your bank draft will
be cashed  at you nominated Bank.

Name:Mr. Jesse Williams
Address:207 Monston Lane Park 407 MJ Leyland United Kingdom.
Telephone number:+447045748506

Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to
the finance house on your behalf to send the bank draft
to you as soon as you contact them without delay. Please
I will like you to accept this token with good faith as
this is from the bottom of my heart. Thanks and God bless you
and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.


Your's Faithfully,
Mr. Jesse Williams

Scammers luring Americans with fake check schemes

By Paritosh Bansal
Thu Oct 11, 8:19 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Patricia Soens paid more than $400,000 in processing and other fees to claim a European lottery prize she was told she had won. After realizing she had been conned, she killed herself.

Soens, 56, of Louisiana, fell victim to one of a growing number of scams that use fake checks and the promise of easy money to lure people.

The schemes, which range from fake lotteries to work-at-home offers, exploit the fact that banks have to provide funds from checks, money orders and other financial instruments before they actually clear.

Nearly one in five adult Americans admitted they or a family member have fallen victim to a financial scam of some sort, including fake check schemes, according to a survey by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service along with advocacy groups and companies such as Bank of America, Citigroup and American Express.

The total number of victims of the fake check schemes could run into millions, postal inspectors estimate. Victims typically lose between $3,000 and $4,000, according to an estimate by the non-profit National Consumers League.

"It's much bigger than people realize," said Chief Postal Inspector Alexander Lazaroff, whose office launched a crackdown this year with authorities in Canada, Europe and Africa. "The amount of loss is devastating to anybody."

OLD TRICKS, NEW TWIST

People have been falling for these types of scams for hundreds of years.

The first recorded incident -- a "prisoner scam" -- occurred as far back as 1588, said Peter Anaman, an Internet investigations manager at Covington & Burling in London.

The scammer would tell the victim he represented a rich prince who is in prison and ask for a loan, promising to pay it back after the prince was released.

"It worked at that time," Anaman said.

Now, fraudsters have become far more sophisticated. They have access to better technology, use checks and money orders that look real and can reach many more people through the Internet.

"These are old schemes with very new twists," Lazaroff said.

The latest scams include schemes such as overpayments for items people advertise on popular online classifieds and auction sites such as eBay and Craigslist and business offers from abroad, where a person is asked to help move large sums of money.

The mechanics of these scams are similar. In a typical lottery scheme, for instance, the scammer tells the victim that he or she has won a foreign lottery but must pay a processing or other fee to claim the prize.

To make it seem real, the victim is sent a check to cover the fee, asked to deposit it in his or her account and wire the money to a third party.

Funds from the check would show up in the victim's account usually within five days, but it can take weeks for the bank to discover the check is counterfeit. The victim is responsible for the loss and associated fees.

Sometimes, as in Soens case, the scammers find an easy victim.

Soens, who lived in New Orleans, had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina and was also dealing with an eye condition that had led to expensive medical treatment, according to her sister, Rebecca Woodworth. The supposed lottery prize of several million dollars would have set things straight.

"The cost of the medical procedures and medicine had a profound impact on her financial solvency," Woodworth said.

CRACKDOWN

The Postal Inspection Service, along with law enforcement agencies abroad, led a crackdown against scammers this year. Between January and August, they seized more than 540,000 fake checks with a face value of more than $2 billion and arrested 77 people in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Canada.

In a 21-day operation in Nigeria alone, which inspectors say has been a hub for such operations, officials seized more than 15,000 fake checks.

But every time they take down one operation, inspectors say, a new one pops up.

The number of fake checks being reported rose from an average of 593 per month in 2004 to 743 in 2006, according to FBI data. This year, the number rose to 803 per month.

The postal inspectors have formed a group called the Alliance for Consumer Fraud Awareness with about 20 financial institutions, consumer advocacy groups and businesses.

They have launched an anti-fraud campaign, which includes advertisements, direct mailing efforts and a Web site, Fakechecks.org.

Woodworth said Soens' accounts were empty two days before she killed herself last year.

"She thought she had been lucky. And when they started telling her she had to pay fees and processing costs and taxes, she went ahead and she did it," Woodworth said. "She did not get it."

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/us_nm/crime_checkfraud_dc

My Gmail Spams

Here is a list of email addresses with names that are in my Spam folder of my gmail account. Some of it would be bogus email addresses but some of it might be real ones and just used some jerk. One of my email addresses was used to be exact..I don't know how they found out about my address.

Here's the list: (email address - Name)

SherwinneMittal@bathroomdesignsberkshire.com - Sherwinne Mittal
AmazingOffers@137.mx01.net - HotGiftZone
crozierbnie@ruthe.com - Donavan crozier
Justyn_Neal@afaceriimm.ro - Justyn Neal
AmazingOffers@31.moosq.com - Rewards Gateway
LatvaRaskuari@miljojournalisterna.org - Karina LatvaRasku
riana153@gontools.com - riana Pagel
AmazingOffers@226.mx02.net - PC BUG DOCTOR
jegal452@bobfrahm.com - jegal loveridge
hillery.Stamm@aeroresource.com - hillery Stamm
Eero229@ifestos-com.gr - Eero Mazzie

There's more of it..I will list it again next time...
If your email address is listed here, please do take actions on how to regain control of it.
Mayber your computer is infected with a worm/trojan and has been sending these emails.