Would you fall for a scam like this?

• mancha

  26 Jul 09, 22:33

  Received in my email today.

  Sent to an "unlisted' e-mail accound. From OVER-DUE PAYMENT <[email protected]>

  Subject: Our Ref: UNO/CITIBANK LONDON UK CODE:511 (PAYMENT VALUED $8,300,000M)

  I thought I received it in error. With Ref.Nos., Password, PIN, etc. $8.3mil could  be refunded to me. Wah!

  But what is the Director of Intl. Remmittance, Citibank London doing with a yahoo.hk email account? Ha ha ha. and who would trust an email account like the one above.

  ****************************************************************************

  THE UNITED NATION ORGANISATION

  LONDON UNITED KINGDOM

  UNITED NATION PAYMENT APPROVAL

  OFFICE Special Duties/Logistics Department

  FOREIGN CONTRACT/WINNING PAYMENT BUREAU

  Our Ref: UNO/511/CTBKLUK

  Your Ref 25321/IMF/USA/09/08

   

  UNITED NATION AND EUROPEAN UNION OFFICIAL WINNING PAYMENT VALUED $8,300,000M

   

  UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION AND EUROPEAN UNION ORGANIZATION do hereby give this irrevocable approval order with Release Code: GNC/3480/02/00 in your favor for your contract entitlement/award winning payment with the UNITED NATION to your nominated bank account. Now you*re new Payment,United nation Approval No;UN5685P,White House Approved No:WH44CV, Reference o.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331 , Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No : 103 , Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Citibank Telex confirmation No: -1114433 ; Secret Code No:XXTN013, Having received these vital payment number , therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the United Nation immediately within the next 72hrs.

   

  As a matter of fact, you are required to Deal and Communicate only with MR ANDREW WOLLEY, DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE CITIBANK OF UNITED KINGDOM, with the help and monitory team from the CITIBANK OF NEW YORK which is our official remitting bank, Committee On Foreign Payment Matters in United Nation, has look up to make sure you receive your fund valued $8.3m. So contact: MR ANDREW WOLLEY on his contact information

   

  Direct Citibank Telephone No :+44-703-598-6441 or +44-703599-0316

  MOBILE TELEPHONE,+44 785-726-6104

  Fax Number:+44 870 288 7323,

  Email: [email protected]

   

  for immediate release of your contract/inheritance/Award Winning claim Be informed that you are not allowed to correspond with any person or office anymore, You are require! d to send bellow information for your transfer.

   

  1) YOUR FULL NAME:

  2) ADDRESS,CITY,STATE AND COUNTRY.

  3) PHONE,FAX AND MOBILE

  4) COMPANY NAME(IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS

  5) BANK DETAILS,

  BANK NAMES,

  ACCOUNT NO,

  ROUTING NO,

  SWIFT CODE

  BANK ADDRESS.

  6) PROFESSION,AGE AND MARITAL STATUS

  7) COPY OF YOUR INT'L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE

   

  NOTE: YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT/COMMUNICATIONCODE WITH CITIBANK IS(511),YOU ARE ARE ADVICE TO SEND YOU FULL BANKING INFORMATION TO THE CITIBANK OF LONDON INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DIRECTOR HEADED BY MR ANDREW WOLLEY AND MAKE SURE YOU SPEAK WITH HIM, WITH YOUR NEW PAYMENT CODE FOR RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT AND SEND HIM ALL YOUR BANKING INFORMATION NOW. CONTACT CODE(511)

   

  OFFICER:MR ANDREW WOLLEY.

  POSITION:DIRECTOR,INTL,REMMITTANCE CITIBANK LONDON.

  TELEPHONE OFFICE/BANK:+44-703-598-6441 or +44-703-599-0316

  MOBILE TELEPHONE,+44 785-726-6104

  FAX NUMBER:+44 870 288 7323,

  EMAIL:  [email protected]

   

  SIR FRANK PETERSON.

  (CHAIRMAN COMMITTE ON FOREIGN CONTRACT/AWARD WINING PAYMENT UNITED

  NATION AND USA GOVERNMENT).
• *=Optimus=*

  27 Jul 09, 00:04

  LOL Since when UN started lottery?

• Cool-gal

  27 Jul 09, 00:37

  OF COS WONT LA!!

  i always got plenty of such scams mail...

  my pc kana virus?????

   

• starExcaliblur

  27 Jul 09, 00:53

  Such emails usually end up in my junk mail before I even read them
• QX179R

  27 Jul 09, 00:59

  nah, not me..

• mancha

  27 Jul 09, 01:06

  This is not a lottery scam. It is a payment advice. Lottery scam is now quite well known.

  This scam is designed to trick you into believing the that UN made an error and sent you the email by mistake. It is addressed to "unlisted email" not your email.

  You think it is a confidential email, you get all the information, such as Release Code, Allocation Number, Password, PIN, so you might want to try to con them. It is to con you.

   

  Few years ago I installed a Taiwanese soft ware with my CD writer. I registered giving my email address. Big mistake. Now my email address is still circulating the world, although the spam is getting less, about 6 to 8 daily, penis enlarger, viagra, office furniture, stock tips, etc...

   

• Hwaimeng

  27 Jul 09, 09:03

  yes i would

   

  i would pretend to fall for the trick and let the gal from china call me

   

  there once i play with her and she didnt reliase it till upo to the mode she keep asking me to sent $4000 admin charges to their Hong Kong bank, i just keep delaying this until she got mad and gave up

  whahahah its was fun speaking to her, and wasting her time on me when all along i was making fun of her.

• yourmotherrr

  27 Jul 09, 09:37

  YES I WILL.

• domonkassyu

  27 Jul 09, 09:41

  is it 8.3m or 8300.000m??damn big diff...

• BadzMaro

  27 Jul 09, 09:47

  hahha.. u can always try.

  But anything asking about ur pin number and personal bank details u can hang up. lol

• Forbiddensinner

  27 Jul 09, 11:58

  Originally posted by domonkassyu:

  is it 8.3m or 8300.000m??damn big diff...

  Here is where you will realise another thing is wrong.

  Sometimes they type it as $8 300 000 M, sometimes they type it as $8.3M.

  This inconsistency shows that the email cannot possibly be real.

• bananaCoke

  27 Jul 09, 17:08

  [email protected]

  lol .hk sia

• Nelstar

  27 Jul 09, 17:16

  Ok. I got something like this 15 years ago and it went into a folder called "junk".

  I wonder how many phishing mails do they need to send out to get 1 or 2 replies.

  

• limpper

  27 Jul 09, 19:20

  Originally posted by Nelstar:

  Ok. I got something like this 15 years ago and it went into a folder called "junk".

  I wonder how many phishing mails do they need to send out to get 1 or 2 replies.

  

  1994??

• caleb_chiang

  27 Jul 09, 19:42

  I received like dozen of this type email every month...

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  27 Jul 09, 22:23

  i wont

• Nelstar

  28 Jul 09, 04:44

  Originally posted by limpper:

  1994??

  Yes, I had Rocketmail before Yahoo! ate it in 1997.

  

• deepak.c

  28 Jul 09, 08:27

   

  Now that I have the required information, I am going to contact them and collect my $8.3 million. muahahaha...........

   

   

• Forbiddensinner

  28 Jul 09, 11:04

  Originally posted by deepak.c:

   

  Now that I have the required information, I am going to contact them and collect my $8.3 million. muahahaha...........

   

   

  I can't believe an economics genius is going to fall for such a scam.

• mh2

  28 Jul 09, 11:17

  Originally posted by Cool-gal:

  OF COS WONT LA!!

  i always got plenty of such scams mail...

  my pc kana virus?????

   

  
  spyware

• Forbiddensinner

  28 Jul 09, 11:23

  Originally posted by mh2:

  
  spyware

  Spywares work differently. They steal your information without notifying you.

  Most probably her email has been circulated around by some group which gotten it from some company.

• mumee

  28 Jul 09, 12:40

  Originally posted by mancha:

  This is not a lottery scam. It is a payment advice. Lottery scam is now quite well known.

  This scam is designed to trick you into believing the that UN made an error and sent you the email by mistake. It is addressed to "unlisted email" not your email.

  You think it is a confidential email, you get all the information, such as Release Code, Allocation Number, Password, PIN, so you might want to try to con them. It is to con you.

   

  Few years ago I installed a Taiwanese soft ware with my CD writer. I registered giving my email address. Big mistake. Now my email address is still circulating the world, although the spam is getting less, about 6 to 8 daily, penis enlarger, viagra, office furniture, stock tips, etc...

   

  I always use a different email when i register for such things

• mancha

  28 Jul 09, 23:02

  Searched the net and found this.

  Internet-Fraud/U.S., United Nations and World Bank Email Scam LetterU.S., United Nations and World Bank Email Scam Letter

• Honeybunz

  28 Jul 09, 23:03

  No lor.  I will ask for them to send me the money to my door step first then talk.

• Honeybunz

  28 Jul 09, 23:05

  I ever rec'd one local one.  Yes, it's from sg.  That fella actually asked to meet at Novena Square.  I tried to tip off the TNP reporters to take pictures and cover news on this scammer.  But they not interested.  So I don't bother to reply to this scammer liao.