Your $350,000 Part-Payment by MasterCard ATM is Ready

Alert Reader Sends In A *New* Phish

From: rxpeter@iatreion.be¹
Subject: Your $350,000 Part-Payment by MasterCard ATM is Ready
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:25:28 -0700

CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
38 BROAD STREET, TINUBU SQUARE
TELEX: 578761

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,
CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA, (C.B.N)
38 BROAD STREET, TINUBU SQUARE.
PHONE: +234 705 877 5428

ATTN: BENEFICIARY/CONTRACTOR/AWARD WINNER

YOUR PARTICULARS WAS MENTIONED IN OUR JUST CONCLUDED SECOND-QUARTER DEBT SETTLEMENT GENERAL MEETING. A PART PAYMENT OF $350,000 (THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) WAS APPROVED ON YOUR NAME. THIS PAYMENT WILL BE PROGRAMMED INTO AN AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE (ATM CARD) POWERED BY MASTERCARD AND WILL BE MAILED TO YOUR ADDRESS BY COURIER SERVICE.

YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY REQUIRED TO RE-CONFIRM AND FORWARD TO MY DESK THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION’S:
1.    YOUR REQUIRED NAME TO BE PRINTED ON YOUR ATM CARD:
2.    YOUR PRESENT RESIDENT MAILING ADDRESS (NOT P.O BOX):
3.    YOUR PERSONAL AND REACHABLE MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:

NOTE: YOU ARE TO PAY THE SUM OF $95 COURIER DELIVERY CHARGE OF YOUR ATM CARD, THIS PAYMENT IS VERY COMPULSORY OTHERWISE DON’T REPLY.

WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCIES THE DELAY OF YOUR PAYMENT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED YOU.

YOURS SINCERELY,
ALHAJI SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI
NEW GOVERNOR, CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (C.B.N)

My reader asked: why ask for a cell phone #?, and remarked on the “courier charge”.. I’ll posit that to you Dear Readers. Why do you think they want a cell phone number?

¹ .be = Belgium

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eBay Phishing

But.. I do not buy or sell, nor have I ever bought or sold, a thing on eBay... Hmmm…

Ah! A link! (which reads, “View the dispute thread to respond”)
So, I hover my mouse over the link and see that it leads to…
http://190.xxx.xxx.xxx/icons/small/ps1.gif/signin.ebay.com/ws/ebayISPP.dll/SignIn/
index.htmlSignIn&co_partnerId=2&pUserId=&siteid=0&pageType=&pa1=
&i1=&bshowgif=&UsingSSL=&ru=http://www.ebay.com&pp=&pa2=&errmsg=&
runame=&ruparams=&ruproduct=&sid=&favoritenav=&confirm=&ebxPageType=
&existingEmail=&isCheckout=&migrateVisitor=

which traces back to “Cheap Web Hosting By Directi”.

Or.. I can just look at the WOT “red doughnut” warning.

Folks.. be suspicious of everything on the Internet. And then be suspicious again. Paranoid is good.

… another clue is, I think only spammers use “required” in e-mail subject lines..

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[ALERT] Call Immediately for Details, E-Lotto Promotions

For those readers who don’t believe that I win $2.5 million every couple of days…

PRIZE/PROMOTION AWARD DEPT.
LOTTO NL.
CATEGORY “A” WINNER
Ref No: TIS-404/8231
Batch Number: NL 80 OS 94144448
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00
Dear Internet User
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lotto NL. Internet Promotional Draws. All email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly inputted from an internet resource database using the Synchronized Random Selection System (SRSS).
Your email address was selected in the Category “A” with Reference Number TIS-404/8231, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand prize award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email address.
In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the particulars below:
Name: Mr. David Berman
Phone: +31-647-283-937
Email: da_berman01@live.nl
You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the following information for processing the payment of your cash award.
DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:
Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this notice will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims process immediately, by contacting the claims agent (Mr. David Berman) who would be guiding you through the Claims process.
Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your payout soon.
Yours Faithfully,
Emily Jean Barry
Lottery Co-ordinator

… You guys are seeing the pattern here, right?

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When You Are A World Famous Blogger..

(And I Only Win A Half-million Euros Today.. )

When you are a World Famous Blogger (like me), you get e-mails containing money from the United Nations*…

And I must say, I’m a little miffed at Western Union.. deleting !!! my (non-existent) account.. on a Sunday.
I mean, they just sent me the the update notice !!! late Friday… I thought I had until Monday.. at least.

And when you are a World Famous Blogger (like me), you find that people will auction their items using your e-mail address. I just wish the person(s) using mine would stop causing so many disputes, and accepting bogus cc#s…

… I love a good irony, don’t you? The cybercrooks are counting on our stupidity to work these phishing scams, and it’s pretty clear to me that they are the stupid ones.
United Nations??? Uh.. yeah. Okay. It might happen.. (insert rest of Mike Myers’ line here.)

Today’s free link: Today, something maybe I should’a read a long time ago.. How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

* and for a look at the contents of my e-mail from the UN Security Council, click here.

Almost forgot.. my latest win..

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