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Hello everyone.
Well another day, another phishing email.
These Internet con-men/women do not have much imagination, just keep on recycling the same old scam under a different name.
This one is particulary interesting as it purports to be from a reputable bank in UK.
However on doing further investigation, checking where the email originated from, it seems to be from somewhere in Australia, or at least from an Australian email account.
obviously the scammers are using hacking technology to use other peoples email address's to re-route there cons through various different email address's until they eventually end up in your in-box.
Here is a breakdown of where this email has come from, via various address's.
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Received: from rly-xg01.mx.aol.com (rly-xg01.mail.aol.com [172.20.115.198]) by air-xg03.mail.aol.com (v107.10) with ESMTP id MAILINXG32-4464305d88b111; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:03:29 -0400
Received: from fallbackmx01.syd.optusnet.com.au (fallbackmx01.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.93]) by rly-xg01.mx.aol.com (v107.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXG14-4464305d88b111; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:03:09 -0400
Received: from mail26.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail26.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.167])
by fallbackmx01.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j7JD36j03411;
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:03:06 +1000
Received: from localhost.localdomain (webmail03.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.237])
by mail26.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7JD0sQB024053;
Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:00:54 +1000
Message-Id: <200508191300.j7JD0sQB024053@mail26.syd.optusnet.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.411 (Entity 5.404)
Received: from [196.1.178.83] as user johnpower01@optusnet.com.au by
webmail.optusnet.com.au with HTTP;
From: "Mr.John Power"
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:00:54 +1000
Subject: Please confirm receipt
Reply-To: johnpower04@tiscali.it
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
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X-AOL-IP: 211.29.132.93
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:423776590:15032385
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0
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As you can see, it is not from who it is meant to be from.
Here is the body of the email, I would not advise anyone to click on the links that are in this email, I left them there in the entirety so that you can all see them, & know what to avoid.
---------------------------------------------This message is in the Spam Folder because you reported the message as spam.
Subject: Please confirm receipt
Date: 8/19/2005 6:03:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time
From: johnpower04@tiscali.it
From the desk of:
John Power,
Auditor General Natwest Bank Group,
Caryle House, Carlyle Rd, Cambridge,CB4 3DH,UK
Date:19/08/2005
Dear Sir,
I am Mr John Power,Auditor General Natwest Bank Group UK. I am writing following an oppurtunity in my office that will be of imense benefit to both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of £20.5million British Pounds Sterling (Twenty million five hundred thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life
in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on January 31 2000, including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and
http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatves to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other officials in this department now
decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
We agreed that 35% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, while the balance will be for me and my colleagues. I will visit your country for the disbursement according to the percentages indicated above once this money gets into your account. Please be honest to me and trust is our watchword in this transaction.
Note this transaction is confidential and risk free. As soon as you receive this mail you should contact me by return mail.Please note that all necessary arrangement for the smooth release of these funds to you has been finalised. We will discuss much in details
when I do receive your response.
Please if you are interested in this project contact me for further directives.
Best regards
Mr.John Power
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You can see, it is an obvious con, unfortunately there are people on the Internet who are guillible enough & greedy enough to answer to this email & it will cost them dearly in money & time,, as not only will the scammers try to get them to pay for the 'privellage' of being a partner, but they will also have there identity stolen in the process.
Be warned, no matter how enticing these emails get, they are complete scam/cons. Send them to your internet provider, or to the FBI or CIA.
I will post a further thread with the email address's of the dept's to which emails of this kind can be sent, I would do it now, but I have to go to therapy in a little while & I don't have the time now.
I just wanted to get this warning out to Adlandpro members before anyone fell for it.
More later.
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