Thursday, November 17, 2011

Spammer Requests You Send Personal Data to Help Them Flee the Country

No Phishing Allowed SignEither this spammer has an extremely small mailing list or they’re really trying to sell the story that their life is in jeopardy and they desperately need help in order to escape.

Over the last few days, the following email has arrived in my inbox over 5 times. Yes, FIVE times – each email is exactly the same and bears the “VERY URGENT” subject line, which my Norton spam filter always takes the courtesy of changing to read “[Norton AntiSpam]-- SPAM --VERY URGENT”.

Inside, the phisher feeds some sob story about how their life is in the hands of the “undisclosed recipients” that the email was sent to and offers a 30% cut on an undisclosed amount of money that is described to be “quite large.”

All you have to do is send over a butt-load of your personal information. Right.

Here’s the email:
From: Adil Adil adilibrahim200171@yahoo.com.ph
Reply-To: Adil Adil adil.ibrahim1@hotmail.com
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: VERY URGENT

Dear Friend,

How are you doing today, hope fine?

We are from Libya north Africa, following the fall of our Government we fear the New Government leader will kill us, we have tried to escape to any nearby country, This requires a private arrangement though the details of the transaction will be furnished to you if you indicate your interest in this proposal.We have all the legal documents to back up the transaction, besides we have worked out the modalities to ensure smooth and risky free transfer.We are willing to offer you 30% of the money, the fund in question is quite large in a security company in Ghana, we are looking for Business Representative to help us secure the fund and invest them pending when everything is normal, our big boss created this problem, now we all is on the run to secure oneself and life, kindly help me out. I will offer you 30% and if you are interested kindly send Full Name and your mobile phone number and your home address, occupation and country and age with your id card and you can reach me with my private E-mail address: adil.ibrahim1@hotmail.com

Waiting for your response?

Thanks

Adil Ibrahim

Recipients of this email should NOT respond to this email or provide any of the personal information requested by the scammer.

Instead, you are encouraged to report the email to SpamCop or the FTC prior to deleting it. Be sure that you include the full email headers when reporting it.

Hopefully the authorities will be able to pinpoint the internet crooks behind the spam and bring them to justice.

Until then, don’t feed the phishes!

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