Email Subject: Scheduled Maintenance & UpgradeIT Help Desk

This is a phishing scam! DO NOT REPLY to this email.

Attention Account User,

Scheduled Maintenance & Upgrade

Your account is in the process of being upgraded to a newset of Windows-based servers and an enhanced online email interface inline with internet infrastructure Maintenance. The new servers will provide better anti-spam and anti-virus functions, along withh IMAP Support for mobile devices that Support IMAP to enhance your usage.

To ensure that your account is not intermittently disrupted but active during and after this upgrade, you are required to kindly confirm your account by stating the details below:

* User name:
* Password:

This will prompt the upgarde of your account.

Failure to acknowledge receipt of this notification, might result to a temporal deactivation of your account from our database.

Your account shall remain active upon your confirmation of your login details.

We do apologize for any inconvenience caused.

IT Help Desk.

© Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved.

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Joint FBI and DHS Public Service Announcement:

Cyber criminals can damage their victim's computer systems and data by changing or deleting files, wiping hard drives, or erasing backups to hide some or all of their malicious activity and tradecraft. By wiping, or "zeroing out," the hard disk drives, which overwrites good data with zeros or other characters, the criminals effectively erase or alter all existing data, greatly impeding restoration. This sort of criminal activity makes it difficult to determine whether criminals merely accessed the network, stole information, or altered network access and configuration files. Completing network restoration efforts and business damage assessments may also be hampered.

The FBI and DHS encourage businesses and individuals to employ mitigation strategies and best practices such as:

• Implement a data back-up and recovery plan to maintain copies of sensitive or proprietary data in a separate and secure location. Backup copies of sensitive data should not be readily accessible from local networks.
• Regularly mirror and maintain an image of critical system files.
• Encrypt and secure sensitive information.
• Use strong passwords, implement a schedule for changing passwords frequently, and do not reuse passwords for multiple accounts.
• Enable network monitoring and logging where feasible.
• Be aware of social engineering tactics aimed at obtaining sensitive information.
• Securely eliminate sensitive files and data from hard drives when no longer needed or required.

The US-CERT Web page at www.us-cert.gov hosts a wide range of tips, best practices, and threat information for business and home users.

To receive the latest information about cyber schemes, please visit the FBI Web site and sign up for e-mail alerts by clicking on one of the red envelopes.

If you have been a victim of cyber crime, please file a report with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov.

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The FBI has observed a trend in which cyber criminals are compromising the e-mail accounts of U.S. individuals and businesses and using variations of the legitimate e-mail addresses associated with the victim accounts to request and authorize overseas transactions. The wire transfers are being sent to the bank accounts of individuals typically located domestically or in Australia and the funds are being sent directly to Malaysia. Investigations indicate that some of the money mules in the U.S. and Australia are victims of a romance scam and are asked to further transfer the funds to Malaysia. As of December 2011, the attempted fraud amounts total approximately $23 million; the actual victim losses are approximately $6 million.

This type of fraud has affected banks, broker/dealers, credit unions and other institutions. Therefore, this threat is relevant to any organization that may engage with clients through e-mail channels.

In a typical scenario, the cyber criminal will send an e-mail to a financial institution, brokerage firm employee, or the victim’s financial advisor pretending to be the victim and request the balance of the victim’s account. When the request for balance information is successful, the cyber criminal then sends another e-mail providing a reason why they can only communicate via e-mail and asks that a wire transfer be initiated on their behalf. The excuse is typically based on an illness or death in the family which prevents the account holder from conducting business as usual.

Victims

Victims of these schemes include both individuals and businesses that typically invest significant amounts of money with their financial advisor(s) or financial institution(s). The individual unauthorized wire transfers range from $17,500 to $183,000.

E-mail Addresses

Cyber criminals are using both legitimate compromised e-mail accounts and e-mail addresses that are slightly altered. In cases in which the e-mail addresses were adjusted, they were either modified via the top level domain (eg., from .com to .net) or by adding an additional letter to the user name (eg., abcd@abc.com to abcdd@abc.com). Further investigations have also revealed that the e-mail service provider name has been modified by changing a letter to a number or vice versa (eg., abc@0123.com to abc@.O123.com). The modifications can be very subtle and easily mistaken as the legitimate account holder’s official e-mail address on file. In many cases, the e-mails have originated from e-mail service providers including Yahoo, Gmail, and AOL.

Authentication

In some instances wary financial institutions or brokerage firm employees asked for a letter of payment authorization via fax, and the cyber criminals were able to produce a fax with the legitimate customer’s signature as further proof that the transaction was being requested by the bank customer. This was most likely done through extensive research of the compromised e-mail accounts in which the cyber criminals were able to obtain copies of official documents signed by the victim. Some institutions reported that the signatures resembled a “copy and paste” from a previous document.

There have been several reports connected to this scheme where the cyber criminal modified the victim’s e-mail settings to block all legitimate e-mails from the victim’s financial institution. This was accomplished either by implementing a spam rule to dump all communications from the financial institution into a spam folder or automatically deleting the communications. Either method prevents the victim from being alerted that the transaction had taken place and may provide additional time for the money to be transferred out of the account before anyone can identify the transaction as fraudulent.

Recommendation to Financial Institutions

1. Review internal procedures to ensure payment instruction authentication and validity.
2. Enhance internal awareness of this fraudulent activity and ALWAYS perform proper authentication of the customer and internal verification processes even if client is asking for a “rush.”
3. Perform out-of-band authentication and verification of the payment instructions through a validated contact channel.
4. Leverage payment instruction and transaction anomaly tools to flag suspect transactions.
5. Use traditional security tools (DLP, spam filters, etc.) to search for e-mails with key words like “wire + funeral”, or “wire + travel,” etc. Clients and employees noted in flagged messages should then be contacted directly by other resources within your financial institution.
6. Provide notice of this joint FBI/FS-ISAC bulletin to customers via various delivery channels, i.e., e-mail, financial institution website, branch flyers, etc.
7. Review and implement financial institution payment instruction processes in the context of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Supplemental Authentication Guidance (PDF) that was issued on June 28, 2011.

Incident Reporting

1. The FS-ISAC encourages member institutions to report any observed fraudulent activity through the FS-ISAC submission process and login at http://www.fsisac.com/. This can be done with attribution or anonymously and will assist other members and their customers to prevent, detect, and respond to similar attacks.
2. The FBI encourages victims of cyber crime to contact their local FBI field office, http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm, or file a complaint online at www.IC3.gov.
3. Financial institutions’ compliance or anti-money laundering team should submit a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) utilizing the Account Takeover guidance recently issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

This product was created as part of a joint effort between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Download the PDF here

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Dear friend,

I have decided to use this medium to contact you today for a corporate business partnership and international relationship. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you, as we have not met face to face nor had any dealings in the past. I humbly ask you take due consideration of its importance and the immense benefit it will be to you and I in the very nearest future. But, on the other hand, I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy if this offer and contact is not acceptable to you.

In a nut shell, the purpose of my writing to you is that I want to pull out an unclaimed deposited funds, amounted to the total sum of seven million five hundred thousand Euros that belong to one of our late customers who died in a ghastly auto accident along with his entire family here in Burkina Faso some years back.

Ever since we gathered the information about his death, we have been expecting any of his relatives or business associates to visit our bank and put claim over the said funds, but up till this time of writing no next of kin or associate of him has come forward to claim his funds with us. Hence, I decided to contact you today for your capable, reliable assistance and maximum cooperation to transfer the funds out from our country into yours for a solid investment between two of us in the very nearest future.

As it may interest you to know, for your future cooperation and maximum efforts, 35% of the money will be for you as my foreign partner, 64% of it will be for me and one of my colleagues that will eventually visit your country for disbursement and investment of our funds portion, while 1% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business, most especially telephone communication bills.

To be more honest and candid with you, I need your maximum assistance and co-operation to get this deal done, because as a foreigner you stand in a very better position to be presented through documentation as the business associate from your country since the deceased was also a foreigner. In this regard, I want you to assure me of your capability of handling this transaction perfectly with trust and confidence by giving me the following information about yourself:

1. Your full name.
2. Your residential and postal address
3. Your occupation and position.
4. Your age.
5. Your marital status.
6. Your direct telephone and fax number for quicker and effective communication.

As a matter of fact, it is pertinent to also inform you that all modalities and logistics are in good shape to effect payment into your nominated bank account as soon as you applied to our bank as a claimant. So, advisably, I will prefer all further communication and future correspondences in English language. Meanwhile, I strongly advise that you treat this communication with top maturity and confidentiality for future prospect.

Most importantly, I pray and implore you to kindly reply me as soon as you received this email. And above all, upon receipt of your quick and positive response, I will equally send you all the necessary vital information concerning the deceased person himself, details information of the paying bank here in Burkina Faso and all other coverage that you might needed to achieve 100% success at the end of the day.

I look forward to your quick and positive response / acceptance. Thank you for the common understanding and future cooperation.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Abdul RAHIM.

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Hi Sir/Madam

I am Marketing Manager.

We have a SEO discount offer on the New Year 2012 occasion going for the following package:

Monthly Task and responsibilities:

Package For 15 Keywords:

1. 20 Search Engine Submissions
2. 200 Manually Directory Submissions
3. 90 Article Submissions (1 Articles Submit in 30 Top Directories)
4. 10 Press Release Distributions (1 Press Release submit in 10 Sites)
5. 5 Web2.0/Blog postings(Using pre-written articles)
6. 30 Social Bookmarking Submissions
7. 5 Forum postings
8. 3 Unique Article writing (400+ words)
9. 1 Press Release writing (350+ words)
10. Keywords Mapping
11. New pages suggestions
12. Keywords research
13. Competitor Analysis
14. Title Tag changes suggestions
15. Meta tags changes suggestions
16. Alt tag changes suggestions
17. HTML Site Map
18. XML site map setup
19. Anchor text optimization
20. Google webmaster setup
21. Google analytics setup
22. Weekly Work Report
23. Monthly Ranking Report
24. Monthly Full Detailed SEO Work Report in Excel

Note: We send weekly report to each of our clients so that they can have regular updates on their website. Also, this shows that we work regularly on the website in a very elegant way.

We use only white hat SEO techniques for each website.

Our Best rate for this is: USD 250 per month per project.

This Discount is Valid till Jan 31th 2012.

Please let us know in case you are interested.

Thanks & Regards,
Marketing Manager

P.S. :- Happy New Year 2012

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This report, which is based upon information from law enforcement and complaints submitted to the IC3, details recent cyber crime trends, new twists to previously-existing cyber scams, and announcements.

Popular Passwords

An Internet site who manages passwords recently posted an article pertaining to the lack of secure passwords being utilized which may be a factor in data breaches -- past, present, and future. One reason for the lack of security is the amount of passwords a user is required to remember to access the many databases, applications, multiple networks, etc., used on a daily basis. Sharing passwords among users in a workplace is becoming a common theme to continue the flow of operations. Users have prioritized convenience over security when establishing passwords.

The article provided a list of millions of stolen passwords posted on-line by hackers and ranked the top 25 common passwords.

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. qazwsx
24. michael
25. football

Operation In Our Sites

On November 28, 2011 (Cyber Monday), the Department of Homeland Security released a bulletin announcing that 150 Web site domain names were seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, the National Intellectual Property rights Coordination Center, the Department of Justice, and the FBI Washington Field Office. These domains were illegally selling and distributing counterfeit merchandise. The seized domains are now in the custody of the federal government, and visitors to these sites will find a banner indicating the domain has been seized by federal authorities. The entire bulletin is available at http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSICE-1e5f08.

Internet Crime Complaint Center's (IC3)
Scam Alerts
December 29, 2011

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Admin note: The following fake email -- and derivatives thereof -- are disguised to be from Amazon.com referencing a shipped order. If you receive an email like this, Do NOT click any links. It's phishing scheme to steal your personal information. This email originated from Turkey -- NOT from Amazon.com

Email subject: "Your Amazon.com order of "Keurig Special Edition KNZ 8 Cups Coffee Maker" has shipped!"

Hello,

Shipping Confirmation
Order # 284-2844017-1733963

Your estimated delivery date is:
Tuesday, December 22, 2011

Track your package Thank you for shopping with us. We thought you'd like to know that we shipped this portion of your order separately to give you quicker service. You won't be charged any extra shipping fees, and the remainder of your order will follow as soon as those items become available. If you need to return an item from this shipment or manage other orders, please visit Your Orders on Amazon.com.

Shipment Details

Keurig Special Edition KNZ 8 Cups Coffee Maker $149.95
Item Subtotal: $149.95
Shipping & Handling: $0.00
Total Before Tax: $149.95
Shipment Total: $149.95
Paid by Visa: $149.95

You have only been charged for the items sent in this shipment. Per our policy, you only pay for items when we ship them to you.

Returns are easy. Visit our .
If you need further assistance with your order, please visit Customer Service.

We hope to see you again soon!
Amazon.com

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It’s an old truth: people won’t beat a path to your door if they don’t know where your door is.

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Do you have a Facebook page? Is it helping your business or just taking up space?

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Hi,

SEO is the best way to increase your business volume. We have an expert SEO team that can quickly promote your website to potential customers. We can accomplish this by placing your website on the top Natural Listings of Google, Yahoo and MSN.

We only use ethical SEO methods. We will never use "link farms" or "black hat" methods that can cause your website to get de-listed or banned from Google and other search engines.

Our prices are less than half of what other companies are currently charging. We are happy to send you a proposal using the top search phrases for your area of expertise.

Thank & Regards
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Marketing Executive
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Hi

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We can place your website on top of the Natural Listings on Google, Yahoo and MSN. We do not use "link farms" or "black hat" methods that Google and the other search engines frown upon and can use to de-list or ban your site. Price is never a constraint with us because we take pride in handling challenging work.

We would be happy to send you best fit proposal for web development and designing and if you have a SEO requirement we will send you a proposal using the top search phrases for your area of expertise.

In order for us to respond to your request for information, please include your company’s website address (mandatory) and /or phone number.

Sincerely,
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Hi,

As many as 90% websites do not deliver business to their potential because they do not appeal to the target audience. And the reason most visitors leave a website is because of a poor design and navigation.

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With an experience of successfully developing more than 2500 websites, we could help you generate more business from your website, if you are ready to change the website. Most of our clients have benefited from our expertise, and we believe you could too, by getting an attractive website as follows.

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Designation: Sales Executive

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Peace be upon you,

For your kind attention this message might reach you in utmost surprise, however, I will be very glad if you do assist me to relocate a sum of (US $6,200,000.00 Million Dollars) into your personal bank account for the benefit of both of us.

This is a genuine business transaction, only I cannot operate it alone without using a Foreigner as required in my bank law, therefore I am contacting you to stand before my bank as the beneficiary next of kin of this fund, that is my reason of contacting you in this manner to assist me actualize this better opportunity, and also to share the benefit together with me.

You will be entitled to have 30% of this fund as a foreign partner, since you will provide a bank account where this money will be transferred to, while 70% will be for me, by indicating your interest on assurance of trust, I will send you the full details and how this business will be executed.

Please keep this proposal as a top secret between the both of us and delete it immediately in your email box if you are not interested for the business.

I will be looking forward for your urgent response [ EMAIL DELETED ]

Regards, in sincerity,
Mrs Gloria Kabore.
My private contact number: [ PHONE DELETED ]

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Subject: ACKNOWLEDGE Mail,

Greeting,

I am Sarah T. Cole the Personal Assistant {P.A} to a Director of one of U.K's biggest bank based here in Scotiland-United Kingdom. My boss {Name Withheld} has advised that I should contact you on a multi-Million business-deal transaction that will be mutually beneficial to all parties involved.

Please be re-assured that everything about this business will be done through the Legal channels and your involvement in this business will NOT breach any local or international laws, as we have all legal documents to back up the payment of this money into your designated bank account in a very short while.

We shall obliged you full details and copies of my boss International passport,bank I.D and also the web link to see my boss resumes and profiles,meanwhile,we urge you to keep this offer very confidential and secret. For a start, send to us by e-mail now the following:-

• Your Full Names:-
• Contact Street Address:-
• Age:-
• Profession:-
• Nationality:-
• Your private e-mail address:-

As it is said the taste of the pudding is in the eating,so give this business a positive consideration, please reply Now.

Sarah T. Cole.
{Scotiland-U.K
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Subject: ATM Card Number: 5428050011004432

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIR.
Our Ref: FGN/SNT/RAL
Your Ref: SNT/ATM/822

Inline with the United Nations millennium development goal to eradicate poverty and hunger by the year 2015 i am directed to inform you that your payment verification and confirmations is completed, Therefore we are happy to inform you that arrangements have been concluded to effect your payment as soon as possible in our bid for transparency.

It is my pleasure to inform you that ATM Card Number: 5428050011004432 have been approved in your favor, The ATM Card Value is $500,000.00 USD (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS).

You are advised that a maximum withdrawal value of $5,000.00 USD is permitted on withdrawal per day and are duly Inter Switch so you can make withdrawal at any location and ATM Center of your choice.

We have concluded delivery arrangement with the ups courier services. Please note that the UPS Courier Company is fully insured by Nicon Insurance Corporation.

Kindly be inform that you are to provide a delivery fee of $95.00 USD for the effective delivery of your package to you as the delivery charges and please also be informed that the delivery will be made to your address in 48 hours (2 days) after the confirmation of your payment for delivery, as you know the delivery fee receipt will be attach on your payment delivery documents to avoid being delayed by customs.

You are advised to contact us with the details below via his e-mail address:

EMAIL: [ EMAIL DELETED ]

1.Full Name:...
2.Address:...
3.Phone:...
4.Country:...
5.Sex/Gender:...

Treat urgently and note that your ATM Card is ready and available for dispatch to you.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Harris Conklin

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In advance of the holiday season, the FBI reminds shoppers to beware of cyber criminals and their aggressive and creative ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims including fraudulent auction sales, reshipping merchandise purchased with a stolen credit card, sale of fraudulent or stolen gift cards through auction sites at discounted prices, and phishing e-mails advertising brand name merchandise for bargain prices or e-mails promoting the sale of merchandise that ends up being a counterfeit product.

Top 3 Holiday Shopping Scams

1. Fraudulent Classified Ads or Auction Sales

Internet criminals post classified ads or auctions for products they do not have. If you receive an auction product from a merchant or retail store, rather than directly from the auction seller, the item may have been purchased with someone elses stolen credit card number. Contact the merchant to verify the account used to pay for the item actually belongs to you.

Shoppers should be cautious and not provide credit card numbers, bank account numbers, or other financial information directly to the seller. Fraudulent sellers will use this information to purchase items for their scheme from the provided financial account. Always use a legitimate payment service to protect purchases.

Diligently check each seller's rating and feedback along with their number of sales and the dates on which feedback was posted. Be wary of a seller with 100% positive feedback, if they have a low total number of feedback postings and all feedback was posted around the same date and time.

2. Gift Card Scam

The safest way to purchase gift cards is directly from the merchant or authorized retail merchant. If the merchant discovers the card you received from another source or auction was initially obtained fraudulently, the merchant will deactivate the gift card number, and it will not be honored to make purchases.

3. Phishing and Social Networking

Be leery of e-mails or text messages you receive indicating a problem or question regarding your financial accounts. In this scam, you are directed to follow a link or call the number provided in the message to update your account or correct the problem. The link actually directs the individual to a fraudulent Web site or message that appears legitimate; however, any personal information you provide, such as account number and personal identification number (PIN), will be stolen.

Another scam involves victims receiving an e-mail message directing the recipient to a spoofed Web site. A spoofed Web site is a fake site or copy of a real Web site that is designed to mislead the recipient into providing personal information.

Consumers are encouraged to beware of bargain e-mails advertising one day only promotions for recognized brands or Web sites. Fraudsters often use the hot items of the season to lure bargain hunters into providing credit card information. The old adage "if it seems too good to be true" is a good barometer to use to legitimize e-mails.

Black Friday has traditionally been the "biggest shopping day of the year." The Monday following Thanksgiving has more recently (2005) been labeled Cyber Monday, meaning the e-commerce industry endorses this special day to offer sales and promotions without interfering with the traditional way to shop. Scammers try to prey on Black Friday or Cyber Monday bargain hunters by advertising "one day only" promotions from recognized brands. Consumers should be on the watch for too good to be true e-mails from unrecognized Web sites.

Along with on-line shopping comes the growth of consumers utilizing social networking sites and mobile phones to satisfy their shopping needs more easily. Again, consumers are encouraged to beware of e-mails, text messages, or postings that may lead to fraudulent sites offering bargains on brand name products.

9 Important Holiday Shopping Tips

Here are nine tips you can use to avoid becoming a victim of cyber fraud:

1. Do not respond to unsolicited (spam) e-mail.
2. Do not click on links contained within an unsolicited e-mail.
3. Be cautious of e-mail claiming to contain pictures in attached files, as the files may contain viruses. Only open attachments from known senders. Always run a virus scan on attachment before opening.
4. Avoid filling out forms contained in e-mail messages that ask for personal information.
5. Always compare the link in the e-mail to the web address link you are directed to and determine if they match.
6. Log on directly to the official Web site for the business identified in the e-mail, instead of "linking" to it from an unsolicited e-mail. If the e-mail appears to be from your bank, credit card issuer, or other company you deal with frequently, your statements or official correspondence from the business will provide the proper contact information.
7. Contact the actual business that supposedly sent the e-mail to verify that the e-mail is genuine.
8. If you are requested to act quickly or there is an emergency, it may be a scam. Fraudsters create a sense of urgency to get you to act impulsively.
9. If you receive a request for personal information from a business or financial institution, always look up the main contact information for the requesting company on an independent source (phone book, trusted internet directory, legitimate billing statement, etc.) and use that contact information to verify the legitimacy of the request.
10. Remember if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

To receive the latest information about cyber scams, please go to the FBI Web site and sign up for e-mail alerts by clicking on one of the red envelopes. If you have received a scam e-mail, please notify the IC3 by filing a complaint at www.ic3.gov. For more information on e-scams, please visit the FBI's New E-Scams and Warnings webpage at http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm.

Intelligence Note
Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

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Subject: PLS CAN YOU? 220.

Good day
Private Message to you,

The lord spoke to me to share this with you. Please kindly sympathize with my current situation and assist. My name is Isabella Carmel, I escaped tsunami disaster some time ago which affected my spinal cord, my ear drum and claim my entire family, husband and two sons as we both went for holidays in Sri-Lanka.

Right now I am out of the hospital after spending much days, and it might be a shock to you to know that I was eventually disabled due to the catastrophe that stroke me and now I am on a wheelchair after all form of treatment. I have decided to give arms to the needing in the societies. I want this to be a legacy laid down by me on earth therefore I decided to build charity organizations for the less privilege now that my health has deteriorated so badly. I cannot do it personally due to my ailment that is while am soliciting your kind assistant to make this dream a reality through you. I have intend to donate the sum of $10.6M USD I deposited in (OVERSEA CREDIT COMMISSION) for investment abroad to help the less privileged. I need you to help me claim these funds where it was deposited to build charity organizations for the less privilege in the society.

Please I will appreciate if you indicate interest to help actualize this dream and also include your contact telephone/fax numbers that I will forward to the (COMMISSION OFFICIALS) for onward communication with you as my appointed beneficiary. I will provide you the legal documents that will enable you claim the funds.

If you are willing and ready to assist in this project, please e-mail me at [name deleted]@yahoo.com.hk without delay, while I wait to hear from you.

Thanks once again for your kindness may God guide and reward you in all your endeavors as you make me realize my last dreams and wishes.

Remain blessed,
Mrs. Isabella Caromel

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