Showing posts with label internet fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet fraud. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Most Recent Domain Registration Scam Is Still Targeting All Domain Name Owners


This Domain Registration Scam 
Is Still Operating. How Many 
People Are Falling For It?


Domain Service Notice

Attention: Important Notice

Complete and return by fax to:
1-212-257-7059
ATT: HAPPY RICHES
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT
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HAPPYRICHES@GMAIL.COM


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WWW.HAPPYRICHES.COM
Please ensure that your contact information is correct or 

make the necessary changes above

Domain Name: HAPPYRICHES.COM
Search Engine Submission

Requested ReplyDECEMBER 26,2012
PART I: REVIEW SOLICITATION
Attn: HAPPY RICHES
As a courtesy to domain name holders, we are 

sending you this notification for your business 
Domain name search engine registration. This
 letter is to inform you that it's time to send in 
your registration and save.

Failure to complete your Domain name search 

engine registration by the expiration
 date may result in cancellation of this offer 
making it difficult for your customers to 
locate you on the web.Privatization allows the consumer a choice 
when registering. Search engine subscription 
includes domain name search engine submission. 
You are under no obligation to pay the 
amounts stated below unless you accept this 
offer. Do not discard, this notice is not an
 invoice it is a courtesy reminder to register 
your domain name search engine listing so 
your customers can locate you on the web.

This Notice for: WWW.HAPPYRICHES.COM 

will expire on December 26,2012 Act today!
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DETAIL OF SERVICE: 
ANNUAL WEBSITE SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION FOR
 DOMAIN NAME WWW.HAPPYRICHES.COM
Detail of Service:
SEARCH SUBMISSIONS
Reply by Date:
12/26/2012





For Domain Name:
HAPPYRICHES.COM
Select TermYour Existing DomainPeriod CoveredPrice
HAPPYRICHES.COM
[ ] 1 year      $75.00
12/26/2012 - 12/26/2013

[ ] 2 year      $119.0012/26/2012 - 12/26/2014
[ ] 5 year      $199.0012/26/2012 - 12/26/2017
[ ] 10 year  $295.00-Most Recommended-12/26/2012 - 12/26/2022
[ ] Lifetime $499.00Limited time offer - Best value!Lifetime
Full Name: HAPPY RICHESEmail: HAPPYRICHES@GMAIL.COMEmail 2: ____________________
Phone: _____________________
Want to receive this notification for other domains you own? simply list them below:

_____________________ _____________________

_____________________ _____________________
Today's Date: _____________________Signature: _____________________
Payment by Credit CardSelect the term and complete the form above, then return by fax: 1-212-257-7059 (do not include your credit card details on this form, just fill the information above and fax it to us, once we receive your fax we will send you instructions on how to make a payment by credit card, also make sure you provide us with your contact phone number above)
Payment by Check Print and mail a copy of this order form and send it along with a check or money order to the address listed below:Domain Services
743 Gantt Ave. Suite G446
Sarasota, FL 34232
United States
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By accepting this offer, you agree not to hold DS liable for any part. Note that 
THIS IS NOT A BILL. This is a solicitation. 
You are under no obligation to pay the amounts stated unless you accept this offer. 
The information in this letter contains 
confidential and/or legally privileged information from the notification
 processing department of the DS. This information is intended only for the use of 
the individual(s) named above. 
There is no pre-existing relationship between  DS and the domain mentioned above. 
This notice is not in any part associated with a continuation of services for domain 
registration. Search engine submission is an optional service that you can use as
 a part of your website optimization and alone may not increase the traffic to your
 site. If you do not wish  to receive further updates from DS 
Go to http://jiffytext.com/url/ to unsubscribe. If you are not the intended recipient, 
you are hereby notified that disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any 
action in reliance on the contents for  this letter is strictly prohibited.
 * 100% satisfaction guaranteed, you may request a refund within 30 days.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

$10 million Internet Scam



 People scam for all sorts of reasons. That the kind of statement you would expect from a psychologist or psychiatrist. I think people scam because they see it as an easy way to defraud honest people out of their money.

People who get scammed, however, may not be honest themselves. They may simply be gullible. Scammers do not look for honest people. Internet fraud is accomplished using gullible people.

You would have to be gullible to believe that you had inherited some money from some relative you had never heard of before, or probably even more gullible than gullible to believe that some person who you have never heard of before and was not a relation had nominated you in his or her will as a beneficiary. The truth is nobody is that gullible. Well, maybe I should not say nobody as there is always Dumb and Dumber.

Seriously, who would believe that they are the beneficiary of a will of some Lord or Countess from Europe or Great Britain?  I would suggest only somebody who is desperate or greedy and has a tendency to be dishonest.  Any sane person would immediately recognize such a suggestion as a scam in the making.

The client of Sir Frank Mercer has died—bless his soul. Naturally, not being a relative nor friend nor acquaintance, the benevolent soul he was, saw fit to include me in his will. The email notifying me of this somber occasion informs me that although the man has regrettably died, I have been fortunate that my “name was listed as Heir to our late client funds 8,500, 000.00 Euro ($10.000.000 aprox.), deposited in a Bank Abroad.
This is just a summary for us to hear back from you and explain in details to you, the major reason why we are contacting you. For more details send yourResponse to the personal email address of the Legal Officer below.”
Contact Email: barr.fmercer12@live.com-

I always find it rather humorous how these dead people have an email address at live.com. Maybe this is supposedly a subliminal cue to act now so that the recipient can live it up on the dead man’s funds.

The aim of this internet scam is catch the desperate and greedy, who then become gullible enough to fall for the next part of the ploy. Even the desperate are not gullible enough to fall for the first email and expect the money to be sent to them no questions asked. Naturally, as we all would under genuine circumstances, we would expect some security checks to be made. Our bona fides need to be established to prove that we are not some scammer who is out to scam the scammers.  However, this is a scam, and nobody is going to hand over their details immediately, until they are convinced there is something in this scam for them.

If we were to reply, this means that we will be providing details of bank accounts and other information that can be used for identity theft if we ourselves are not able to be fleeced by the scammers. This information will be used to create new accounts into which funds can be transferred and withdrawn to be funneled to Romania or Azerbaijan or Russia or Nigeria or anywhere there is a Western Union office.

This scam is about how funds abroad need to be harvested—sorry, retrieved—from a certain bank account or even a number of bank accounts, since the funds were secretly dispersed. In the event that your own bank account has no money in it, then you will be used as a mule to funnel funds across to the collection center where all the monies have to be verified and authorized for distribution after probate. In the event, that you are not willing to comply with these requests, an online fraud will done making use of the details you have provided to them.