Posted on 01/15/2008 12:35:14 PM PST by radar101
AN INCREASE IN INTERNET SCHEMES CLAIMING TO BE FROM THE FBI
01/04/08—We have increasingly received reports of fraudulent schemes misrepresenting FBI agents, officials, and/or FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III. The fraudulent e-mails give the appearance of legitimacy due to the usage of pictures of the FBI Director, seal, letterhead, and/or banners. The e-mails may also claim to come from our domestic or overseas offices.
The types of schemes utilizing the names of FBI agents, officials, or the Director’s name are typically lottery endorsements and inheritance notifications. However, other fraudulent schemes include threat and extortion e-mails, website monitoring containing malicious computer program attachments (malware), and online auction scams.
The social engineering technique of utilizing the FBI’s name is to intimidate and convince the recipient the e-mail is legitimate.
The FBI does not send out emails soliciting information from citizens.
Please be cautious of any unsolicited e-mail referencing the FBI, FBI Director Mueller, or any other FBI official endorsing any type of Internet activity.
If you have experienced this situation please notify the IC3 by filing a complaint at [ www.ic3.gov] http://www.ic3.gov/.
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NEW TWIST CONCERNING THREAT AND EXTORTION E-MAILS 01/09/07—There is a new twist to the IC3 alert posted on December 7, 2006 regarding e-mails claiming that the sender has been paid to kill the recipient and will cancel the contract on the recipient's life if that person pays a large sum of money. Now e-mails are surfacing that claim to be from the FBI in London. These e-mails note the following information:
An individual was recently arrested for the murders of several United States and United Kingdom citizens in relation to this matter. The recipient's information was found on the subject identifying the recipient as the next victim. The recipient is requested to contact the FBI in London to assist with the investigation. It is not uncommon for an Internet fraud scheme to have the same overall intent but be transmitted containing variations in the e-mail content, e.g., different names, e-mail addresses, and/or agencies reportedly involved. See our related top story on the hitman scam.
Please note, providing any personal information in response to an unsolicited e-mail can compromise your identity and open you to identity theft.
If you have experienced this situation please notify the IC3 by filing a complaint at www.ic3.gov.
Due to the threat of violence inherent in these extortion e-mails, if you receive an e-mail that contains personally identifiable information that might differentiate your e-mail from the general e-mail spam campaign, we encourage you to contact the police.
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E-MAILS CONTAINING THREATS AND EXTORTION 12/07/06—We have recently received information concerning spam e-mails threatening to assassinate the recipient unless the individual pays several thousand dollars to the sender of the e-mail.
The subject claims to have been following the victim for some time and was supposedly hired to kill the victim by a friend of the victim. The subject threatens to carry out the assassination if the victim goes to the police and requests the victim to respond quickly and provide their telephone number.
Warning! Providing any personal information can compromise your identify and open you to identity theft.
If you have experienced this situation, please notify your local, state, or federal law enforcement agency immediately. Also, please notify the IC3 by filing a complaint at www.ic3.gov.
And how do we know this warning is genuine, eh???
I have received several e-mails from someone claiming to be the IRS about my refund, I haven’t even filed this year yet, each e-mail has a different amount......I’ve reported this to the IRS
If you get an e-mail from an FBI agent who is also a Nigerian minister and he wants to put $100 million in your checking account for a little while and will let you keep 20%—chances are it’s fake.
This year alone, my freebie yahoo disguised identity has inherited $30,000,000 from South Africa, 500,000 pounds UK from Zimbabwe, and a boatload of money for a lottery winning, and they have all sent two emails each. None of which I’ve replied to, of course.
Hilarious.
What! Does that mean I don't have a long last relative who died suddenly entestate in Lagos?
No federal agencies know my E-mail address (least I don’t so) so, I know it’s a scam.
I opened a new e-mail address for my business which included the word *glass*. Apparently a very rich family named Glass died in a plane crash in Europe. I’m their only living relative.
Who’d a thought?
If you get an e-mail from an FBI agent who is also a Nigerian minister and he wants to put $100 million in your checking account for a little while and will let you keep 20%—chances are it’s fake.
Congratulations! You want to be my special friend?
A close friend recently got scammed out of $30,000 buying a boat on-line. FBI involved now.
LOL, I don’t worry about this. I’ve already been contacted and have started the process to get over 10 MILLION dollars from Nigeria. Soon as my good faith check of $1000 clears the bank the Nigerian Prince will wire the money directly to my investment account.
It’s always fun to look at the headers and see where the stuff is coming from. Who’d have thought the FBI would have mail servers in Romania?
No worries. None of my friends have enough money to hire a hit man.
You're just bitter because I'll be getting the 20% handling fee any day now.
Doug From Upland keeps getting emails from Hillary Clinton claiming that she appreciates what “he’s” doing for her campaign. < /s >
Well, we're reading it on the internet -- it must be true. :=)
>>>If you get an e-mail from an FBI agent who is also a Nigerian minister and he wants to put $100 million in your checking account for a little while and will let you keep 20%—chances are it’s fake.<<<
Just send them this as a reply.
Dear All,
My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this past year and made me suffer through having to use this computer...
I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat crap in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing. Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl (Penny Brown) who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.
I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.
Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split $7 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.
I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me. I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.
I no longer can buy petrol without taking a man along to watch the car so a serial killer won’t crawl in my back seat when I’m filling up.
I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.
I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore and Uzbekistan.
Thanks to you, I can’t use anyone’s toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my @$$.
And thanks to your great advice, I can’t even pick up the $5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.
If you don’t send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 PM this afternoon and the fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor’s ex-mother-in-law’s second husband’s cousin’s beautician.
By the way...a South American scientist after a lengthy study has discovered that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.
Don’t bother taking it off now, it’s too late!
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