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<title>Devon Bank in Chicago text scam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I just received this text on my phone:

devon@devonbnk.org/ / Dear customer. Your Devon Bank 554316XXXXXXXX has been blocked. To unblock visit http://www.devonbnk.org

I don't have an account with that bank and automatically knew something was fishy. So I went to the URL and sure enough the page asks for your credit card info. I reported it to Google and Microsoft. 
[ATT=1]
registration info.. 

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<pubDate>2013-05-23 15:41:22</pubDate>
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<title>[419] This one was funny</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Typical scam for paying to get a large sum of money.  I chuckled at the organization names they were just throwing in, as if it will make it sound more official.  Can't wait for my ATM card payment.


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Federal Bureau of Investigation . (FBI)
Anti-Terrorist And Monitory Crime Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J.Edgar.Hoover Building Washington Dc
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday to Saturday:

Dear Beneficiary,

Series of meetings have been held over the past 7 months with the secretary general of the United Nations Organization. This ended 3 days ago. It is obvious that you have not received your fund which is to the tune of $2.5 Million USD due to past corrupt Governmental Officials who almost held the fund to themselves for their selfish reason and some individuals who have taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in the receipt of your fund.

The National Central Bureau of Interpol enhanced by the United Nations and Federal Bureau of Investigation have successfully passed a mandate to the current president of Nigeria his Excellency President Good luck Jonathan to boost the exercise of clearing all foreign debts owed to you and other individuals and organizations who have been found not to have receive their Contract Sum, Lottery/Gambling, Inheritance and the likes. Now how would you like to receive your payment? Because we have two method of payment which is by Check or by ATM card?

ATM Card: We will be issuing you a custom pin based ATM card which you will use to withdraw up to $3,000 per day from any ATM machine that has the Master Card Logo on it and the card have to be renewed in 4 years time which is 2017. Also with the ATM card you will be able to transfer your funds to your local bank account. The ATM card comes with a handbook or manual to enlighten you about how to use it. Even if you do not have a bank account.

Check: To be deposited in your bank for it to be cleared within three working days. Your payment would be sent to you via any of your preferred option and would be mailed to you via FedEx. Because we have signed a contract with FedEx Express which should expire by the end of this month, you will only need to pay $312 instead of $585 saving you $273 So if you pay before the end of this month you save $273 Take note that anyone asking you for some kind of money above the usual fee is definitely a fraudsters and you will have to stop communication with every other person if you have been in contact with any. Also remember that all you will ever have to spend is $312.00 nothing more! Nothing less! And we guarantee the receipt of your fund to be successfully delivered to you within the next 48hours after the receipt of payment has been confirmed.

   
Note: Everything has been taken care of by the Federal Government of Nigeria, The United Nation and also the FBI and including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $312.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ANYONE UNTIL YOU READ THIS: The actual fees for shipping your ATM card is $585 but because FedEx have temporarily discontinued the C.O.D which gives you the chance to pay when package is delivered for international shipping We had to sign contract with them for bulk shipping which makes the fees reduce from the actual fee of $585 to $312 nothing more and no hidden fees of any sort!

To effect the release of your fund valued at $2.5Million USD  you are advised to contact me, as i am the correspondent in Africa the delivery officer with the information below,

Name: Barrister John Thomas
Email: barristerjohnt1@yahoo.com

You are advised to contact him with the information?'s as stated below:

Your full Name..
Your Address:..............
Home/Cell Phone:..............
Preferred Payment Method (ATM / Cashier Check)

Upon receipt of payment the delivery officer will ensure that your package is sent within 48 working hours. Because we are so sure of everything we are giving you a 100% money back guarantee if you do not receive payment/package within the next 48hours after you have made the payment for shipping we the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) will get your funds refund back to you with immediate effect

Yours sincerely,

NICHOLAS STORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
TELEPHONE: (253) 214-6097
FAX: (202) 666-5283

Note: Do disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in possession of your ATM CARD, you are hereby advice only to be in contact with Barrister John Thomas of the ATM CARD CENTRE who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your ATM CARD PAYMENT and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon and commence investigation.

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<title>[Scam] Tenant Verified Scam</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,27963382</link>
<description><![CDATA[Someone is placing apartment/condo add on Craigslist EVERYWHERE in the US.  The wording they are using is as followed:

The property is a 2 bedroom 1.5 bath with garage and washer and dryer. Dogs and cats are allowed with a $100 cleaning charge.

Requirements to rent our property are as follows:

1. A copy of your drivers license
2. 1st months rent and optional fee for pets
3. Lease Agreement, I'll bring this to the showing
(Options are month to month, 6 month or one year)
4. Background check for each applicant

The service we use is Tenant Verified, here is a link.

This is an easy way for me to screen applicants based on previous addresses and employment information. If you have a criminal record or poor rental history, I am flexible and I'll work with you.

Contact me when you have your background check. It is in a .pdf, you can print it and bring to the showing or email it to me. I am looking for real tenants not window shoppers or tire kickers, right now I have 3 rental properties and a full-time job.

What's the best contact number for you? Are you available tomorrow?

Enjoy your Tuesday!

Leida Gruesbeck

Once  you click on link it tells you to use for tenant background it places you on their fraud website.  When you charge your card they don't take $39.95 they take $3,995! How can I shut their website down? After seeing google looks to me they are truly traveling with this. How is it possible after having so many reports, complaints? Why are they NOT in jail?? Using a merchant machine it take 3 working days for money to get in their account which is direct deposit. Once it is wired it should be known who and where to catch them? Please help me shut this website down.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-01-30 21:05:59</pubDate>
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<title>419 Unpaid Beneficiary (I came to Nigeria)</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28296539</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is interesting. They even got a website with US phone number. WTF?

From: Ms. Carman L. Lapointe
Head Of United Nations Under-Secretary-
General For Internal Oversight Services.
Contact My Personal Assistance
On His Telephone Number: +1-239-673-4712.
 
Attn: Unpaid Beneficiary,
 
This is to inform you that I came to Nigeria yesterday from Canada, after
series of complaint from the FBI and other Security agencies from
Asia,Europe, South America and the United States of America respectively,
against the Federal Government of Nigeria and the British Government for
the high volume of fraudulent activities that is going on in these two
nations.
 
For more information about me kindly click on the below link or copy and
paste on your web browser.
 
http://www.un.org/Depts/oios/pages/usg.html
 
Right now, as directed by UN secretary General named Ban Ki-Moon we are
working in collaborations with the Nigerian Financial Crime
Commission/agencies and we have decided to waive away all your clearance
fees/Charges and authorized the Government of Nigeria to effect your
overdue payment worth $10.5M only into your account without any delay as
approved and instructed by CANADIAN government and UNITED NATIONS. But the
only fee you will pay to receive your fund is the Notarization fee. Upon
your request, I will tell you the amount and also send you the payment
information you will use in sending the Notarization fee.
 
Sincerely, you are a lucky person because I have just discovered that some
top Nigerian and Canadian Government Officials are interested in your fund
and they are working in collaboration with One Mr. Richard Graves from USA
to frustrate you and thereafter divert your fund into their personal
account.
 
Note that I have a very limited time to stay in Nigeria here so I would
like you to urgently respond to this message with your Full Name, Full
Home Address and Your Direct Phone Number so that I can advise you on how best to
confirm your fund in your account within the next 72 hours. Once again,
the only fee you will pay to receive your fund is the Notarization fee.
Upon your request, I will tell you the amount and also send you the
payment information you will use in sending the Notarization fee.
 
You can reach me with below information:
 
Name: Ms. Carman L.Lapointe
Email Address: (mlapointe49@yahoo.cn)
 
Sincerely yours,
Ms. Carman L. Lapointe
Head Of United Nations Under-Secretary
General For Internal Oversight Services.  ]]></description>
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<title>Petile-Invest- Potential scam? very confused</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hello,

First of all, thank you for any information you may have about this company.

This is a work at home position titled Assistant Manager, and the task is monitoring and overseeing financial investments for the company's clients. You are substituted to 30 days of training in which they pay you for at the end of the month. After 30 days, they decide if they want to hire you. I'm confused because there is very little information attached to the company. They seem to be a tiny business which shares a building with many offices, and they are based in the UK.

The company has an online software they make you log into, and here you get to communicate with your training manager through a message system, and see a section of uploaded files that you are to look over and "approve" and "review." 

I found the company on CareerBuilder and I had a single phone interview with them. After this, they told me to create an account on a website and wait for further directions. They then added about 4-5 documents in their own file-sharing program. It was a contract agreement, the company's LLC paperwork, a packet of what to expect and the guidelines, and a registration checklist.

I did have a brief conversation with the training manager, but she was brief with me. The job requires work from 9-5 though I am still unsure of exactly what my job is other than reviewing paperwork and discussing issues with clients. Lastly, they require direct deposit or a wire transfer for payment every month.

The job promises good pay, but I am nervous that this is all a scamming issue. there were concerns with this businesses address before, but they were different companies. It is also worth noting that the company has asked for no money from me, and all the typical scam-flags are pretty non-existent. they are not promising easy money, and require you to be available 9-5 every weekday.

Thank you very much for any info you may have. The company website is posted below, as well as the company's address. I am based in the US and they are in the UK, which makes me nervous that any legal documents are void.

http://www.petile-invest.com/
Address: Cornwall Buildings 45-51 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 3QR

Thank you again for your time,
best regards,
-Ryan]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-03 21:00:43</pubDate>
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<title>[Scam] Mini in the box and Light in the box scam!</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,27383265</link>
<description><![CDATA[Warning, don't order!!!! I bought something and it came defected. The company said, to keep it and they will refund me. Ism still waiting and its been over a month. The claimed that they did but when I inquired, they had the wrong credit card number. They said they refunded it there and that's it. You cant speak to a live person but you have to submit a claim ticket and wait 24 hrs for a response. If the company does not have a phone or they are in China, don't order. It's not worth the savings or the hassle. I am out 20 bucks but it could have been more!!!! Lesson learned! I just found out my credit card number was stole, hm was it them?]]></description>
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<title>[419] FedEx giving a way $800,000.00</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28285117</link>
<description><![CDATA[FedEx Courier Service,
Head Office, FedEx Building
New Delhi India
Tel: +918-904-512-642
Website: www.fedex.com
Customers Service Hours&#150;Monday to Saturday

Attention: Valuable Customer,
 
We have a Parcel containing an International Cashier Bank Draft/Cheque worth the sum of Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($800,000.00 USD) which will be deliver to you at the moment as long as you provide all the requirement information to the FedEx package company before the parcel can be shipped to your own residential address in your country. Furthermore, you might be asking yourself how come this email, cheque or draft, Anyway, your cheque was brought to our office by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company via a Lottery Fiduciary Claim Agent, signifying that you are a rightful winner to their Lottery Award Promo selected randomly which is powered by the Coca-Cola Bottling and India Government. The main aim of this promo is to advertise the Coca-Cola Bottling Company product worldwide. Your e-mail address was among the ten lucky email addresses that make your email address as one of the lucky email address and they have decided to send it to you through Federal Express Delivery Service. What you have to do now is to contact our Delivery Department for immediate dispatch to your residential address. For your information, the Lottery Fiduciary Company has paid the Delivery fee and Security Keeping fee & Shipping charges as well as the Vat fees; you will have to pay a sum of $120.00 USD to the FedEx Delivery Department being payment for the Insurance Fee of the FedEx Company. All you have to do is to insure your winning parcel with the Insurance Company, which is registered with FedEx India. The reason why you are been ask to pay for the Insurance Fee is because of the fact that all items & packages that is not Insured by the insurance company of India are not allowed to be delivered to their delivery address. So you are to pay the FedEx Courier Service the Insurance Fee to enable the insurance company of Insured your winnings for delivery.
 
As soon as you effect the payment our delivery team will take your Insurance fee, they will proceed to the insurance company to Insure your winning funds, as soon as it is been Insured by the insurance company of India they shall commence with your delivery without any delay and also we shall provide you with the Insurance Certificate that was been given to us by the insurance company as a proof that you have Insured your Bank Draft which value the sum of Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($800,000.00 USD). The main reason why you are been ask to Insure your Winning Funds is to certify that the Bank Draft is not a Drug Affiliated Fund (DAF) neither is the funds to sponsor Terrorism in your country this will help you to avoid any form of query from the Monetary Authority of your country. And also we cannot take the risk to carry out the delivery of your funds in-case of any possible demurrage so you have to contact our delivery team and ask them how you are going to make the payment of the Insurance fee of your funds. We hope that you will respond to us as soon as possible because if you fail to respond until the expiry date of this package, we may refer the package to India Commission of Welfare Or better still to Coca-Cola Bottling Company as the package do not have a return address. Kindly contact the delivery department (FedEx Delivery Post) with the details given below:
 
Delivery Manager.
Name:  Mr. Kelvin Green.
Tel:    +918-904-512-642.
Email: fedex.packagedelivery@xnmsn.com
 
Do provide us with this information, and it's mandatory to reconfirm your Postal address and telephone numbers to enable us commence with your delivery and mostly to enable us Insure your Winning Funds and also provide us with any scanned copy of any proof of your identification.
 
=========================================
DO PROVIDE US WITH BELOW INFORMATION
=========================================
BENEFICIARY FIRST NAME-------------
BENEFICIARY LAST NAME--------------
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS----------------
DATE OF BIRTH----------------------
TEL. NUMBER------------------------
AMOUNT WON-------------------------
OCCUPATION-------------------------
MARITAL STATUS---------------------
BENEFICIARY COUNTRY----------------
BENEFICIARY STATE------------------
========================================
 
Kindly complete the above form and summit it to the delivery manager on: fedex.packagedelivery@xnmsn.com) As soon as your details are received, our delivery team will give you the necessary payment procedure so that you can effect the payment for the Insurance Fee. As soon as they confirm your payment of $120.00 USD, they will not hesitate to work straight to the insurance company and insure your winning for delivery. It usually takes 24 hours being an overnight delivery service to deliver your winning funds to you after it has been insured by the insurance company. We were instructed to email you due to the high priority of your package we had to inform you through the letter that was attach in your package, we indeed personally sealed your Bank Draft we found your email contact in the attached letter as the recipient of the foremost package. Ensure to contact our delivery department with the email address given above and ensure to fill the form as well to enable a successful reconfirmation and a safe delivery of your winning.

 
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Maggie Rice
FedEx Online Team Management&reg;
&copy; Copy Right Reserved 1994-2013.]]></description>
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<title>Western Sky PayDay Loans how the hell can they get away w/it</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,28270939</link>
<description><![CDATA[So I saw the Western Sky commerical for payday loans for $5k, when you read the fine print on the screen it says 84 monthly payments of 486.58 which equals 40,872.72 for the life of the payment.

Now, these kind of loans are really only useful if you intend on paying the money back very quickly. If you're paying over 84 months you're a fool - you should pay it back less than a month. For example, I just got out one of these loans for about 15,000$ but I'll be able to pay it back in a few weeks because I'll soon be getting 10% finders fee from an 87mil payout that I'm helping transfer to a US bank account from Nigeria. I needed the 15k fast in order to secure this transaction, but it'll be worth it because a) I'm getting 10% of that 8.7m and b) I can use that to pay back the loan right away. No brainer!]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-07 22:03:23</pubDate>
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