Spam and Attempted Fraud
- December 2004

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 04:21:08 +0800 (CST)
From: Jean Juanda <jean_juanda@yahoo.com.sg>
Subject: Order Request

Dear Seller...
 
I`m buyer from Singapore. I`m visit your website and i`m would like to buy some product from your store.
The Product is :
 
Item : Sony Ericsson P900
Qty  : 10 units
 
Do you can accept payment with credit card? if you accept payment with credit card, i will send my card and shipping/billing address to you via email.
Please let me know your information and confirmation about my order.
Thank you very much
 

Best regards,

We've seen this same spam last month, clearly generated by a mass mailer in Indonesia, although this time it's been routed through Hawaii to try to avoid detection.

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:19:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: christ second <christ_second@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION IS NEEDED

Dear,

With every hope  that my letter to you wouldn?t take you totally unwares. I got your contact through the business magazine and your very name reflects to me that you are someone to be trusted. For this very reason I will hold you in trust and confidence.

My name is MR.christ.the former commissioner of Income Tax of Republic of Sierra Leone. In the month of July 2001, I started to receive threats, false allegations and counter accusations from the government of Sierra Leone under President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. Subsequently the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) headed by Commissioner Val T. Collier put a phoney corruption charge on me and an arrest warrant was put on me. (reference to West Africa Magazine Publication of 26th Nov. ? 2nd Dec. 2001)web.www.westafricamagazine.com

I am a man of affluence, no doubt about that. I have acquired enormous wealth, no doubt about that. But  my weath was not acquired illegally neither have I  solicited or accepted an illegal advantage as falsely accused by the Anti-Corruption Commissioner. President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah did all these injustices to me in other to silence and bringdisreputation on me because  he has seen me as an obstacle or impediment to his continous stay in power.

Also President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah only wants to eliminate me as I have politically taken side with his party opponents and  challengers, like Charles Margai (ref. Publication of 21st ? 27th Jan. 2002 www.westafricamagazine.com.

As fate would have it, I was fortunate  to escape from  Sierra Leone and now I am in Indai Mumbai. In the course of my departure from my country, I have securely arrived (MUMBAI) with my immediate family and my younger brother Princewell. I also have $10m(Ten million US Dollars) with me encased in a sealed metal iron box, which for safety measures I have deposited in a reputable private security company, I declared that the contents are precious family values in other not raise eyebrows.

I now solicit for your partnership assistance to transfer these funds to your country for onward investment. I will furnish you with further details after receiving your response. Take everything as confidential.note.

Thanks and God bless.

Best Regards,.
 MR.christ

We don't normally bother with 419 scams here, but this one  is interesting. First of all it comes from 203.192.195.147 which actually is Mumbai (Bombay), India. There's also quite a bit of research into names and events, however it's completely let down by the bonkers name of "Christ Second". Needless to say, this is a another variation of the Advanced Fee Fraud.

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 06:42:39 -0800
From: "Daniel Otoy" <danielotoy@fastmail.co.uk>

Dear staff
I have visited your web site
I really interested to buy Motorola E680 3 Unit and Sony Ericsson P910i
2 Unit
from you.
Do you ship it to Singepore via UPS and process credit card payment
directly through your merchant or credit card machine?
I'm waiting for your confirmations about this inquiry.
Please reply me as soon as possible.

Best Regards,
Daniel
--
  Daniel Otoy
  danielotoy@fastmail.co.uk

In the case the spammer has used a technique to try to hide the fact that it doesn't originate from Singapore. However, it's easy to spot. First of all, the spelling of Singapore is incorrect. The email address is in the UK, but the buyer claims to be from Singapore. And of course, we don't actually sell phones ourselves. Even if the scammer has used a trick to hide their IP address, you would expect a genuine Singaporean email to originate from a Singapore IP address. Therefore, this is definitely a bogus email. 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:01:26 -0800
From: "Johan Ananta" <johan@kaxy.com>
Subject: Order Inquiries

Dear Sir,

Good day, I am interested to purchase Sony Ericsson P910i, Please information to me:
1. I've plan to Purchase 10 unit, Do you have stock at this time?
2. That phone can work in my country?
3. Can you ship to Overseas?
4. Do you accept creditcard for payment?
5. Can you ship via FedEx, or EMS/Post Office?

Looking forward hearing from your information soon. Thanks



Best Regards,

Johan Ananta
PT. Indo Persada
Ruko Trafalgar Blok B no:20
Taman Dutamas,Batam,29440
Indonesia

Straightforward fraudulent purchase attempt from Indonesia.

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 04:38:48 -0800 (PST)
From: edgar ingram <edgaringram@yahoo.com>
Subject: enquiry

hello,
 i wish to inquire if i could purchase a motorola V600 as a christmas gift for a friend abroad. please let me know if it is possible and how much it would cost me to send the item to my friend located in Nigeria. thanks
Edgar

Fairly unimaginative Nigerian fraud attempt.

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 06:18:11 -0800 (PST)
From: latifa namakula <lnamakula@yahoo.com>
Subject: REPLY

KATS MOBILE PHONES INTERNATIONAL LTD
P.O BOX 2948
KAMPALA-UGANDA
EAST AFRICA
TEL: 256 71 71 9292
FAX:256 41 235 763 

Dear Sir,

Kats mobile phones international is a prominent and successful business organisation. We import mobile phones and sell them here in Uganda on both whole sale and retail price.

We are interested in your products and therefore would like to enter a business relationship with you. Please email us an invoice indicating the products you have in stock to make it easy for us to place an order.

Hope to hear from you soon

Yours

Latifa

Another example of a fraudulent email from Uganda, probably the second most common source of fraud attempts after Nigeria.

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:41:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Nurlizah Harahap <nurlizah@yahoo.com>
Subject: RFQ

Pls quote,
1Unit  Nokia 9300.
 
Best regards,
Nurlizah
Indonesia

There's not even much effort gone into this one.

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:29:45 +0700 (WIT)
Subject: inquiry O2 - XDA II
From: purchasing@llcnetwork.com

Dear Seller

Iam interesting with your products
Now I would like to buy #O2 - XDA II
How many which available in your stock and ready to ship overseas?
is any discount price for this item,I will buy it more than 1 unit?
for this time Iam using credit card directly as payhment,due to controled
my cash flow,do you accept credit card directly?
please email me back as soon as possible,thank you
best regards

Originates from 219.83.4.17 in Indonesia.