Richard Seng Crude Oil License Trade Email Phishing Scam

From: Mr. Richard Seng
Email: bbbgo92@yahoo.com
Subject: Crude Oil License/Trade

Hello,

I got your details from an online directory and having been motivated by your personal status, I decided to approach you for a possible partnership in a multi-million dollars project in crude oil trading. The company I work for is the Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd (SRC).

We have urgent need for a 2 million barrel supply of NATIONL OIL COOPERATION OF  LIBYA (NOCL) crude oil per month for a total period of 12 month (1year).

Our company vice president Ms. Foo, who is directly in charge of crude oil purchase in our company, has given me the responsibility of looking for a crude oil licensed agent with the NOCL who we can make this purchase possible. This is so because the NOCL does not sale their product directly to the buyers rather, through their approved licensed agents who acts as their sales agent/middle man between them and their buyers.

My proposal is this, that we (me and you) work together to get you the NOCL license which will authorize you to be a sales agent for the NOCL and subsequently the middle man between our company and NOCL in our company’s purchase intentions. The NOCL license can be assigned to your name as an individual license operator or to your company name if you have a company owned by you alone registered with your local authorities.

I will assist you step by step in the process leading to securing the oil license from the NOCL and thereafter introduce you to our company for the signing of all the sales agreements with the NOCL. As the license holder, the NOCL will remit the sales commissions to your nominate commission receiving Banking coordinates after our company effects the payment of the cargo to the NOCL being the seller.

I will have a take home of 40% of your commissions for my facilitating roles while the remaining 60% commissions goes to you as the license owner.

Please note:

My intentions to profit from this operation should be kept discrete between the both of us. It's against my work ethics to profiteer from our company’s dealing with NOCL but I have seen this as a good opportunity for me to save enough money against my imminent retirement hence my decision to source for a partner who can work with me in this regard.

Feel free to ask for clarifications to enable you understand this process further.

Kind regards.

Mr. Richard Seng

(Private e-mail: richard_seng@engineer.com)

Maria Sanchez International Lottery Email Phishing Scam

From: Mrs, Maria Sanchez <eagle@air.ocn.ne.jp>
Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2018, 2:32 AM
Subject: FINAL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
To: 

Euro Miliones International Lottery                  

Avenida Juan Real 24, 28002

                  Madrid Spain.

                  FROM: THE DESK OF MANAGING DIRECTOR

        CLAIM FILE NUMBER: EG/008045160003                                                                                                                      

          BATCH NUMBER: 100000488                                                                          

ATTENTION: STAKE WINNER                                                        



                                    FINAL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION



We are pleased to inform you of the results of THE EURO MILLONES - LA PRIMITIVA MULTI-MILLION LOTERIA BONANZA held on 19 TH of october . 2018. Your EMAIL ID attached to Ticket Number: 756-01457446-091, Batch Number: 100000488, Claim File Number: EG/008045160003, Winning Number: 07-07-12-30-82-07-02, Prize Claim Track  Number: NO: 9703 which consequently won the lottery on the 3rd category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of ($1,200 000, 00 USDOLLARS)  ONE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in cash credited to file Claim Number: EG/008045160003/SEP/17. This is from a total cash prize of Ђ300,871,150.00 (THREE HUNDRED MILLION,EIGHTY HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS) shared among the one hundred and Eighty Nine international winners in this category.

Your fund is now deposited with a Bank insured in your EMAIL ID.  And, as a result of unauthorized deductions by some Agents in the past, a BOND POLICY has been placed on your winning; therefore no deduction whatsoever is permitted to be made from your fund. You are expected to report to the board if this is breached. Due to mix up of some Numbers and Names, We ask that you keep this Award from public notice until your Fund has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants. All participants were selected through a random computer ballot system drawn from 1,000,000 Names from Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa, North and South America.

To begin your claim, please contact your claims Agent; MR. Robert Brown Morgan Foreign operations Manager, CITI SECURITY & FINANCE S.L. on Email:cfinance.company@europe.com  for processing and remittance of your prize money. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th November 2018.  After this date all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your Claim File and batch numbers in every of your correspondence with us or your Agent. Furthermore, shall there be any change of your address, please inform your Claims Agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of  our annual promotional program.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs, Maria Sanchez.

VICE President

International Lottery

Abisilah Odede Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance Email Phishing Scam

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY.
RUE 2067 OKOTA VILLA NIGERIAN
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIAN .
RE-IMMEDIATE PAYMENT OF 3.8MILLION USD

My name is Mrs. Abisilah Odede the secretary to the Federal Ministry of Finance Republic of Nigerian west Africa to be precise, I hereby to bring to your notice about your immediate payments of $3.8m.your funds $3.8m has being deposited to the Guarantee Trust Bank Plc (GTB) and this deposit was made officially by our seating president Alhaji. Mohamed Buhari with this deposit certificate number,200089748 and he order the said bank to transfer the funds to your account as soon as you contact them.

During his campaign for his second term in the office of the president then he received a lot of complaint from the international community and united nations as well that a lot of scams has being going on in this country and with this reason he vow that if he assume the office for the second term as president then he is going to deal with the issue of the scammers and pay the people that were involves on it in the pass And your name was found on the list that was submitted to our office recently that your yet to be paid.

And through the legal information arrives to us here that most of the scammers are using western union and MoneyGram for the scamming activities, telling the innocent people that western union will pay them such big amount of money. We want to let you know today that western union has no right to handle such payments so stop wasting your time with them.

Your funds $3.8m can only be transfer to your Account online by Guarantee Trust Bank Plc the appointed bank by the federal government to transfer your funds directly to your account once you contact them with all your bank details.

The funds were available at the bank now and the bank Manager Mr.Abbey Billy has being waiting for you to contact them today for your payments.

Contact from the Federal Ministry of Finance

So contact the Guarantee Trust Bank Immediately you receive this email message and you can also call the Manager on phone and ask him to transfer your funds into your provided account.

This is the Contact E-mail Address of the GUARANTEE TRUST BANK PLC.(GTB)

Contact E-mail..( customercareline7@gmail.com )
Contact Person Mr.Abbey Billy Manager
Telephone +234-7011- 9685-23

Please Do not forget to contact the Guarantee Trust Bank Plc with all your bank details such as follows

1. Full Name And Address ......
2. Your Bank Account Number..
3.Swift Code Number..
4. The Bank Name ...........
5. The address of your bank....

Note that the funds were deposited with the Insurance bond and this is the insurance certificate number, 0529, So feel free to contact the directed Bank Immediately ,The Guarantee Trust Bank May request the fee of $125.00 from you which will serve as the NON- RESIDENT FEE as you don’t have an account with them according to the Bank Manager. And the $125.00 was the only fee needed on this transaction and as you are contacting them today then ask them where you can send the $125.00 to them to get your funds transferred to your account online immediately.

Do let me know immediately you receive the funds. God bless you as I wait to hear from you soon.

Your Faithfully
Mrs. Abisilah Odede
From Federal Ministry of Finance.

Check to See if Your Email Address has been Compromised in a Data Breach with 'haveibeenpwned?'

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The older your email is, and how many websites you have registered it on are factors. Registering on more websites equal more risk.

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Pure Bit Cryptocurrency Exit Scam: They Disappeared with Investor Money

Pure coin logo

The latest scam in the Cryptocurrency industry: Pure coin. Pure coin performed an exit scam on those that invested into it. All traces of Pure coin are now gone. They were operating at the website https://purealt.org/index.html - it now just says "Error." What they did was empty out all of the cryptocurrency wallets and disappeared after pretending to be a legitimate new alternative cryptocurrency.

While operating this scam, Pure said this about their cryptocurrency: "PURE is a new cryptocurrency that aims to purify the blockchain, with fresh ideas and clear vision toward a fair and truly decentralized usage and better tomorrow."

According to this Tech Crunch article, this was a South Korean exchange that had raised $2.8 million in Ethereum from investors before completely disappearing. Also, "the process of building and pumping exchange tokens is a popular trend in Korea."

With no mention of who was the team behind the project, there was no public way of knowing who the contributors were. According to Dmitry on Medium.com, Pure promised to deliver a roadmap and whitepaper for over a month. When Dmitry asked on the public forum "So where can I get a list of the developers/founders/creators of PURE?" his question was deleted by the moderator "Pure Dev". This was a dead giveaway to Dmitry that this was a potential scam.

This is yet another lesson why not to invest your money into schemes that look risky.

Hacker on Twitter Posing as Elon Musk Steals $180K in Bitcoin

Elon Musk (image credit: Steve Jurvetson)

Summary: A hacker posing as billionaire Elon Musk and other verified accounts on Twitter has stolen $180,000 worth of Bitcoin as a result. In addition, once Twitter officials caught on, they blocked all accounts posing as Elon Musk - even the real one!

Here's what he did:

According to this MarketWatch article, the hacker took already verified Twitter accounts and retrofitted them with a picture of Elon Musk. Then he posted a message of charity: "I'm giving away 10 000 Bitcoin (BTC) to all community!"/"I left the post of director of Tesla, thank you all for your support!"/"I decided to make the biggest crypto-giveaway in the world, for all my readers who use Bitcoin."/"Participate in giveaway - musk.plus"

See screenshot below:

The scam message reads: "To verify your address, send from 0.1 to 2 BTC to the address below and get from 1 to 20 BTC back!"

Then the hacker changed other verified Twitter accounts and make them look legit, like an actual politician was getting in on the action. See screenshot below:

Elon Musk's Recent SEC Trouble

The hacker was taking advantage of the media spotlight after Elon Musk got into trouble with the SEC after publicly tweeting that he was going to take Tesla private at a specific price per share. The SEC found this to break the rules, and fined Elon Musk and Tesla each $20 Million and forced Elon Musk to step down as the Chairman of the Board of Tesla.

Online Catfish Scam Stole More than $50,000 with Scott Humpal photos

Online Catfish Scam Stole More than $50,000 with Scott Humpal photos

Catfish Scam

According to WFMY CBS news story, in North Carolina, a woman by the name of Roxanne Reed was scammed online by a "Catfish" - an online predator that pretends to be someone he or she is not. The online scammer went by the name of Scott Humpal in Facebook. He friended Roxanne Reed, and started begging her for monetary assistance to pay his medical bills. Roxanne Reed gave in to the request and sent the catfish several payments totaling over $50,000 USD.

The story gets worse.

Family members reported the scam to authorities, and investigators uncovered that Roxanne Reed herself was plotting a crime of her own. She was plotting to kill her mother, and pocket the insurance money. 

There is a real Scott Humpal, and he lives in Corpus Christi, TX - over 1,200 miles away. The real Scott Humpal had received a series of suspicious messages on Facebook nearly seven years ago from the catfish scammer.

Scott Humpal Catfish Scammer has done Multiple Scams Online 

This wasn't the first time that Scott Humpal's photo was used to scam innocent people. The news story in the KRIS 6 News video below describes how the catfish scammer has been using his photo to defraud others, often widows that have been through a tragedy.

The real Scott Humpal has shared in the interview not to ever send money to this scammer that is using his identity without permission. If you are contacted by a catfish scammer using the identity of Scott Humpal, please contact your local police.

#catfish

#online

#scammer

#scam

INKY startup uses Artificial Intelligence to Combat Phishing Emails

AI Phishing

Hi. This blog is famous for talking about protecting yourself against scams. And rightly so. People around the world are constantly being spammed and defrauded by email phishers intent on stealing your confidential information.

This is why you should be informed on the latest craze that doesn't even involve a real human being. That's right. The new wave of cyber crime is being perpetrated by Artificial Intelligence and bots on social media. You can find these types of scams on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram just to name a few.

INKY uses Artificial Intelligence to fight Phishing Email Attacks

To combat the growing number of online deceptions coming from both human and malicious software, a startup by the name of INKY is using Artificial Intelligence to fight against the increasing wave of phishing email attacks.

INKY has a flagship product called INKY Phish Fence, which is designed for Enterprise use to protect against email phishing attacks using a cloud-based software to block spam, malware, and phishing email attacks. It also blocks emails that incorporate brand forgery and extortion attacks with its anomaly detection algorithms. This sounds like some pretty smart artificial intelligence.

Editor's Note: Stop Phishing Scams blog has not received any compensation, and is not affiliated in any way with INKY or its products. This blog post is solely for informational purposes.