Scam jobs and sales on Craigslist

As many people may notice Craigslist has plenty of scam job postings. I have seen were people have been scammed by people who need work done and even people acting as normal companies just to get you to send them your resume to them. I am not saying craigslist is bad because by all means they are very helpful. The way I have found when searching for a job on craigslist I always look for a company name or phone number. If there is a company name I then go to Google or yahoo and search for the company. Most big companies have a jobs posting board on there website. I always avoid clicking on links to a jobs site just because that is just to easy to reroute you to a dummy site used to steal all of your information. When I buy anything from craigslist i never have the people come to my house, I always meet them somewhere just for safety reasons for both parties. I also never when selling things take offers from people that are higher than what i post. I once was selling a canon camera and had multiple people say they were on a mission in some other country and wanted me to ship the camera to them they stated they would pay by paypal and sent me an email that if you don't know what your looking for looked like it was from paypal. I myself knew it was a scam because when I get emails like that I always look at the address it was sent from, it may look real because they word it so its hard to tell but look at it closely and you will see a small error in the from address plus when I looked at the paypal picture it was real close to being real but I read it all and noticed they added things so it was photoshopped.

SCAM- Western Union

Please be informed that you have the sum of $250,000.00 

(Two hundred and fifty Thousand United States Dollars) to be transfer to you......

Western Union <asanchez@sundecop.gob.ve>	4:14 AM (9 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients

Contact Via Email: western-union-online@9.cn

SCAM- YOU HAVE WON IOC LOTTERY

A Scam E-Mail about some Lottery..

On Dec 3, 2012 3:23 PM, <onlineawardbona02@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Winner, This is to inform you that you have won One Million Nine Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand British pounds (£1,984,000.00) on the London 2012 Olympics Lottery Promotion, which is being organized by the INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC). IOC collects email addresses of the Citizens of all participating Countries of the London 2012 Olympics that are active online, among the millions that are subscribed to the various E-mail service providers,E.g Yahoo,Hotmail,AOL,Sbcglobal,Gmail,e.t.c. Twenty Five people have been selected so far to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners, Congratulations!. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre requirement.LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be automatically forfeited. Stated below are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658 REFERENCE NUMBER: 2008234522 WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71 These numbers fall within the United Kingdom Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him: Agent Name: Mr. James Wilfred Address: 1st Floor Business Hub, London United Kingdom. Tel: +447424290046 Email: claimagentjames6@yahoo.com.hk You are advised to send the following informations to your agent to facilitate the release of your prize money.

1. Full Names:…………………………………..

2. Country:…………………………………..…..

3. Contact Address:………………………..….

4. Telephone Number:……………………..….

5. Fax Number:……………………...………….

6. Marital Status:……………………………….

7. Occupation:………………………………….

8. Date of birth:…………………………………

9. Sex:……...…………………………………….

Mrs. Renne McEchran

SCAM- COCA COLA PROMO DEPARTMENT

View the attached file and send reply to indn4@msn.com‏

Rhodes Nyanga <rhodesnyangahotel@zol.co.zw>	11:47 AM (5 hours ago)
to slandlotteries

View the attached file and send reply to indn4@msn.com‏

COCA COLA PROMO DEPARTMENT
Great Britain 1 Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith London
W6 9HQ
Dear Email-User, 
This is to notify you that your e-mail has been selected as a winner of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds (£750,000 GBP) AND A SONY VAIO LAPTOP in the ongoing COCA-COLA 2012 e-mail hot pick Lottery promotion. Your email ID. was randomly selected by our ballot computer system from a Data Base of Internet Email Users from Asia, America Europe and Africa and your email address came out as one of the winning email addresses from your region/territory which automatically makes you the winner of the stated amount.

You are advised to contact the payment officer (Mat Brown) immediately with the below mentioned requirements for payment/remitting of your won prize to you.

Requirements:
1. Name:
2. Address:
3. Age:
4. Sex:
5. Occupation:
6. Cell phone Number:
7. State
8. Country of Residence:
9. Winning E-mail ID.

Send the above mentioned requirements via email to:
E-mail: indc1@msn.com
Mr. Mat Brown

Regards,
Award Notice Board
Copyright ©.All rights reserved


Send the above mentioned requirement via email to:
indc1@msn.com for claims

SCAM- THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS LOTTERY DAY 2012

This has scam written all over it. No such Lottery this is a scam.     THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS LOTTERY DAY 2012 <christmas_2012@yeah.net>	9:15 AM (14 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients

The National Lottery
Commissioner Street
Johannesburg
SOUTH AFRICA

 Dear Lucky Winner
The National Lottery Day wishes to inform you that you have won
the sum of R9,000,000.00(Nine Million South African Rand)
Equivalent to $1,100,648.15 (USD)

The National Lottery Day. draws was conducted from an  exclusive
list of 13 lucky emails of individual and corporate bodies picked by
an advanced automated random computer search. No tickets were
sold
------------------------------

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Batch Nr: JBSH/10/JB/SA
Ref Nr: SH/037/11/06/SA.
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIO DATA VERIFICATION FORM

 1. Full Name:
 2. Address:
 3. Occupation:
 4. Nationality:
 5. Tel No:
 6. Date Of Birth:
 7. Country Of Residence:
 8. Alternative Email :

AGREEMENT:
The National Lottery day and the Local Organizing Committee
(LOC) of the 2012 National Lottery day celebration hereby Agrees,
That the winning information written above are the original winning
information as it was selected by the computer on 8th Day of
December 2012, And that the winner who these winning information
has been sent to,will be paid the winning sum of
R9,000,000.00(Nine Million South African Rand) Equivalent to
$1,100,648.15 (USD) without fail.You are required to claim your
winnings by DECEMBER 30th, 2012 otherwise  it rolls over to the
next
draw.Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified....

Claims Officer:
Mr .Owen Wilson
Remittance Department Personnel
Email:n_lotto@yeah.net

Once again on behalf of all our staff CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Miss Cindy Themba
Winnings Coordinator

*******************************************************
The information in this email is confidential and intended solely for
the addressee.The information contained in this message is
confidential and may legally protected. The information contained
in this e-mail message is intended exclusively for the
addressee.Use of this information by anyone other than the
addressee is prohibited. Disclosure, copying, distribution and / or
distribute this .net information to third parties is not allowed.not
liable
for the proper and complete transmission of the content of a sent
email nor for any delay in its receipt.This footnote also indicates
that this email has been scanned by a current virus scanner for the
presence of computer virus.
Sincerely,
*******************************************************

SCAM- From Miss. Ellie David

SCAM about gold

David ellie2012david@gmail.com via yahoo.co.uk	9:25 AM (8 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients

Dearest one,

I am  Miss. Ellie  David From Accra Ghana, I contacted you based on my proposition, my Father just passed away in the month of June 2011. Before my Farther's death they had left a huge some amount of money and 100KGS of Gold kept in a bank for safe keeping here in Accra-Ghana. it is by his grace that the bank has summoned me to come forward with my guardianship for the claims.


I brought this vital information to you believing that you will come to my aid with great assistance and opinion in the investing of these properties in your country, all I want from you is to give me foreign assistance to receive these funds and Gold to a safer place in your country as my foreign legal trustee to avoid loosing them here because I am a foreigner and my parents are no more but all legal claims documents were given to me with acknowledgement from the deposited bank.


I have plans to continue my Education and do investment in your country with your support assistance in businesses like real estate and industrial production where the funds will keep growing for our benefit.

Please contact me urgently for further vital details
May god bless you
Miss. Ellie David,

SCAM- JAMILA MOHAMED

JAMILA MOHAMED	8:44 AM (9 hours ago)
to me

SSALAAMU ALAIKUM.
HOW ARE YOU TODAY? WITH YOUR HEALTH WORK AND ENVIRONMENTS DEAR? I HOPE EVERY THING IS OK WITH YOU OVER THERE? DEAR I HAVE CAREFULLY GONE THROUGH YOUR MAIL AND I MUST CONFESS THAT IT GIVES ME A GREAT JOY AND HAPPINESS WHILE READING YOUR LATTER, DEAR YOU ARE SUCH AN OPEN MINDED MAN FREE AND HONESTLY, DEAR I RECONMAND YOU FOR THIS DEAR MAY THE ALMIGHTY ALLAH INSAH GUIDE YOU FOR ME.
I KNOW THAT THIS IS A LETTER THAT IS BOUND TO TAKE YOU BY SURPRISE AND I AM WRINTING THIS LETTER WITH FULL OF TEARS .
AND I FEEL YOU WOULD HARDLY EXPECT TO READ FROM ME SINCE WE JUST KNOW EACH OTHER NEWLY I CONTACT YOU.AFTER READING YOUR PROFILE. I DECIDED TO EXPLAIN EVERY THING ABOUT MYSELF TO YOU BECAUSE ALMIGHTY Allah HAVE A REASON FOR ME TO KNOW YOU.AND YOU CAN HELP ME OUT FROM MY PRESENT CONDITION].MY NAME IS MISS JAMILA USMAN MOHAMMAD ,IM 25 YEARS, FROM BAM-IRAN [ASIA], AND A DAUGHTER TO LATE  DR MOHAMMAD USMAN OF BLESSED MEMORY WHO WORKED WITH IRANIAN EMBASSY IN SAUDI ARABIA FOR NINE YEARS. I LOST MY FAMILY. FATHER, MOTHER DURING THE EARTHQUAKE WHICH TOOK PLACE IN BAM-IRAN ON FRIDAY 26TH DECEMBER ,2003.I AM ALIVE WRITING YOU BECAUSE I NEED YOUR HELP .I AM STUDENT IN SENEGAL AND I STILL IN SENEGAL DURING THE TIME OF THE LAND-BREAK AND POWERFUL EXPLOSIONS. I AM WRITING YOU NOW FROM SENEGAL; AFTER THE DEATH OF MY FATHER.I CAN NOT BE ABLE TO PAY FOR MY SCHOOL FEES THAN I DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE ONLY TO SEEK ASSALUM IN SENEGAL NOW WERE IN REFUGEE CAMP IN SENEGAL. BEFORE MY FATHERS SUDDEN DEATH, HE DEPOSITED THE SUM OF US$6.2M(SIX Million Two  Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars) IN CASH WITH A BANK IN LONDON, NOW THAT HE IS LATE, I  AM  SEARCHING FOR A RELIABLE, CAPABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON THAT CAN ASSIST ME CLAIM, RECEIVE AND SAFE-KEEP THIS FUND IN HIS CUSTODY IN HIS COUNTRY, AND RELOCATE ME TO JOIN HIM IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CLAIMS AS A RESULT OF INSECURITY OF LIEFS AND PROPERTIES HERE IN SENEGAL.PLEASE INDICATE YOUR READINESS TO ASSIST ME, SO THAT ALL THE INFORMATION'S ABOUT THIS FUND WILL BE PASSED TO YOU IMMEDIATELY.SEND TO ME BELOW INFORMETIONS.

YOUR FULL NAMES,,,,,,,,,,,,,
HOME/OFFICE ADDRESSES,,,,,,,,,
TELPHONE NUMBERS,,,,,,,,
OCCUPATION,,,,,,,,,,,,
ACCOUNT DETAILS,,,,,,,,,
YOUR Country............
YOUR AGE..................

FOR EASY COMMUNICATION.AND ALSO ASSURE ME THAT YOU WILL NOT BETRAY ME AT THE END. KEEP THIS TRANSACTION TO YOURSELF ONLY. IF THIS TRANSFER IS PROPERLY MADE, I AM PREPARED TO GIVE YOU 20% PEASANT OF THE TOTAL SUM FOR YOUR KIND ASSISTY .
DEAR SINCE I LOST MY FAMILY AM SURVIVING BY THE GRACE OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH INSAH FEEDING FROM HAND TO MOUNT,DEAR NO FREEDOM, NO HOSPITALITY, NO GOOD FOOD, NO ONE TO TAKE CARE OF ME HERE, I HAVE NEVER MARRIED BEFORE AND I AM NOT INTO ANY RELATIONS AS REGARDS MY STATUS HERE, DEAR MY MAJOR PROBLEM HERE IS HUNGER, MOSQUITOES AND NO GOOD WATER BUT MORE ESPECIALY HUNGER
SINCERELY JAMILA.

Dear please i have no means to give you a call but you can only contact me through Reverend Father Emmanuel George United Nations Refugee Camp Supervising Officer His office telephone number is ( +221-768773538 ) and tell him that you want to speak with JAMILA  Usman mohammed and he will sent for me

SCAM- Friendship

This was a first scam that I have encountered like this. She was close to having me fooled, but I was starting to get suspicious once she said her father was a very successful business man and her whole family died in japan. It could have happened but she said she had no bank account but her father had millions of dollars in a bank, and then she said she wanted to use my bank account and have me get her into the US. Thos were such big red flags showing me this was a SCAM.

Tomiko Masuyo	11:22 AM (6 hours ago)
to me

Ohayou tomodachi,

I am so excited whenever I read your email to me. I am not feeling very fine because of my suffering condition in the orphanage home. I have something to tell you and very open and honest to you. I have my late father’s bank deposit slip and he deposited money in United States Dollars ($4,200,400.00), which was the reason why I traveled to Cambodia when the tsunami happened. My dead father wanted to build a hotel in Cambodia before his death in March 2001. Since I do not have a bank account yet, I want to use your bank account to transfer this money. The bank said it will only take 2 or 3 working days to receive the money in your account. When you received the money, I want you to prepare my travel papers and help me immigrate to your country and start a good business with this money. Since my family died in the tsunami in Japan, I have been managing to survive and residing in the orphanage home in Cambodia. It is not easy for me and I do not have any money that is why I take shelter in the orphanage home. Please, I will allow you to take any percentage from this money as soon as you help me and I will welcome your suggestion of business which I will do with my own share of this money. You are God’s sent to help me out of this problem and I will live in your country comfortably with this amount of money. The only requirement is that the bank asks me to provide a document for Trustee who will act on my behalf in receiving this funds. I have met a lawyer and he told me is possible to make this document. I want you to assist me so that I will get the money and leave the orphanage home which I am residing now. The lawyer said that once I have a responsible person who will act on my behalf as a Trustee, he will make the documents and notarize it which copies will be sent to the bank and they will make the money transfer to your bank account on my behalf. I want you to contact the lawyer, his email address is: phlonghim@lawyer.com

When you contact him, you should tell him that you are my family relative living abroad and want to act as my trustee because you know about my suffering condition in Cambodia and want me to relocate as soon as possible.

I am waiting for your information. Please do not fail me.

Tomiko

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Robert Beers <beersrobert000@gmail.com> wrote:
I am so sorry about your family my brother was in japan during all of that he was in the US Navy. He has just recently gotten out of his tour in japan after 4 years being stationed there. The weather is nice were I AM AT IN THE US. You look very pretty in the pictures you have sent. I dont have any pictures on my phone at the moment but have loads of them on facebook. Hope you have a good day.
Robert On Dec 6, 2012 11:01 AM, "Tomiko Masuyo" <tomikojapanese@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for writing me. I am fine and thanks for your concern about my family. I think we share a lot in common and it is good we are communicating with each other.

I am single, 24 years old and never married, 5 ft 8 inches tall, 55 kg weight, Asian hair and brown eyes. I am of Japanese origin but presently in Cambodia. I want to tell you that my father is from Cambodia and my mother Japanese. I lost my parents during Japanese deadly tsunami last year. My family was among the first target of tsunami. My late father was a successful businessman and he has two hotels close to river where the tsunami carried everything away. I do not know anyone in Cambodia and I am residing here in Cambodia as a result of the earthquake and tsunami disaster that happened on the 11 March 2011 in north-east Japan. I am the only person in my family that was not at home because I was at the boarding school in Tokyo. Due to this all my family members including my elder sister were gone in a cold blood and our family houses gone. I was lucky that I escaped death because I was in boarding school when this deadly incident took place. I am the only person surviving and I managed to make my way to Cambodia because it is my paternal country and this is my first time to visit this country and I don’t know anyone here. I am staying now and never hope to go back to north-east of Japan again, even sometimes I look through the web pages and I cry all day. What are you doing today? What weather in your country now? 

I look forward to your reply soon.

Yours,

Tomiko

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Robert Beers <beersrobert000@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, Well I have never been to any country outside of the US. I like all people. My brother told me Japanese girls are good, he told me I should go there and meet some. He was dating one but now is dating a Chinese girl. I enjoy traveling and one day hope to visit other countries. I also like computers and meeting new people. I am very out going and fun to be around. I hope to get to know more about you.
Robert On Dec 5, 2012 4:31 AM, "Tomiko Masuyo" <tomikojapanese@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello friend,

Thanks for your email to me. I will like to correspond with you and I also feel age is not a problem because it is only numbers. Have you visited Asian country especially Japan? Do you like Japanese girl? Tell me more about your interests and hobbies. I was born and grew up in Natori.

I do really want to know more about you as we communicate with each other.

Yours,

Tomiko

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Robert Beers <beersrobert000@gmail.com> wrote:
Were about in japan are you from?? My brother is in japan seeing his girl friend..
On Dec 4, 2012 7:21 AM, "Tomiko Masuyo" <tomikojapanese@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am Japanese Asian girl and here to find nice people for communication. I am
24 years old. My hobbies are dancing, reading and listening to pop musics
on internet. Tell me something about you.

I will tell you more about myself in my next email.*

Sincerely,
Tomiko

SCAM- Office Mail

More Scams now using Fed Ex name.

Tracking ID (B)NW48 306 311 1470 5789

Office Mail <no_replyWRP@toledo.com>	3:10 PM (2 hours ago)
to me, bcc: bellamyclarissa, bcc: beltonanthony21

FedEx
Order: SD-5468-482485468
Order Date: Monday, 2 December 2012, 11:23 AM
Dear Customer, Your parcel has arrived at the post office at December 4. Our postrider was unable to deliver the parcel to you. To receive a parcel, please, go to the nearest our office and show this postal receipt.
GET POSTAL RECEIPT
Best Regards, The FedEx Team.
© FedEx 1995-2012

SCAM- 2012 End of Year Cash-Giveaways

A Google Scam..

G00GLE UK TEAM <giveawaysteam@tj.ba.gov.br>	3:42 PM (5 minutes ago)
to undisclosed recipients

--

This e-mail add. has w0n 900,000 UK Pounds with

E-T!CKET#: US01/UK11-001/EUC.

Confirm the usage of this acct. to enable us send full details.

Giveaways team UK
Call: +44-702-406-7526

SCAM- Mr.David Brown

Here is yet another E-Mail Scam...

Mr.David Brown <info1@yahoo.com>	10:23 AM (2 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients

Win $500,000 in Coca Cola Company @West Africa yearly promo.To qualify,Email
the correct answer to the question given below to Mr. David Brown via
email(Mr.DavidBrown@live.co.uk

) Question: Who won the 2010 FIFA World Cup in
South Africa? (A)England(B)Spain (C)Germany (D)Brazil.

The trust of the Internet

People are starting to be more cautious of webpages now... I do not blame anyone for wanting to look to make sure that a webpage is real or not.... Someone ran into my blog while looking to be sure a company online was real and after thinking about it I don't blame the person at all.... There are so many people out there who has destroyed the trust of valid webpages because they make some to steal your information... This is not right people should be able to surf the web in safety and not have to worry if a webpage is a valid one or a fake one.. These fake websites are causing the real legit  businesses online to loose business because people are afraid...