Murder-Threat E-Mail Scam On the Rise In 2008

OMG !! ROFLMAO !! please PLEASE come kill me! that way my wife will be a wealthy widow, and I won't have to work 6 nites a week any more, to pay my outrageous taxes to support various people on "social programs" that have decided relying on the Gov't. is better than working.

I have recieved numerous messages and they all want me to send money or personal information. One tried to play it up that they were real when I called their bluff. When I sent them a very irate email with a copy of their web[age with a warning they backed off. Another wanted me to pay a fee to award a prize to someone else when I told them to forget it. I told them to just try and come here to collect it, I just might send them back in a shoebox. I heard no more from them.

The USA Office for Internet Fraud is also interested in any type of Abuse. When presented with SPAM,Phishing or SCAMS, Forward it UNOPENED to this address ( SPAM@UCE.GOV )

Good Luck and Stay Safe out there.

Simple effective way of dealing with e:mail.

Unless an e:mail is from a friend or acquaintance or from your employer, NEVER reply directly to an e:mail...NEVER.

Sign into whatever site you believe sent the e:mail (bank, eBay, PayPal, credit card company, etc.), and if they sent you the e:mail, then it will be in your inbox and you can safely reply FROM THE WEBSITE. If the e:mail doesn't appear in your inbox, they did not send the e:mail and you should report it and then ignore it.

Well I'm not a "white collar" person, just a regular Jane if you ask me BUT... I got 1 of those emails and sent a reply that said "LMAOOOO".
I thought that that email was so funny, matter of fact... I felt rather "flattered" they thought I had sumin...
Here it is right here >>

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Forwarded Message:
Subj: GOOD DAY TO YOU
Date: 1/30/2008 9:21:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: donarab@yahoo.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)


Good day,
How are you?

Am very sorry for you my friend, is a pity that this is how your life is going
to end as soon as you don't comply. As you can see there is no need of
introducing myself to you because I don't have any business with you, my duty
as I am mailing you now is just to KILL/ASSASINATE you and I have to
do it as I
have already been paid for that. Someone you call a friend wants you Dead by
all means, and the person have spent a lot of money on this, the person also
came to us and told me that he want you dead and he provided us with your
name ,picture and other necessary information's we needed about you. So I sent
my boys to track you down and they have carried out the necessary
investigation
needed for the operation on you, and they have done that but I told
them not to
kill you that I will like to contact you and see if your life is Important to
you or not since their findings shows that you are innocent.I called my client
back and ask him of you email address which I didn't tell him what I wanted to
do with it and he gave it to me and I am using it to contact you now. As I am
writing to you now my men are monitoring you and they are telling me
everything
about you. Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? As someone has paid us to kill you.
Get back to me now if you are ready to pay some fees to spare your
life, If you
are not ready for my help, then I will carry on with my job straight up.

As i have said before, i have all your personnal informations that was
given to
me by the person that want you DEAD. I am expecting your mail because i don't
have much time base to my profession and my occupation.

WARNING: DO NOT THINK OF CONTACTING THE POLICE OR EVEN TELL ANYONE
BECAUSE I WILL KNOW. REMEMBER, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS YOU VERY WELL WANT
YOU DEAD! I
WILL EXTEND IT TO YOUR FAMILY, INCASE I NOTICE SOMETHING FUNNY. DO NOT
COME OUT
ONCE IT IS 7:30PM UNTIL I MAKE OUT TIME TO SEE YOU AND GIVE YOU THE TAPE OF MY
DISCUSSION WITH THE PERSON WHO WANT YOU DEAD AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLIED WITH MY
DEMANDS, THEN YOU CAN USE IT TO TAKE ANY LEGAL ACTION.
THESE ARE YOUR DETAILS BELOW.......................


GOOD LUCK AS I AWAIT YOUR URGENT REPLY.

Regards
Don Arab.


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For instance, if you receive an e:mail from PayPal requesting information:

1. Save the e:mail--It's most likely a scam.

2. Sign into PayPal and check your inbox. If the message isn't there, it's definitely a scam.

3. Forward the phony e:mail to PayPal. They have a better chance of catching the felons with multiple e:mails (IP addresses).

4. Delete.

Use the same procedure for all e:mails requesting user names and passwords, no matter how authentic. But always take the time to report them.

To me, e-mail seems to be today's CB radio. Given the number of obviously mentally challenged individuals who are loading up many sites with illiterate/obscene postings, most of the old CB users have swapped their "handles" for cyber identities. 10-4?

I got a similar one from a guy that said he was going to report me for non payment for a 50 acre island.--that message was in my regular mailbox (not my ebay mailbox). Right there I knew it was a hoax and then I tried to look up that member in the community and they weren't listed!
We have to be careful--can't trust anyone anymore

once e-bay gets there money they just tell you what you want to hear,if your stupid enough to reply to any of this crap you deserve to get burned. its so simple ,if the email you get does not resemble anyone you know delete it

is this new????? there is nothing right on this internet and your a fool to belive it..... the world isnt full of straight up people anymore... and the internet is the worst....if you dont know that then get of line......

The reason e-mail threats are out of hand is because the Laws have not been changed to address this problem and the IP's do not like providing users information to anyone, no matter what the reason.

At the CPA firm I work for we see alot of our older clientele get hit with emails allegedly from the IRS. They don't look very professional, I can look at it and tell that its a fake. It usually includes a link to a site where you have to give bank info and your SSN...the letter informs you that they beleive that they have incorrect banking information and to deposit your refund they need to verify the account info, the ssn is to verify your identity. Other times it says something about penalties being accrued unless you click the link and give info and settle a past due debt. Now when a 75+ year old individual sees IRS, they panic and do what the letter says. So every year at this time when our clients come in (all not just the older ones) we tell them NOT to do anything with it. Our younger clientele have yet to receive these emails,and of course they are more tech-savvy then our older clients so we doubt we have to really worry about them.

Having said all that, I wouldn't necessarily call people who fall for it "stupid" or even "deserving"....if it someone of my age (32) ok yea i would be stupid and deserving of what happened. But someone who is older and much more trusting and unaware really of the power of the internet....I feel bad for them.

How do you stop or block sex ads in spam? I rec'd a scam 'contract hit' email. My response was I'm locked & loaded. Bring it on! That was the 1 & only email of that type I rec'd.

I just got some great news....I won the $5 Million Nigerian Lottery. I just need to send them my banking info, my borthday, my Social Sercurity Number, and my address to have the money transferred to me. They are also asking me to wire them $25,000 to make sure that my transaction is going to go through! here is to happiness!

Why most people even open email from an address they don't know baffles me? These are probably the same stupid people who fall for these ridiculous scams. Unless you recently joined a site or made an online purchase there is no reason you should receive an email from a user you don't know (unless you're meeting new people via email which is completely shady). Hence, there is no reason to open an email from an address you don't know, and certainly no reason to attach any credibility to the information it contains. Common sense is apparently not so common.

You report things of this nature to the FBI at:
http://www.ic3.gov/

Of course if bodily harm was threatened I would also call my local police dept as well as report all the info I have to that link I provided above.
I have had to use that link before with some other emails scams that tried to steal my identity. I got that national ic3 link from my local FBI office.
Use it. : )

Why bother reporting every little thing? Geesh, I get at least 50 of these emails weekly. I solve them with the DELete button... DONE. These clowns are in Nigeria. Don't get your dander up over this.

On an e-mail a letter came me from the address of "paul_lotto2@switched.com", it was said in him, that I won a lottery, request to copy some numbers and send them to address of "jamescaddick.australianlotto@yahoo.co.uk" and reference to your site. I did everything, and already from the second address, another letter came, in him a sum was indicated in 400 000$ (four hundred thousand dollars). To this pi'mu was fastened "Payment Application Form" which needs it was to be filled... I filled, now it seems to me, that it is deception. That to do?