Economic Stimulus Check Scam

We received another spam scam email which we felt was important enough to post as a warning to you.

This email claims to be an IRS request for information so you can receive an economic stimulus check. Be careful with these emails that ask for personal information. Most of the time they are scams.

Here's a copy of the email.

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined
that you are eligible to receive a Stimulus Payment.

Please submit the Stimulus Payment Online Form in order to process it.
A Stimulus Payment can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your Stimulus Payment, please follow the next URL:

http://www.iriscoatings.com/css/index.html

For security reasons, we will record your ip-address, the date and time.

Deliberate wrong inputs are criminally pursued and indicated.


Regards,
Internal Revenue Service


Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.



FOLLOW UP NOTE:  This is a copy of the email, and we do not make any claims as to the accuracy of
the contents of this email; nor do we represent any of the sender's or organizations mentioned
in this spam email.

FBI : Nigerian Bank Scam

Here's another one worth posting. We obviously get tons of these scams every day, but most of them are the same. When we get one which we feel would catch your attention we will publish them here.

This particular scam is a Nigerian Bank Scam where the sender claims to be from the FBI. Don't fall for this hoax.

Here's a copy of the email.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ROOM 4-230, KALANIANAOLE FOB
300 ALA MOANA BOULEVARD HONOLULU, HAWAII 96850-0053
http://www.fbi.gov




Attn: Honorable Beneficiary.


We the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI Honolulu) United States Of America
have discovered through our intelligent monitoring network that you have a
transaction going on as either inheritance payment,Lottery or contract payment
in a tone of Millions of United States Dollars which have been approved but
have not been settled.

    
This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract /
inheritance file after close monitoring and found out why you have not received
your payment, both on your part and on the part of your debtors.


Secondly, we have been informed that you are still dealing with the non
officials in the bank who are attempting to secure the release of your fund to
you. We wish to advise you that this is illegal and you should stop further
communication with them forthwith because such an illegal act like this can
lead to cancellation of your fund.we have been having so many complains from
people who have been scammed arround the world hence, after concluding in a
meeting with members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we came to a
conclusion that every payment will be made through the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
(CBN). We also concluded on the use of ELECTRONIC ATM  PAYMENT SYSTEM as the
only direct means to pay all beneficiaries.


By this method, your funds will be loaded in TWO BATCHES into an ATM card, and
sent to you, from this card you can withdraw a maximum of us$5,000. per day
from any ATM machine worldwide, BUT from the financial houses there is no
limit. So if you would like to receive your funds in this way please send your
following information to the paying bank.


1. Full name
2. Full address (P.O box not acceptable)
3. Phone and fax #
4.Your balance payment
4. Your age, sex and current occupation


Below are the contact details of the PAYING BANK(ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA) in the
Federal Republic Of  Nigeria to whom you will send your information for the
processing of the ATM card as soon as possible:


CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Paul Taylor,
HEAD OF  OPERATIONS,ATM CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM
DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION, ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA. (ZBN)
EMAIL: paul_taylor04@live.com
DIRECT TELEPHONE NUMBER: +234-8030445305.


The DEBT SETTLEMENT COMMISSION has been mandated to issue out your payments for
this fiscal year 2008. Also for your information, you have to stop any further
communication with any other person(s) or office(s) who claim that to be
established agents using it to defraud innocent people worldwide.This is to
avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.


THANKS FOR LISTENING TO OUR ADVISE


Faithfully Yours,
MR .ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI  Honolulu))
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

NOTE: This is a copy of an email we received. In no way do we make any claim that this information is true, nor do we support any of these scammers who purposely lie to try and steal your personal information or money. If you receive scams, please forward to spam@uce.gov

Thanks

Top 10 Internet Scams

We found a nice breakdown of the top 10 internet scams on switched.com. These are general descriptions of the types of scams being used. If you scan through our site you'll find actual copies of emails received from the scammers. This will hopefully better assist you in determining whether the emails you receive are a scam or not. You can read the article by clicking here.


Remember, the best thing you can do is to delete the email if you don't know the sender. And if the sender APPEARS to be from a company you deal with, you are better off to delete the email and go to your vendors website or call directly to determine if the email was real or not. In most cases you will be told the email is spam or a phishing scheme. Also, in many cases the vendor will give you a spoof@____.com address to forward the email to.