The Anonymous Widower

Fine Wine Company Manchester City

Ignore this crappy scam.

I am Ms Victoria Grace Elizabeth: the Accountant General of Fine Wine Company Manchester City (London) one of the largest Wine Companies with over 2.5 trillion capital investment Fund, nevertheless as the accountant general i handle all staff welfare accounts and i extracted 1.5% excess maximum return capital profits (EMRCP) per annual on each of the staff’s capital fund. As an expert i have made over $6.5million from the staff’s (EMRCP) and hereby looking For someone to trust who will stand as an investor to receive the fund as annual investment proceed from Fine Wine capital fund of 2008/2009, for the co-operation in building a Wine company or manufacturing company in you country.

I am sorry if this is not in line with your business, but i need an experienced person like you to assist me to set up develop the project and assume responsibility of ownership as chairman but will be bringing in profit distribute profit monthly or annually. Your immediate reply will be highly appreciated and i shall give you more information on this project.

All confirmation Documents to back up the claims will be made available to you for payment Prior to your acceptance, I am looking forward for your reply urgently before our team of auditors arrived for the year general auditing meanwhile I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the fund can be claimed by you in a bank nearest to you without any stress i will offer you 40% of the total money at the end of the transaction while I take 60%, please kindly note that we have few days left to round up this transaction..

Please kindly declare your interest in this matter as soon as you receive this mail.

Note: your reply is urgently needed.

June 13, 2010 Posted by AnonW | Computing | Internet, Scams | 3 Comments

ST Microelectronics

Another fraud.  Ignore it.

STMicroelectronics in the United Kingdom is interested in employing a financial payment contractor, capable of performing the duty of receiving payments on behalf of our company from our customers.

In performing this duty, you will be entitled to a commission of 5% for any payment you receive on behalf of our company. If you are interested in this offer, you are expected to send us the following information – Full

Names: / Age: / Sex: / Marital Status: / Contact Address: / Present Employer And Position Held: / 7. Telephone Number (endeavour to include your MOBILE number): / Email Address: / 9. Fax (If Any):

kardec Connery,

(Human Resources, STMicroelectronics)

As Bob Bear is retiring, I shall be posting these in future.  But not as thoroughly as he does.

On a serious point about these scams.  I run a small but sensible UK vompnay, that takes payments from all over the world.  People send me money by direct transfer, credit cards or PayPal. 

Why in my right mind would I ever pay an intermediary five percent to just put the money through their bank account?

April 25, 2010 Posted by AnonW | Computing | Internet, Scams | Leave a comment

Habitat for Humanity: A Despicable Scam

This looks to be a scam despite the fact that Habitat for Humanity is a registered charity.  They have a donation page which allows you to donate direct with added Gift Aid, so why would they need to employ people to do this anonymously?

Hello Prospective Employee,

At HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, we work hard to improve and provide training, technical expertise and support in fund-raising to the national organizations in all the regions of the world. However, the actual work of HABITAT is carried out at the community level by affiliates that have been officially approved by the HFHI Board of Directors. The International Board of Directors (IBOD) are volunteers from around the world who share a deep concern for the problems of poverty housing.

This is demonstrated in our role as a corporate sponsor for the HAITI RELIEF PROGRAM with money raised going towards helping displaced and disabled children and their families.

We are an organization with a remarkable heritage.

You’ve got a chance to be one of our representatives and earn a commission for funds raised.This Could earn you an average of $200 – $500 weekly and as much as $2000 (TAX FREE) in a month depending on how active you are.

You can be rest assured that you WOULD NOT be required to pay any fees upfront and this won’t affect your current job earnings or disability payments in any way and you can conveniently work from your desk at home.

Private donations will be made in your name from our esteemed Voluntary Donors in your region and other parts of the world and you’ll be allowed to deduct 10 percent (10%) of the total amount on these donations. This serves as your remuneration for the great service you would be rendering in support of saving lives in the third-world countries. Balances (after the 10%) shall be required to be forwarded to the Regional Co-ordinators of the various charitable projects we are involved in around the Globe.

Please Note: You won’t have to do any travelling and WILL NOT be required to pay any fees, this position won’t affect your present employment.

To apply, Kindly forward the following info: to our Human Resource Department at the email listed below for further instructions.

• FULL NAME :
• FULL ADDRESS :
• CITY :
• STATE:
• ZIP CODE/POSTCODE: ..
• PHONE NUMBER (S) :(must be valid) would be called to confirm.
• GENDER : ..
• AGE : ..
• EMAIL ADDRESS:…
• COUNTRY : …

Your prompt response is solicited

Coordinator’s Desk,

Habitat for Humanity International

• 121 Habitat Street
• Americus, GA 31709
• 1-800-800-2190
• Registered No. MHQLTH1084442
• REPLY TO BE SENT THROUGH : habitathumanity7@gmail.com

It just breaks all of the rules for a sensible e-mail; bad spelling, undisclosed recipients, GMail e-mail addresses etc.

But remember if you really want to give money to Haiti, would you give it to an intermediary who creamed off a percentage?  No way!  You’d probably do it through someone legitimate, as then they’d get extra tax relief.

It’s a scam.  Ignore it.

April 18, 2010 Posted by AnonW | Computing | Internet, Scams | 4 Comments