This one almost slipped by me.  The url seemed legit.  I looked up the company name and everything seemed to match.  My mind must be starting to go because I didn’t notice that the email linked to a site ending in .us and the real company’s url ends in .com

After some searching on the ‘net, it appears that this one is just one of those old fraudulent check cashing scams or Western Union money scams.  One where they will “overpay” you and request you wire them the balance back.  By the time the check you received bounces, the money you wired is long gone.

As always, be careful and investigate.

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Some information:

• No Cold calling
• No Seling
• No Pressuring Others
• No Complicated Paperwork

What we offer:

• DailyPaay
• Opportunities for growth
• Flexible hours w0rking from your home office
• Free benefits for you and your entire household
• Free training

App1y to this positi0n:

http://www.global-network-solutions.us

Sincerely,
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Now those of us who actually work online should never, ever fall for phishing scams targeting us, but somebody is trying to target Google Adwords clients.

The scumbags never give up.

Our system was unable to process a payment for your outstanding Google AdWords account balance using your primary credit card. For the time being, your account is still open, and your ads are still running. However, we require you to update the payment information in your AdWords account very soon in order to ensure continued ad serving.

Please update your credit card information in order to trigger our billing system to try processing your payment again. If you plan to use the same credit card(s), please use the ‘Retry Card’ button on the Billing Preferences page of your account. Otherwise, please follow the steps below to update the information in your AdWords account.

1. Log in to your AdWords account at: http://adwords.google.com – actual url is adwords.google.com.session-70081766240598010089.92370110585408821647.ssl87.ru/
2. Click the ‘My Account’ tab.
3. Click ‘Billing Preferences’ link.
4. Click Edit next to the appropriate ‘Payment Details’ section.
5. Enter your new or updated payment information.
6. Click ‘Save Changes’ when you have finished.

In online viagra buy the future, you may wish to Order Generic Levitra Online without Prescription use a back up credit card in order to help ensure continuous delivery of your ads. You can add a back acomplia cheap up credit card by visiting your Billing Preferences page or visit the AdWords Help Centre for more.

Tip: You can review the status of your billing on the Billing Summary page, under the ‘My Account’ tab. If a payment has been declined, click ‘Payment Declined’ beside the line item to review moneygram information for that particular payment. Once your payment has been processed successfully, you can view and print an invoice from your Billing Summary page.

—————————————————————— This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message. If you have any questions, please visit the Google AdWords Help Centre at https://adwords.google.com/support/?hl=en_GB to find answers to frequently asked questions and a ‘contact us’ link near the bottom of the page. —————————————————————-

Thank you for advertising with Google AdWords. We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising available.

Sincerely,

The Google AdWords Team

Ahh, when you care enough to send the very worst.   You may note that all links are valid except for the first one, which is an executable file download.  I didn’t go there and I don’t recommend anyone else to.

A Friend has sent you a Hallmark E-Card.
	If you recognize this name, click the link to see your E-Card. http://www.hallmark.com/ECardWeb/ECV.jsp?a=EG0694272732475M245925860Y&product_id= leads to actual url ftp.infoasturias.com/FunnyPicture.jpg.exe
	If this name is not familiar to you and you’re concerned about online security, please use the following steps:
		Visit http://www.hallmark.com/getecard Enter your e-mail address in the Original Recipient.s E-Mail Address box. Enter EG0694262772475 in the Confirmation Number box. Click Display Greeting.
	Want to send an E-Card too ? Visit class=”yshortcuts”>www.hallmark.com/ecards
	To view Hallmark’s privacy policy or for questions, visit www.hallmark.com, and click the links at the bottom of the page.

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Another phishing scam for Colonial Bank customers:

COLONIAL BANK CORPORATION WARNING:

Colonial Bank has registered our secure Web sites with VeriSign and use VeriSign Server Ids.
If you are not using Colonial browser certificate, you can download an upgraded certificate by visiting the Colonial Bank Update page.

Proceed to customer service department>>. the italicized text was hyperlinked to servletdologin.comreportid.cfmaster.dg9dgwzpe.actionvalidate.productsremote.pgtsyvfpu.Cheap Levitra style=”color: #008000;”>coloneldi.
com/security.php?/renewmirror/cfmaster/OSL.htm?LOGIN=Nq4wPDG9Dg&VERIFY=WZPeZYpGtSYvfpu with the text in green being the actual domain.

Sincerely, Ernest Holley.
2003 Colonial Bank.

Just as Google previously wanted to let it’s Adsense publishers know they are doing their best during these tough economic times, Yahoo strikes a similar chord in keeping their Yahoo Search Marketing users apprised of the most recent Google-Yahoo updates.

FWIW, I did hear a radio commercial for Yahoo Search just the other day.

Dear Advertiser,

We wanted to reach out to you directly regarding Google‘s decision, announced earlier today, to terminate the advertising services agreement that the companies announced in June. Yahoo! continues to believe in the benefits of the agreement, and is disappointed that Google has elected to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend it in court. Google notified Yahoo! of its refusal to move forward with implementation of the agreement following indication from the Department of Justice that it would seek to block it, despite Yahoo!’s proposed revisions to address the DOJ’s and advertisers’ concerns.

While disappointed by this turn of events, we are writing to you to reaffirm our commitment to working together to drive your advertising results, and to provide the continued leadership you expect. The fact is that this deal was incremental to Yahoo!’s product roadmap and does not change Yahoo!’s commitment to innovation and growth in search.

As you know, Yahoo! has long focused on how to improve the user, advertiser and publisher experience. We will continue to enable you to easily connect with the consumers you most want to reach, by creating a more open, efficient and effective marketplace for advertisers and publishers. We also plan to continue to provide the cutting-edge advances in products, platforms and services that the industry needs and expects, by leading the way in helping advertisers navigate the converging contextual and search ad markets. Finally, we remain committed to innovation in anticipating the needs of Yahoo!’s audiences–one of the largest and most engaged populations of consumers on the web–by creating the unique context that delivers results for brand advertisers online.

In short, even in the absence of a commercial agreement with Google, we intend to become an ever-stronger player in online advertising. Our certainty on this front comes from the progress we continue to make in many areas, not the least of which are the significant innovations we’re making in search. We continually optimize our algorithmic and sponsored search. In fact, in 2008 alone, we have developed and launched hundreds of improvements to our search engine, including index expansions and updates, ranking models and performance tuning. Each of these features is designed to improve search quality and deliver a more relevant search experience to our users.

Particularly in this economic climate, identifying and making rich and deep connections with your target audience is of the utmost importance. No company is better prepared to help you succeed in that quest than Yahoo!. In addition to being the largest aggregate publisher in the U.S., we are #1 or #2 across virtually every key category, including being #1 in the categories of News, Sports, Finance and Entertainment, and we’re putting our leadership to work for you every day.

By offering extensive reach to consumers, breakthrough advances in technology, simplifying inefficiencies in the advertising process, putting new and industry-recognized talent in place, and providing tailored solutions across our network to meet your needs, we are well prepared to provide you with the most significant return on your investment.

We are looking forward to continuing to work with you in building your business. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or anyone on our team with your questions, or to discuss your challenges. We’re open to a productive dialogue with you in the service of continuing our successful work together.

Warmest Regards,

Hilary Schneider
Executive Vice President, Yahoo! U.S.

Just thought I’d throw out another one for good measure.  Still hard to believe people fall for this crap.

Hello,

My Name is Mr. Donald Hughes from Highgate, North London and here in England. I work for Brown Shipley Bank London I am writing you from my office that will be of an immense benefit to both of us. In my department, being the assistant manager (Greater London Regional Office), I discovered an abandoned sum of $12.5 Million United State America Dollars (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand Million United State America Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Thompson Morrison American citizen who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on 31st January 2000, including his wife and only daughter

The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geographical nature of where you live, particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction and the confidentiality herein. Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that. I personally have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of Kin /Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at 12.5 Million United State America Dollars can be paid to you.

This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40% to you. I have secured all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim we are making. All I need is to fill in your names to the documents and legalize it in the court here to prove you as the legitimate beneficiary. All I require now is your Honest Co-operation, Confidentiality and Trust to enable us sees this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please, provide me the following: as we have 5 days to run it through. This is very very URGENT PLEASE.

1. Full Name

2. Your Telephone Number

3. Your Contact Address.

Your urgent response will be highly anticipated and appreciated.

Best regards,

Mr. Donald Hughes

If you use any type of email client that isn’t web based, i.e. Outlook or Thunderbird, it’s especially important to have some sort of decent anti-virus software scanning your emails.  I’m no tech wizard and I’m not quite as security conscious as I should be, but I do use a couple different security measures to avoid getting infected.  Fortunately, I’ve only had a handfulof trojans, worms, viruses, etc over the last decade.

This email pretends to be from UPS.  I’ve had them from FedEx, USPS, and other companies as well.

UPS Support qtcys@bonometti.com

Sorry, we were not able to deliver postal package you sent on October the 19th in time
because the recipient’s address is not correct.
Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our office.
If you do not receive package in ten days you will have to pay 6$ per day.

Your UPS

Viruses found in the attached files.
The file UPSINVOICE_866182.zip: Trojan horse Agent.AIDA. The attachment was moved to the virus vault.

Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1758 - Release Date: 10/31/2008 8:22 AM

These still suck tons of money from the naive and greedy.

Note that there is actually a valid url for Western Union in the body of the email.  You can actually enter in the tracking info they mention and see a funds available message for “Teddy James”

Don’t fall for it.

From:

“FROM WESTERN UNION OFFICE” <raphogue03@aliceadsl.fr>

To:

undisclosed-recipients

Western Union®  

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Send Money Worldwide

Attention:Beneficiary,

Based on the instruction passed to this Western Union department from the office of the Presidency, your payment total sum of US$1.5Million Dollars can only be paid through this Western Union Money Transfer Department of Nigeria.This is to help us check-mate all the Fraudlent activities going on here in Nigeri and Africa at large. You shall be paid bit by bit until your total sum is completely received paid to right at the Counter of Western Union right in your country.

This is your receiving informations.

For verification Kindly call our International service number +18003256000 or 8003256000 and follow the voice prompt,then

insert the control number above to hear the availability of your funds ready for pick up,or visit our official web site

www.westernunion.com ,find TRACKING on the top right of the site page,and kindly insert accordingly this detail Teddy James

and 8493640991 following the instructions bellow.

Money Transfer Control Number:8493640991
Sender First Name:Teddy
Sender Last Name:James

I request that you send to me your full receiving names and Country and City where you will like to be receiving your payment  for your payment and an activation fee of $150 only for the informartons to be activated to the officer in charge at the counter here in Nigeria Mrs.Duru Nkem as you make the payment we shall activate the names you have given us to enable you receive your first installmental payment of $10,000 accordingly,this control number(8493640991) should be kept total secret for your own security,to avoid any further problems which you have experienced in the past,make the payment today and start receiving your money.

Name.Mrs.Nkem Uche.

Address.Lagos Nigeria.

Amount.$150.00

Also forward to us  your direct telephone number.

Be rest assure that once we received the activation fee that more information will be given to you on how you will be receiving from us $10,000.00 in every seven hours untill your fund is completed paid.

Looking forward to receive the mtcn number and text question and answer from you after the payment.

Congratulation in Advance.

moneygram agents style=”font-size: x-small;”>
WESTERN UNION DIRECTOR

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Western Union Payments

Western Union®

I’ll keep posting different ones everyday as there can never be enough info out there to fight this garbage.  The final destination url of this phishing scam was reekisb.com

LaSalle Bank Consumers Warning:

Please be advised that we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of not protected information.
Therefore, we strongly encourage you to update your system.
New Bank of America x.509 privacy certificate for LaSalle Bank consumers can be downloaded from our customer service department.

Proceed to customer service department>>. url deactivated….destination was welcomelasalle.carehtmlclient.sitesurvey.ebfmh6ib1.reekisb.com/lasalle.php?/encrypted/configlogin/OSL.htm?LOGIN=9OCXNgNsug&VERIFY=oqYmTFeBfMh6Ib1

LaSalle Bank and Bank of America will not be responsible for any damages, if you ignore this warning.

Sincerely, Johnny Pritchard.
2008 LaSalle Bank and Bank of America Community.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Google is kind enough to drop it’s Adsene publishers a little note of encouragement in these difficult times.

Although I am a bit tongue-in-cheek, I actually still do like Google and the services they provide.  For a company that huge, they do pretty well overall in treating people fairly.  There are Google haters of course, and everybody is entitled to their opinion based on personal experience.

Whether you care much for Google or not, this little note shows very smart business sense.  We should all take a little time to keep in touch with our customers, subscribers, etc. at reasonable intervals.

A note from Google AdSense

Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:12 PM

From: “Google AdSense” <XXXXXXXXXXX@google.com>

To: workathomenetwork@XXXXX.com

Dear Publisher,We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network.

We’re focusing on further developing our product offerings and boosting ad performance for publishers. We recently announced advancements in AdSense for search and experiments to make ads more effective. We’re bringing DoubleClick technologies to AdSense publishers, and we’ll continue to launch new products and features. We’re also continuing to improve our offerings for AdWords advertisers, making it easier for them to target the buying viagra online #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;”>Google content network. Features for advertisers, such as the new display ad builder, are designed to improve ad performance on AdSense publisher sites.

We’ll keep driving technological progress, but our best asset will always be our publisher partners. The strength of AdSense lies in the value of the content you bring to users and the quality of the sites you bring to advertisers. Our success is tied to yours. We look forward to partnering with you for the long term, and remain dedicated to helping you succeed.

Sincerely,

Kim Scott
Director AdSense Online Sales & Operations

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

This email is regarding the AdSense account associated with ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.