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Date Reported: 17th January 2011 |
Risk Level: MEDIUM |
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Email Subject: |
CONTACT WESTERN UNION OFFICE FOR YOUR PAYMENT, |
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Apparent Sender: |
BARRISTER GEORGE BEACH ESQ. |
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Return Address: |
georgebeach1985@gmail.com |
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Email Format: |
HTML |
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URL of Web Content: |
http://mail.atr.net |
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Anchor text of URLs: |
1) mail.atr.net, 2) mail.atr.net |
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Location: |
Location not available |
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Scam number: |
15171-216191-498515 |
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Comments: |
- Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at BARRISTER GEORGE BEACH ESQ. by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.
- BARRISTER GEORGE BEACH ESQ. never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.
- The spoof website this email links to was not online at time of this report, but variations of the scam which link to working websites are bound to exist, so be wary! The website may have been taken down or disabled by the hosts, but quite often these websites are hosted on the personal computer of the phishers, so may only be online at certain times.
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FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER GEORGE BEACH ESQ. FINANCIAL MINISTER OF FREDERAL REPUBLIC OF BENIN. FORGN CONTRACTOR PAYMENT OFFICE.
Attn:My Dear;;
After the meeting held on 1st of Feb 2010 We the Board of Federal Ministry of Finance Benin Republic Now have arranged your payment of ($900.000.00) Nine hundred thousand united state dollars which was in atm payment card to be sent to you through western union money transfer payment: Your payment will sending to you by ...
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Website was not online when we checked. It returned the error 500 |