new twist on an old scam
 

my wife owns a scrapbook store, the other day she told me she got an out of town (you know where this is going) order for 150 books. so she goes and contacts companies trying to find one that had that many in stock. she finally came up with a total and then sent the bill to the guy. so we are sitting there watching TV last night and she is on the computer and perks up and says, those books are going to GHANA! the guy even arranged for the "shipping" company. immediately i tell her its a scam. he probably wants to send her a check for $5k and she send him one back for $2k plus the books. she starts digging some more and cant find the shipping company. it does not exist, just some yahoo account.
she had not placed the order for the books, so that was a good thing. i told her not to open any more emails from the guy.

so beware. same scam, just a new twist.

i've had a few calls from relay operators with scam orders in the last six weeks.
they never seem to give up.

I get emails daily that are scams. They are getting pretty good, where they now hijack a g-mail account, and use the info to find owners work info. One even had a real phone number.

scam
 

How about this Email I got today........

From: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dept: Anti-Terrorist & Monetary Crimes Division
Office: Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Address: J. Edgar Hoover Building 93 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
Phone Number: 206 259 6321

Date: 1/13/2011
Important: Our agents will visit you for arrest if you fail to comply fully with the below instructions.

This is to bring to your notice that my office has taking over all the money transfer originated from any part of Africa and European countries as contract payment, fund inheritance or lottery winning due to unauthorized/incapability of financial institutions/security companies in releasing such huge sum of money result of fraud, terrorist and money laundry activities going on World Wide.
We have been having series of meetings for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the then secretary general to the United Nations, Central Bank of Nigeria and World Bank Officials. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the United Nations, Central Bank of Nigeria and World Bank officials have agreed to compensate them with the sum of One Millions US Dollars each victim. This includes every foreign contractor that may have not received his or her contract sum and people that have had an unfinished transaction, people who have inheritance to claim or international businesses that failed due to instability of government in some part of Africa etc.
We found your name in our list as one of the beneficiaries and that is why we are contacting you, this has been agreed upon and has been signed. This also indicate that the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) often referred to as a criminal history record or rap sheet, is a listing of certain information taken from fingerprint submissions retained by the FBI in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. This condition is valid until 3 days after which the funds shall be confiscated and legal action will be taken against you.
Guarantee: funds will be released upon confirmation of the DIST document. Final instruction given below;
1. Credit payment instruction: irrevocable credit guarantee.
2. Beneficiary has full power when validation is cleared.
3. Beneficiaries Bank in can only release funds.
4. upon confirmation from the World Bank / United Nations.
5. Bearers must clear Bank protocol and validation request.

We have confirmed that the amount required to procure your document which is called the Diplomatic Immunity Seal of Transfer (DIST) will cost you a total of $400USD only and the fee should be paid directly to the payment office in Nigeria via Western Union Money Transfer. Below, are the contact details of the payment office in Nigeria who will process your transaction in Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

Contact Information;
Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC)
Payment centre.
Name: Mrs.Farida Waziri
E-mail: mrswaziri400@rocketmail.com

Contact Mrs.Farida Waziri of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) for details regarding the release of your fund to your own Personal Bank Account with the following information’s below:
Full Name:
Address:
Direct Phone Number:
Current Occupation:
Once you have sent the required information to Mrs.Farida Waziri he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $400USD only for the procurement of your (DIST) document, to enable his expedite action on the processing and release of your payment without any further delay.
You have hereby been authorized /guaranteed by the federal bureau of investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be no delay once payment for the (DIST) document has been made to the authorized agent.

Note: We have requested for the DIST document to make available the most complete and update records possible for the enhancement of public safety, welfare and security of society while recognizing the importance of individual privacy rights. If you fail to provide the fee for the document, we will you with the Financial Crimes. The United Nations Department of Justice Order 556-73 establishes rules and regulations for the subject of an FBI identification Record to obtain a copy of his or her own record for review. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) Division processes these requests to check illegal activities and once you have completed payment of $400USD to the agent in charge of this transaction, you're advised to keep us posted to enable us follow up with the release of your payment and act fast.

WARNING: failure to provide the above requirement in the next 72 hours, legal action will be taken immediately by arresting and detaining you as soon as international court of justice issues a warrant of arrest, if you are found guilty, you will be jailed....... As terrorism, drug trafficking and money laundering is a serious problem in our community today and the world at large. The F.B.I will not stop at any length in tracking down and prosecuting any criminal who indulges in this criminal act. FORWARD THE DOCUMENT TO US VIA EMAIL ATTACHMENT AS SOON AS YOU OBTAIN IT. No body is above the law and the law is not a respecter of anybody. We presumed you are law abiding citizen whom would not want have scuffles with the authority, in and outside America.

Regards,
Federal Bureau Investigation.
Robert S. Mueller III,
FBI, Director.

Great grammar.

do they know they are using a Washington STATE phone number with a DC address?

T77911S, what store does your wife own? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to post it on this thread. My wife is HUGE into scrapbooking (does 8-10 scrapbooks a year, mostly as gifts for people) and she could always use more supplies.

thanks legion.

scrapbooks by the sea. in myrtle bch.
our web site is messed up, i dont have the time to fix it, but that is scrapbooksbythsea.com , or she can look her up on face book by the same name or by rayann culp.

her email is scrapbooksbythesea@sc.rr.com

just let her know what she wants.
thanks.

if she contacts her, let her know she found her on pelican.

lol

This was in my spam box...