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419 Mail Fails... Laura Allen, Barclays Bank & Bobijou inc.
20/03/11
419 Mail Fails... Laura Allen, Barclays Bank & Bobijou inc.
07:51:03 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 419, africa, barclays, bobijou, examples, fools, idiots, mails, nigeria, online, scammers, stupid, world buisness Finally some new mails full of BS thats actually any good. This week we have a Laura Allen from the World Buisness somet or other chatting about a registration, Barclays Bank (which looks more real due to a lower % of bull in it) and some Bobijou saying I baught $577 of crap with a questionable invoice...
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Number 1: Barclays Bank
Attn:
this is to notify about your $27M with this bank send us your address,
Name & cell phone for transfer of your Fund.Andre Jones
Number 2: Came with a PDF invoice.
Thank you for ordering from Bobijou Inc.
This message is to inform you that your order has been received
and is currently being processed.
Your order reference is 961468.
You will need this in all correspondence.
This receipt is NOT proof of purchase.
We will send a printed invoice by mail to your billing address.
You have chosen to pay by credit card.
Your card will be charged for the amount of 577.00 USD
and "Bobijou Inc." will appear next to the charge on your statement.
You will receive a separate email confirming your order has been despatched.
Your purchase and delivery information appears below in attached file.
Thanks again for shopping at Bobijou Inc.
______________________________________
Number 3: Laura Allen (Considering I can't even get a libray card...)
Ladies and Gentlemen.
In order to have your company inserted in the registry of World Businesses
for 2011/2012 edition, please print, complete and submit the attached
form (PDF file) to the following address:
Europe Business Guide
P.O. BOX 2021
3500 GA, UTRECHT
THE NETHERLANDS
email: register@ebg-2011.com
fax: +31 (20) 524-8107
Updating is free of charge!
If you are not the intended recipient, please submit an email to
unsubscribe@ebg-2011.com
Your request shall be dealt with accordingly.
Message ID: Kw
6 comments
Comment from: valerie blaes [Visitor]
i got that same e-mail someone tell me is there a virus in the attachments i did not open them and canceled my card imediatly also right before in was sent to me i was surfing for coupons atkelloggs.com
21/03/11 @ 21:23
Who knows whats in the attacements, but you can't be too careful. Just because the AV says its clean does not mean it is.
21/03/11 @ 21:30
Comment from: Siobhan miles [Visitor]
I have received a similar message from Bobijou Inc. The attached invoice didn't appear to be an invoice but I wouldn't know because it was in French! I replied telling them that I'd call the police and cone after them myself if they took money from my account! Stupid spam like this really upsets me.
24/03/11 @ 21:24
@Siobhan :Thats why I try to publish them to mock them and hopefully educate people on this. You would not belive how many people have actually searched and found "Bobijou Inc" via Google and come here. So we can assume that Bobijou are really spamming away bad :(
If you get any of these mails just send them in and we will put them on the site too :)
24/03/11 @ 21:31
Hi,We are Bobijou Ltd, Registered in England and Wales No. 05610201 ( Bobijou.com) never sent you any email nor processed any credit card transaction on your behalf.
We received thousands of calls and e-mails from individuals stating they received an e-mail from the "Bobijou Inc" confirming an order they never placed. These e-mails are not legitimate order confirmations and have nothing to do with Bobijou.com or Bobijou Ltd.
Your email address were either compromised or harvested by spammers and as a result you've been targeted by a phishing emails designed to trick unsuspecting users into replying to this bogus email with question about the order. And someone will ask you for your card details in order to "track" and cancel the order you never placed. ( Have anyone even bothered to check message headers and return email address before Googling Bobijou and overload us with threats and complaints?)
Bobijou.com does not send order confirmations or other unsolicited requests that require you to open attachments. We recommend that you do not open any e-mail attachments from suspicious or unknown sources. If you receive a suspicious e-mail allegedly sent from Bobijou.com that contains an attachment, we recommend you forward the e-mail to reportphishing@antiphishing.org
OR copy both the message HEADER AND message BODY and submit via web form at: http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.htm without opening it. Delete the mail after you send it. If you opened an attachment in the e-mail, we recommend running anti-virus or anti-malware software.
27/04/11 @ 18:12
Thank you for the follow up message, the fact that this mail was posted under 419 mail fails might give you some clue as to how seriously it was actually taken.At the time of its posting it was followed up to see how genuine it was, at that time we found your companys Twitter feed which made mention of the huge amount of fake Bobijou mails going about, it was decided to not bother contacting your company about (as per Twitter instructions) this as no doubt you were overloaded at that point, however it seems things are only getting worse for you. The fact you have had to come onto this very blog and mention it shows the desperate situation you are now in dealing with the spammers.
Not blaming you but what can you do, the nature of this post is educational and a warning to those who stumble across, in fact we have had a few mails saying "thanks for the warnings" from our various exposes.
PS: I wonder if your comment has something to do with the recent hits in the last few days increasing on the keyword "bobijou inc email", again showing that very recently the spammers are at work again sadly :(
27/04/11 @ 18:34
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