Good grief, some stupid scammer is sending over a cheque worth "$500,000" by "Fedex".

There are no inheritance crap from some dead rich man, no lost treasure from war, no illegal contract money waiting to be transferred, no.. noo... nothing.

It is just a parcel coming your way with a cheque.

Hot Scam Specifications:

Scam Type: 419 Scam
Fake Names: Hon. Barrister Michael John Agudo, Dr.Nnamudi Paul
Offer Type: Money Transfer
Transfer Amount: $4.5million
Storyline: You have a going-to-expire cheque worth $4.5million out of nowhere, and its with some Courier company waiting to rip you off by asking you to pay fees before you can collect the money that was cashed from this cheque.
Scammer Location: Benin, and might redirect anywhere in Africa depending whether they have money mule.
Scammer Email: servicecompanydiplomaticcourier@yahoo.com, barr_michael03@msn.com

This seemed to be another version of those fake "FBI" scam mail, but this is a darn long scam mail that is completely rubbish and we admire the scammer who takes the time to draft it.

And we also admire anyone with the endurance to finish the whole mail and trying to understand what the crap they are trying to say.

Scam Type: 419 Scam
Likely Fake Names: Dr.Valentine Ajie Isagba
Offer Type: Money Transfer
Transfer Amount: US$15million
Storyline: Just say "Yes" and you will get 40% of the above.
Scammer Location: Nigeria (this has to be one of those 419 scam recruit at Lagos)
Scammer Email: dr.valajieisagba@hotmail.com

Hot Scams Warning: Urgent response to this email will cause heart failure.

-----Attached-----
From: lee liu <liu@lawfirm.org>
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 11:56 AM

I am Lee Liu,an attorney at law.A deceased client of mine, that shares the same last name with you,died as a
result of a heart-related condition in March 12th 2007.Leaving behind a deposit valued at $19 million dollars,his heart condition
was due to the death of all the members of his family in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December 2004 in Sumatra Indonesia .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law,you
 can also contact me on my private EMAIL:(esq.leelliu@gmail.com).

Best Regards,
Lee Liu.

This is exactly what loan scams does.

They are funny people who can think of ideas like this. Please don't fall for it.

Check out this video from Tony Maciulis in his ISP (Irregularly Scheduled Programming), and mentions about our partners (419eaters.com).

Hot Scam Specifications:

Scam Type: 419 Scam
Fake Names: Mark Anderson
Offer Type: Money Transfer
Transfer Amount: US$5.5million
Storyline: Unpaid funds waiting for strangers to collect.
Scammer Location: He claims to be London, UK
Scammer Email: unitednations@optonline.net, legalunitednation@live.com

Some scam mails are dead giveaways, like this one:

FROM THE DESK OF: DR Tunde Lemo CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA.

Its like saying "This is a traditional, 100% original recipe, 419 Scam mail from its mother land". Yeehar!

We are surprised to see a "unitednations.org" as the only contact address in a scam mail.

A quick check on the site shows that it is a parked page. The WHOIS shows that the owner of the domain has blocked their registration information from view by the privacy service.

When I read this first sentence in the mail, I thought whoever receives this is caught red-handed and is in trouble.

"THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) THROUGH OUR INTELLIGENCE MONITORING NETWORK HAVE DISCOVERED THAT YOU HAVE A TRANSACTION GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN UNITED KINGDOM WITH THE BRITISH LOTTERY COMPANY AS A BENEFICIARY OF AWARD PAYMENT OF(£1.000.000) ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS IN AN ONLINE LOTTERY  PROMOTION."

In fact, if you didn't realise, most storyline behind the 419 scam mails are all about illegal money tranfers. We are not referring to the fact that they are trying to scam you, but that the "money transfer" story itself is supposed to be an "illegal activity".