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Anupam

A simple and probably quite effective variation, from an email arrived this morning. Asks for your cc number, your 3 digit number, and just to be doubly sure, your PIN too. At the bottom of the page there is a link to the 'true' site, where, without much effort, one of course finds a warning about such phishing:

Credit Union is constantly working to ensure security by regularly
screening the accounts in our system. We recently reviewed your account,
and we need more information to help us provide you with secure service.
Until we can collect this information, your access to sensitive account
features will be limited. We would like to restore your access as soon
as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

https://www.creditunion.coop
Completing all of the checklist items will automatically restore your
account access.

FROM: Mr.Philip James,
Manager
International Commercial Bank.
Kaneshie Branch, Accra-Ghana.
West Africa.

Attn:

My name is Mr.Phlip James; I am the regional manager
of the international commercial bank of Ghana. I am 44
years of age married with 3 lovely kids. I got your
information through the Internet and hope and wish
that we can work
together.

I have successfully and carefully packaged a financial
transaction that will benefit both of us. As the
regional manager of the international commercial bank
(ICBGH). It is my duty and responsibility to send in,
a financial report to the head office of my bank here
in Accra (Ghana) at the end of each fiscal year.

In the course of report and submission of the end of
the year (2004) financial activities of my branch to
the head office. I discovered that my branch in which
I am the head and the manager made an outstanding
profit of US$3, 750, 000.00 (three Million seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars only) which is
unaccounted and undeclared and of which the head
office is not
and will never be aware of. I have since and
accordingly placed the funds (US$3, 750, 000.00) in a
suspense account without any beneficiary.

As the manager and an employee of the bank, I can not
be directly involved and connected with the money, so
this has informed my contacting you for us to work
together so that you can assist in receiving this
money into your bank account for us to share.

For your involvement and participation in the scheme,
you shall receive 30% of the total money after
conclusion. The transaction (scheme) is risk free and
the money will be transferred to your designated
account through bank-to-bank transfer via telegraphic
wire transfer. All that you will require to do is to
stand and make claim as the original and bonafide
depositor of the funds with the bank (my branch) so
that my head office will give approval for the
transfer of the funds to your designated account.

Note that as the manager of my branch of the bank that
all the requisite and necessary arrangements have been
masterfully and expertly put in place to facilitate
your successful claim of the money and the eventual
transfer of the money.

Upon your reply of this mail and your indication of
interest in the transaction, I shall oblige you
further details.

Awaiting your prompt response.

Best regards,
Mr.Philip James

Note reply to phillipjamesmywaycom

In my inbox this morning (notice the personalised greeting!):

Fidelity Investments International

25 Cannon Street

London EC4M 5TA

United Kingdom.

Tele 0044 704 572 0578

Dear,

This letter might surprise you because we have met neither in person nor by correspondence. But I believe it is one day that you got to know someone either physical or through correspondence.

I am Mr. Robin Shepherd, Associate Director of Fidelity Investment International. The World Largest Funds Management Company with over $1.2 Trillion Capital Investment Funds. Nevertheless, as Fidelity Associate Director, I handle all our Investor's Direct Capital Funds and secretly extract 1.2% Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit (EMRCP) per annum on each of the Investor's Magellan Capital Funds. As an expert, I have made over GBP9.5m from the Investor's EMRCP and hereby looking for someone to trust who will stand as an Investor to receive the funds as Annual Investment Proceeds from Fidelity Magellan Capital Funds. You can view the site http://www.fidelity.co.uk/wealthmanager/contactus/index.html

All confirmable documents to back up the claims will be made available to you prior to your acceptance. Meanwhile, I have worked out the strategies and technicalities whereby the funds can be claimed in any of our 10 clearing Houses without any hitches. Our sharing ratio will be 60-40.

Should incase you are interested, please email me back or call me with my private phone number.

Sincerely,

Robin Shepherd

This is really getting out of hand:

From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailouttreasurygov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson