Emails that are scams

Dr. Wallace Williams
Director International Payment Monitoring Agency
We
write to inform you that the Federal Government of Nigeria incollabration with
United Nations have agreed last week to refund every scam victim with immediate
effect. Also, to inform you that we are paying you by Certified Cashier Check.
The following informations is needed from you urgently: Your name.......
Telephone and Home address.
Best Regards
Dr. Wallace Williams
Office line.
+234-806-773-2247

Here is another email that is using careerbuilder.com to try and scam people. I don't know who they are and never applied to any RMA Corp. The grammar is horrible.

Thank you for the interest to our offer!

Our company RMA corp. is well known in the Internet - ECommerce and Hi-Tech spheres. We cater for various services to our clients - software development, web design, web sites development, advertising of sites through the Internet, consulting services covering rather wide range of IT-technologies items. Aside from traditional payment methods (bank transfer and postal money order) our clients have an opportunity to pay via electronic payment systems (E-gold, E-bullion, etc). Lately we found clients in the countries, where PayPal (www.paypal.com ) is the most convenient payment system. The number of those clients increases daily. Unfortunately PayPal system doesn't function in our country, therefore we have to look for new agents in the countries, where PayPal can be used for receiving money from our clients and for resending those payments to our address.


Demands to the Agents
1. You must have a PayPal account.
2. Your account should have a “verified” status, as before we entrust you the money of our clients, we have to be confident in your honesty and in your serious intentions.
3. You need to have a PayPal ATM/Debit Card. This Card allows to withdraw cash from your PayPal account and therefore to eliminate any delays. In case you have no Card, it is very easy to order it. Please find the details about PayPal ATM/Debit Card when you enter your PayPal account.

The details of your job:
When our clients prefer to pay by PayPal, we submit them the details of your PayPal account to receive the payment. After that you have to be quick enough in order not to keep waiting our clients. You keep 10% of the accepted amount (your commission), and send the rest of money to our operators in different countries of the world by Western Union. After our operators receive a Western Union transfer, they notify us about it and we start to work with our clients. All fees and expenses due to PayPal and Western Union transfers are paid from the money you resend to us. For example, you have received $1000 to your PayPal account. You keep your 10% commission ($100 in our example) and send the rest of money ($900) to us by Western Union.


Why Western Union, not a bank transfer or postal money order?
The reason is that we provide services to our clients only after the payment. Therefore the promptness of payments from clients is very important for us. We cannot allow our client to wait for a week after he makes an actual payment until the money reach us by bank transfer. Alternatively the Western Union payments are effected very quickly, and this fact attracts our clients and motivates them to make orders with our company and not with our competitors. Quality and promptness of operations are our advantages.

For your convenience we suggest 2 working options:
The first option:
You receive payment from our client to your PayPal account, afterwards withdraw cash from an ATM with your PayPal ATM/Debit Card, keep 10% for yourself, and send the remainder to us by Western Union.

The second option:
You receive payment from our client to your PayPal account, afterwards send us your own money by Western Union. By following this scheme you can manage the money in your PayPal account as you wish. For example, you can transfer this money to your bank account within several days, pay to the e-shop for any service, etc.
The second option is the quickest, therefore you will be able to process more transactions per week and earn more money.

The first option has the following drawback:

Your PayPal account has a daily spending limit of $400.00 for ATM cash withdrawals.
Therefore you have to send half of the amount today and half tomorrow if first amount we send to you exceeds 400$.
In this way you won't be able to earn more, than $40 per day.

The number of our clients is big enough to guarantee you from 2 to 10 payments per week, depending on your ability and wish to work. The amounts of payments vary from $800 to $2000.
We also have to take care about confidentiality of our cooperation, because our reputation depends on it greatly.

Following this scheme we attract new clients, as we expand our sales market. You have an opportunity to add substantial earnings to your main salary. Our clients benefit from convenient payment method.

Thank you for the attention to our offer. Looking forward to long-term and fruitful cooperation!

RMA corp. Administration.

This one came with all sorts of warnings on it from my gmail filter

Attention!

On October 22, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.

REMOVED LINK

Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.

System Administrator

look at what i got!
ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY,

This is to officially inform you that ATM card number: 3774 2856 7847 9006
worth Five Million Five Hundred Thousand($5.5 Million usd) has been
credited in your favor in bid to compensate you on your contract payment
since you are next on our inheritance file for the second part of this
fiscal Year 2009.The card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will
use to withdraw your money in any ATM MACHINE in the world.
Your personal identification is ATM- 7997. Contact the verification
officer Mr Scott Anderson on: (scottanderson2219@yahoo.com.hk) with the
following for proper verification and claim processing: Call him
+2348078237063
immidiately for confirmation

Full
Name................
Delivery
Address.........Country..................Occupation...............Phone
Number.............Fax
Number...............Age......................NOTE:

You are also required to send to the verification officer/agent a means of
Identification which should be a scan copy of your Driver's License or
International Passport for proper verification and authentication.

Regards,

STATE INHERITANCE COMMITTEE

Anyone that want to GIVE me money is suspicious...now, if they want to TAKE my money...that would be normal....hahaha

You have get a Tax Refund on your Visa or MasterCard.

Complete the formular, and get your Tax Refund.


(Your Refund Amount Is $620.50)

well, i guess that explains why i can't work for the IRS - not only can I spell, but I also know proper grammar

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*

Immediate ATM Cash Card Payment Notification

Attention: SIR/MADAM




Immediate ATM Cash Card Payment Notification

Attention: Sir/Madam
This Is To Officially Inform You about our recent agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria to handle all their foreign contract payments. Based on this development We Have Verified Your Contract/Inheritance File And Discovered Reasons Why You Are Yet To Receive Your Payment. It Is Because Of Irregularities And Complications Discovered On Your Payment File By Our Technical Experts In Respect To Your Contract /Inheritance Payment Requirements Which Have Just Been Duly Rectified.

Following the approval and Remit instruction received by the various approval ministry , we the DIRECTOR, ATM PAYMENT DEPARTMENT also received from the Federal Ministry Of Finance (FMF) to credit your account by ATM card without further delay. However, we have gone through the file carefully and ascertain it to be correct, hence we will be starting the programming of your card Asap.

In regards to this email,We wish to let you know that we have four ATMCard, EazyCard, Mastercard,ValuCard, WebSurfer, This card will be issued to you and it will be delivered to you through the RoyaCompany as soon as we receive your email.

However, You have to choose one of the card's and get back to us immediately and we shall advice you on what next to do to enable us proceed with the delivery and issue the card out with your information.

Kindly note that you are going to take care of the delivery and insurance fee which is just a toking.

EazyCard

MasterCard

ValuCard

WebSurfer


Kindly get back to us as soon as you receive this mail and let us know the one you wish to receive so that we can proceed immediately and advice you on what to do,also include your home adress where you want this card to be deliverd and also your direct phone number.


The Swift card Center Will Send You An Atm Card Which You Will Use To Withdrew Your Money From Any ATM Machine In Any Part Of The World, But The Maximum Is (One Hundred Thousand Dollars $100.000.00) Per Day, So If You Like To Receive Your Fund This Way Please Do Let Us Know By Contacting The ATM Card Payment Center Of OCEANIC BANK OF INTERTIONAL P L C

1) Address Where You Want Them To Send The Card Through Diplomatic
Courier Service (P.O box Not Accepted)
2) Your Full Name
3)Occupation
4) A Valid Phone Number Where you can be reached.
We have been Mandated by the Federal Government of Nigeria to issue out $5 million as part payment for this fiscal year 2009.
For Your Information You Have To Stop Any Further Communication With Any Institution Or Office Until You Receive The Atm Card.

Note: Because of Impostors, We Hereby Issue You Our Code of Conduct Tag Number Which Is (805) So You Must Have To Indicate This Code When Contacting Us:E-mail:
(atm.center2009@live.co.uk )

The ATM offers a convenient secure and widely acceptable . At the ATM you can do the Following.
1: CASH WITHDRAWAL:
2:BALANCE ENQUIRY:
3:PIN CHANGE:
4:MINI STATEMENT(LAST 10 TRANSACTIONS)*
5:FUNDS TRANSFER (BETWEEN CARD HOLDERS)
6:BILL PAYMENT*
7:AIRTIME PURCHASE


Treat very urgently as we also remind you that your ATM Card is ready.

Mr.James Mark
Manageing Director ATM Swift Card Department,
OCEANIC BANK Of Nigeria P L C.


Thank you.

Mr.James Mark
Manageing Director ATM Swift Card Department,
OCEANIC BANK Of Nigeria P L C.

The above email was received in my box today. It actually included pictures and really looked legit. It even says it includes a trial version of something that looks legit so PLEASE BEWARE!!!!