New egold Fraud - beware!
Just got this message to email box:
Good day, Yesterday I was checking my egold account and was surprised at what I saw; I had almost 200 ounces of gold (USD 100,177.90). I never had so much money, (I only had USD177.90 in my account at he time of this transaction) I don�t know how did they get there. I clicked on history and saw that money were transferred 2 hours ago, in the memo field I saw your email address:xxxxxxx@yahoo.com When I was trying to sort this out - money disappeared from my egold account. I lost my money and money that came from nowhere. I changed my password immediately and now I am trying to find out what has happened. Luckily I made a screenshot with the transaction history for you to see and tell me what is going on. I hope that you will let me know what has happened. I did not contact egold support yet. I hope that we will be able to sort this matter ASAP. Before I will contact them. Regards, John Gavery.
Well I know this is fraud because I don’t have any egold account for that email address
, but still it’s a cool new way to rob innocent people.
I guess once you reply him telling you have no idea he’d try to get some $$ out of you.. If anyone feels bored I can give you the scammer’s email so you can talk
Also i should mention that most nigerian scam emails i get usually talk about much bigger amounts of at least several million dollars, so this is just insulting
UPDATE: I just noticed there’s more information about this new scam here.
Mike Dammann said,
July 26, 2006 @ 8:55 am
if it sounds too good …
Frederic Petitjean said,
August 8, 2006 @ 6:49 pm
Hey,
I just got this mail and I opened the zip-file (yes, I’m too curious sometimes). I’m on a Mac running OS X. Should I do anything ?
Frederic