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 :P

UPDATE: I just noticed there’s more information about this new scam here.

2 Comments »

  1. Mike Dammann said,

    July 26, 2006 @ 8:55 am

    if it sounds too good …

  2. 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

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