Fraud Alert

Anyone get an email like this before?;

Dear customer,

Recently we have received an order made by using your personal credit card information.
This order was made online at our official BestBuy website on 06/19/2003.
Our Fraud Department has some suspicions regarding this order and we need you to visit a special Fraud Department page at our web store where you can confirm or decline this transaction by providing us with the correct information.
Your e-mail address has been taken from National Credit Bureau.

Click the link below to visit a special Fraud Department page to resolve the cause of the problem.
BestBuy.com/fraud_department.html

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ORDER# 1095619 - STATUS: SUSPENDED
ITEMS PURCHASED
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Item No: 73890
CDA-9815 In-Dash CD Player/Ai-Changer Controller
Price: $387.65 Qty: 2 Total: $775.3
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The order listed above has not yet been processed.
The reason for the delay in processing your order is:

- UNVERIFIED SHIPPING ADDRESS

- Information provided:
Shipping
41 WINHAM ST
Staten Island, NY 10306
United States
phone# 206-337-9843

In our effort to deter fraudulent transactions, we need your help in providing us with the correct information. Your prompt response is needed to avoid any unauthorized charges to your credit card.
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Click the link below to visit a special Fraud Department page to resolve the cause of the problem.
BestBuy.com/fraud_department.html

the link takes me to http://communications.hypermart.net/order.html, obviously not a part of best buy.

A pretty obvious fraud, the didn\'t even spoof the title.

And you never have to proove who you are to stop a bad charge like that, companies will hold off shipping any item that\'s even remotely \'contested\'.

The worst part, is that they are trying to get (page 2), your SIN, and the 3 digit code on the back of the visa... with that (and the number), you can order shit to any address, and anywhere, cause that\'s the last security question they\'ll ask you if they call.

[Kurt Angle]

Just delete it, it\'s a fake.

[videoholic]

But uneducated grandma at home doesn\'t know it\'s a fake.  Don\'t forget PEOPLE ARE STUPID.  I realize that every day.

I love the internet, but God I wish only dorks had computers again.  My phone would ring half as much as it does if people wouldn\'t have computer questions.

[CHIZZY]

I get these everyday... 2 or 3....

Dear,


I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but your contact was given to me by a reliable friend of my father working in dubai Chambers of Commerce, Industries and developement, After I told him that I needed a reliable and honest business partner outside emirates.


My name is mr. Tanko Yakassi. I am a Sierra Leonean and the son of the late Osman  Yakassi, former Director-General of the Government of Gold and Diamond Office (GDDO) in Freetown. He replaced the Lebanese business tycoon Mr Jamil Mohamed Saheed who was sacked by the government of President Ahmed Tejan max.

Unfortunately, my father was attacked by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Kono, Eastern Sierra Leone.

He survived the bullet wounds and was hospitalised at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown where he later died of internal bleeding. Before he died, he revealed to me that he has US$ 35.MILLION in an Iron Crate which he lodged in a security company for safe keeping in dubai,united arab emirates.

And he registered the contents of the box as gold and diamond which belongs to him and his foreign partner.

 He also confided in me that he kept the certificate of the deposit and the keys of the box in his safe.
As last month, I traced the address of the security company in dubai.

a state in united arab emirates. Backed with the certificate and receipt of the part payment, I met the Director of the security company with the receipt for collection of the box.

After thorough verifications, he agreed for the release provided I can come along with the foreign partner who is involved in the transaction.


Based on this development, I contacted a friend of my father who is working at the Chamber of Commerce to assist me to seek for a reliable, honest and well-established individual that has business foresight, he then gave me your contact as the person he believes will do a fair transaction with me.


I propose that you come as the foreign partner concerned so that we can retrieve the money from the security company. I have decided that for all assistance and inconveniences, 20% of the total sum would be yours, while the rest of the remaining balance will be put into investment opportunities
in any profitable areas you might suggest in your country or any where else you trust.


Please keep this proposal in the most confidential manner and I assure you of our 100% risk free transaction.

Please let me be informed of your decision to come so that I can work on your visa. While I close here, I hope
that Almighty Allah will give you the power to do this transaction with me and I am waiting for your urgent responds to this letter.

 You can send me Email through the above address,
Thanks so much for your co-operation.


Yours Faithfully

TANKO YAKASSI

[CHIZZY]

or this...

Dear,
It is with my utmost sincererity that I am writing this mail to
you. I got your contact through the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
DIRECTORY and I decided to contact you as most capable to handle
this business transaction.

I was formerly an accountant general with the former late  Sani
Mohameed company in Lome Togo Please you must keep this business
as a top secret to your good self.

During my tenure in office as the accountant general to the late
Sani Mohameed , He deposited with my name the sum of Twenty
three million five hundred and fifty thousand United States
Dollars ($23,550,000.00) cash with the Global Security company
in Togo. Immediately I heard of his death, I quickly took away
the certificate of deposit which was issued to me by the
security company.

I have gone for the money and was told by the managing director
of the Security Company that I can only collect the money in
their offshore office Abroad. It was in this respect I wanted
you to stand as the beneficiary to laim/collect this money on my
behalf from the security company and we can use it for viable
investments in your country before I join you in your country as
a future

business partner. I plan to invest this funds into a good
profitable business with you in your country as my technical
partner.

As regarding my present condition of health and financial
position, I will not be in a better position to travel out for
now till I have fully recovered from sickness.If you accept this
my business proposal to you, I would like you to indicate your
interest by sending to me the reply through my personal phone
number:00228 908 6485.Your immediate response will facilitate
this business transaction and I look forward to having a good
business relationship with you.

Best regards,
Mr Koffa Anani

CALL ME BACK WITH THIS MY PRIVATE PHONE:
xxxxxxxxxx6485

[videoholic]

I just got this from Best Buy:
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IMPORTANT: E-MAIL HOAX NOTIFICATION

Late Wednesday afternoon, June 18, 2003, Best Buy became aware of an unauthorized and deceptive e-mail to consumers titled "Fraud Alert." That e-mail message, which requested personal information (i.e., social security and credit card numbers), claimed to come from the BestBuy.com Fraud Department. That message was NOT from Best Buy or any of our affiliates.
Best Buy is working with the appropriate law enforcement authorities to quickly resolve the situation. We are working to shut down sites affiliated with that unauthorized e-mail and Best Buy will work with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any perpetrators involved in this illegal act to the fullest extent of the law. If you replied to the fraudulent
e-mail in any way, contact your bank and/or credit card companies immediately.
No Best Buy systems have been compromised, and our online business is secure. The privacy of your personal information is of the utmost importance to Best Buy and any information you provide to us is handled according to our Privacy Policy.
As part of the preparation for the relaunch of BestBuy.com, online purchasing will be temporarily unavailable beginning Friday, June 20; however, our product information and helpful resource articles will still be available. Rest assured, the fraudulent e-mail will not affect the launch of our redesigned Web site.
If you have any questions, call Customer Care at 1-888-BEST BUY (237-8289) or visit our Online Pressroom.
To find out more about protecting your information, visit the Federal Trade Commission\'s Identity Theft Web site at http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft.
Thank you for being a valued Best Buy customer.
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^^
I got that too.

I just feel bad for the people who aren\'t real internet savy, and get suckered in on these scams.

So you guys actually read the spam mails? I just click delete.

But being foreign is actually helpful when it comes to spam. I\'m pretty certain my friends wouldn\'t write me in English.

[Titan]

I don\'t get spam I did with my Hotmail account but I got rid of that one.