The latest email scams being sent across the net.

[BingoT]

The latest email scams being sent across the net. The Australian lottery is done with, and now here's the newest email in the chain. This was received to my son's UConn email account, and my wife has said that a lady called about this same email as well to the P.D.

Subject: RE:
From: "Amir Hedayat" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, June 10, 2009 12:19 pm
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Priority: Normal

Hello,

This is a message from the Ishmael Ghost Islamic Group. We are confirmed Islamic Hired killers and Suicide aids. We have been sent to assassinate you and members of your family. I am sorry if the following message will not be detailed because we would not want you to be able to track us as we have been following your every move for sometime now.

Sometime ago, you offended a member of our gang. As you quite know, I shall not be detailing my statement. This member had ordered for your assassination after he made sure he acquired every information about you and your family. It was when he produced your complete details that another member of our gang found out he knew someone in your extended family. As a result, he pleaded for you and said you should be pardoned under any condition. After reaching an agreement, we decided that you provide the total sum of 800 USD to transport some of our expatriates out of the USA. The money shall finalize the migration of these Islamic expatriates out of the USA. If you do not follow these requirements, I am sorry you shall not live to see the next three weeks, even if you see the next three weeks, a member of your family shall pay for it and another shall pay for every other week you stay alive until you are dead. To provide this money, kindly send the money via western union or money gram to a receiver in the UK. Once this receiver has confirmed the receipt of the money he shall securely send it back to us for the needed reason. Below is the information of the receiver.

Receiver: Steven Gibbs
Location: London, UK.

Send complete transfer information once transfer has been made to this email [email protected] DO NOT PLAY PRANKS, THIS IS NOT A JOKE

You have been given 72hrs to send this money or else you shall pay with your life. Note: we have all your movement and the movement of members of your family monitored. Do not let them pay for your greed. Because before you are killed, you shall loose a member of your family alongside. I do not have to inform you that this message should be kept secret from everyone especially the police and other authorities, because if anything happens to any member of our gang, be it within or outside the USA, your family story shall be a disaster. You should know this Islamic Group is wide and members cannot be completely wiped out. Note: We are sending this message with a hacked European and African IP address so that you cannot trace location of this message. I will not explain further, a word should be enough for the wise.

Have a nice life
Group Treasury Officer.

E.M.U
Eastern Mediterranean University

 

[winbig]

kindly send the money via western union or money gram to a receiver in the UK

Kindly...



Treasury officer? What a gang! I wonder if they have medical, dental and vision benefits, too? Maybe even a 401K?

 

[lauram]

Holy crap thank god I haven't got this one yet. Last one was this am asking me for a 100k for a cancer patient in africa.
Some of them do their homework before sending these out. I have had a few
that quoted my home address, phone numbers cell and home, date of birth of my children. This info is easy to get via internet so i just toss them aside with great avail. But this one bingo makes the hair on my arms stand up.

 

[vegetagirl2008]

The university is a real one. I would notify them that someone sent out these emails from their university I would not only contact the police but the FBI as well. I wouldn't even discard any e-mail of this sort. 800 dollars, come on this letter makes no sense. Believe me if anyone in my family was threatened, there will be phone calls made all over. Seems to me whomever sent this is an idiot, probably screwed up and needs money.

 

[Dinahnana]

Email Scams

I have read a lot of scam emails in my time (I work at a hotel and our in box gets quite a few). This one takes the cake. I do hope this is followed up and sent to the proper authorities. I live in Florida and scam letters can be sent to our Attorney Generals office who then uses the information to warn the public.

 

[BingoT]

The Uconn University where my son goes knows this and they reported it to the right people to have this investigated.