Update your Regions Online Banking Account.

If you have a Regions Online Banking Account, beware of this scam. This email does not originate with the bank - it's a scammer trying to trick you into giving out your banking information!

Dear Regions Bank Customer,
It has come to our attention that your account needs to be updated due to the recent changes we have made to our Online Banking system. This update will allow us to activate new features for your account on our new system. We have made these changes to serve you better.
With our 24 hour online financial center, you can manage your Wachovia accounts, see images of the front and back of cleared checks and deposit tickets, transfer funds between eligible Regions Bank accounts, order checks and much more.
Regions Online Banking is quick, easy and convenient allowing you to bank whenever and wherever you want. Please click the link below, this will take you to Regions Online Banking to complete your update.
It's important that you activate your card, otherwise you will not be able to access our new Online Banking system and features.

Sincerely,Regions BankSecurity Department.

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I'm not going to say anything about these guys except...if they really are operating out of the US as they say they are, why in the world does their web address have a .RU ending?

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This is another lottery scam. I like how this one tells you "your funds have been deposited". Riiight...

Remember. There is no lottery. This is just a scam from people trying to steal your money.

Incidentally, I have shortened this spam...originally it was repeated 3 times.

CONTACT ASAP!!! INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws of THE MICRO/DAYZERS PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 24th of APRIL, 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program. Your e- mail address, attached to ticket number 46939, with serial number 472- 9768 drew the lucky numbers W-91237-H?67/B4 and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 Million Euros shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice: You are advised to contact the agents by email.Failure to do so may warrant disqualification. NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.
REF Number: NM/BC921245/KY14 BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP. To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent. *********************************************** Mr. GEORGE WINSTON. AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS. TELEPHONE:+31-620- 630-979 Fax: +31-847-106-545. Reply Email: *********************************************** All winnings must be notarized to complete the claim process; winners will be referred to a Foreign Transfer Manager,to have their winnings notarized.Winners are to cover the legal charges not DAYZERS.NL,also you have two weeks to from the date of this publication to claim your prize or forefeit your winnings.
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely Yours, MARIA THOMPSON. THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

Awaits your urgent reply, Robinson Noah

Blah blah blah. Another one of these scams where the scammer claims to have money he needs your help investing. And of course you'll get a big chunk of it!

Keep telling yourself: There is no money. There is no money. There is no money. There is no money.There is no money. There is no money.

Good day, I am writting this letter with due respect and heart full of tears since we have not known or met ourselves previously. I will so glad if you can allow me and lead me to the right channel towards your assistance to my situation now.I will make my proposal well known if I am given the opportunity. I would like to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I am Mr.Robinson Noah a 23 years old boy from Gambia,the only son of Late Dr.Mona Noah a respacted personal and adviser to the former head of Mineral Resource in our Country before his death.my father died along with my mother and our last born in a motor accident in our country Gambia.And since then life is not easy with me and my only sister full of sorrow and pain especially when life to be in serious pain.
The main reason why I am contacting you now is to seek your assistance in the area of our future and also for a helping hand over some huge amount of money in my possession. This money was acquired by my late father when he was in office and he deposited it in a foreign account in Europe for safety and security reasons. I am now asking you to stand on my behalf to make this claim and in the area of investment as i dont have experience in internatioal transaction, As I have mention earlier I will make the procedure to this issue to be well known to you,if I am given the opportunity to do so. Pls attach your direct and full information as you reply to me.you can also contact me at ; ######### Thanks and remain bless Yours Robinson Noah.

discuonted prices

These scams really bother me. I picture an elderly person, living by himself, who has bought a computer for the first time in his life because he's got too much time on his hands...

And he gets this email. Puzzled, he doesn't remember doing business with this company, but decides he must have "just forgotten". So he goes to the site, makes an order (never noticing that he's being asked to enter his credit card information on a non-secure payment page), and then, of course, the scammer has his credit card information.

People who prey on our elderly - instead of giving them the honor and respect they deserve - sicken me.

If you know someone who might be taken in by a scam like this, please take the time to explain this kind of scam to them!

Hello,

As a valued customer, we provide you with occassional information and updates.

Our records indicate that you may be in need of a refill.

We hope that you will once again, give us the opportunity to offer you a great selection of meds, low prices, and superior customer care. If you would like to place an order or browse our current products and specials, please visit the link below:

###############################
Yours Truly,

Gregorio Hilton
Customer Care Specialist

$Field2 $Field3, end your high card balance's

This is one of those spams that just screams to be deleted. I'm posting it because it shows all the main warning signs of a scam.

1. spelling "debt" with a space between each letter, and "mortgage payment" as a single word is a desperate attempt to get this email past a spam filter. If you have a spam filter on your email, that's your way of saying "I don't want your promotion" - and their strange spellings is their way of saying "I don't care what you want...I'm going to sneak my advertisement in anyway."

2. The email comes from a non-existent email address. In fact, the email address isn't even formatted to fool you into thinking it's a real email address.

3. The company doesn't even have a domain name - they're operating off an IP Address.

4. If you visit their website, they ask you for your contact information but offer you absolutely none of their own!

5. The email subject is absolutely nonsensical. And nongrammatical!

This settlement program exterminated my out of control d e b t.
I lowered my mortgagepayment and got rid of my ARM loan.
If you know of anyone in need of this type of service please
give them this url.
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This ad is brought to you via our o p t-i n database,
If your wish is to -o p t o u t- please post your email (###########) @.
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DONATION FROM SALIMA BENSON

These email frauds that prey on people who want to do good make me sick. Do not believe the offers of strangers who offer to give you money, even if they claim it's for a charitable cause.

From.MRS SALIMA BENSON04 BP 20145 AbidjanCOTE D IVORIEWEST AFRICA.
EMAIL/
St.Micheal's archdeaconry in Ivory coast,

Dear In Christ i know that this mail may reach you by surprise,

I am Mrs Salima Benson,from angola.I am married to late Mr Bamba Benson,who worked with angola Embassy in Ivory Coast for Twenty-Six years before he died in the year 2003,after a brief illness that lasted for only five days. We were married for Eighteen years with a duaghter(Janet)who later died in a motor accident.
Before the untimely death of my husband,we were both born again Christians. Since after his death I decided not to remarry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against.

When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of (US$3.5 M )(Three . five Million, United States Dollars)in security company here in Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire in one truck box as family valuable use and gift items.

Presently,this money is still with the security company.Recently,Following my ill health, my Doctor told me that I may not last for the next one months due to my cancer problem.The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness.Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a Christain organization (Church) that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein,according to the desire of my late husband before his death.

I want this fund to be used in Christain Activities like,Orphanages, Christain schools, and Churches for propagating the word of God and to endeavor that the house of God is maintained.The Bible made us to understand that "Blessed is the hand that giveth". I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way.

This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that "the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace". I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I don't want them to know about this development.With God all things are possible.As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the security company here in Abidjan. I will also issue you the documents that will prove you the present beneficiary of the truck box.I want you and the Church to always pray for me because the lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth.

Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another Church for this same purpose.Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein. Hoping to receive your reply.Before I even pick you to assist me I have prayed and slept over it asking God to provide for me a Godly minded person that will assist me in this transaction. I will give you more details of the transaction in my next mail.

Until I hear from you, my dreams will rest squarely on your shoulders May the almighty continue to guide and protect you.Please contact me on my above private email addres for more informations.
Remain blessed in the Lord.
Yours in Christ, Mrs Salima Benson

We bring to the notice of CitiBusiness valued members

Beware of Bank Scams like this one. CitiBank did NOT send this out, even though it's got the CitiBank logo and appears to have links to the CitiBank website. These links actually go to another web address altogether. I've received four copies of this email in the last 24 hours. Don't be fooled!

We are looking forward to your assistance and understanding and inform you about new CitiBusiness® department system updrade performed by security management team in order to protect our clients from increased online fraud activity, unauthorized account access, illegal funds withdrawal.

CitiBusiness® security department experts are unable to release Security Token individual private code for your business. It means that the additional information is necessary for CitiBusiness® security department experts for Online Security Token individual private code generation for your CitiBusiness® account before the new security enchacements will be applied to all CitiBusiness® Online active accounts.

In case if CitiBusiness® security department, responsible for Online Security Token code generation, will not receive the necessary information your account will be disconnected from CitiBusiness® Online after the new security enchacements will be applied. In this case to restore your CitiBusiness® Online access it will be necessary to visit the corresponding CitiBank branch.

You can find more information concerning new CitiBusiness® Online Security Tokens system enchacements and answers to frequently asked questions on our Web site: http://www.citibank.com/us/ citibusiness/securitytokenfaq.htm.

The new updated technologies guaranty convenience and safety of CitiBusiness® account usage. To prevent deactivation of your account you need to submit the necessary information using CitiBusiness® Online application. For the purpose please follow the reference:

https://citibusinessonline.da-us.citibank-updates.com/cbusol/signon.do

Term of processing of the information, creation of a private code and Online Security Token release is equal to 7-14 working days.

Current message is created by our automatic dispatch system and could not be replyed. For the purpose of assistance, please use the "User Guide" reference of an original CitiBusiness® website.

Thank you for using our services,
CitiBusiness® Administration.

Marcus - Science Fair Project

Stop to think before you fill this out and send it along. How exactly are you going to "see what happens"? The answer is, you've already seen what happens...you got spam! Someone thought it would be funny to start this and see how quickly people's inboxes would be flooded with this bogus science fair project.

Sorry, guys, it's quick and for a kid's school project! (and you are the ones I thought might follow through, either because you're teachers, you have kids, you like science, your looking for names for future children or you're just plain nice) This is for a Science Fair project.

If you could do this I would appreciate it! DON'T ASK, JUST PLAY! Copy and paste this letter into a new email (PLEASE do NOT hit "Forward"), then read the list of names.

If your name is on the list, put a star * next to it. If not, then add your name (in alphabetical order, put no star.) Send it to ten people and send it back to the person who sent it to you. Put your name in the subject box! You'll see what happens - it's kind of cool! Please keep this going.

Don't MESS it up, please

Important Message - Dr. Dobson and CBS

It's amazing how many times I've seen this one. When you get this, ask yourself this one question: how exactly does an "email petition" work?

It doesn't!

Dr. Dobson & CBS Response
Apparently we are to be allowed to watch TV programs that use every foul word in the English language, but not the word "God." It will only take a minute to read this and see if you think you should send it out
DR. DOBSON'S PLEA FOR ACTION
CBS discontinued "Touched by an Angel" for using the word God in every program. Madeline Murray O'Hare, an atheist, successfully managed to eliminate the use of Bible reading from public schools a few years ago.
Now her organization has been granted a federal hearing on the same subject by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, DC.
Their petition, Number 2493, would ultimately pave the way to stop the reading of the gospel our Lord and Savior, on the airwaves of America.
They got 287,000 signatures to back their stand! If this attempt is successful, all Sunday worship ! services being broadcast on the radio or by television will be stopped. This group is also campaigning to remove all Christmas programs and Christmas carols from public schools!
You as a Christian can help!
We are praying for at least 1 million signatures. This would defeat their effort and show that there are many Christians alive, well and concerned about our country. As Christians we must unite on this. Please don't take this lightly.
We ignored this lady once and lost prayer in our school and in offices across the nation
Please stand up for your religious freedom and let your voice be heard. Together we can make a difference in our country while creating a way for the lost to know the Lord.
Please press "forward", and forward this to everyone that you think should read this. Now, please sign your name at the bottom ( you can only add your name after you have pressed the "Forward"). Don't delete any other names, just go to the next number and type your name and state. Please defeat this organization and keep the right of our freedom of religion.

REMEMBER! : Our country was founded on freedom of religion and our Constitution is based on the 10 Commandments.
PETITION TO REINSTATE PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Agree or Delete: Instructions to sign are at the bottom.
PETITION FOR PRES. BUSH

FROM MARIA THOMPSON

This spam is another example of the LOTTERY SCAMS which are so popular these days. Do NOT respond to this.

FROM MARIA THOMPSON
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws of THE MICRO/DAYZERS PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 3rd of APRIL, 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program. Your e- mail address, attached to ticket number 46939, with serial number 472- 9768 drew the lucky numbers W-91237-H°67/B4 and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 Million Euros shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. In your best interest to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice: You are advised to contact the agents by email.Failure to do so may warrant disqualification. NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.
REF Number: NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP.

To file for your claim, please contact the fiduciary agent. ***********************************************
Mr. GEORGE WINSTON. AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS. TELEPHONE:+31-620- 630-979 Fax: +31-847-106-545.
Reply Email:
***********************************************

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely Yours, MARIA THOMPSON. THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

Doug's Anti Spam Log - Introduction

Once upon a time there was a man. He made a terrible mistake. He was filling out an online form and he didn't notice that there was a little box that said "Uncheck this box if you don't want to receive emails from us and our affiliates." Now his inbox is filled with spam.

Once upon a time there was a man. He made a terrible mistake. He sent those silly urban legend emails to all his friends, not realizing that sooner or later those emails end up in the hands of spammers, who have a grand time harvesting the email addresses from the message headers. Now his inbox is filled with spam.

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Once upon a time there was a man. He made a terrible mistake. He built a website, and thought he should post his email address on the site. Now his inbox is filled with spam.

Once upon a time there was a man. He didn't make any mistake at all, except the mistake of living in the twenty-first century. Now his inbox is filled with spam.

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