RE: Facebook fraud

From: Shelly Hermia Bhujun <shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:15:13 +0400

Thank you for the examples, I appreciate it as I have never thought about these kind of frauds before especially in Mauritius.

Kind regards,
Shelly

From: ajay.ramjatan_at_gmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:43:47 +0400
Subject: Re: Facebook fraud
To: sm+mu_at_elandsys.com
CC: shelly_hermia_at_hotmail.com; mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com

These frauds can take other forms. Here are some examples.

The victim is sent a fake lottery winning notice and is asked to deposit some funds in an account for the fees to do the required paperwork. The criminals withdraw the funds and the victim never hear from them again

The victim is asked to send bids for a project. The bid should be accompanied by a processing or security fee which is then never seen again.

The victim is invited to a high-profile conference/seminar. The conference is free to attend but hotel accomodation is not. Of course the 'organisers' of the conference have made deals with hotels to get special pricing but rooms are limited so the victim is enticed to send funds to book the hotel room.

The victim is sent a notice by a fake attorney about a distant relative having deceased and asked to send some paperwork fees in order to gain some inheritance. This advance fee disappears and the 'attorney' never heard of again.



On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:03 AM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
Hi Shelly,









                                               
Received on Tue Jan 19 2016 - 17:15:27 PST