Crime Online

Just like any other Blog, Crime Online gets it’s share of comment spam. Most of it is the usual type pushing anything and posting some kind of comment which has nothing to do with the blog at all.

Now and then we get comment spam from the Africans themselves and the one we got today was a good example of a typical loan scam. We traced the post to an African Internet provider.
It’s in Portuguese but it basically says the same as all loan scams, cheap loans from 20000 to 20 million US Dollars.

One point to note, is the fact that the Arficans often like to make reference to anything religious. They often use the title of “Reverend” to give the impression that you are dealing with a man of God. Here they make a quote of trusting in God to give us great gifts. The gifts of course, are your money in their pockets.

Of course, the Africans are only after fees. A loan, as such, never gets paid out.

Orignal Text:

Favor fornecer as seguintes informações, se interessou.

Nome completo:
Sexo:
Endereço:
País:
Valor do Empréstimo Necessário:
Duração do empréstimo:
Telefone: Celular:
Alguma vez você já se aplica para o empréstimo antes:
Renda mensal:
Contato: sir.reskcadoloanword@hotmail.com

Nota: Por favor, responda a este e-mail ( sir.reskcadoloanword@hotmail.com)
Quando ele não parece seguir o seu caminho, sempre sei que Deus tem um plano para you.If Coloque a sua confiança nele para lhe dar uma grande gifts.We nem sempre sabem o que os planos de Deus são para us.We só sei que seus caminhos não são os nossos caminhos, mas seus caminhos são sempre melhor.

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Obrigado.

Translation:

Please provide the following information if interested.

Full Name:
Gender:
Address:
Country:
Loan Amount Needed:
Duration of loan:
Phone: Cell:
Have you ever apply for the loan before:
Monthly income:
Contact: sir.reskcadoloanword @ hotmail.com

Note: Please reply to this email (sir.reskcadoloanword @ hotmail.com)

When he does not seem to go your way, always know that God has a plan for you.If Put your trust in him to give you a great gifts.We not always know what God’s plans are for us.We just know that their ways are not our ways, but their paths are always better.

This message may contain confidential information for use Recipient (s) above and may contain sensitive information. If you not the recipient or the person responsible for the recipient’s transfer, please note that reading, disseminating or reproducing dissemination of this message is strictly prohibited. If you You received this message in error, please notify us immediately by a reply message and immediately delete the original message.

Thank you.

Which is a complete lie right from the beginning of his e-mail!

Over the last months a new kind of Advance Fee Fraud e-mail has been seen. The global financial crisis and the sub prime problems which started it all, have obviously created the basis for e-mails offering cheap credit up to 100 miliion USD.

Dubious loan offers like this are coming in more frequently these days. It looks as though the sub prime market is proving to a lucrative harvesting place for all sorts of crooks.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ~EXCEL FINANCIAL HOME~
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:01 AM
Subject: APPLY FOR URGENT LOAN HERE
To:

Monday-Saturday:7:30am-6:30pm {Processing time}.
Sunday:12noon-6:30pm {Processing time}.

Compliment of the season.

I am Mr. Austin Brown of Excel financial home.
I am a certified loan lender i give out loan at interest rate 0f 3%. I give out loan for any purpose. Do you want to pay your bills?, oR in financial problem? even bad credit? or for any other reason?. Contact us today with the following
email: officeloanlender@gmail.com

With the following information:

Full Name:……………………
Contact Address:………………
Phone:……………………….
Country:……………………..
Amount Needed as Loan:…………
Loan Duration:………………..
Sex:…………………………

we can start with the processing of your
loan immediately.

Mr. Austin Brown
Managing Director

loan fraud, austin brown, Excel Financial Home

It looks as though I was right. Here’s the second message on loans today.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Global Loans and Investment <gloablfinance@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:54 AM
Subject: LOAN OFFER ================== EMAIL FOR APPLICATION
To:

Hello,

My Name is Mr. Willford Roberts, I have been arranging loans in UK for many years.  Since I do all the work myself and have no overhead, I am able to arrange better loans for my clients. Working with me or getting a loan from me will be close and personal. I am available seven days a week to facilitate your loan request. I can arrange your loan at a better interest rate of 0.4% Per Annum and at a lower cost than anyone else in town. If you are interested please mail me back at willfordroberts@live.com for more informations and enquiries.

Yours Truly,
Mr. Willford Roberts

This caught my eye this morning. It looks as though someone is trying this to see what results they will get.

Obviously the world wide “Sub Prime” catastrophy, which has hit lenders and banks really hard, may be the idea behind this. Which means it could be a start into a new scam market. The lottery scams, which started with a few test e-mails about 5 years ago, are a good example of how this could develop.

If you have had experience with this or anything similar please post a comment on this.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: danielle@maine.rr.com
Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:32 AM
Subject: Real And Legitimate Loan Offer
To:

Good Day,

I am a private investor i give out unsecured guarantee loans to Business Men and women who are into Business transaction, automobile purchase, house purchase loan and other personal loans E.T.C. we give out long term loan for five to fifty years maximum with 3% interest rate in this you can as well tell us the amount you need so that we will send to you the terms and condition that is if you are really interested in getting a loan from us, Loans are given out in Great British Pounds and United States Dollar the maximum I give is 20,000,000 both in pounds and $USD and the minimum 5,000 pounds and USD$.

OUR PACKAGES INCLUDE;
*Home Loan
*Auto Loan
*Mortgage Loan
*Business Loan
*International Loan
*Personal Loan

I also render Collateral And Non- Collateral Loans For Your Business Startup. If you are interested you Fill out the application details below so that we can start the processing of your loan sum.

APPLICATION DETAILS

First Name:_________________________ __
Last Name:_________________________ ___
Gender:_______________________ ________
Marital status:_______________________
Contact Address:______________________
City/Zip code:________________________
Country:______________________ ________
Date of Birth:________________________
Amount Needed as Loan:________________
Loan Duration:_____________________ ___
Monthly Income/Yearly Income:_________
Occupation:___________________ ________
Purpose for Loan:_____________________
Phone:________________________ ________
Fax:__________________________ ________

In acknowledgment to these details, I will send you a well calculated Terms and Condition which will include the agreement.

Furthermore be informed that you will also need a form of Identification which can be either a Driver’s License or your working Identity card. For
more informations send your application to hipsonfinancialservices@gmail.com

Mr.Hipson Scart
CEO/HIPSON FINANCE