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:
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.
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.
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 $USD and the minimum 5,000 pounds and USD$.
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
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