Phishing of profwin@...
The word " Phishing" is a newly coined word comes from the word fishing, that use to indicate that some computer expert tries to get into some people's email and used to exploit the situation to its own advantage. There have been many emails sent by the name of profwin extorting money saying that I am in trouble having lost my wallet and so on (see the following email) to all my friends and well wishers because he manage to get hold of my mailing list.
But looking carefully one will notice that even though it has used my name as profwin the email address is different. Mine is profwin@... (which I no longer use) and the impostor's email is profwiin@.... The name is spelt as wii (with a double ii) and since he cannot use the gmail.com, he uses the gogglemail.com. So any email coming in posing as profwin should be deleted
I would also like to announce that I have never and will never use the Western Union to request for funds for humanitarian purpose, all the transactions are by secured bank Accounts. Hence anyone posing as profwin and extorting money should be discarded.
My sincere and heartfelt thanks goes to all of my friends and well wishers for alerting me.
Signed B T Win
(Kanbawza Win)
Note: The phishing email shown below.
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Subject: Please I need your help
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:48:51 +0100
From: prof win <profwiin@...>
Hello Dear,
How are you doing today? I am sorry i didn't inform you about my
traveling to EUROPE for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight
Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, the program is
taking place in three major countries in EUROPE which are Dublin
,Scotland and England. It has been a very sad and bad moment for me,
the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to
explain.
I am really stranded in London because I forgot my little bag in the
Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things
were kept on my way to the Hotel am staying, I am facing a hard time
here because i have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of
$1,400 and they wanted me to pay the bill soon or else they will
have to seize my other personal belongs and hand me over to the Hotel
Management.
I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you
to help me with the hotel bill and i will also need $1,500 to feed
and help myself back home so please can you help me with a sum of
$2,900 to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on
time because i am in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even
have money to feed myself for a day which means i have been starving,
so please understand how urgent i needed your help. I am sending you
this e-mail from the city Library, I will appreciate what so ever you
can afford to send to me for now and I promise to pay back your money
as soon as i return home.
Please go to any western union very close to you and Send the money
with this informations.
NAME ..Ba win
ZIP CODE...SE 14
ADDRESS,,,19 Leinster Gardens
CITY...LONDON
COUNTRY....ENGLAND
TEST QUESTION...TO WHO
ANSWER ...Ba win
REMEMBER TO SEND THE MTCN AND THE DETAILS YOU USED WHEN YOU WERE
SENDING THE MONEY TO ME
Hope to hear from you soon.
Prof.Ba win
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