Tag: Scams

Yet another scam gets by the spam filter…

From: “yahoo/msn lottery” <uk_claimsagent@sify.com>
Reply-To: uk_claimsagentoffice@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:20:23 -0300 (CLST)
Subject: Congratulations! (Winning number……….YM09788)

Yahoo/MsnLottery
Incoperation

Incoperation? What the fsck is an Incoperation?

Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te
United Kingdom

Yahoo/Msn and Windows Live Emerged you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo/Msn and Windows Live Lottery Draw for the year, January 2008.

Emerged you – I’ve been emerged!

All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually,consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of 650,000.00 GBP (SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ).

YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select Ten people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners.

Interesting business plan you have there.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 650,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.

Let me guess, English isn’t you’re first language.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers
Batch number……….22YM 09102XN
Reff number…………YM35447XN
Winning number……….YM09788

Yahoo!’s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

Fiduciary Agent: Mr.John Smith
Phone: +44 70111 48633
Email:uk_claimsagentoffice@yahoo.co.uk

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the EVENTS AGENT to facilitate them and process the COURIER of your money.

1. Full name
2. Sex
3. Country
4. State
5. Contact Address
6. Telephone Number
7. Marital Status
8. Occupation
9. Age
10.Next Of Kin
11.Zip Code

Congratulations!! once again.
At your disposal, I remain.
Very Truly Yours,
Sir Alan Joe.

Sir? ‘Oh, I say, we are grand, aren’t we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I’m off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I attempt to defraud complete strangers with an internet lottery scam.’

Lottery Co-ordinator.

One wonders why a lottery in the U.K. would resort to sending a notification from a computer in Nigeria via another computer in Chile…

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Another scam gets by the spam filter…

From: windowswins2@peoplepc.com
Reply-To: windowsclaims03@hotmail.com

One would think Yahoo and “Widows Live” could come up with their own email domain…

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:51:38 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Subject: Congratulations!! Yahoo & Windows Live award Beneficiary

Yahoo & Windows Live Awards Centre
124 Stockport Road, Longsight,
Manchester M60 2DB
United Kingdom.

This is to inform you that you have won a Cash prize of Two Hundred and fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds ( £ 250,000) for the year 2007 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO & WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS PROGRAMME.

How likely is it that Yahoo and Microsoft would join forces to give away money?

The Management of Yahoo & Windows Live (Hotmail) collected all active email addresses online, among millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Ten (10) people are selected for the 2007 End of Year Award to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

And we’re supposed to believe this is some sort of business plan?

PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS

Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centres. Yahoo & Windows Live Award must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522
PIN: 1207

These scammers can’t even be bothered to come up with unique batch and reference numbers.

You are required to fill in your personal Information as written below and send it with your winning identification numbers to the Award Co-ordinator:

1. Full name:
2. Country:
3. Contact Address:
4. Telephone Number:
5. Fax Number:
6. Marital Status:
7. Occupation:
8. Sex:
9. Date of Birth /Age:
10. Identity card Number:

Assistant Award Coordinator: Mr. Bratan Petko
E-Mail: windowsclaims03@hotmail.com, ywindowsclaims@hotmail.co.uk

Tel: +44 704 574 4423; Fax: +44 870 974 6757

Happy Wonderful New Year.

Congratulations!!! once again.

Yours in service,

Mrs. Grace Sanders (Awards Notification Officer)
——————————————————————————————————
WARNING!

You must keep strict confidentiality of your Prize Award claims to yourself until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claims. Yahoo Awards Team shall not be held liable for any loss of funds arising from the above mentioned.

________________________________________
PeoplePC Online
A better way to Internet
http://www.peoplepc.com

These scammers can’t even cover up the fact that they’re using a PeoplePC account to send this scam email.

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Another lottery scam gets by the spam filter…

From: “World Promo Organization” <wcporg0001@yahoo.co.uk>

Apparently the “World Promo Organization” can’t afford to get its own email domain.

Reply-To: fwwporg011@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:33:06 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: You Are A Lucky Winner

World Promo Organization
71 Fenchurch Street, EC3M 6BL, London
File No. WPO/00503411/07
E-mail: fwwporg011@yahoo.co.uk
Date: November 23, 2007.

Dear Lucky Winner

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today November 23, 2007 of winners of the WORLD PROMO ORGANIZATION held on the November 19, 2007The major sponsors of the Euro league Sport contributed funds for the World Promo Org. These include Adidas, Hyundai, Fuji Film, Master Card, Gillette, Coca cola, Continental, Toshiba, McDonalds, Emirates Airline and a host of others.

Master Card — that’s MasterCard

Coca cola — I guess you mean Coca-Cola

You can’t even get the names of some of your alleged sponsors right and we’re supposed to believe this?

Your email address attached to Batch Number 02-242-546-29 drew the lucky numbers, and consequently emerged as one of the winners under category “A”. You have therefore been approved of a Prize of Five Hundred Thousand Pound (£500,000.00) credited to File No. WPO/00503411/07. This is from total prize money of Ten Million Pounds shared among the Twenty International Winners in category A to C.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 company email addresses and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, South America, Europe, North America, Africa and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

We ask that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you. To receive your claim, please contact your claim officer:

1. Dr. Fredrick Walter
2. E-mail: fwwporg011@yahoo.co.uk

The following are required:
– Your Full Name:
– Contact Address:
– Direct Telephone Number:
– Occupation:

Why do you need to know my occupation?

– Sex: Age:

Winners must claim all prize money as soon as possible.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your file number in every one of your correspondences with your coordinator.

Anybody under the age of 18 is AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED.

AUTOMATICALY? Can’t the “World Promo Organization” afford a spell checker?

Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours Sincerely,

The President Hon. Greg Mathew

Hon.? ‘Oh, I say, we are grand, aren’t we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I’m off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I attempt to defraud complete strangers with an internet lottery scam.’

World Promo Organization

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Another scam email gets by the spam filter…

From: Esther Jacob <estherjacob99@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: estherjacob0@yahoo.fr
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:03:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: From: Ms. Esther Jacob

From: Ms. Esther Jacob
abidjan Cote D’Ivoire
West Africa

Dearest One in the Lord,

As you read this message, I don’t want you to pity much about my health situation

Don’t worry, you’ll get no pity from me…

because as a christian I believe that we are strangers on this earth and one day, all of us will surely die to give account of our visit on earth. My dear, writing this message to you is not by my power, rather a divine direction from God Almighty who has chosen you for a great responsibility for his children, knowing fully well that you will not betray God’s trust in you. I am assuring you that as you obey this call from God, he will surely meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).

Following my ill health, my doctor told me that I may not last for the next six 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 funds to a Christain organization (Church) or an individual that will utilize these funds 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 and spreading the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and to endeavor that the house of God is maintained.

Ninety percent will be spent on good times, beautiful women, and Irish whiskey. The rest I’ll probably waste.
— Tug McGraw

The Bible made us to know that “Blessed is the hand that giveth” therefore I am persuaded to fufil the desire of my late husband since it was God himself that lay it in the mind of my late husband to donate these funds for humaniterian services and for the glory of Almighty God.

What does the Bible say about swindling money from stupid people?

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 Life. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life and please assure me that you will act according to the desire of my late husband which I stated above

Remain blessed.
Yours in Christ,
Ms. Esther Jacob

A typical scam, but at least this email actually came from a computer in Côte d’Ivoire.

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Yet another scam email gets by the spam filter…

From: oc oc <oc12007@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <mr_paulmils@myway.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:19:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Mr Henry Ford

Compliments to you,
I decided to contact you for a business transaction hoping that you will contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible business deal involving money transfer of GBP £30 ,000,000(Thirty Million British Pounds)

I am presently the Auditor General of a Bank, located at the Heart of London.With your sincere assistant and co-operation,I have determined to work this deal out if we can do business.As at this moment,I am constrained toissue more details about this business until your response is received.

One would think an “Auditor General of a Bank, located at the Heart of London” would have a better command of the English language.

If you are not familiar with the above information,please take a moment of your very busy schedules to read about it and send your response.This deal is worth taking and highly profitable.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Warmest regards.
……………………
.Mr Henry Ford

Yeah right, and I’m William C. Durant.

Allied Irish Bank (GB) Head Office
Telephone:+44-(70)111-28142
Address: Bank centre, Belmont Road
Uxbridge, UB8 1SA

How does Mr. Paul Mils (mr_paulmils@myway.com) fit into all this?

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Yet another scam email gets by the spam filter…

From: <margaretkrissie@yahoo.es>
Reply-To: <margaretkrissie@yahoo.es>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:17:17 -0200
Subject: FROM MS. MARGARET KRISSIE.

Dear Honest Friend,

Hello, dishonest asshole…

My name is Ms. Margaret Krissie I am a dying woman who have decided to donate what I have to you/ church. I am 58 years old and I was diagnosed for cancer for about 3 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for.

So, you’ll be joining your husband in Hell soon. 😉

I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to you for the good work of God, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly. Please pray that the good Lord forgive me my sins. I have asked God to forgive me and I believe he has because He is a merciful God. I will be going in for an operation in less than one hour.

How did that operation work out for you?

I decided to WILL/donate the sum of US$7,500,000.00 (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) to you for the good work of the lord, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.

At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives are around me and my health status. I have adjusted my WILL and my lawyer is aware I have changed my will and he will arrange the transfer of the funds from my account to you. But this fund is in a bonded state with an irrevocable comprehensive insurance cover, as a security measure against my husband relatives. I wish you all the best and may the good Lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.

Contact my lawyer with this specified Email Address: – {emorganlawyer@aol.com}

How long did it take you to find a “lawyer” with an AOL email address?

and tell him that I have WILLED US$7,500,000.00 (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only) to you by quoting my personal reference number E-Morgan and Associates EM/EG/WILL/092514131209 and I have also notified him that I am WILLING that amount to you for a specific and good work. I know I don’t know you but I have been directed by God to do this. Thanks and God bless.

NB: I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as I don’t want anything that will jeopardize my last wish. And Also I will be contacting with you by email as I don’t want my relation or anybody to know because they are always around me.

So much for your last wish…

Best Regards,

Ms. Margaret Krissie.

One has to wonder why “Ms. Margaret Krissie” sent this email from a computer in Romania.

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Yet another lottery scam gets by the spam filter…

From: “HEINEKEN LOTTERY” <info@lotto.com>
Reply-To: info_info009@yahoo.com.hk

This email claims to be from lotto.com, but the Reply-To address is a Yahoo Hong Kong email address…

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:33:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: You Won!!!

I did???

HEINEKEN LOTTERY,
HEADQUARTER, LIVERPOOL,

<sarcasm>
Oh yes, that fine Liverpudlian brew, Heineken.
</sarcasm>

UNITED KINGDOM.
==========================
Winning NO: XB3/701/LNRC
Batch NO: 905534213/255
Ref NO: 7458222754
==========================

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 200 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw All 200 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 1,000,000,000 {ONE HUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of GBP £100,000.00 (ONE MILLION POUNDS) only. Your email address emerged along side with 199 others as a category of winner in this year’s Annual Draw.

The Heineken lottery free lottery draw is held once in every four years interval. And is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers.

<sarcasm>
Because nothing makes one want to drink beer more than surfing the internet and using computers.
</sarcasm>

Fill the form below:

NAME:
ADDRESS:
PHONE NO:
OCCUPATION:
AGE:
SEX:
COUNTRY:

HELP CONTACT

NAME : Mr. Anold Still

EMAIL: info_info009@yahoo.com.hk

heineken-009@hotmail.com

+447011129125

Mrs. Larisa Hull
Promotions Manager

One has to wonder why this email comes from a computer in Maryland…

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Another scam gets by the spam filters. This one is supposedly from Ghana instead of the usual Nigeria…

From: herry ofori <herry_ofori00009@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: herry ofori <h_ofori0002@yahoo.de>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:06:59 +0000
Subject: Mr Herry Ofori

From: Mr Herry Ofori
Manager
International Commercial Bank
Kanashi Branch
Ghana.
Attn:
My name is Mr Herry Ofori , I am the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana kanashi in the Western Region of Ghana. I got your information during my search through the Internet. I am 44 years of age and married with 2 lovely kids. It may interest you to hear that I am a man of PEACE and don’t want problem, I only hope we can assist each other. If you don’t want this business offer kindly forget it as I will not contact you again.I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit both of us, as the regional manager of the International Commercial Bank; it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each year. On the course of the last year 2006 end of year report, I discovered that my branch in which I am the manager made one million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars [1,550.000.00] which my head office are not aware of and will never be aware of. I have since place this fund on what we call SUSPENSE ACCOUNT without any beneficiary.As an officer of the bank I can not be directly connected to this money, so this informed my contacting you for us to work so that you can assist receive this money into your bank account for us to SHARE. While you will have 30% of the total fund .Note there are practically no risk involved, it will be bank to bank transfer, all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of this fund who made the deposit with our branch so that my Head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account. If you accept this offer to work with me, I will appreciate it very much. As soon as I receive your response I will details you on how we can achieve it successfully.
Best regards,
Mr Herry Ofori

Blah blah blah…

Maybe “Mr Herry Ofori” can explain to us why he needed to send this email from a computer in India…

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Another lottery scam gets by the spam filters. This one has the virtue of being brief…

From: “versloot@libero.it” <versloot@libero.it>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 22:23:31 +0100
Subject: Email us

This is to inform you that your email ID with your email address drawlotto dream number 1046 has won US$2, 000, 000. 00 in the first categoryofour computer ballot email Award with the said winning numbers giving below; Ticket Number: 663 51273503 20XX,Batch No: 2/12/ 29/30/33/385Ref No: MXF 77 222-656,Lucky NO: 73-90-53-ASWX, Contact agent Email: trustgroupagent7@netscape.net

categoryofour – WTF?

CONTACT CLAIM OFFICE Mr.Cole V.HANS. E-Mail CONTACT: trustgroupagent7@netscape.net ,Tele: 0031-611-146-930, FAX: Number:0031-847-176-138, Congratulations! Once more from all staff of Lotto Award INTERNATIONAL.Regards,Mrs.I Versloot.PROMOTION CO-ORDINATOR

In most languages, it is customary to put whitespace after punctuation. At least this email actually came from a computer in Europe…

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That’s new, a Japanese lottery scam instead of the usual European scams…

From: “Ms.Bartilo Randwanska ” <sunjapl@gmail.com>
Reply-To: “Ms.Bartilo Randwanska ” <sunjapl@gmail.com>

A gmail email address, wow…

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:43:58 +0200
Subject: SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS and JAPAN EMAIL LOTTO

Sunshine International lottery Promotions
and Japan Email Lotto Programme
7-1-1 Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 251-9586 Japan

Sir/Madam,

Well, which is it, sir or madam?

CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON €1,500,000.00

Euros? Why not Yen?

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 25th of October, 2007 of winners of SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS and JAPAN EMAIL LOTTO programmer held on the 9th of October, 2007.

programmer? WTF?

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of €1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros) in cash credited to file SUNJAP/26510460037/07.This is from a total cash prize of €15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Euros) shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.

Your lucky Draw number fell under our European coupon booklet, thus your winning prize sum is now deposited in a special account with the OFFICIAL approved European Bank based in Holland-Netherlands- Bank-POST BANK NL. To begin your claim, DO NOT contact us, instead contact the approved paying bank as they will guide you step by step until your winning prize is paid to you.

Hendricks V. Boer.
Processing Department
Post Bank NL
Centurion Bouwmeestraat 123, 1178 AA Amsterdam – Netherlands.
Web-Site:-www.postbank.nl
Email address:- hvbpostbanknl@aol.com

One would think that “POST BANK NL” could do better than an AOL email address.

Also give him the following information:-

YOUR FULL NAMES:-
CONTACT STREET ADDRESS:-
TELEPHONE NUMBERS-OFFICE/MOBILE:-
FAX NUMBER:-
OCCUPATION:-
YOUR AGE:-

REF NUMBER: SUNJAP/091113B2/14
BATCH NUMBER: 25/14/SJ24
TICKET NUMBER: 09-1012-790-458

Your security file number is SUNJAP/26510460037/07(keep personal).Remember; your winning must be claimed not later than One Month. Failure to claim your winning prize will obviously mean that your winning prize will be re-staked in our next lottery draws, so ensure that the needful is done now and quickly too. Once again, accept our profound and sincere congratulations on your winning.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms.Bartilo Randwanska

{Online Co-ordinator}

Odd that an email about a Japanese lottery with a payout from a bank in the Netherlands would originate from a computer in China.

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