Month: November 2007

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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