Month: February 2007

Yet another one of these scams got past my spam filters…

From: Yahoo Lottery <y.lotterynotifications@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:54:29 +0300 (MSK)
Subject: Yahoo Winning Notification

Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road,
Longsight, Manchester
M60 2DB – United Kingdom

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eighty Four Thousand, Five Hundred Great Britain Pounds (GBP84,500) for the 2007 New Year Prize Promotion which is Organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.

Wow! Imagine Yahoo! and Windows Live joining forces to give away free money.

YAHOO! collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

I’m one of the Selected Winners? It must be my lucky day.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

15 days? I better hurry…

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER: YPA/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2006234522
PIN: 1206

One would think Yahoo would do a better job generating unique winning numbers…

These numbers fall within the England Location file and you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him;

Agent Name: Rev. Albert Time
E-Mail: talbert02@walla.com
Tel: +44 702 408 1003

Nice touch making your fiduciary agent a reverend — <sarcasm>he must really be trustworthy</sarcasm>.

As soon as our agent hears from you, he shall commence the process that will facilitate the release of your fund to you.

<sarcasm>I can’t hardly wait</sarcasm>.

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,

Dr. (Mrs.) Edith Barth

Dr.? Edith must really be legit if she’s a “Dr.”

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WARNING!

Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.

Oops!

You may also receive similar e-mails from people potraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, Kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Of course this email must be legitimate.

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned.

I guess we’re supposed to believe “YAHOO AWARDS & “WINDOWS LIVE” would need to send emails from a computer in Russia.

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Another one of these scams got past my spam filters…

From: “Mrs. Susan Bricks” <jhensing@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:45:03
Subject: DEARLY BELOVED.

From: Mrs. Susan Bricks

I worked with the Financial Services Authority (FSA)UK. Before my illness. I deposited a bond as the beneficiary to my late husband George. Presently, this bond is with the private bank, reserved account. In Europe. I will provide you account details to the dormant account.

Oh, really?

Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to cancer and stroke. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to churches or better still an individual that will utilize this bond the way I am going to instruct here in. I want you to bless souls, fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.

Yeah, right.

Please, do contact me if you will go into charity partnership with me. Now that I know will leave this sinful world. Rather than losing everything my late husband and I worked for all these years without a child.

Boo fucking hoo…

My beloved, I await your urgent response in good faith. If you are willing to handle this project in good faith.

My beloved? My, aren’t we being a bit presumptuous?

Mrs. Susan Bricks.
PRIVATE NURSING HOME. UK
Email: susan_assistance@yahoo.co.uk

This story is truly amazing. Someone living in a nursing home in the UK, with one foot already in the grave, manages to go all the way to Israel just to send me an email…

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