Month: January 2008

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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