Tag: Scams

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

From: Uk lottery Organisation <Uklotto@Winners.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:59:58 +0100
Subject: Your E-mail address has won you US$4.6M

Your E-mail address has won you US$4.6M
UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

If you are the correct owner of this email address,

If I’m not the owner…

then be glad this day

<sarcasm>
Whoopee!
</sarcasm>

as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail winning draws and sweepstakes held in DUBAI-UNITED ARAB EMIRATE

UK or UAE? Make up your mind!

on the 20th of April2007 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your e-mail address has won you the lottery in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6M.

Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number: APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583 The UK lotto online e-mail winning draws is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.

Mackintosh? WTF?

The free Ticket lotto Internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

Yeah, right…

You are to contact Mr. Joshua Ong on the below email address for quick delivery of your won cheque of US$4.6M. All winners cheque are ertified cashiers and are cashable in any bank of any country. To enable the Courier Company ascertain you as the rightful receiver of the cheque, include the below listed informations in your contact mail to Mr Joshua Ong.

I think it might be hard to find a bank that will cash an ertified cheque.

Your country, complete official names, amount won, ticket and lucky numbers, date/venue of draw, address where your wish to receive your winnings cheque, contact telephone, mobile and fax numbers.
Trans World Courier Express UAE Company Ltd.
Office Address: 68 Naif Road, Dubai U.A.E.
Email-Address.transworldcourierservices2@yahoo.ie
Contact Agent: Mr Joshua Ong.
Telephone: +971-50-7485166.
Yours Truly,
Mr Jerry Fidelix.
Co-ordinator.
UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION

Here’s the UK lottery held in the UAE sending a winning notice from Italy instructing me to send info to an Irish email address. Suspicious?

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Just in time for Easter, another one of these scams got past my spam filters…

From: Trisoft International <trisoft@web.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:57:22 +0200
Subject: Easter Sweepstake Bonanza.

Easter Sweepstake Bonanza.
Trisoft Intl Limited.
NoordPark Blvd,
6517 KK Helmund,
The-Netherlands
Ref No: TIL/88-5/0007
Date: 6th April, 2007.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Following the official publication of the results of our Online Internet Sweepstakes, the Trisoft Company wishes to inform you that your electronic email address as attached to a Serial Number: 223155-06 and selected by our Electronics Games System, has won you our Internet Sweepstakes Program that was conducted on the 6th day of April 2007 in the general prize category. You have therefore been approved among the winners to apply for a payment claim of 1,000,000:00euro (One Million Euro Only) each. Be informed here that all email addresses that were used in this program were extracted from the Internet through our associate’s partners without the knowledge of each beneficiary hence you should’nt be worried about how we got your email address.

You’re telling me I “should’nt” be worried about how you got my email address? Screw you. Oh, your so called “Electronics Games System” sucks major rope (it can’t even generate a unique serial number).

You can only claim these funds by contacting the assign claims payment company as approved by our management. Kindly contact this assign payment Firm on email address: gilmacfin@katamail.com with your Complete Names, Postal (Resident) Address, Telephone and Fax Numbers, Occupation, Age, the amount approved (Won) and the payment Reference Numbers. All funds not applied for after the 20th day of April 2007 will be regarded as unclaimed funds. In other not to complicate the claim processes, we advices that you keep a copy of this message safe until your claim has been processed and collected either through the Bank-to-Bank Transfer means or in a Certified Bank Draft.

Right… I’m going to send all that information to a complete stranger. Get bent.

This program was conducted as a new promotional means of introducing our sweepstake services, to encourage the use of the internet and promote computer literacy worldwide while at the same time as a means of providing each beneficiary with capital funds for positive investment purposes.

Another brilliant business model. Wow.

Congratulation from our company as we expect you to make good use of the funds.

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

Sincerely Yours,
Grace Lofblad (Dr).
Award Services Department.
Email: trisoft@excite.com

Copyright © 1991-2006 Trisoft International.

2006? Time to get a new calendar.

***************
Note: In accordance with the Trisoft policy and regulations, this message is dispatched directly to the recipient only. If you are not the rightful owner of this email address or feel that you have received this message by error, we advice you destroy this copy as you are not authorized to read, print, retain or disseminate any part of it.
***************

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It’s nice to know scammers will keep us informed when they change their email address…

From: Yahoo! Lottery <info_lotto4u@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: claimyourwinning2007@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:59:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: You are one of the yahoo winners LOTTERY

I have a new email address!You can now email me at: info_lotto4u@yahoo.co.uk

You have won yahoo lottery reply back for more information

– Yahoo! Lottery

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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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Another one of these scams got past my spam filters…

Click on the links in the message to see that various numbers in this scam email are not exactly unique.

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <rissie@adelphia.net>
Date: Jan 18, 2007 7:41 AM
Subject: **WINNER**

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#978) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY held on 13th January, 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:5647560054 188 with Serial number 5368/02 jack pot lotto winners drew the lucky numbers: (-02-06-21-34-35-49-(46-) “bonus no 46. which subsequently won”you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £250.000 (two hundred and fifty thousand pound sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03 in a total sum of £1,000,000 (one million pounds sterlings) lotto jackpot shared amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus! Bonus with percentage 16.9%. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. Our fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed. This is part! of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

For payment, please do provide with the following informations: And send to our Fiduciary Agent.
FULL NAME, SEX, ADDRESS, COUNTRY, FAX, PHONE NUMBER, OCCUPATION, COMPANY’S NAME, AGE, REF NUMBER.

Mr John Richards
Email: agent_johnrichardss7@yahoo.com
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY FIDUCIARY AGENT

Yours faithfully,
Brain Hunt.

Funny how a “WINNING NOTIFICATION” from the “UK NATIONAL LOTTERY” came from a machine within the U.S.A.

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Yet another one these scams got through my spam filters…

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