The below House of Senate scam is almost as old as the concept of 419 mails.
When you get a mail that sounds too good to be true, it probably is. When you get a mail written in all-caps, it’s probably written by someone who isn’t quite sure about the concept of capitalization, e.g. someone who doesn’t have too good a grip of the language they are writing in.
When you get a mail without a to-address, it’s probably not posted to you alone. And, when you get a mail with differing from- and reply-to addresses… well.
The below request for an address is nothing but yet another scam. Just throw it away and forget about it.
from ATM CARD <info@atm.gov>
reply-to charleslodu@live.com
to
date Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:36 AM
HOUSE OF THE SENATE
Our Ref: FGN /SNT/STB
THIS IS TO OFFICIALLY INFORM YOU THAT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
HAVE BEEN ATTACH TO AN INHERITANCE FILE AND FOUND OUT THAT
YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR PAYMENT AND YOU
HAVE NOT FULFILLED THE OBLIGATIONS GIVEN TO YOU IN RESPECT
OF YOUR CONTRACT/INHERITANCE PAYMENT.
SECONDLY WE HAVE SECURE THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO YOU. YOU
ARE TO CONTACT THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDS DEPARTMENT
CARD PAYMENT CENTER.
NAMES : PROF. CHARLES SOLUDO
EMAIL ADDRESS: charleslodu@live.com
PHONE:+2348026267284
AND ALSO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS:
1. YOUR FULL NAME……
2. PHONE AND FAX NUMBER……
3. ADDRESS WERE YOU WANT THEM TO SEND THE ATM CARD…..
4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION…..
THE ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT
AN ATM CARD VALUE OF {USD 6.8 MILLION} WHICH YOU WILL USE
TO WITHDRAW YOUR MONEY IN ANY ATM MACHINE,IN ANY PART OF THE
WORLD AS PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2008,YOU HAVE TO STOP
ANY FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH ANY OTHER PERSON(S) OR
OFFICE(S) TO AVOID ANY HITCHES IN RECEIVING YOUR PAYMENT.
NOTE THAT BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUED YOU OUR
CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-822) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE
THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE CARD CENTER
BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT.
KINDEST REGARDS,
DR. J. C. WILLIAMS
CHIEF AUDITOR TO THE PRESIDENT
(COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN)
Wow! It’s not everyday you receive such a classic and truly typical 419 scam in your inbox! Miss Maryrose Adam claims to have deposited a ridiculously large sum in a bank in the US, and she needs someone to help her claim them….
to [hidden here since it looks like a legit addres]
date Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:25 PM
subject good day
from: Miss Maryrose Adam
Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.
I am Miss Maryrose Adam, the Only child of late Mr Jean Adam the
former coco produce in bouake west cost of cote d I’voire .I
discoverd that my father deposited the sum of the sum of US$17,500,
000.00 (Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only USA in a
security company here in trunk box as family valuables for a security
reasons before his death ,and now i am in hiding in one of the city in
Abidjan Due to infertility nature of my country politicaly war,
I wish to invest this fund In your country. I also plead you help me
on the investment part of the business, You have a free hand of
operation.
A legal process will take place to ensure mutual transfer.
All effort made to the successful of this transaction will highly be
appreciated. I hope to get a favourable reply in due curse.We can
negotiate on the terms of assistance.
Best regards,
Miss Maryrose Adam
If you got the same. Don’t hesitate - it’s a classic Nigerian 419 scam, even if this one looks at if it was sent from the Ivory Coast.
If you aren’t a scammer, and want to hook up with people for a legitimate business proposition, I have a few pointers to give you.
Use a legitimate e-mail address
Address people directly, and now via an undisclosed email recipiants list
Present yourself and your project and offer to call or hook up IRL for more information
Use correct language, and format your mail as good as possible.
Don’t use scraped email addresses (harvested from the web)
David Adams has done the oposite in this mail that just landed in my inbox:
from dansukin@libero.it <dansukin@libero.it>
reply-to “dansukin@libero.it” <dansukin@libero.it>
to undisclosed-recipients
date Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:21 PM
subject relate
I need to relate with you some urgent business matters concerning transfer of
funds.
On receipt of your response in affirmation of your willingness to work with
me I will send to you
full details and more information about myself and the said funds for your
better understanding.
I will prefer we communicate for now via email
Yours sincerely,
David Adams
David Adams’ mail goes straight to the junk folder. He is pitching for a scam.
Do you remember the Budweiser commercial from 8 years ago? Wassup? No? In case not, watch the original one first, and then the followup below. And if you’re in the US… Remember to vote for Obama. We, in the rest of the world need you to. We can’t take much more of this.
You get a proposition from a distinguised banker. It’s a proposition you shouldn’t rightfully get and it involves a lot of money. You don’t have any relatives who have died in any car accidents in Birmingham, but the seed of a thought awakens in your mind. You might actually be in the lucky position to receive the better part of fifteen million pounds… The more you think of it the more you dream of being able to get that money.
But you know. It’s just a scammer, trying to play you for a couple of thousand pounds in fees, taxes and maybe bribes too.
from David Brinsford <davidsctb_brinsford4@msn.com>
reply-to davidsctb_brinsford@msn.com
to undisclosed-recipients
date Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:22 PM
subject Good Day
Good Day
I will first introduce myself as Mr. Brinsford, a staff in the Accounts Management Section of a well-known bank, here in Scotland , UK .
One of our accounts, with holding balance of £15,000,000 (Fifteen Million Pounds Sterling) has been dormant and last operated four years ago. From my investigations and confirmation, the owner of the said account, a foreigner who died on the 7th of January 2004 in a car accident that occurred in Birmingham here in UK.
Since then, nobody has done anything as regards the claiming of this money, as he has no family member that has any knowledge as to the existence of either the account or the funds; and also Information from the National Immigration also states that my late customer client has the same last name with you and he was single on entry into the UK.
I have confidently discussed this issue with the Attorney to my late customer client and we have agreed to work with you due to the fact that you have the same surname with him it’s 100% SURE that your claims will be approved by the finance firm where the said funds were lodged. We therefore propose to do business with you, standing in as the next of kin of these funds from the deceased and funds released to you after due processes have been followed
This transaction is totally free of risk and troubles as the fund is legitimate and does not originate from drug, money laundry, terrorism or any other illegal act.
On your interest, let me hear from you.
Warm Regards,
David Brinsford.
DISCLAIMER:
This message contains confidential information and is intended only for specified addressee. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Please note that we reserve the right to monitor and read any emails sent and received under the telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception of Communications) Regulations 2002.
See what I mean? It’s nothing but attempted fraud. And I just love that disclaimer at the end of the mail. Confidential. Sure. My mail didn’t have an addressee. It was addressed to a undisclosed recipient list.
I think this scam attempt is a pretty new one. I notice that the scammers have noticed that websites such as this one exists, and write that this mail has been sent out to many receivers. However, if it looks like a scam mail, is written like a scam mail, have all the markings of a scam mail and is sent from Nigeria, you can be pretty sure that it is a scam mail.
Here goes:
from OFFice of the Senate House <de_atm.senate@live.com>
to undisclosed-recipients
date Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:10 PM
subject Your ATM Card Value USD($700,000.00) is Ready
OFFice of the Senate House
Federal Republic of Nigeria
Ikoyi-Lagos Nigeria
14th Floor
51/55 Broad Street ,
Dear Beneficiary.
Congratulations as we bring to your notice you has chosen you by the board of
trustees in the Office of the senate house as one of the final recipients of
this year oceanic bank plc. cash grant/Donation. promotion
To celebrate the 30th anniversary celebration,We are giving out a yearly
donation of The ATM Card Value is USD($700,000.00) SEVEN HUNDRED THUAUSAND
UNITED STATE DOLLARS to 6 lucky recipients,as Yearly promotion from the
W.H.O,UN,and the EU in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.
The ATM grant/aid only collect email addresses of final recipient from
different countries: united state, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Europe, etc. and with
an electronic balloting sytem, without the recipient applying,you emerged one
of our lucky beneficiary.
It is my pleasure to inform you that you are not the only person that have benefited from this promosion, I am forwarding the tracking numbers of our beneficiary for 2007 edditon of this promosion who reside in America and Canadia. their ATM MASTER CARD was delivered by fedex courier services. Kindly track their parcel status online for verification popose….
Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to
be using The ATM GRANT/AID addresses, but are not from The ATM
GRANT/AID Board house,So beware!!!………Once again congratulations.
Funny bit there. The scammers warn their victims about themselves. Nice touch.
However, if you have received one of these, you can trash it without further notice. Nobody gives away free ATM cards with 700 dollars on them.
Did you get mail from the Yahoo! Awards Center? I hate to break it to you, but the mail is fake. It’s a typical scam, sent to thousands of people in order to try to steal their money, their identity or just pick petty change from them by making them answer, and thereby confirm their e-mail address. If you have any doubt whatsoever that this is a scam, stop just for a second and think of why Yahoo! would use an email address from their competitor Google’s online email service GMail.
Here’s my copy, if you got one like these, or even remotely like these it’s an iScam. Just throw it away and try to forget about it.
from Yahoo Award Center <awardcenterr@gmail.com>
reply-to awardcenterr@gmail.com
to undisclosed-recipients
date Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:56 PM
subject *****SPAM***** YAHOO AWARD *****WINNING NOTIFICATION*****Reply
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 One Million Great Britian pounds (GBP1,000,000.00) for the first quarter 2008 prize promotion which is organised by YAHOO AWARDS &WINDOWS LIVE.
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 email providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are of the Select Winners. Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers.
Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later that 30days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to it source as unclaimed. Stateed below are your identification numbers.
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658 REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522 PIN: 1207
You are requested to contact our co-ordinator in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him. You are advise only to contact the Co-ordinator’s on the email below
Email: awardcenterr@gmail.com
Name: Rev Paul jeddy
You are advise only to contact on the email above (awardcenterr@gmail.com)
You are advised to send the following information to our co-ordinator to facilitate the release of your fund to you
Full name, country, contact address, telephone number, fax number,marital status, occupation, sex, date of birth.
Your in Service
Mrs Mary Harmon
It’s a nice detail that Yahoo! would use a GMail address for correspondence. Thee
When US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email accont was hacked the other day, it was done without any greater technical skills. All that the Anonymous hacker needed to do was to use Yahoo!’s password recovery feature and fill in the appropriate answers. The questions where all general ones - so general that they, in Sarah Palin’s case - where found in less than an hour using Wikipedia.
The hacker explains the simple the prosess:
after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)
the second was somewhat harder, the question was “where did you meet your spouse?” did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screenshits [sic] that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for “palin eloped” or some such in one of the tabs.
I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on “Wasilla high” I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower…
It wasn’t harder than that. Something to remember when you start communicating with scammers such as the ones who’s scam e-mails we publish here on Nikke´s Index. Ones you start feeding the scammers accurate information you open yourself for various other attacks on your person. A reason as good as any to just hit delete when you get an email that souds too good to be true.
Since May, the big issue in the Swedish blogosphere has been the wiretapping legacy (FRA-lagen), that was passed by the Swedish pariament at 9.21 PM on June 18th, 2008. This was right before the parliament takes it’s summer break, and the law was actually passed during the first Swedish match in this summer’s footbal world championships. Still, the next morning, wiretapping was the subject on the vast marjority of Swedish blogs. This tuesday, the 16th of September, the parliament gathered again, and as the members of parliament gathered they where reminded of their decission from June. The debate never died, and is bigger than ever, even though the government has done just about everything to avoid the issue.
This film explains what’s going on. It’s over 20 minutes long, but well worth viewing:
Unfortunately, very few Swedish bloggers seem to write about the wiretapping legacy in English, and there is very few English news articles about it as well. I’ve found a few here and will be happy to list any more if you add a link to them using the comment feature below.
Powerball Online Promo don’t waste words when trying to scam us. Short and to the point, and I don’t really think anybody will fall for this, but still… Here goes:
Contact:Mr. Francis Scott for the claim of =A31.000,000 pounds which you =
have wonin POWERBALL LOTTERY
Provide your Names,Address,Age,Occupation,Tel,Country
Email:mrfrancis_scott@hotmail.com
Well, I don’t think so Mr Francis Scott or Gustavo Stringel or whoever you are. I think this is nothing but a scam! Otherwise you should know either my name, my telephone number or at least my email address.
And whoops! Right after the first one I received a second mail titled File For Your Claims, from a different sender and a different IP address, but very much like the first:
X-Originating-IP: [218.27.148.66]
From: Claims Office
Reply-To: contactmr.harrycookelc5@gmail.com
To:
Subject: File For Your Claims
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 6:13:57 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Contact:Mr.Harry Cook for the claim of =A3800.000.00 GBP which you have w=
on in E-LOTTERY.
Provide your Names,Address,Age,Occupation,Tel,Country.send to Email: cont=
actmr.harrycookelc5@gmail.com
Just as much of an iscam, and probably from the exact same scamers.
This blog has been down for ages. My sincere appologies for that. There has really been two reasons for it. One being that I have been too busy with things that pay the rent - the other one being that I ran a script to sraighten up security on the blog and that script turned out to be so good it wouldn’t even let me in.
But now that I have a little more time on my hands I’m getting back to this favourite project of mine - to publish every single scam mail that passes under my eyes.
First of all - I see that I have received more than 901 comments during the months tha blog wouldn’t let me in. That’s too bad, since I it will take me forever to figure out which ones are from spammers or are duplicates… I decided to apporve the comments left in December 2008 and will delete most of the rest. So sorry if you left a comment between February and September… It will most probably go to waste…
Now, I have a huge backlog of iscams that I want to get publised. Let’s go to work.
There are lots of instances of the below mail on the web, and I’m afraid that there is also a real Grace Beatrice Minor, the name that these scammers use in the below scam mail. Actually, there is no chance at all that the below mail is sent by the Grace Beatrice Minor who is the undersigner. The other alias in the mail, Mr. De Koster Thierry, might or might not be a real person, but I think not. Anyway, it’s one of those more complicated scam setup.
from samuel sendize <samuelll12@web.de>
to undisclosed-recipients <>
date 2008-mar-12 16:53
subject CONFIRMATION EMAIL
Good-day,
I got your contact after a diligent search of a foreign partner who will be of immediate assistance to me believing that this business proposal will be of mutual benefit to both of us and that you wi ll not betray me.
I am Mrs. Grace Beatrice Minor, You can find out who I am and why I need your assistance in a very confidential manner from the following sites:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2005/066.htm
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc8176.doc.htm
There is a total sum of 55 Million Euros deposited in a financial Institution abroad that requires urgent clearance and re profiling thus the reason why I am contacting you to come and act as my Proxy.
You will be compensated with 25% of the total if you can move the funds to your city where it will be invested in any Blue chip investment. Therefore you are advised to send your letter of intent to my
confidant/representative in Belgium as follows: Mr. De Koster Thierry.
Email: dekoster123@gmail.com,
Contact him now for further details of what you are to do next. Please note that everything about this transaction must be strictly confidential and all correspondence should be directed to Mr. De Koster Thierry as stated above.
It’s been a while since I posted the last scam mail here. Not that I haven’t received any, it’s more that they seem to come in at such a steady stream that it sometimes seems futile to even think that I can publish them all.
Anyhow, here’s a mail that seems to come from a newcomer in the field of internet scamming. And again, the main giveaway is that the mail has been addressed to an anonymous list instead of directly to me, the alleged beneficiary.
from ATM GRANT AID <dynamicdesigns@bellnet.ca>
answer-to atmpayoutofficer1@yahoo.com.hk
to “.”@bellnet.ca
date 2008-mar-13 01:24
subject DEAR BENEFICIARY
DEAR BENEFICIARY,
CONGRATULATIONS WE BRING TO YOUR NOTICE!!!THE OFFICE OF THE SENATE
HOUSE HAS CHOSEN YOU BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE AS ONE OF THE FINAL RECIPIENT
OF THIS NEW YEAR 2008 PROMOTION CASH GRANT GRANT/DONATION (500,000.00pounds)
TO CELEBRATE THE 30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATE.THE ATM GRANT/AID ONLY COLLECT EMAIL
ADDRESS OF FINAL RECIPIENT.FROM DEFFERENT COUNTRY: UNITED STATS, GREECE,
SAUDI ARABIA, EUROPE, ETC.AND WITH AN ELECTRONIC BALLOTING SYSTEM,
WITHOUT THE RECIPIENT APPLYING.
(PAYMENT REMMITANCE CONTACT)
Mr.AHMED USMAN.
E-Mail:atmpayoutofficer1@yahoo.com.hk
Phone:+2348027539847
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO SEND DOWN THIS FOLLOWING INFORMATION
1, NAME
2, COUNTRY
3, ADDRESS,
4, STATE,
5, PHONE NUMBER
6, DATE OF BIRTH
7, AGE AND SEX
8, OCCUPATION
WINNING BATCH No:(W-342-8876,U-500-32)
WARNNING!!!: FRAUDULENT EMAIL ARE CIRCULATING THAT APPEARS TO BE USING
THE ATM GRANT/AID ADDRESS, BUT ARE NOT FROM THE ATM GRANT/AID BOARD.
HOUSE,SO BEWARE!!!.
Once again, it’s the time of year when love and affection has to be manifested in pink, with baloons, roses, hearts and of some weird reason, chocolades. Each year I return to this old post, and this Anti-valentine card. It’s now published together with others, like it at meish.org/vd
I just love it. Please visit meish.org/vd and send it along to your anti-valentines. Here’s a quote from the original site, where it was first published:
“Just like the poor, VD will always be with us and like herpes, just when you think its gone for good, it rears its ugly head once more.
Yes, Valentine’s Day is upon us once more: that special time of year when chocolate manufacturers and greetings card companies encourage you to demonstrate the extent of your fondness in cold, hard, cash (or the satin-hearted equivalent) on February 14th.”
(Originally published on 02/14 2005)
Added on Valentine’s day 2005: Google’s in a valentine mood, this year as every year. And you won’t find that anti-valentine spirit there…
This e-mail from the alias of Abdul Isa, from the African Development Bank in Burkina Faso must be one of the longest bankscam e-mails I have ever received. It has all the markings of a scam, with the bait, the re-assurments, and the wow of silence. The first rule of a bank scam is “don’t talk about the bank scam”. Because if you do, as I do here, others, like yourself, will find out that others have also received the same mail, and will maybe realize that it is all a scam. But then, when sending out e-mails to an undisclosed mailing list, there is no real feeling that this mail was for my eyes only. Is there?
from abdul isa
reply-to abdul41@myway.com,
to undisclosed-recipients,
date Jan 11, 2008 4:51 PM
subject *****SPAM***** RE: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
MR ABDUL ISA
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
ATTN:
This message might meet you in utmost surprise,However,Its just my urgent need for a foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction,I am a banker by profession from Burkina Faso currently holding the post of a director auditing and accounting section of the bank.I have the opportunity of transferring the left over fund($30 m USD) which bellongs to one of my client who died along with his family in a plane crash on 31 july 200
After further investigation it was discovered that the deceased person did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Thirty million United State Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration seven years six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.
My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct ADB BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you 60/30 while 10% will be mapped for expenses that may be incured in the preoccess of transfering this fund into your account. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you. We share the procentange 60/30. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit.
I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased person I will then officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.
I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances wont pass me by.
I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.
I have evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets
share the blessing.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only through the numbers I will provide for you .
Further more be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner give you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with him in a plane crash and I can not use my relation because its not accepted here in Burkina Faso. Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from the time been is your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the nest one weeks.
Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through international banking laws and all the necessary information will be given to you in later.I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and children. I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the consequences, but I know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold. This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.
Futher detailes of the transfer will be sent to you as soon as i receive a positive response from you.
Thanks.
MR ABDUL ISA
Wew! Well sorry Mr Abdul Isa. I broke the first rule of the Don’t reply. This has so many scam markers you cannot believe it. And I broke the first rule of the ADB scam. I talked about it, to warn others from biting on your bait.
First of all. There is no “E-mail address ballot lottery international program” with the UK National Lottery. And we’ve been through this so many times on this site, that it feels as if I’m repeating myself. The below e-mail is a scam. An attempt by fraudsters to cheat me, and whowever else got it, on their money. It has all the markings of a lottery scam. It’s sent from one e-mail address (that resolves to a Virgin free e-mail service), it has a free-for-all yahoo.de reply-to-address. It is sent out to a hidden mailing list and it is actually quite funny that it is originated from an IP address routed to Denver? Wasn’t The Camelot Group supposted to be situated in Liverpool?
However. Don’t believe a word of this garbage. It is nothing but a scam.
from The United Kingdom National Lottery <jnewnham@ntlworld.com>
reply-to uk_lotteryclaimoffice070@yahoo.de,
to info@lottery.net,
date Jan 4, 2008 7:02 PM
subject ***Confirmed Reciept Lucky Winner***
The Camelot Group,:
operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
WINNING NOTIFICATION
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain held on the of 4th febuary 2007. Your mail account have
been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one
thousand,nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds £891,934.00
pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF
NO.REF:UKL/74-A0802742006. This is from total prize money of GBP
4,459,670.00 shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this
category.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web through computer balloting system drawn from over
100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that are listed
online.This promotion is this year\’s United Kingdom National Lottery
New Year bonanza. All winning must be claimed not later than 14 working
days from this notification. After this time all unclaimed funds will
be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please note in
order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote your reference number in all correspondence.
Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part
of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program.Contact details below
MR.Brain Johnson.
Customer Care
Tell:+44-70457-13755
Tell:+44-70240-94597
Tell::+44-70240-94349
Official Email: uk_lotteryclaimoffice070@yahoo.de
He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money.
I get too many mails like the belo from “Mrs. Rebecka Garang”, where none of my e-mail addresses is listed in the to-field. If it was, I might actually take them more seriaously. Now I don’t actually now anything about John Garang, and he might just have a widow named Rebecka, but I have a distinct feeling that the below mail is the first bait in a scam setup. It has every sing of it.
from Rebecca Garang <mrsrebeccagarang02@yahoo.fr>
to mrsrebeccagarang02@yahoo.fr,
date Dec 30, 2007 2:01 PM
subject From Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
signed-by yahoo.fr
From Mrs. Rebecca Garang.
Khartoun Sudan
Greetings in the name of the most high GOD. The source through which I got your contact gave me the confidence to reach you.
I am Mrs. Rebecca Garang the widow of late John Garang who was untill his death the vice president of Sudan in Africa. In brief, my late husband was a strong opposition for over 20yrs untill he was appointed the vice president on the 9th of July 2005 by the United Nations Peace Team as an avenue to quench the 20yrs civil war in Sudan. He died on the 31st of July 2005 following a helicopter crash alongside with 12 others just 22days after his appointment as the vice president. What led to the helicopter crash is still unclear but I know that my husband was the target.
I have a problem I believe you will be of great assistance. Please kindly permit me to have your responce to enable me contact for better explanations.
Yesterday I tried to communicate with a friend in Zimbabwe via SMS. The first SMS message I sent got through alright, even if it took a few hours. After receiving a reply I wanted to send a follow-up and it turned out to be quite long. It spanned 3 messages, but I sent it anyway. Promptly I received 3 messages from another Zimbabwian number saying
“You are barred from using this service.”
That sounded kind of sinister, and I worry a bit about it, since the message involved a message about moving to Sweden. It might have been held by censors, and my number blocked from sending more messages until after an investigation. I hope I haven’t caused my friend any problems…
Spam levels are up this christmas. Not only from scammers trying to take advantage of the charity spirit of the season, lottery scammers trying to make people believe that there is a chance to win big sums of money without even purchasing a lottery ticket (and now they even started commenting on my blog).
There is also the e-marketeers who didn’t make it this christmas either, and takes desperate measures to drive people to their e-stores at the last secondd before christmas.
My spam basket has never been this full, and I’m happy that my serverside spam filters catch the majority of all the crap rolling in.
Here’s a nice little music video about the other kind of spam, the kind of spam that isn’t powered by Microsoft.
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