Actually, I’m not absolutely certain that it this is spam from Korea, those tend to be more colorful with many happy faces. But I really liked this one. It looks a little like a poem. I really do wish I could read it… But then again, maybe not. I would become so depressed if it turned out to be yet another lottery scam or viagra mail.

If anyone can read it. Please feel free to translate it in the comments. Or just make something up. I would never notice the difference.

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The Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire) must be full of rather well-off orphans seeking financial guardians. At least if I would believe the number of e-mails sent to me with queries if I would like to act as their guardian and assist them in their quest to transfer their funds. In this e-mail the sum is downright ridiculous. Anyone with US$ 3,200,000 (formated as 3.200,000 in the mail) could find financial gurardians by other means than sending e-mails to hidden e-mail lists.

It’s just another 419 scam:

from mary ugo <m.ugo28@yahoo.com>
reply-to m.ugo27@yahoo.com,
to m.ugo28@yahoo.com,
date Nov 11, 2007 12:21 PM
subject Urgent Attention

From:Mary and Robert Ugo
Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.

Dearest One,
Permit us to inform you of our desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to us and then help us out in what we are about to tell you.
I’m Mary Ugo(18) my Brother Robert Ugo (16). We are the children of Late Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Ugo (Orphans). Our father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D’Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip. Our mother died when we where babies.
Before the death of our father on Sept. 2005 and before his death he secretly called us by his sick bed and told us that he has the sum of Three million two hundred and thousand United State Dollars USD ($3.200,000) deposited in a
suspense account in a banks here in Abidjan.We now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose in your country

Because of this we are honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to us and then assist us transfer the money into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for us to come over to your country to further our education and then settle there parmanently. We shall offer you 20% of the total money for assisting us on the transfer of the money to your account.

Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Mary & Robert Ugo

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A new lottery scam. At least this is the first I have heard from them. It’s a scam of course. It has all the markings. A lottery price out of the blue without ever purchasing a lottery ticket (especially not in Spain and for the Euromillion Loteria Espanño), an irrelevant e-mail domain name, a second unrelated email address for the company handling the payouts.

Well.  Redboath Finance and Securities S.L. is just another invented company and Mr David Lopez is just another scammer alias. It’s just another lottery scam.

from    Michel Ndenugo <michel_ndenugo11@web.de>
to    michel_ndenugo11@web.de,
date    Nov 10, 2007 4:34 PM
subject    Attention: Winner,

Attention: Winner,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice the result of
Euromillion Loteria Español 2007 promotions.We are happy to inform you
that your email address have emerged a winner of Five hundred and fifty
thousand euro(550, 000.00)Euros.
NOTE: to file for your claim, please contact the claim department below
on email or phone

REDBOATH FINANCE AND SECURITIES,S.L
Contact person: Mr.David Lopez
Tell: 0034636920356
Email:claimoffice34@aim.com

Find below your promotion date, Reference and Batch numbers. Remember
to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent
(Mr.David Lopez )

PROMOTION DATE: Thu 08 Nov 2007.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/07
BATCH NUMBER: 15/051/IPD

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for
believing on email
communication and also for being part of our promotion program.

Sincerely Yours,

Mrs.Mariam Michel
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR

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Yet another lottery scam, this time labeled Brittish Lottery has landed in my inbasket. The sender alias is Mrs Stella Roberts, and the claims agent alias is Anthony Pedro. Both using yahoo.co.uk addresses. I’m urged to call a phone number in the UK: +447045750626, and they are in a hurry. If I don’t call them within 3 working days of their notification, my winnings will be revoked. Oh, and of course, they want me to keep quiet about it. Big chance of that! Here’s the full notification mail, and it is nothing but a scam.

from    britishlottoresult2@insight.rr.com
reply-to    claimsagent.anthonypedro@yahoo.co.uk,
to    undisclosed-recipients,
date    Nov 4, 2007 5:31 PM
subject    You Have Won! ….Call This Number +447045750626.

BRITISH LOTTERY 6/49
P O Box 1010, 3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool, L30 1RD
3th October, 2007

FINAL NOTIFICATION
This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of
£1,263,584.00 (British Pounds) held on the 2nd of october, 2007 in
London,Uk.The selection process was carried out through random
selection in our computerized email selection system(ess) from a
database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were
selected.

The BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved by the British Gaming Board.
To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduaciary
claims department for more infomation as regards procedures to claim
your prize.You are to contact the Claims Consultant with the
information below:

Name: Mr. Anthony Pedro.
Email:claimsagent.anthonypedro@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447045750626
………………………………………………………………
…………………….
contact him, please provide him with the following codes below:
FOLLOWING:Ticket no:025-1146-1992-750,
Serial No:2113-05,
Lucky No:08-11-17-30-32-41
bonus No:47,
REF NO:BRLFGP2551256/0.
………………………………………………………………
…………………….
(1) FULL NAME:
(2) FULL ADDRESS:
(3) NATIONALITY.
(4) AGE:
(5) OCCUPATION:
(6) TELEPHONE NUMBER:
(7) SEX:
(8) TOTAL AMOUNT WON:
(9) COUNTRY

If you do not contact your claims agent within 3 working days of this
Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners are advised to
keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid
Fraudulent claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.
*Winner under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
*Staff of the British Lottery are not to partake in this Lottery.
Congratulations!!

Sincerely,
Stella Roberts (Mrs).

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Now why would a Burkina Faso based financial consultant want to contact me via an undisclosed-recipients e-mail list with an offer to safe-keep 11 million dollars for a client, and find it necessary to reveal the fact that the client is a widow? I can see no reason at all, other than the fact that Hajia Faridat is an alias for a scammer and that the mention of a wealthy widow serves as a great bait for his scam. Well I don’t buy it. It’s a 419 type of scam.

from hajia faridat <hajia_faridat33@hotmail.com>
reply-to hajia-faridat@hotmail.com,
to undisclosed-recipients,
date Nov 3, 2007 5:47 PM
subject PARTNERSHIP & INVESTMEN

Dear Sir,

I am a financial consultant based in Burkina Faso. I have a client (a widow) she has USDM11,000,000 with a private equity investment trust company for safe keeping only. She wishes to invest in a stable economy.

Her interest is in companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms. My client is interested in placing part of her fund in your company,if your country’s bilaws allows foreign investment.

You can contact me for more details via my e-mail address with your reference.

Yours faithfully,
Hajia Faridat.

NB: The fund is free from drug and laundering related offences

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Ibrahim Mohammed is a scammer alias who’s seeking for a better life and a new guardian who can help him take care of his 6.7 million dollar inheritance.

Again, a scam directed to gready victims who very much wants the poor boy’s money, and will be willing to pay a lot of fees, bribes and commissions in order to help Ibrahim to transfer all of his money out of the care of his oncle and into your bank account.

In the end, there will be no money. Only a neat sum of pay-offs.

Here’s Ibrahim’s mail:

from “ibrahim_mohammed01@centrum.cz” <ibrahim_mohammed01@centrum.cz>
to unlisted-recipients <>
date Nov 2, 2007 7:13 PM
subject Dearest One

Dearest One

Assalam alaikum, may the peace of gracious Allah be with you. Please I have problem which I need help from you that’s why I decide to write you for help.

I have a proposal for you. However it’s not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour it against your will. I am in a difficult state of mind and was moved to send this proposal to you after my prayer.

I am Ibrahim Mohammed, the only son of my late parents. My mother died when I was just 4 years old, and since then my father took me so special. My father was a highly reputable business magnet (a cocoa merchant) who operated in the capital of Ivory Coast during his days. It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously when he came back from business trips abroad in France. His sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by our uncle who travelled with him at that time. But Allah knows the truth.

Before death of my father he called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Six million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars. US($6.700,000) left in fixed/suspense account in one of the banks here in Abidjan ,that he used my name as his only son as the next of Kin in depositing the money.

I am 19 years old and a university undergraduate before I abandoned my school due to my uncle’s bad treatment to me since death of my father. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life coupled with my uncle’s late bad behaviour to me. I am confused and really don’t know where to start from.

I am in sincere desire of your humble assistance to help me have the money transferred to you as my guardian for better life for me and invest the money into a business to be looked after by you.

What I am doing is as lead by my faith. I hope you are somebody I can trust that will not take me for granted or take undue advantage of my helpless condition because of my manner of approach to you.

If you know you are capable of handling this and help me rearrange my life. Please consider this my proposal and get back to me for more information.

My salaam to your family.

My sincere regards,
Ibrahim Mohammed.

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