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!!!.

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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.

Note below your winning details:
Ticket Nº: 22-1356-4096-988
Serial Nº: A069-07
Lucky Nº: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742006
BATCH Nº.: 2006UKL-01

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULL

NAMES:____________2.ADDRESS:______City_________State_______Email______Address_______Postcode_____
__Country__________3.SEX:_______________4.AGE:________5.OCCUPATION:__________________

6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________

Final Notification/REF Nº.: UKL/74-A0802742006

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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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I don’t know if the lottery scammers have taken to writing more and shorter mails because of sites like this, but the last few days I have received several e-mails like this one. Very short, and with very few searchable keywords execpt for the names of the person who writes them and the so-called payment agent.

I don’t think they will get very far with it. Their scams are even more unbelievable without a name for the lottery.

from    “fergmargaret@cox.net” <fergmargaret@cox.net>
to         undisclosed-recipients <>
date        Oct 31, 2007 2:39 AM
subject        *****SPAM***** CONTACT YOUR PAYMENT AGENT:
West London,
43 North End Road,
West Kensington,
London W14 8SZ

You have been approved to claim of total sum of 1,000,000.00 euros which your email address won in the
2007 Euro ballot held today in uk,your Ref: PBLPBL/11278998789/908796//1109,PBL/67189098011/245679/1109.

Please do forward your refernce number  to your claims agent PETER RAYMUND with the email address below.
Email:powerball1122@yahoo.com.hk
Phone:+4470 1112 1986

Regards
Sincerely,
Margaret Ferguson.

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Lately, a large number of lottery, and 419 scammers have been using Yahoo! addresses. They are much more common than Google’s Gmail service. However, and ironically, not this one, that claims to be a winning notification from the “Yahoo” International Promotion Program”, is a scam email that doesn’t use a Yahoo address, even if they have a yahoo.com.hk address as their reply-to. Wonder if it will still be valid after I report the scam to Yahoo?

Because that’s all it is. A scam!

from YAHOO!PROMOTION <jane07@adelphia.net>
reply-to consultant_suzan.howard@yahoo.com.hk
to undisclosed-recipients <>
date Oct 29, 2007 11:08 PM
subject Final notification(You have won).

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the YAHOO! International
Promotions Program held on the 29th of October 2007.Your e-mail batch
number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which
consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,500,000.00 (i.e One Million Five
Hundred Thousand British Pounds)please contact our customer care service Agent
immediately, to begin your claims process
=================================================

MRS.SUZAN HOWARD
Email:consultant_suzan.howard@yahoo.com.hk
=================================================

You are to contact her with the following information:
Your Full Names:
Your Contact Address:
Your Telephone:
Fax numbers:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age:
Country Of Location:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your Sincerely,
Mrs Jane Moore

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Some spammers are easier to detect than others. The first giveaway is that they tend to use strange Yahoo! domains for sending their mail. This one, acting under the alias of David Thomas Clark, urges me to contact a Ms Jane Furness Gordon, who is supposed to be working for a company in England, but uses a yahoo.gr email address. Now how believable is that?

It’s nothing but yet another lottery scam.

    from        POWERBALL EURO <dschupp3@cox.net>
reply-to         powerballcashoffice07@yahoo.gr
to         undisclosed-recipients <>
date        Oct 23, 2007 4:02 PM
subject        Powerball Code Number: PBE/1O/2007
NOTICE…CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Lucky Winner,
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT

Dear Winner,

RE: POWERBALL PRIZE AWARD
We are pleased to announce the winners and the result of the Multi country powerball mega lottery online Cyber Lotto Draws of the POWERBALL EUROPEAN LOTTERY  PROMOTION  that was just concluded.

Powerball striking Number:2-5-16-36-40-36
Powerball Code Number: PBE/1O/2007
Powerball Online Reference Number: PBE/11/EUR

Your Email Address  was attached to Powerball Online Reference Number: PBE/11/EUR and picked as one of the 2007  Powerball European Online  Winners in category “A” winning you a sum of Eight Hundred and fifty thousand Euro.Hence you are eligible for the prize of  Eight Hundred and fifty thousand Euro.Please contact the under listed Fiduciary Coordinator Via Email immediately for processing of your claim:

CONTACT NAME: Jane Furness GORDON(Ms)
CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.
EMAIL: powerballcashoffice07@yahoo.gr

CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN!!!
Sincerely,
David Thomas Clark
Promotion Manager

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Scammers have been using well-known brands as originators for lottery scams for several years now, and Microsoft isn’t a new name. This lottery scam, from the alias Ben Clark, must however be one of the worst written notifications I have ever seen. The lack of formatting, the ridiculous sum of a million pounds and the obvious flaw, that a Microsoft official never would use a yahoo.com e-mail address sais it all.

It’s a scam.

from        Ben Clark <b_clark_md@yahoo.com>
reply-to         b_clark_md@yahoo.com
to         drinkalizer@lindqvist.com
date        Oct 22, 2007 12:04 AM
subject        Dear Lucky Winner  
Microsoft Award Team 20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10,United Kingdom. Ref: BTD/747/07 Batch: 462890CE Dear Lucky Winner, This is to inform you that your email has won a consulation prize of the Microsoft Corporation EMAIL DRAW held 21st Oct 2007. Your email has won you 1,000,000.00 Great British Pounds. To claim your prize, please contact your fiduciary agent Mr. David Brown with your Batch: 462890CE and Ref: BTD/747/07 and contact him via email or phone immediately within 24hrs. Mr. Ben Clark Microsoft Promotion Award Team Head Winning Claims Dept. Email:b_clark_md@yahoo.com

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This lotto award notification that just arrived in my GMail inbox looks new. At leas, I’d say that the Turkish footer is completely new to me, as the lack of reasonable contact info. Maybe a sign of a newcomer in the lottery scamming business? The names are all wrong, the email address could have been picked with better judgement, and the mail itself is too much of a cut and paste.

A scam and fraud attempt for sure. If you get one, don’t bother with it. Just throw it away.

from thomaswinifred <thomaswinifred@mynet.com>
to undisclosed-recipients <>
date Jun 13, 2007 3:08 PM
subject *****SPAM***** INFORMATION

EU AWARD LOTTO
Madrid-Spain
Ref: BW/068/07
DRAW RESULTS NOTIFICATION
Dear Beneficiary,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of our computer ballot selection draw for the free Lotto EU programme 776/99 of Monday 11th June,2007.Your email address attached to ticket number 4 6 8 9 6 drew the lucky star number which which consequently won the draw in the second category. You have been approved for the star prize of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros (1,500,000.00 Euros).
You are advised to keep this winnining personal/private until you receive your lump prize in your account.This is a protective measure to avoid double claiming by people you may tell.
Now, contact your payment Agent to claim your prize money:Just send your winning ticket number and your reference number to DR KEVIN MARTINS at his email address (kevinmartins@mail.md) Phone+34-677-726-326 for the processing of your claim. You are required to forward your telephone and fax number to this office to enable us contact you.
All prizes must be claimed within two weeks.

Yours faithfully,
Ms.Jose Maria Thomas
EU AWARD LOTTO
Madrid Spain

____________________________________________________________________________
Zeynep Tokuş,Tan Sağtürk,Kargo…..ve daha birçok ünlü Mynet email kullanıyor! Ya sen?

The line of turkish is a Mynet advertisement. If anyone would care to translate it for me, I would appreciate it.

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Many thanks to John Jones who sent me this ‘award notification’ from the Honda Car international promotion program. Yet another scam played at newcomers on the web who are led to believe that they have won one and a half million Brittish pounds in cash.

If you receive a mail or letter like this, just throw it away and forget about it. Honda aren’t giving away 1,5 million pounds. They don’t run a lottery with collected e-mail addresses. Nobody does. Not Honda, not Microsoft, not Dayzers. Nobody except online scammers that is.

AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited
results of the HONDA CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM held on 8th
April, 2007. You were entered as dependent clients with Reference Number:
DZ/BC7765468/WW14 and Batch Number: NM/896161/WOP
, Serial Number:
S/N-00168. Your email address attached to the Ticket Number: 20-01-2005-02MSW
with draw Number 887-13-865-37-10-83, which consequently won the Lottery in the
1st category, in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of
£1,500, 000. 00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pound Sterlings) in cash . This is from a total cash prize
of Ten Million Euros shared among all our International Winners in all
categories.

Congratulations!!!
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, as
part of our international promotion program. Due to mix up of some
names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your
claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you. This is a part
of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted
participants or impostors, taking advantage of the situation. You are to
contact your/our-accredited agent for your claim now.

Mr. James Keller
DAYZERS AWARD CLAIMS AGENT.
Email: keller_fiduciary@excite.com

NOTE: You are not to reply to this mail, all correspondents must be
sent to our claims officer (Mr. James Keller) along side with your
following information:

Full Legal Name:
Complete Mailing Address:
Country Of Residence:
Sex:
Marital Status:
Age:
Occupation:
Tel:
Fax:
Reference Number:
Batch Number:
Serial numbers:
Amount Won:
Winning Email:
Next of Kin:

Best Regards
Marvel Goebel
Dayzers Award Notification Officer
C.E.O DAYZERS AWARD OFFICE

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A visitor by the name of Michael, posted the below mail from the eLoterie’ International in a comment to another post. The e-mail is signed by the name of Stewart Wallis from Wallis & Gallagher Consulting, a company name that up to this point has been impossible to find on the web.
Thanks Michael! My spam filters has evolved enough that I don’t get these anymore.

First, Michael’s very direct comment about the mail he got:

THIS IS MY REPLY TO THE SCAMMERS
The email below is what was sent to me, all number you requested are available. One question… why are there so many misspellings and miss use of proper English? Are you possibly trying to scam me? If so, I cant wait for the part when you tell me there are some sort of taxes I have to pay upfront or shipping, please please please lets get on with it. What did I win, when will I receive payment?

If you check in again Michael, don’t hesitate to post any followup mails from the scammers to your reply. They would of course be really stupid to reply to such a call-out, but intelligence is rarely one of these scammers’ strong sides. Thick headedness is though, so they might just as well try to convicne you that you have actually won something…

And so on to the actual sting email from the scammers sending out winning notifications regarding the eLoterie’ International:

eLoterie’ International 2007 ™
Rue S. J. Bemdenlaan 121
3220 Edegem, Belgium
REF. NUMBER: eLI/3072215/03/07
BATCH NUMBER: 04-82-BE10

ATTN: Sir/Madam,

RE: NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you, about the release to our first international promotion program (eLoterie’ International), held on the 25th of January 2007. Organised, to promote and encourage international participation, in our international first high stake lottery program.

In the 1st series, which was drawn from a pool of €2,460,000.00 (Two Million Four Hundred and Sixty Thousand Euros), playing with five numbers 15-26-2-34-11. Your email address, attached to ticket number 351, won in the 4th category and was awarded €517, 200.00 (Five Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Two Hundred Euros only) in cash.

Please be informed that all names entered in the lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system with millions of entrants sourced through our international department, in conjunction with world residential white pages, and humanitarian organisations, with the help of chambers of commerce of countries.

To file for your claims please contact the designated accredited agent(s) below:

Stewart Wallis
Wallis & Gallagher Consulting
London, England.
EMAIL: wallisgallagherconsulting@yahoo.co.uk

All winnings must be claimed not later than two (2) weeks of receiving this notice. After this date, winnings that remain unclaimed would be returned, and late entry penalty requirement must be met before entry claims might be considered.

All correspondence must be directed to our authorized agent(s). Should there be any change of address, or wrongly spelt name, make sure you contact your assigned agent as soon as possible.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

NOEMIE THIBAUT (Ms)
Promotions Manager
eLoterie’ International.

Again, a Yahoo! email address. When will Yahoo! make an attempt to clear out these users?

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Even if the below mail, is quite similar to the previously published Dayzers Lottery scam, it is also very different, and needs a post of it own. Thanks to Gita, who submitted it in a comment. The Dayzers Lottery does in fac exist, but they don’t have any free-for anyone e-mail ballots. They even have a waring about these types of scams published on their website at http://www.dayzers.nl/informatie/waarschuwing.jsp

Unfortunately, the warning is only published in Dutch, a language that most of the victims for this type of scam don’t understand.

In this case, the scammes have used the official name of the Netherland state lottery: The Netherlands Staatsloterij, the Dayzers lottery brand name, as well as the official looking name Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program.

There is no doubt that the below email is a scam (the main tell-tale, again being that an official lottery with it’s own domain wouldn’t use an aim.com email address for it’s communication). If you received a similar one, don’t hesitate to call the Dayzers Lottery in The Netherlands, they speak excellent English, German and French, and can tell you that you, like many others have been exposed to a sting operation.

!!!!!!!THE NETHERLANDS STAATSLOTERIJ:
Dayzers Nederland:
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA,
The Hague, The Netherlands.
Website: www.dayzers.nl

Dear beneficiary,

Following the official publication of results of the e-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by The Netherlands Staatsloterij Corporation held on Monday, the 16th of April, 2007 in The Hague - The Netherlands, wherein your electronic e-mail address emerged as one of the fifty online winning emails in the 1st category, out of a total of 500,000 e-mail addresses that were entered for the E-mail Lottery Ballot and has therefore attracted a cash award of One Million Euro only. This is from a total cash prize of Fifty Million Euro only, shared amongst the fifty winners in this category. Your electronic e-mail address attached to our Lottery payment order, has the following details: (I) Ticket Number: DZRS/STLOTT/837-3845/2007: (ii) Lucky Numbers: 07, 25, 31, 49, 54, 66, 72: (iii) Batch Number: 11/621/2PDH /DZRS/NL/07: (iv) File Reference Number: DZRS/82283922/2007:. No tickets were sold.
We write to officially notify you of this award and advise you to contact our Claims Department immediately on receipt of this message for more information concerning your identity verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

For your identity verification, please contact our Claims Department:
Tel; +31 64 191 2354 ; e-mail: dayzers07claim@aim.com; Contact Person : Dr. Jerome Coles - while quoting: (i). Your full name(s) and Nationality; (ii). Batch Number and (iii). Reference Number:

The payment authority of your prize - One Million Euro only - already paid and insured in your name with our Paying bank will be issued to effect immediate/swift transfer in the mode you will prefer and nominate, upon satisfactory report on your identity verification and validation recommendation by our Claims Department. E-mail addresses registered with false names are not eligible to claiming this prize.
The Staatsloterij Award is sponsored by a consortium of software promotion companies i.e. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and Microsoft Corporation to encourage the use of the internet and promote computer literacy worldwide. We are proud to say that over 20 Million Euro are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide, as a result of our promotional programmes.
All winnings must be claimed not later than 10th of May, 2007. After this date, all unclaimed funds will be withdrawn and remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences.

Once again on behalf of all our staff, Congratulations.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Brenda Wolfgang
Lottery Coordinator
Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program.

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A new brand of the online lottery scam has opened. This time said to be based in Malaysia, and under the name of Asia Online International Lottery. It’s a scam for sure, and my faithful server-side spam filter has stamped it as spam, but let it through anyway. It’s a weird detail that these scammers has sent it out with a blind carbon copy to my address. A true givaway that this was not intended for me only. How many others got it?

From: wins_claims@yahoo.com.hk
To: wins_claims@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 2007-mar-31 10:38
Subject: *****SPAM***** Call For Claims

ASIA ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
ASIA ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).
(24hours)CUSTOMER SERVICE
WINNING NOTIFICATION:Registration Z720633X
WINNING NOTIFICATION LETTER

We happily announce That the draw (#966) of Asia Online Lottery Raffle Draw held on 31st March 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 which subsequently won you one of the Thunder Ball Prizes.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of (One million two hundred thousand Dollars ) ($1,200,000) in will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Malaysia.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Claims Department
contact our fiduciary
Mr. Wong Vanfrant,
Tel:+60173564103
Email:wins_claims@yahoo.com.hk

VERIFICATION FORM
1.FULLNAME 2.E-MAIL ADDRESS 3.FULL ADDRESS 4.SEX 5.AGE
6.OCCUPATION 7.TEL 8.COUNTRY 9.AMOUNT WON 10.ID
INDICATE YOUR MODE OF PAYMENT:
**VIA COURIER DELIVERY……………………….
**VIA BANK WIRE TRANSFER……………………..

Good luck from me and members of Asia Online International Lottery
Mrs.Rita Tung Po
Online Co-ordinator
Asia Online International Lottery
Copyright ?1994-2007 The Asia National Lottery

Well. Even with a Hong-Kong Yahoo address they won’t be able to fool that many people with

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Many thanks to Rashad Zeed Alali Aldaher who submitted this mail about the “Nordic SMS Lottery” allegedly sent by the Nordic Lottery payment Office, as a comment to the running thread about the very similar, and probably related Gotenborg SMS Lottery scam.

A few points worth mentioning:

1. There is no such organisation as the Nordic Lottery payment Office.
2. The phone number stated, +46- 704051742 is an unlisted prepaid mobile phone. the only reference that I can find to it is in the reports on similar lottery scams, reported on this site.
3. The only legal lotteries of this scale conducted  in Sweden are indeed run by the government gambling monopolies, but the tax is always deducted from any winnings in advance.

At least, it is very clear what the scammers are after in this case. However, it is not at all certain that they are really based in Sweden. The number could very well be forward connected to any number throughouth the world.

Kungsgatan 112
S-90187 Umea,
Sweden
Name: Interbank payment service
Foreign Remittance Department:

Dear Rashad Zeed Alali Aldaher

You are welcome to the Nordic Lottery Payment Office an affiliate of
the Nordic SMS Lottery. I am pleased to be at your service and you
have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Department
at the headquarters of the Nordic SMS Lottery.

The original copy of your winning certificate, together with a covering
document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for
Claims) stating that the money was obtained
legally through the Nordic SMS Lottery is ready and has been sent
to the tax agency for processing

With regards to you collecting your money, it would be required for you
to either come over to Sweden to collect your money in person, office hours is
between 10 am and 4 pm monday to friday and on saturday 10 am to 2 pm,
you are also advised that you should notify us of your arrival, so we
will send our staff to come pick you at the airport, secondly on
arrival, you are required to pay a tax fee to the Tax Agency that would issue a tax clearance to
us and also issue an approval for the money to be given
to you, the tax fee is 13,775 Swedish Krona, you are advised to come with that
amount so you will pay to the Tax agency.

But if you are not able to come over to Sweden, then I would advise that
you contact the Tax Agency and find a way of send the money to
the them for the approval to be issued and we will collect the
tax clearance, then we will either make a bank transfer
of the money to you or we will send a bank cheque to you through a
courier company ( DHL or UPS ), but you will notify us of the best way
you would prefer the money been sent to you.

I know you would have prefer that the tax fee be deducted from the
amount you won, but your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance
policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money
before it has been remitted to you. This means that no charges can be
deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your
prize is transferred to you, and secondly you are the only person that
is liable to receive the money and not until the approval is received
from the tax office, the money cannot be transferred or deducted.

This is in accordance with section 13(1) (n) of the national gambling
act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3rd July 1996 by the
constitutional assembly. This is to protect winners and to avoid
misappropriation of funds
Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is
exactly two weeks after the receipt of this email. After this period,
your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be
reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.

I hope to hear from you soon.
Good luck and Congratulations once again.
Regards,
Mr. John Palsson
Head of Payment Office
+46- 704051742

Many thanks to Rashad Zeed Alali Aldaher who submitted this new lottery scam as a warning to others.

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In a comment to one of the posts on the UK National Lottery scam, Tahani has kindly contributed what you get when sending in £577 for registering your claim. It’s a very phony looking certificate, and then they want £1500 more for your claim to go through with the payment process.

So, if you register (and send in whatever amount the scammers want you to pay for registering for you winnings), and then get a certificate that looks false or altered, it probably is. And this is what Tahani’s certificate looks like (with Tahani’s remarks and comments):

Thanks Tahani for sharing!

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Two big lottery prizes in just a couple of days! I missed this on Friday, but it’s almost too good to be true!  Alas I didn’t win the really large prize in the Euro Millones Lottery. (What language could that be anyway?) Only a “consolation cash prize” of 1,300,000:00 Euro. Too bad it’s a scam though.

How come people think that anyone would believe that someone paying out millions of Euro would use a hotmail address? Here’s the sting, a really poorly written lottery scam mail:

From:       e.millions71@hotmail.com
Subject:     CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL ID HAS WON. CONTACT AGENT FOR YOUR PRIZE.
Date:     2 February 2007 14:48:39 GMT+01:00
To:       undisclosed-recipients: ;

CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL ID HAS WON. CONTACT AGENT FOR YOUR PRIZE.
European Award Winning Prize.
Euro Millones Lottery Board
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION /PRIZE AWARD.
FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Paleisstraat 5, 2514 JA Den Haag:

Dear winner,

We wish to inform you that you have been approved as one of the lucky winner winners in the Euro Millones Lottery International Email Address draw on the 1st of February, 2007. All 5 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged alongside 4 others as a category 2 winner in the Euro Millones Lottery Draw.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.

Your email ID identified with Reference No: RJT/7438/TN and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

You have won a consolation cash prize of 1.300,000:00 Euros (One Million Three Hundred Thousand Euro Only). The EUROPEAN EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM Group have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting sweepstake 2nd of February. This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore you do not need to buy a ticket to enter for it. You have been approving for the star prize of 1.300,000:00 Euros (One Million Three Hundred Thousand Euro Only).

Batch No:LF/53/849/TN
Ticket No:UW/83/02/TN
Lucky No: 52/658/95/TN
Ref No: RJT/7438/TN
Serial No: TM/YR38J/TN

To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

Name: Mr. Donald Lucas.
ELECTRONIC MEDIA AGENCY B.V
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Tel: +31-643-635-997
Fax: +31-847-272-428
Official Email: electronicmedia2@aol.com

You are advised to provide him with the under listed information as soon as possible:

1. Name in full
2. Address
3. Nationality
4. Age
5. Occupation
6. Phone/Fax

The appointed agent will be required to Notarize all your award winning documents in the Netherlandsl Court of justice in The hague and also obtain Approval Legal Clearance Certificate from the Court which is in accordance with the European Union Lottery Act 2002 on payment of International Lottery Winners. Be inform that the PAYING BANK will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this fiduciary agent.

Once again congratulations!!!.

Best Regards,

Elina Raynes(Mrs.).
(Group Coordinator)

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I almost thought I would never get another lottery notification mail, but this weekend, almost to my relief, this one slipped through my spam filters. I have never come caross the SWISS-LOTTO Satellite software email lottery before, and it differs a bit from other lottery scams since it actually parasites on a real lotto site, the quite legitimate SwissLos. However, there is no such thing as a UK subset of SwissLos, and if you know the first thing about the Swiss, you’d know that they are pretty good att taking care of money, and keeping records.

Besides. Why should a Swiss lottery send out emails using a domain such as hostle.net (the return path goes to nobody@webserver2.hostle.net)? And why on earth should they use a  yahoo.co.uk email address for correspondance?

The Swiss-Lotto UK is nothing but a sham and falsification. Here’s the mail, and yes, it happens to be sent out from

From:   internationalcoordinator@swisslotto.ch
Subject:     CONGRATULATIONS!!!…..YOU HAVE WON 750,000 Euros.
Date: 3 February 2007 07:52:06 GMT+01:00
To:   [a scraped]@lindqvist.com
Reply-to:   cordinator_swisslotto@yahoo.co.uk

SWISS LOTTO UK.
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.swisslotto.ch

CONGRATULATIONS!!!…..YOU HAVE WON  750,000 Euros

You have have been awarded 750,000 Euros in the SWISS-LOTTO Satellite software email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked Randomly by software powered by the Internet through the worldwide website.

Your email address was amongst those chosen this year for the SWISS LOTTO Satellite lottery. And this promo is proudly sponsored by the SWISS-LOTTO UK organization.
You can log on to our website for more information concerning our entire lottery promo
https://www.swisslotto.ch .

Your email address,attached to Ref number 4, 12, 14,19,21, 31 with Serial number 1979-12 drew the lucky Numbers 35, and consequently won the lottery in the “A” Category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 750,000 Euros

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

In View of this, your 750,000 Euros will be released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them.

All participants Were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw System and extracted from over 300,000 companies and individual email addresses.
This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to Claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
Mr. Aron Baker,
Email:swisslottoclaimsagent06@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44 704 010 1519

Provide him with the information below:
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Draw Number above:

This information facilitate the due process of the release of winnings avoid unnecessary delays and complications in the processing of your winnings.
Always remember to quote your Reference / serial number in any correspondences with us or our Designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of This program and Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Sharon Cole
Co-ordinator
SWISS LOTTO UK.
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.swisslotto.ch

N:B - PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CORRESPONDENT WILL BE TEMPORARILY BE VIA EMAIL UNTIL 24 HOURS BEFORE PAY-OUT THEN YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA TELEPHONE.

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This Lottery scam was submitted by a reader by mail a few weeks ago, but got stuck in one of my spam filters for a while. I rescued it just before emptying my Junk folder.

R. Johnsson, who submitted the mail, writes that she wants me to publish it warn others.

This is  a variation of the National Lottery scam, and as such it deserves a page of it’s own. And now it’s posted as a warning to anyone who gets the same mail. Don’t do what they ask you to. They’re just trying to get some money out of you.

The National Lottery
EURO MILLIONS PROMO/PRIZE DEPARMENT
Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1, Ireland (Customer Services)
Ref: IR/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Winner,

RE: YOUR WINNING NOTIFICATION!

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement
of the Irish National Lottery 2007 Online Prommotion Result
held on the 20TH day of January 2007.You have won this lottery
as a result of random selection of emails from our microsoft
data base, this promotion takes place once in a year.

You have therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of
1,350,000 Euro.From the Irish Lottery Board.
For further information contact your fiduciary agent
DR. MARK O’MEARA Of the claims Department for your
FUND RELEASE VERIFICATION FORM.

Dr. Mark O’Meara
Claims Department
The IRNL Foundation
Email:drmarkomeara13@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +44 (70) 1112-7993 +44 (70) 4570-2021

Just another lottery scam… It’s amazing they are still at this.

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Even though my spam filters seem to block all lottery scams these days, my readers still receive them. Here’s one from The Holland Casino Lotto Promo Int, submitted to me through the comment system, by Georg Pétur from Island. I’ve obfuscated the email addresses somewhat since I didn’t receive this one myself. Read the rest of this entry »

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Since this summer, there has been reports about various SMS lottery scams, that are said to be originated in Sweden. Personally, I don’t really think they are. Even though they state an address for a Swedish Post Office Box in Gothenburg. Mark the spelling (not Gotenborg) as it is spelled in the sting mail. There might be a P O box there, but I vage that all incoming mail is resent somewhere else.

The person who sent me this mail asked how the scammers could have the number to his mobile phone as well as his email address. And I have been asking myself the same. But then I recall various forms that I have filled out on the www where I put my cellphone number in the phone field hoping that it would keep various phone sellers away.

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