Another Lottery scam rescued from my spam bucket. This one is even stamped as spam by the serverside junk filters. But it wasn’t certain enough to just send it into black space.

This lottery scam actullay has a fun twist to it. If I breach the confidentiality, they will send all of my two and a half million pounds to a charity organsization in South africa! And their spelling is even worse than mine is! Read the rest of this entry »

I went through my Junk folder before emptying the 10,000 junk mails that have been accumulating there, and guess what I found? Yes! A few more lottery notifications. If anyone finds a door marked EU Online Lottery and Gaming Corporation somewhere… Please prove me wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

The other day, I received an e-mail with what I first preceived as a very threatening content (see below). As it turned out the sender had confused me and Nikke’s Index with a Spanish lottery scam setup (probably the Loterie Nationale, El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International or any of their offsets).

The sender might have been a victim of these scammers him/herself, or has a friend or a relative who has. He or she has probably searched for the title of one of these e-mails, and found my site. (Lots of people do.) Most probably, the ironic pitch in my comments hasn’t come through to someone who is really upset and looking for a scapegoat. I guess that is what initiated the threat. But since I don’t think ignorance is an excuse for being rude and to send threatening e-mails, the mail conversation below stays. Read the rest of this entry »

I just cannot understand why scammers, and especially lottery scammers find it so difficult to format their sting mails properly. In my oppinion, presentation just has to be vital in a good scam. Transfer these scam emails to the offline world, think for a minute or two. If a rugged person who can hardly speak or pronounce a single sentence in English where to approach you to convince you that you had just won a million Euros… Would you, even for a second believe him or her?

Now, I don’t even for a second believe that Ms Annalisa De Vart or Mr. Willem Bouwt wrote the below e-mail. But if they had, and if there indeed was a million dollar cash price waiting for me.
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Usually, I edit out the worst formatting errors from lottery scam e-mails like the one below. But usually, they just have a few hard line breaks. This one though, is almost hopelessly malformated. And the subject line… Which legitimate lottery agent would write PLZ BE INFORM in the subject line of a lottery notification? Of course, all the other marks are in place as well, such as an undisclosed-recipients in the mail-to field, a ridiculously large sum of money and of course the fact that they have randomly selected for a list of 50 million e-mail addresses.

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This is a beauty. If you never, ever saw a 419 scam mail, read this one. Sent from somebody calling himself Chan Lee, from an Italian Yahoo account, and with a reply address to a Yahoo account from Singapore. A letter sent to an e-mail address that I only use on my drink recipe site, claiming that I have the same name as some deceased investor, and still, the scammer clearly don’t know my name. Instead, the scammer wants me to send in my full name, date of birth, phone number, fax numer, private e-mail address and postal address…

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Some people really do have a lot of nerve, don’t they? I just received this phishing attempt to an e-mail account that I have never ever used, and that is visible (and collectable as it turns out) from my Text Pong pages.

Now. Phising isn’t new, but to do a phishing attempt in a mail waring for… phising attempts. Isn’t that just a bit too much? Read the rest of this entry »

A major mistake to avoid if you are a lottery scammer would be to send out the exact same mail more than once. Especially using the exact same ticket number (5647560054 188), the same serial number (5368/02) and even the same lucky numbers (50-18-22-24-32-33) more than once.

Tonight when I received two emails with these numbers, to two of my e-mail accounts, I searched my mailboxes for more instances. And sure enough: These exact numbers where mentioned in no less than five lottery scam emails. The first time I saw a lottery scam using these numbers was over a year ago.

A search for [5647560054 188] on Google actually returns 74 results. All mentioning the same lottery scam. One of them is from this site, published on January 15, 2005. [Read it here!] Read the rest of this entry »

Here we go again. Yet another time I’m disqualifying myself from a million Euro lottery cash price. A bogus cash price from a non-existent lottery announced by a scammer who’s after the petty cash he can pull in from bogus registration fees and courier services, that is.

It’s amazing that I still get these scam attempts. You could think that these scammers whould start making black lists over the people that insist on publishing their mails… Read the rest of this entry »

04/11 2006 - Wow! It was so long since a 419 mail slipped through my double spam protection, that I’m almost excited to hav received one. And such a gem it is. Complete with all-caps, a dead father, a surviving son and daughter with the exotic name Kady Bakassa… and a deposit of 7 million Euros, that the two syblings wants me to take care of and help them invest.

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Last Friday, a Nigerian 419-scammer was sentenced to jail for 376 years by a Lagos court. Harrison Odiawa was convicted for “stealing, forgery, impersonation and conspiracy to obtain money by false pretences” contrary to the Advance Fee Fraud Act, the Nigerian Daily Independent reports.

Harrison Odiawa, 38, alias Abu Belgori, managed to extract $1,939,710 from US national George Robert Blake on the promise of a percentage of a bogus 20.45 millian dollars Ministry of Health contract. The classic advance fee scam, which you will find numerous examples of here, saw a duped Blake transfer the “advance payments” after seeing forged documents - including a certificate of registration with the Corporate Affairs Ministry and the aforementioned forged Ministry contract - which convinced him he was indeed about to get rich.

Blake raised the cash from his company, Quest Exploration and Development, and his own personal assets.

Related reading:
home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news2006.htm
www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/14/419er_jailed/

Take a few seconds and try to imagine that one of these lottery notifications where actually legitimate. Imagine winning 2.5 million dollars from a e-mail collecting service that had harvested your e-mail address from the web, and then just wanted to hand out all that cash to you.

Yeah. Pretty hard to believe, isn’t it? Especially if they didn’t even know your email address, as is the case with the below notification from the Loterie Nationale, “Mrs. Wendy Johnson” and “Peter van Dijk”.

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If there was indeed a company running a lottery called the 6 Ball Games Lottery handing out cash prizes of 2 million pounds, wouldn’t you think that they would have a functioning web site? Wouldn’t you expect them to send out their winning notifications from their own domain rather than from an msn.com address? And last, wouldn’t you expect them to send you a unique e-mail addressed to you only on such an important matter as a payout of 2,000,000 Pounds is?

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Nobody knows what went wrong when Promotion Director “Alvaro Manuel Pablo” or agent Vincente Garcia where compilating and sending out this lottery scam spam. They only sent one mail, but they managed to repeat their message four times in the same e-mail. And it’s a lottery scam allright. It bears all the markers such as a redicilously large amount of 805,550.90 Euros (I kind of wonder how they agreed on that ammount), the warning not to go public due to the risk of a “mix up of numbers and winning email addresses”, the need for a speedy reply, and of course the fact they they don’t even seem to know what email address they have sent the mail to…

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Again, I’ve won two million Euro lotteries in one day! Not bad. Even though the mail below asks me to keep this confidential, I’ll publish the winning notice. After all, it is nothing but a scam.

One thing that keeps surprising me with these lottery scams is that they so often are sent to an undisclosed list of receipients. After all, I am to be lead to believe that I won on my e-mail address. And, they just might gain some trust by spelling the word superball correctly. Read the rest of this entry »

If there was a ten-million Euro lottery, and you run it. Wouldn’t you see to it that all that played left there full name, phone number, nationality and country of recidence? I would! After all, that would be the only gain from running such a lottery. And even if you had 10,000,000 contestants, I’m not sure they would be worth the prize sum.

The latest lottery scam arrived in my inbox today. If you received it too, just read it laugh about it and throw it away. You haven’t won, it’s all just a scam.

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God knows I could use some cash right now, but this Award Winning Notification sure won’t help me. It’s a scam, and it is probably sent out to at least the 25,000 e-mail addresses mentioned in the mail.

The really sad part about this mail is that this was sent to my pong email address, an address that isn’t even coded as a mailto anywhere. They simply picked it up from plain text. So, the so-called `advanced automated random computer search´ is most probably one of those rouge spiders hammering my site.

Well, well. Here goes. If you received one of these. Take it for what it is. A piece of junk mail trying to get you to pay a registration fee and a delivery fee for a non existant lottery winning from a lottery that never existed.

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Wow! Yesterday it seems as if I actually won 990,513.00 Euro! Not, I’m afraid. The National Lottery AKA The UK International Lottery may or may not exist in real life, but if you received a mail like the one below, I’m afraid it’s nothing but an e-mail lottery scam.  Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a while since I last won 750,000 dollars, but today it looks as if my luck changed again…

Actually, this email is better worded than any lottery scam I have received before. Therefore, if you got one of these, and had enough wits to do a search before responding, calm down. It’s all a way to make you pay up for registration papers.  Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know there is a Nigerian top hit named I Go Chop Your Dollar? It’s hugely popular in Lagos, and hit the Lagos radio stations a few months ago as a CD penned by an artist called Osofia (his real name might or might not be Nkem Owoh.

It’s as catchy as Nigerian music can be, and since it carries a message that thousands of young Nigerians seem to be able to relate to, it has become a huge hit in Lagos.

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