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The proposed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft is not yet a reality, but this does not prevent the African crooks from using the company names for a bogus lottery.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: YAHOOMSN AWARD DONATION <info@yahoomsn.com>
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Dear Beneficiary
To: undisclosed-recipients
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation
Baley House, Har Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom .
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling’s for this month Lottery promotion which was organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE. YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
You are to contact the events manager.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number…………………YM 09102XM
Reff number…………………..YM 35447XM
Winning number……………….DTYFM0988
However you will have to fill and submit this form to the events
manager.
1. Full name…………..
2. Contact Address……..
3. Age………………..
4. Telephone Number…….
5. Sex………………..
6. Occupation:…………
7. State………………
8. Country…………….
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail.
(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr Robert Henry
E-mail: eventmanager_henry@yahoo.com.hk
Here’s another one saying the money is deposited with an express delivery company. You only have to look at the e-mail address to see it’s a fake.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Mr Agu Bello <sandra_4uonly@yahoo.fr> Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:38 AM Subject: CONTACT GES SERVICE FOR YOUR PACKAGE To:
Dear Friend,
Good day, I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank Draft but did not heard from you since that time. I went to the bank to confirm whether the draft is getting close to expire and the director of the bank told me that before the draft will get to your address, that it will expire. Then I told him to help me and cash the cashier bank draft of $1,200,000,00 (One Million Two Hundred Thousand US Dollars), Us Dollars to cash payment, However, I have successfully cashed the draft and packaged it in a box and have registered it in the GLOBAL SECURITY OURIER SERVICE COMPANY (GES) here in Benin Republic because I will travell to see my boss and will not come back till next month end,
You have to contact the GLOBAL SECURITY COURIER SERVICE COMPANY (GES) FOR YOUR PACKAGE to know when they will deliver your package to your address. I have paid for the delivering charges ok. Here is GLOBAL SECURITY COURIER Contact Address; Telephone Number, +22997046911 MR.HENRY JECOBS E-mail:( express.courier49@yahoo.fr )
Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX , This is the information they need from you,
1. YOUR FULL NAME. 2. YOUR HOME ADDRESS. 3. YOUR CURRENT MOBILE NUMBER. 4. YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE. 5. A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE.
Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security keeping fees. I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake in the delivery,
Note; I didn’t tell the GLOBAL SECURITY COURIER SERVICE COMPANY (GES) that the box contained money, I registered it as a package of an African cloths. This is to avoid delaying or any upfront problem during the delivery, So do not let them know that the package contains money, Do let me know as soon as you received your package.
You will get in touch with me through e-mail as my phone is no longer available now that I am out from our country. Thanks and Remain Blessed. AGU BELLO
This story was originally told about 5 years ago as Robert Mugabe his land grab forcing farmers to hand over their land to the state. Due to evictions and violence against farmers they mostly left the country.
The rest of the remaining farmers have lost their land in the violence which occurred after the disputed national vote which was held this year. Looking at the situation in Zimbabwe today, it does not seem likely that Robert Mugabe will be willing to give over power to anyone in the near future.
The chaos in Zimbabwe is an ideal background to a scam e-mail like this one. It sounds plausible.
I have had contact with people who have fallen for similar Zimbabwe stories in the past. They all fell for it, because they wanted to give a poor soul a helping hand. Morally there is nothing to say against that.
It’s just that the victims took the story at face value and got taken for a whole lot of cash because they wanted to help
———- Forwarded message ———- From: FRANKLYN LOCOMBO <franklynlocombo2@gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:11 PM Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL To:
Mr. FRANKLYN LOCOMBO Johannesburg. South Africa, Tel: +27- 74-1855-920 Email: franklynlocombo@gmail.com
FAMILY REQUEST FOR URGENT HELP AND BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
ATTN: DIRECTOR/CEO
Greetings!
My name is Mr. FRANKLYN LOCOMBO {Jr.}, the elder son of Mr. FRANKLYN LOCOMBOof Zimbabwe. It might be a surprise to you where I got your contact address; I got your contact address from the South African chambers of commerce. During the current crisis against the farmers of Zimbabwe by the supporters of our President Robert Mugabe to claim all the white owned farms and the few black farmers who are against his party in our country, he ordered all the white and black farmers who are against his system of leadership to surrender their farms to his party members and their followers.
My father was one of the best farmers in the country and knowing that he did not support the president’s political ideology, the president supporters invaded my father’s farm burnt down everything, killed him and confiscated all his investments. After the death of my father, my mother and I with my younger brother decided to move out of Zimbabwe for the safety of our lives. We took along with us the money my father kept in the safe in my mother’s house, which amounted to the sum of US$45 Million United States Dollars to the Republic of South Africa. The funds are presently being kept away in the secret vaults of a private security firm based here in Johannesburg South Africa.
My mother and I have decided to contact any reliable overseas firm/person who could assist us to transfer this money out of The Republic of South Africa, because we as asylum seeker here in South Africa cannot open an account of any sort, this is why we need you to travel down to south Africa to open a non-resident bank account in your name where the funds will be deposited before on-ward transfer to your nominated overseas account. If my proposition is considered, for assisting us to transfer this money to your country, we will offer you 20% of the total fund, 80% will be for me and my family to invest in your country under your supervision. All expenses incurred will be deducted from the 80%. For detailed information, you can contact me.
All of these companies are regularly misused for lottery scams. Basically the crooks are using the brand names to try and achieve a higher trust factor.
Trust is a very hard thing to gain online. And as the crooks are not in a position to provide their own trust factor, they use the names of well know companies and public persons to lull potential victims into believing what they are offering is an honest offer or, as in this case lottery company.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: MSN AWARD TEAM <paulsmiths_uk@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM Subject: MSN AWARD TEAM To:
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Msn Award Team Baley House, Har Road Sutton, Greater London SM1 4te United Kingdom. Batch: 12/25/0340 Ref:MSN-Y/101OXI/02
Hello Winner
Congratulations to you, we bring to your notice the result of YAHOO LOTTERY WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO & MICROSOFT WINDOWS. We are happy to inform you that your your email address in addition to millions of company and individual email addresses were extracted with a software and the addresses were scrutinized with a ballot system and after the process, 100 email addresses were selected and they were shared into 5 categories respectively and which you are a winner in the 3rd category of (500.000.00GBP) .Be informed that your cash donation has a hardcover insurance policy that makes it impossible to make any deduction of any kind, until the sum is finally credited into your designated account.
NOTE: Please contact the claims department With the following information. 1.Full name………… 2.Country………….. 3.Contact Address…….. 4.Telephone Number……. 5.Marital Status……… 6.Occupation…………. 7.Age………………..
Mr. Daniel Moore (VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER) PHONE:+44 794 679 1342 EMAIL:msnawardteam12@jmail.co.za Technorati-Tags: MSN, Microsoft, Yahoo, lottery scam
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From: PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS
Date: Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Subject: 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand UNITED STATE DOLLARS)
To:
PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PCH INTERNATIONAL
GIVEAWAY KAULAR LUMPAR MALAYSIA
Dear Publishers Clearing House Beneficiary,
We the Board of Directors for Publishers Clearing House(MY)
officialorganisers of the Publisher’s Clearing House Giveaway Programme
brings to your notice that you are the lucky winner and beneficiary of the
justconcluded giveaway prize of 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand UNITED
STATE DOLLARS) with the Giveaway #- 13101, Batch # - PCH/008-13101, Ref. #
- 012057-SSL. To file for yourclaims ,
please follow below instructions:COMPLETE THE BELOW INFORMATION & FORWARD
TO PCH FUDICIARY AGENT*Required Details:
Complete Names,
Contact Address,
Present Country,
Telephone#, Mobile#,
Email,
Occupation,
Sex,
Marital Status.
*Amount Won:*
Giveaway Number:*
Batch Number:*
Reference Number:
FIDICIARY AGENT: Mr.GREGORY FRED.
EMAIL: gregoryfredcenter@live.com
Please note that the information required will not be furnished to
anythird party and will be used for the purpose at which it is
required.Beneficiaries are warned to keep their claims confidential until
theyhave completed the remittance process to avoid double claiming
andunwarranted abuse of this programme. Warmest
Congratulations,JOHN LAMBERT
And so a further inheritance is passed my way. Just too bad that it’s not true.
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From: Dr.Jim Peter <jimpeter@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:19 AM
Subject: Swift message?
To:
Mr. Jim Peter
The Legal Representative
No: 12, Satellite Town Lagos Nigeria
Hello ,
Get back to me immediately for necessary steps concerning your inheritance , Sequel to your none - reply of my earlier email to you dated 02/03/06. On behalf of the Trustees and Executors to the Will of your deceased relation in 2002, I wish to notify you that your name appeared in the codicil and last statement of the deceased and you entitled to his fund US$7,000,000.00 deposited with a Bank here and the bank here has made me know that the US$7,000,000.00 will be release to you through their payment oficer with Citi bank of United States of America. You are advised to reconfirm to me your details as required below to enable the release of your funds worth US$7,000,000.00 to you through our payment outlet in the U.S.A :- i also want to notify you that as soon as the bank release the fund to your account i will be comeing to your contact address that you will send to me now so that i will teke my own because I will have 45% and you 45% the other 10% will be for any payment that we make before the fund release to your account we will teke it out from the 10%
(1). Your full names :
(2). contact address :
(3). Phone :
(4). Cell phone :
(5). Age :
(6). Occupation :
(7).I D
As soon as the above are provided the paying bank will contact you for wire transfer release.
Regards,
Barrister Jim Peter
This is one of the favourites. They are saying Fedex has a package with a bank draft for me. The funny thing about this is, if he really did travel to Germany, he could of brought it with him.
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From: <adammike5@aol.in>
Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:59 AM
Subject: CONTACT FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY FOR YOUR PACKAGE
To: undisclosed-recipients
(CONTACT FEDEX EXPRESS COURIER COMPANY BENIN)
ODAWA & COUNSELORS AT LAW
06 BP 1409 AKPAKPA DODOMEY
WEST AFRICA COTONOU REPUBLIC OF BENIN.
EMAIL: (infofedexcourierservicei@yahoo.fr)
PHONE:+229 93 81 55 88
Dear Beneficiary,
I have been waiting for you since to come down here and pick your Bank Draft USD$1.8M (ONE AND EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) but did not hear from you since that time ,then I went and deposited the Draft with Fedex Express deliver company here in Benin Republic , because I travelled to Germany to see my boss and will not come back till next month ending. You have to contact the Fedex Express deliver company to know when they will deliver your package.
I have paid for the delivering charges and insurance fee.The only money you have to send to them is there security keeping fee which is $135.00 Us Dollars to received your package.Don’t be deceived by any body.Below is their Contact Address;
ATTN: REV. DR DAVE BEN.
TEl: : +229 93 81 55 88
EMAIL:(infofedexcourierservicei@yahoo.fr )
Please, Send them your contacts information to able them locate you immediately they arrived in your country with your BOX .This is what they need from you.
1.YOUR FULL NAME………….
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS……..
3.YOUR COUNTRY
4.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER……………
5.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE………………….
6.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE…………………….
Try to contact them as soon as possible to avoid increasing the security keeping fee.I gave them your delivering address but you have to reconfirm it to them again to avoid any mistake in the delivering including with your ID or Picture.Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your Draft .
SHIPMENT CODE AWB 33XZS
PACKAGE REGISTERED CODE NO XGT442.
SECURITY CODE SCTC/2001DHX/567/
TRANSACTION CODE 233/CSTC/101/33028/
CERTIFICATE DEPOSIT CODE SCTC/BUN/xxiv/-78/01
Thanks and God bless you and your family.
MR mikeuba
Oh yes, my email address is randomly selected. It and several hundred others …
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From: Uk Gaming House <gerry_burke@eircom.net>
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:50 AM
Subject: Final Notice !!!
To:
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
12th April 2008
This email is to notify you that this email address was randomly selected and entered into our free Third Category draws. You have subsequently emerged a winner and therefore entitled to a substantial amount of 552,000.00 Pounds.
For further information, kindly confirm receipt of this email, by forwarding Your Details as states below to our claims department on Email :uk_foreignunit@yahoo.co.uk
INFORMATION REQUESTED:
(a) Your full Name:
(b) Contact address:
(c) Your Telephone and fax numbers:
(d) Your Age:
(e) Your occupation:
(f) Your country of origin:
Thank you.
Yours Sincerely,
Award Notification Team
UK GAMING HOUSE
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Jairzinho Ramos Medina <jar46@drexel.edu> Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:34 AM Subject: Here writes Mrs Stella Cole To: undisclosed-recipients Here writes Mrs Stella Cole. I am married to Pharmacist Dave Cole an Englishman who died years ago. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 7.5 Million (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterling which were derived from his vast estates and investment in capital market with a security company here in UK. Presently,this money is still with the bank.My Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from. I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of widows, widowers, orphans, destitute, the down- trodden,physically challenged children, barren-women and persons who prove to be genuinely handicapped financially.please get back to me so that i can give you contact address of my bank and barrister here in UK. Hope to hear from you soon and God bless you and members of your family. NOTE: I will prefer you contact me on my most private and confidential email address: mrsstellacole3@yahoo.com.hk Faithfully Yours Mrs Stella Cole
Now Mr. Kim got himself imprisoned for fraud in 2006.
Doesn’t that sound like a good background for a first class scam e-mail?
And here it is, offering you a miserly 15% for your services.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Ms. Cheung Pui Ling <cheung@icbcasia.com.hk> Date: Dec 21, 2007 6:50 PM Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL To:
Dear Friend,
This is a Management Placement on behalf of Mr. Kim Woo Choong.
Mr. Kim Woo Choong is looking for an experienced business person/company that can profitably invest monies in excess of Fourty Nine Million US Dollars outside China. The sum will be paid from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
Visit our bank website at http://www.icbcasia.com/eng/index.shtml
Or request immediate information from:
Mr. Zhu Qi Managing Director and, Chief Executive Officer, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited 33/F, ICBC Tower 3 Garden Road, Central Hong Kong Toll free No: + (852) 800-90863 Local Fax No:+ (852) 301-54297 Email: zhuqi_icbc001@hotmail.com
Most importantly, you will be required to:
[1]. Act as the original beneficiary of the funds. [2]. Receive the funds into a business/private bank account. [3]. Invest/Manage the funds outside of China.
Mr. Kim Woo Choong is willing to pay 5% for your role as the beneficiary partner to the funds. Also, a subsequent 10% “Management Commission” will be paid for your advised investment services. A further 5% will be used to write off any expenses incurred in the course of transferring the principal sum.
If you prefer to be re-contacted for more express information, please send us your:
[1] Full Names: [2] Contact address: [3] Direct Telephone No:
Be advised to visit the following links to be better acquainted with Mr. Kim Woo Choong?s current profile and personality.
We expect your correspondence and our response will be swift.
Signed: Ms. Cheung Pui Ling, Company Secretary Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited 33/F, THE ICBC Tower 3 Garden Road, Central Hong Kong. E-mail: cpl_icbc101@hotmail.com
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