The UK National Lottery is often used by the Africans. It’s a good way of getting unsuspecting people to depart from their hard earned cash to pay for all sorts of “Fees” for a prize they will never get.
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From: END OF YEAR PROMO
Date: 23 Dec 2008 14:42
Subject: You have won the sum of £2,500,000
To: email@cda.twcbc.com
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Dear Winner,
You have won the sum of £2,500,000(Two million five hundread Thousand Pounds Sterling) from UK NATIONAL LOTTERY on our 2008 end of year charity bonanza.The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet Email Users,from which your Address came out as the winning coupon.
We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a monthly lottery. Failure to claim your win will result into the reversion of the fund to our following month.
You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims Department below quoting lottery number: LOTTERY NUMER:05-08-10-18-20-46-{43}. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.
The African crooks certainly do have fantasy. Kofi Annan sends me a message from the Nigerian Union Bank using a Yahoo email account.
They also claim that unionbanknigplc95@ymail.com is the banks official e-mail address.
As you can see, once again they use the United Nations and the former Secretary Kofi Annan, to try and make a story sound plausible.
They never do. You just have to look closer at what they write and use your common sense.
I like the slogan at the end:
Making the world a better place
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From: Union Bank Plc Compensation Unit <koffi.anan1@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008/10/19
Subject: COMPENSATION.
To:
UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC COMPENSATION UNIT,
IN AFFILIATION WITH THE UNITED NATION.
Send a copy of your response to official email: unionbanknigplc95@ymail.com
ATTN:Sir/Madam,
How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family?,You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the passed 7 months which ended 2 days ago with the former Secretary to the UNITED NATIONS.This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate them with the sum of US$900,000,00 This includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or international businesses that failed due to Government problems etc. We found your name in our list and that is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed.
You are advised to contact Dr.Emeka Jacob of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, as he is our representative in Nigeria, contact him immediately for your Cheque/ International Bank Draft of US $900,000,00 This funds are in a Bank Draft for security purpose ok? so he will send it to you and you can clear it in any bank of your choice.
Therefore, you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you want him to send the Draft to you.Contact Dr.Emeka Jacob immediately for your Cheque:Email:
unionbanknigplc95@ymail.com Thanks and God bless you and your family.
Hoping to hear from you as soon as you cash your Bank Draft. Making the world a better place .
Regards,
Mr. Kofi Annan
Former Secretary (UNITED NATIONS).
This time the crooks have an address in London, Great Britain. The funny thing is if you take a look at the Connecticut Lottery site they make no mention of a London office.
We happily announce to you the result of the last final annual draw of our International Lottery Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category “A” with the following numbers attached Ref Number: CT/17AD/LG9009, Serial Number: 879CT-80-80, Batch Number: 839081500-CT/2008 and Ticket Number: CT/11452/8707-905.
You are therefore to receive a cash prize of £2,750,000.00. (Two Million Sevn Hundred and Fifty Thousand GBP) from the total payout.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and Ref Number: CT/17AD/LG9009 and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category “A” winners with the information below:
*************************************
Name: Mr. Allan Baas
E-Mail: infoallanbaas_awardclaim@yahoo.com.hk
Phone: +44 703 1966612, +44 703 184 3533,
Fax: +44 870 495 8318, +44 871 5033515
*************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 21 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
They don’t actually call it a lottery in this one, but it’s written like the Yahoo & MSN scam e-mails which have been reported often here. Instead of MSN they name Windows Live as the cooperation partner. Looks as though they are modernizing.
We are proud to inform you that your email has just won you the total sum of £500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds) incash credited to file in the just concluded SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY DEPARTMENT held on 8th Sept 2008.
Your e-mail address attached to:
(A)Ticket Number: 22-1356-4096-988
(B)Reference Number: S.O.L.D/74-A0802742008
(C)drew the lucky numbers 3, 10, 22, 25, 31, 49 (bonus 4)
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE,
Simply contact Dr Darren Burke for validation of your winning.
Validation Officer
Contact: Dr Darren Burke
E-mail: dr.darrenburke.desk@hotmail.com
Tel.: +44 70457 73031
For the immediate release of your funds,you are to provide the following details to your validating officer.
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From: MRS ANGELA STONE
Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Subject: DEAR BELOVED
To:
Dear Friend,
My name is Mrs Angela Stone,a widow of late Mr. Frank Stone,former
owner of Petroleum and Gas company ,here in Ghana.I am 68years old,
suffering from long time cancer of the breast.From all indications my
condition is really deteriorating and it’s quite obvious thatI may not
live more than 4 months according to my doctors.This is because the
cancer stage has gotten to a very bad stage.i dont want your pity but
i need your trust.
My late husband died early last year from heart attack, and during the
period of our marriage we couldn’t produce any child. My late husband
was very wealthy and after his death,I inherited all his business and
wealth.The doctor has hinted me that I will not live for too long
again,so I have now decided to spread all my wealth,to contribute
mainly to the development of charity in Africa, America, Asia and
Europe.I am sorry if you are embarrased by my mail.
I found your e-mail address as a real Child of God for over a month
now that i have been praying to know if really you are working
according to the direction of God.And after all my fasting and prayer
i am convinced,and i have decided to contact you,but if for any reason
you find this mail offensive,you can ignore it and please accept my
appology.Before my late husband died he was a major oil tycoon,in
Ghana and deposited the sum of10million dollars (Ten million dollars)
in a Security company,some years ago,thats all i have left now,i need
you to collect this funds and distribute it yourself to charity.
So that when i die my soul can rest in peace.the funds will be
entirely in your hands and management.i hope God gives you the wisdom
to touch very many lives,and that is my main concern.20% of this money
will be for your time and effort,while 80% goes to charity.
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From: AgeniaClark Mrs.
Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:34 AM
Subject: ATTENTION DEAR, BRITISH INTERNET GAMES LOTTORY WINNER.!!
To:
BRITISH INTERNET GAMES
35, CLARENCE STREET ,
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX
SS1 1BH.
We are pleased to inform you of the recent result of our Email Games
Promotion held on 9th August 2008.
Your E-mail Address attached to ticket number 972/83746212 with serial
numbers 870942 drew the lucky numbers 11-18-23-32-49, with bonus ball
10-18 which consequently won the lottery in the 2nd Prize.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 750,000(Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand) E-mail Addresses from
Asia, Australia,
Middle East, Europe, United States , Canada , South-America and Africa
, as part of our Email promotion programs which we conduct every year.
You are therefore been approved for the lump sum payout of
$550,000.00(Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars Only) credited to
Account Number 917-92736471.This is from the total cash prize of
$18,300,000.00(Eighteen Million, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars Only)
Shared among the international winners in different Prize categories.
Therefore, to begin your claim, please contact the claims department
for necessary assistance as regards to your claim and final release of
the prize money to your designated bank account
Mr. David Wilson
(Claims Manager)
Email: big_davidwilson@live.fr
Phone: +44-785-340-7590
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every
correspondence with us.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th
September 2008. After this date the entire fund will be returned to
the INLAND REVENUE as unclaimed.
Congratulations and thank you for being part of our International
promotions program.
Obviously this cooperation works better for the crooks, than it does
for Microsoft and Yahoo.
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From: YAHOO AWARD GRANTS 2008
Date: Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Subject: YOU ARE A WINNER OF YAHOO AWARD GRANTS JULY 2008
To:
Yahoo & Window Live Awards Centre
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB -
United Kingdom
Tel:+447031925532.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Three
million,Two Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP 3,200,000.00)
for the month of July, 2008 Prize promotion which is organized by
YAHOO A WARDS & 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 e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to
benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners
which your e-mail address won the Jackpot Prize while other five
winners won One Million Great Britain Pounds(GBP 1,000,000.00) each.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS
Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers.
Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 10 days from date of
Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed.
You are requested to contact our Assistant co-ordinator in Manchester
and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Co-ordinator’s Name: Rev Fr. Niculai Anton
E-Mail:awardcenter10@luckymail.com / awcenter_uk101@live.com
Tel:+447031925532
You are advised to send the following information to our co-ordinator
to facilitate the release of of your fund to you.
1. Full name……………………………………….
2. Country………………………………………….
3. Contact Address…………………………..
4. Telephone Number……………………….
5. fax Number……………………………………
5. Marital Status……………………………….
6. Occupation……………………………………
7. Sex…………………………………………………
8. Date of Birth/Age ………………………….
9. Identity card(carte identite)………….
Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,
Mrs. Grace Sanders(Awards coordinator)
WARNING!
You must keep strict confidentiality of your Prize Award claims to
yourself until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid
disqualification that may arise from double claims.
Yahoo Awards Team shall not be held liable for any loss of funds
arising from the above mentioned.
It’s one of those e-mails where the contact office is in Africa. What
a coincidence!
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From: AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
Date: Sep 5, 2008 3:10 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS………..
To: undisclosed-recipients
AUSTRALIA LOTTO LOTTERY INC.
Date:4/9/2008
Ref:4758961725
Batch:ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no:FGNGB2701/LPRC
CONGRATULATIONS………..
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the of 4th
STEP-2008 from the Australian International Lottery programme. Which is
fully bank on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses Your name was attached to ticket number 47061725 07056490902
serial number 7741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
513-33-37-42 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the
second category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$600,000.00 (SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:
ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$4.8million shared
amongst eight lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a computer balloting system
drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, (Africa Nigeria
claiming office)and Oceania apart of our international promotions
program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in France,Spain, as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of US$600 000,.00USD, will be released to you
from this regional branch office in
Africa. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our
end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE Simply contact our fiducial agent,REVEREND
PAUL JOHNSON HIS
EMAIL ADDRESS IS(revpauljohnsonagent@gmail.com) to file for your claim.
Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be
found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full
name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and
yourprize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this programmer by non-participant or
unofficial personnel.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed under two weeks of receiving this
message otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and
eventually donated to charity Congratulations once again on your
winnings!!!(co-ordinator) PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.AND CONTACT
YOUR CLAIMS AGENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL
RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.
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