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A short lottery fraud e-mail, but the basics are there.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: *** Euro Million Board *** ( Notification Dept) <serverpostmaies@terra.es>
Date: Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:59 AM
Subject: LUCKY MAIL
To:

Internet User,

We are happy to inform you that your email address have emerged winner of (EUR 750,000) in Europe Million Lottery.

The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000 email addresses.
For more detailed information and procedure, please Contact Mr.Alfredo Perez on the below information.
……………………………..
BALUMBA SEGUROS S. A
Contact Person: Mr. Alfredo Perez
Tel: +34-658-898-208
…………………………..

Ref No : ESE/WIN/008/02/10/MA
Batch No: EULO/1007/444/606/08
Serial No: 6594
PROMOTION DATE: 17th September 2008.

Reply to this mail with your full name and telephone number.

Best Regards,
Mrs. Patricia Douet (Lottery co-ordinator).
Madrid, 18th September 2008.

Dating and Social Networks are very popular with African crooks. They obviously target men and this e-mail is exactly the same kind of strategy.

Get a man interested, offer him a deal and take it from there.

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From: Joan Anne
Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Subject: Compliments From Joan Anne
To:

Compliments From Joan Anne
How are you today? It is obvious that this email will come to you as a surprise, this is because we have not met before but i am inspired to sending you this e-mail. In my quest for you. With opportunity that will be mutual benefit to two of us, However, I am Joan Anne, by name from South Africa. I am lady with a pure heart.

I want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am, then i hope you will like what you see and write me to my e.mail ?. My aim here is to meet a man that will love me then i will do the same thing to him and i will love him with all my heart . I am not here for any game and i am not looking for a player either so please if you are player dont bother to write me back but if you are seriously looking for a relationship like i do then lets make it happen .

Write me to my email and i will write you back with my picture attach to it . Thank you and i hope to hear from you as soon as possible. I believe we can move from here. I am waiting for your mail. Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life.

Waiting for your email.

All the best,
Joan Anne.

The writer has spun a story about my prize money which he has put into
his personal account in Nigeria. He even tells me not to pay more than
320 USD he has quoted. I wonder how he gets around that?

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From: info@home.org
Date: Sep 4, 2008 5:37 PM
Subject: Greetings From Mr. Gary Sean.
To:

Greetings From Mr. Gary Sean.

I have been waiting for you to contact me ever since, for your 800.000.00 USD
that you won from the Online Draw, but I did not hear from you. So i went ahead
to set-up an account on my name and i deposited the funds into the account, you
are to contact EcoBank Of Nigeria for the access pin code to enable you
transfer the funds online through there website. I am out of the country for the
past four weeks on a 4 month course and i will not be back till end of November.

ACCOUNT DETAILS:
Account No: 66357322
Account Holder’s Name: Mr. Gary Sean
AccountRef No: ECO/03/A3/08
Security Access Pin Code: (?)

What you have to do now, is to contact EcoBank Of Nigeria as soon as possible to
enable them provide you with the account access pin code before the expiring
date.For your information. I have paid for the opening of account and activation
fee.

The only money you are to send to EcoBank Of Nigeria is (320.00USD), this fee is
for PREMIUM STAMP DUTIES, and ADMINISTRATIVE CHARGES. To enable them release the
security pin code, that will enable you access the account online.

Don’t be deceived by anybody to pay any extra fee apart from 320.00USD.
Contact Person: Mr. Wale Cole.
Email Address:bankeco62@gmail.com
Telephone: +2348074061622

Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address() and Direct telephone
number to them again to avoid any mistake and ask them to give you the security
pin code, immediately after you must have paid the 320USD.

I hope you receive this mail?
Yours Faithfully,
Mr. Gary Sean.

Extremely informative this one.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr James Wellington
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Subject: YOU HAVE A PACKAGE WITH FEDEX
To: info@fedex.com

For more information you are to contact this contact information below:

NAME: Mr. David Moore (dispatch officer)
COMPANY: FedEx Delivery SERVICE.
Email Address:fedex_servicecourierltd2008@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +234- 807- 906- 2724
+234- 807- 906- 2724

There’s not much unusual about this one. Just your run of the mill scam e-mail.

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From: *** Euro Million Board *** ( Notification Dept)
Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Subject: CONFIRM EMAIL
To:

Your email address has won 750,000 Euro in the ESPANA EURO MILLION PROMOTION.

The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000
email addresses.
For more information and procedure, please Contact Mr.Alfredo Perez on
the details given
below,
……………………………..
BALUMBA SEGUROS S. A
Contact Person: Mr. Alfredo Perez
Tel: +34-658-898-208
Email: balumbaeurclaim@mixmail.com
…………………………..

Ref No : ESE/WIN/008/02/10/MA
Batch No: EULO/1007/444/606/08
Serial No: 6594
PROMOTION DATE: 1st September 2008.

Reply this mail with your full name and telephone number.

Best Regards,
Mrs. Patricia Douet (Lottery co-ordinator).
Madrid, 2nd September 2008.

With this story, they start off by saying you get the cash card if you pay a “reactivation” fee of 135 US Dollars. Now I’ve seen that somewhere before.

Oh yes, it was the 135 US Dollar shipment fee for FEDEX.

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From: markuba9 Gazeta.pl <markuba9@gazeta.pl>
Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Subject: CONTACT IMMEDIATELY FOR YOUR ATM CARD VALUE $1.500 000 00
To:

My Dear ,

I have contacted my secretary to confirm if you have received the compensation draft cheque of (US$1.500.000) which I issued in your name, but he told me that he could not send it to you because of the courier charges. Now I have called my bank to cancel any payment regards to the draft cheque and then authorized them to transfer the payment into ATM CARD in your name which they did.
As of now be informed that all charges has been paid and the ATM CARD is going to be in your name, but to reactivate the ATM Card you have to forward your current informations as requested below to the bank and the only money you will pay to the bank is US$130.00 for the ATM Card Reactification fee, then they will send you the ATM CARD for your immediate use.
Here are the informations you have to forward to the bank:

1. YOUR FULL NAMES:______
2. Postal ADDRESS:_______
3. PHONE NUMBER:_________
4. CELL NUMBERS:_______
5. EMAIL ADDRESS:________
6. SEX:_____
7. AGE:_____
8. OCCUPATION:________
9. NATIONALITY:________

CONTACT PERSON: Dr.Thomas Akabike Robert
Director, ATM Foreign Operation Dept
ECO Bank Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Phone: + 229 977 247 17
Fax: +229 23 787 601.

Email: (ecobankplc47@yahoo.fr)
Get back to me once you received the ATM CARD ok.

Thanks and God bless you.
Mr markuba.

George can’t be reached by phone because he is away in Japan for the next 6 months. Japan must be really backward, if they don’t have telephones…..

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From: george_suba6 Gazeta.pl
Date: May 21, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: CONTACT HIM IMMEDIATELY
To:

Dear Friend,

I am DR, GEORGE SUBA and I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund transferred. Now I want you to contact my secretary on his email address below and receive your compensation of $450,000.00 U.S dollars from him:

NAME: Mr. Niklass Andersen
EMAIL: niklass_andersen123@live.fr
Kindly reconfirm to him the following below information:
Your full name___________
Your address____________
Your country____________
Your age_______________
Your occupation_________
Your Phone number______
Note that if you did not send him the above information complete, he will not release the cheque to you because he has to be sure that it is you. Ask him to send you the total sum of ($450,000.00 )USD CASHIER’S CHEQUE ,which I kept for you. Note also that I will not be reached by email or phone for now because I am currently away in Japan for investment purpose with my share and I will be busy till about six months time or a year.
Best regards,
DR GEORGE SUBA

This one came in from 2 different e-mail accounts:
okey_patrick2@Gazeta.pl and
okey_patrick21@Gazeta.pl

Tags: 419Scam, Advance Fee Fraud, Patrick Okey

This one uses not only web.de freemail accounts, but also aim.com.

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From: EURO MILLION <resultupdate@web.de>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Subject: Attention: Winner,
To: resultupdate@web.de

Attention: Winner,
 
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice the result of Euromillion Loteria Español 2008 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.Lopez Javier
Tell:0034,69,35,28,619
Email:redboath007@aim.com
Find below your promotion date, Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent (Mr.Lopez Javier)
 
PROMOTION DATE: 14.may,2008.
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,ana alonso
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR

Tags: lotteryscam, Euromillion Loteria, Ana Alonso

They don’t get shorter than this, do they?

As you can see, Google has already marked this one as suspicious. Which it most definitely is.

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From: MICROSOFT AWARDS &lt;info_lotteryboard15x@comcast.net&gt;
Date: Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Subject: WINNER!!!
To:

Your email address has won you: £1,000,000.00. To file for your claim kindly Contact your claims agent through his email address, Ray Howard, Email: officemail_rayhoward@yahoo.co.uk
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