Crime Online

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.

The CT Lottery does have a page informing readers about typical scam messages using Connecticut Lottery as a front.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Missy Ashton© <admindept@ctlotto.com>
Date: 2008/10/19
Subject: CATEGORY “A” WINNING NOTIFICATION.
To: undisclosed-recipients

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CONNETICUT LOTTERY CORPORATION
64 MANCHESTER RD, LONDON E14 3BE

Ref Number: CT/17AD/LG9009
Batch Number: 839081500-CT/2008
Ticket Number: CT/11452/8707-905
Serial Number: 879CT-80-80
Amount Won: £2,750,000.00.

Attn Lucky Winner,

CATEGORY “A” WINNING NOTIFICATION.

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.

Yours Faithfully,
Missy Ashton
Lottery Coordinator.

This is obviously a copied e-mail. The writer forgets to name the bank where the dormant account apparently is held.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mr. Andy Hornby <mrandy27@msn.com>
Date: 2008/10/18
Subject: Urgent Reply Me…..
To:

From: Mr. Andy Hornby,
Manchester M27 5FX,
United Kingdom.
Attn:…

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal ethics although. I am presently in London working as an investment consultant with the above bank at their London office. And I am poised to work this deal out if we can do business. Be so kind to contact me at your earliest convenient for a possible business deal involving money transfer of about £25,000,000 (Twenty-Five Million British Pounds). In one of our periodic auditing, I discorved a dormant accounts with holding balance of 25,000,000 (Twenty-Five Million British Pounds) which has not been operated for the past three years. From my investigations and confirmations, the owner of this account is a foreigner, and he died without a WILL.

As at this moment,I am constrained to issue you more details about this business until your response is received. And I would love to furnish you with a little bit of my biography as we progress with the business. As we have not meet before. So send me your nominate account information as states below where you like the money to be transfer so that I will write and apply an application for the release of the fund immediately into your account:..

Beneficiary Name…….
Bank Name…………..
Bank Address………..
Account Number………
Swift Code………….
Routing Number………
State & Country……..
Your Tel/Fax Number….For easy communication.

This is extremely urgent. Awaiting your positive feed back as soon as possible.

Warmest regards,
Mr. Andy Hornby

No, he isn’t.

As with all 419 type of scam e-mails, you only have to look at the e-maill addresses from which the messages are sent. Walla.com and Sify.com are freemail providers.

If Capt James Williams really was representing the UN, don’t you think he would be using an official UN e-mail account?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Capt James Willams
Date: May 21, 2008 3:15 PM
Subject: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT.
To:

UNITED NATIONS
(WORLD BANK ASSISTED PROGRAMME)
DIRECTORATE OFINTERNATIONAL
PAYMENT AND TRANSFERS.
870 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA20-A
NEW YORK NY 10017
WIRE TRANSFER/AUDIT UNIT

Our Ref:WB/NF/UN/XX027

ATTN: Beneficary

REPLY TO:

RE: IRREVOCABLE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT.

We have been authorized by the newlyappointed UN Secretary General and the Governing Board of the United Nations Monetary Unit to investigate the unnecessary delay in settlement of huge foreign payments originating from Africa, to recommend and approve your claims for payment if certified as genuine.

During the course of our investigation, we discovered with dismay that your payment has been unnecessarily delayed by corrupt Bank officials who were tryingto divert your payment into their private accounts.

To forestall this,security for your funds has been organized in the form of your Personal Identification Number (PIN) and your Transfer Access Code (T.A.C). Thiswill enable only you have direct control over this fund. We have also agreed with the relevant authorities that we will handle this payment ourselves (through our London Office) to avoid the hopeless situation created by the Bank Officials. At the moment, we have obtained anirrevocable payment guarantee on your Payment and are happy to inform you that based on our recommendation/instructions; your entire fund hasbeen credited in your favour through ATM Swift Card Payment system.

Therefore if you would like to receive your fund through thisprudent payment arrangement, you are herewith advised to contact : Henry Green ;International Audit unit, United Nations African Regional Office, Nigeria on Tel/Fax: 234 80 3714-5535 orEmail: un.afr.reg@sify.com with the following information for activation and to collect your original payment slip with your ATM Swift Card

1. YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
2 PHONE AND FAX NUMBER
3. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION
4. HOME EQUITY {YES OR NO}

Upon yourimmediate compliance, you will be issued an ATM Swift Card that you canuse to withdraw your fund in any ATM Machine in any part of the world,but the maximum pay out is Fifteen Thousand Dollars per a day, whereas,the total amount earmarked for your beneficiary payment is US$8.3Million.

NOTE: We expect your urgent response to this email to enableus monitor this payment effectively. Once again, send your response andinformation directly to Mr. Henry Green E-mail: un.afr.reg@sify.com for urgent attention.

CONGRATULATIONS.

CAPT. JAMES C. WILLIAMS
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK