Crime Online

It looks as though a lot of the Africans are using Microsoft’s Hotmail service at live.com these days.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Dr.George Owen.
Date: Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Transfer Of $35.5m?
To:

From: Dr. George Owen.
I am Dr.George Owen, Director of Project , South Africa Department of Minerals and Energy. I am making this contact with you based on the Committee need for an individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a money transfer.

This amount $35.5m represents the balance of the total contract Value Executed on behalf of Department mineral resources and Energy by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately, of which the actual sum has been paid.

Should you be willing to assist us in the transaction? Your share of the sum will be 25% of the $35.5million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. To enable us commence,provide your personal telephone/fax number . Contact me through my alternative e-mail address: gowen011@gmail.com
Best Regards,
Dr.George Owen.
Tel:+27 787048899

Dr. George Owen, South Africa

This one is just plain Microsoft, without Yahoo or MSN this time.

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From: Mr.Morgan Luke. Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Subject: WINNINGS NOTIFICATION
To:

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to notify you the draw (007) of the MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL WINNINGS PROGRAMS,Online Sweepstakes International Lottery Program held on 24TH of AUGUST, 2008.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a pool of over 25,000 names of distinguished professionals drawn from all over the world.

The result of our computer draw (#978) selected your name and email address attached to e-ticket number:MSW56475600545 188 with Serial number MSW5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:03.15.16.19.20.24 (26 Bonus Ball), which subsequently won you the lottery in the
2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £245,000.00GBP,(Two Hundred And Fourty-Five Thousand Pounds).
In cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

You are to contact the fiduciary agent stated below who will process your winnings.
Mr.Morgan Luke.
Email: morgan_luke2@live.com
+447045721915

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
MR.Terry Moore
CHIEF SPONSORS;
MICROSOFT CO-OPERATIONS UK

Microsoft, Lottery Fraud, Morgan Luke

This is a favourite combination for the lottery fraud e-mails.

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From: Mrs.Marcelino Hull <mrs.marcelino_hull@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Batch number………………..YM 09102XN
To: undisclosed-recipients

Yahoo/Msn Lottery
corporation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain
Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for this month
2008 Lottery promotion which is 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 the internet,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 on
or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be
paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no
later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification
after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any
prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number………………..YM 09102XN
Reff number…………………..YM35447XN
Winning number……………….YM09788

These numbers fall within your Location file,
you are requested to contact the events
manager, send your winning identification
numbers to him,to enable him verify your
claims.How ever you will have to fill and submit
this form to the events manager for verification
& direction on how you can claim your winning
fund.

1. Full name…………..
2. Contact Address……..
3. Age……………….
4. Telephone Number…….
5. Marital Status………
6. Sex………………..
7. Zip Code…………..
8. Occupation………….
9. Company……………
11.State:……………..
12.Country……………
13.Nationality…………
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name: MR. WALLTER SCOTH
E-mail: mr.wallter_scoth12@hotmail.com
TEL: +44-702-4053-243
+44-702-4087-250

Thank you and Accept my hearty
congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Marcelino Hull
(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

Whoever came up with that name?

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From: Jerry Freeman <gerryfreeman@eircom.net>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!CONTACT CLAIMS OFFICE.
To:

National Postcode Lottery

Attn: Winner

We bring to your notice the winning letter from Nationale Postcode Lottery {United Kingdom Promotion Company} held on the 8th of August, 2008 through Internet ballot System among 10,000 Microsoft users.

Subsequently, your email address attached to ticket number 24.2.6.37.15.45 won contract sum of 800,000.00 Pounds ,winning number 100364,ref number 00786.We request you to pay serious attention to this notification by contacting the claims department with claim information and procedures of claim.

Mr. Williams Brown
Tel: +44-871-794-2686
Fax: +44-7006-090-400
Email:unityfinance@sify.com

Congratulations once again from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours Sincerely,
Jerry Freeman
National Postcode Lottery

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
Technorati-Tags: Lottery Scam, Microsoft

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.

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From: MSN AWARD TEAM &lt;paulsmiths_uk@yahoo.co.uk&gt;
Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Subject: MSN AWARD TEAM
To:

–

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

This morning I was notified of a comment waiting for moderation. The poster calls himself Dr. Evan Williams. he must have gotten that name from a bottle of whiskey.

Somehow I get the impression that the Africans often don’t understand what they are putting together for fraudulent e-mails like this one

You can see it’s about the shortest scam e-mail which has ever arrived here. I don#t think you can make them shorter. The question is, would anyone actually believe this cam from Microsoft?