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The Football World Cup is being held in South Africa in 2 years time. This is enough of a story for 419 to create an imaginary Lottery as a basis for the well know lottery scam type of E-Mail.

Scam - South Africa Lottery

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From: msn online <online656@web.de>
Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Subject: FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTERY BOARD
To: online656@web.de

SOUTH AFRICA FIFA WORLD CUP 2010

SOUTH AFRICA FIFA WORLD CUP 2010

CONGRATULATIONS!

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of the winners of the GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, as part of our promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.

You qualified for the draw.as a result of our visiting various websites we are running the e-business promotions for. You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 100-309-7482, with serial number 513-10 drew the lucky numbers 12, 19, 29, 30, 37, 40, BONUS O1, and consequently YOU HAVE won in the Second Category.

Your winning Ticket is Number. 100-309-7482
Your Serial Number. 513-10
Your lucky Numbers are. 12, 19, 29, 30, 37,40
Bonus Number 01
Your INSURANCE Number: LP3/7599.LTSA

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,000,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for Second category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$7,000 000.00 shared among the Seven international winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Please be informed that your won fund, US$US$1,000,000.00 is now deposited with the Global Omega Finance and Security Company insured with your email address which won you this prize, so we would like you to contact your agent and give them your full names so that they will re-insure your money with your full names. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account.

CLAIM PROCESSING FORM

1.Full Names .
2.Full Address .
3.Country of resident.
4.Nationality / Origin.
5.Tele /Cell numbers .
6.Occupation .
7.Lucky numbers .
8.Ticket numbers .
9.Sex.
10.Age.
11.Amount you won.

Call the claim manager on his telephone number for urgent processing and the immediate payment of your money and send your claim processing form via his Email address.
Remember, you must contact your claim manager not later than one week, which this message was sent to you. After one week, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

FOREIGN SERVICE CLAIM MANAGER,
MR. WILLIAM GUGU
EMAIL: info_2010worldcup@yahoo.com
TEL: 0027-731 139 488

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers and other information provided above and below in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: GLOR:39-4025-P
BATCH NUMBER: 7490-26004-ZZA

THIS GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA PROGRAM, IS A BONUS FOR THE WORLD FOR THE 2010 SOCCER WORLD

Congratulations” once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

MR. MERVIN NKUMA
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.
234, WOODMEAD STREET

UNIT 999 9TH FLOOR
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.
GLOBAL MEGA LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA
GOES INTERNATIONAL

AS THE 2010 WORLD CUP WILL BE HOSTED BY SOUTH AFRICA THIS PROGRAM IS SPONSURED BY: SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTO AUTHORITY. AND SUPPORTED BY: (Féderation Internationale de Football Association) FIFA SUPPORT AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA FIFA WORLD CUP 2010

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I often wonder at these plane crash stories. If you have been here often you know that the Andreas Schranner story has been regularly posted here. It goes something like this “a multimillionaire died in a plane crash and left a pile of money in an African bank”. The writer goes on to say “we now need some one to pose as the next of kin to claim this lost money”. The reason for this being there are no living inheritors and we would like the money for ourselves. huh!

So where does this go from here?

Anyone who falls for this story contacts the crooks and immediately gets put through the mill. Form one e-mail to another he gets more and more involved, sending documents and setting himself up as the legal next of kin. Or so he thinks …

In reality, he is just corresponding with the crooks in the guise of lawyers, bankers and notaries.

Once he has gotten in this deep, they push him to pay a fee of say, 800 Dollars or better Euros. It could be for taxes, lawyers or bank costs, whatever. Of course, it is an imaginary fee and it doesn’t really matter for what the crooks claim the payment to be for.
They put the pressure on the “victim” to pay, saying the deal cannot go through without it. Naturally the crooks can’t don’t have the money to pay the fee. They are only poor Africans.

Needless to say the money should be sent through Western Union and once this is paid, they push the poor victim for more.

They push him for what they can get. Which means that victims which are gullible enough, pay anything up to 20,000 Dollars and more.

This often means financial ruin for the victims. For the African crooks, it’s a way of life.

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From: Evans Efedua <evans_info@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Subject: Proposition
To:

Reply-To: evans_efedua2007@yahoo.com.hk

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: text/plain

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Message-Id: <20080418194729.AA873AFDF3E@m162.magenta.fastwebserver.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:40:12 +0200 (CEST)

From: Mr. Evans Efedua
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
Regent Bank Plc
Victoria Island.
Email: evans_efedua2007@yahoo.com.hk
 
Dear Friend,

My name is Mr. Evans Efedua, I am  the Manager, Credit and Foreign bills of  Regent Bank Plc. I am contacting you of a business transfer, of a huge sum of US$15.5M  (Fifteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)  from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that everything has been taken care off, and all will be well at the end of the day. I decided to contact you to the urgency of this transaction.

PROPOSITION:

I am the account officer of a foreigner named  Late Mr. Morris Thompson who died in an air crash along with his wife  and only daughter on the January 31 in an Alaska airline Flight 261 with other passengers on board. You can confirm this from the website below  which was published by www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska  airlines.list

Since his death, none of his next-of-kin are alive to make claims for this money as his heir, because they all died in the same accident himself  and his wife (May their soul rest in peace). We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery.  I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked out  by me for the funds  to be released in your favor as the beneficiary’s next  of kin. Because after four years the money will be called back to the bank  treasury as unclaimed bills and the money shared amongst the directors of  the bank.  So it is on this note I decided to seek for whom his name shall  be used as the next of kin/beneficiary to this funds rather than allow  the bank directors to share this money among themselves at the end of the year. It may interest you to know that we have secured from the probate an order  of mandamus to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavor by furnishing me with the following information if you are interested.  All I need from you is as follows:

1.   Your confirmation of your ability to handle this Business for me.
2.   Your word that you will keep this business as Confidential as possible at all times until we conclude this business.
3.   Your telephone and Fax numbers for communication.
4.   Age and Occupation.

I shall be compensating you with 30% (thirty percent)  on final conclusion of  this project for your assistance, while we will retain 65% (sixty-five percent) and 5% (five percent) goes for expenses because I intend to retire after the conclusion of this  business. If this business is acceptable by you.  Do not take undue advantage of the trust I have bestowed in you.

Your faithfully,
Mr. Evans Efedua
Manager Credit and Foreign Bills
Regent Bank Plc

Tags: 419Scam, Inheritance Scam, Evans Efedua

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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

Tags: Address C, Award Notification, Batch Number, Contact Address, Country Of Origin, E Mail, Eircom, Email Address, Email Uk, Email Yahoo, Fax Numbers, Gaming House, Mail House, Occupation, Ramdom, Receipt, Ticket Number, Uk Gaming, Yahoo Co Uk

Google recognised this one as a scam!

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From: MICROSOFT AWARDS <info_lotteryboard307a@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Subject: WINNER!!!
To:

Your email address was drawn Winning prize: £1,000,000.00. To file for ur claim kindly Contact ur claims agent Mr Mark Lee with your: Full names, Age, Phone #, Country, Occupation, Sex, Home address, through the email address below.
Email: officemail_marklee@yahoo.co.uk 

Tags: Contact, Email, Email Address, Full Names, Lottery Scam, Mail, Occupation, Yahoo

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From: Uk National Lottery <claimsagentinfo3939@uklotto.org>
Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!YOU WON
To: undisclosed-recipients

YOU HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE SUM OF £ 650,000.00 GBP (Six Hundred and Fitty Thousand  Great Britain Pounds Sterling)in   our end of year the Anniversary Draws.Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached  to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers   BTD/9080648302/07,Ref: BTD/968/07/AN Batch: 509878E/SA and drew the lucky numbers   14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won   you £6 50,000.00 GBP (Six Hundred and Fitty Thousand  Great Britain Pounds Sterling)as one of the 5 jackpot winners in this draw.

To file for your claim

Please Contact your fiduciary agent Dr. Garry Lee
Email:claimsagentinfo3939@yahoo.com
Phone:+447045744334

You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays  and complications:

Your Full Names:
Your Phone Number:
Country:
Occupation:
Age:
Sex:
Ticket Numbers:
Batch Number:

Thanks
Carol David

Tags: Batch Number, Contact, Email, Email Address, Full Names, Lottery Scam, Lucky Number, Lucky Numbers, Mail, Occupation, Ticket Number, Yahoo

This one was just in time for Christmas.

As usual, these jokers have made up a few names. Added a titel or two and even quoted “uklottery.co.uk” as the sending domain name.

Watch out for the telephone number. It’s rerouted to another number, which could be anywhere.

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From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY[AWARDS DEPARTMENT] <info@uklottery.co.uk>
Date: Dec 22, 2007 11:58 AM
Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
To: undisclosed-recipients

The U.K. National Lottery
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.

Customer Service/Claims Department
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Winner,
You are the winner of the UK National Lottery Online Promo Programme that was held on saturday the 16th of December, 2007.
All participants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 500,000 unions,associations and corporate bodies listed online.
This promotion takes place Quarterly.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:01 03 06 22 23 39 21[bonus ball] Which subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £629,195.00(SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE BRITISH POUNDS) Your REFERENCE NUMBER:Ref: UK/9420X2/68 must be quoted in all your correspondence to this office. You are to contact our claims officer via email below:
Mr Ray Collins.
Tel: +447031959378
Via email: claimsboard_raycollins@hotmail.com

with the following information:
FULL NAME
FULL ADDRESS
NATIONALITY
OCCUPATION
RELIGION
SEX
AGE
MARITAL STATUS
AMOUNT WON
BATCH NUMBER
EMAIL ADDRESS
PHONE NUMBERS[LAND/MOBILE]

SIR RICHARD K. LLOYDS
Online Coordinator for the U.K. National Lottery.

Note that all replies must be directed to
Mr Ray Collins:
claimsboard_raycollins@hotmail.com

Note: This e-mail message passed through the Wadsnet outbound Mail Vault anti-virus/anti-SPAM scanners.

Tags: Batch Number, Contact, Email, Email Address, Lottery Scam, Lucky Number, Lucky Numbers, Mail, Occupation, Ticket Number, United Kingdom

The World Health Organisation is a non-profit authority belonging to the United Nations. Seeing the UNO is usually cronically broke, they would certainly have no spare cash to give away.

That means this is also a blatant scam e-mail.

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From: WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION PROMOTIONS <info_verficationoffice001@yahoo.com>
Date: Dec 23, 2007 4:53 AM
Subject: WORLD HEALTH AWARD!!!
To: undisclosed-recipients

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
907 Strand Street, London WC2R 0QS
Dr. B. Sadasivan, Chairman
This company or this e-mail address, attached to this (your) IP Address,”has been given” the 2007/2008 designated Award of Five Million UnitedStates dollars In Award Credited to file NO: M154S/WL04. As part of ourInternational “Help the less privileged program”. Please, confirm ifyou’ve received the parcel sent to your address. In case you did notreceived the parcel sent to your address, please, contact the office below(via email address below) for more details with the below information’sforconfirmations and necessary proceedures.
1. FULL NAME: 2. AGE: 3. ADDRESS: CITY: STATE/ZIP CODE: COUNTRY:
4. PHONE NUMBERS: / FAX NUMBERS: 5. SEX: 6. OCCUPATION:
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS: ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL ADDRESS:
Hon. Marvin Valentino,
EMAIL; worldhealth_verificationdept05@yahoo.co.uk

Co-ordinator
Mrs Jean Middleton.

Tags: Contact, Email, Email Address, Fax Numbers, Gani, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Occupation, Yahoo

It looks as though the Fondazion di Vittorio is a story which is working well for the crooks. It crops up as regular as clockwork.

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From: Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY <fdvinfo9@verizon.net>
Date: Dec 19, 2007 3:25 AM
Subject: Contact Me Now
To: recipients

Fondazion Di Vittorio, ITALY
Batch No:…N-222-6747 E-900-56

Dear Beneficiary:
Congratulations The Foundazion Di Vittorio has chosen you by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal educational and business development.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary 2007 program We are giving out a yearly donation of US$500 000.00 to 40 lucky recipients as charity donations.

PAYMENT VERIFICATION FORM
Full Name:………
Home Address:……
Occupation:……..
Telephone:………
Fax:……………
Number:…………
Sex:……………
Age:……………
Next of Kin:…….
Batch No:…

Mr Arthur Ford
E-Mail:fdv001@live.com
http://www.fondazionedivittorio.it

Tags: Contact, Crooks, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Occupation

Just like all of the other “I’ve got cancer and have a pile of cash to donate to charity” e-mails, it’s the same story with different names.

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From: marvis smith <mrs_sm5@yahoo.com>
Date: 18.12.2007 00:00
Subject: Friend in the Lord,
To: mr.ricky_smith1954@yahoo.co.uk

Friend in the Lord,

Please use this money for the churches and less privileged.

Greetings to you and your family in the name of God. In my search for a reliable and God fearing person and having gotten your contact through prayers and painstaking efforts I have decided to seek your help in carrying out my last wishes. My name is Mrs.Marvis Smith. I’m a 65 years old woman and from Congo. I was a merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai. I was also married with two children.

My husband and two children died in a car accident six years ago. Before this happened, my business and concern for making money was all I live for. I never really cared about other values in life. But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist helpless families. I have been helping orphans in orphanage/motherless homes. I have also donated some money for humanitarian needs in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon, Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany and some Asian countries. Only recently I saw on television the colossal loss of properties and livelihood people in Canberra, Australia through fire.

I was moving with great pity and compassion that I decided to make this contribution on assisting people over there, I kept $US15,000,000.00 Million in a long-term deposit account in a Finance company. Presently, I’m in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for oesophagi cancer. I have since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have only few months to live. It is my last wish to see this money distributed to victims of the fire outbreak in Australia and other charity organization. Because relatives and friends have plundered so much of my wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the agony entrusting this huge responsibility to any of them.

Please, I beg you in the name of God to help me collect the deposit and distributes it accordingly. Use your judgment to distribute the money and keep 20% of it to yourself. Feel free to reimburse yourself when you have the money for any cost you incur during the process of collecting and distributing the money. If you are willing to help, please reply as soon as possible. May the good lord bless you and your family.Please the only thing you need to do is to pay for some docunents on my behalf.Please i want you to know that you are the only person that can take money from this fund.The bank can not dedect money from the fund.

Please, send reply and all correspondences to my
Most Reveren; Dan Makozi
Email; rev.dan09@yahoo.com

Regards,

Mrs.Marvis Smith

I Urge You To Contact Me Immediately For Further Details Bearing In
Mind That The Bank Has Given Us A
Date Limit.

Information Needed Are
YOUR FULL NAME…. ……………………………

TELEPHONE NUMBER…………………………

OCCUPATION……………………………..

AGE………………………..

SEX…………………………..

COUNTRY…………………………………

Please Act,
Regards,
Rev. Dan Makozi

Tags: Africa, Contact, Email, Gani, Mail, Money, Money Transfer, Money Transfer Scam, Occupation, Reply, Yahoo

Here’s today’s edition of our favourite lottery scam e-mail. The UK Lottery is very popular by the crooks.

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From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <laces@tx.rr.com>
Date: 12.12.2007 10:21
Subject: YOU JUST EMMERGED WINNER OF 500,000.00 GBP IN THE END OF YEAR PROMO,CONGRATULATIONS.
To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear Winner
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our END OF YEAR winners of the UK LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,held on the 10th of December 2007. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 500,000.00 Britain Pounds.

Do fill out the claims form in other to process the claims of your prize without delay.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
1.FULLNAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION:
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL
10.AMOUNT WON:
11. COUNTRY

Please contact fiduciary agent for your claims.
Name:Mrs.Lisa Mark
Email address: agentlisamark@yahoo.co.uk
Sincerely,
David Crowford
Online Coordinator
UK Lottery Sweepstakes

Tags: Contact, Crooks, Email, Email Address, Lottery Scam, Mail, Occupation, Yahoo