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Category: email scam

  • Yahoo 2011 Lottery Scam Revealed!

    Below is the exactly email content I received from this email address nn–890@att.net with a name of “yahoo claiming award”. Before opening this email, I was not surprised anymore with the content saying that I am a winner of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS. Because in the first place, I always received this kind of email and it goes directly to my spam folders which is really strange. Second is there is no such thing as yahoo lottery, even if you search in Google all results will probably articles about scams.
    I suggest when you encounter this kind of email; don’t immediately jump into conclusion that you are really a winner of a lottery or any online raffle because it is obviously a spam email especially if it goes directly to your spam folder. It is always good to check, do some research about it, before communicating to the sender of the email or to the address/phone number indicated on the email. I hope this can help, always remember it is better to be safe than sorry.

    YAHOO LOTTERY RESULTS 2011

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

    Yahoo! announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Yahoo lottery Award of the Year Held on 20th of February 2011.

    All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS (USD$1, 000000)

    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 Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of (USD$1, 000000) will be released to you from this regional office in Bangkok Thailand.

    Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Payment have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

    HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
    These are your identification numbers.
    Ticket number…………………063-14628115-20
    Serial number…………………..77710-0
    Lucky number……………….02-09-12-27-18-04,10
    Ref number……………….N.EGS/42275486009/16

    To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Coordinator as follows,

    Email: donalsoniva@yahoo.co.th
    Name: Donalson Iva
    Tel: +(066) 817752351

    You are to send the completed verification form below to the coordinator whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money.
    Congratulations once more!!

    1. FULL NAME
    2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
    3. PRESENT ADDRESS.
    4. DATE OF BIRTH
    5. OCCUPATION
    6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
    6. FAX NUMBER
    7. MARITAL STATUS
    8. TICKET NUMBER, SERIAL NUMBER,LUCKY NUMBER AND REF NUMBER.

    Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 27th of February 2011. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTY’S DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.

    Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.

    NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Coordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.

    An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Bank UOB Bank Bangkok Thailand.

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.

    We wish you continued good fortunes.

    Yours Sincerely,

    Dr. Mark Hisashi
    Vice President Yahoo! Lottery Org.

    Mrs. Rose Akira,
    President Yahoo! Lottery Org

  • Dear Child of God *Scam*

    Dear Child of God,

    Calvary Greetings in the name of the LORD Almighty and Our LORD JESUS CHRIST the giver of every good thing.

    Good day and compliments of the seasons, I know this letter will definitely come to you as a huge surprise, but I implore you to take the time to go through it carefully as the decision you make will go off a long way to determine my future and continued existence. I am Mrs. Jane Dawson an aging widow of 61 years old suffering from long time illness.

    I have some funds I inherited from my late husband, the sum of $8,000,000.00 and I needed a very honest and God fearing Christian who can withdraw this money then use the funds for Charity works. I WISH TO GIVE THIS FUNDS TO YOU FOR CHARITY WORKS. I found your email address from the internet after honest prayers to the LORD to bring me a helper and I decided to contact you if you may be willing and interested to handle these trust funds in good faith before anything happens to me.

    I am desperately in keen need of assistance and I have summoned up courage to contact you for this task, you must not fail me and the millions of the poor people in our todays WORLD. This is no stolen money and there are no dangers involved,100% RISK FREE with full legal proof. Please if you would be able to use the funds for the Charity works kindly let me know immediately.

    Please kindly respond quickly for further details.

    Warmest Regards,

    Mrs Jane Dawson.

  • Japan Earthquake Scams 8.9 – March 2011

    11 Mar 2011, Japan just had a series of huge earthquakes (including one that was 8.9). The result was a huge tsunami and loss of life still being calculated. The tsunami of fraud and scams have already started on Facebook and have surely hit the shores of email spam inboxes everywhere.

    Example:

    Submission date: March 2011

    To:

    The quake triggers a tsunami that threatens much of the Pacific. Up to 300 bodies are found in the city of Sendai in northeastern Japan, an area believed to have been hit hardest by the massive waves.

    Hundreds are dead after the worst earthquake in generations struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swallowed swaths of coastal territory and fanned out across the Pacific Ocean, threatening everything in its path.

  • Transfer fund Email Scam

    Recently, I received an email coming from someone whom I do not know. Below is the email I received:

    “My Dearest in christ,
    My name is (MRS RITA GUNTHER)a nationality of Kuwait. I am married to late (MR NGOSSAN GUNTHER) who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year Octorber 2005. We were married for twenty years with a child. He died after a the illness that lasted for four days. Please I know this may come to you by supprise , because you did not know me, I needed your assistance that was why I write you through divine direction, it is my desire of going into relationship with you.
    Before his death we were both born again Christians.When my late husband was alive we deposited the sum of (Ten Million U..S.Dollars) with one of good company here in Cote d’Ivoire Presently, this money is still with the company. Recently my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next three months due to my cancer problem,Though what disturbs me most is my stroke. Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to church or better still a Christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct here in.I want a person or church that will use this fund to churches,orphanages, research centres and widows propagating the word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained.
    The Bible made us to understand that blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this decision because I have a child that will inherit this money but my son can not carryout this work only because i and my late husband decide to use some of the money to work for God and live some for our son to have a better live.our son is just (17 year old) now and been grow up in africa, he have low manterity and my husband’s relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my family hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers,I don’t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner.Hence the reason for taking this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace.
    I will like you to understand that my contact to you is a divine direction from God , I don’t want any of my husband family relatives to recieve this money but I know that With God all things are possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Finance/company . I will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the new beneficiary of this fund. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that I live a life of a worthy Christian.Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth,Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for a church or Christian individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here and Please I will like you to contact me Immediately you receive this mail so that I will instruct the company to ship this box of the money into your country for me and my Son to start coming over there because since now we are having a very big problem in Abidjan for political crisis so we need this transaction very urgent.but the company did not know that the content of the box is money
    Remain blessed in the name of the Lord.
    MRS RITA GUNTHER AND SON JOHNSON.”

    This email went directly to my spam folder.
    Now, what exactly is a spam? According to Wikipedia Spam is “the use of electronic messaging systems including most broadcast media and digital delivery systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.” Spam is often used to scam people. Typically, the distributor/creator of the message will send you a message just like the email above to collect information about you. The bait is usually a large sum of money that needs to be transferred to your account. They will ask for personal information such as your home address, contact number, bank account, and other information about you. Once you give all the information they need, they will start asking you large amount of money in order for them to transfer the money to your account.. but of course, there is not money transfered to you after you’ve paid them.. they vanish and you get ripped off. So if you received one of these scam emails, it is important that you DO NOT respond. The Scammers are likely to act upon any response from those they see as potential victims. The people behind these scams are criminals.

  • internet dating scam

    September I joined Match.com, I met a “wonderful” man, or so I thought, His name is Frank, Frank Henry…He said he was from Germany, but lives in London, is a civil engineer, self employeed single father. He has a 10 year old daughter named Sandra, and that his wife died 3 years ago giving childbirth. He told me he loved me within 5 emails, He asked me to get off Match.com’ because he didn’t want anyone to steal me from him!!! Well after nearly thre months of wonderful emails, phone conversations, and chats, he asked me to relocate to London, I AGREED, But then he asked me to send $ to him to pay some taxes on a huge contract he was working on, I did….then he asked me to send $ for a PS3 and laptop for his daughter, i did, then $$$ to set the wedding up, ya know secure the date, I did….well twoweeks before I was to move he called me frantic, saying “Sandra” was in an accident @ school and is in the hospital, in a coma with blood on the brain…Two nights before I was to travel, he text me and she”Sandra” was being moved to a different hospital 5 hours away from London, then 4…yes 4 hours before I was to board a plane hetext me and asked me to postpone my trip for a week, because he didn’t want “his wife” to be stranded at the airport…so I did, lost the entire fare, but I did. Two days later, he text me, poor thing died, and he needs $$$ to bury her. He is a LIAR, all lies, I set up a dummy account, and he bite, hool, line, and sinker to the “new” woman, saying he is just getting ready to go to church with his daughter “Sandra”…and sent me the EXACT same photos of he and she!!! Ladies beware….he is a shark, but this SHARK HUNTER is gonna bring him down. His email is frank_henry1@yahoo.com BTW ladies, have you noticed a pattern with these scammers? they all have two first names??? LET’S BRING EM DOWN…ALL OF THEM…HIS # IS 44 7011162949

  • $$$Happy New Year$$$

    Your email has won you the Yahoo Grant Award email lottery Pleas View the attached letter and contact your agent.
    ________________________________________
    No virus found in this message.
    Checked by AVG – www.avg.com
    Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3367 – Release Date: 01/08/11
    Your email has won you the Yahoo Grant Award email lottery Pleas View the attached letter and contact your agent.
    ________________________________________
    Yahoo Awards Center
    Berkshire house 158-178 High Holborn London WC1V 7AA, United Kingdom.
    This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million British
    Pounds (£1,000,000.00) for 2010 Prize promotion which is organized by
    YAHOO, AOL & WINDOWS LIVE every (2) yrs.
    YAHOO and MICRO SOFT 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 every two years to
    benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
    PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM.
    Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo
    Prize Award must be claimed no later than 28th days, from date of Draw
    Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
    Stated below are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER: MFI/08/APA-
    43658, REFERENCE NUMBER: 2008234522 PIN: 1208
    WINNING NUMBER: 01 14 21 30 35 48
    These numbers fall within the Johannesburg Location file, you are requested to
    contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg South Africa and send your
    winning identification numbers to him:
    CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT
    NAME: MR. MALAWI GODWIN.
    E-Mail: mrmalawigoowin2011@live.co.za
    Tel +27-789-043-052
    Fax +27-865-366-756
    You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agent 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. My Date of birth……..
    8. Sex………………………..
    9. Batch Number…………
    10. Reference Number…
    11. Pin Number…………..
    12. Winning Number……
    13. Amount Won…………
    Congratulations!! Once again.
    Yours in service,
    Dr. (Mrs.) Mercy Martins
    —————————————————————————————-

  • Your email address emerged as a winner in the EXXONMOBIL 2011 with GBP700,000‏

    Dear Winner,

    Congratulations, your email address emerged as a winner in the EXXONMOBIL 2011 Exhibition draw, held on 3rd January in UK, with the lucky number:09 14 24 25 42 48 (05).

    All participants for the on-line version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. And as a result you have been granted the lump sum payout of (700,000.00G.B.P) Great British Pounds.

    Contact your claims officer: Dr. Harry Longwell on: Email:harlondwl@yahoo.co.jp you are to forward the following details to enable him clear your file for immediate payment:

    1. Full Names:…..{}
    2. Address:…..{}
    3. Age: ……{}
    4. Sex:….{}
    5. Marital Status: .{}
    6. Occupation:…..{}
    7. mobile numbers: ….{}
    8. Fax number:……{}
    9. Country: …..{}
    10.Amount won…..()
    11.Email address…()

    Once again Congratulations.

    Sincerely,
    Mr. Steven Fisher
    Online Coordinator.
    Felicitation.

  • Dear Beneficiary-Customer- Psy Matt

    The message coming to you from FedEx Courier Company, Benin Republic, in West Africa, Further more regards your total sum of $3,7M,which your partnership Mr. John Mark deposited into our custody on your behalf, he has already paid your Insurance Certificate and Yellow Tag, while balance sum of $122,00,have being waited to send on your part for Claim Certificate, before we would release your tracking number information, which you will be using to monitoring your package just to know when it would arrive into finally destination home address, as you has listed reference.

  • Fraud

    scam!!!!

    Fresh Cut BG, SBLC and MTN which are specifically for lease, our bank instrument *scam?*

    April 5, 2009

    *Update*

    Dear sir,
    We are direct providers of Fresh Cut BG, SBLC and MTN which are specifically for lease, our bank instrument can be engage in PPP Trading, Discounting, signature project(s) such as Aviation, Agriculture, Petroleum, Telecommunication, construction of Dams, Bridges, Real Estate and all kind of projects. We do not have any broker chain in our offer or get involved in chauffer driven offers. We deliver with time and precision as sethforth in the agreement. Our terms and Conditions are reasonable, below is our instrument description.

    DESCRIPTION OF INSTRUMENTS:
    1. Instrument: Bank Guarantee (BG/SBLC) (Appendix A)
    2. Total Face Value: Eur 10M MIN and Eur 20B MAX (20Billion).
    3. Issuing Bank: HSBC, London or Deutsche Bank Frankfurt or any Top 25 WEB
    4. Age: One Year, One Day
    5. Leasing Price: 6% of Face Value plus 2% commission fees to brokers.
    6. Delivery: SWIFT TO SWIFT.
    7. Payment: MT-103.
    8. Hard Copy: Bonded Courier within 7 banking days.

    All relevant business information will be provided upon request. If Interested kindly contact me immediately.

    Thank you,
    Stuart Baird

  • Scammer !!!!!

    Beware of a Mac Thompson he claims to be a contractor from New Orleans, Louisania over in Africa working.He claims to be raising a daughter named Betty.He claims to be awarded his biggest contract with AGL Energy from Australia.He is on yearbook(2 profiles) and who knows how many other sites.He is listed on other numerous scammer lists.He has a list long of other names and email addresses.Some go back as far as 2005.