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Dear Winner,
Kindly open the attached form and claim your email awardees prize, note that your reply must go to the email that is in the form and not to me, you can as well call the number that is in form if you need urgent attention.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Roselyn M. Williams.
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Nice one, short and wrote by a nice female, what elese you want to give in your data, and pay the small fees required to claim your gain?
Here is the rest of the trick in the "attached letter" they sent me, I still wander how can some folks pay for such bed time stories, but obviously somebody does it, or the scam would not be runned.
Here is the rest of it:
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document name: ATTACH YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT COPY OR YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE.doc
content:
BONUS
Universal Networks Company.
Charnham Lane, Hungerford, Berkshire, RG17 0EY
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
REF NO: UNWC
BATCH NO: 45UNWC
LUCKY NO: 65700
MIDDLE EAST AND UNITED KINGDOM INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY FOR WORLD INTERNET USERS, PROMOTION OF 2010, FROM DESK OF PROMOTION {UNIVERSAL AWARD EMAIL LOTTERY} YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON £ 1,500,000 (One Million Five hundred Thousand British Pounds sterling.) in the first category of our computer ballot email lottery.
This promotion is for our newly formed company to gain popularity in the Global Email Networking, the selection process was carried out through random selections in our computerized Email Addresses election system from a database of over 250,000 Email Addresses drawn from all the continent of the world.
This promotion is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the international association of gaming regulators (IAGR) and we are proud to say that over 7 MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING are won in more than 10 countries worldwide and all winning must be claimed as soon as possible to avoid delay. So as one of the winners, your winning prize will be process and you receive your prize, but to enable us to process your prize, you are requested to fill the form below completely and send to us with a copy of your international passport or National ID Card.
As soon as you fill the form and return back to us by email attachment, we shall process your prize and inform you how you will receive your winning prize and also one of the rule of this promotion is that after you receive your money, you will be invited to visit us for the ceremony in London for all the 5 winners and we shall use the ceremony to appoint all the winners to represent this management in each of the countries. BBC & CNN will be there to interview all of our winners and it will be our great honor to have all the winners on the ceremony day. We await your immediate reply. No ticket was sold but it is to encourage the use of Internet and to claim your winning prize contact the paying agent office: Send the following to the claim department: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. Note winners under 18 years are automatically disqualified. Dr. Michael Harrison (International Claims Agent, universal Award Email Lottery Fiduciary)
Telephone: +447045713269
Email: michaelharrisonunc@yahoo.com
DATA/PRIZE RELEASE APPLICATION FORM:
1) APPLICANT’S NAME:
2) CONTACT ADDRESS:
3) TELEPHONE NUMBER:
4) AMOUNT WON:
5) OCCUPATION:
6) AGE:
7) SEX:
8) MARITAL STATUS:
9) NATIONALITY:
10) WINNING EMAIL:
11) STATE:
12) COUNTRY:
13) ATTACH COPY OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR YOUR INDENTITY CARD. :
14) PASSPORT OR YOUR ID CARD NUMBER;
Warning: You are expected to keep information relating to your award private until payment is processed and received, this is to avoid having your mailbox hacked by any of the persons to whom you disclosed it and using the information obtained to attempt to impersonate you and to fraudulently collect your award fund.Contoversial claim will lead to disqualification. Be warned!
Mrs. Roselyn M. Williams. (Lottery Coordinator)
Online coordinator for Universal
Mrs. Roselyn M. Williams
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Cool, isn't it?
They even exort you to keep the whole matter secret so that your frinds won't hack your account and fraudolently claim your money.
Hilarious, isn't it?
Another stupid thing they wrote: "YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON £ 1,500,000" in the top paragraph, than on the "to do" list at number 10 they say: "10) WINNING EMAIL:" that is you have to tell them your e-mail addess, the one that won, like they don't know it, like it is not to that one they sent the message too, like it is not from that one you repy... LOL
My son could do better, take my word for that.
Anti moneylaundry policies prevent large trasfers of sums of money through ATM cards and otehr wire transfer to hinder the terrorism and drug dealers money transfers.
Therefore the goverment of BENIN (a legal country) wants to give me several milions of untraceable dollars (wouldn't know wy or what for!) sending me small ammounts by Western Union so the Government (!!!???) won't be able to trace down the transaction!
It make sesne, insn't it?
Not to mention the professional grammar and language approach.
Here is to you ladies and gentleman an old scam in a new scammer:
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ATTENTION:
Now we have arranged your payment of ($4.8millions) two millions Eight hundred thousand united state dollars in atm payment card to be sent to you through western union money transfer payment,Your payment will sending to you by western union, the amount you will receive per day is $5,000.
The minister trust funds of Benin Republic will send you the currently standards track details you need to pick up your ($5,000) payment by western union, you will receive every day till you receive the $4.8millions united state dollars, now no need to send you this atm card because you can not be able to withdraw the atm card due to the atm master card contain large money on it.The director administrtor trust funds have already signed your payment, now you are free to comply with wemaco payment office on this email: ( western.union@ufo.tc ) however, kindly contact the below person who is in position to release your payment by western union per $5,000 a day.
Mr.Tony Chris,
western union department
Financial Bank Benin,
Tel:+229-6631-3372
E-mail: western.union@ufo.tc
The financial western union payment canter has been mandated to issue out your payment and you have to stop any further communication with any other person(s) or office(s) to avoid any hitches in receiving your payment.
Note that the administrator payment need this details from you to process your payment:
Receiver name-----------------
Country-----------------------
City--------------------------
Tel---------------------------
Test question-----------------
Answer------------------------
sex___________________________
age___________________________
ID____________________________
Comply now because as soon as you sent this required details to Mr Tony Chris, he will start sending your payment by western union.
Regards,
Mr,Walter Fuchs.
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BTW, Fuchs in german means fox, this old fox Walter...LOL
Simple business letter, all decent.
The gnetleman wants to invest a small fortune in a stable economy since his third world country (United Kingdom) is gowing down the drain. What's worng with that?
Nothing, but...!
Red ahead!
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From: Mr. Tim. J. W. Tookey
Group Finance Director of Lloyds Banking Group
25 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HN
www.lloydsbankinggroup.com
My name is Mr. Tim. J. W. Tookey, the Group Finance Director of Lloyds Banking Group. I have a business proposal in the tune of £26,000.000.00 (Twenty Six Million British Pounds Sterling).I wish to invest in a stable economy outside United kingdom, after the successful transfer into your personal or company account, we shall share this money in the ratio of 35% for you and 65% for me.The fund is free from drug and laundering related offences.
If you are interested, please contact me so we can commence all arrangements and i will give you more information on how we would proceed and complete this business successfully. Please treat this business with utmost confidentiality and send me the Following:
1. Your Full Name:............
2. Your Phone Number:..........
3. Your Age:....................
4. Your Sex:...................
5. Your Occupations:............
6. Your Country and City:....
Kindly view my identification link with this site:
http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/about_us/directors/executive_directors.asp
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Tim .J. W. Tookey
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Here is the problem:
Chinese, greeks, africans and many europeans and south and north americans want to invest in UK but our SIR wants to go out of there (to me he never sat foot in there in his life)
He has no idea who the heck am I (and be shure I haven't the faintest idea who the heck is he!) but he is more than ready to transfer a chunk of money that si worth more than the internal debt of some countries into my account, under my controll, trusting me blidly.
Would I do thet in his place? Nope. I'd deal with someone I can trust because we already dealth before and I know how I can controll his movements.
As you could see he has no idea in what country am I residing, what is my name or anything else, I could be as well Osama Bin Laden resident in Afganistan, temporaryly domiciliated (last 15 years) at the White House in Washinghton DC in the square office next to the oval one.
Now you tell me if that's not a clear scam!
Enjoy the day, delte the dude, go ahead with life.
How is this scam working?
They threat you for a technicality, so you "MUST" upgrade, for free, obviously, therefore you give them your parameters, they upgrade your acount, and all is OK.
For them, since they can use their "NEW" accoutn( yours) to read your mail and steal your data (banking, friends, etc.) they can e-mail the whole world from your account letting you to face SPAM casues and internet police, and more, they can fool your friends to give them their sensitive data so they can keep stealing, letting you to explain your friends what happend, should they belive you!
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How do I recognised this as a scam?
Easy, why should my e-mail provider ask me my own e-mail address if they already know it?
Why should them ask me my password if they alreaady have it?
Similar e-mails ask you your banking data and many stupids just reply and give the info.
Some other e-mails just state that your e-mail to some person cannot be delievered because his mailbox is full, so you have to open the attched file and resend it with some supplementary data such as your password and stuff.
Bottom line, nobody is stealing your password, it is YOU that you give it away if you believe such idiot messages.
Stop being an idiot, start bugging the scammers.
Clogg their e-mail with a thousand messages a day, attach photos and films so that their server gets blocked.
I do that, funny, they stop e-mailng me for weeks, until they solve the server problem... LOL
How do we rid networks of fakes
Funnily enough I have noticed a distinct fall in the spam and con tricks over the past year. Even the spam box is empty of them. I think this is due to the fact that many of them are from amateurs using work facilities because they didn't have enough to do or enough supervision...and now they have been made redundant for one reason or another, or the demand for casual staff at call centres etc. has diminished due to the downturn.
Having taught students for some time in Electronics and IT I know full well that the majority at a certain age will experiment with spamming and virus building and worms and other stuff they feel empowered to code. It gives them a sense of control over the rest of us...Most grow out of it and a few of the worst offenders at 17 years became the best achieving students later..even to the point of a Law degree at University (These were backward students...mainly dyslexic or with other problems).
There was a set pattern that could identify the nationality of the student and narrow down the possible suspects, usually spelling errors and the type of sexually oriented content of some of the spam. The viruses were more difficult but I can honestly say that the more dyslectic the student the better he/she was at programming.
We did not have a female student who actively took part...other than to be supportive and to make suggestions for content. The boys did it for fun...the girls who egged them on were quite vicious and venomous especially when the dirty deed was aimed at someone specific.
So taking away the student factor in these things...(and you will always get a wave of activity around Christmas holiday time when the 15-16 year old get new computers and a broadband account). You will probably find a small hardcore of people sending out multiple con messages. Apart from the 419 scams which originated in Nigeria apparently, but now emerges from Philippines, Malaysia, Russia, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and USA you can almost pinpoint many others to a small source. The 'women' who address you as 'My Dear' annoy me the most...they never check the gender of their potential victims.
There is one persistent pest operating this scam using an Ecademy address, it is the same person using different names. These people usually use internet cafe accounts and some can fake the email address they are sending from to look as if someone you know is sending it. My son has had his email address compromised like this and it was done via Facebook. Be careful when you allow apps to have access to your profile and friends etc. Best not to allow any access by any app.
The success of scams do not depend on the quality of whatever is sent but on the sheer number. When you send a million begging letters a small percentage will yield a response.
You only have to look at the amount of junk selling programmes on Sky TV late at night to realise there are many people sitting up all night with money to spend addictively. Lonely people, sick people and compulsivity challenged people. You only have to hit a few of these to make a few bucks...probably enough to have a decent living...especially as the cost of marketing via scam email is so low.
If the grammar, the spelling or the layout or any phrase in an email, whoever it appears to come from, is suspect then bin it. It's most likely a student having a laugh.
Beware the 'girlfriend' scams they are run by gangs and a huge amount of abuse and suffering is inflicted by these scrotes.
As for the millions being offered by foreign deposed officials, their wives or anyone claiming to be working on their behalf...then more fool you if you fall for any of them. Just realise the awful contempt some nationalities have of Western society...they really believe we are all so gullible and greedy that we will fall for it enough to give away our bank details or even send a cheque for funds to be cleared and deposited to our accounts for which we may earn a large % of millions...get real!
Emerging scams are likely to get even worse. Just imagine if someone sent you an offensive image of a child...your child.. using a picture you uploaded to Facebook or elsewhere..imagine the potential blackmail.
There are people out there cooking up new scams at this very moment...but there are not that many and they could all be stopped. The trouble is that we have such awful double standards that prevent ISP's from ditching certain stuff. All child pornography could be eliminated...but you wouldn't be able to download any pornographic images at all of any subject...You can see the problem. There are tens of millions of pages of porn on the web and around 18.8 percent of all Web visits are to Porn sites ( from a USA survey) Most of the visits are done during office hours and over a quarter of US companies have sacked an employee for using internet porn during office hours.
Many scam emails lead to porn sites eventually and there is a huge revenue because very few are free. The fees are large and the spammers no doubt get a percentage for the traffic sent, but more than likely the porn site is the source of the spam. But the ISP's are raking in the money so you will not see much action taken by them.
PS according to Economywatch
The porn industry is a major component of the world economy, generating large scale revenue and employment. According to toptenreviews.com, over $3,000 is spent every second across the world on pornography. However, it is difficult to estimate the accurate statistics for the entire industry as a large part of the industry operates underground.
You will never stop the spam that keeps those wheels turning.
Fay Olinsky
