Friday, April 17, 2009

Feeling lucky today?

I thought I would toss this one in here ~ it was addressed to the email I use for my blogs.

Received: from resultdesk45@aol.com

Subject: CONGRATULATION-YOU WON 2009 DUTCH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:36:47 -0400

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to inform you of the result of the E-mail address computer ballot lottery draw of the dutch National lotto bv international program,which took place on April 2009.This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws.

This lotto draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from different World? wide web(www)sites.Your e-mail address? attached to ticket?? number:275-189-657-23-05 with Serial number 8756- 05 drew the lucky? numbers and bonus ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of $500,000 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02.

This is from the total cash prize of 5,000,000 Million Dollars,shared amongst the first Ten (10)lucky winners in this category.All participant were selected randomly through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, Belgium,Nederland, Arab, United States, Asia, Europe,Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of 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 European representative office in United Kingdom,as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $500,000 will be released to you from our regional branch office in United Kingdom.We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR BELOW WINNING PARTICULARS WHEN CONTACTING YOUR AGENT:

Ref: 4758961725Batch:
ALLINC 70564943902/188Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPRC


HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact your claims agent, Rev. Deman at
deman.claim@hotmail.com. Fill this form below and send it to him to file for your claim.

Tel:+447024098491

LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM OF PAYMENT.

FULL NAME.................................................
DATE OF BIRTH................................
SEX...MALE...............................
AGE..................................
MARITAL STATUS...................................
NATIONALITY.........................................
OCCUPATION...........................................
TELEPHONE..........................................
FAX......................................................
EMAIL...............
DATE......................................................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO........................

APPROVED FOR PAYMENT.

Please quote your reference,batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential(VERY SECRET) from the public until your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements,equally to guard against non participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this program. Note that, all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED TIME(ON OR BEFORE 30th April 2009); otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip sweepstakes.You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your funds to your person as this program has been abused? in past,hence we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false claims.

Note:You must claim your prize:not later than 10-days from the moment you receive this e-mail.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank; if you receive this email as spam or junk,please do not disregard it was caused by our temporal network failure

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!


Yours in service,

Sincerely,

Mr. Williams Stanford

Online coordinator for Dutch NATIONAL LOTTERY

Monday, April 13, 2009

The Canada Revenue Agency warns Canadians of mail scam

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is warning taxpayers to beware of a recent scam where some Canadians are receiving a letter fraudulently identified as coming from the CRA and asking for personal information. The letter is not from the CRA. A PDF version of the letter is available on the CRA Web site at www.cra.gc.ca/alert.

The letter claims that there is "insufficient information" for the individual's tax return and that in order to receive any "claims," they will have to update their records. The letter attaches a form specifically requesting the individual's personal information in writing, via fax or email, including information on bank accounts and passports. This letter is not from the CRA and Canadians should not provide their personal information to the sender.

All taxpayers should be vigilant when divulging any confidential information to third parties. The CRA has well established practices to protect the confidentiality of taxpayers' information.

The CRA has notified the proper law enforcement authorities of this scam.

For information about this and other similar scams, or to report deceptive telemarketing activity, visit www.phonebusters.com, send an email to info@phonebusters.com, or call 1-888-495-8501.

So How Come?

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I have two blogs at the moment - Here Be Dragons which is devoted to rental scams primarily sourced through Craigslist although the proliferation of free ad sites has widened the hunting grounds. Many additions come from other sources (ie: blogs/anti-scam sites/online community ad sites) or are provided by people who want to share their experiences. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch is for copies of scammail that I find in my mailboxes ~ sometimes I can't resist the odd acerbic comment but for the most part I post 'em because the more that people do, the fewer fools they get to gull. Dunno what to say about me that would be very interesting ~ I'm a granny who reads, gardens and crafts as the mood strikes me. :) I don't particularly care for the social predators on this planet and this blog is part of my way of saying so.