Saturday, May 23, 2009

Lottery One Million and One

If only I could be so lucky in my real life, eh? Fortunately for me, I don't have to even remember entering the lottery!

Reply-To: zurichbb@gmail.com
From: "lotteryInc" loto6126@terra.es

Subject: EuroMillions lottery!
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009

You are a winner of 1,125.000.00 Euros to claim your winnings contact your winning agent at Zurich Seguros Espana S.A.

Contact Agent: Morris Moore / E-Mail: zurichbb@gmail.com

Winning Claims Requirements:

Winning Number: 21-763-88
Reference Number: 471-94-258-09
Your Name:
Your Address:
Country:
Phone / Fax:
Occupation:
Age:

Mode of Payment:
Wire Transfer
Bank Draft / Cheque

Best Regard

EuroMillions lottery! Inc.

Brought to you by the EuroMillions Lottery! Team
Copyright © 2009 EuroMillions lottery! Inc. All rights reserved.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

I've been blessed by Chevron!

Uh.... Hallelujah!

Yeah ~ that's it!

From: "Chevron(Overseas) Oil Company"
Reply-To: ups.deliveryservicenig@8u8.hk
Subject:
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 13:16:18 +0300

Blessing To You And Your Family.

We the management and staff of Chevron(Overseas) Oil Company have your email address as a winner in our celebration email balloting promotion and have deposited a certified Bank draft of $2.5 (Million United State Dollars),with the UPS Courier Company for collection, but we did not hear from you since that time.

Then we went and deposited the Draft with UPS COURIER SERVICE, West Africa. What you have to do now is to contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE as soon as possible to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the expiring date. For your information, We have paid for the Security Keeping fee, Insurance premium and Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attacking your Country. The only charges you will send to the UPS COURIER SERVICE to deliver your Draft direct to your postal Address in your country is ($200.00 USD) Dollars only being payment for Delivery Charges of the Courier Company. note that you are to Contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE on how you can make the payment to enable them deliver your cheque to you to your home address. Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except $200.00 USD Dollars as stipulated by the company. We would have paid that but they said no because they don't know when you will contact them and in case of any demurrage.

You have to contact the UPS COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of your Draft with this information bellow:

============================================

Contact Person:Mr.Patrick Mason.
Dispatch Officer UPS Courier Services Nigeria.
E-mail: ups.deliveryservicenig@8u8.hk
Tel: +234 807 278 9860
Shipment Code: CPEL/OWN/9876
Parcel Number: EG2272-NIG

=============================================

Finally, make sure that you re-confirm your Postal address(s) and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the Delivery However, try to contact them as soon as you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to pay them their delivery fee of only $200.00 USD Dollars for their immediate action.

You are to fill this form so that there will be no mistake in dispacth period

Your Full Name:
Postal address:
Direct telephone number:

You should also let me know through email as soon as you receive your Draft.

Yours Faithfully

Mrs. Ella cole

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.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Hot off the presses!

I had cleaned out the various scammails that were piling up in my junk file this morning and, returning shortly afterwards, found this piece of tripe posted only minutes before. Seemed like a good idea to get it up sooner than later....

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:29:58 -0700

From: "KLASSEN LOTTORIE AWARDS 2008"
Reply-To: klose.skl@gmail.com
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!!! OUR 700,000 EURO WINNER

(So, any particular reason a large lottery organization is relying on g.mail? With all those spare Euros they have lying around, you'd figger they could pony up a few for their own.)

DIE SUDDEUTSCHE KLASSENLOTTERIE!
SKL-Gunther, Kronacher Str.60
D-96052 Bamberg
Germany
http:****//***www.skl.de/

Reference Number: SKL/Millionenformel/05/1288
Batch: SKL/25/8787

Congratulations!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of the Suddeutsche Klassenlotterie Program. Suddeutsche Klassenlotterie draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer ballot search from the internet as part of our international promotions program which we conduct every year. No tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address attached to serial number 65-5524 drew the lucky numbers 4-18-24-30-31-35 which consequently emerged you as one of first fifty (50) lucky winners in this category. (Wow! Out of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses, eh? With the number of scammail addresses the fraud cretins generate you'd think that they would have a much better chance than I at walking away with all this unexpected largesse.)

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 700,000.00Euros(Seven hundred thousand Euros) in cash credited to file SKL/Millionenformel/05/1288. This is from a total cash prize of 35 Million Euros shared amongst the first fifty (50) lucky winners in this category.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for Suddeutsche Klassenlotterie. The estimated 35 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in Europe history. The biggest was the 363 million jackpot that went to two winners in a February 2003 drawing of The Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.

Your fund is now deposited in an offshore bank with a hardcover insurance. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated bank account as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by the general public. (Oooops! Well I guess I let the damned cat out of the bag, didn't i? Bad me!)

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in London. In view of this, your 700,000.00Euros (Seven hundred thousand Euros) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in Europe. Our agent in UK will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with him.

To begin your claims please contact your claims agent:

Dr. Anderson Klose
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release Order Dept.
E-mail: klose.skl@gmail.com
Phone: +447024034593 or +447045775489
(Call me silly but isn't it kinda strange that a German lottery has UK phone numbers to contact?)

Your claims agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize funds into your designated bank account.

Note that all prize funds must be claimed not later than One month. After this date all funds will be returned to the LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed.In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please endeavor to quote your Reference Number: SKL/Millionenformel/05/1288 and Batch numbers: SKL/25/8787 in every correspondence with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. (Rush! Rush! Rush! Operators standing by to tell you that all you have to do to claim this flowing river of cash is send 'em money for taxes or some other payment. There is a reason they call it an advance fee scam, ya know...)

Congratulations once again from all members of our staff and thanks for being part of our promotions program. (If I knew what I was supposed to be promoting, I wouldn't anyway.)

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Violletta Ibrahimovich.
Promotions Manager
Suddeutsche Klassenlotterie

(I think you will find this site is quite familiar with the scam: http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-suddeutsche.htm)

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Can we work as partners?

Reply-To: kennedykk@livel.com
From: "kennedy" kenkhumalo@live.com
Subject: CAN WE WORK AS PARTNERS?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008

DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS & ENERGY RESOURCES
PRETORIA 0001,
SOUTH AFRICA.

FROM THE DESK OF:

Mr. Kennedy Khumalo M.sc
(Director ProjectAllocation)
Email: kennedykk@live.com

It is indeed my pleasure to request for business partnership with great pleasure, I write to solicit for your assistance in a matter that can be of mutual benefit to us. I only pray that you read through carefully and respond as promptly as possible. Precisely, in the year 2006, the Ministry of Minerals and Energy in South Africa where I work as director of audit and project implementation, received presidential irrevocable circular order requesting the ministry to compile and forward the list of all past foreign contractors whose contract payments are pending since the period of past regime of Dr. Nelson Mandela and the present regime.

The purpose of this exercise is for the present South African government to pay foreign contractors all debt owned to them as to maintain good relationship with other foreign governments and non-governmental financial agencies. In light of the above, my colleagues and I decided to include acompany's name with a bill of Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars} alongside other company's and their respective bills for payment.

With the co-operation of top senior colleagues of mine we are confident that our claim of Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars} shall be granted being for contract work executed at the Ministry of Minerals and Energy, payment shall then be transferred uponapproval to a safe account that would be provided by you in other words, if you accept to be our partner then you shall be considered given the pertinent documentation to certify that your company had already executed contract work within the named Ministry for which your company shall be paid the sum of Twenty Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars}. Please be informed that with the South Africa government monetary policy. Government official's employees are not allowed to operate or to own bank accounts abroad hence our decision to seek a foreign partner.

Further more, I want to assure you that the legitimacy of this transaction is well pronounced for which upon your acceptance to this offer I will furnish you with relevant information's as to how the funds transfer will be executed swiftly without any hitch. Do note that I have the authority ofmy colleagues in this business deal to convey that your consent on this transaction will be highly compensated by a percentage agreed upon by both parties after a successful completion of this project. Further information's concerning the transaction shall be forwarded to you uponyour response to this letter.

Visualize this opportunity as an indirect financial resource; also note that your area of specialization is not a hindrance in the successful execution of this transaction. If interested on this offer endeavour to contact me immediately via email:kennedykk@live.com before we establish a voice contact on the subject matter.

Finally I want to assure you that this transaction is scheduled to be completed with fourteen working days provided you are willing to adhere to my directives concerning the subject matter.Thank you and God bless, as I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours Faithfully,
Kennedy Khumalo.

(Yah know, call me cynical but a huge government ministry, in my experience, doesn't conduct its business through live mail, hotmail, gmail, ymail, rocketmail or any other free mail services. Nor, since they are supposed to be issuing reimbursements from said government, do they need employees to have out-of-country bank accounts. In these days of electronic transfers, etc...., their line of needing a distributor of monies doesn't make a lick of sense....

No, dudes, we cannot work as partners!)

Thursday, July 24, 2008

My personal list of scum suckers...

Peeps, remember these people are a font of crap and rapacious con garbage ~ DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM!


Ahmed Rasheed - ahmedrasheed@jmail.co.za & ahmedrasheed01@jmail.co.za & ahmed@amed.com - wants you to help him rip of the bank for which he supposedly works - $25,000,000 and you keep 45% + 5% for expenses.

Anping Wu & Edith Vega - anpingcompanyltd@yahoo.com.hk & evega@ub.edu.ar - he's supposed to be the Ceo/President; not sure what she does besides pretend to represent the Anping Wire Mesh Co. Ltd. - looking for collection and remittance agents - you get 10% of whatever you handle and $3,000/mo. after three mos.

Charles Benson - charlesbenson_115@yahoo.co.uk & charlesbenson1058@gmail.com - wants you to pretend to be the original depositor of a random $5,850,000.00 he wants to rip off from the bank he supposedly is employed by in Ghana - you get 30%.

Francoise Bigirimana - francebss09@yahoo.com.au & francoisebs@yahoo.fr - languishing in a refugee camp in Cote D'Ivoire and wants you to adopt her and help her access the $14.7 million left to her by her dear old dead dad who lost his life in the course of the crisis here in Cote D'ivoire on the 7th of November 2003.

Lee Chung - consumerhealthcare@excite.com & consumerhealthcare@live.com - posing as the Vice President, Pristine Consumer Healthcare Pte. Ltd. - looking for collection and remittance agents.

Linda Kabba - lindakabba3@hotmail.com - from Sierra Leone and languishing in a refugee camp in London - seeks your assistance to help transfer inherited funds deposited in a Security and Finance Company in Dubai (by dear old dead dad who used to deal in gold and diamonds) to your country for investment by posing as her trustee.

Mary Edwards - ce.aldridge@wcc.net & maryedwards112@live.com - deathly ill with cancer with a son to support wants you to collect money from her dead husband's family - $1,150,000 and you keep 10%.

Horst Hieter Haensgen, Diplomat - mrhieterhaensgen0@live.com - (pity ~ I mislaid the bulk of the email but rest assured it had something to do with moving someone else's money).

Philip Ugo, Rev. - revphilip1@gmail.com- representing the late Arcbishop William Steve who left $1.2Million (One Million Two Hundred United States Dollars) which he intended to be used for charity, ministry, evangelical work or otherwise when he was gone, but did not want his immediate family to know about for fear of subversion of his promise and pledge to God and you are handpicked to help him do this.

Richard Imjo Martins (Esq), Barrister - himmahama@gmail.com & ibrazzi@gazeta.pl -

Robert Fore, Dr. - solicitors1856@law.com & solicitors1856@sify.com - solicitors to the late, great Atlanta physician and philanthropist, Mr.George Brumley (whom you have doubtlessly never heard of in your lifetime) who left $5,100,000 to you and he instructed that you are to use part of the funds to promote his legacy through activities that aim to help the old, poor, needy and disabled in the society.

Sherina Joseph Opong - Sherina_opong2080@gazeta.pl - step-mom poisoned dear old dad but not before he squirreled away $6,500,000 - you get 15% for providing a convenient bank account and adopting her.

Tammy Lawson - tammylawson@yahoo.com & tammy.lawson12@yahoo.no - father and mother assassinated in Sierra Leone by evil military forces and she escaped with her brother to Cote D'Ivoire (which is why her reply email is from Norway, right?) but dear old dead dad had left her10.5 million US Dollars which you get 20% of + 5% for expenses + 15% of any investments you wisely help her make.

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.