Scam! or maybe not?

[Russell Smith]

Here is something I received this morning via email.

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 26TH of
November 2007. You have been approved to claim a
sum £500,000.00 of (Five Hundred Thousand Great British
Pounds) of cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.

To file for your claims you are to contact our claims
agent by email.Mrs.Elizabeth Daines,
Email: clearancedepartment09@yahoo.co.uk

Provide her with the following information to claim your prize.
Full Name:.............................
Address:.......................................
Phone Number:..................................
Country of residence:...............................
Occupation....................................
Sex:......................
Age:...........................
Amount Won:...............................
Brief Description of company/Individual....................

Yours Truly,
David Crowford :Online Promo Programme).


I can not remember entering this competition and I am sure I don't deserve it anyhow so if anyone of you fine people would like to claim it instead, please be my guest and when you get paid if you send me a few quid that will do.

Russ

 

[Bob]

bit of a dodgy e-mail address.

 

[balf]

ooh i got one of those too!!

 

[Ninja]

got exaclty the same e mail Russ. must be cause you pulled me unfairlyat the scottish open

i just deleated it

 

[true_death]

"clearancedepartment09@yahoo.co.uk"

ffs domain names cost little more than a few pennies and email forwarding is usually included free.

If your going to try and operate a scam, at least do it properly.

 

[Kevin]

I got one of those.
and 2 from a microsoft email raffle.

1 for a million and 2 for half a million,
so I have a couple of million pounds coming to me, I dont remember putting my details for anything like that either, but i am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth !!!

Any suggestions what I should get with my money?

 

[Russell Smith]

Has Yahoo become the scam mail of choice !

Dear sir;

Greetings;

My name is Mr Wayne Osmond Bhutelezi, I hail from the Republic of
South Africa, 41 years, married with three children. I am the Director
of Global Security & Finance Services Limited South Africa.

I got the information concerning you from the foreign department ofour
chamber of commerce and after due consideration, I decided to contact
you believing that by the Grace of God, that you will not disappoint me
over this deal.

I have been working with this company for over fifteen years. Within
this period, I have watched with meticulous precision how African Heads
of State and Government functionaries have been usingGlobal Security &
Finance Ltd to move sums of money USD, Pounds Sterling, French Francs
(cash) to their foreign partners. They bring in these consignments of
cash and secretly declare the contents as jewelries, golds,diamonds,
precious stones, family treasures, etc. Their foreign partners, friends
and relatives are claiming most of these consignments. A lot of them
are lying here unclaimed for as much as five years. Nobody will ever
come for them because in most cases, the Certificate of Deposit are
never available to anybody except the depositors or me since most of
them are dead.
I have through the instrumentality of Global Security & Finance re-
deposited all these unclaimed and overstayed consignment into the Vault
Facility of a reputable Security Company in Europe.
Since the inception of the year 2002, our company's management has
changed the procedure of claims of consignment, as soon as you are able
to produce the secret information as contained inthe secret file of any
consignment, it will be released to you upon demand.
I have finalized every arrangement for you to claim consignment No.
1401, 402containing $30 Million. I will supply you with all the
information and documents that will facilitate your easy claim of the
consignment.Upon your positive reply of this letter , I will furnish
you with further details and information regarding the modus operandi
for the execution of the transaction.
This business is risk free as I have taken necessary preventive
measures.The mode of sharing will be equal, you can reach me by email
and I will direct you on what to do.Upon your positive consideration
and reply of this letter I shall give you a confidential telephone
number with which we can discuss the execution of the business.

Expedite action.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Wayne Osmond Bhutelezi.
wayneosmond007@yahoo.com

----------------------------------------------------

GREETINGS,
MY NAME IS MARIS WALKER,MY HUSBAND AND I ARE ON A CHRISTIAN MISSION TO AFRICA AND I CAME ALONG WITH MY 3 TEACUP YORKSHIRE TERRIER BABIES.AFTER A WHILE I NOTICE THAT THE AFRICAN WEATHER IS NOT GOOD FOR THE PUPPY AND I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEM THE WAY I
ALWAYS DO BECAUSE OF MY JOB.
THEY ARE AKC REGISTERD. - TEACUP. HOME RAISED, VACINES& HEALTH GUARANTEE.INEED SOMEONE TO ADOPT THEM AND TAKE CARE OF THEM THE WAY I ALWAYS DO.IF YOU CAN TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEM DO SEND A REPLY AND I WILL EMAIL YOU THERE PICTURES.
I HOPE TO READ FROM YOU.
REGARDS,
EVANGELIST MARIS WALKER
MOTTO: IN GOD WE TRUST
evanmaris@yahoo.com

I had others but already got rid of them these are just the ones I have been sent in the last day.
You would think mail like this once identified would just be blocked not delivered to your junk mail at all.

Russ

 

[RainbowShooter]

I just got the 2nd one to a private domain so someone has been selling my email. yay

 

[topchef]

I got about 400 of those types of e-mail^^^^^^^

Ever since I tried flogging a car on one of the free ads sites, the scammers have been trying there hardest to catch me out. I get at LEAST two paypal/ebay scams a week amongst others....

Dodgy feckers


Delete that badboy and find a decent spam blocker


-ChEf

 

[RJKensai]

Yahoo is cr*p, I got loads of those after a 4months of using yahoo.....and I thought yahoo said they where the best anti-spam mail.....

~R.J