A possible E-mail scam?? Inside.

Richie_B_OOC

Richie_B_OOC

The Sage of RP
I was going through some e-mail and came across this. Check it out, and just let me know if you're thinking what I'm thinking. And if anyone else got an e-mail like this recently, please post it here. This could be a new scam.
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Date: 13 Jan 2008 07:01:14 +0100
From: [email protected]
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL

We happily announce to you the draw (#1240) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held in LIVERPOOL, UNITED
KINGDOM.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 5 11 13 18 25 35 [7] Bonus
Ball, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e.
matches 6.

You are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000.00
(One Million Great British Pounds) credited to file Reference number:
BGI/98710/HA/07 and Batch number: 015/74/05/UK007.

This is from a total cash prize of £10,000,000:00 (Ten Million Great
Britain Pounds) shared amongst the ten lucky winners.

Contact your claim agent:
Mr. Alex Anderson.
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 00447031841686
Fax: 00448704718287

Note: You are advised to keep a copy of this email notification of your
prize. All prize claim must be notarized here in the High Court of
Justice UK before payout, and prizes has to be claimed not later than 30th
of January 2008 LAST COLLECTION DATE. After this date all funds will
be returned to our treasury as unclaimed.

You are advice to provide the listed below to your claim agent for
speedy processing of your winning prize:

Names:
Country:
Sex:
Tel/Fax
Reference & Batch number:

Congratulations!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Susan
(UK NATIONAL LOTTERY COORDINATOR)


NOTICE: This message, including all attachments transmitted with it,
is for the use of the addressee only. It may contain proprietary,
confidential and/or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or
privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the
intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose,
distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you
have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of
it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.
Unsubscribe.


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Kliknij >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1cd3
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Yeah... That has BULLSHIT all over it. If someone else wants to claim the prize, go for it. My email is [email protected] .

-Rich-
 
Our lottery uses 6 numbers from 1 - 49.

Its also not drawn in Liverpool.

Total scam.

That number is also a mobile number (cellphone)
 
Oh yeah, it's fake.

I also got one of those emails about a month ago, just before Christmas. In fact, it's remarkably similar. The lotto numbers are also the same. Scam. Don't buy into it Richie.
 
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/uk-national-lottery.html

http://www.natlotcomm.gov.uk/CLIENT/content.ASP?ContentId=172

Also, note that the From address is from a .eu extension, but comes from Poland (Interia links back to a Poland domain, also linked in the footer of the email, and the footer itself is written in Polish), but they want you to email a .co.uk email address, and a YAHOO email address at that. Considering you're supposed to email a "claim agent" for a UK national lottery, using a free email provider is a red flag. And the "sender" is a Mrs. Susan. No last name, another red flag.

Of course, since they gave a Fax number, if you had a fax machine (if you're in the UK or you get free long distance, or you have a friend in the UK with a fax machine) and are willing to pull a prank on the spammer, you could send a black fax.




Lowthor said:
Its also not drawn in Liverpool.
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No, but, according to the UK National Lottery site:
If you would like to contact The National Lottery by post, please use this address:

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL
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The scammers would be smart enough to use the real address, to better try to fool people.
 
Total Scam

I agree with Lowthor. It sounds like a scam. Then again, I hardly believe in those Reader's Digest contests. LOL

My rule of thumb is if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. Or the drugs are starting to kick in.
 
~slaps forehead~ Chaos.....

First off, nice investigative skills there. Second off, why did you mention something about a black fax? I don't know if Richie knows about it or not, but I know how his mind works. He's probably trying to do it right now through his PC.

Richie, if you're doing it, scan your middle finger and send that instead of all black.
 
Yae Kisaragi said:
Richie, if you're doing it, scan your middle finger and send that instead of all black.
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If you send anything other than a black fax (or, even when you send a black fax sometimes), you should do a fax attack. It's described in the article for a black fax, where you let the fax machine read half of what you're faxing, then tape the ends together to have it never end. I would've linked to an article for "fax attack", but there isn't one, so I linked to the next best thing.

If I had a fax machine, and didn't have to worry about long distance, I'd do it myself. But I don't on either.
 
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You know me too well.

But isn't there a program available, like Microsoft Fax, that will let you use your computer's internet connection and your imaging software, I.E. Paint or Image Viewer, to send pictures like that without a fax machine? I wonder if it can be done through Yahoo Messenger.

I'm going to give it a shot. Thanks guys.

-Rich-

PS- Isn't there also some kind of phone number scam going around where if you dial the Virgin Islands, you get charged around $2,000.00 per minute? Could this scam be linked to this lottery stuff? I would advise against sending faxes unless you live in the UK, like Lowthor up there. Just in case.
 
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I get plenty of these scam emails on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. I simply delete them from the inbox and go on my merry way. My mail accounts seem to get any manner of scam emails from so-called lottery notifications to collect money in Nigeria or some such place.
 
Raharanor said:
I get plenty of these scam emails on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail.
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That's why I stopped using Yahoo mail and Hotmail. I have two Gmail accounts I use, one for public use and the other for important stuff, like online shopping. My public Gmail account gets about a thousand spam emails a month, and I almost never see any of them, maybe one spam mail for Viagra or whatever every two to three months, the other account hasn't gotten spam yet. It has gotten two phishing emails that I knew right away were phishing attempts and reported them.

But I know some people can't just change email addresses so easily. I even have my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts still active, just in case someone from a time ago wants to try email me for whatever reason. Chances are slim, but I never know.
 
lmfao, these people are so dumb, here's a new one I got in todays email...The bottom Jesus email is suppose to make ya trust them more?

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am brokering an Investment deal in your country on behalf of my late
Client
who deposited funds in my Bank(Deutsche Bank AG). This deal will
involve the
eventualinvestment of GBP£30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million Pounds
Sterling's
only) in my Branch and as soon as I hear from you I will provide you
with
fulldetails of the Transaction.

Rainer Neske
Head of Private & Business Clients


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E-Mail-Service by http://www.jesus.ch and http://www.livenet.ch.
Surftipp: http://www.pixel4jesus.com
 
~Points to the above documentation~ See and you were all against my "lets kill the race " Idea,,,,,,You have brought about your own suffering!
 
Mith, my wife has been supporting you on that. LOL.

I hate scams, my e-mail is filled with a couple hundred a month.
 
I'm screw'n with them to see what the next part is, so I sent them a reply with...What do you need from me? ...Waiting for the response lol
 
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