SO LONG, Suckers!

[Unclean]

I won the UK lottery!

 

Date Sat, 19 Apr 2008 3:27 PM

From "THE UK LOTTERY BOARD" <info@lottery.co.uk>

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We are pleased to inform you that you have won 3,500,000 GBP in the UK

National Lottery Draw held on the 16th April. Your Winning

Combination Codes are.. REFERENCE NUMBERS: _UK/9420X2/70 , BATCH NUMBER

074/05/ZY345, SERIAL NUMBER: 5368/02. To claim your winning prize, you

are to fill the Claims Verification Form below and send to Claims Agent

Mr.Henry Grant via email <webonlineinfo02@gmail.com>

 

 

1. FULL NAMES:.......................

2. ADDRESS:..........................

3. SEX: .............................

4. AGE: .............................

5. MARITAL STATUS: ..................

6. OCCUPATION: ......................

7. E-MAIL ADDRESS: ..................

8. TEL AND FAX NUMBERS:..............

9. REFERENCE NUMBERS:................

10. BATCH NUMBER:....................

11. SERIAL NUMBER:...................

12. AMOUNT WON:......................

13. STATE: ..........................

14. COUNTRY..........................

15. MODE OF COLLECTING WINNINGs......BANK TRANSFER OR COURIER

SERVICES

 

 

 

 

Sincerely

 

Noris Warner (Mrs.)

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY COORDINATOR

 

I'm definitely filling out the form and sending it to the official UK Lottery email address, "webonlineinfo02@gmail.com". Smell ya later, chumps. I'm RICH!!

[Mossad]

i think I watched a dateline episode where they actually tracked down some of these email scanners....it was quite funny.

[lousiest]

Er, this is the US, no?

[Unclean]

Yeah, this is the US - so it won't be the most favorable exchange rate right now. Ah well, gotta spend money to make money!

 

 

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noos@erdcarpet.com was the authenticated user, eh? Part of erdcarpet.com, a Mongolian-based carpet company. I guess the UK National Lottery subcontracts lottery winning notifications to carpet companies these days. That's outsourcing for ya.

 

So Mossad - did they interview anyone that actually fell for one of these scams? Or just the scammers? What happened to them?

[Xterminator]

I got ya beat!! mine's better

 

FROM: MR KAZEEM MALIK BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER (B.O.A) BANK OF AFRICA OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA-FASO

 

Dear Friend,

 

I am the bank manager of BANK OF AFRICA

(BOA) OUAGADUOGUO BURKINA FASO BRANCH.WEST AFRICA.

 

I am contacting you due to Trust and

confidentiality that you will keep this as top secret.

don't be scared or surprised, i am the manager of BANK

OF AFRICA and i have an opportunity to transfer sum of

US $12 MILLION (TWELVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) .

I have the courage to look for a reliable and Honest

Person who will be capable for this important business

Transaction, believing that you will never let me down

either now or in Future. The owner of this account is

JOSEPH F. GRILLO, foreigner and he is the Manager Of

petrol chemical service, a chemical engineer by

Proffession.He died in

world trade center as a victim of the September

11,2001 Incident that befall the United State of

America, the bank has made series of efforts to

contact any of the relatives to claim this money but

without success, you can confirm through this

website:

 

(link removed not sure what it'll take me to)

 

And my Investigation proved to me as well that his

company does not know anything About this account.

I want to transfer this money into a safe foreign

account abroad but I Don't know any foreigner,I know

that this message will come to you as a surprise as

we don't know ourselves before, but be sure that it is

real And A Genuine transaction. hope that you will

never let me down in this transaction, at the

conclusion of this business,

 

PLEASE VIEW OUR BANK WEB SITE (this link also removed) Please go throught it.

 

note that you and i will be responsible on any expencis that will rise up on the process of the transfer of the fund into your account, you will be giving 30% of

the total amount, 60% will be for me and 10% will be for an expencis on the process of our bank transfer of the fund into your account. I look forward

to your earliest reply .

 

Best regards

MR KAZEEM MALIK. reply me through kazeem_malik101@yahoo.com

POST SCRITUM YOU HAVE TO KEEP EVERYTHING SECRET AS TO ENABLE THE TRANSFER TO MOVE VERY SMOOTHLY INTO THE ACCOUNT YOU WILL PROVIDE TO THE BANK. IF HOWEVER, YOU ARE NOT DISPOSED TO ASSIST, KINDLY DELETE/DESTROY THIS EMAIL IN VIEW OF THE CONFIDETIALITY OF THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION AND INTEREST OF PERSONALITIES INVOLVED.

[Unclean]

Xterminator, I am both scared and surprised for you. Hopefully your expencis were not too great as you had this money transferred to the United State of America.

 

Speaking of which, if for some reason I don't get my lottery money, can I borrow some of your UNITED STATE DOLLARS?

[lousiest]

d00d, didn't you read the last line?? you've just voided 12 million dollars!

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s. gotta love how a bank manager has @yahoo.com as his email

[Wolfsblood]

Hey, Unclean, don't forget about your long lost bro here. I could use some of those GBP's you're getting from the UK Lottery Carpet company folks.

 

 

Oh, and Lousiest, you don't think the nice folks at the Bank of West Africa would stiff X for posting his email here do you? I think they were talking about not contacting responsible people........

[infideL]

if you ever have too much money, dont hesitate to send some to me

[nut]

if you ever have too much money, dont hesitate to send some to me

 

 

i second that because i to would love a little boost in my bank account..

 

ha for second i thought it was real.. and then realized... nahhh nooo way.

[dwEEziL]

If I win the lottery, I'm gonna buy a new butt...mine's got a crack in it.

[Unclean]

if you ever have too much money, dont hesitate to send some to me

What? Just sell some of your gold weapons, ya moocher.

 

And Wolfsblood - I'll send you some money. I'm sure you and Witchie could use it; having a kid ain't cheap. What district are you in?

[Unclean]

I got another one... they wanted 255 British Pounds before they could send me 1 million pounds.

 

I think I'm going to mess with this guy. The email resolved to a student address at a Columbian college, so I'm going to email that person directly:

 

Hello Juan Espinosa,

 

I noticed you have been sending out scam emails about a UK Lottery. You may be wondering how I got your name and email address. That isn't important right now. What is important is that your emails were very sloppy. I can teach you how to make the emails untraceable, and how to make them appear completely legitimate. You will make very large amounts of money if you follow my suggestions.

 

My suggestions do come at a price, however. You will have to send me $100 USD as a gesture of good faith. You will easily make that money back with your first successful scam.

 

If you do not send me $100 by May 11, then I will contact your university and your local police department. Your university's IT department will easily be able to tell you have been sending emails from your account. At best, you face expulsion from your university. At worst, you will face jail time.

 

The choice is yours. Send me $100 and learn how to construct effective scam emails, or get expelled and go to jail.

 

I will not be sending him any tips... just taking his money.

 

What do you think? Can I scam a scammer?

[dwEEziL]

That there is coercion and you yourself could actually face penalty/jail time if you do send it. There's no guarantee that "Juan" is actually the one sending it. His computer could easily have been infected and his account information stolen. What you need to do is send an e-mail with his original e-mail attached (attach it, don't forward it...this way the e-mail headers are intact) to his university's abuse e-mail address (it's typically abuse@<uni>.edu) reporting the abuse.

Edited May 6, 2008 by dwEEziL

[YoMamma]

That there is coercion and you yourself could actually face penalty/jail time if you do send it.

 

Funny e-mail, Unclean, but Dweezil is right. You cannot turn around and ask him for money (even as a joke), plus that email is worded as blackmail. You will end up in the same place as this guy in the eyes of the law if you send it in that form.