Friday 5 February 2010

So I send you $250 and I get $800,000.00? neat. Don't suppose there might be a catch by any chance?

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1110 THIRD AVENUE
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101 USA

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY


This e-mail has been issued to you in order to Officially inform you that we have completed an investigation on an International Payment in which was issued to you by an International Lottery Company. With the help of our newly developed technology (International Monitoring Network System) we discovered that your e-mail address was automatically selected by an Online Balloting System, this has legally won you the sum of $800,000.00 USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via a Certified Cashier's Check.


Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed by your local bank. We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the United States Of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $800,000.00 USD has been written in a Bank of America Certified Cashier Check.


We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been written in a Bank of America Certified Cashier Check you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Lagos, Nigeria. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following -


(1) Deposit Fee's ( Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is - Bank Of America )
(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check )
(3) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your home address )


The total amount for everything is $250 (Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $250 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been written in a Bank of America Certified Cashier Check and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore you will be required to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge of this transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.


In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Robert Tailor) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:


CONTACT AGENT NAME: Robert Tailor

E-MAIL ADDRESS: r.tailor@gala.net


You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:


FULL NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP CODE:
DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
CURRENT OCCUPATION:


You will also be required to request Western Union or Money Gram details on how to send the required $250 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank Of America, also include the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-910.


This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $250 ONLY to Mr. Robert Tailor via information in which he shall send to you, if you do not receive your winning prize of $800,000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you (The Winner).


Mr. Bill Nicholas
Special Agent.
Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Thursday 28 January 2010

Millions of dollars via gMail - what could go wrong??

FROM: MRS. SUREYAH FAHAD
TEL: + 27-78-937-8353
E-MAIL: mrssureyahfahad01@gmail.com
PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
US$16 MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
Good-Day!

My Name is Mrs. SUREYAH FAHAD. I know this will be a surprise to you. Please consider this message as a request from a family in dares need of your help. I am the Wife of Omar S. Fahad from Sudan Darfour, My husband Mr. Omar S. Fahad was the owner of Omar Sea Food Industry in Darfour region and a Farm Land in Dar four region and supplier of Central African Countries with sea food till the Government find out that Dar four region was rich in Oil and Mineral Resources which was discovered by an individual Group called Organization Rebel Movement.

The Government and Rebel Movement are fighting over who will inherit the Darfour region because of the Oil discovered and Rebel Movement are killing people in Darfour region to enable them inherit the land and my husband was murdered in cold blood and our Farm, Sea Food Industry was burnt down.

Before then, my husband had moved ( US$16 Million) Sixteen Million United States Dollars) to South Africa for establishment of another branch in Southern Africa; the fund was deposited in a private Security & Finance Company in the name of my son as beneficiary. My husband was killed because the Rebel Movement believed that after his death, they will have no challenge in taking over the land.


Now the Rebel Movement turned against us looking for the remaining existing family of Omar in order to achieve their aims. I and my son decided come to Johannesburg, South Africa to seek Asylum (Refugees) now all the documents issued when the consignment was deposited has been handed over to our family Lawyer in South Africa who assisted my late husband when the consignment was safely deposited.

The financial laws in South Africa on Refugees does not permit us to invest the funds here as we can not operate any bank account, that is why we decided to look for a Foreign Partner that will assist us in moving the funds out from South Africa for my family investment. We have decided to offer you 24% of the total amount, 6% mapped out to defray all expenses that will be incurred during the process of concluding the transaction, while the remaining 70% will be for my family and will be invested in your
Country under your management.

Immediately you receive this E-mail, kindly contact me on my telephone or e-mail and indicate your interest in being part of this venture, on the below stated telephone number and email for proceedings Tel:+ 27-78 9378353 and Email: mrssureyahfahad01@gmail.com

SINCERELY YOURS
MRS SUREYAH FAHAD

That's nice I won a prize

COCA COLA BOTTLING COMPANY.
#46 Kempshott Road,
London, SW16 5LQ
United Kingdom.
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IZP
Winning number:PL/09788/60

Congratulations Email User,

The Board of Directors and the International Promotion Department of Coca Cola Bottling Company in conjunction with Eircom Telecommunication and United Nations Development Programme wish to gladly inform you that your email has randomly won a prize money of Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings (750,000.00) in our 2010 Global Upliftment Programme .

This program is aimed to encourage you to patronize our products/service and also help recover financial recession around the globe, hence no ticket sold.

To claim your winning prize you are to send the following information about yourself to the claims processing manager for verification & direction. Do contact the processing manager with the below contact information;

Claims Processing Manager: Mr. Ernest Coffman
E-mail: cocacola.webevent@w.cn

Contact Number: +447011163139

Full Name: Contact Address: Age: Direct Contact Number: Sex/Gender: Occupation: Country: Nationality:

On behalf of the entire management and staff we say Congratulations once
again!.

Best Wishes!!,
Miss. Vivian leighann
Coca Cola Online Co-ordinator

Monday 18 January 2010

This verification will allow us to activate new features for your account on our system and to protect your account fully against ID Theft.

January 2010

Dear HSBC Customer,

Please note that Your HSBC Internet Banking Account has been flagged
by our system and all flagged account required immediate activation for Internet
Banking to remain active due to recent changes we have made to our internet banking system.

This verification will allow us to activate new features for your account on our system and to
protect your account fully against ID Theft. We have made these changes to ensure
only You have access to your HSBC Account(s). At HSBC Bank,
we care about your security so, for your protection we are proactively notifying you of this activity.

Click here to unlock your account

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thank you for using HSBC Bank plc!

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered.

Monday 11 January 2010

Up front approach

FROM THE DESK OF MR WILLIAM IBRU
DIRECTOR,INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
OCEANIC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
Telephone: +234-8028024613
Notification of payment by ATM Master Credit Card
Attn: Beneficiary,
We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay you, your over due contract/inheritance fund which you could not complete the process of the released of your transfer pin code through the Digitalized Payment System. We have decided to pay your funds without any requested fee but through (ATM Master Express Credit Card) This arrangement was initiated/constituted by the World Bank and Paris Club, due to fruadelent activities going on within the African Region.
The World Bank and Paris Club introduced this payment arrangement as to enable our contractors/inheritance beneficiary to receive their fund without any interfference. the ATM Master Express Credit Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLD WIDE.
Reconfirm the following information to us for Security reason.
1)YOUR FULL NAME
2)YOUR RECEIVING ADDRESS.
3)YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER
4)YOUR PROFESSION
Upon the receipt of this mail we are going to load your fund into the Master Express Credit Card and send a scan copy of the card to you before we will proceed to despatch the card directly to your nominated home addresss so you absolutely have nothing to worry about all we need is
your Prompt Response and Co-operation by Gods Grace we will have a successfull Transaction.
Contact the ATM CARD department
MR WHALE SMITH
TEL: +234-8028437151
CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.
BEST REGARDS,
MR WILLIAM IBRU
DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL REMITTANCE
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPT,
OCEANIC BANK OF NIGERIA PLC,
LAGOS-NIGERIA.
Telephone: +234-8028024613
CC: ALL FOREIGN INHERITTANCE FUNDS
CC:CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR
CC: BOARD OF DIRECTORS [FPD]
CC: ACCOUNTANT GENERAL OF NIGERIA

Wednesday 27 August 2008

Fair attemp but rather poor grammar & typos let it down

Not so much the typos as the use of a Yahoo email that may raise suspicions

Uk National Promo Inc,
United Kingdom.

You have emerged Winner from this Weeks Draws.Contact
Sharon Cole(MRS)
E-mail:sharon_cole91@yahoo.com.hk

For Claims Of Funds,Provide the Following Information in your Email.
Full Name:
Email Address:
Home Address:
Sex:
Age:
Occupation:
Tel:
Country:

Winning Details,
Amount Won: £552,000 pounds sterling
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
Date Of Draw 24th August 2008.

From The Clerk Office,
Result Department