UK National Lottery

[oceanebelle]

Woot I won the national lottery.

You won the sum of £1,500,000 GBP from our End of Year UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMOTION,you are there by advised
to get back to us, to claim your prize.
Contact:Mr.Jakes Anthony
Tel: +44 702 401 4820
Email: [email protected]
Claims Requirements:
1.full name:
2.Home Address:
Regards,
Mrs. Amanda Collins
(Online Coordinator)

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Oi Oceane! Thats my money, back off.


...*emails my new best friend, jakes*

[kregg]

That's obviously fake. They haven't asked for your bank account details.

[mendhak]

And they're not from Nigeria

[oceanebelle]

If I had so much money this New Year...

I would:

1) Study at a Fine Art School!!!

Can't think of anything else after that.

[EntityX]

I received a number of emails like that. At some point they'll ask you to send them a payment of hundreds of dollars so that they can special courier a package to you. If they ask you for money before you receive your prize money then you can know for certain it's bogus. There are legitimate online lotteries where you can win such sums of money but if you do they won't ask any money from you before you receive your winnings. The odds of winning a sum like the above would be quite slim of course.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Unless I have specifically asked to be entered into a prize draw, it is certainly bogus.

[dee-u]

Wow, will you marry me ocean?

[EntityX]

And they're not from Nigeria

I just got this email today and it is from Nigeria.

I am pleased to inform you of my success in obtaining funds transferred under the
cooperation of a new partner in London in the United Kingdom.

And now I'm in London for projects Investment with my own share of the money.
Meanwhile, I did not forget your past efforts in trying to help me in the
transfer of these fund.


I would like to compensate you with the sum of $ 500,000 (five hundred thousand
dollars U.S.) for all your efforts.

Now contact my secretary in Nigeria with its contact information below:

Name: Mr frank williams
EMAIL: [email protected]
PHONE: +234-70 28 60 13 63
Ask her to send you the total Sum of $ 500,000 (five hundred thousand U.S. dollars)
only, which I kept for You compensate for all the efforts in trying to help me in
this matter.

You should contact my secretary and tell him to send the Bank Cheque Cashable any
part of the world.

THANK YOU.
MR. Charles MICHEL ..
TEL: +44-70 45 74 72 61.

He says, "I did not forget your past efforts in trying to help me in the
transfer of these fund." That's very strange because I did forget those efforts. I don't seem to remember any such efforts. Now how could that be.

[oceanebelle]

Lots of scammers now are taking advantage of kind hearted people to embezzle money.

Sad sad.

[mendhak]

I just got this email today and it is from Nigeria.



He says, "I did not forget your past efforts in trying to help me in the
transfer of these fund." That's very strange because I did forget those efforts. I don't seem to remember any such efforts. Now how could that be.

I don't find it strange that his female secretary is called Mr. Frank Williams.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I just got one of those letters from the Philippines. Any of you folks doing a bit of moolighting perhaps?

[dee-u]

I just got one of those letters from the Philippines. Any of you folks doing a bit of moolighting perhaps?

Care to post the details? So I could copy it.

[EntityX]

I don't find it strange that his female secretary is called Mr. Frank Williams.

I missed that inconsistency in the email that you pointed out but I used it in an email reply that I sent just for fun.

Dear Mr. ScamArtist

If you're going to send scam emails to try to embezzle money, you should at least have your emails make more sense. You say in your email to me that your secretary's name is Mr. Frank Williams and then you say to ask "her" to send me the total sum of $ 500,000. I wonder what the fee is that I'm supposed to send you before you send me my $ 500,000.

If I'm a dear friend why is it that I've never heard of you before? Does your mother know you're running scams?

Not buying it.

The subject for the email I was sent was "Dear Friend".

[BillGeek]

Perhaps this guy doesn't get to the office a lot... seems like he doesn't really know who or what his secretary is...

Now contact my secretary in Nigeria with its contact information below:
...
Ask her to send you the total Sum...
...
You should contact my secretary and tell him to send the Bank Cheque Cashable any...

[EntityX]

Perhaps this guy doesn't get to the office a lot... seems like he doesn't really know who or what his secretary is...

I was noticing that myself. I got an email not delivered message on the reply that I sent. I'm guessing that after these scammers send out their emails they probably close the email account down that they used to send them in less than 24 hours.