The Latest Email Rip Off Report
You have Won £1,000,000.00GBP Congratulations – Mr Clark Walker and Mr, Kelvin J Aronin of Freelotto UK told me in an email today. That takes my total winnings this week up to something like £89,000,000+++. Oh boy what can I buy with my winnings?
A round the world trip that’s for sure, but 6 months at an health farm first so that I can fit into my bikini and become a beach babe again. Those were the days sigh!
There is a snag. I am expected to pass on lots of details about myself including a form of id. Surely only scamsters and fraudsters would want all that info?
The email supposedly came from winners@lottery.co.uk but they want me to reply to test@pfbsonline.com . At the website for lottery.co.uk you are warned “Don’t be caught out by lottery-related scam emails and phone calls – they are nothing to do with Lottery.co.uk or the UK National Lottery”
It looks like another fortune has vanished, but just in case I need to make sure that all of that brass is banked safely.
There are 4 emails from PayPal, but surely that can’t be right as I’ve never used this email account with Paypal. Three of them from info@hi5.com request “Please restore your account access” and the other from service@paypal.net says “Need PayPal account information”. The email is the same – wanting you to click on a link and enter your PayPal password I should imagine, and neither of the email addresses belong to PayPal. Instead of my name which you would expect if it was genuine the emails are addressed to undisclosed recipients.
I’ve got 4 ‘greeding e-cards’ – well that’s how they spell it. I don’t think for one minute that they are genuine greeting e-cards, more like a nasty virus waiting to greet me.
Then I got an urgent business proposal from Hong Kong… Asia – as if I didn’t know where Hong Kong is.
It starts ‘I am Mr.P. Lee a South Korean, 55 years old and happily married with children, and i am a Director of Hang Seng Bank Ltd,in charge of the International Remittance department.I will need you to assist me in executing a business project from our bank worth US$25.5 Million. These funds were deposited with our bank by a customer of our bank who is a
national{citizen} of your country/region,who unfortunately died in the December 2004 Asia Tsunami disaster‘.
He then tries to get you to commit fraud by pretending to be a relative of the diseased to get hold of the money. Clever in a way because once you have agreed to commit fraud you would be a total hypocrite to complain when this nice gent scams you.
Steve Morgan of the Netherlands told me twice that ‘during our last annual inspections of all various bank accounts here in the Netherlands, My department found a dormant account with an enormous sum of US$ 6,500,000.00 (Six Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollar) which was deposited by one late Mr. Williams. From My investigation he had no beneficiary or next of kin to claim these funds.
I will need us to work together if you are interested and I assure you that I will provide all useful information’s and documentation that we enable us transfer this funds into your bank account legally without any problem.
Write me directly with your contacts on this email:stevesmorgan@aol.com or you can call me on 0031-644-654-650 at anytime.
And I was born yesterday!
CLAIM YOUR BEQUEST/FUNDS!!! says Barrister John Branca
This one is as likely as my cat Sparky winning the X Factor.
On behalf of the Trustees and Executor of the estate of Late Michael Jackson. I once again try to notify you as my earlier letter were returned undelivered. I wish to notify you that late King of Pop. Michael Jackson made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Five Million, Dollars (USD$5,000,000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL.
This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being widely entertainer, he must have been in in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous fans abroad who wished you good. Late Michael Joseph Jackson until his death was a member “MJFC” The Michael Jackson Fan Club and the Institute of entertainer. Please if I reach you as I am hopeful, endeavor to get back to me as soon as possible to enable me conclude my job. You are advice to contact me with my personal email: barristerbrancajohn@yahoo.com.hk
Await your prompt response.2
Yours in Service,
BARRISTER John Branca ESQ.
Well you can keep on waiting Mr Branca scamster. If anybody is daft enough to believe that ill written rubbish it isn’t me. I also think that using the late Michael Jackson’s name to rip others off is unbelievably tacky and I was never a fan of his.
YOUR PAYMENT FILE ON MY DESK: (CODE :FGN/CBN3124-FILE111-CBN)
Came three times yesterday from MR.LAMIDO SANUSI EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA
He doesn’t tell me how much he’s trying to tempt me with but like all the other scammers he is using different from and to email addresses and he wants enough details to commit fraud.
Mr Rapheal Morris. Auditor General of Eagle Trust Bank (CFP)had 2 urgent business proposals for me involving $10.5 million dollars. He wants enough details to defraud me too.
Dr Dominic Suleman the chief accountant to CONTINENTAL EXPRESS TRANSPORT LTD of London wants me to help him invest 38 million USD in real estate in my country. As I live in the same country that he purports to come from shouldn’t he have said ‘our country’? But he won’t know what country I live in because like all the other scammers he is sending a standard email out to many thousands of email addresses that have been scraped from the internet.
Mr. Kenneth Gram sent me the umpteenth email wanting my personal details saying that I have won 750 euros on SWISS-LOTTO Satellite lottery. Also Sasha Faveta and Dr.Josep Young from the Netherlands say that I’ve won 1 million euros in their Internet Lotterij.
They are pocket change up to some of the other offers and easy to resist temptation when you have such a rich inbox as mine!
I’ve even got a tax refund of £344.79 according to HM Revenue & Customs Officer Carl Craig. To claim it I’ve just got to complete the attached form. It’s the most believable thing in my inbox because of the lower amount, but like all of the other scam emails there is a different from and to email address because the sender knows to the from email address is likely to be shut down quickly. Also there is absolutely no way that HM Revenue & Customs would know that email address, or contact me by anything but snail mail.
The form that you are expected to fill in to get your refund tells it all. Apart from wanting the usual details it blatantly asks for all of your credit/debit card details including your secure password. Fact is in the UK refunds are added to your wage or sent by cheque if you aren’t working.
Unfortunately there are a lot of vulnerable folks out there who take these scams at face value and end up getting burnt. Be careful, don’t let the scammers rip you off. Don’t answer the emails – bin em!!
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