Register a domain name and you are in business!

This one is using a registered domain for his e-mail purposes. The "royalgamesuk.com" was registered on the 26th of June this year, so it is a new domain setup expressly for this purpose.

The owner is a mark smith. He has quoted the following address: 360 McKinley Ave, Columbus, 43222, OH, UNITED STATES

This one is unusual in that the criminals are not trying to use an etablised and legal lottery company as a front. They will be caught soon, if the provider and authorities are on the ball.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Congratulations!!! (30-Jun-2005 6:49)
From: henry@royalgamesuk.com
To: unknown@111.111.111.111

FROM MR HENRY COLE,
THE COORDINATOR, ROYAL GAMES UK,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
ROYAL GAMES UK,

Dear winner,

SECOND CATEGORY DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the second category draws of royal games UK. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged winner
Under the second category draw, this is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on 1st June, 2005 and resultsare being officially announced today.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part
of our international promotions program.

You/your Company, attached to ticket number 66-1-452, with serial number 52-27 drew the winning numbers 10,18,25,30,34,50,(60) and consequently won in the second category draws.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of £3,500,000:00M GBP (three million, five hundred thousand Pounds), which is the winning payout for second category winners. This is from the total prize money of
£21,000,000:00 shared between six (6) winners in the category B.

Congratulations!!!

Your fund has been deposited with our International funds transfer agent Trans world security UK and has been insured. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of Your award strictly from public notice until the Process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our security protocol to avoid doubleclaims or unscrupulous acts by participants/Non-participants of this program,

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of-year 2005 premium stakes draw where you stand a chance,winning up to £50m that will be shared amongst 10 winners worldwide, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due Processing and remittance of your prize money to a Designated bank account of your choice;

REV JOHN FOSTER
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER
TRANS WORLD SECURITY UK
186 EAST MALL
STRATFORD SHOPPING CENTRE
STRATFORD, GREATER LONDON. UK.
Fax: +44-870-130-4014
FAX: +44 70-3040-1175
Tel: +44-70-4011-9106
Tel: +44-70-4012-4716
E-mail: johnfoster_transworldsecurityuk@personalmanager.com

You are advised to contact your claims agent by email or fax within a week of receiving this notice.
Failure to do so may warrant immediate disqualification.

Note:
For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and international lottery code number, Remember to Quote these numbers in every one of your correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: RGUK /05/QE321,
INTERNATION LOTTERY CODE NUMBER: RG/ 004-1: RG/ 004-1.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and
Thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

MR HENRY COLE
THE COORDINATOR,
ROYAL GAMES UK.
GREATER LONDON , STRATFORD 8151XQ
UNITED KINGDOM.
TEL: + 44-704-012-4715
FAX: + 44-207-504-3594

Note: any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners will result to disqualification. Please do not Reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent immediately. (Terms and condition applys).

The weekend is here and it's Lottery time

No comment on this one ... it's the same as all the others.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EMAIL PROGRAMME AWARD NOTIFICATION 2005!!! (25-Jun-2005 17:05)
From: royal_spanishlot@wanadoo.es
To: info@betrug-online.info

ROYAL SPANISH SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
CALLE GRANVIA 32N 1C MADRID SPAIN
REF: RSSL/61-ILGI0509/45
BATCH:RSSL/15/096/WRCS
RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Dear Winner,

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the Royal spanish Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on the 24th Febuary 2005 in Madrid Spain.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 212005600545 188 with Serial number 4888/02 drew the lucky numbers: 41-6-76-13-45-8, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000.00 Euro(One million Euro) in cash credited to file KPC/9080333308/03.This is from a total cash prize of Ten Million Euro(10 million Euro), shared amongst the first Tenth (10th) lucky winners in this category.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Madrid booklet representative office in Spain as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your 1,000,000.00 Euro(One million Euro) would be released to you by our security firm in Madrid,Spain.Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.All
partici
pants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Mr Jeff Carlos

World Royal Consultancy And Security Madrid Spain.

Email: worldroyconsultx@netscape.net

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.

Remember,You are to contact our agents by email and within a week of receiving this notice.After this date, all funds will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.

Yours Sincerely,
Wilfred Alberto
Lottery Director.

Here's a hot deal ...

Oh boy! This is a lovely story which I first saw about a year ago. Mike John says he is sitting on a hot deal and hasn't got enough money to follow it through.

What's he asking for? Someone to finance 1000 cartons of cow medicine at 2000 USD a piece. That makes 2,000,000 USD! At 20% he would get 400.000 USD.

I often ask myself who had 2 million USD and would be willing to risk his money with a hair brained story like this. Unfortunately, it seems as though there are enough people who would be able and willing to do just that!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE (22-Jun-2005 15:02)
From: mike_john02@plasa.com
To: undisclosed-recipients


Dear sir,

I am writting this letter out of a genuine desperation to find a reliable partner in an unfolding transaction.I have been unjustly treated by my partner in an earlier transaction, so I seek your help, attention and genuine co-operation to our mutual benefit and I believe that you will not let down the trust and confidence I am about to repose on you.

For the past ten years, I have been working for a public relations firm that pays me about two hundred dollars each month, plus little bonus based on my work input. On the 30th of June last year, our company mada very big financial breakthrough when we made contact with Alhaji Mabolo Dongo and began to supply him his cow medicines.

Alhaji Mabolo Dongo is the president of MABOLO DONGO FARMS, and is a millionaire farmer with animal farms at Chad, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Benin and Togo; with main offices in Cote d'Ivoire, and a new one located at Zimbabwe. Moreover, he is the greatest supplier of cattle beef and other dairy products to the whole of West Africa.

He had informed us about the huge amount of money he spends on the purchase of a particular but very important cattle medicine. Precisely, he buys US$5,000 per carton.
He asked if our organisation can source for a cheaper supplier.

We did market research and discovered that we can buy these medicine in Europe for US$2,000 per carton. We moved a proposal to Alhaji Dongo, to supply him at US$4,800 per carton which they accepted.

As these supplies progressed and our company was doing fine, I requested my boss to increase my salary. He was so upset that he sacked me without benefits after ten years of dedicated service. Though I was later called back when another kind-hearted senior staff protested against his action.

During my moments of being sacked, which lasted for close to two months, I was so desperate that I went to the Dongo Farms and infomed Alhaji Mabolo Dongo that I have a foriegn contact that will be willing to supply him this same products at US$4,000 per carton. He was very happy with this news, and in turn confided to me that he was about to place order for one thousand cartons following a suspected outbreak of disease in his farms. I assured him that my foriegn contact will be in the position to manufacture and supply to him; infact I convinced him that my former boss usually buys from my foriegn contact and that is why he sales to him at a higher price.

HOWEVER, I INFORMED ALHAJI DONGO THAT HE WILL HAVE TO PAY CASH IN ADVANCE BEFORE MY FORIEGN CONTACT WILL SUPPLY TO HIM.

For the moment he has stopped all contact with my boss.Please consider on how to handle this profitable project and kindly contact me immediately for details and negotiations as regards my commission. However,I will insist that my commission will be 20% of the total profit.

Note: We will buy one thousand carton at US$2,000,000. We sell to them at US$4,000,000. Our client pays cash before lifting of the goods. They must not know our purchase point in Europe.

Thanks and God bless you.

Sincerely,
mike john
00225 08360693

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Klik http://easy.ventusmobile.com

Illicit Money from Dubai

Here we go again. How do you over-invoice a contract? Normally any contracts would be checked before they are considered to be completed. That means a re-calculation based on effective data would be done to write the final invoice.

Chevron's financial people would certainly not allow a regional office to do any dirty deals without their knowledge. On top of which you have to be pretty clever to diguise any abnormalities from their internal revision department.

So what are we left with? Just another story which cannot be corroborated by anyone outside of the company. Usman, if there is an Usman, is most certainly not a Chevron employee.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Urgent Asistance Please (23-Jun-2005 12:46)
From: usmanahmed300@yahoo.co.uk
To: undisclosed-recipients

FROM USMAN AHMED;
CHEVRON Oil EXPLORATION COMPANY,
DUBAI-UNITED ARABE EMIRATE.
PRIVATE EMAIL(usman_ahm800@yahoo.co.uk )

DEAR SIR,

PERMISSION TO REMIT US$30 MILLION INTO YOUR COMPANY OR PRIVATE ACCOUNT. IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WRITE AND INFORM YOU OF A TRANSACTION INVOLVING THE TRANSFER OF US$30,000,000.00 (THIRTY MILLION U.S. DOLLARS) ONLY INTO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT FOR SAFEKEEPING PENDING MY ARRIVAL FOR THE SHARING WITH YOU AS THE ACCOUNT OWNER INTO WHICH THE MONEY IS REMITTED.

I AM AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE DUBAI CHEVRON EXPLORATION COMPANY), UNTED ARABE EMIRATE AND THIS MONEY ORIGINATED FROM OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT EXECUTED FOR THE CORPORATION SOME YEARS BACK. THIS CONTRACT HAS LONG BEEN COMPLETED BY A FOREIGN FIRM AND THE CONTRACTOR DULY PAID. I NOW SEEK IF YOU WOULD PERMIT THE SURPLUS TO BE REMITTED INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE ARE TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND WE CANNOT COME OUT OPENLY TO CLAIM THIS AMOUNT. THIS IS WHY I AM LOOKING FOR A COMPETENT
AND HONEST COMPANY OR INDIVIDUAL ABROAD WHOSE BANK ACCOUNT CAN BE USE TO TRANSFER THE FUND.

HOWEVER, I WOULD WISH TO RECEIVE YOUR PERSONAL ASSURANCE THAT YOU WOULD NOT SIT ON THE MONEY WHEN IT GOES INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOU KEEP THIS TRANSACTION CONFIDENTIAL, IN ORDER NOT TO TARNISH THE CONFIDENCE REPOSED ON THE OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THIS TRANSACTION.

TO EFFECT THIS TRANSFER, I THEREFORE REQUEST THE FOLLOWING:

YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER, THE NAME OF YOUR BANK, ADDRESS, TELEX, TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS WHERE THE MONEY WOULD BE TRANSFERRED INTO AND ALSO YOUR PRIVATE FAX AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION.

THIS TRANSACATION IS 100% RISK FREE. HENCE IT REQUIRES HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE AND SECRECY.

MEANWHILE THIS IS THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SHARING MODALITIES:

A. 5% WILL BE USED TO SETTLE TRANSFER CHARGES AND LEGAL PROTOCOLS;

B. 35% IS FOR USING YOUR ACCOUNT;

C. 60% OF IT WILL BE FOR US THE ORIGINATORS.

BE INFORMED THAT ON COMPLETION OF THIS BUSINESS I WILL USE PART OF MY MONEY TO INVEST IN YOUR COUNTRY UNDER YOUR CARE. N.B.: PLEASE CONTACT ME ON THIS EMAIL:( usman_ahm800@yahoo.co.uk)

MY DEEPEST PRAYERS FOR YOU.

BEST REGARDS,

USMAN AHMED.

Who's Mr. Kome?

Here's another example of using a Name of a local personality. I am sure that most people don't know of Mr. Kome, but as stories go I suppose it will do.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: how we can proceed. (23-Jun-2005 7:43)
From: tutu@irangate.net
To: tutu@irangate.net

Hello,
REQUEST FOR YOUR HELP
My name is Mrs. Angela Kome, widow of late Dr. M. Kome, a former
Financial Controller in the Federal Ministry of Science and
Technology.

My late husband died on 10th January 2002 in a motor accident along Minna-Abuja Road while on official duty.

I have just been informed by our family attorney, that my late
husband operated a secret and coded account with a Bank into which some amount of money was transferred and credited in his favour.

The Attorney now advised me to seek in confidence a foreigner who could stand as owner of the fund to enable us wire it into his
account from the local bank.

If you can help, get back to me immediately so that I can tell you
how we can proceed. Everything is risk- free.

Yours truly,

Mrs. Angela Kome
Send Reply to : intlopcbn@yahoo.com

Jessicas Hubby left her a fortune ....

The Savimbi name doesn't get used that much, but it is a typical example of using notorious leaders names and history to make a halfway believable story to potential victims.

Considering that Angola is rich in minerals and gems, it is not entirely inconceivable that Jonas Savimbi aquired a considerable fortune during the time he reigned as a rebel leader. That's the point.

Fortunately for us, all the stories, from so-called family members, are basically the same. So it is not hard to recognise a fraud e-mail when you get one.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: From Mrs. Jessica Savimbi (23-Jun-2005 9:08)
From: jessav3@pop.co.th
To: jessav3@pop.co.th

>From Mrs. Jessica Savimbi,
No. 22, Alexander Crescent,
Park View Estate,
Accra Ghana.

Dear Friend,

I pray God this message reaches you in wonderful spirit.I
am making this contact with you based on trust and
confidence irrespective of the fact that we have not met
before and because of the nature of the situation I found
myself. I am Mrs. Jessica A.Savimbi , from Angola. l got
your contact from www. and coupled with the information i
gathered about you from the external trade department of my
country's chamber of commerce and industry. There is an
information I would like you to keep very confidential.
There is sum amount of money my late Husband {former UNITA
Rebel leader} General Jonas Malheiro Savimbi deposited in a
suspence account few months before he was assasinated by
the Angolan Millitary forces.It's over the issue of
minerals and there allocations using his power and
influence to smuggle diamond to the neighbouring countries
in exchange for money. Presently, I am staying outside
Angola just to save my life,with my three children. The
money in question is $5,500,000.00 Milllion U.S.Dollars.
I can't make make direct withdrawal of this fund,because my
husband has registered the beneficiary of the fund as his
(Foriegn Bussiness Partner). But the documents of the
deposit are with me. What I would want you to do, is to
assist me to get the funds withdrawn from the finance
company, have the same transfered to your country in your
name and thereafter share the funds by giving you 20% of
the total sum as commission.
Please there is no risk in this transaction. I will use the
remain balance of the money for investiment in your country
for the future of my children. If you are intrested, and
can maintain the very confidentiality, you e-mail me
immediately for more clearification. The Angola government
through it's various agents has confisticated all my late
husband known properties since his death.
You can find how and when my husband was killed in the BBC
news achives in the following news story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1839252.stm It has
been widely reported in the international news media

Thank you as I await your urgent reply.
Thank you and God bless.
Mrs. Jessica A. Savimbi.


http://mail.pop.co.th

Lottery E-Mail Number 2 - De Lotto

De Lotto is also an E-Mail which has been seen a lot over the last year or two. If you look at the receiver address you may not that this E-Mail was sent to the Server IP. This is often easier than mining the Internet with bots.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU WON (22-Jun-2005 7:25)
From: windelottonotice@mail.electronic-beatz.net
To: unknown@111.111.111.111

DE LOTTO

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT.



REF Number: JFFL/987-LMG-917/05
BATCH No: YTLA/01/096/SPN
TICKET No: 3041-9876-7851
SERIAL No: 327-981-109
LUCKY No: 7-64-87-32-41-67

RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION

Sir, Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 22nd June 2005 Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 3041-9876-7851 with Serial number 327-981-109 drew the lucky numbers 7-64-87-32-41-67, which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of US$ 1,000,000.00 (One Million United States Dollars). This is from a total cash prize of USD$10,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Ten International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by DE LOTTO, (Biggest lottery Organization in the Netherlands) to advertise to the world its existence. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world, as part of our international promotions program, which we intend to conduct several times a year.
Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your document in readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated bank account with 24 hours of completion of the authentication.
Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and notarized and your certificate of award obtained. This is in conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control Board.
This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants/non participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 7th July 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing agent
Mr. Harry Herman.
Email: claimagent01@excite.com


NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control Board to complete the claims process, this certificate can only be obtained through legal representation so winners will be referred to a lawyer to assist in this process. Winners are to cover the legal charges for the notarization of the claims form and the acquisition of the certificate of award not DE LOTTO.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please do forward your Tel/Fax number to your processing agent. So you are to act fast in the claiming of your funds, for delays will compel us to disperse your funds, in other words, we shall divert your funds as stated above. Kindly remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our/your agent as soon as possible.
Finally, we call on you to make sure that you note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held responsible should there be any complications in this transaction due to laxity on your part.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours truly,
Johanna Pieterman.
Lotto Online Coordinator.

FOR ENQUIRIES/SUPPORT CONTACT MR HARRY HERMAN AT claimagent01@excite.com

Today is Lottery day

Here is the first of two Lottery E-Mails which came in today. Micro Lottery has been used a lot during the last few months. You remember? The one with the famous Sponsors.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Congratulation!!! (23-Jun-2005 10:52)
From: mcrolttpa1@netscape.net
To: xxxx@xxxx.xxx

MICRO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL - PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM
ADDRESS: DAALWIJK 813, 1102 AA, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.
REF: MLTI/PP2005-001
BATCH: 5300/P25/AX

Dear Sir/Madam

RE AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE: MLTI

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
Category "A" draws of MICRO LOTTERY Program.
We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First
Category, which is part of our promotional draws.
The draws were held on the 17th June 2005. Participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from 4,000,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program. You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 05-765204AC, with serial number 90-77 drew the lucky numbers 2, 1, 20, 39 and consequently won in the Category "A".
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $1,500,000 (0NE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS) in cash, which is the winning payout for Category "A" winners. This is from the total prize shared among the 5 international winners in this category.

Your funds are now deposited with a reputable finance firm in the
Netherlands Insured with your FILE REFERENCE number, REF: MLTI/PP2005-001.
In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any
kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.
This lottery program was organized by our group of philanthropist promoted
and sponsored by Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc, eminent personalities like the sultan of Brunei, Multi Choice and other corporate Organizations. This lottery program was organized to improving the use of computer software and for the benefit of every Microsoft user.
To begin your claim, please contact your file processing officer.

MR. Wilson Philips,
OF MICRO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
Email: microlotteryintl@netscape.net
Email: microlottery01nl@euromail.net
Tel: +31 651 618 392

Kind Regards.
MRS. MIRJAM VAN BUREN
DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM

This came in from a Reader

We often get fraud E-Mails passed on from our readers. This is one from today.

SPANISH LOTTERY
Lottery company,
Calle Lima No 11
Fuenlabrada Madrid.

YOU HAVE WON 400,000. 00 EUROS

Our Dear Winner,You have won the sum of 400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS from SPANISH LOTTERY on our 2005 charity bonanza. The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet EmailUsers, from which your Address came out as the winning coupon.

We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is amonthly lottery.

Failure to claim your win will result into the reversion of the fund to our following month.

You are therefore requested to contact immediately out Claims Department below quoting winning number :CODE NUMBER-04378490.

Contact:
Don.RAFAEL MORENO.
EMAIL: elgordoeuroloto@netscape.net
Telephone 0034-626263708

Provide the following information needed to process your winning claim.
(a) Your full Name and Address.
(b) Your Telephone and fax numbers
(c) Your tax I.D.Number (if any).
(d) your contry of origin

Congratulations once again.

Note: we shall pay your claims through our offshore online bank pleasecontact our helpdesk urgently by phone for comfirmation. please quoteyour winning number.

SPANISH LOTTERY
The Lottery Company
Regards.
Don FELIX GOMEZ.

The dead father has left him a fortune ....

Gideon is telling the same story about inheriting illicit money from his father, who was a rebel leader in Liberia.

As with other E-Mails, this one is sent to a list (To: undisclosed-recipients). So he has sent at least a couple of hundred E-Mails today. So sombody is going to answer this message. Someone who has not heard about this type of crime up to now.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: MONEY INVOLVED(22,000,000 USD) (21-Jun-2005 12:47)
From: gideon_kwami16@hotmail.com
To: undisclosed-recipients

FROM GIDEON KWAMI
BLOCK 18 ROOM 22
REFUGEE CAMP
ACCRA GHANA
MONEY INVOLVED(22,000,000 USD)
ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL:(kwamigg@netscape.net)

Good Day,
I have a proposal for you-this however is not mandatory nor will I
in any manner compel you to honour against your will. I am Gideon
Kwami,24 years old and the only son of my late parents Mr and Mrs
Kwami.

I got your information in a Proffesional database when I was
searching through internet for a reliable,honestand trustworthy
person to entrust this business with.I was simply inspired and
motivated to pick your contact from the many names in the list of
the directory after i, go into prayers/fasting.

Well, my father was the rebel leader of the liberian crisis at
ealer last two years before his sudden death But God knows the
truth. My mother died when I was just 4 years old, and since then
my father took me so special.

Before his death on march 12/2003 he called his friend who
accompanied him to hospital and told him to call me, on my arrival
to the hospital my father told me that he has the sum of twenty two
million Dollars. (22,000,000 USD) he deposited in his name,in a
security company in Ghana for safekeeping,
And told me where he kept the documents of his secret funds
deposited in Accra - Ghana,the most peaceful nation in Africa.

And i'm with all the documents which my father used to deposit the
money,and he told me that i shold not disclosed to any body that he
have money in the security company to avoid trace due to his
position in Liberia.
Please i want you to stand as my fathers partnership to claim this
money out from the security company. I am just 24 years old and a
University undergraduate and really, I don't know what to
do.I,contacted you because I have suffered a lot of set back as a
result of incessant political crisis here in africa.

The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life, I am in
a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards. Your
suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

It's my pleasure to bring to your notice that after my late father
was murdered the liberian government siezed all my fathers belonging.

Moreso you should understand that due to the tension that was
impossed on me i am curently in Ghana under the refugee camp to
making sure that my life was safe.

Now permit me to ask these few question.

(1)Can you honestly help me as your son?

(2)Can I, completely trust you?

(3)what percentage of the total amount in question will be good for
you after the money is in your account?

Please, Consider this and get back to me.

With regards.

Gideon Kwami.

This one came into my Yahoo account just now

Kingsley is online and reachable at his Yahoo messenger at this very moment. He is obviously hoping to get into contact with potential victims immediately after sending this e-mail.

 

A good idea basically. But I will report it to Abuse and get it stopped.

kingsley adedeji <kingsleymay2004@yahoo.com> schrieb:

Datum: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
Von: kingsley adedeji <kingsleymay2004@yahoo.com>
Betreff: HELP TO HAVE A FORTUNE
An: xxx@xxx.xxx

Dear friend,
I have a proposal for you, this however is not mandatory nor will I in
any manner compel you to honour it against your will.

I am Mr. Kingsley May a staff of one of the African leading banks in the West
Coast. Here in our bank existed a dormant account for the past 8 years which
belongs to  Mr. Morris Thompson an American national who is now late,he died in a plane crash involving Alaska Airlines Flight 261. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/More details about the deceased himself,you can check on(http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html)When I discovered that there had been no deposits nor withdrawals from this
account for this long period, I decided to carry out a system an investigation
 
and discovered that non of the family members nor relations of the late
person is aware of this account. This is the story in a nutshell.
Now I want an account overseas where the bank will transfer this
funds.Thereafter, I had planned to destroy all related documents for this
account. It is a careful network and for the past eleven months I have
worked out everything to ensure a hitch-free operation. The amount is not so

much at the moment and plus all the accumulated interest the balance in this
account standsat-(US$14.1million US dollars).

Now my questions are:-
1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer.
Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.
Finally, it is our humble prayer that the information as contained
herein be accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it

deserves.
I Expect your urgent response if you can handle this project. Please do
send
your reply to kingsleymay2004yahoo.com
Respectfully Yours,
Mr. Kingsley M.

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Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB kostenlosem Speicher

"Profiling" is in!

Who can believe that someone wants me to help "re-profile" 423 million USD?

The phrase is great ... "Profiling". It gives a real flair to this mundane subject.

After the huge amount of press coverage on the Khordakovsky case and the pronouncement of his guilt. These crooks are trying to fire peoples imaginations on his famed fortune.

When you get down to the root of it, it is just a scam e-mail like all the rest of them!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: VICTOR!!! (20-Jun-2005 13:22)
From: vic69kuz@yahoo.co.uk
To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear friend,
How are you?
I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$423M, which I seek your partnership in accommodating for me. You will be rewarded with 4% of the total sum for your partnership. Can you be my partner on this?

INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF:
I am Mr Victor Kuzin A Russian,THE personal secretary to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies:
Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Most Largest Oil Company)
Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution
with its branches all over the world)

SOURCE OF FUNDS:The documents of the above funds in question was handed over to me to be used in payment of an American oil merchant for his last oil deal with my boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Already the funds have been deposited with Bank Menatep Russia where the final crediting is expected to be carried out. While I was on the process,My Boss got arrested for his involvement on politics in financing the leading and opposing political parties (the Union of Right Forces, led by Boris Nemtsov, and Yabloko, a liberal/social democratic party led by Gregor Yavlinsky) which poses treat to President Vladimir Putin second tenure as Russian president. You can catch more of the story on this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3213185.stm

YOUR ROLE:
All I need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of the above quoted sum and I will arrange for the documentation which will enable Bank Menatep Russia transfer the sum to you. I have decided to use this sum to relocate from Russia and never to be connected to any of Mikhail Khodorkovsky conglomerates.The transaction has to be concluded in 2 weeks before Mikhail Khodorkovsky is out on bail.

Thank you very much

Regards
Mr Victor Kuzin

Scam Classic III

The Abacha E-Mails also belong to the classics. They have been used since the day Sanni Abacha died.

Everything I have read about this family has stated them to be a bunch of crooks. If they are behind this particular scam or not cannot be said, but I wouldn't surprise me if they were.

The story is obviously being used by other enterprising Africans.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE (10-Jun-2005 12:57)
From: mariam1998_ab@go.com
To: mariam1998_ab@go.com


FROM: MRS MARIAM ABACHA URGENT PLEA FOR HELP.
I am Mrs. Mariam Abacha, the widow of the late Gen. Sanni Abacha former Nigerian Military Head of State who died mysteriously as a result of Cardiac Arrest.
Since after my husband’s death my family is under restriction of movement and that not withstanding, we are being molested, policed and our bank Account both here and abroad are being frozen by the Nigeria Government.

Furthermore, my elder son was in detention by the Nigerian Government for more interrogation about my husband’s assets and some vital documents.

Following the recent discovery of my husband’s Bank Account by the Nigerian Government with SWISS BANK AND THE LUXEMBURG BANK ACCOUNT in which the huge sum of US$700 MILLION , US$600MILLION, AND DM450 MILLION was logged. I therefore decided to contact you in confidence that l was able to move out the sum of US$28.6 Million Dollars, which was secretly defaced and is sealed in two Metal Boxes for security reasons. PLEASE VIEW THIS SITES CAREFULLY TO BROADING YOUR UNDERSTANDING:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2282366.stm
I therefore personally, appeal to you seriously and religiously for your urgent assistance to move this money into your country where l believe it will be safe since l cannot leave the country due to the restriction of movement imposed on the members of my family by the Nigeria Government.

Myself and my family have appointed a foreign lawyer who shall arrange with you for a face to face meeting outside Nigeria in order to liaise with you toward effective completion of this money out of the country in a secret vault through a security company in America/Europe, and as soon as you indicate your interest my I shall send you the contact telephone number of my lawyer, for effective and swift correspondence and other related documents that will help you claim the Luggage.

Conclusively, we have agreed to offer you 30% of the total sum while 70% is to be held on trust by you until we can decide on a suitable business investment in your country subsequent to our free movement by the Nigerian Government. kindly write to my private email should you are willing to assist me and my family.

Email me at : mariam1998abacha@netscape.net
or

mariam1988abacha@yahoo.com

Please reply urgently and treat with absolute confidentiality and sincerity.

Best regards.

HAJIA MARIAM ABACHA (MRS).

Scam Classic II

This story is also one of the classics. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company has always been used as a background for typical fraud e-mails like this one.

Although George says he's from Nigeria, he uses a South African freemail adress.

On top of which, his message has a forged header. This is the Info reported on this e-mail:

Return-Path:
Received: from venus.select-servers.com (2.70-84-214.reverse.theplanet.com [70.84.214.2] (may be forged))

He, or they, are trying to cloak their origins. This is a typical SPAM tactic.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: From Engineer (19-Jun-2005 17:36)
From: georgeogbedi@tsamail.co.za
To: unknown@111.222.333.444


>From Engineer George Ogbedi
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC),
P.o. Box 256 wuse2 Abuja,
Nigerian

Attn: Please

I am Engr. George Ogbedi, The Director of the Contractors Award and Review Department with the Nigerian national Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I am contacting you on this business of transferring the sum of US$23,615,000.00 (Twenty-three million, six hundred and fifteen thousand United Stated Dollars only) into a safe foreign account and the need is very urgent. I got your contact from the internet when i was searching for honest person who will assist me to receive the money into your bank account and it is with business trust that made me to contact you on this matter. I write to solicit for the transfer of this money into your account.

This money was generated from an over invoiced contract sum in my corporation (NNPC).

I am contacting you for your help and partnership for the following two reasons:
1. As a civil servant, I am not permitted to own foreign accounts due to civil service code of conduct.
2. My present financial resources as a civil servant will not be sufficient for me to handle the transfer alone successfully without financial assistance from a reliable foreign partner abroad. 20% of this sum would be for you as compensation for using your Bank account in transferring this money, 5% would be used to reimburse the expenses made by both parties during the processing of the transferring which include, telephone bills, traveling expenses and fees. While 75% is for me.

Please note that I will arrange to meet with you immediately after the successful conclusion of the transfer, the 75% share of mine will be used for investment overseas. Your assistance and co-operation is highly needed. I assure you that this transaction is 100% risk free. If you are interested I will require your banking information as mentioned below:

1. Name to be used as beneficiary
2. Your private and confidential telephone/fax number(s).
3. Your bank name and address, your bank telephone and fax number(s).
4. Or if you are not comfortable with providing your existing account, you can within the shortest possible time, confidentially open an entirely new (Virgin) account for the transaction. I would prefer this arrangement. I hope to conclude this business within the next fourteen (14) working days. Looking forward to your anticipated and urgent positive response via this e-mail box.

Regards
Eng George Ogbedi.

What was I saying about trunks full of money?

Good old George Coker. He tells a story of being an ex-soldier and a refugee. He has the same trunks in a security company which Joseph Koroma told us about!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: AS A RESULT OF WAR!!! (20-Jun-2005 1:51)
From: g_coker@zwallet.com
To: unknown@111.222.333.444

Hello

I am GEORGE COKER,a soldier from Liberia,currently living in a refugee camp in Nigeria as a result of war that happened in my country Liberia that claimed the lifes of my entire family and two of my colleagues that we both made 5.8million U.S Dollars from sales of Gold and Diamond.
This money was packaged in trunk boxes and lodged in a security company abroad,and i declared the content inside to be Gold bars.
Now,the security company believes that what I deposited with them was Gold Bars.
In my search for a God fearing, kind and honest person, I then came across your contact on the Internet as I was browsing in the refugee camp.I therefore decided to seek your immediate and kind assistance to help me out from this predicament as long i am still in the refuge camp i am ''handicap'' i.e, i have nothing on me right now as it was a Nigerian plane that enlifted us from Liberia in the course of the tough war that has been on for about 13years. I therefore need your assistance to help claim the funds on my behalf.
I have notified the Security Company where I deposited the trunk boxes that contained the funds, that someone will be coming to claim the trunk boxes on my behalf; of which they accepted.
If you are ready to help me out in this, please let me know so that i can forward to you all the nesseccary documents you will need to make use of.You should also forward to me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Your prompt response will be highly appreciated.

Thanks for your co-operation,
GEORGE COKER

This is a classic scam e-mail

Yes, I have a pile of money in two trunks and need someone who will safeguard them and sponsor me in their country. At least that's the message.

What is not clear is why he needs someone to do this until he is 24. If he is in Europe already, he doesn't need anyone to take care of his money. He would just have to pay it into a bank and live from the interest. At least that is what I would do.

Anyway, the reason the money is in two trunks, is because Joseph requires you to visit the so-called security company and pay a fee. After which you pay a further fee.

You never, ever get the money, that is said to be in these trunks. It is usually packs of paper in the size of dollar notes, which have been discoloured so you do not see that it is only paper.

I have talked to enough people who have pilgrimed to Amsterdam only to lose a whole pile of money in search of the Jackpot.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION. (20-Jun-2005 8:48)
From: JosephKoroma@mails.de
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

Dear Friend,

Permit me to inform you of my desire to go into business with you. I got
your name and contact on the Internet during my search for a sincere partner. I prayed and to choose your name among others due to its nature of estimation and on recommendations given to me as someone honorable and worthy of confidence whom I can do business with. And, by the recommendation, I must not hesitate to confide myself to you for this simple and sincere business.

I am (Joseph Koroma), the only son of the late Makalala. Koroma that my
father was a very rich Businessman dealing on Gold Farmer equipments in Zimbabwe and also the exporter of gold to Europe and America, the economic capital of Zimbabwe, my father died in hospital of heart attack. My mother
also died when I was just a baby and since then it was my father who was
taking care of me until his death.

Before the death of my father, in January 2002, in private hospital, he
secretly called me to his bedside and told me that he had the sum of Eleven million, five hundred thousand United States American dollars
(S$11,500,000) being in a two trunk boxes and he deposited it in a
security company in Europe. That he used my name as that of his only son.

Then because of this political crisis that started here, it's why I seek a
foreign associate, I am presently in the Europe where I am seeking political asylum for the security of my life,

Dear friend, I honorably seek your aid in the following manner:

(1) To serve as the guardian of these funds since I am only 24

(2) To make arrangements for me to come to your country to continue my
education and for me to obtain residence papers in your country.

Besides this, sir, I am disposed to offer you 20% of the entire sum as
compensation for your effort to have helped me after the transfer succeeded of these funds in your account, and I will give you 5% for the
other expenses.

Moreover, you indicate your options for helping me and I believe that this
transaction could be concluded as soon as you accept to help me. I urgently await your sure response.

E-mail:JosephKoroma@netscape.net
Thanks may God bless you.

Sincerely yours,

Joseph Koroma.

What's a Zonal Coordinator?

What's up with this? Here's another one which came yesterday.

Are you a Microsoft user? If you are don't believe this one.

Here it is:


Subject: winning notification!! (18-Jun-2005 14:55)
From: ddcook00@netscape.net
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

Sweepstakes contest
Gein Centrum
Wisseloord 126, Amsterdam ZO.
1106 MC, Netherlands.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
SWEEPSTAKES CONTEST/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF NO: BTL/2210X1/05
BATCH NO: 21/45/0405
RE: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE

National Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by Sweepstakes held on 3rd June, 2005. Your email address was attached to ticket number 5754-065588-188, with serial number 6748/05 drew with lucky numbers 11-64-37-40-40, and consequently you won the lottery in the (A) category.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and individual email addresses.

You have therefore been approved a lump sum of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS
ONLY.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program based on what is going on in the world today,

For the release of your winning, kindly contact your claims agent:
Mr. Davidson Cook
Tel: +31- 61- 9818921
Fax: +31- 20-524 8591
Email: ddcook00@netscape.net

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the Release of your funds as soon as you contact him and you are to quote your lucky number for confirmation on your winning in every correspondences with claims agent.

All winning must be claimed not later than 30th July, 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union Treasury as unclaimed.

Furthermore, should there be any Change of your address; do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Lashani Rikard
Zonal Co-ordinator
(Promotions Manager

It's my Lucky Day!

Yes, it is unbelievable how many of these E-Mails are sent each day. I personally get, on average, between 5 and 10 per day! On top of that, I get anything up to 10 a day from readers.

The most of them come in on Sundays, would you believe? I expect the African boys presume that most people read their E-Mails on the weekend. They could be right with that.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS (18-Jun-2005 14:10)
From: deyoung@handbag.com
To: undisclosed-recipients

LUCKYDAY LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
Ref. Number: 132/756/4007
Batch Number: 538901527-BB67

Sir/Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International
programs held on the 17th of june, 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27511465896-6410 with serial number 3772-554 drew lucky numbers 02-12-27-40-53-75 which consequently won in the 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$ 2,000,000 (Two Million United States Dollars)

CONGRATULATIONS
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol To avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world we hope with part of your winning you will take part in our next year USD50 million international lottery. To fill for your claim, please contact our fiducial approve agent,

WESTERN GROUP AGENCY
W.GERTENBACHSTAAT 90
1106 WC AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLAND
TEL:31-612-198-950
FAX:31-84-753-4987
Email:westerngroup5@netscape.net
MR.TOM VAN HORN
(OPERATIONAL DIRECTOR

Remember all winning must be claimed not later than 30 of june 2005. After this date,all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs.Helen De Young.
Lottery Coordinator

The only Charity Ali believes in is himself!

Yes, it is unbelievable how many of these E-Mails are sent each day. I personally get, on average, between 5 and 10 per day! On top of that, I get anything up to 10 a day from readers.

The most of them come in on Sundays, would you believe? I expect the African boys presume that most people read their E-Mails on the weekend. They could be right with that.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WHAT IS LIFE(A CHARITY MINDED PERSON NEEDED) (18-Jun-2005 13:53)
From: aliuhassana@handbag.com
To: undisclosed-recipients

Dear friend,

I greet you in the Name that is above all names,As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because,I believe everyone will die someday.My name is ALIU HASSAN,a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with lung cancer. It has defiled all forms of medical treatment,and right now I have only about a few months to live,according to medical experts.
I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for
anyone (not even my wife) but my business.

Though I am very rich, I was never generous, I was always hostile to people and only focused on my business as that was the only thing I cared for.But now I regret all this as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in the world.

I believe when God gives me a second chance to come to this world I would live my life a different way from how I have lived it. Now that God has called me, I have willed and given most of my property and assets to my immediate and extended family members as well as a few close friends.

I want God to be merciful to me and accept my soul, I have decided to give arms to charity organizations, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. So far, I have distributed money to some charity
organizations in the U.A.E, Algeria and Malaysia. Now that my health has
deteriorated so badly,I cannot do this myself anymore.
I once asked members of my family to close one of my accounts and distribute the money which I have there to charity organization in Bulgaria and Iraq,they refused and kept the money to themselves. Hence, I do not trust them anymore, as they seem not to be contended with what I have given to them.

The last of my money which is the huge cash deposit of Eighteen Million US dollars (US$18,000,000.00),kindly Acknowledge this message so that I can introduce you to my lawyer who will handle the transfer of receivership by you of the said funds.

I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it to charity organizations.My lawyer shall put you in the picture of the funds, tell you where the fund is currently being maintained and also discuss modalities including remuneration for your services. For this reason I kindly need your help and that of charity organizations.

Please reply to:aliuhassangitf@netscape.net
God be with you.
MR.ALIU HASSAN.

Camalot Promotions?

This Guy must be a King Arthur fan. How else could he come up with this name?

There is no mention of Bill Gates this time though .... :-)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: NOTICE: PRICE APPROVAL NOTIFICATION (17-Jun-2005 0:10)
From: notification@camelotpromotions.org
To: unknown@xxx.xxx

REF NO: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312

BATCH: 901/00319/HLP

RE: AWARD WINNING APPROVAL: FINAL NOTICE.

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of winners of the MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS, PROGRAMS held on 13th June, 2005.Your company or your personal e-mail address, is attached to ticket number 9901-0148-790-691, with serial number 66109-17 drew the lucky numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83, and consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of three hundred thousand dollars in cash credited to file REF NO: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312.This is from total prize money of NINE millions dollars shared among the Thirty (30) international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America and Asia, as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

Your fund has been deposited in an escrow account and insured in your Name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been Processed and your money remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or Unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our year high stakes ONE million dollars International on line promotions.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email:

Mr. Duke Edwards

dukedwards@uk2.net

For processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated Account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 30th June,2005..All funds not claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with this office.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform us as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff for being part of our

Promotions program.

Sincerely,

Mrs Jane Littlewood

For Camelot Universal promotions

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result in disqualification and any winner below the age of 18years is automatically disqualified.

From Belgium, would you believe?

This one is unusual. Mostly the Lottery E-Mails have addresses from Holland, Spain or Great Britain. This one quotes a Belgian address.

This time they write that not only Bill Gates sponsers this lottery, but also the Sultan of Brunei is involved!

Needless to say, that is not true.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: YOUR E-MAIL PRIZE AWARD!!! (17-Jun-2005 15:19)
From: interlottolink@walla.com
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

LOTTO.NL.
PLACE DES GUEUX,21- 1000 .BRUSSELS-BELGIUM.
Inslagenlijn: 0909-0202
Uitslagenlijn: 0900-9525

From: The Lottery Coordinator,
International Promotions/Prize Award Department

CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE WON!!! THE 1ST CATEGORY EMAIL BALLOT BONANZA
$1.M. (FINAL NOTICE.)

RESULTS FOR "A" DRAW 1ST CATEGORY

Dear Winner,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Email Ballot Bonanza 'A' draw 1st Category of LOTTO.NL.
We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the 1st
Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on
17th June 2005 and results are being officially announced today.
Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 names / email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your email address attached to ticket number 025/078742; with serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers 25-35-09-74-82, and consequently won the lottery in the First Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $1, 000.000.00(One
million Dollars) which is the winning payout for Category A winners.
This is from the total prize money of 5,900,000.00US Dollars shared among
the international winners in our 1st - 4th categories

This lottery program was organized by our group of philanthropist promoted
and sponsored by Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc, eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Multi Choice and other corporate Organizations. This lottery program was organized to improve the use of computer software and for the benefit of every Microsoft user. We hope with part of your prize,

you will support our enormous programs around the world as we wish to align you in advance.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your funds is now deposited with funds remittance department and insured to the real value ready for transfer. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds
remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants / non-participants of
this program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

CONTACT THE CLAIMS AGENTS!!

Prize Remittance Dept,
(Transfer Manager.)
Mr. Steven Brooks.
TEL:0032-48-575-89-79.
Fax: +32-252-27-231
REPLY-EMAIL: lottofileagent@walla.com

You are advised to contact the above by email or fax on receiving this
Notice, confirming with tel. contact and winning details.
Failure to do so may warrant Disqualification.
NOTE: Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your correspondences
With your claims agent:
REFERENCE NUMBER: NAP/39031/21161/05: BATCH NUMBER: R7/A312-137.

Congratulations once again from all our staff, this promotional program is
Done once in every 3 years.
For further explanations call the customers service telephone number above.

Sincerely
LINA VAN NESS (Mrs)
THE LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR
LOTTO NL.

N.B: Any breach of in confidentiality on the part of the winner will result
To disqualification. Please contact by telephone, quoting your winning
Details to your Claims agent immediately for remittance of your winning
Prize of One million Dollars. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically Disqualified and cannot proceed with claims.

If you believe this you could end up in Jail!

It seems to me that the Chinese are catching up on the Africans. On the other hand, on the Internet it's easy to use a false name and identity to give the impression that you are from somewhere else.

Just the same this Agent or Representative job has it's dangers. It ends up with you being responsible for the fraudulent dealings of others. There have been cases here in Germany where people, who opted to work with someone like this, were charged with fraud themselves. Basically, it's easier to deal with the contact person in your country as opposed to the people behind it who are not traceable.

Just the same the goal behind this message, is to obtain other persons money through fraudulent means. The Representative is just used to transfer the ill gotten gains and to give the whole thing a serious touch.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: REPRESENTATIVES NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (17-Jun-2005 10:49)
From: leechan156@go.com
To: leechan04@excite.com

Dear Sir / Madam,

We are a group of businessmen who deal on Precious Stone,Diamond,Gold and Raw Materials export into CANADA, AMERICA andEUROPE.

We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers over there as well as making payments through you to us and earn 10% of every payment made through you to us.

ADVICE: Please respond back to us immediately through
e-mail:leechan04@excite.com

Subject to your satisfaction to be our representative in your respective country will be given the opportu nity to negotiate your mode of which we will be paying for your services as our representative.
If you are interested, please fill in the blank spaces below:

1. Your Full Names..................................

2. Your Full Contact Address........................

3.State/Country.....................................

4. Your Phone/Fax Numbers...........................

5. Valid copy of I.D Driving Licence or Internation
passport.

Thanks for your anticipation of positive response.

best regard,

lee chan

This may come as a surprise ....

This is one of those e-mails who first say "it may be a surprise". Sure it is a surprise, but a lot of these e-mails say that. "Oh, and by the way, this e-mail is not a scam!", he says.

He then tells you the story about awarding you a contract for a few million dollars. Which he pays you up front and then wants you to share with him.

It's the same old story ....

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Urgent Atten (16-Jun-2005 13:28)
From: kofi_malin@yahoo.com
To: xxxx@xxxx.xxx

Atten

Sir,

I know this message will come to you as a big surprise because we have not met before, but please do not think this is one of those scam or junk mails you received in your email box/fax machine and which I myself receive also.

My name is Mr Kofi Malin ,I am from the Federal Republic of Ghana and also the chairman,contract-awarding committee of my country Accra-Ghana. I have been on this position for the past ten years but I have nothing to show
for it.I will love it, if the both of us could do business together, which both of us will richly profit from. Since I am the chairman contract Awarding Committee of my country,I will award a Twelve million US dollars ($12 million USD) contract in your favor to supply farming equipments tractors and harvesters.

A Mobilization up front fee of six million U.S Dollars ($6 million USD) will be given to you to start the supply. But as soon as the mobilization fee gets to your hands, you are not going to do any supply.

You and myself will share this mobilization up front fee on a 50-50 basis (Equally). The reason why I want us to share this start up fee is because I have been in this position as the chairman for the past twelve years, and I don't have a personal house of my own, my salary is a peanut. I cannot adequately take care of my children. In fact, things are very difficult for me.

If I retire,I will have nothing to fall back on.People come sometimes to seek for favor from me and after awarding them contracts they will not remember me again.

A lot of people promised and failed me. As a result of this, I want to help my self this time because I'll not want to die poor man. If we do this business together, with your full co-operation and support we will
finish the business within five days,since I am still the person who will release the start up fee to you.

You have nothing to fear.I want you to remove anything like fear from your mind. This is the safest business you can ever think of. I will give you more information on how we are going to do this business as soon as I receive your reply showing that you are ready to do the business with me.

But please do not discuss this business with anybody, even your best friends until we have finished successfully.

I will want you to reply me immediately so that I can tell you the next
step to take. In your reply, please include your private telephone /
mobile, fax and email.

Regards
Mr Kofi Malin
kofimalins@netscape.net

Fresh in today. I have won again!

Yes, it's amazing how this type of scam has continued to be. Considering most people are interested in winning in a lottery, it's not surprising that the African boys are pushing it more and more.

They are not the only ones who are vying for the lottery players money. For example, here in Germany the German Post has gone into cooperation with Faber, a well known lottery system company (completely legal, of course). As the most post offices have offered lottery tickets for some time now, it's just a natural extension of their services.

The difference is, that if you win you get the prize and your decision to take part is made before hand. Not so with our African friends who say that you have taken part without your knowledge and, of course, they are only interested in getting your money.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: YOU HAVE WON CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT. (15-Jun-2005 12:36)
From: INSTANTWIN46L@go.com
To: INSTANTWIN46L@go.com

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
INSTANT WINNING E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
BATCH NO: PTP/421009//7765
REF. NO: PTP/07855//7765
WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 25th of May, 2005. Due to the mix up of numbers,the results were released on the 15th of June 2005. Your email attached to ticket number 20/37/49/70/ with serial number (60)(59)(30)(70)(45) drew the lucky numbers of 37-86-83-96-33 which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout Of (1,000,000.00) One Million euros only in cash.

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that You keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our agent below that have been appointed for the processing of your claim with the email address below, to begin the processing of your claim:

CONTACT NAME: PETER VAN BOME
CITY/ COUNTRY: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
FREE SERVICE NUMBER: 0031-649-214-974
FAX NUMBER:0031-847-161-309
EMAIL: instantwin666@netscape.net

Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 30th of June 2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and Complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. P. NEUTEBOOM

This Scam e-mail is even shorter

Somehow I get the impression that some of our African friends are not all that good at telling a story. Or maybe they are just trying to trim their efforts to get the essential message out. You could say easy written, maybe easy understood as well?

Just the same this one gets to the point within 6 sentences ... Is it a record?

Here it is:

My name is David Taylor, I work in a bank, I need your assistance in moving the sum of Four Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars {$4.5million} into your country.

Funds are ready in account manage by me, On our agreement I will make you next of kin beneficiary of funds and action cash delivery to you.
Kindly reply via below email address for further instruction on how to proceed.

Email - dd_77taylor@excite.com <mailto:dd_77taylor@excite.com>

Regards,
David Taylor.

An ancient Internet lottery scam company

All of these Lottery Prize e-mails are basically written the same way. The only differences being the e-mail addresses being used and the name of the so-called lottery company sending the e-mail.

This one "Sunsweetwin" has been used since November 2003, which for Internet is a relatively long time. In 2003 the e-mail address was sunsweetwin@cyberbabies.com. As you can see, it is also a freemail address.

In 2003 the lottery company was in Amsterdam with the following address:

SUNSWEETWIN PROMO LOTTERY,THE NETHERLANDS.
ALFONSTRAAT B56, 1002 BS AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

Today's e-mail has no address and no other method of contact other than the e-mail address lotto171promom@netscape.net.

Just the same they most likely have their contact people in Amsterdam.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CONGRATULATION (14-Jun-2005 12:41)
From: lotto171promom@netscape.net
To: xxxx

FROM:SUNSWEETWIN/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF: SUN/2010-968091/03
BATCH: 54/010/IPD
DATE 14/05/2005
WINNING CONFIRMATION NOTICE

We are glad to inform you that your E-mail address appears as the confirmed Winner of our last SUNSWEETWIN email lottery program held on the 13 of JUNE 2005.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 20675543256-786 with Serial number 4765-75 drew lucky numbers 8-12-18-24-32-45, which Consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved For a lump sum payment of Eight hundred thousand united state dollars(US$800,000,00). CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This promotional program takes place every year. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 companies and 50,000, 000 individual email addresses and names from all
over the world.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.We ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. Remember all winnings must be claimed not later than 30th JUNE. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.

To file for your claim or for further details, please contact our agent MR. F. James at lotto171promom@netscape.net In respect of our commitment towards helping the less previledge, we ask that you voluntarily contribute 1% of your Global winnings to any charity organization you desire at your convinience.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff.
Mrs. m.martiez
Global Winning co-ordinator

This must be the shortest scam e-mail ever!

In all my years of following the dealings of these people, I have read a whole lot of stories which were, sometimes, masterpeieces of imagination. This one is short and to the point. Just the same it is a scam e-mail.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Investment proposal we need your help please!! (31-Mai-2005 19:00)
From: ejan12004@tiscali.cz
To: undisclosed-recipients

DEAR RESPECTFUL ONE,

I know my message will come to you as a surprise.Don't worry
I was totally convinced to write you in reference of the transfer of
US$19 MILLION DOLLARS to your account for onward investment
(hotel industries) in your country.we offer you 25% of the total sum
for your assistance and 10% for expenseces on like phone calls etc.
please contact me as soon as possible.

Thank yours sincerely,

Miss Elizebeth/ Jane Lamine.