I received this email this morning and wanted to pass it on to all of our members here at GN. It is most definitely a hoax and I'm sure that most of you wouldn't fall for it. But you might want to warn your less savvy friends and relatives not to reply. Here is the email I received in it's entirety.FROM:PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REFERENCE: 5543IPD
BATCH: x6651k
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions Lottery
Winners International E-mail programs held on the 12th July, 2006. Your
E-mail address attached to ticket number:31210 with serial main
number:Pl88812, drew lucky star numbers:112390 ,which consequently won in
the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out
of 1,520,000.00(One Million Five Hundred and Twenty Euros)
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 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email
addresses and names from all over the world.
This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates, President of
Microsoft, the world's largest software company inorder to enhance and
promote the use of Internet Explorer Users and microsoft-wares around the
globe. This promotional program takes place every three years. We hope
with part of your winning you will take part in our end of year 50 million
Euro International lottery.
To file for your claims, you are to contact our Payment and Release
Order department company's customer service using details below:
EUROPE LOTTERY PAYMENT AND RELEASE ORDER DEPARTMENT,
Mr.Frank Mark,
ONWARD SECUROS S.L
Email: [email protected]
Remember,all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks, 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,
Claoudy William
Lottery Co-ordinator
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Examples of this hoax throughout the past couple of years........
http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-euro-millions.htm
http://www.hoax.cz/cze/index.php?action=hoax_detail&id=541
http://www.singaporepools.com.sg/doc/lottery/email_scam.pdf
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"Don't wanna ride no shootin' star. Just wanna play on the rhythm guitar." Emmylou Harris, "Rhythm Guitar" from "The Ballad of Sally Rose"
I've had a couple of those, but I tend to get the so-called 419 mails - they're called that after paragraph of the Nigerian penal code, that covers this fraud. They usually tell me that I can have a 1/3 share of many millions of dollars, etc., etc., .....
I started with nothing - and I've still got most of it left.
Did you know that the word "gullible" is not in any dictionary?
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Yeah - I get at least a couple of those every week, both the lotto and Nigerian scams. I even got one from the wife of the ousted president of Liberia, looking for a safe haven for 25 million dollars, which was about to be confiscated by rebel forces. I felt real honoured :lol:
Recently, I've been getting emails supposedly from PayPal and HSBC bank, informing me that some fraudulent activity has been detected on my account and I should log in immediately to confirm my details on a secure link that they provide.
*For anyone who doesn't know, logging in via that link just passes your password to crooks who can then access your account.
I just HATE email scams! In fact, I just emailed one of the local television stations with that email in the hopes that they can get it on air before some elderly (or ignorant) person gives them their bank account numbers. It just makes me SO MAD!!!!!
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"Don't wanna ride no shootin' star. Just wanna play on the rhythm guitar." Emmylou Harris, "Rhythm Guitar" from "The Ballad of Sally Rose"
aww man i thought you really won and were gunna celebrate and buy us all 59 LP's :oops:
#4491....
Last year I even got one of the 419 messages, typed up, hand addressed and mailed with a South African return address. Hasn't happened again, I imagine the postage got costly doing it that way. :lol:
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Next time I get one I''ll post it like Ms Blue has done , quite regually I get this e:mail from this mob claiming to be a company in the middle east .
Looking for a bank details so they deposit funds to it .
Problem with it the company and the author don't exist as I did some checks because some people might actually belive them , I also pass this sort of rubbish onto the authorities ( so it can sit in thier in box for a couple of years ) since they can not take action on a company or individual who does not exist .
Here is to you as good as you are
And here is to me as bad as I am
As good as you are and as bad as I am
I'm as good as you are as bad as I am
For anyone who uses Paypal or Ebay, the "Ebay toolbar" is an effective safeguard against being lured onto either fake Ebay or Paypal sites from an official looking email.
I get them quite regularly. The sites look impressively authentic, but the ebay toolbar goes crazy, flashing and warning "FAKE SITE!! - Don't give any details!! - Report them to us."
So it's worth downloading from Ebay - if you use those companies.
Even without the toolbar, you can tell the email is fake because it says "Dear Ebay (or Paypal) member..". Those companies never say that, they address you personally by name or user name.
I get a couple dozen scam e-mails a week on average. For some reason, Tuesdays seem to be their hot days.
I forward the e-mails to the ISPs they sent them from (check the headers on the e-mail), the ISP for the return address, and any others they reference in the text. They usually cancel the account within a couple hours.
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Another thing to look out for is the file size of the email. Very few mails get to be bigger than 1K, some make 2K. If it's noticeably bigger (e.g. 24K) the sender has embedded something into the ASCII text and I'd be really worried that it was executable, because it would run when you read the mail.
If I find anything like that, I right-click on the mail (it isn't opened by right-clicking) and save it (I use Firefox, I have no idea what IE might offer you). The result is a non-executable text file, so you can read it, in an editor, and not have to worry about being infected with a virus.
Any mail, that has an attachment, that I'm not expecting, gets the same treatment.
I started with nothing - and I've still got most of it left.
Did you know that the word "gullible" is not in any dictionary?
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Even without the toolbar, you can tell the email is fake because it says "Dear Ebay (or Paypal) member..". Those companies never say that, they address you personally by name or user name.Lots of the scam E-mails address you by name, too.
Forward 'em all to: [email protected] or [email protected]
eBay and PayPal seem to be the only companies interested in blocking the spammers' sites. The various banks don't give a rat about scam spam sent in their name and have no mechanism for reporting it.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
You guys are all worry worts.
Man, I've signed up for all of them. I'm waiting for my millions to roll in. :D
Bish
"I play live as playing dead is harder than it sounds!"
lol
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even god loves rock-n-roll
