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Monday, April 14, 2008

Millennium Scientific Computer Games Email Scam

Here's yet another example of a Lottery scam email that is hitting inboxes everywhere.

Unfortunately you did not really win a drawing by Millennium Scientific Computer Games, rather you are the target of a scam often referred to as a Lottery or Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

Following is the text of the scam email:

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From: manner760 bige [mailto:manner760@web.de]
Sent: 04/14/2008 10:36 AM
To: manner760@web.de
Subject: Your e-mail has won a prize

Dear Sir/Madam.

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting held on 7th April. This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it. You have been approve f or the star prize of US $787:000:00 (Seven Hundred And Eighty Seven Thousand United State Dollars Only).

To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

ZURICH SECURITY COMPANY S.A
E-mail infozurich1959@yahoo.com
Contact Person:- Dr Alanso Marco

Ref No:-EMSL/ 2008/April
Ticket No: - T W M T/1 800/806
Lucky No:- 07-13-31.54-640
Ser ial No: - MUO TI/82536

You must contact the appointed agent with your Full Names, Contact Telephone Numbers (Home, Office and Mobile Number and also Fax Number) via email to process the immediate payment of your prize.
The Validity period of the winnings is for 30 working days hence you are expected to make your claims immediately.
Once again congratulations !!!

Mrs.Sarah Elena Mariano.
(Program Executive Assistant)

Unbegrenzter Speicherplatz für Ihr E-Mail Postfach? Jetzt aktivieren!
http://freemail.w eb.de/club/landingpage.htm/?mc=025555

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

More UK National Lottery Scams

Yet another UK National Lottery scam emails are hitting inboxes everywhere.

Unfortunately you did not really win the UK National Lottery, rather you are the target of a scam often referred to as a Lottery or Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

Following is the text of the scam email:

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-----Original Message-----
From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS [mailto:info@web.co.uk]
Sent: 03/17/2008 9:09 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Dear Lucky Winner: TICKET No:20511465463-7644

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual
finaldraws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL PROGRAM. international programs.After
this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two
winners in the category \\"A\\" You are therefore been approve to claim the
sum of 1,000,000 (One Million Pounds Sterling) with the information below:

REF No:UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No:074/07/ZY369
TICKET No:20511465463-7644
SERIAL No:5368/02
LUCKY No: 56475600545188


To file for your claim fill the form below and send it to our payment
parastatal:

Contact Person: Mr.Bans Freeman
Telephone: +44 703 19 42432
E-mail: uknl_claimsdept007@yahoo.co.uk
E-mail: uknl_claimsdept007@yahoo.co.uk

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY
(4) COUNTRY
(5) DATE OF BIRTH
(6) OCCUPATION
(7) TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8) SEX
(9) WINNING EMAIL

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
caroline bryan's(Mrs.)
Online co-coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
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Luckyday Lottery Scam

Could it really be your 'Lucky Day? Maybe, but certainly not because of this email.

Don't call you boss and quit your job just yet. Unfortunately you did not really win the Luckday Lottery, rather you are the target of a scam often referred to as a Lottery or Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

Following is the text of the scam email:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Luckyday Lottery [mailto:luckyday@luckyday.nl]
Sent: 10/16/2007 1:46 PM
Subject: LUCKYDAY WINNING NOTIFICATION

LUCKYDAY WINNING NOTIFICATION
HUDSON CAMBERWEL AMSTERDAM
www.luckyday.nl.

Attn:CEO/DIRECTOR
This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT

BATCH NO: PLD/31214257/1988/2202
REFERENCE. NO. PLD/21449267/2550//2203

INTERNATIONAL/WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 15th of March 2008. Due
to the mix up of number, the results were released on the 17TH of
March 2008. Your name attached to ticket number 219028657434 with serial
number 918735625drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99 which
consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of
Ј2,500,000.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS) in cash which is deposited with a
Finance and Security Company in your favour as beneficiary and covered with
HIGH INSURANCE POLICY Due to mix up of some numbers and names and for
the sake of impostors, 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(GERALD HAMILTON ISSUERS)
that have been appointed for the processing of your claim with your
contact telephone and fax number to begin the processing of your claim:

COMPANY NAME:GERALD HAMILTON AND ASSOCIATES
CONTACT NAME: MR GERALD HAMILTON.
CITY/ COUNTRY: London, United kingdom
Tel:+44-751-812-8667 Fax:+44-707-575-7401
Email: luckyday@geraldhamilton.net

You are required to forward the following details to help process your
claims and winning certificate which will facilitate the release of
your winnings prize.

1. Full names.
2. Phone number & Fax number.
3. Your winning numbers.
4. Quote amount won.
5. Notification date.
6. Occupation.
7. Sex.
8. Age.
9. Marital statue.
10. City.
11. Nationality.

Note that all winners must claim there win not later than Two weeks
after the receipt of this message. 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,

Mrs. Nina Antonio
Promotions Manager.

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Royal Euro Casino Lottery Scam

What better way to start your day than by reading your email and finding out you won a Lottery, particularly one worth $1 Million. Don't call you boss and quit your job just yet. Unfortunately you did not really win the Royal-Euro Casino Lottery, rather you are the target of a scam often refered to as a Lottery or Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

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Following is the text of the scam email:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Royal-Euro Casino [mailto:fotoclub.lapieve@virgilio.it]
Sent: 02/20/2008 10:28 PM
Subject: Contact the payment bank.

Contact the payment bank.

This is to inform you that your email ID has
won US$1,000,000.00 in the second category of our computer ballot email
lottery with the said winning numbers giving below:

Ticket number:
5489815/06/DSP
Lucky Draw Number:16 17 30 31 38 40 5
Reference Number:
UDA/H52362/475850/REF
LOTTERY DATE: 20/02/2008

Royal-Euro Casino is a
member of European Casino Association (ECA). The ECA aims to serve as a
network for information; information that shall be used to communicate
and work with the EU institutions on anything related to casino
operations. Please contact the Clearance and
Verification department of
the payment Bank for your claim:
****************************************************
Dr. Johan
Gallagher. (Director of operations).
International Remittance
Department (Direktbank N.V)
Phone:+31-610-698-903, Fax: +31-847-301-110
Email: direktbinfo1@aim.com, direktbinfo@oued.info
Web-Site: www.
direktbank.nl

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Your security file number is DNL105/WIN777/2008 (keep personal).
Failure to claim your winning prize before the dead-line stipulation of
one month will obviously mean that your winning prize will be re-staked
in our next Lottery draws, so ensure that the needful is done now and
quickly as possible.

Congratulations on your winning.

Yours
Sincerely,
Mrs. paoloe Brook (Co-Ordinator Royal-Euro Casino)
TEL/FAX:
+31-847-301-128.
Official Site: www.dptcasino.com



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Thursday, February 7, 2008

West Cliff Casino Board email Scam

It looks like we have a Winner!

Could it be? Unfortunately, no. All you won was the chance to be th target of a scam often refered to as a Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

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Following is the text of the scam email:
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-----Original Message-----
From: WEST CLIFF CASINO BOARD [mailto:cliffwest8@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:26 AM
To: feedback
Subject: AWARD WINNING

WEST CLIFF CASINO BOARD,
401 centre, 302 REGENT STREET,
West End, LONDON, W1B 3HH
Registered in England with Company Registration number 3699618
Group VAT registration number 832 6732 26.
Ref: Number: WCC/ENG8002/08
Batch Number: WCC604990/UK
CASINO BOARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

The WEST CLIFF CASINO BOARD International promotion UNITED KINGDOM program is proud to inform you that you have just won Two Million British Pounds (£2.000, 000, 00).

However no previous notification is given before your email address was picked for this lottery. Generally email address are picked, the draws are processed by the computer through a special program that is special designed for this lottery, the program is known as Random Access Program (RAP) This software picks email addresses from the internet and through a random process, picks the winners through their email address.

To file for your claim, please contact our financial agent:
MR. FRANK ADAMS
West Cliff Casino Board
Tel: +44-871-5031-922
Fax: +44-700-5976-328
EMAIL:cliffwest9@yahoo.co.in
EMAIL:cliffwest8@gmail.com
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APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter)
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[FULL NAME OF WINNER]
[FULL MAILING ADDRESS]
[COUNTRY/ REGION]
[STATE/ PROVINCE]
[DATE OF BIRTH]
[SEX]
[MARITAL STATUS]
[OCCUPATION]
[CURRENT E-MAIL]
[TEL HOME]
[CELLPHONE NUMBER]
[FAX]

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Congratulations!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Mary Herd
Promotions manager
WEST CLIFF CASINO BOARD.
UNITED KINGDOM.

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Any contact with the sender of this email could result in financial and identity loses. If you received an email like this, just delete it. If you have made contact with this person you may be at risk. You should immediately contact your local law enforcement agency and or financial institution for assistance if you provided ANY personal or financial information.

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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Yahoo Internet Lottery Email Scam - Yet again

You may recall that we've alerted SecurePCNews.com readers to previous Yahoo! Lottery scams.

Now, here's the latest attempt to defraud using a Yahoo! Lottery as the bait.

Scams like this are often refered to as Nigerian scams and can lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

For more information about what to do if you think you may be the victim of identity theft visit SecurePCNews at where you can find specific information about dealing with Identity Theft.

Following is the text of the scam email:
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From: officelobkk3220@earthlink.net [mailto:officelobkk3220@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:27 AM
To: officelobkk3220@earthlink.net
Subject: Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization

LOTTERY RESULTS 2008

CONGRATULATIONS!

Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization
Bangkok Branch Office
Address: 3 Rajdamnern Avenue
Bangkok 10200 Thailand

Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year Held on 7th the January 2008.

All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.000 USD)

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $1, 000.000.00USD) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.

Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Cheque have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZEThese are your identification numbers.
Ticket number.....................085-12876077-09
Serial number.......................51390-0
Lucky number...................03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number...................N.EGS/3662367114/13

To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Co-ordinator as follows,

Email: yahlottorg66@yahoo.com.hk
Name: Kane Iva
Tel: +(66)890724282

You are to send the completed verification form below to the co-ordinator whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
6. FAX NUMBER
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th of March 2008. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTYS DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.

Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Co-ordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.

An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Operation Manager of Siam City Bank Bangkok Thailand.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.

We wish you continued good fortunes.

Yours Sincerely,
Raymon Hisashi picture from fake Yahoo! lottery email

Dr. Raymond Hisashi
Vice President
Yahoo! Lotto Org.

Mrs. Tina Akira,President Yahoo! Lotto Org

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Any contact with the sender of this email could result in financial and identity loses. If you received an email like this, just delete it. If you have made contact with this person you may be at risk. You should immediately contact your local law enforcement agency and or financial institution for assistance if you provided ANY personal or financial information. You may also want to visit the Yahoo! Security Center for more information.

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Euro Millions Lottery - Yet another email lottery scam

More lottery scam emails for your enjoyment! No, unfortunately you did not win the Euro Millions Lottery, rather you are the target of a scam often refered to as a Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

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Following is the text of the scam email:

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-----Original Message-----
From: mrselizabethmaria1@libero.it [mailto:mrselizabethmaria1@libero.it]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:48 PM
To: mrselizabethmaria1@libero.it
Subject: 2008 Confirmed Winner.

Happy new year

The coordinator euro million lottery wish to congratulate you for winning
our prize award attached your email based on ticket number (8 24 36 49 50
STAR NO. 4+8) you have won the sum of €799.925, 26.

To get more info/claim, please contact Operations Department:
(Seguros De Enterraminetos SA)
ATTN: DON GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
E-mail: segurosdeenterramientos@excite.es

Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Elizabeth Maria
Lottery Coordinator.
http://www.national-lottery.com/resultseuro.asp

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Any contact with the sender of this email could result in financial and identity loses. If you received an email like this, just delete it. If you have made contact with this person you may be at risk. You should immediately contact your local law enforcement agency and or financial institution for assistance if you provided ANY personal or financial information.

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