I Just Won £2,000,000

[preets]

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
NOTICE FOR CATEGORY B PRIZE AWARD WINNERS, 2008.

BATCH NO: MCT/120987437645/2008/04
REF. NO: GRP/2636619/Q.

Dear Lucky Winner,


We wish to inform you of the yearly Microsoft Lottery program that
your e-mail address has won an award sum of a total cash prize of
£2,000,000:00 (TWO MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS ) was shared among
the first five (5) lucky winners in this category. Do contact your
Fiduciary Agent via email for remittance,
MICROSOFT PAYMENT OFFICE.
CITY/ COUNTRY: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
CONTACT PERSON:Mr.JOE Kingley
Email:mr.joekingley@yahoo.com
Below is the claims and verifications form.You are expected to fill
and return it immediately so we can start processing your claims:
1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. Direct Phone No:
4. Fax Number:
5. Email address:
6. Sex:
7. Age:
8. Nationality:
9. Occupation:
10.photocopy of your International Passport:
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish
you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being
part of our commemorative yearly Draws

Once again congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mr. JOE Kingley
microsoft Lottery Announcer

I just got this email in my inbox, I am wondering how they can do it (Scam) very openly and never ever caught by authorities. They are using the name of Bill Gates . Is it real?

[Sirius Lin]

Wayyyyy too many of these scams lately. I've seen them come in under the name of local banks even. But one thing they do have in common is that they are just about as real as a 3 dollar bill.

Bottomline: if you didn't sign up for it, it's fake.

~ Sirius

[grumpyjacksa]

do you really think that a notification for 2 M would come from a public mailbox ?

the audacity does seem impressive, though.

i got one from someone claiming to be from the FBI. even had the physical address right.
so i forwarded it to the FBI...........

if you reply, you will find that you have to pay to claim your prize. not much, but enough for the dollars to add up for someone out there. and just a small enough amount so as not to provoke a huge investigation.

and of course you will need to supply your banking details.........

that's where i drew the line. if they were legit i would have been able to take a check

[JayXtreme]

LOL...

You gotta laugh, eh?...

I can see it now...

Person Get's winning e-mail: Wow.. I just won 2M... I must act now on this completely random and un warranted win, it must be legit, right?... I mean.. come on.. they have my e-mail address..

LOL

Jay

[SunTzu82]

Ah that's the old Nigerian 419 scam, it's been going on since the 70's and originally started out through snail mail. The reason they can get away with it is because Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries on earth.

[WinsonYeung]

It's FAKE !!!
i received these mail too

[pip87]

i've had a few of these emails lately, very similar ones. if they were real i would really be a multi millionaire from it by now!

stay well clear!

pippa

[Asher]

Hi Amar,

I had a post about such scam letters, you can read it if you want:
More Money To Spend Blog Presents Hi! I Want To Scam You | More Money To Spend

These letters, unfortunately, have successfully scammed quite a lot of people already. And what's worse, people are still falling prey to such scams even to this day.

So it's a good thing that you didn't fall for it!

Asher

[Zachary R. Skinner]

Wow, this sounds totally legitimate!!

[preets]

Originally Posted by Raymond Edeh

Run for your dear life!
Scam is everywhere. These online criminals are very stupid. They don't know what they are doing to themselves until when they are caught by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Nigeria.

I pity internet fraudsters!

I agree with everyone , but my question was how they are doing it so openly and never caught by authorities.Nobody is taking care of such fraudsters.
My uncle get scammed by such scammer and lost around $250 in this process, he was so confident about his socalled winning and he didn't share this even with his dear wife. It is very sad that some people still lured by such scams.

[sjkstone]

I'd be safe to say (Hopefully) that anyone in this forum is advanced enough to understand the difference between what is real and what is fake when it comes to email scams.
Eventually you get to the point to spot spam by the title.
It's good to have a few email accounts that you can categorize between signing up for a free program and something that you know is legit.

Steve

[Mac Wheeler]

Personally I have decided that the most unhealthy profession in the world is not an astronaut or a formula 1 driver, but an African politician.

The reason for my assumption, is the sheer amount of them that seem to die and leave millions of dollars in a bank account that their recently born again Christian wife needs my help in extracting from the country.

I think I get about five of these emails a week, meaning around 20 African politicians pop their clogs each month.

[PSM]

The scary thing is if they were just a little bit more believable they would catch a lot more people.

I received one the other day saying I had won a Dell customer prize draw, I have purchased a new Dell computer in the past 6 months so I did read it all with an open-mind, turns out I won a cool 1,000,000 - ummm nice genuine prize draw then!

[Kim Standerline]

Originally Posted by SunTzu82

The reason they can get away with it is because Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries on earth.

That's a pretty sweeping statement. Would you care to share your stats with us.

Kim

[sachibhat]

I'm winning 10-20 million every month but i dont want easy money. So i delete all those emails

[Angela V. Edwards]

I have a unique way of handling these emails. I send them this link and tell them that I am the informant in the story and I don't think they really want to be sending me these kinds of emails.

[Kym Robinson]

This sort of thing really sucks and is way too common!
I get one of these almost daily!
Why are the spam police taking care of it - I dont know!
If anyone has a way of avoiding this - do let us know!
Thanks

[Alan Paterson]

Well, with credits being crunched everyday, and more people than you could comfortably shake a large stick at getting online, there's no real surprise that this scam is still being run - the odds are that they're still going to make enough to keep running it!

[Paul M]

I recently had one of the Nigerian scams claiming they needed someone in the UK to hold £1.5 million in there bank account and then forward it to nigeria.

They also said if they could have my bank details to transfer the money they would give me half.

There so stupid as if anyone would do that. lol

[preets]

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

That's a pretty sweeping statement. Would you care to share your stats with us.

Kim

Kim ,

I think 90% of internet frauds belongs to Nigeria.You can find Nigerian scammer all over the internet ,they do all type of scams on eBay , paypal, scam email , black dollar etc.

[Roy Carter]

The sad thing is that people do still fall for this stuff all the time.

Just remember... If it sounds too good to be true...it probably is!

And do you really think you are going to win a competition or lottery that you never entered?

Roy

[Zach Booker]

LOL I got two of the exact same email yesterday :O
...does this mean I win 4 million dollars??

Zach

[matthewd]

You should good get some good ideas of what to do at: Welcome to the 419 Eater

Pretty good stories there.

[seach4s]

scammers really p*** me off so if your a SCAMMER and you reading this FORUM i am sure i can say on behalf of members on this warrior forum...

*****SCAMMERS ARE SCUM LOWEST OF THE LOW *****

you should be shot..


any one else want add to this........

[seasoned]

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

That's a pretty sweeping statement. Would you care to share your stats with us.

Kim

I don't know HOW true it is, but it is pretty true! Nigeria is KNOWN for being HORRIBLE! Credit card companies generally want you to AVOID it, a lot of scams like that happen in Nigeria, and I have heard that if you DO lose money, you might as well FORGET about ever getting it back.

Steve

[David Reed]

Originally Posted by preets

Email:mr.joekingley@yahoo.com

Mr Joe Kingley? = Jokingly. They're having a laugh!

And sad to see that times are so hard at Microsoft they are reduced to using Yahoo to send out their emails.

David

[David Raybould]

Lol that's funny.

Coincidence too because I won the same two million quid twice last week...

Think they're going to make us split it lol?

[anahita56]

Mr.JOE Kingley!? (Jokingly) The name says it all.

[xplorer]

LoL Can sell such a letters in bulk if interested.. :P At least 10 of them for a total about 30M pack for just 1M

! For people who has no idea.. You'll be ripped paying for "administrative expences/charges" of these "fake lotto" scammers.

[Kim Standerline]

Originally Posted by seasoned

I don't know HOW true it is, but it is pretty true! Nigeria is KNOWN for being HORRIBLE! Credit card companies generally want you to AVOID it, a lot of scams like that happen in Nigeria, and I have heard that if you DO lose money, you might as well FORGET about ever getting it back.

Steve

I agree entirely Steve, credit card companies don't like to use Nigeria. And yes I agree there are a lot of scams that come out of Nigeria. (I think we've had this conversation before).

Let's not forget tho that a lot of internet fraud also comes out of the US, UK, Russia and other baltic countries.
I read somewhere the other day, (unfortunately I forget where), that Russia and the Baltics are the biggest culprits yet many people seem intent on insisting that Nigeria leads the field.

It would be nice to see some stats where people can prove their throwaway comments that Nigeria leads (for instance) 90% in the fraud stakes.

Just like to remind everyone we have some very worthwhile Nigerian warriors who visit this board

Kim

[KenSilver]

Originally Posted by preets

...I just got this email in my inbox, I am wondering how they can do it (Scam) very openly and never ever caught by authorities. They are using the name of Bill Gates . Is it real?[/B]

There's a few round the place with my name in them too. Any email which promises you a prize in a game you have not entered is usually a scam. Sometimes they will use the Silver Lotto website or another lottery site as an authority.

I never advise any of my clients that they have won a major prize, and have never seen an authorized website do this.

My suggestion is not to reply to the email and delete it immediately.

[Dan C. Rinnert]

For a 10-day period last year, I kept track of these eMails.

During that 10-day period, I "received" over $5 million in loans and my lottery "winnings" were over $55 million. Some of those lottery winnings were in Euros, but I converted them to the dollar values using the then-current exchange rates.

If any of those were real, I would not be here.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Mr.P

dont people ever get bored of posting this bullcrap trying to be funny?

It's not funny for the people who get caught up in these scams, the more people who know about it, the better.

Why do you think these scams still exist?

Because people are still falling for them and losing money or even there personal details, so I don't see why anyone would consider this thread bullcrap.

paul

[Angela V. Edwards]

Originally Posted by p1a1u1l1

It's not funny for the people who get caught up in these scams, the more people who know about it, the better.

Why do you think these scams still exist?

Because people are still falling for them and losing money or even there personal details, so I don't see why anyone would consider this thread bullcrap.

paul

Yep. That is exactly right. Read what a U.S. Federal Judge has to say about such schemes:

U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle told Fiedler the court needed to “send a message” that participating in online or check schemes will result in prison, according to an Attorney’s Office news release.

“The schemes make money at the expense and suffering of others,” Settle said during the June 25 sentencing.

The Daily World

[Truesons]

Originally Posted by SunTzu82

Ah that's the old Nigerian 419 scam, it's been going on since the 70's and originally started out through snail mail. The reason they can get away with it is because Nigeria is one of the most corrupt countries on earth.

Hi, to say this could be likened to a "Canard"...Even if true, I want you to remember "Something Good" came out of Nazareth when it was "axiomatically" held that nothing good could.

[preets]

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

It would be nice to see some stats where people can prove their throwaway comments that Nigeria leads (for instance) 90% in the fraud stakes.


Kim

Kim ,

I think you should check this : Internet fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can see the participation of different countries in internet frauds.

[Tristan Bull]

LOL congrats

Originally Posted by preets

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
NOTICE FOR CATEGORY B PRIZE AWARD WINNERS, 2008.

BATCH NO: MCT/120987437645/2008/04
REF. NO: GRP/2636619/Q.

Dear Lucky Winner,


We wish to inform you of the yearly Microsoft Lottery program that
your e-mail address has won an award sum of a total cash prize of
£2,000,000:00 (TWO MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS ) was shared among
the first five (5) lucky winners in this category. Do contact your
Fiduciary Agent via email for remittance,
MICROSOFT PAYMENT OFFICE.
CITY/ COUNTRY: MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
CONTACT PERSON:Mr.JOE Kingley
Email:mr.joekingley@yahoo.com
Below is the claims and verifications form.You are expected to fill
and return it immediately so we can start processing your claims:
1. Full Names:
2. Residential Address:
3. Direct Phone No:
4. Fax Number:
5. Email address:
6. Sex:
7. Age:
8. Nationality:
9. Occupation:
10.photocopy of your International Passport:
Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates.We wish
you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune.Thank you for being
part of our commemorative yearly Draws

Once again congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mr. JOE Kingley
microsoft Lottery Announcer

I just got this email in my inbox, I am wondering how they can do it (Scam) very openly and never ever caught by authorities. They are using the name of Bill Gates . Is it real?

[vtaylor]

These scams are laughable -- if you are savvy enough to know they're scams. I was talking with my mom today, who is almost 80 years old. She and I had a good laugh as she told me about a conversation she'd had just yesterday with one of her (much younger) neighbors. The lady had received one of these "lottery letters" in the mail and was all excited about her lottery winnings! My mother -- ever the skeptical New Yorker -- asked her a few questions because something just "didn't sound right" about this particular "prize." Turns out it was one of those scammy letters like we usually see in email, announcing some huge winnings with just a little price to pay to redeem her winnings.

Of course my mom helped the neighbor understand she could forget about that non-existant money, skip sending in the small redemption payment, and toss the letter.

Interestingly, my mother has never used email in her life, so she's never even been aware of the scams on the internet! So I had the opportunity to share with her how this stuff works on the 'net.

Vernessa

[Glenn72]

I'm sure if anybody won that much money, they'd be on your doorstep with a bottle of champagne and the winning check. I'm pretty sure that's how the lotteries do it?

[tamtu]

Only fools think others are fools

[Solidsnake]

For sure it came from Nigeria.. LOL

[Kim Standerline]

Originally Posted by preets

Kim ,

I think you should check this : Internet fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can see the participation of different countries in internet frauds.

Thanks Amar

Geographic sources
Whilst internet fraud is widespread, companies providing fraud detection services report higher than normal levels of fraudulent activity from countries such as Venezuela, Ukraine, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Egypt, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Israel.

I rest my case!
Kim

[michaelcky8]

[QUOTE=preets;68384]Kim ,

Kim ,
I think 90% of internet frauds belongs to Nigeria.You can find Nigerian scammer all over the internet ,they do all type of scams on eBay , paypal, scam email , black dollar etc.
__________________
Amar Srivastava
*****************************
Ahhh...!! The BLACK DOLLAR..
(They might have seen me and my friend as a potential candidate for their scheme - mistakenly, I must add)

To be honest, I've once witnessed black notes being soaked in a glass of (supposedly) chemical, shaken - not stirred, of course - and after some minutes, PRESTO..!! Out comes 3 pieces of real currency notes of a certain denomination.

As if to lend reality to their creation, they hand 1 piece over to my buddy to satisfy himself, AND to take away to use.... which he did.

Amazing trick - couldn't detect ANY sleight of hand to swap the black soaked paper with real bills to fool us...

:-)
Michaelcky8

[preets]

Originally Posted by Kim Standerline

Thanks Amar

Geographic sources
Whilst internet fraud is widespread, companies providing fraud detection services report higher than normal levels of fraudulent activity from countries such as Venezuela, Ukraine, Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Egypt, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Israel.

I rest my case!
Kim

And more Source : Internet fraud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Purchase scams

Direct solicitations

The most straightforward type of purchase scam is a buyer in another country approaching many merchants through spamming them and directly asking them if they can ship to them using credit cards to pay.
An example of such email is as follows:
From: XXXXXX XXXXXX [XXXXXXX@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: International order enquiry
Goodday Sales, This is XXXXXX XXXXXXX and I will like to place an order for some products in your store, But before I proceed with listing my requirements, I will like to know if you accept credit card and can ship internationally to Lagos, Nigeria. Could you get back to me with your website so as to forward you the list of my requirements as soon as possible. Regards, XXXXXX XXXXXX, XXXXXXXX Inc. 9999 XXXXX street, Mushin, Lagos 23401, Nigeria Telephone: 234-1-99999999, Fax: 234-1-9999999, Email: XXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com
Most likely, a few weeks or months after the merchant ships and charges the Nigerian credit card, he/she will be hit with a chargeback from the credit card processor and lose all the money.

Counterfeit Postal Money Orders

According to the FBI and postal inspectors, there has been a significant surge in the use of Counterfeit Postal Money Orders since October 2004. More than 3,700 counterfeit postal money orders (CPMOs) were intercepted by authorities from October to December 2004, and according to the USPS, the "quality" of the counterfeits is so good that ordinary consumers can easily be fooled.
On March 9, 2005, the FDIC issued an alert [2] stating that it had learned that counterfeit U.S. Postal Money Orders had been presented for payment at financial institutions.
On April 26, 2005, Tom Zeller Jr. wrote an article in The New York Times[3] regarding a surge in the quantity and quality of the forging of U.S. Postal Money Orders, and its use to commit online fraud. The article shows a picture of a man that had been corresponding with a woman in Nigeria through a dating site, and received several fake postal money orders after the woman asked him to buy a computer and mail it to her.
Who has received Counterfeit Postal Money Orders (CPMOs):

• Small Internet retailers.
• Classified advertisers.
• Individuals that have been contacted through email or chat rooms by fraudsters posing as prospective social interests or business partners, and convinced to help the fraudsters unknowingly.

Geographical origin:

• Mostly from Nigeria
• Ghana
• Eastern Europe

The penalty for making or using counterfeit postal money orders is up to ten years in jail and a US$25,000 fine.

[ariyes]

i receive this type of mail every time. Its just a spam mail.

[paul65]

Hello,

I receive one of these types of emails every other day. One thing I found is that if you reply back to some of them you get a failed reply error. Some of them even have a number to call. I called one of them through skype once just to say what the heck are you doing and I found that the number is like a 900 number where you would get charged a fee for calling the number what a scam!

If I had won all of the lotteries that I was notified of over the past couple of moths I would be a multi billionaire.

Then I get those ridicules enhancement emails that really get me aggravated. I just can't believe that people out there think they can have affective marketing through such BAD spam. I don't mind the occasional spam I just delete but come on some of it is just in such poor taste. I should start reporting all of the crap I get but they are all probably using a proxy IP anyway so I don't waste my time.

Then there are those prescription and educational spam emails as well. I would love to know who tells these people to market this way, Cheeeese.

Anyway when I get my multi billion in winnings I will host an all expense paid Warrior convention in the Caribbean islands this winter

Cheers,

Paul

[BIG Mike]

Originally Posted by I work from home

Hallo guys I am so new to this just signed up but in any case I am from South Africa and this was on a news show of ours a few months ago where they actually catch people with this scam the sorry thing is that they are all pensioners!!!

<Sigh> - spamming dumbass...

[aggron]

Woot . Microsoft guy uses yahoo mail id for business . They could have done their research at least before trying stupid scams . Though people who actually fall for these scams , might be too happy at the mail to even consider verifying it .