Could the knobheaded scammer, who sent me this pile of shit, please explain to me why the UK Lottery would be operating in Dubai and paying me in dollars?

Not the brightest of scams!

BTW, if you really are the UK Lottery, you would know that organisation is spelt with an "s" not a "z".

Your E-mail address has won you US$4.6M

UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATIONTICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.

If you are the correct owner of this email address,then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail winning draws and sweepstakes held in DUBAI-UNITED ARAB EMIRATE on the 30 th of May 2007 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your e-mail address has won you the lottery in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6M.

Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number: APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583.You are to contact Mr.John Eso. on the below email address for quick delivery of your won cheque of US$4.6M. All winners cheque are certified and are cashable in any bank of any country.

To enable the Courier Company ascertain you as the rightful receiver of the cheque, include the below listed information in your contact mail.

Your country, complete official names, amount won, ticket and lucky numbers, date/venue of draw, address where your wish to receive your winnings,contact telephone, mobile and fax numbers, sex, age, occupation and job title.

Top Speed Express UAE Company Ltd.Office Address:
75 Mussalla Road,
Dubai
UAE.
Email-Address: zenithexpress22@yahoo.ie
Contact Agent: Mr John Eso.
Yours Truly,
Mr James Usmond.
Co-ordinator.
UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION

This scamming scumbag wants me to help him commit fraud, and steal a large amount of money.

Two problems with this:

1 I am not a criminal

2 There is no money

In short, he can go to hell!

From The Desk of Mr.Adnan A.K.Ismail.
Manager National Bank of Dubai Abu Dhabi
branch Dubai United Arab Emirate (U.A.E.)
Email: adnan_aki3@yahoo.co.nz

I am Mr.Adnan A.K.Ismail Branch Manager National Bank of Dubai Abu
Dhabi branch, I have urgent and very confidential business proposition
for you.A British Oil consultant and contractor with the Kruger Gold
Company,Mr. Raymond Beck made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for
twelve calendar months in my branch. Upon maturity,I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but got no reply.
He deposited the sum of $ 16.4 million usd in our bank here in United Arab Emirates.

After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the Kruger Gold Company that Mr. Raymond Beck died
in a plane crash along with his wife Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beck died in
a plan crash along with his wife in Egypt Air Flight 990, 1999 air
crash (for more information about this crash and person you can contact
this website
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/11/01/iran/main49778.shtml

Since we got this information about his death and on further
investigation,I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all
attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless.I therefore made
further investigationand discovered that Mr. Raymond Beck did not
declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, his Bank
Deposit paperwork in my Bank.

This money is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled
over with the principal sum at the end of each year.No one will ever
come forward to claim it. According to Laws of United Arab Emirates,at
the expiration of 8 (Eight) years, the money will revert to the
ownership of the (U.A.E) Government if nobody applies to claim the
fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to
stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Raymond Beck so that the fruits of
this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some government
officials.This is simple, I will like you to provide immediately your
full names and address so that the attorney will prepare the necessary
documents and affidavits that will put you in place as the next of kin.

We shall employ the services of an attorney for drafting and
notarization of the WILL and to obtain the necessary documents and
letter of probate/administration in your favor for the transfer.
A bank account in any part of the world that you will provide will then
facilitate the transfer of this money to you as the beneficiary/next
of kin.

There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will
be done by the attorney and my position as the Branch Manager
guarantees the successful execution of this transaction.If you are interested,

Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details that
will help you understand the transaction.Please send me your confidential
telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

Please observe utmost confidentiality, and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall
require your assistance to invest my share in your country.Please
reply through my private email address: adnan_aki3@yahoo.co.nz
Awaiting your urgent reply

Regards.
Mr.Adnan A.K.Ismail.

This piece of human trash claims to be a victim of the tsunami, he claims that he lost a lot of his assets but still has over $9M left.

So keen is he to elicit my help, that he sent me the same message three times.

He is a conman, do not fall for his lies.

Dear partner

This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met personally. My name is Lars Jerry, a business merchant in Indonesia. I was a victim of the TSUNAMI disaster that led over 174,000 people dead in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Well, I lost all my family members and was seriously injured as a result of this catastrophe and currently hospitalised in Dubai, U.A.E. My illness has defiled all form of medical treatment and I only have about a few months to live according to medical report. I have not particularly lived my life so well, as I never really cared for anyone not even myself but my business. But now I regret all these as I now know that there is more to life than just wanting to have or make all the money in this world. Now that I know my time is near, I want to will and give most of my properties and assets to you to enhance the relief of other Asian Tsunami Victims and other charity aid. I have decided to give alms for charity aid, as I want this to be one of the last good deeds I do on earth. But i am afraid most of these charity organisations will use it for their personal interests without someone to co-ordinate this task.

Hence, i am seeking a trust-worthy person who is able to help me carry out this great task. Now that my health has deteriorated so badly, I cannot do this my self any more. I lost alot of money, assests, properties, etc due to this disaster. Meanwhile, i still have $9,500,000.00 USD (Nine million five hundred U. S. dollars only) cash deposit that I have with a Financial Firm Abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched it for humanitarian aid. Also, you will let them know that it is I Lars Jerry that is making this generous donations to them to serve as memorial while I was on earth. I am writing this from my laptop computer in my hospital bed where I wait for my time to come. I pray that God uses you to support and assist me with good heart.

Also, these are the necessary criteria you have to meet before I will give you the full authority over the fund:

(a). My conviction of your transparent, honesty and diligence and you will treat this transaction as I have instructed you to do.

(b). Upon the receipt of the funds, you will promptly release $3,000,000.00 USD to charity aid to help the needy, $5,000,000 USD will be used for investment and you will ONLY take the balance $1,500,000.00 USD for your noble assistance.

(c). You must be ready to produce me with enough information about yourself to put my mind at rest, by providing your full beneficiary name, your contact address, telephone and fax numbers for further communication.

(d) All necessary legal documentations must be undertaken before you can have the full right over this fund and other properties which i will give to you in due course.

(e) Also, you will be entitle to 20% of the annual income of any investment you wish to go into in rder to enhance further charitable work. I would suggest that you can invest this money into stocks, properties, bonds, etc. or any lucrative business you may suggest.

I will bring you into the complete picture of the transaction when I have heard from you. Your urgent response will be highly appreciated with all your contact details.

Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and Gob bless you.

Yours faithfully,

Lars Jerry.

This scammer not only insults my intelligence, by thinking that I am stupid enough to fall for this pathetic scam, but he also manages to insult the English language.

The use of the word "defiled", in connection with his non existent illness ,is indeed imaginative; unfortunately it is wrong.

The bottom line is this is a scam, don't respond to it.

Dear sir/madam

As you read this, I don't want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe
everyone will die someday. My name is MUSTAPHA WAZIRI a merchant in Dubai,
in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal 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 myself)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 so, I have decided to
give alms 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 Pakistan, 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 left for them.

The last of my money which no one knows of is the huge cash deposit of eighteen
million united states dollars $18,000,000,00 that I have with a finance/Security
Company abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatched
it to charity organizations. I have also set out 10% of this money to be
giving to the less privileged affected in the recent Tsunami Disaster in
Asia( Sri lanka, indonesia and Thailand) 15% has being set aside for you
and for your time.

You are to respond through my personal and safe email address.
God be with you.

Email:

Regards,
Mr. Mustapha Waziri.

Now the scammers have moved on to Iraq.

I received this pile of nonsense today. It starts out by saying that it is genuine and not a hoax, at this point you know full well that it is a scam.

The writer claims to be in the US forces in Iraq. He claims that he has $18M, that was not stolen, he then proceeds to explain that he found it buried in the sand; ie, if it exists which it doesn't, then it was stolen.

The letter then follows the usual scam format; he needs help to transfer the money, keep this confidential etc etc.

Please don't be stupid enough to fall for this, it is a con.

Dear Sir,

NOT FOR THIRD PARTY (CONFIDENTIAL)
AND I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS
NOT A HOAX MAIL, IT IS REAL.

With a very desperate need for assistance, I have summed
up courage to contact you.I am an army Sgt. from Fort Hood Tx.now
serving with the third infantry contingent mission stationedin Iraq;I
actually found your contact particulars in a business journal.

I am seeking your experience and assistance to evacuate the
sum of $18.5Million United Sates Dollars to USA or any othersafe country.
This is no stolen funds, and there are no risks involved.

SOURCE OF FUNDS:
During the third month of the raid here in Iraq, Myself and
a few other soldiers while conducting a routine search in a
location near one of Saddam.s old palaces, uncovered large
sums of money buried in barrels with piles of weapons and
ammunitions which we believed must have been part of
Saddam's hidden treasure. We agreed not to turn over the cash or
declare it to our authorities that brought us here, so we shared it
amongst ourselves, since there was noting we could do having considered
that there is no amount or kind of compensation that can make up, be
quantified,or justify the risks we have taken with our lives in this
hell hole.

I was given the sum of $18.5Million Dollars as my own
share, and had nowhere to conceal such bulk monies here,
so I had to employ the services of a contact
to me by a German colleague. The said contact facilitated
the movement of the funds to a safer location entirely
outside Iraq, it was deposited in a security vault of a
in dubai(UNITED ARAB EMIRATES) for safety purpose.

What he knows is that the funds belong to an Asian American
who died in the war, and trusted me to turn in the money
to his family. One passionate appeal I will make to you
is not to discuss this matter with any third party, should
you have reasons to reject this offer, please destroy this
mail, as any leakage of this information will be too bad for us. I do
not know for how long we will remain here, and I have survived two
suicide bomb attacks by the grace of God.

It may be difficult for us to communicate frequently for
security reasons, so as soon as I am sure you are willing
to help, I will link you up with the contact and close
confidant who will work with you to get the money into
your care. On your immediate correspondence with the
contact which I will introduce to you, he will need to
release to you the document and secret code in which the
funds was safeguarded with so you can proceed for claim
and collection, but only when he has ascertained your
seriousness and totality to commit your time in seeing
to the success of this. We will also discuss your
percentage when it is convenient to do so but the
first thing is for you to get hold of the funds first.

In the meantime, please contact me through
my private email address: ()

Respectfully,
Billy.

This one is a slight variation on a theme.

Here the writer claims to be British, living in Dubai. His wife and children died a few years ago, and he has changed his life values from making money to helping the poor.

How very noble!

Needless to say there is a problem. The poor chap says he his dying, and that he cannot access his money ($15m) as he is in hospital.

He needs a piece of divine help, why do they always bring God into it?

Therefore he wants me to access the money and distribute it as I see fit. I may of course charge whatever expenses I incur.

There of course is the "hook", by which he baits the stupid and dishonest, the temptation to steal all the non existent money.

It beggars belief but some peope actually fall for this.

Lord bless you too Fred!

Mr.Fredrick Anderson
Dubai(UAE)

Attention,
Dear friend,
greetings to you in the name of our heavenly God.
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the
temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into
your mind; but please, consider it a divine wish and
accept it with a deep sense of humility. My name is
fred anderson . I?m a 65 years old man. I am British
living in Dubai (United Arab Emirate). I was a
merchant and owned two businesses in Dubai. I was
also married with two children. My wife and two
children died in a car accident six years ago.
Before this happened my business and concern for
making money was all I lived for. I never really
cared about other values in life. But since the loss
of my family, I have found a new desire to assist
helpless families. I have been helping orphans in
orphanage/ motherless homes. I have donated some
money to orphans in Sudan, South Africa, Cameroon,
Brazil, Spain, Austria, Germany and some Asian
countries. Before I became ill, I kept $15 Million
in a long-term deposit account in a finance/security
company . Presently, I?m in a
hospital where I have been undergoing treatment for
oesophageal cancer. I have since lost my ability to
talk and my doctors have told me that I have only a
few months to live. It is my last wish to see this
money distributed to charity organizations. Because
relatives and friends have plundered so much of my
wealth since my illness, I cannot live with the
agony of entrusting this huge responsibility to any
of them. Please, I beg you in the name of God to
help me collect the deposit and the interest accrued
from the company and distributes it
amongst charity organizations. Use your judgement to
distribute the money and feel free to reimburse yourself when you
have
the money for any cost you
incur during the process of collecting and
distributing the money to charity organizations. .
I?m willing to offer you a reward If you are willing
to help; please reply as soon as you can. May the
good Lord bless you and your family.
Regards,
fred.Anderson