Another fake lottery scam is doing the rounds at the moment. This one originates, so they claim, from Thailand.

The writer claims to be called Kin Ong (I suspect he drew inspiration from the film King Kong, for that name)

Whatever!

The same rules apply, if you receive one of these, throw it away; it is worthless.

DATE: 21ST OF OCTOBER 2005.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT.

ASIAN PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION PRIZE/AWARD BANGKOK THAILAND.

BATCH: EGS/ 22504002/03: REFERENCE: 15/0018/IPD

ATTENTION: CONGRATULATIONS!

RE: PRIZE/AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you of the release of ASIAN PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION PRIZE DRAW, held on the 5th of April 2004, but owing to some mix up of numbers and addresses and the holidays, the results were released on the 21st of December 2004.

Your name was attached to ticket number 085-12876077-09 with serial number 51390-0 that drew the lucky numbers of 03-05-12-14-28-38, which consequently won the lottery in the 5th category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of 5.000,000.00. (FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY), in cash credited to file with REF: N.EGS/3662367114/13. This is from a total cash prize of 70,020.225.00, shared among the twenty-five international winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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 the money 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.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names, email addresses & official addresses, from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and South America, Middle East and Africa, as part of our International Promotions Program.

We hope your lucky name will draw a bigger cash prize in the subsequent programs. To begin your lottery claims, please contact our Co-ordinator as follows,

NAME: Robert Wood
TEL: (
EMAIL:

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th of December 2005. 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 possible.

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.

Sincerely,

Kin Ong.
Vice President
Asian Pacific Promotion Bangkok Thailand.

This is yet another lottery win that I have received by email.

Needless to say it is a fake.

The scammer wants me to send in my details, and then will attempt to extract a "processing fee" in advance of paying me my winnings.

Needless to say, were I stupid enough to pay this fee, I would never hear from them again.

If you receive one of these, throw it away; it is worthless.

EXECSÂ Â VENTURES BV

GERNOSTRAATÂ 522B, 2746 TG,ROTTERDAM-NETHERLANDS

WINNING NOTIFICATION

REF NO; EV6162688-29

To the e-mail bearer,

Sequel to the annual lottery draw of the above named establishment in europe,conducted on the 20th of October ,2005.I am glad to notify you that your e-mail address attached to ticket No ;627462128TW won in the third category a lump-sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars(USD250,000;00).

Congratulations and be advised to keep confidential till your prize is processed to avoid multiple applications/filings.All participants were selected randomly by a computer software ballot device.

This promotion is sponsored by a group of corporate establishments and accredited charitable organisations in Europe.

Be informed that a minimum of 10% of your prize must be donated to a remarkable charity organisation in your locality on receipt of your prize.To file for your claim and other enquiries,please contact your fiducial agent;

Mrs elena van Gogh,Execs Consultant 11(e-mail;()

Congratulations once more,

Sincerely yours'

Olivia Olys

NB;Kindly state your Ref No and Ticket No when filing for your claim.

Thanks

PHISH WARNING

Yet another fake PayPal email is being sent out by the scammers.

This one again invites you to click on the link, and verify your account details.

It is a phish, designed to trick you into revealing your passcodes.

Do not fall for it!

As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the PayPal system. We recently noticed the following issue on your account:
We recently received a report of unauthorized credit card use associated with this account. As a precaution, we have limited access to your PayPal account in order to protect against future unauthorized transactions.


Case ID Number: PP-075-481-963

For your protection, we have limited access to your account until additional security measures can be completed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
To review your account and some or all of the information that PayPal used to make its decision to limit your account access, please visit the Resolution Center by following the link below:


If, after reviewing your account information, you seek further clarification regarding your account access, please contact PayPal by visiting the Help Center and clicking "Contact Us"

We thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please understand that this is a security measure intended to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
PayPal Account Review Department


PayPal Email ID PP3417

Accounts Management as outlined in our User Management , Paypal will
periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements

Visit our Privacy Policy and User Agreement if you have any questions :
http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

PHISH WARNING

There is yet another fake Paypal email doing the rounds at the moment.

It is a phish, asking you to click through on a link and reveal your passcodes.

Do not fall for it.

No genuine company will ever email or phone you asking you to reveal your passcodes.

You have added newaddress06@aol.com as a new email address for your
PayPal account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with
your account, please contact PayPal customer service at:




Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team


Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the
"Help" link in the header of any page.

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PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD

NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at
https://www.paypal.com/.Protect yourself against fraudulent websites
by opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and typing
in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account.

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PayPal Email ID PP00071

25% of $30M, sounds too good to be true doesn't it?

That's because it is too good to be true!

If you get one of these, bin it.

It is a con.

Dear Sir,



Permit me to inform you of going into a business transaction with you. I am the Son of late chief fedrick Dikko from Liberia. my late father was into exportations of diamonds,iron ore,rubber, timber,and coffee before he was killed by rebels on july 2005.



Before the death of my Father he deposited the sum of USD 30.5million dollars in a suspense account in a bank in Abidjan.



I am asking for your assistnace as a foriegn partner to provide an account in your country or overseas where this funds will be transfered to for investment.



As soon as the funds gets to your account you will receive %25 of the total sum of USD30.5 and %5 of the total sum for your expenses during the transfer.



If you can assist me in this offer inform me so that we can procede.


Every documents about this transaction is legal.



God bless you.
JOHNBOSCO DIKKO.

I have won yet another fake lottery.

I am not sure, but I have a strong feeling that I have won this one several times before!

The point being, this is a fake.

Those that respond to this will end up being charged "processing fees", then never hear from the scammers again.

Euromillion Español
Paseo De La Castellana
15-89, 28008 Madrid.
SpainÂ
Branch.

Ref. Nº: ES/007/05MAD.
Batch. Nº: GHT/2907/05.

                     YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTTERY.

We wish to
congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting
sweepstake held on 29th July, 2005. 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.

Your email address attached to ticket
star number (4-5) drew the EUROMILLION lucky numbers 3-19-26-49-50
which consequently won the draw in the Second category. You have been
approve for the star prize of EUR € 667,248.26. (Six Hundred And Sixty
Seven Thousand, Two Hundred And Fourty Eight Euros. Twenty Six Cents)

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

You are advised to keep this winning very
confidential until you receive your lump prize in your account or
optional cheque issuance to you. This is a protective measure to avoid
double claiming by people you may tell as we have had cases like this
before, please send your winning ticket, reference numbers and amount
won information for processing of your winning fund to our registered
claim agent in addrres below.

Mr. Natalia Veta..
Capital Trust
Security Service.
Avd. De Los Americas 46.
C.P. 28006 Madrid
Spain.


All prizes must be claimed within three
weeks of your reply.

Best regard,
Mrs.Angela Jesusa.
( Promotion
Director )Euro Award Winning Notification

PHISH WARNING

The following phish is doing the rounds at the moment. It purports to come from the Star Systems, and invites you to click through on the link.

Do not fall for this, it is a fake.

It is a phish designed to trick you into revealing your security passcodes etc.

Online Services

Online Security

Star Systems considers the security of your financial information a top priority. We take extensive security measures to ensure a safe and reliable online experience for all of our customers.

We are glad to inform you that our bank has a new security system. The new updated technology will ensure the security of your payments through our bank.

Hoping you understand that we are doing this for your own safety we suggest you to sign up again, to maintain the safety of your account.

Click here for secure update


If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choice but to temporarily suspend your credit card.

Yours faithfully,
Star Systems Customer Services

This scam email arrived in my mailbox today.

It follows the usual format, someone claims to have a large sum of money which they want to get out of Africa and "invest" in a safe country.

As with all the other scam mails, there is no money.

Bin it!

Hello Dearest One,

I got your contact from the Ecowas Infomation Center in Senegal. My
sources of your contact gave me the courage and confidence. It is my
pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to est-
ablish in your country, though I have not met with you before but I
believe one has to risk confiding in success sometimes in life. I am
Sully Malick,the daughter of the former minister for defence .There
is this amount of US$6.8million (Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand
United state Dollars)which my late father kept for me in Bank here in
senegal dakar beforehe was piosioned to death by his business
associate.


Now I want to invest these money in your country or anywhere save en-
ough outside Africa for security and political reasons.I want you to
help me claim and retrieved these fund from the Fiduciary Fund Holders
and Transfer it into your personal account in your country for inves-
tment purposes on profitable ventures. If you can be of an assistance
to me,we will pleased to offer you 20% of the total fund.while 10% of
the total fund will go for any expenses incur by you during the process.
I await your soon response through my private mailbox:


N.B. Upon your interest, I will need your personal contact as following
for easy communication on this project.

Your house Addres........................
Your Phone Number .......................
Your Fax Number .........................

I will also forward to you the security company contact immediately .

Respectfully yours,
Sully Malick.

Here is yet another fake lottery scheme.

If you get one of these, bin it; it is worthless.

Euromillion Loteria Español
Paseo De La Castellana
15-89, 28008 Madrid.
Spain Branch.

Ref. Nº: ES/007/05/12/MAD.
Batch. Nº: GHT/2907/333/05.

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTTERY.

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting
sweepstake held on 20th September, 2005. 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.

Your email address attached to ticket star number (4-5) drew the EUROMILLION
lucky numbers 3-19-26-49-50 which consequently won the draw in the Second
category. You have been approve for the star prize of EUR 667,248.26. (Six
Hundred And Sixty Seven Thousand, Two Hundred And Fourty Eight Euros. Twenty
Six Cents)

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

You are advised to keep this winning very confidential until you receive
your lump prize in your account or optional cheque issuance to you. This
is a protective measure to avoid double claiming by people you may tell as
we have had cases like this before, please send your Full Name,Home and Office
Tel & Fax Number, Mobile Tel Number and your winning ticket number,reference
numbers and amount won information for processing of your winning fund to
our registered claim agent in addrres below:

Mainland Trust Security.
Mr.Phillip Weeks
Address: Avenida de America 12
Madrid Spain.
E-mail

Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 20th Octorber, 2005.Please
note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to
quote your reference number and batch number in all correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Once again congratulations.

Best regard,
Mrs. Emily Simon,
Lottery coordinator.

The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to
whom or which it is addressed. Unauthorised use, disclosure or copying is
strictly prohibited. The sender accepts no liability for the improper
transmission
of this communication nor for any delay in its receipt

This fake email was sent to me today.

The writer claims to be part of one of the world's largest fund managers, Fidelity.

Needless to say he does not work for them, he is a conman.

I have reported it to Fidelity, and advise you to do the same if you receive one of these.

Risk free indeed!

Privileged and Confidential
Dear Good Friend,

May you permit me to introduce my good self to you as
the Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment UK, the
leading PAN-European Funds Management Firm.

I have a client assigned under my Portfolio for Funds
Managements to the tune of 18.7million Great Britain
Pounds six years ago and this my client was sentenced
to death by hanging base on his involvement to
overthrow the Government of his Country in the year
2003.I have since then made a numerous effort to
locate any member of my deceased client to come for
claims and all my efforts tends to be in vain and I
was told that my client deceased family relocated to
an unknown country leaving no contact address sequel
to the death of my client and vowed never to return to
their mother country for life.

Fidelity Investment UK might inherit the funds if no
member of the deceased family could come up for
claims/inheritance and have therefore wish to arrange
someone to act as relatives of the deceased family so
as to claim the funds with sharing ratio of 50-50.If
you are interested, please get back to me with your
contact telephone numbers for discussion of this
matter in further details. However, this offer is 100%
risk free.
Reply me at ;

Kind Regards,
Mr.Keithroy George.
Fidelity Investments International UK

WWW.FIDELITY.CO.UK

This is without doubt the worst written Nigerian scam letter I have ever received.

I assume that the writer is deliberately attempting to appear to be an imbecilic moron, in the hope of kidding the unsuspecting that anyone that stupid could not possible be a conman.

Don't fall for it.

Imbecilic or not, it is still a scam.

good day my dear.
my name is madam franka. from south abuja in nigeria am working in bank of south in abuja nigeria. am countacting you of partner workout in our bank. of money laft over. there is one governor in one state in nigeria that has account in our bank we got informetion that the man is dead by killers over since one year now our bank became needed of any body from the man that can come for his money over that one year now we havent see any one from the man my dear that is the reason why i contact you now so that you can come as person of the man bank we fransfer all the money to you after that i will come to ur place for sharing of the money or i tell you how you can send my own money all the money is ($1,hundredand 35million) so if you can do it you mail me soon sa possible so that i can give you all informetion from the man and what you need to do and no body must hear it just a secret between us you can also mail me here( ) so am expecting ur feedback soon as possible.

thanks...........from me madam franka.

Another "winning" lottery email dropped into my mailbox today.

Needless to say, it is of course a fake and not worth the cyberspace that it was written in.

Should you receive one of these, do not waste your time responding; there is no money, just a scammer trying to con you out of a "processing" fee.

DAYZERS E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

REF:
S23/15/40/12/29/
BATCH: 54/010/0-PD


RE: EMAIL WINNING CONFIRMATION
NOTICE:

We are glad to inform you that your E-mail address appears as
the confirmed Winner of our last Dayzers email lottery program held on
the 26th Spetember 2005.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
216-365-787 with Serial number 34/15/65 drew
lucky numbers 32-15-54-35-
47, which Consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been
approved For a lumpsum ayment of EUR 500.000.00 euros.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This promotional program takes place every year.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system rawn
from over 100,000 companies and 50,000, 000 ndividual 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.
To file for your claim or for further
details, please contact our agent:

CONTACT NAME:VAN BOMAN
CITY/
COUNTRY:AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
EMAIL:d

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.

Note that all
winning must be claimed not later than 20th of October 2005. After this
date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.

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

Mrs. Vanessa
J. Smith