This scam really takes the biscuit.

The scammer who sent me this would have me believe that he is part of the UN and is offering me compensation for being scammed by scammers!

An industry spawning its own industry.

He should also learn to spell.

Dear oh dear, how stupid do these scumbags think I am?

ECO-BANK PLCECOBANK/UNITED NATIONS 2007 SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS.
DIRECTOR
ATTN: SIR/MADAM, SCAMMED VICTIM/ $100,000 BENEFICIARIES.
REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $100,000 USD.

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150 victims of scam $100,000 USD (One Hundred Thousand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000 USD compensations funds. On this faithful recommendations, want you to know that during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja, Nigeria, it was alarming on the money lost by various individuals to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today.

In other to compensate victims, the UNITED NATIONS Body is now paying 150 victims $100,000 USD each in accordance with the UNITED NATIONS recommendations. Due to the corrupt and inefficient Banking Systems in Nigeria, the payments are to be paid by Central Bank Nigeria as corresponding paying bank under funding assistance by The Rabo Bank, based in London UK. for funds remittance. Benefactor of this compensation will have to be first cleared and recommended for payment by ECO BANK PLC. According to the number of applicants at hand, 114 Beneficiaries has been paid, over a half of the victims are from the United States, we still have a pending of 36 compensations left to be paid.

Your particulars was mentioned by one of the Syndicates who was arrested as one of their victims of the operations, you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to him for any reason what so ever as the U.S. secret service is already on trace of the other criminals. So keep it secret till they are all apprehended. Other victims who have not been contacted can submit their application as well for scrutiny and possible consideration.

You can receive your compensations payments via any of this options you Choose, DRAFT/CHEQUE PAYMENTS or DIRECT WIRE TRANSFER.

We shall feed you with further modalities as soon as we get response from you. Send a copy of your response to official email:
NAME: IYAMAH SYLVANIUS.SCAMMED VICTIM/REF/PAYMENTS CODE: ECB/06654 $100,000 USD.
Email: ecobankplc_nig007@yahoo.es
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Joan Udoh

This twat can't even be bothered to make up a name for his lottery. He has also neglected to proof read this pile of shite:

"In other to claim..."!

You would have thought that the lack of name would give people a clue as to the fact that this is a scam; unfortunately, there are many gullible people in the world who continue to be conned by these scumbags.

Esteemed Winner,

Your email address just won the sum of five hundred thousand pounds sterling in our lottery programme.

In other to claim, you are advised to fill the payment verification form below : 1.NAMES :...........................................
2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:...........................................
3.E-MAIL :...........................................
4.TELEPHONE NUMBER:...........................................
5.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL:...........................................
6.AMOUNT WON::...........................................
7.COUNTRY:...........................................

Once the form is filled, you are to contact the claims office for proper verification of your claim via the email address below :

Claims Departmental Head : Mr. Jake Lewis

Email : claims_jakelewis@hotmail.com

Congratulations on your winning.

Sincerely your's

Mr. Greg Smith

The improbably named Wilfred Enrique informs me that I have won a fake Spanish lottery.

How kind of him!

LOTERIA NACIONAL AWARD 2007
Paseo De La castellana 12, 3A
28821 Madrid Spain.

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTERIA.
Dear Winner

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
balloting sweepstake Lottery held August 20, 2007 of the Loteria
Nacional La Primitiva promotions program with Lucky Numbers
"4-21-23-26-43-44" which consequently won in the 2nd category. This is 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 for the star prize of ( ? 1,000 000:00 ) One Million
Euros Only .

To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed claim
agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings
with the following information?s below:

Your Full Name:..............................
Home And Office Telephone Numbers:...........
Mobile Telephone Number:....................
Contact Address:..................................
Nationality:....................................
Occupation:....................................
Sex:......................................
Marital Status.........................
Age:....................................
State/City:....................................
Fax Number:..................................
Amount won:.................................
Winning email address:....................

Reference Numbers: ES/007/05/12/MAD
Batch Numbers: SP-9059-2007
Lucky Numbers: 4-21-23-26-43-44
Serial Numbers: LN/102/SP

Consequently, You are required to quote your winning information in
all your correspondence emails with your claim agent. We hope with
part of your winning, you will take part in our next year Thirty
Million Euros lnternational lottery.

To file for your claim, Please contact Loteria claim Department
Manchester/ United Kingdom for Overseas Lottery Winners with
informations below:

Claim Agent: Sanchez Eduardo.
CITY/COUNTRY: Manchester/England
PHONE:+44 7011 128 823
FAX: +44 8712 392 112
E-MAIL: saneduardo7@yahoo.es

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to designated
account of your choice. Please note that your lucky winning number
falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as
indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your ? 1,000,000
(One Million Euro) would be released to you by any of our payment
offices in Europe.

Once again congratulations!!!

Yours Sincerely,

Wilfred Enrique
Lottery Director.
Note: You are advised to keep this winning very confidential until you

receive your lump prize. This is a protective measure put in place to
avoid people applying for your winnig fund as we have had cases like
this before.

This scammer tells me that I have won the "free British Web Lottery", there is of course no such thing.

BRITISH LOTTERY6/49 BOARD
12 Whitehall ,
London SW1A 2DY,
United Kingdom.
25th August 2007.
Dear Recipient
We congratulate you over your email success in our FREE BRITISH WEBLOTTERY computer balloting held on 23th August, 2007. This is aMillennium Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It isour promotional lottery program aimed at encouraging internet users;therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it. You have beenapproved for the star prize of 1,006.168 GBP(One million six thousand onehundred and sixty-eight Pound Sterling)

To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent assoon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings: Ticket no: 025-1146-1992-750Serial no:2113-05Lucky no: 13-15-22-37-39-43REF NO:BRLFGP2551256/03Amount won: £1,006,168.00

You are to contact: Mr. Richard Parker

Email: contactagentrichardparker@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: + 44 7045742804

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

Sincerely,

Mr. George Scherrer

Good grief!

How many times am I going to "win" the Microsoft lottery?

The scammer who put together this pile of shite would be advised, in future, to use a spell checker before sending it on to his victims.

Microsoft Corporation
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond,
London
United Kingdom.
Batch #: 409978E
Ref#: BTD/968/07
WINNING NOTIFICATION 2007
This email is to inform you that you emerged a winner with a consulation prize of the Microsoft Corporation EMAIL DRAW 2007.The selections was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to a ticket number: 008795727498 with serial numbers: BTD/9080648302/07 which subsequently won you £1,000,000.00 {One Million Great BritishPounds}.

Your prize cheque has been vaulted safely with our corresponding Bank prior to your readiness to complete your claims and would be presented to you after verification of the data requested below

Please complete the form below with correct information and contact your assigned claims agent Mr Godwyn Peters via telephone or email so thathecan have a precise and comprehensive record of our winners.

To proceed with your claims, you would be required to fill theVerification Form below completely and send it to Mr Godwyn Peters immediately.
(1)BENEFICIARY FIRST AND LAST NAME..............
(2)NATIONALITY .............
(3)RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS .............................
(4)DATE OF BIRTH......
(5)SEX .............
(6)OCCUPATION.........
(7)TEL.NUMBER ..........
(8)Ref#:...............
(9)BATCH # ..........
DECLARATION: I...............HEREBYDECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. THAT MY CLAIMS AGENT SHALL ACT AS A FACILITATOR IN THE TRANSFER OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME. DATE............
You are advised to contact Mr Godwyn Peters within 24 hours via thecontact telephon and email address Mr.Godwyn Peters

E-mail:microsoftaward_agentgodwyn@yahoo.com.mx
Congratulations once again from the entire staff of the Microsoft Award Team. MR.Godwyn Peters
MICROSOFT AWARD CORDINATOR UNITED KINGDOM.

Badly written, badly researched; a child of 10 could tell you that this is a scam.

Regrettably there are adults in the world who fall for this, and others like it.

Dear,
I am a business consultant in West African
region.
One of my clients is interested in investing
in your country and he is interested in investing
with your company .
kindly forward all your companys profile to me
for immediate decision on how the investment funds
will be handed over to you.
Total amount to be invested=
$25,000,000,00.usd............Cash investment
Immediately I receives your details, I will inform
you the next step for the release of the investment
funds.
Anticipating your immediate reply.coutant me in my private E-mail emekaokon@o2.pl

Best regard
Dr.Emeka Okon

I don't know about other people, but I kind of get a bit pissed off when a stranger addresses me as "dear" in an email; most especially when the author of the email is a scammer.

Dear Good Friend,

How are you today dear?

I decided to write you because I have no other alternative. Since the death of my father in the hands of the bad government of my country Darfur in Sudan in East Africa. It has been very difficult for me on how to safeguard box money my late father left for me with Private Storage Company in Canada, before his death. My late father packaged this money inside a box as family artifact.

So right now we are in Spain as an asylum seeker, and we are facing a heavy financier problem. Therefore, I want you to be my partner and to act as the new beneficiary on my behalf and claim the box of money. I will give you 30% of the total money.

So if you are interested please reply me with your full name and your telephone number so that I can give you more details.

Sincerely,

James George. Tel: +34 600 374 412.

Be warned, the fake Microsoft lottery scam is doing the rounds again.

Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdom
Ref: BTD/968/05
Batch: 409978E

Dear Winner,
?????????
The prestigious Microsoft and aol?has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking 2007 anniversary we rolled out over ?00.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) for ourear Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.
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The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
?
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky, numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you ?00,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds)?as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of ?00,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).
?
The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on the 15th AUGUST?007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.
?
Please be informed by this winning notification, to file your claims, you are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty guide you through the process to facilitate the release of your prize. To file for your claim Please Contact your fiduciary agent,
?
Mr.ark Jones
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Email: claim_markjones@hotmail.com

You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with the following details to avoid unnecessary delays and complications: Your Name (in Full), Country, Ticket Numbers, Batch Number, Serial Number, Lucky Numbers as indicated in this winning Notification and Phone numbers. Thank you for being part of this promotional award program.
?
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 year Anniversary Draws.
?
Sincerely,
Dr. Steve Jordan
Microsoft Promotion Team

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Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contains confidential and privileged information.?Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

This illiterate scammer claims to be seeking a rep in the USA/Canada to help him with his company based in London.

This is of course a scam designed to trick people into revealing their bank details, and possibly to trick the unwary into money laundering.

One other thing, that the scammer has neglected, I am based in the UK not the USA/Canada!

Welcome to Cheap fabrics
Thames Court,
1 Victoria Street,
Windsor,
Berkshire.
SL4 1YB.
www.cheapfabrics.co.uk
Tel: +44-70457-28745

My name is David James and I own a company that sells textile and fabric material in London, I am looking for a representative in the United States Of America And Canada who will be working for me as a part time worker and i will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which wouldn't affect your present state of work, someone who would help me receive payments frommy customers in the states, I mean someone that is responsible and reliable, because the cost of coming to the state and getting paymentsis very expensive, I am working on setting up a branch in the state, so for now i need a representative in the United States Of America whowill be handling the payment aspect for my company.

These payments are in Money order or cashier's cheque and they wouldcome to you in your name if you are willing to assist as arepresentative, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your percentage and western union Charges then wire the rest back. You are entitled to 10% commission for any transaction(that isfor any U.S POSTAL MONEY ORDERS or CASHIER's CHEQUE ETC ).

This transaction is risk free and legal from the American Government.

Please reply only if you will like to work from home part-timeand get paid weekly without leaving or it affecting your present job. Please get back to me with your Complete to my private emailbox:cfberkshire@yahoo.co.uk
Name:......................
Residential Address:......................
Zip Code................
Telephone Number:..........................
Age:......................
Regards,
MR David James
Director of Cheap fabrics.
Tel: +44-70457-28745

I seem to have "won" the Microsoft lottery again, I have lost count of the number of times that I have "won" this fake lottery.

Yahoo/Msn lottery Balley,
Incoperation,
Ihama House,
Har RoadSutton,
Greater London
SM1 4te,
United Kingdom.

This is to inform that you have won a prize money of Five hundredthousand,Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00)for the month of August 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number..........YM 09102XN
Reff number...........YM35447XN
Winning number........YM09788
You are therefore advised to contact the EVENTS AGENT MANAGER fordirectives of claims via email address below.
Mr. Dennis Anthony
Email:enquirymicrosoft_claimsdept04@yahoo.co.uk
TELPHONE:+44-70457-32405

I seem to have not just won some money today, but also a BMW!

How lucky am I?

The only small problem with this is that it is of course a scam; there is no money and no BMW.

THE BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY.
This makes you the proud owner of a brand new BMW 5 Series, M SportSaloon car and a cash prize of £850,000.00 GBP (Eight Hundred andFiftyThousand Great British pounds).
Serial number: BMWP/556543450906, Reference Number BMW:2551256003/23.
Mr. david Williams,
E-mail: david_claimaget@yahoo.co.uk
You are also advised to provide him with the under listed informationalong with your reply:
Claims Requirements:
1. Names in full: -----
2. Address: -----
3. Sex:------
4. Age: -----
5. Occupation: -------
6. Phone: ------
7.Country ofResidence: -------
OR CONTACT HIM ON PHONE:+447045734803CONTACT AS FAST AS YOU CAN.
CONTACT HIM ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR CAR

Short and sweet, but it is still a scam.

Dear Lucky Winner
WINNING NOTIFICATION-------RefNo:BTD/976/06---Batch:401978G Microsoft Sweepstakes marking the (9th Aug 2007) Day yearanniversary,File winnings
To our claims agent: MR DONALD GRAY,
CALL:+44-704-574-0889
Email:microsoft_awardunit@yahoo.co.uk
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