Great I have won a lottery based in Croydon (my home town).

Why don't I just pop round and pick up my winnings?:)

National Lottery,
28 Tan Field Road,
Croydon,
London.
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement of the UK
National Lottery Online thunderball Programme with draw numbers(#628)
09, 14, 24, 25 ,34, 10 held on 17th SAT FEB,2007.
Mr.Kelly Martins.
Email: claims_kellymartins@yahoo.co.uk
Provide him with the information below:
1.Name:
2.Address
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Email Address:
12.Draw Number above:
You can go to our online result site to confirm
the value of your winnings and also get a prize
breakdown:-www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do
Yours faithfully,
Robert Barr

How stupid do these scumbags think I am?

OFFICE OF THE SENATE HOUSE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
ASO- ROCK VILLA, ABUJA (F.C.T)

Attn: My Honorable Contractor,

I, The Senate President ,Federal Republic of Nigeria , Dr Ken Nnamani (GCFR) and the Governor of Central Bank Of Nigeria , Prof Charles Soludo in Conjunction with the EFCC Director , Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, held a meeting last week concerning contract payment , both foreign and local contractors and some inheritance funds.

On going through contractors file yesterday, we discovered that your file was dumped untreated, so at this juncture, we apologize for the delay of your contract payment and please stop communicating with any office now and attention to the appointed office below for you to receive your payment accordingly.

However,I wish to inform you now that your outstanding contract payment is ($18,500,00,Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars U.S.A} United States dollars).
Now you’re new Payment Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331 , Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No : 103 , CBN Released Code No: 0763; Immediate Telex confirmation No: -1114433 ; Secret Code No: XXTN013, Having received these vital payment number , therefore You are qualified now to received and confirm Your payment with the Federal Government of Nigeria immediately within the next week.

Now you are directed to contact the Office of the Wire and telex Department Dr Edward Ralph immediately so that he will pay you and fax you the payment Copy Slip and also you should reconfirm your Banking Details, Secret Code No: which is ( XXTN013), this is to avoid mistake while transferring your overdue contract payment to you today .

Contact Person:
Name: Mr. Tony Elumelu, MD UBA Group.
Address: United Bank for Africa
UBA House, 57, Marina Lagos.
Tel:+ 234-80-304-265-08.
Email;tony_elumelu_uba@yahoo.co.uk

Contact him now and inform him that you received a message from the Senate President Federal Republic Of Nigeria, Instructing you to contact him for immediate release of your contract payment and forward your Details to his office to avoid transfer mistake
NOTE: We have mounted our security network to monitor every in-coming calls and emails, if we still find out that you are still dealing with all those fraudsters that have been frustrating you for years, I shall stop and cancel your payment immediately .

Best Regards
Dr Ken Nnamani (Senate President)

This scammer asks if I can be his partner.

The short answer is NO!

Maybe if:

1 He learnt to write English, and

2 He wasn't a crook, and

3 He wasn't asking me to commit fraud

Then the answer might be different.

CAN YOU BE MY PARTNER?

Greeting's

It is my pleasure to write to you and i am very sorry if this missive will be sounding embarrasing to you.

However is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will, please even if you are not going to help me on this proposal, kindly let me know, meanwhile, i decided to contact you after going through you profile.

I am Dr. Hussein Ibraheem , and works with FIRST PRUDENT BANK COTE D'IVOIRE here in West Africa as the manager auditing and foreign bills. Here in this company existed a deposit for the past 6 years with A/C No:ECB2446983652 which belongs to late Dr Malik Mustafa an Arabian Nationality who worked with Shell Development Company here in West Africa, who died on September 11 in the United States Bomb Attack.

When I discovered that non of his relatives came for this deposit, I decided to carry out a system investigation and discovered that non of the family member nor relations of the late person is aware of this deposit.This is the story in a nutshell.

Now I want someone from overseas who will be presented to the company as the bonafide next of kin so that this fund will be transfered on his/her name, thereafter, I had planned to destroy all related documents for this deposit, It is a careful network and for the past eleven months I have worked out everything to ensure a hitch-free operation,The deposit is intact and stands at-(US$7.5M) Seven million five hundred thousand united states dollars.

what is needed now is a foreigner then i will forward you with related information to back-up this claim successfully.

Now my questions are:
1. Can you handle this project?
2. Can I give you this trust?
3. What will be your commission? If you can sponsor this transfer, as i have maped out 10% of the said fund for charity.

Please consider this and get back to me as soon as possible, Finally,it is our humble prayer that the information as contained herein be accorded the necessary attention, urgency as well as the secrecy it deserves.

To prove to you how authentic this great opportunity mean to both of us,I hereby assure you that if we do not have this fund lifted in 10 days time upon the day of application,then withdraw from this transaction.

Please for our subsiquent communication and contacts kindly send me the following when replying :
1,Your private mobile number.........
2,Contact address.........................
3,Your real names..........................
4,Fax number .............................
5,You shall also open an empty/blank Bank account which shall have no money on it to avoid conflict between the both of us , this is where this funds shall be transfered into.

I expect your urgent response if you know and believe you can handle this project, send me an email for confirmation at hussheem2007@yahoo.com

Yours Respectfully ,

Dr.Hussein Ibraheem

This scammer claims to work for Amstel Pilsner Beer, and claims that I have won $1.5M.

Which of course I haven't!

Personally I would have preferred some beer.

Amstel Pilsener Beer,
Herengracht 282,
1016 BX Amsterdam.
Postbus 3462,
1001 AG Amsterdam.

Good Day,

We are pleased to inform you that you are amongs the ten winners of One
Million Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro (€1,550.000.00) from
Amstel Pilsener Beer Company Annual Promotions.

Due to mix up of Numbers and Names, we advice you keep your winning
information very confidential till your claims has been processed and
your prize / money Remitted to you. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants, on that regards you are to quote your REF:7649082 and
PIN: 5628454 number when contacting the payment officer with the
details below for the release of your prize.

Name:Mr.Bianca Eppinga
Email:amstelrewardpromo1@yahoo.co.uk

Congratulations once more on your winning award.

Accordingly.

Mr.Hendrik Klaas.
Amstel Pilsener Promotional Officer.

This scammer seems to think that I will be suitably impressed by him assuming the title of Doctor.

I am not.

LOTTERY TICKET NUMBER; CA235676778
S.F.C.N: ALC1679087678/2006/TH
Batch Number VCF:578999008777AAF

We wish to inform you of the yearly sweepstakes program that youre-mail addresshas won an award sum of a total cash prize of 1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION,Dollars)in the 2nd category.

Do contact the PROCESSING DEPARTMENT detail below for your Claim. You areadvised to quote your BATCH NUMBER AND TICKET NUMBER for your claim.

DR.LUKE DAVIES.
Promo Claims Manager.
Email:ecoworldintern@gawab.com
ecoworldintern@aim.com
TEL: +31-610-698-963.
***********************************************
Yours faithfully,
MR.JOSS BOUMAN (Mrs.).
TEL/Fax; 0031-610-698-903
INTERNET SWEEPTSTAKES LOTTERY COORDINATOR.

What a twat!

From Steve Konan
Medical student
Of The University
Abidjan Ivory Coast
West Africa

Dear,

I know that my message will come to you as a surprise since I don’t know you in person or met with you before, but I am of the believe that you would be obliged to come to my assistance after hearing about my situation.
I was, until recently, a Medical student of the University of Abidjan, Ivory Coast West Africa.

I am the only Son of late Mr Frederick Drogba Konan. My father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant based in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outing to discuss on a business last year.

When my mother died on the October 1987, my father took me so special because I am motherless. Before the death of my father last year, in a private hospital here in Abidjan. He secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has a sum of US$ 16,500,000 left in account in a bank here in Abidjan, that he used my name for the next of kin in deposit of the fund. He also explained to me that it is because of this wealth that he was poisoned by his business associates.

1)I am honourably seeking your assistance to provide a bank account where this money will be transferred to.

2)You will serve as the guardian of this funds since I am a Boy of 20 years.

3)You will make arrangement for me to come over to your country after the
money has been transferred to you.

I have plans to do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production. This is my reason for writing to you. Please if you are willing to assist me please indicate your interest.

I am willing to offer you 15% of the total sum as compensation for your effort/input after this successful transfer of this fund to your nominated account overseas.

Finally if you have any question as regards this transaction contact me so that I will send you documents of this fund. Note that the confidentiality of this transaction would be highly appreciated in replying soonest.

Thanks and best regards.

Steve Konan

This scam seems to be becoming rather more popular in the last month or so. I have received about 5 requests for bookings in my non existent restaurant.

They all request that I help them purchase a batch of mobile phones.

My assumption is that they acquire the phones from the hapless victim, before the victim realises that the credit card details given are fake.

Doubtless there are people in the world who are foolish enough to fall for this.

Dear Sir / Madam,

Allow me to announce you my desire to seek your collaboration .

Indeed I am Mr. Steeve KOFFI, the owner of a very big Company of export and import, manufacture... in Ivory Coast and due to the partnership signed between new collaborators and my company, I would like to reserve your restaurant for February 20th 2007.

I would like to be in contact with the person in charge of the restaurant.

My budget for this reception is 8.000€ ( 9.100 USD) planned for a cocktail and a dinner (From 6:00 P.M to 11:00 P.M).

I want the best for this business reception and all that is essential to insure the good progress of this reception.

The reservation is for 15 guests but if it is possible to reserve the complete restaurant there is no problem. Is it possible for you to give me the best services with this budget?

I wish to settle the payment in advance by credit card that you will charge directly at your restaurant and I would like to know if you have the necessary equipment for this transaction ( The POS machine).

This said I still need your assistance to have 10 Cells phones which will serve for rewarding the best 10 employees of my company. Cells phones will be put back to them during a trade fair which I will organize before our arrival to your restaurant.

Our choice concerned to cells phones which are not yet sold in our market .

We would thus want that you find us these cells phones in your region knowing that they will there be less expensive.

It is about:


NOKIA N93.................................................................... 10 pieces

As soon as you will have the quotation for these cells phones from a phone seller , I thus ask you to send it to me by including the expenses of reservation of the restaurant without forgotten the shipping cost of the cells phones by DHL Express.

To thank you for the remarkable work which you will have made to help us to get the cells phones on time, we agreed, the steering committee and I to give you a personal 1.000 € as personal commission.

To finish I let you know that the payment of our invoice (Restaurant + Cells phones + DHL Shipping cost + Your commission) will be made by credit card that you will have to charge at your Restaurant through the your POS machine as I have already explained it to you higher. Hoping to count on your whole arrangement,

I am looking forward to your fastest confirmation.

Regards



Mr Steeve KOFFI
Administrateur ,ETS HB, 43 rue du canal
Abidjan Côte d Ivoire
tel: +225 06 28 91 11
tel: +225 06 28 91 11

This scammer claims to be Director of Audit and Account...I think he means Accounting!

However, English and grammar is not really the scammers' hallmark.

Anyway, this guy despite claiming to be in a very responsible position wants me to help him commit fraud. He then goes on to ask me to confirm that I will never cheat him.

Given that he is asking me to steal, and by definition confirm that I am dishonest, what good would my assurance be?

From The Office of Mr karem Ahmed
Director Audit and Account dept.
African development bank (ADB)
West Africa.
Tel+226 78 84 78 89


Transfer of ($ 25,200.000.00) twenty five million, two hundred thousand dollars I am mr Ibrahim Rashid, the auditor general of african development bank here in burkina faso.

During the course of our auditing; i discovered afloating fund in an account opened in the bank by mr john korovo, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner ofthe
account died in the (Beirut-bound charter jet) plane crash on the 25th december 2003 in cotonou (republic of Benin).
Here is the(website=http://www.cnn.com/2003/world/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html).

And since then nobody has operated on this account again,the owner of this account is mr john korovo a foreigner, and a traderwho trade on gold and mining and he died, since 2003 and no other personknows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other
beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that mr johnkorovo die along with his entire family.

The amount involved is ($ 25.2 m) twenty-five million, two hundred thousand united states dollars only , i am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, with valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any
foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign account because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the account, mr john korovo is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a foreign account.

I need your strong assurance that you will never, never cheat me as soon as this fund hit into your account. with my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. the bank official will prove all documents of transaction immediately for you to receive this fund leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence.

i will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately i hear from you that you are ready receive this fund in your account .at the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,while 10% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during
the process of transferring.

please if you are interested forward to me your;

(1) full name:

(2) sex:

(3) company: if any

(4) full contact address:

(5) phone:

(6) cell:

(7) fax

(8) city:

(9) state:

(10) zip code

(11) country:

(12) occupation:

(13) age

(14) yours truly



Best Regard.
Mr karem Ahmed

I have won the $500K "consolation" prize of a fake lottery.

I am very unimpressed...given that it is a fake, they could have awarded me first prize, surely?

POWERBALL LOTTO. Bv
POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game 2007,

Date:4th 01 2007
Ref Nr: PBL/CN/6654/CP
Dear Consultation Prize Winner,


CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE

Europe/ America private international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, POWERBALL LOTTO Group International, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 24th July, 2006 POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The UNITED KINGDOM.

Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art,literature,projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education.

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners Your email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a consultation cash prize of US $ 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only. The POWERBALL LOTTO Group. BV, have approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.

Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize. For due processing of you r winning claim, please contact the DPU Information Officer Mr James Cole who has been assigned to assist you.You are to contact him with the following details for the release of your winnings.

1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Sex
4. Nationality
5. Present Location


powerballagent5@excite.com
Tel: 44 702-407-9333


Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consoltation prize winning, we hope you will part take our forth coming POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel Email-games.

Regards
Mrs Nelly White
(Group Coordinator)
Record Winning $365 Powerball Jackpot Claimed by 8 Co-Workers!
Eight workers from a ConAgra ham processing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, stepped forward to claim the record $365 million Powerball jackpot from last Saturday night, February 18th. The seven men and one woman said they and others often pooled their money together when the jackpots reached $40 million or so. The winning numbers were 15, 17, 43, 44 and 48, with a Powerball of 29. The Power Play multiplier was 4. (more...)



CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

Oh joy, another fake lottery win.

However, as I keep telling the scammers I don't get out of bed for less than 10M EURO's.

TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427
LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of the LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE. LOTTO NL draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer ballot search from the internet as part of our international promotions program which we conduct every year. No tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address attached to serial number 25-6565 drew the lucky numbers 6-13-18-24-33-39 which consequently emerged you as one of first fifty (10) lucky winners in this category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 1,000,000.00 (One Million EURO) in cash credited to file LR/19-CH/4310. This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000 (Ten Million) Euro shared amongst the first fifty (10) lucky winners in this category.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for LOTTO NL. The estimated 10 million jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in Europe history. The biggest was the 163 million jackpot that went to two winners in a Febuary 2000 drawing of The Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.Your fund is now deposited in an offshore bank with a hardcover insurance. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by the general public.


NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank.Also give them the following
informations
Name
Telephone numbers and fax
Age
Address
Occupation
REF
Number: NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP.



CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. To begin your claims,
kindly contact the paying bank with the below information:



***********************************************
Contact person:Mr Patrick Rowley
International Remittance Officer
E-mail: unioncrbnk2@aim.com

Your claims agent will assist you in the processing and remittance of your prize funds into your designated bank account.Note that all prize funds must be claimed not later than One month. After this date all funds will be returned to the LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please endeavor to quote your Reference and Batch numbers in every correspondence with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thank you for being part of our promotions
program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Joy phillips

This scamming scumbag would have me believe that he is an honest man, he notes that I may have trouble believing this given the "amount of fraudulent activities now in place".

Quite!

Unfortunately, he then goes on to blot his copy book; by asking me to help him commit fraud, and steal a non existent $9M from the non existent account of a non existent dead man.

This is of course 100% risk free!

FROM THE DESK OF MR.USMAN DIEBU
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION OF
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA).
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.
TEL: 00226 764-28-973
Dear Friend,
I am MR USMAN DIEBU the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Bank of Africa (BOA) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso West-Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction. This message may come to you as a surprise and I know it will be very difficult for you to believe due to the rate of fraudulent activities now in place, but this is quite different if you can grant me the chance to prove it.

During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person Mr.Andreas Schranner who died on Monday 31 july, 2000 a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation before our discovery to this development. The said amount was U.S $9.8.M (Nine million eight hundred United States dollars). As it may interest you to know, I got your impressive information through yahoo search here in Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso after fasting and praying on a reliable partner who could assist me wholeheartedly with out betraying me.

Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bona fide next of kin to the deceased, to get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity. In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant (A Banker),we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.

This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavit of trust of oath to the Bank and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as gratification, while the both of us take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer and also telephone bills, while 60% will be for me. Please, you have been advised to keep "top secret" as I am still in service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with you.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account and ask me to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you advice us to invest in. All other necessary vital information will be sent to you when I hear from you. I look forward to receive your hansom reply or you call me on my private phone number, TEL: 00226 764-28-973

Yours faithfully,
MR. USMAN DIEBU

Oh joy, I have won a fake lottery!

Be still my beating heart!

NOTE: READ CAREFULLY AND STRICTLY FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS



CONGRATULATIONS!!
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
KROPAAR STRAAT 34, 1032LA, AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS




Ref. Number: S7U/105/644/0099
Batch Number: 0285/343-SU12




Dear winner,



We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 12th January 2007,Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 1942896-7053 with drew lucky numbers 15-0-19-41-60- 95-5which which consequently won in the 1st category,Therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,500,000.00 Euros (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros.This is from a total cash prize of 3 Million Euros,shared amongst the First Three lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw
system and extracted from over 25,000 companies email addresses and 30,000,000 Individual email
addresses from Australia,New Zealand, America,Europe,North America and Asia as part of
International Promotions Program.
Revenue for this programme is derived from the financing from major multinational firms cut across
the European community.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our Netherlands
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this,your One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros)would be released to you by our payment office in Europe. contact him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.Please be warned To filefor your claim,please contact our fiduciary agent:



Mr Dennis Harry ,
Claims processing manager
EUROPW LOTTO PLUS LOTTERY
email:europwlot5@aim.com
Tel: +00 31 642 709 997
Fax: +00 31 847 233 044
.

Immediately to process your winning which will not take more than 10 working days from today.
Congratulations once more



Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Rachel Everson.
Lottery Coordinator
EuroPW Lottery Program.