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Armalite
2nd October 2006, 11:31 AM
I think I got me a new scam here. I just recieved this dumb email.

From: "AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ." <australia_prog2006@hotmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:28:17 +0000

Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released on the 1st of October 2006, from the
Australian
International Lottery programme,which is fully based
on an electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address
was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102
and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the
lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus
number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the
second category.

You hereb have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the total cash
prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this
category. All participants were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred
00thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia,United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotion program which is conducted annually. This
Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate
of some multinational companies as part of their
social responsibility to the citizens in the
commmunities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within
our European representative office in Amsterdam,
Holland as indicated in your play coupon and your
prize of US$1,000,000.00 will be released to you
from
this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope that
with part of your prize, you will participate in our
end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.To file for your claim, please
contact our claims department through the claims
agent:
Name:Mr.Richard Spencer
Tell: +234 803-7916034
E-mail:richard_spencer_claimsdept@yahoo.com or
australianlotto_intl_claimsdept@yahoo.com


Please quote your reference, batch and winning number
which can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and
telephone number to help locate your file easily.For
security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
information confidential from the public until your
claim is processed and your prize released to you.This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participants or unofficial
personnel.Note: all winnings MUST be claimed by the
30th November, 2006; otherwise all funds will be
returned
as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organisations.

ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS
AUTOMATICALLYDISQAULIFIED.
YOURS SINCERELY,
Mr.James Ross
Autralian Lottery International (co-ordinator)

Stone
2nd October 2006, 11:37 AM
Hmm, seems to be a variant on the Nigerian benefactor scam. I'll bet that if you contact them they'll want access to your bank acc to deposit the money and you know the rest.

DoctaD
2nd October 2006, 01:41 PM
Is there something to do with Nigerian law which makes scams like this more plausable?

Stone
2nd October 2006, 03:11 PM
Probably that if they scam somebody and are tracked they cannot be extradited.

Armalite
2nd October 2006, 03:48 PM
I've gotten "Nigerian" scams from all sorts of places, including Ireland. I don't think its any particular peculiarity about Nigeria, just that a lot of poverty stricken people there are trying to get easy money.

Jarmungand
2nd October 2006, 04:57 PM
asdf

AionSan
2nd October 2006, 05:36 PM
I've gotten "Nigerian" scams from all sorts of places, including Ireland. I don't think its any particular peculiarity about Nigeria, just that a lot of poverty stricken people there are trying to get easy money.

"Poor" people actually having/using computers and spam servers to try to rip people off.

DoctaD
2nd October 2006, 05:37 PM
Ok, this lottery scam doesn't make a bit of sense.

Obviously the mark gives out bank details in order to receive funds.

So with these details, how exactly is the money going to be taken from the account?

So a direct debit agreement can be faked and money moved out this way. As soon as the mark realises there has been money taken, the account will be frozen.

Unless the scammers have a bank working on their behalf, I don't see how anything but human stupidity can be profitable.

Jarmungand
2nd October 2006, 11:50 PM
asdf

Nox (ADVANCED)
3rd October 2006, 01:36 AM
but what if u opend up another account that had nothing to with personal one?

madscientist
3rd October 2006, 06:59 AM
Whatever AionSan a.k.a. Dr. Don't Know Shit, I'm poor as fuck and here I am.

I love these scammers... I might have to ring up that dude.

Jarmungand
3rd October 2006, 10:36 PM
asdf

Armalite
6th October 2006, 07:36 PM
As anybody who has seen Dave Chappelle's skit about the give a kid an N64 skit knows, you can have electronics without having food.

Nox (ADVANCED)
24th November 2007, 06:09 AM
From: Ms Stella Moroba to you.

Dearest One,

REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,
permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I know this may sound strange to you , receiving a mail from an unknown person, but my condition has forced me to do that.

I'm Ms.Stella Moroba 19 years old,the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Moroba my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip,my mother died when i was a baby.

Before the death of my father on April. 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly
called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Two million Five hundred thousand United State Dollars USD ($2.5million) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in Abidjan.

He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank with the view of my making use of it for investment purposes after my education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D' Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards to capture the commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where i am now.

For this ugly development in this country, i have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late for me in doing that. I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel
management. Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, i am willing to offer you, 30 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Please tell me if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, i will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as i want to come over to stay with you parmanently.

The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over.I shall also send my pictures to you and shall also need yours own too. No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those people that killed my Daddy are still after me.

Please reply me through this my private email box: (stella_03moraba@yahoo.fr) or you can as well call me through my number+22509428599 for more explaination regarding my situation here.

Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Ms.Stella Moroba
Email:(stella_03moraba@yahoo

odin_dax
24th November 2007, 06:20 AM
From: Ms Stella Moroba to you.

Dearest One,

REQUEST TO BE MY GUARDIAN AND THEN HELP ME TO COME OVER YOUR COUNTRY:

Good day and how are you today? I hope fine? After going through your profile,
permit me to inform you of my desire of asking you to be a guardian or foster parent to me and then help me out in what i am about to tell you. I know this may sound strange to you , receiving a mail from an unknown person, but my condition has forced me to do that.

I'm Ms.Stella Moroba 19 years old,the only daughter of Late Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Moroba my father was a very wealthy cocoa merchant here in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote D'Ivoire. He was poisoned to death by his business associates on one of their outings on a business trip,my mother died when i was a baby.

Before the death of my father on April. 2006 in a private hospital here in Abidjan, he secretly
called me by his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Two million Five hundred thousand United State Dollars USD ($2.5million) deposited in a suspense account in one of the big banks here in Abidjan.

He then strongly advised me not to seek for assistance in the investment of the money from his lawyer nor any of his friend here but to seek for a foreign partner from a country of my choice (outside our country,Cote D'Ivoire) that will assist me in the wise investment of the money.I have since left the money in the bank with the view of my making use of it for investment purposes after my education carrier here. But as you may be already aware by now, our country (Cote D' Ivoire) is presently at political crises. Rebels have already taken over the whole Northern part of the country and making efforts towards to capture the commercial center of the country, Abidjan, where i am now.

For this ugly development in this country, i have now decided to take quick actions and have this money transferred out of this country before it is too late for me in doing that. I now want to transfer it out and use it for investment purpose like real estate management or hotel
management. Because of this i am honorably seeking your assistance in the following ways:
(1) To serve as a guardian to me and then assist me transfer the money into your bank account. (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my education and then settle there parmanently. If you accept to stand as my guardian or foster parent to me, i need not discuss on any percentage with you as you have to see the whole money as yours and then assist me invest it. But if you still want a percentage, i am willing to offer you, 30 % of the total money as compensation for your assistance. Please tell me if you feel the percentage i offered is not ok by you.As soon as i receive your concrete assurance to assist me with my proposal and also your full contact address/phone number, i will then give the bank your contact information and then tell them to transfer the money into your account as i want to come over to stay with you parmanently.

The bank will then contact you and communicate with you on the transfer. You shall then be giving me information on when the transfer will be over.I shall also send my pictures to you and shall also need yours own too. No matter what your decision may turn out to be, please i beg you to keep this highly secret for my safety, as i believe that those people that killed my Daddy are still after me.

Please reply me through this my private email box: (stella_03moraba@yahoo.fr) or you can as well call me through my number+22509428599 for more explaination regarding my situation here.

Thanks and God bless you .
Best regards,
Ms.Stella Moroba
Email:(stella_03moraba@yahoo

lol, I needed a good laugh!

Heavy_'TalMeMan
24th November 2007, 06:30 AM
That's the most fucked up scam I've seen as of lately.


I've recieved one as well.

More of the classic business type though.

----------------------------------------------

ATTENTION "BUSINESS PROPOSAL"
FROM:Mr.Zhi Ming
Hang Seng Bank Ltd
(email ad, blah blah blah)

Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Zhi Ming, I work with one
of the biggest banks ( Hang Seng Bank ) in Hong Kong,Before the U.S and
Iraqi war, our client Fadi bassem a business man made a numbered fixed
deposit of (346,736,899..68 HKD) for 18 calendar months, this is
valued to Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars
only
in my branch. Upon maturity several notice was sent to him, even
during the war, two years ago (2003).

Again after the war another notification was sent and still no response
came from him. We later found out that fadi bassem and his family had
been killed during the war in a bomb blast that hit his home at
Mukaradeeb where his personal oil well was.

After further investigation it was also discovered that Fadi bassem did
not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper
work of his bank deposit. And he also confided in me the last time he
was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank.

So, Forty Four million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars is
still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it.
What bothers me most is that according to the to the laws of my country
at
the expiration four years six months the funds will revert to the
ownership of the Hong Kong Government if nobody applies to claim the
funds. My suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to
stand as the next of kin to fadi bassem so that you will be able to
receive his funds.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE:

I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we
shall come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will
prepare
the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to
fadi bassem , all that is required from you at this stage is for you to
provide me with your Full Names and Address so tahat the attorney can
commence his job.

After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file
in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and
letter of probate in your favour for the move of the funds to an
account
that will be provided by you.There is no risk involved at all in the
matter as we are going adopt a legalized method and the attorney will
prepare all the necessary documents.

Please endeavour to observe utmost discretion in all matters
concerning this issue.

Oncethe funds have been transferred to your nominated bank account we
shall share in the ratio of 70% for me, 30% for you . Should you be
interested please send me your full names and current residential
address
and I will prefer you to reach me on the email address below(
email ad, blah blah blah]) and finally after that I
shall provide you with more details of this operation.

Your earliest response to this letter will be appreciated.

Kind Regards

Mr Zhi Ming
(email ad, blah blah blah)
---------------------------------------

You'd have to be an idiot to believe this scam.

You think I should bait?

I still remember the "I LUV TEH RORTA".
Cracks me up.

Nox (ADVANCED)
24th November 2007, 07:52 AM
I didnt belive it at all. What made me post it was her fathers occupation. A cocoa merchant.

Th0r
24th November 2007, 11:10 AM
LOL
There's a sucker born every minute and ya gotta take em for a ride...
Lol. some idiot will think its real and then. LOL.

bean9045
3rd December 2007, 08:32 AM
The Camelot Group,:
Operators of The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
REF:UKL/74A0802742006


BATCH:2006UKL-01

LOTTERY NOTICE
The United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform
you that the results of the E-mail address ballot lottery
international program by Great Britain held on 25th of
November.2007. Your email account have been picked as a
winner of a lump sum pay out of Eight hundred and ninty-one
thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four Great Britain pounds
(?891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited to
file REF NO. REF: UKL/74-A0802742006. This is from
total prize money of GBP ?4,459,670.00 shared among
the FIVE (5) international winners in this category. All participants
for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide
Web through computer balloting system drawn from over
100,000 names database, union associations and corporate bodies that
are listed online. This promotion is this year's United Kingdom
National Lottery New Year bonanza. The Camelot Group, operators of the
United Kingdom National Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board

and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming
Regulators (IAGR). All winning must be claimed not later than 14
working days from this notification. After this time all unclaimed
funds willbe retured to European Union Treasury as unclaimed. Please
note in
order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to
quote
your reference number in all correspondence.Be advice to keep your
winning
information confidential until your claims has been processed and your
money remitted to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. To begin your
claim, please contact your fiduciary agent:

MR.Brain Johnson.
Tell:+44-70457-13755
Tell:+44-70457-13670
Tell:+44-7031-956107
Tell:+44-70240-2496
Official Email: uk_lotteryagent070@yahoo.de

He will brief you on steps to be taken for due processing and
remittance of your prize money,

Note below your winning details:
Ticket NA: 22-1356-4096-988
Serial NA069-07
Lucky NA: 12-13-21-26-32-39 Bonus-17
File REF NA: UKL/74-A0802742006
BATCH NA: 2006UKL-01
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
Mrs Dianne Thompson
Online Coordinator,
CAMELOT GROUP,
Operator of The National Lottery.

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the Winners
will result to disqualification.NOTE: Do not reply this mail. You
are to contact your claims officer immediately. In order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote
your reference number in every one of your correspondences.
*IMPORTANT* FILL OUT THIS WINNERS VERIFICATION FORM BELOW:
Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize will be duly
processed and settlement made upon certification.
Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space
provided below for record purposes to facilitate our immediate
commencement of your claims process. The completed form should be sent
to your

Fiduciary agent for immediate commencement of prize remittance.

*Name of Beneficiary:...................................... ...........
*Address:......................................... ..........
*City/State:...............................
*Nationality:..........................
*Sex:...........
*Email Address:................................
*Tel:............................
*Fax (if any)...........................
*Occupation:..........................
*Next of Kin:...................
*Age:.....................
*AMOUNT WON:...................
*In Figures:.......................
*In Words:............................................ ......
*Lucky Nos:..........................................
*Ticket No:...........................

OFFICE USE ONLY
Verified by:________________
Confirmed by: ________________
FIDUCIARY AGENT SIGNATURE:________________




What are they getting at? I don't understand what I should do.

DIzzIE
3rd December 2007, 09:43 AM
They are 'getting at' your money. Once you reply to the initial email you will be told that in order to transfer your winnings to your bank account you must first pay a 'minimal' processing fee. Obviously you won't see any actual winnings.

As for what you should do, check out http://forum.rorta.net/showthread.php?t=348 and www.419eater.com. More information on advance fee fraud scams such as this one can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud).

|55555|
3rd December 2007, 09:08 PM
I'd lmao if somebody actually falls for it. In my opinion if you're dumb enough to fall for scams like these then you deserve to be scammed. My email is starting to get flooded with Nigerian scams. >_>