Another email scam alert

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  1. capney

    capney Head Gardener

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    Just recieved this email today.
    They must think I have just arrived on the banana boat!

    He says I`m to keep it top secret !!

    Attention:

    How are you today? I wish to introduce myself as a sympathizer of your situation. I am Dr. James Smith, the Comptroller of Fund Movement Terminal and Director of national warehouse where abandoned fund/valuables consignments are dumped. This is to inform you that fresh arrangement have been made by me to conclude the delivery of your consignment funds to you. I choose to do this because records on your files shows that your consignment has packed for seizure due to lack of compliance of the british laid down rules and regulations.I want to make sure you are ready to work with me, and as well confide in you to make this a success. I found out that your consignment has been lying here due to lack of contact and none payment of delivery cost. I decided to use my good office as the Delivery/Shipment officer in charge of the National Security warehouse. (This is where all the abandoned consignments in london are kept as instructed by the british Government)

    Therefore, this email is highly confidential and top secret. For this reason,you must not inform anybody about this email or my contact with you. You must keep my relationship with you to be topped secret and highly confidential as I have made all arranged for your consignment to be delivered to you.

    CONDITIONS OF THIS DELIVERY
    1. You must keep my relationship with you highly secret/confidential.
    2. You must not expose all the above information to anybody.
    3. You must be willing to act fast on any information and directives given to you.



    Be informed that this arrangement is strictly confidential as this consignment/Payment has been surrendered to the British Government for seizure, Hence my involvement. As soon as I receive your response, further details will be furnished to you accordingly



    Yours Sincerely
    Dr. James Smith
     
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    • Doghouse Riley

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      This is a belter!

      In the past a friend has kept the author of one of these types of scams stringing along for weeks.
       
    • PeterS

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      You will never get your funds now Capney which have been 'lost in space'. You have probably upset 'Dr Smith' by revealing him. :D
       
    • Alice

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      I must be quite intolerant. I can't even bring myself to read to the end of that illiterate nonsense. How do they hope to get away with it.
       
    • ClaraLou

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      Actually that one is quite together compared with some of the stuff I get. A lot of it is penned by kindly Nigerian clergymen who, although horribly burdened with literacy problems, are just dying to give me money. All I need to do is to e-mail my bank details. Then there are all those mysterious lottery wins I've had from draws I never entered ... Here is a selection of recent gems:-

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      I am Mrs. Susan Derrick, I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in New Braunfels Texas. My residential address is as follows.108 Crockett Court. Apt 303, New Braunfels Texas, United States, am thinking of relocating since I am now rich. I am one of those that took part in the Compensation in Nigeria many years ago and they refused to pay me, I had paid over $20,000 while in the US, trying to get my payment all to no avail.
      So I decided to travel down to Nigeria with all my compensation documents, And I was directed to meet Barrister Scott Daniel (SAN), who is the member of COMPENSATION AWARD COMMITTEE and SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA, and I contacted him and he explained everything to me. He said whoever is contacting us through emails are fake. He took me to the paying bank for the claim of my Compensation payment. Right now I am the most happiest woman on earth because I have received my compensation funds of $1,500,000.00 Moreover, Barrister Scott Daniel (SAN) showed me the full information of those that are yet to receive their payments and I saw your name as one of the beneficiaries, and your email address, that is why I decided to email you to stop dealing with those people, they are not with your fund, they are only making money out of you.. I will advise you to contact Barrister Scott Daniel (SAN).
      You have to contact him directly on this information below.
      JOAKIN COMPENSATION HOUSE
      Name : Barrister Scott Daniel (SAN).
      Email: [email protected]
      You really have to stop dealing with those people that are contacting you and telling you that your fund is with them, it is not in anyway with them, they are only taking advantage of you and they will dry you up until you have nothing.The only money I paid after I met Barrister Peter Nelson (SAN) was just $160usd for the paper works, take note of that.
      As soon as you contact him he will send you the payment information which you are to use in sending the payment to him in order for him to obtain the document from the court of law there in Nigeria so that your fund can be transfer to you without any delay just the way mine was being transfer to me.
      Send him the following details if you know you are ready to make the payment so that as soon as he receive your information he will send to you the payment details for sending him the $160usd that is needed for him to get the document that is needed to make the transfer a successful one without any further payment.
      Fill Out the information to him if you are ready to get your fund and also ready to make the payment.
      Your Full Name:...............
      Direct Phone:....................
      Attached valid identification.........
      Country.................
      Occupation:.....................
      Gender:.........
      Age:..............
      Once again stop contacting those people, I will advise you to contact Barrister Scott Daniel (SAN). so that he can help you to Deliver your fund instead of dealing with those liars that will be turning you around asking for different kind of money to complete your transaction.
      Thank You and Be Blessed.
      Mrs. Susan Derrick.
      108 Crockett Court. Apt 303,
      New Braunfels Texas, United States.

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      DEAR,

      WE WRITE TO INFORM YOU THAT YOUR INHERITANCE FUND $21.3M AS DISCOVERED IN OUR BANK IS READY FOR CLAIM. YOU ARE THEREBY, REQUIRED TO FORWARD TO US YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASING OF YOUR MONEY TO YOU. NOTE THAT YOU ARE NOT TO PAY TO RECEIEVE YOUR MONEY.

      WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU.

      RESPECTFULLY,
      REV. PHILIP PAKINSON
      STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
      LONDON .UK.
      TEL:+447035933990


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      DEAR WINNER


      It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read
      it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by National-Lottery,in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.) held on the 7th August 2010,in United Kingdom. Wherein your electronic email address emerged as one of the online winning emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of $852,810:22 (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN DOLLARS TWENTY TWO CENTS)


      Our winners are arranged into four categories with different winning prizes accordingly in each category. They are arranged in this format below:


      CATEGORY NO.OF WINNERS WINNING PRIZES
      1st. 2 $852,810:22 dollars each
      2nd. 8 $500,000.00 dollars each
      3rd. 13 $250,000.00 dollars each
      4th. 27 $100,000.00 dollars each


      We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you. It is important to note that your award information was released with the following particulars
      attached to it.


      (1) Award numbers: UK/22-77-99
      (2) Email ticket numbers: Ticket No :5647560054-188
      (3) Batchnumbers: BatchNo:079/020/zp345
      (4) The file reference numbers: UK/22-77-99
      {5} Serial Numbers:5368/08:


      To file for your claim,Please contact your Validating Officer for VALIDATION of your winning within Twenty-nine working days of this winning notification. Winnings that are not validated within Twenty-nine working days of winning notification are termed void and invalid. You are required to mention the above particulars of your award in every correspondence to enable the Agent validate your winning.


      CONTACT:
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      FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER
      NAME MR.DESMOND BENNY.
      MICROSOFT SECURITY DEPARTMENT(UK).
      E-mail: [email protected]
      *******************************************************************


      The National-Lottery Internet E-mail lottery Awards is
      sponsored
      by our CEO/Chairman, Bill Gates:and a consortium of software promotion companies. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers and other International Companies. The National-Lottery internet E-mail draw is held periodically and is organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide.


      Once again on behalf of all our staff,CONGRATULATIONS!
      Yours faithfully,
      Mrs.Mary Davenport

      COCA-COLA COMPANY OF NIGERIA
      Coca-cola / Acculotto Email Lottery Promo
      P O Box 1012 Victoria Island
      www.acculotto.com


      Are you the owner of this email address or do you have authorized access to it in the absence

      of the owner? If yes! then you have every reason to rejoice as We inform you of the

      announcement made today, You are among the 10 lucky winners of the ACCULOTTO INTERNATIONAL

      PROMOTION PROGRAM that won $800,000.00.

      There is an Email lottery approved by the World Gaming Board and also Licensed by the

      International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).Your email is among the 10 lucky

      winners, that won ($Eight hundred thousand United States Dollars) Each in the just concluded

      draw held to promote coca-cola, sponsored by Acculotto.


      For Prize Claiming, Contact our payment center here in Nigeria with the Information below:

      Full Name: Mr. Alex Cole
      Valid Contact: [email protected]
      Telephone #: +2348087400491

      You are required to detail him your information's below:

      TICKET NUMBER: (7YZ2010)
      BALLOT NUMBER: (BT120/B)
      FULL NAME:
      ADDRESS:
      AGE:
      CITY:
      STATE:
      ZIP CODE:
      DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:
      OCCUPATION:
      COUNTRY:
      CHOOSE A MODE OF PAYMENT BELOW:
      OPTION 1. would you come over to receive your funds?
      OPTION 2. should it be issued and deliver to you in CHECK?


      The Acculotto lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing

      close friends, relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their Claim

      numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real

      winners. So you are hereby strongly advised to keep your winnings strictly confidential until

      you claim your prize. Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the interactive Lotteries

      Board Commission.

      Regards,
      Dr. Edward Frank
      ACCULOTTO! 2010 Lottery Program
      Copyright 2010 AccuLotto Series Program.
      Congratulations once again.
      COCA-COLA COMPANY OF NIGERIA
       
    • Sussexgardener

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      Because they bank on the human trait known as greed.
       
    • capney

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      Think about Alice....If they scam just 1 in 1000 or more, then their work is done.
       
    • capney

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      Hey Clare
      Looks like you are making a collection of them.
      That first one is a cracker:lollol:
       
    • shiney

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      Clare,
      You're such a lucky person and you must be enormously rich by now. I know how you can become even richer as I have contact with some very nice philantropists around the world.

      Just send me your name, address and bank details and I shall see that you have a lot of funds put into your account.
       
    • MartinHp71

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      It would be nice is everyone was sensible and didn't fall for these scams but you read of horror stories of people falling for them or even worse the romance one's where they shell out money for air tickets or visa's or something like that. Personally I think email systems should just stop all emails from Nigeria, that will effect everyone on Nigeria good as well as bad and then the Good might do something some about the bad ...
       
    • Sussexgardener

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      With rerouting ability, the scammers can send their email via another source. And it's not just Nigeria that these emails come from - Russia is just as bad, just not as well publicised.
       
    • Paladin

      Paladin Gardening...A work of Heart

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      Well having sent them my banking details I'm so excited... and can't wait to have all of my money transfered.:usr::hehe:
       
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        shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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        Pal, don't worry, I've received your details and the funds should be winging their way through the ether any day now. :gnthb: :yho:
         
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        • capney

          capney Head Gardener

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          10% introduction fee for me please......
           
        • shiney

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          Robert,
          Of course you can have your usual 10%. Is that plus VAT or are we going to do it cash in hand this time? I won't let anyone know.
           
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