fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Fraud email example:
From: oslo_lottery2005@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:23:24 +0200
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATIONS
EMAIL;smith_brown_2005@yahoo.co.uk
NOTIFICATION OF YOUR LOTTO WINNING
We are pleased to inform you from OSLO LOTTERY. of the Lottery Held on
4TH of JULY 2005, which your
e mail address happens to, be One of our category (A) winner, from the
announcement today 13th JULY,2005 as one of our New Year lucky
winners of the OSLO LOTTERY draws. Participants in the draws were
selected through a computer ballot System drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail
addresses of individuals and Companies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East and New Zealand as part of our
electronic business Promotions Program.
You are qualified for the draw as a result of you visiting various
websites we are running the Electronic-business promotions for You/Your
Company e-mail address,
attached with REFERENCE NUMBER: ZAR 23457677/2005 BATCH NUMBER:
79-124-WAN with serial number
818-09 drew the lucky numbers 7-8-40-15-3-49 and consequently won our
New Year (2005)lottery You have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of US$2,200,000.00 in cash, this is the winning payout for First
category Winners. This is from the total prize money of US$15.5 Million
shared among the winners
in the First category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your winnings should be claimed from our paying Agents. (Greenland
Finance Limited) as we have notified them. Due to the mix-up that may
arise from emails of winnersand numbers we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public
notice untilyour claim has been processed and your money remitted to
you. This is part of oursecurity protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by
participants of this program.
To begin your claim, please contact our paying agent/company who also
Will be your claims agent.
SMIH BROWN
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT
GREENLAND FINANCE LIMITED.
MELVILLE,
SOUTH AFRICA
EMAIL;smith_brown_2005@yahoo.co.uk
For due processing and remittance of your prize money, you are to
contact your claims agent not later than two weeks after notification.
After this date all funds will be
returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in
every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent. REFERENCE NUMBER: ZAR
23457677/2005 BATCH
NUMBER: 79-124-WAN SERIAL NUMBER: 818-09 Also to begin your Claim send
to your claims agent the Following
information.
1) BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS
2) FULL NAMES
3) MAILING ADDRESS
4) PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS
5) AMOUNT WON.
6) AGE
Congratulations once again from all our staff, you are obliged by the
management of this Organization that you are to donate Ten percent (10%)
Of your
winning to charity organization here in South Africa.
Sincerely,
THE AWARDS MANAGER,
OSLO LOTTERY SOUTH AFRICA.
9 CHURCH STREET
JOHANNESBURG,
SOUTH AFRICA.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail, Contact
your claims agent with the above email
Anti-fraud resources: