rory 0 Posted November 17, 2005 (edited) this is an email i got, im still looking for the catch (apart from all the personal info they are asking for!) .. anyone finds it ill pay you $1,000,000 milliond cjinkos only .. )))))) PS. 1 cjinko = US -$0.01 some tings XXX'ed and 000'ed out for obvious reasons ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Attn:Winner THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY UK HEAD OFFICE SUITE 23-30,LION TOWERS CENTRAL LONDON ENGLAND We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 1st of October 2005. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual FreeLotto Draw. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION POUNDS only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order: (i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11 (ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76 (iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK (iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/7052/UK Please contact the under listed FIDUCIARY Agent as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings: Mr. XXX XXXXX (Agent 1) TEL: 44 000000000 FAX: 44 0000000000 Email: XXXXXX@XXX.XXX STEPS TO CLAIMING YOUR WINNING PRIZE INCLUDE: 1.Quoting your Reference number in all correspondence with the Fiduciary Agent. 2.Winners must send their names, address, telephone number and means of identification (international passport or drivers) license) to the Fiduciary agent for the processing of their winning prize. Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Sincerely, XXXX XXXXX Promotions Manager The Lotto Company UK & Europe. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited November 17, 2005 by Guest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rory 0 Posted November 17, 2005 hmmmm, darnit !! http://www.scamorama.com/lotto.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jasper 0 Posted November 17, 2005 Wow. You’re quick at answering questions, even the ones you ask yourself. It’s the old adage “If it is too good to be true, then is probably is!†Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cooperman 0 Posted November 17, 2005 The only thing that's unusual rory, is this one has a U.K. address. Most of these scams come from either Eire, The Netherlands, or Nigeria. Identity theft is the fastest growing crime here in the U.K., and once some basic information has been handed over, you really don't want to know want can happen!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 0 Posted November 18, 2005 The classical form of this scam in the US generally had the lottery comming out of Ireland, the UK and Canada in that order. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eyecu 0 Posted November 19, 2005 I have recieved in the mail a few different versions of these. They all SCAMS. Throw them away or delete them!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rory 0 Posted November 19, 2005 and there i was thinking, as i sent them a photo, address, name and birthdate, I could be able to buy myself a hummer for new years Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeanMort 0 Posted November 20, 2005 This type of scam made the news here recently. Once you supply all your details they then ask you to pay over some money to cover "admin" costs etc in order to process your claim !! I think you'll get a Homer soon though Doh !! I saw a TV show about two years back detailing the worlds most innovative scams of recent years and there was this one that went like this; These two fresh out of college students set up shop with a PC, telephone and fax line. They constantly procured details of largish sized businesses across the US and proceeded to invoice them a small varying amount of around $50 for "services" they didn't actually do. If it was queried they refunded, if not they carried on invoicing the same co's. Most of these companies never queried these small invoices and only found out when these kids got bust !! They raked in a small fortune. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VST_Man 1 Posted November 20, 2005 Must have been the same "kids" that printed up fake parking tickets and had the "perps" send the money to.......................they also raked in the cash until caught. and then there are the teller card copiers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 0 Posted November 21, 2005 My favorite old school grift is for one person to dress up as a security guard and place an out of order sign on a bank deposit box. Second con man has a phone and is out of sight. Person walks up and gives the guard the night's take. If the person questions the guard gives them either a bank VP's card or security companies card with a phone number that goes back to the second con man. But all of the scams you posted are small time. Some NY Mafia set up a network of ATM's. Ran regular transactions through it but captured the card's info. Every so often they would run a $3.95 or $4.95 charge on the card. They kept it going for five years. They racked up over $20 million and they only got caught because of bad transaction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
