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I realize that I am receiving many scams, especially via my Yahoo mailbox, which is surprisingly bad at catching scams, despite the effort I put trying to train the filtering engine (by telling it whenever it made a wrong decision).

This section contains the collection of scam emails that I received. Some of them I tried to follow up and track down the criminal (not very successful so far), others I just ignore and push to my spam box.

I hope by publishing these scams, it would help protecting others from them. Have fun reading them also :)

My advice in dealing with scam is: be suspicious, ask yourselves before following up on a fortunate opportunity: "is this too good to be true?", then double check by googling the sender email addresses, his name, his company or the email content... Hopefully if it is a scam, you will find that someone else has posted that email in the Internet to warn others. Also, authentic people tend to not use gmail, yahoo mail, or other free email services when they are contacting people regarding a multi-millions or multi-billion dollars business. (I would use my uiuc.edu email)

If you have scam email samples which you want to donate to this collection and publish at my website, please forward them to my address at nguyen? This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (? should be replaced with minh). Be sure to include your name so that I can attribute your contribution. Please change the subject to include "[Scam]" to make sure your email get pass my Gmail spam filtering.

Thanks!

XMas Promo Scam

Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:44 Anh Nguyen

From: James E Covey < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 12:03:52 AM

Subject: YOU HAVE WON AN XMAS BONANZA ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Reply to: James E Covey < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Greetings to you.

This mail is to update you that you have an

xmas bonanza of the sum of $950,000,00,USD,

Contact Person: MR CALVIN BANNICK.

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:45

Lottery Scam 6

Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:41 Anh Nguyen

From: R. Scott Strong < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:39:06 PM

Subject: REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14..Reply To ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Reply to: R. Scott Strong < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14

BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24

TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458

This Email is to inform you that your email address emerged a winner

on our online Draw (#1326), which was played on the Saturday September 06

2008.

Your email was among the six lucky winners that won you the sum of

£737,319 British Pounds Sterling.

For further Information about your Winnings,contact our Lottery

Fiduciary Agent Sir Bill Stone with the following contact Address. Name;Sir

Bill Stone(Esq)

E-mail Address:-

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Telphone Number: +447045706318

Website : http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/results.do

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NOTE YOU ARE TO KEEP YOUR WINNING INFORMATION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL TO YOUR

SELF

TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM,ABUSE ON OUR PROGRAMEE AND ABOVE ALL FOR THE SAFETY OF

YOUR WINNING

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:42

Lottery / Promo Scam 5

Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:18 Anh Nguyen

From: Nokia Promotion Company < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 2:16:11 PM
Subject: End Of Year Selected Winner ( Nokia Promo 2008)
Reply to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

NOKIA END OF YEAR PROMOTION BOARD.
UK OFFICE.
Ref no:NPUK/74-Npl0109872008.

WINNING NOTIFICATION
We wish to inform you that the results of the Nokia E-mail ID lottery
international program by Great Britain held on the 25th of November 2008.You
have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of £172,000 Pound Sterlings
(One Hundred and seventy-two Thousand Pound Sterlings) .
You are to contact our claims agent for validation:

Mr David Cunningham
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Telephone: +447031913983

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM
1.FULL NAMES:________
2.ADDRESS:_______
3.CITY________
4.STATE________
5.POST CODE_______
6.COUNTRY______
7.SEX:_______
8.AGE:________
9.OCCUPATION:_______
10.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________
11.REF No:___________

On behalf of the Nokia E-mail Promotion Board UK, we say a hearty
congratulation.

Sincerely,
Brian Reid
Online Coordinator.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 27 November 2008 20:56

Nigeria Scam 3

Wednesday, 26 November 2008 05:05 Anh Nguyen

From: dr_musa < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
To: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:54:20 PM
Subject: Best regards to all your family all Ami?
Reply to: dr_musa < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Dear friend,

I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise.I got your address through a local Business directory on the web.I must apologize for taking some of your valuable time to explain a proposal that I believe will be of utmost benefit to us.
I am manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of a bank. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 10.000.000.00 MILLION U.S.A in an account that belongs to one of ourforeign customer who died along with his entire family in aplane crash in parsec on monday

Since the bank got information about his death we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release the fund unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim and our banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed after six years,such money will be moved into the banking treasurer as unclaimed fund.

The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin. 25% of the total money will be for you as a foreign partner while 5% will be set asite to cover any expensesthat might be incured during the process oftransfering the fund to your nominated bank account.

If you're willing to handle this deal with me kind get back me with your Private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication/your personal picture to enable me know whom i'm dealling with.I will send to you the application form which you wil apply directly to the bank.
Note:I demand the hightest trust from you to keep this business strictly confidential for security reasons as you may know that the bank don't know that i am the one who contacted you to stand for this claim.
Dr musa ali

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 05:07