Yay more e-mail scams

Overheal

Because Everybody loves a scam, I'm gonna give you two!

GUINNESS ONLINE LOTTERY
Unit 11, Ashford Industrial Estate,
Shield Road, Ashford, Middx,
TW15 1AU,United Kingdom.

Ref: UK/776090X2/23
Batch: 013/06/8394369

Dear Lucky Winner

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the GUINNESS ONLINE PROMOTION PROGRAMMER, held on the 20th February Your e-mail address was attached to these lucky winning numbers below:09 14 26 28 30 45 38

Which subsequently won you the lottery bonus draw.You have there fore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling)payout in Us dollars;1,120,646.55 in cash credited.In United Kingdom The selection process was carried out through random selection in Our computerized email selection system (ess) from data base of over 100,000 email Addresses drawn from which you were selected.You are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processedand your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem.

To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent MR Richard Cook With the feed Verification/Fund Release Form Below

1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:

Mr Richard Cook.
Tel:+44-703-192-<snip>
Or +44703-194-<snip>
E-mail: [EMAIL="<snipped>@hotmail.com"]<snipped>@hotmail.com[/EMAIL]

Congratulations once again from all our staff for being a part of our
Promotions program.

Guinness emailing me from hotmail.... HOTMAIL. Ewwwwwwww its like email with herpes. And when did they get my email address?

Esteemed Sir/Madam
My name is David Adams a practicing lawyer in the United Kingdom.
I want to seek your candid collaboration in handling a business venture
that I feel would be mutually beneficial to you and I.
May I ask your permission to present you as a beneficiary to the will
of one of my trusted clients? My client and his whole family members
where involved in the Sharja air crash on the 25th of July 2004.
Since after this unfortunate incidence I have not been able to locate
any member of his family to be presented to his bank for claims of his
deposit as the law permits. It is now about time the government of the
United Kingdom convert the money to hers.
On receipt of your response in affirmation of your willingness to work
with me I will send to you full details and more information about
myself and the said funds for your better understanding.
As I am yet to get your consent on this issue I prefer not to divulge
my full identity so as not to risk being publicized which consequence
is detrimental.
I will prefer we communicate for now via email. Subsequently telephone
and fax correspondence would be entertained. However if you would want
a brief chat with me
My personal email address is: a
[EMAIL="<snip>@indiatimes.com"]<snip>@indiatimes.com[/EMAIL]
Yours sincerely
David Adams

people are funny....

speaktofrank

Why have you snipped the email addresses?

AARRRGH

Apart from the obvious scamness, why do they always write like this:

£500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling)

^--- figure explained using words

To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent MR Richard Cook

^--- what company calls their staff members "Mr."

selected.You

^--- why can't they use spaces properly... aarrrgh

MrJoeSoap

I wonder if anyone has ever won something big and ignored it thinking it was spam...

galwayrush

Get some ideas from the scam-baiter web site and play along with them.:D

Genghiz Cohen

You know you did a really bad job of cutting out that email address, it's a hyperlink not just a string of text.

Lots and lots of spam going around, not so much money scams anymore though, must have gotten tire of me telling them to "**** ****** ** *** ** ***** **** OFF!!"

Sherifu

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

You know you did a really bad job of cutting out that email address, it's a hyperlink not just a string of text.

Indeed, they're still there. No need to snip them anyway.

Doctor DooM

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

You know you did a really bad job of cutting out that email address, it's a hyperlink not just a string of text.

Lots and lots of spam going around, not so much money scams anymore though, must have gotten tire of me telling them to "**** ****** ** *** ** ***** **** OFF!!"

dude, I know this guy right, he was an african prince, but had to escape his country, don't suppose we could use your details to open an account for him? He'll pay you 1,000,000,000( ONE BILLION) dollars!

AARRRGH

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I wonder if anyone has ever won something big and ignored it thinking it was spam...

Yeah! I won some kind of Spanish lotto. I don't remember entering (I must have entered when I was drunk) but I got an e-mail about winning it.

Sent off my application last week. Can't wait to quit my job when the money hits my account.

MrJoeSoap

dublindude wrote: »

Yeah! I won some kind of Spanish lotto. I don't remember entering (I must have entered when I was drunk) but I got an e-mail about winning it.

Sent off my application last week. Can't wait to quit my job when the money hits my account.

Savage! Why not just quit now? Safe as houses.

Genghiz Cohen

dublindude wrote: »

Yeah! I won some kind of Spanish lotto. I don't remember entering (I must have entered when I was drunk) but I got an e-mail about winning it.

Sent off my application last week. Can't wait to quit my job when the money hits my account.

Yeah like Mr. Soap said, tell your boss to shove it up his/her arse and kick their child in the head and walk out, better still if they're in a meeting.

Overheal

And since when does Guinness need to operate its promotions from the uk...

i snipped them (or tried...) cos I know theres rules on boards against posting addresses.

but if a mod wants to give me the green light ill post em back up and you can spam the hell out of them all you like.

galwayrush

dublindude wrote: »

Yeah! I won some kind of Spanish lotto. I don't remember entering (I must have entered when I was drunk) but I got an e-mail about winning it.

Sent off my application last week. Can't wait to quit my job when the money hits my account.

Dammit, i thought i was the only winner in the Spanish Lottery, they even had the money made out to US Dollars and it was to be collected through their Canadian office.:(

eoin5

All these years and they still cant use capitals properly, maybe is a secret code between scammers or something?

galwayrush

eoin5 wrote: »

All these years and they still cant use capitals properly, maybe is a secret code between scammers or something?

No, it's simply down to their stupidity, sadly there are potential victims out there who are even more stupid than them.

Loomis

I liked this one I got today. Short and sweet.
I am Mr. Wang Hongzhang, Chief Disciplinary Officer, People's Bank of China (PBC).I have an obscured business proposal of US$24.5million for you.
Please reach me promptly if interested.
Kind Regards,
Wang Hongzhang

Sherifu

Mr Wang wants you to reach him promptly?

EdgarAllenPoo

Hey, my borther got an email saying he was getting a bill for some stuff that he's never even heard of, they had his name and full address too. He thought I had ordered something and was having it sent to his house.

End of the day if you don't recognise the email address, don't even open the email, mark it as spam and be done with it.

Loomis

Sherifu wrote: »

Mr Wang wants you to reach him promptly?

Oh you're bold

Black Swan

Guinness from the UK? You know something that's brewing wrong from the start! Oh, I know they had a license, just like Canada, but it just didn't taste the same, nor would spam canned in the UK...