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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Luck of the Irish


Boy am I lucky. To Be Sure To be Sure....

It's funny, I just don't remember sending that email.

IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY



The Irish Lottery
P O Box 1010
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
06/05/2007.

Dear winner,

This mail is to bring to your notice that your email emerged as one of
our winning email address in our just concluded Irish Lottery Board
sweepstakes programme that made you automatically a winner of the sum
of £750,000.00(GBP)
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your coupon.
In view of this, your £750,000.00(GBP) will be released to you by
any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him or her.For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!
To file for your claim, please contact our Claims Agent and fill the
payment processing form and send it to our claims agent immediately.

Name Of Claims Agent: Mr. Scorry Cole
Email address : irish_contact_agent07@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+44-703-572-9153

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
1.FULL NAMES:________________________
__________
2.ADDRESS:________________________________________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:________________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________
10.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________
11. COUNTRY________________________________

Yours faithfully,
Sir Kolyn Perkins.
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Thanks to Snoskred, in comments and the very useful scamomatic, I can confirm the bleeding obvious.

Please carefully review the following Scam-O-Matic results:
  • This email looks like a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
    1. They do not notify winners by email.
    2. You can not win without first buying a lottery ticket.
    3. They do not randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
    4. They do not use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
    5. They do not tell you to call a mobile phone number.
    6. They do not tell you to keep your winnings secret.
    7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
    Any "courier service", "lawyer" or "bank" that a fake "lottery" may have introduced you to is also fake!
  • The following phrases should put you on alert:
    • "claims agent":
      real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent"
  • This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
    • +447035729153 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
  • This email lists free webmail addresses. Besides personal use for legitimate purposes, use of such addresses is also typical for scams. NOTE: Lotteries, banks, government agencies and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
    • irish_contact_agent07@yahoo.co.uk (Yahoo, United Kingdom; can be used from anywhere worldwide)

Thank you for using Scam-O-Matic. If you found the results from this check useful then please mention www.scamomatic.com to your friends, family and co-workers, so they can also use it to check out and report suspicious emails that may have been sent to them by criminals.

Once you have received any scam emails, it means the scammers know your email address. You will probably receive further scam emails. Therefore we recommend that you bookmark www.scamomatic.com (Ctrl+D) in your web browser for when you may need it again.


54 comments:

Crushed said...

The great thing about these is no matter how many you delete, more will come.
And some of them ARE downright funny.

I think there's a lot to be said for posting these scams openly.
Hell, they could have a blog of their own.

Crushed said...

One mistake they make, is that Irish public officials may not use BRITISH titles of honour publicly.

Snoskred said...

Hey, that's my Irish Lottery scammer gang. ;) We've been tracking them for a good couple of years now. They often send their mails with a CC list of addresses attached, all of whom we warn. If you did have a cc list of email addresses with this one can you let me know?

You would be surprised at the amount of people they do manage to scam, especially people in non-english speaking countries like Russia, Asia and the Middle East. We eventually talked the real Irish Lotto site into putting up a warning but that took a lot of emails and a lot of effort. ;(

There are a lot of sites where these kinds of emails are archived. Sephy and I run four blogs on blogspot - 419 Letter Repository - Job Scam Repository - Lotto Scam Repository and Miscellaneous Scam Repository. There's the Scam Email Repository. There's Joe Wein's Site (he is currently under ddos attack by a group of spammers none too happy about the excellent work he's doing but this link should work) and there's urgentmessage.org as well. I may have forgotten some. ;) There's a lot of people working to hurt these scammers around the place.

You can submit emails to Joe Wein via the Scam-O-Matic. It is worth doing because a lot of potential victims google something from the emails and get warned as a result of it. If you have the time make sure to submit any scam emails. :)

James Higham said...

Truth is, I thought it was for real. How naive does that make me?

Colin Campbell said...

Yes I got the usual Nigerian one and one in French, which you would understand, James, from The Bill Gate Foundation.

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