E-LOTTERY DRAW WINNER.

From:	"david burke"
Subject:	E-LOTTERY DRAW WINNER.
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:28:11 -0500

Lucky No: 425448/7785
YOUR WINNING DETAILS
Ref  No: CHN/2551256007/11
Batch No: 14/0017/IPD
serial No: GMLA2-003
Ticket No: 12033
Contact Claim Agent:
eulotteryagent00@netscape.net

Attn: Lottery Winner,

             FINAL NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the staatsloterij.nl
lottery programs held on 16th of April 2007
with your e-mail address attached to one of the winning ticket numbers.
You have therefore been approved for a
lump sum pay out of 500,000,00 euros (Five Hundred Thousand Euros)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!All participants were
selected through a computer ballot system from our sponsors databases,
including over 50,000 companies and 150,000 individual E-mail addresses
and names submitted by our agents drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, North
And South America and around the world.

To begin your claim, do file for the release of your winning by
contacting our accredited agent:

Mr. Smith Roland
Foreign Transfer Manager,
Tel: 0031-614200933
Fax: 0031-847595514
Email: eulotteryagent00@netscape.net

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized to complete the claim process;
winners will be referred to a Foreign Transfer
Manager,to have their winnings notarized, all winners are to cover the
legal charges not STAATSLOTERIJ.NL,Please
note that you will be required to pay for the issuance of your winning
certificate and all winnings must be
claimed not later than 22nd of June 2007,after this date all unclaimed
winnings will be null and void. In Order to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your
reference number and batch numbers in allcorrespondence. Furthermore,
should there be any change of address do  inform our agents as soon as
possible.

You are advised to call your claim agent and also provide him with the
following information:

You Names:........................
Age:..............................
Phone/Fax number:.................
Nationality:......................
Occupation:.......................
Ref Number:.......................
Batch Number:.....................
Ticket Number:....................

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our
promotional program.note: Anybody under the age(s)
of 18 is automatically disqualified.

Yours faithfully
David Burke

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US tops list of spam-offending countries

Marcus Browne ZDNet Australia
Published: 26 Oct 2007 10:35 BST

The US remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries — dubbed the "Dirty Dozen".

The US came in well ahead of its rivals, according to the report, being responsible for 28.4 percent of all spam. South Korea was second (5.2 percent), followed by China (4.9 percent), Russia (4.4 percent) and Brazil (3.7 percent).

"It seems as though a major American spammer is arrested every other week at the moment but, despite these high-profile law-breakers being put away, the US continues to relay far more spam than any other nation on the planet," said Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos, in a statement.

"This level of activity can't be attributed solely to the slick operations of a few cash-hungry criminals. The problem is there are thousands of spammers using many thousands of compromised zombie computers in the US," Theriault said.

The report also identified a growth in malicious spam containing malware, and the virtually overnight rise and fall of PDF spamming.

"The only way we're going to reduce the problem is if US authorities invest a lot more in educating computer users of the dangers, while ensuring ISPs step up their monitoring efforts to identify these compromised machines as early as possible," added Theriault.

source: ZdNet News

Another version of the Nigerian Scam

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:01:07 -0400
From:	"Mr. Jesse Williams"
Reply-to:	mr_scott_gill10@yahoo.dk
To:
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Dear Friend

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?
I hope this mail meets you in a perfect condition. I am using
 this opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our
unfinished transfer of fund your account due to one reason or
 the other best known to you.

But I want to inform you that I have successfully transferred
the Cheque out of the company to someone else who was capable
of assisting me in this great venture.

Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trust worthiness you
showed at the course of the transaction I want to compensate you
 and show my gratitude to you with the sum of $1,000,000.00
(One Million United States Dollars) I have authorized the
finance house where I deposited my money to issue you
international certified bank draft cashable at your bank.

My dear friend I will like you to contact the finance house
 for the collection of this international certificated bank
draft. The name and contact address of the Person with your
 Cheque MR. Scott Gill is as follows.

                   COMPENSATION HEAD OFFICE AND FINACIAL
                   CONTACT AGENT: Mr.Scott Gill
                   EMAIL: (mr_scott_gill10@yahoo.dk)
                   CELL PHONE: +234-703-227-5572


At the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment
 projects which I and my new partner are having at hand
in the United Kingdom.


Below is my contact information in the United Kingdom in
case you want to verify or get any comfirmation from  me
but i want you to be rest assured that your bank draft will
be cashed  at you nominated Bank.

Name:Mr. Jesse Williams
Address:207 Monston Lane Park 407 MJ Leyland United Kingdom.
Telephone number:+447045748506

Finally, remember that I have forwarded instruction to
the finance house on your behalf to send the bank draft
to you as soon as you contact them without delay. Please
I will like you to accept this token with good faith as
this is from the bottom of my heart. Thanks and God bless you
and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.


Your's Faithfully,
Mr. Jesse Williams

Scammers luring Americans with fake check schemes

By Paritosh Bansal
Thu Oct 11, 8:19 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Patricia Soens paid more than $400,000 in processing and other fees to claim a European lottery prize she was told she had won. After realizing she had been conned, she killed herself.

Soens, 56, of Louisiana, fell victim to one of a growing number of scams that use fake checks and the promise of easy money to lure people.

The schemes, which range from fake lotteries to work-at-home offers, exploit the fact that banks have to provide funds from checks, money orders and other financial instruments before they actually clear.

Nearly one in five adult Americans admitted they or a family member have fallen victim to a financial scam of some sort, including fake check schemes, according to a survey by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service along with advocacy groups and companies such as Bank of America, Citigroup and American Express.

The total number of victims of the fake check schemes could run into millions, postal inspectors estimate. Victims typically lose between $3,000 and $4,000, according to an estimate by the non-profit National Consumers League.

"It's much bigger than people realize," said Chief Postal Inspector Alexander Lazaroff, whose office launched a crackdown this year with authorities in Canada, Europe and Africa. "The amount of loss is devastating to anybody."

OLD TRICKS, NEW TWIST

People have been falling for these types of scams for hundreds of years.

The first recorded incident -- a "prisoner scam" -- occurred as far back as 1588, said Peter Anaman, an Internet investigations manager at Covington & Burling in London.

The scammer would tell the victim he represented a rich prince who is in prison and ask for a loan, promising to pay it back after the prince was released.

"It worked at that time," Anaman said.

Now, fraudsters have become far more sophisticated. They have access to better technology, use checks and money orders that look real and can reach many more people through the Internet.

"These are old schemes with very new twists," Lazaroff said.

The latest scams include schemes such as overpayments for items people advertise on popular online classifieds and auction sites such as eBay and Craigslist and business offers from abroad, where a person is asked to help move large sums of money.

The mechanics of these scams are similar. In a typical lottery scheme, for instance, the scammer tells the victim that he or she has won a foreign lottery but must pay a processing or other fee to claim the prize.

To make it seem real, the victim is sent a check to cover the fee, asked to deposit it in his or her account and wire the money to a third party.

Funds from the check would show up in the victim's account usually within five days, but it can take weeks for the bank to discover the check is counterfeit. The victim is responsible for the loss and associated fees.

Sometimes, as in Soens case, the scammers find an easy victim.

Soens, who lived in New Orleans, had been displaced by Hurricane Katrina and was also dealing with an eye condition that had led to expensive medical treatment, according to her sister, Rebecca Woodworth. The supposed lottery prize of several million dollars would have set things straight.

"The cost of the medical procedures and medicine had a profound impact on her financial solvency," Woodworth said.

CRACKDOWN

The Postal Inspection Service, along with law enforcement agencies abroad, led a crackdown against scammers this year. Between January and August, they seized more than 540,000 fake checks with a face value of more than $2 billion and arrested 77 people in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Canada.

In a 21-day operation in Nigeria alone, which inspectors say has been a hub for such operations, officials seized more than 15,000 fake checks.

But every time they take down one operation, inspectors say, a new one pops up.

The number of fake checks being reported rose from an average of 593 per month in 2004 to 743 in 2006, according to FBI data. This year, the number rose to 803 per month.

The postal inspectors have formed a group called the Alliance for Consumer Fraud Awareness with about 20 financial institutions, consumer advocacy groups and businesses.

They have launched an anti-fraud campaign, which includes advertisements, direct mailing efforts and a Web site, Fakechecks.org.

Woodworth said Soens' accounts were empty two days before she killed herself last year.

"She thought she had been lucky. And when they started telling her she had to pay fees and processing costs and taxes, she went ahead and she did it," Woodworth said. "She did not get it."

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/us_nm/crime_checkfraud_dc

My Gmail Spams

Here is a list of email addresses with names that are in my Spam folder of my gmail account. Some of it would be bogus email addresses but some of it might be real ones and just used some jerk. One of my email addresses was used to be exact..I don't know how they found out about my address.

Here's the list: (email address - Name)

SherwinneMittal@bathroomdesignsberkshire.com - Sherwinne Mittal
AmazingOffers@137.mx01.net - HotGiftZone
crozierbnie@ruthe.com - Donavan crozier
Justyn_Neal@afaceriimm.ro - Justyn Neal
AmazingOffers@31.moosq.com - Rewards Gateway
LatvaRaskuari@miljojournalisterna.org - Karina LatvaRasku
riana153@gontools.com - riana Pagel
AmazingOffers@226.mx02.net - PC BUG DOCTOR
jegal452@bobfrahm.com - jegal loveridge
hillery.Stamm@aeroresource.com - hillery Stamm
Eero229@ifestos-com.gr - Eero Mazzie

There's more of it..I will list it again next time...
If your email address is listed here, please do take actions on how to regain control of it.
Mayber your computer is infected with a worm/trojan and has been sending these emails.

Spammers find new ways to slip through

By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO - Just when it appeared tech firms had the upper hand against spam, spammers have unleashed new forms of the meddlesome e-mail to trick filters.

Spam in the form of popular PDF e-mail attachments and electronic greeting cards is confounding e-mail security systems and annoying consumers. The recent Storm e-mail virus and several pump-and-dump stock scams are clogging inboxes and snookering consumers into downloading malicious software. And it could get worse as the holidays approach, anti-spam experts say.

The trend illustrates the shifting nature of spam's deceptive packaging. As anti-spam vendors come up with solutions, new versions pop up. The most common spam - which uses images to avoid the detection of spam filters - is quickly fading because of advances in anti-spam technology.

But spam in PDFs, non-existent in May, now accounts for 8% of unsolicited commercial e-mail. Last week, a PDF promoting a pump-and-dump scam contributed to a 30% increase in overall spam. It was sent from compromised PCs turned into spam-spreading bots, security firm Sophos says.

Faux electronic-greeting cards, containing links to viruses, have also picked up. Since mid-July, security firm Postini has blocked about 800 million copies of Storm, an e-mail virus masquerading as a greeting card. "It's a cat-and-mouse game, and PDFs are the latest twist," says Adam Swidler, senior marketing manager at Postini.

Spammers also are beginning to use Excel and Zip files.

As spam evolves, from text in the body of e-mail to images embedded in attachments, it has become more difficult for filters to identify, says Tom Gillis, co-founder of IronPort Systems, a security firm acquired by Cisco Systems (CSCO). "There is a social engineering element to this. People are more likely to open a PDF file or Excel document, which are more trusted."

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PEARL DIAMOND COMPANY - Representative Needed

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mr.Yeo  Weng Zheng , Managing Director of NATIONAL
PEARL DIAMOND
GEM & JEWELLERY IMPORT & EXPORT CORP,(CNPDGJ IMPORT& EXPORT
CORP).  We are into diamond gem and  jewellery export into
the Canada/America
(South America)and Europe.
We are searching  for representatives who can help us
establish a medium of getting to our  customers in the
Canada/America and Europe as well as making payments through
you to us. Please if you are interested in transacting
business with us we will be glad.
It's upon this we seek your honest cooperation and
assistance to establish a cordial relationship with our
clients please contact us for more information. Subject to
your satisfaction you will be given the opportunity to
negotiate your mode of which we will pay for your services
as our representative in Canada/America and Europe.Your
Payment would
be 10% of every payment transaction you assist us with.

All you need to do for us is to just assist us in receiveing
our payment from clients in your region, if you have any
further way of assisting us kindly let me know.

If you are interested please write to this
Email:pearldiamond@myway.com


Thanks In advance,
Mr.Yeo Weng Zheng

Managing Director,
UK NATIONAL PEARL DIAMOND GEM &
JEWELLERY IMPORT &EXPORT CORP.
Email:walterhank01@yahoo.com

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Scams..

Equitable Bank scam email

Here's an email I've received a couple of months ago, and this time, the said correspondent is from a Philippine bank. Scammers have change tactic or have change nationality??
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FROM: "marife"
TO: ma567derona@eyou.com
SUBJECT: 27 / 11 / 2006

MRS. MARIFE C. DERONA
CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER
HEAD OFFICE EQUITABLE PCI BANK TWR.
MKT AVENUE. COR.H.V DELA COSTA STR
PHILIPPINES.

Good Day,

Let me start by introducing myself, I am MRS MARIFE CARREON DERONA, CREDIT ACCOUNTS OFFICER EQUITABLE PCI BANK. I am writing you this letter based on the latest development at my bank, which I will like to bring to your personal edification. I am writing you this letter with so much joy and excitement even though my heart goes out to the very powerful and distinguished gentleman who I was fortunate to have worked for and extremely privileged to have known for numerous years. I am a top official in charge of client accounts in EQUITABLE PCI BANK inside the Philippines.

In 2001, my client was going through a horrendous divorce in the United States of America and was on the verge of losing most of his estate to his vicious and diabolical wife. As a result of this alarming predicament, my client came to me with a very brilliant idea. He transferred some funds, ten million two hundred thousand dollars ($10.2m) to a fixed deposit account in my bank under an alias which only the two of us knew about as the confidentiality of the matter was necessary for his protection.

Due to his untimely death in early 2002, the funds have been sitting in the account ever since and will continue to do so perpetually unless we do something about it. This is where you come in. I located you through an agency that helps seek people by their email. My client did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to our client so that you will be able to receive his funds. I want you to know that I have had everything planned out so that we can come out successful. I have contacted an attorney that will prepare the necessary document that will back you up as the next of kin to my client. All that is required from you at this stage is for you to provide me with your Full Names and Address so that the attorney can commence his job.

After you have been made the next of kin, the attorney will also file in for claims on your behalf and secure the necessary approval and letter of probate in your favor for the transfer of the funds to an account that will be provided by you. There are no risks involved at all in the matter as we are going to adopt a legalized method and the attorney will prepare all the necessary documents. The allocation of our money will be as follows: 20%($2.02m) to you for your part in this, 75% for me and my partners and 5% for any unforeseeable expenses we may incur. I think this is extremely fair, as you have nothing to lose but just a little time, while on the other hand I am staking my flawless reputation among other things. And besides $2.02 million is no pocket change. Once you are approved, the entire transaction should take no longer than twelve business days after which we will go about our daily business, but just millions of dollars richer.

As you can see this is easier than taking candy from a baby, but mind you, trust is something that is developed over time and that is something that we do not have. So I have to let you know that it will highly unfeasible to try to run away with the money because even though only you can transfer money in and out of your account, the transfer can only be authorized by my department of which i happen to be the head. The money will be transferred from my bank to an account you will provide. So please, there should be no room for greed because ten million two hundred thousand dollars can quench even the most insatiable desire for the almighty dollar.

Again, I will be in charge of everything else. I will assume all responsibilities for this endeavor so you don't have to worry about any legal ramifications, just what you will do with all that money. Your urgent response is highly anticipated so please email me through this

email; ( marifederona127@hotmail.com ) for more details on this transaction as soon as possible.

This should be kept very secret and confidential. I believe you know.

Kind Regards,
Mrs. Marife C. Derona.

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