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Archive for the ‘Corporate Sweepstakes Scams’ Category
From the Editor: Quite a detailed scam letter, but of course, it’s just a scam. Don’t ever send money. Don’t ever send personal information.
No US Players Accepted
 an All Lottery Scams HONEST OPERATOR Monday, November 29th, 2010
Toyota Car Lottery International Promotions Thailand
Customer Service Department
Toyota Motor Corporations, Thailand.
xx/xx Nua Rd.
Fl xx Thani 2 Bldg xxxxx,
Bang Rak,Silom, Bangkok 10500, Thailand.
TOYOTA MOTORS CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL
PRIZE NOTIFICATION 2010 NEW CARS PROMOTION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the IST OF January,2010 by Toyota Motor Company in conjunction with the Japan International Email Lottery Worldwide Promotion,your email address was among the 20 Lucky winners who won US$1,000,000.00 each on the Toyota Motors Company Email Promotion programme dated as stated above.This is from the total price of $20 million United State Dollars ($20,000,000.00usd)shared among the 20 lucky winners,you are therefore approved for a lump payment of US$1,000,000.00 Dollars,in cash ,including a Toyota car which is the winning present /amount for the Second category winners.
However the results were released and declared on the 5TH OF MAY 2010, and your email address attached to ticket number 4500542188(TMPWAYZ20051), with serial number 454-17 drew the lucky number 3,8,13,22, 5, 0,27,41 and bonus number 12,your Reference Number:FLS433/453L/GMSA. The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 35,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy to make sure the money reaches you.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world. This Email Lottery Promotion is approved by the Japanese Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the general public about toyota motors 2010 new cars(Toyota motors 2010 latest cars).As indicated by the computerized selection machine,your lucky winning number falls within our Asia booklet representative office here in THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND as showed in the coupon.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential and private until your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim the prize money and the toyota car your winning present.This is part of our precautionary and security measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.In other to claim your US$1,000,000.00 winning prize,which has been deposited with THE MANAGEMENT AND BOARD OF UNITED TRUST BANK BANGKOK BRANCH THAILAND, Remember to indicate your reference Number (FLS433/453L/GMSA) to make sure the winning prize US$1,000,000.00 and the Toyota car reaches you intact and complete.
The toyota car shipping documents will be forwarded to you to claim ( A toyota car which is the winning present for second category winners) in any port of your choice,once your winning amount US$1,000,000.00 processed and transfer to you.
However,you are required to fill the form below,together with the name of the port where your winning present a toyota car should be ship to and send it to the online promotion manager of THE TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION for verification and then you will be directed to the paying bank above for immediate process and approval of your winning fund and shipping of your (TOYOTA CAR) where the sum of US$1,000,000.00 has already been deposited in your favor under your email address.
FILL THE FORM BELOW;
NAME:……………………………….
AGE:………………………………….
SEX:………………………………….
ADDRESS:(RESIDENT ADDRESS ONLY)………………………….
YOUR OTHER EMAIL:………………………………
PHONE:……………………………..
OCCUPATION:…………………….
AMOUNT WON……………………
COUNTRY:………………………….
NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE PORT FOR SHIPMENT OF YOUR WINNING CAR ………………….
SHORT COMMENT ON OUR PRODUCTS ………………………………………
Please you are adviced to complete the form and send it immediately to our Promotion manager through email for prompt collection of your fund
(CONTACT PROMOTION MANAGER)
TOYOTA MOTORS FOREIGN SERVICES MANAGER
NAME: Dr. Wong Lee
TELEPHONE: +(xx)xxxxxx
EMAIL: carpromo2010@xxxxxxx.hk
WARNING !!
You are to keep all the winning information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number.(this is important as a case of double claiming will not be entertained) Staff of Toyota Motor Company and the Japanese International Lottery Company are not to partake in this Lottery. Accept my hearty congratulations once again! for being selected among the 20 lucky winners .
Yours faithfully,
MR.PAUL WILTON
(V.P FINANCE)
TOYOTA MOTORS CORPORATION LTD.
www.Toyota.co.xxx
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From the Editor: This is the summer version of the “End of Year” lottery we were getting last november, december
No US Players Accepted
 an All Lottery Scams HONEST OPERATOR Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
23 South xxxxx London,
United Kingdom.
MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION…. PROMO
The prestigious Microsoft® Windows XP Corporations wishes to inform you that your e-mail address emerged as one of their online lucky Winners selected from our private computerized lottery drawn here in London United Kingdom and this selection process was carried out through a random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from the world wide web.
This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft® Windows. Hence we do believe that with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Microsoft® Windows XP Corporations. Therefore you have won the sum of £500,000.00 pounds {Five Hundred Thousand
Great British Pounds}. A winning cheque will be issued in your name by the Microsoft® Windows XP
Corporation and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent to you along side with your winnings cheque. You are to make contact with your designated agent who shall by duty, guide you through the process of
facilitating the release of your Prize.
For claims,you are advised to contact your designated appointed agent with the following details below.
Zentec Security
Mr Astrid Pedersen
Email:zentec.ltd@xxxxxx.net
Direct Tel.Line;+44(0)xxxx-4xxx-4595
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.
1. Full Name:…………..
2. Address………………..
3. Occupation:…………..
4. Nationality……………
5. Tel No……………………
6.Date Of Birth………………..
Once again on behalf of all our staff and Managements we say CONGRATULATIONS!
Sincerely,
Microsoft Promotion Award Team,
United Kingdom Sub Region.
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From the Editor: Welcome to our first “Google” scam. We welcome Google to the list of great companies being impersonated by scammers. Their use of a free email service, not google’s, makes this look just soooo authentic. LOL skip these scammers too!
No US Players Accepted
 an All Lottery Scams HONEST OPERATOR Monday, September 20th, 2010
Google Incorporation.
Stamford New Road,
xxxxx Cheshire,
Wxxx 1xx
London,
United Kingdom.
Winning No: GUK/877/798/2010
Ticket No: GUK/699/33/2010
Notification Date: 31/07/2010
GOOGLE ANNIVERSARY WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of our winners selected this year. This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google search engine and the Google ancillary services.
Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Google search engine. Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we ran an online e-mail beta test which your email address won Ј950,000.00 {Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling}
We wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all online winners.
A winning cheque will be issued in your name by Google Promotion Award Team, You have therefore won the entire sum of Ј950,000.00 {Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling} and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winning cheque.
Mr. mike parker.
Foreign Transfer Manager
Google Promotion Award Team
Email: verification.gl@xxxxxxxx.net
You are advised to contact your Foreign Transfer Manager with the following details to avoid unnecessary delay and complications:
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM.
(1) Your Contact Address/Private Email Address.
(2) Your Tel/Fax Numbers.
(3) Your Nationality/Country.
(4) Your Full Name.
(5) Occupation/Company.
(6) Age/Gender.
(7) Ever Won An Online Lottery?
The Google Promotion Award Team has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, these friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Google Promotion Award Team has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the canceling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.
Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of the Google interactive Lotteries Board Commission.
Sincerely,
Dr. Laszlo Bock
Google Promotion Award Team.
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No US Players Accepted
No US Players Accepted
 an All Lottery Scams HONEST OPERATOR Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Yahoo!! Innternational Lottery Organization
Bangkok Branch Office
Address: 3 Rajdamnern Avenue
Bangkok 10200 Thailand
Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year Held on 1ist of June 2010.
All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.000 USD)
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $1, 000.000.00USD) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.
Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Cheque have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Ticket number…………………085-12876077-09
Serial number……………………51390-0
Lucky number……………….03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number……………….N.EGS/3662367114/13
To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Co-ordinator as follows,
Email: ylotteryxxx@xxxxxxxx.com.hk
Telephone:+6685-xxx-xxxxxx
Name:Rev.Williams Adams co-odinator
You are to send the completed verification form below to the co-ordinator whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!
1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. SEX
6. OCCUPATION
7. TELEPHONE NUMBER
8. FAX NUMBER
9. MARITAL STATUS
10. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th of July 2010. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTYS DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.
Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our Co-ordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.
An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Operation Manager of Bank of Ayudhya Bangkok Thailand.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.
We wish you continued good fortunes.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Raymond Hisashi
Vice President
Yahoo! Lotto Org.
Mrs. Tina Akira
Online Coordinator .
Copyright ? 1994-20089 The Yahoo-Thailland Internet Promotions.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines.
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From the Editor: So someone won a lottery and HSBC and United Nations want me to collect the prize. makes perfect sense to me.
No US Players Accepted
 an All Lottery Scams HONEST OPERATOR Friday, July 2nd, 2010
HSBC BANK PLC.
168 xxxxxx Road
xxxxx Lane
Liverpool
Merseyside
xxx xxxx
Attn: Beneficiary,
The U.S.A Government, World Bank And United Nations Organization Official Has Approved to pay you part payment of your Contract/Inheritance Fund payment Valued at 5.5Million USD in conjunction with British Government and HSBC BANK PLC LONDON.
This International Remittance Department(HSBC BANK PLC LONDON) was set up to discover an outstanding unpaid fund being owned to Governments or Individuals all over the world through Contract Payment, Inheritance and Lottery Winning Prize Awards.
However,a decision was made last week With this development, a woman by name (MRS.JANET WHITE) came to our office with an application stating that you gave her the power of attorney to be the beneficiary of your Outstanding Contract/Inheritance/award funds. She made us to believe that you are dead and that she is your next of kin. We got your email address through UK Lottery Board Organization and we decided to send an email through this address hoping to find out if you are Dead or Alive and also to find out if you at any time give this woman the power of attorney to represent you.
Please let us know also if you are aware of this development,hence we are almost ready to transfer part payment of $5.5M USD of your outstanding funds to her nominated bank account stated below:
NAME OF BANK: FIRST NATIONAL BANK
ADDR: 120 SO. 2nd. ST.
xxxxxxxxx,ARKANSAS xxxx USA
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 482986
ROUTING NUMBER:084107343
Swift code # : WMSBUS66
BENEFICIARY: JANET WHITE
If you are not aware of the above instruction, do respond to this email immediately by contacting the head of the International remittance department (Mr.Gal Williams).
His contact informations are written below:
Name:Mr.Gal Williams.
Direct Telephone Number: +44-xxxxxxxxxx
Email..Williams@xxxxxxx.com
For immediate transfer of your funds be informed that you are not allowed to correspond or contact any person or office with respect to this transfer other than this office, you are required to send to him an email with your full name,Company or Residential address and your direct Telephone number,Fax Number and your mobile phone where you can be reach at all time.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Alex Hungate.
FOR HSBC BANK LONDON.
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