Ed S Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Just got this email this morning. I'll be hunting for a summer home in the South of France later this week. I hear St. Tropez is pretty nice but I'll be checking out a few spots so feel free to offer up some suggestions. Ta ta.... THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT DEAR SIR/MADAM, Reply EMAIL: payagents@netscape.net FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today,11th October 2003, of winners of the E- BUSINESS LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA /INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, held on 30th September 2003 as part of our promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program. You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 96-502-2315, with serial number 420-9 drew the lucky numbers 5, 6, 10, 19, 33, 51, 55, and consequently won in the Third Category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,600,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for third category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$12,800,000.00 shared among the eight international winners in the Third category. CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with Solid Rock Finance and Security Company insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year (2003) high stakes US$1.3 billion International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact your claim agent immediately; MR. ANDREW BRISEBE FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, SOLID ROCK FINANCE & SECURITY LTD JOHANNESBURG, S.A TEL/FAX: +27 7-3357-0169 EFAX: 1-586-279-5258 EMAIL: payagents@netscape.net For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than 16th October 2003. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of your correspondences with your claims agent. REFERENCE NUMBER: FLS-ZR39-825P-4 BATCH NUMBER: 74-263-BBN Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely, THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, E-BUSINESS LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA. 115 NORDIX AVE. BRYANSTON, 1762 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent. And by the way, the first thing I did was dig out the family tree - so I know exactly who all my relatives are. Quote
jacman Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 they probably will only charge you $1000 to "transfer" the funds to your bank account. of course you'll need to give them a credit card # and your bank account info. BTW, can i borrow $20 til payday? Quote
Jim R Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Shit. All I got today was another offer for Viagra. Anyway... Ed, my GOOD friend, remember how I defended you on the BN board against that "Misterioso" character? That was some experience, eh? Of course, I did that of my own free will... I never expected anything in return... Quote
JSngry Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 The Monkerena juggernaut is kinda stalled, and we could use a boost or two of capital. Interested? Quote
jazzbo Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 My "Ugly Beauty: Monkified Bossa Nova" project is so stalled it's now constipated! Patronage would be appreciated as well. B) Quote
John Tapscott Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Hey Ed, congrats! Maybe you could just buy out Mosaic records and sort of like spread around the stock to Organissimo members. I'll take the JJ Johnson plus the Green and Chambers selects, if you don't mind. BTW,on a more serious note, what a scam these things are. I've probably received four or five of these e-mails at work. They all seem to originate in Africa. The last time I e-mailed them back told them that if I ever received another e-mail from them, I would report the whole thing to the RCMP (Canadian police, who are apparently already investigating some cases). Haven't heard anything more from them. But boy, these crooks sure know how to play on people's greed. Quote
chris olivarez Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Ed the "More Conns and Mosaics for Chris" relief fund is in need of assistance.How about it old buddy old pal? Quote
BERIGAN Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Shit. All I got today was another offer for Viagra. ..... gosh, I wish I would get just one of those offers..... Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Great news, Ed! And coincidentally, my idea for the Texas Cage Death Match between Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore has room for only one more backer! Yep, my girlfriend found a quarter in the couch, and the neighbor's dog dug up a bottle with a nickel deposit, so there's still room for your $1,000,000 to make the difference in bringing America this great entertainment! I'll wait for your email... Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 The last time I e-mailed them back told them that if I ever received another e-mail from them, I would report the whole thing to the RCMP (Canadian police, who are apparently already investigating some cases). Hmm. The only one I ever got was the "Nigerian Prince who wants to transfer money" scam. I emailed back my sympathy, told him of a host of financial woes and then told him I had found a way out...but I needed his help. I guess they didn't fall for it; never heard from him. Quote
catesta Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Ed, are you nuts? What part of this did you not understand? "Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account." For your sake, I hope like hell the good people at E-BUSINESS LOTTO SOUTH AFRICA, are not jazz fans and do not visit this site. Of course I take it all back if the cash is already sitting in your account. My suggestion for the use of the money is simple. Open a strip club and offer scholarships to the dancers. Quote
GA Russell Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Shit. All I got today was another offer for Viagra. LOL @ Jim! Quote
Jim R Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Ed, obviously this thread has caused a lot of your so-called "friends" to come out of the woodwork... But when you begin to formulate your plans, please just remember that only ONE person here posted ahead of me, and all he asked for was 20 bucks! Yeeeeah!! I've already mentioned a Hawaiian sojourn to my wife, so I'm looking forward to hearin' from ya, pal! Thanks BUD! Quote
Jim R Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Shit. All I got today was another offer for Viagra. LOL @ Jim! Hey.... LOL "at" Jim?? Don't you mean "LOL, Jim"? Quote
Christiern Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Here's one I received a few months back: NETHERLOTTO CORPORATION, 41132, NL-1007 DB AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS. FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: EGJOJS255125600344 AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of the,4TH JUly. 2003, of winners of the NETHERLOTTO CORP./ INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on 19TH MAy 2003. You / your company, attached to ticket number 013-2316-2002-477, with serial number A025-09 drew the lucky numbers 37-13-34-85-56-42, and consequently won in category C. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1,500,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO. EGJOJS255125600344This is from total prize money of US$28,500,000.00 shared among the nineteen international winners in the category C. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe,USA and North America as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now deposited with a Finance and Security House and insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.3 billion International lotto. To begin your claim, please contact your claims officer immediately: THOMAS JONKA FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER, EUROSHORE FINANCIAL, TEL: +44 774 223 3824 Fax: +44 207 681 2478 EMAIL:euroshore@financier.com For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claims officer not later than AUGUST 30TH, 2003. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. All correspondences to Mr.Thomas Janka,either by fax or email,should have this email sent along with it and your reference number clearly stated in every correspondence. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference number in every one of your correspondences with your claims officer. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely, THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS, NETHERLOTTO CORPORATION. N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply this mail But I think this one's my favorite: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTES: THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL &PRIVILEDGED.IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT NOT MOVED TO BE A PARTY, DESTROY OR DELETE IMMEDIATELY AS DISTRIBUTION OR DISEMMINATION IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU ARE NOT DISPOSED TO BE A PARTNER, ANY EMBARRASSMENT CAUSED YOU IS REGRETTED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEAR SIR/TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN., THIS letter will surely take you by surprise but be assured that no harm or embarrassment is meant as your personal information was sought without prior permission from one of the international commerce Directories. We strongly believe that as a neutral by -stander or observer of events in the world today, you would not be biased or take sides and would do your level best to help fight or support our course. Moreover ,the matter on hand requires someone with your identity to resolve without delay. My names are JOHN NESTOR , A CITIZEN of THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, where the current war has killed and maimed thousands of innocent lives of civilians and military alike. I used to be in support and in fact was a leader of one of the rebel groups on the side of the President, Mr. CHARLES TAYLOR who, stubbornly refused to live power in spite of the high human and economic casualties until a few days ago when he was forcibly driven into exile . Just three weeks ago ,Charles Taylor called me and some loyal members of the rebel group and entrusted some huge amount of funds {US$97 MILLION} Dollars to us and instructed that they be moved under cover to Europe or Asia in the name of a MR. ABUHASAN A. MOHAMMED because he could not use his real identit y for good reasons.MOHAMMED was a business partner of MR. TAYLOR who left Liberia when the war got serious. We that are close to Taylor knew that Mohammed operates secret Accounts for him in Asia and Europe. But , within us that the assignment was given , we agreed to divert part of the funds ,US$37MILLION for our personal use in future, without the knowledge of Charles Taylor. What we did was to package the Dollar bills in boxes, took them through the war zone to a nearby country from where the funds were moved by Diplomatic Courier to different destinations .But we told president Taylor that we were attacked by the other rebel groups who made away with part of the funds .He was happy and grateful because the remaining part got to his partner safely and he hope that would sustain him and his family in exile . We hope to return to our country and invest our part of the funds in humanitarian services or businesses that would benefit the people. We believe this is a worthier or better action which should be supported by any well- meaning individual anywhere in the world. For your information, we made thorough research and worked out method and means of a smooth operation and found out that firstly, the funds could only be moved to DUBAI in UNITED ARABS EMIRATES. This is because the laws of that region allows transaction of this nature provided the money is NOT fake or drug funds.{Pls. find attached to this mail a publication of the U.A.E. to verify this claim}. Fortunately, as I write this message, the Boxes containing the funds have been moved successfully through a Diplomatic Agency Courier Company to Dubai and deposited as FAMILY VALUABLES AND GOLD JEWELLRIES of MR. MOHAMMED .The boxes can only be claimed by the presentation of the proper documents to the Security Company that would do the final clearing on behalf of the family at the customs. We are contacting you therefore, to do us the service of meeting or contacting the Agency and, with the proper papers have the bags released to you as the rightful owner on whose behalf the bags were shipped. This means that the AIRWAY BILL & CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT will be attached with A POWER OF ATTORNEY OR AUTHORISATION bearing your name and identity to collect the bags which were sent by Mohammed on your behalf . In fact, a detailed information shall be sent on agreement to safe-guard our share which shall be 75% while you could have the balance 25% , which is US$ 9,250,000.00. for your efforts. The remaining part would be invested or lodged in a fixed deposit joint ACCOUNT with interest accruing to be shared by the parties concerned until situations stabilize in my country. .Note that your compensation or what you want is open for negotiation which I shall table before my colleages as soon as your positive but confidential response is received. Your private phones and email might be preferable for purposes of confidentiality without which we cannot deal with you further than this first contact. PLS., reach me at my private box: john_nestor2003@go.com OR call me at tel nos: 00882 162 112 1546 as soon as possible. Thank you for your time. JOHN NESTOR Quote
BruceH Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 The whole idea is more than a little creepy... Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted October 11, 2003 Report Posted October 11, 2003 Ed... remember when they closed the BNBB down? Hasn't this been a great place to hang out? Man, I sure could use a new Apple Xserve to host the site myself and stop paying those monthly fees. Oh yes, and I would need a new Mac G5 to administer it from. Quote
brownie Posted October 12, 2003 Report Posted October 12, 2003 Last Spring, I started receiving dozens of those scam e-mails. They were all different and looking like they were coming from various countries, all in Africa. One I saved read: HELLEN SEKO . . I am HELLEN SEKO , dauther of the late President of Congo Democratic Republic former Republic of Zaire presently there is a war going on in my country and so my family members escaped to Morroco my brother is now presently at Cotonou/Nigeria Border monitoring events. Because of the present crises, my environment is not conductive for investment and more over, most of my father's properties and account have been frozen by the present government of Laurent Kabila. Now, I want to set up a business overseas and I have about $50 Million united state dollars set aside for this project, I decided to contact you to help me in setting up a business, but would not want my name or family name to be used. I am prepared to give you 20% of the total sum if you can assist me in claiming this fund from a security volt in ASIA where my FATHER(Mobutu Sese Seko) deposited this fund before he died. Please, do contact me immediately for us to discuss. As soon as I hear from you, and confirm your assistance every documents regarding to the claiming of this fund will be handed over to you as the familys foreign partner. Best regards HELLEN SEKO One of my secret wish is to lay hands on only one percent of Mobutu's fortune. Anyway, thought the first of these e-mails I received were fun reading and showed quite a lot of imagination. Then I grew tired of them. There was a deluge of them. And it stopped. I have not received any new one in the past weeks. The people sending these seem to be on a perpetual search for scam victims. Quote
maren Posted October 12, 2003 Report Posted October 12, 2003 FINAL NOTICE OF AWARD NOTIFICATION Department of Redundancy Department? [Here's a google search of "final notice award notification":http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-...rd+notification] Quote
Jazzmoose Posted October 12, 2003 Report Posted October 12, 2003 Department of Redundancy Department? Hah! You may give "no location", but with this line, we can definitely narrow it down to the United Snakes! Probably in Sector "R"! Quote
ghost of miles Posted October 12, 2003 Report Posted October 12, 2003 Ed, I'm at work on several different jazz radio projects that could benefit immensely from just a small contribution on your behalf... say, $25,000 or so to see them through in the next year. It's not me I'm thinking of, Ed... it's the jazz community! And the music that means so much to them. I know you won't let them down. Quote
couw Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 The Monkerena juggernaut is kinda stalled, and we could use a boost or two of capital. Interested? good thing you reminded me, I still need to ask weizen to contribute some of his patented twists and turns. Hey, weizen if you're reading this! You can send your bill to Ed @ the Rivièra Quote
catesta Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 Looks like I'll be joining Ed. I got this one over the weekend. I would like to begin by way of introduction; My name is Rev.Mike Abraham, a native of South Africa. I am a senior employee of South Africa Department of Mineral and Energy Resources. I am writing this letter to solicit your co-operation in order to redeem an investment currently held under trust with the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources of South Africa. The said investment now valued at USD$26.426M (Twenty six million, four hundred and twenty six thousand American dollars), was originally purchased by one Mr. Dwight Ausserer, and leased to the Transvaal Orange Mining Corporation in 1977. Since the maturity of this contract in September 1997, several attempts have been made without success to contact Mr. Dwight Ausserer or any of his close relatives, in whose favour the investment cash value can be paid. My partner, who is the Account Director in the same Ministry and I, have initiated the process of filing a claim for this money with the hope of having the funds transferred to you. In order to do this, we will swear an affidavit in the High Court of my country stating that you are a distant cousin and next of kin to Mr. Dwight Ausserer the owner of the money and giving you the legal authority to administer his estate. After which, we will file a >claim for this money from the Department of Energy and Mineral Resources, indicating that you were appointed by Mr. Ausserer to be the beneficiary of these funds. When the claim is approved you as the beneficiary will be paid the sum of USD$26.426M. The money will be paid directly to any bank of your choice ; you will have the responsibility to ensure that my partner and I receive 70% of the money while you keep the remaining 25% for your assistance. The remaining 5% will be for incidental expenses. I want to assure you that my partner and I are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided that you can give us very strong guarantee that our share will be secured, and that you >will not take advantage of our position. Be assured that there is absolutely nothing to worry about in the view of this claim. It is perfectly safe with no risks involved, and it is not subject to any inquiry, since my partner and I will be handling the claim directly in South Africa on your behalf. I do hope my proposal is acceptable to you. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter, so that I can provide you with more clarification about the claim and how we intend to make this transaction beneficial to everyone involved, Please reach me at this alternative email mikeabraham45@netscape.net for confidentiality. yours Sincerely Rev.Mike Abraham Quote
kinuta Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 From this mornings mail. I get around 4 or 5 a week !! Subject: HONOURABLE WINNER! SUNSWEETWIN LOTTO PROMOTION ALFONSTRAAT B56 1002 B5 AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS. FROM: THE DESK OF CINDY FRED THE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE, AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: OY/2551256003/22 BATCH: 14/0017/IPD RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE. We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today 13th of October winners 2003 0f the SUNSWEETWIN LOTTO PROMOTION LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMS held on 21st August 2003. Your company, attached to ticket number 025-1146-1992-750, with serial 21 13-22 drew the lucky numbers 13-15-22-37-39-43, and consequently won the lottery in the third category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$1.2million in cash credited to file ref: OY/25511256003/22. This is from total amount US$20,400,000.00 shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from fifteen million names from Australia, Newzealand, America, Europe, No rth America, and Africa as part of international promotions program, which is conducted annually. CONGRATULATIONS! Your funds are now deposited with a security & finance firm insured your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to your a ccount. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. We hope with the part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.5billion international lottery. To begin your claim, please contact me immediately on my email address for information of your mandated claims agent for due processing and remittance of your price to designated account of your choice. Remember all prizes be claimed not latter than 30th of October 2003. After this date all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Note: In other to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in everyone of your correspondences with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims ag ent as soon as possible. CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely CINDY FRED. Quote
ghost of miles Posted October 13, 2003 Report Posted October 13, 2003 What a fool I am! I got one of these and just, ah, deleted it. Guess I won't be joining you guys in fatcat land... Quote
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