Cyber Crimes - Irritating.
These are the emails received by my dad.
Yahoo/Msn LotteryAND
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings (£500,000) for the month of March
2010 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC &
WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to
Yahoo,Hotmail,Gmail,Rediffmail,Sify e.t.c we only select five people every
Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the
winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
The following particulars are attached to your lottery payment order:
(Batch number).....................YM 09102XN
(Reff number).......................YM35447XN
(Winning number)...................YM09788
Please contact the underlisted Claims Officer
Mr Billy Chambers.
Email:billychambers-claimsdept@windowslive.com
Phone Number: +44 70170 36876
Full Names........
Address.............
Telephone Number.......
***.......................
Next Of Kin.............
State..............
Country................
Age...................
Occupation.................
CONGRATULATIONS!!Once again on behalf of all our staff,
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Monica Adams.
Online Cordinator.
Dear Sir/Madam,Daily, My dad receives atleast two like this. My dad gets irritating by seeing these kind of mails daily. What we have to do?
There is an issue with the WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER WEST LONDON
in the amount of $200,000.00 US Directed in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03, at the owner of this email address. The
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND contacted us for your compensation a couple of hours ago due to your allocated security code.
They said that they choose to send it to an email address instead of a
name. We are unable to complete a transfer directed at an email
address, so we require some more information in order to complete this
transfer.
FULL NAME:
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS:
MOBILE PHONE NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
MARITAL STATUS:
AND AGE:
In order to resolve this problem,please email via Western Union
Solicitors Fund Verification Department:
As soon as this information is received,and you have complied with the
requirements of payment for the remitence permit $275 Equ 12500/Inr in india rupees. And as soon as
the payment is made the money will be transfer to your nominated bank
account or at the counter directly from The Western Union Transfering
Bank.
Note: you wil receive your funds, but note that this is no scam and is directly from
the Management of Western Union Money Transfer London Head Office
and our Motto is To Serve You Better.
Contact us on our website on (#-Link-Snipped-#)
We have kept your fund waiting for you under this tracking information,Kindly track this info to know the status of your fund via our online tracking website
#-Link-Snipped-#
First Name:SCOTT
Last Name:BRITTEN
MTCN:1499256767
KIndly reconfirm by yourself that your fund is still avaliable for pick up as soon as you remit the permit fee of $275 to enable us reprogram your name as the receiver person in india,you have just 24 hours to complete with this formalities to enable us complete your western union transfer.
THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, LONDON HEAD OFFICE.
DISPATCHED THIS DAY
Do contact me as soon as you receive this mail.
Sincerely,
Mr.Truth Dauglas
Contact Number: +447014262955
I am asking my dad to file a complaint on this to cyber police! Is it helpful?
What do you say?