Cyber Crimes - Irritating.

Hi guys,

These are the emails received by my dad.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery
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.
AND

Dear Sir/Madam,
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
Daily, My dad receives atleast two like this. My dad gets irritating by seeing these kind of mails daily. What we have to do?
I am asking my dad to file a complaint on this to cyber police! Is it helpful?

What do you say?

Replies

  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi
    35 views, not even single reply?
  • MaRo
    MaRo
    No, contact western union & let them do the work.
  • optimystix
    optimystix
    aaah my dad's account too receives the same. Its more or less comes from email harvesters who digg for email accounts from networking or job seeking sites.

    These started from the famous Nigerian scam cases. Now it has spread worldwide. All scams in the name of big companies. Some people do get fooled and are making them rich. Ignorance is at fault here.

    report these messages to your email provider. reporting to cyber police wont do much good..
    Nothing much can be done about them. Use a good spam filtering software if problem is too persistent. Such spams wont stop but will reduce.
  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi
    haa.. I got one more new mail.

    Namastey,


    My name is Radha Ramalinga,I am the wife of Rama Ramalinga,the younger brother of Byrraju Ramalinga Raju,former chairman,founder and owner of Satyam Computers.

    I do have a proposal for you,which would be of immense financial benefits to you and I.


    My husband and his brother are currently in big trouble in India,I need your assistance to help me move some funds from Holland to India or anywhere where it would at least be of some help to our family.

    I would give you more details of this proposal if you show yourself willing to take on it,I assure you that you would most certainly be compensated but please I would kindly request you to keep this matter confidential.

    I am currently here in the UK where it is a bit safe for me and my kids.

    You can reach me on my personal email id which is #-Link-Snipped-#


    Yours sincerely,

    R.Ramalinga
  • gaurav.bhorkar
    gaurav.bhorkar
    I also get a lot of such mails, and gmail separates them to the spam folder.
  • Vega
    Vega
    Yes, I also have been receiving so many such emails. Please refrain from getting trapped in such scams. Lately I received a SMS asking me to email my Name and other details to claim the prize of USD $85,000

    I don't think one can do much about it by filing a complaint. These are famous frauds and operated from overseas.
  • Manish Goyal
    Manish Goyal
    I hardly receive such kind of mails in my Gmail ID but in yahoo id approx 30 daily
    can't understand why?
  • HImanshu_Sharma
    HImanshu_Sharma
    i usually got such mails...it sucks badly yar...
  • gaurav.bhorkar
    gaurav.bhorkar
    goyal420
    I hardly receive such kind of mails in my Gmail ID but in yahoo id approx 30 daily
    can't understand why?
    May be because Gmail's spam filter is way better than Yahoo's.
  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi
    gaurav.bhorkar
    May be because Gmail's spam filter is way better than Yahoo's.
    Its absolutely right I think so. :smile:
  • Ashraf HZ
    Ashraf HZ
    Depends I guess. I've received more spam in my Gmail than in Yahoo these days 😉
  • Mr.Don
    Mr.Don
    Lucky to those who did not have 0 messages as spam these days.
  • silverscorpion
    silverscorpion
    ash
    Depends I guess. I've received more spam in my Gmail than in Yahoo these days 😉
    Absolutely!!

    I hardly get any spam in my yahoo account.
    But my Gmail account regularly receives spam.


    I guess it depends on what we use the ID for rather than who is providing the ID.
  • CIVILPRINCESS
    CIVILPRINCESS
    but i never recieve such mails.
    i only have yahoo account and no g-mail account.
  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi
    CIVILPRINCESS
    but i never recieve such mails.
    i only have yahoo account and no g-mail account.
    Try gmail CP. 😀 It is much better than yahoo.
  • Mr.Don
    Mr.Don
    :smile:I do have 797 messages in my gmail spam folder .:smile:

    I never noticed them until now😕

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