Recreation Big E-mail Scam

i am just posting this so that nobody falls for this

i got this in my personal e-mail and i didn't like it so i am spreading the word that this is a scam sometimes the Amount you have won has change or the name of contact person but it is basically the same message. I have posted this on this thread and in the anime on i figured posting it on the threads withthe most traffic should spread the word...

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER,INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENTCAMELOT LOTTERY PROMOTIONS, UK
3b Houghton Way, St James Centre,
Leicester City, L30 1RD


REF NO: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312
BATCH: 901/00319/HLP
AWARD WINNING APPROVAL: FINAL NOTICE.
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today o fwinners of the CAMELOT JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS, PROGRAMS held on the 25TH NOVEMBER ,2005. Your company or your personal e-mail address, is attached to ticket number 9901-0148-790-691, with serial number 6109-17 drew the lucky numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83, and consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$300,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312 This is from total prize money of US$9,000,000.00 shared among the Thirty (30)international winners in this category.All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from twenty five thousand names from Australia, New Zealand, America,Europe, North America and Asia, as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. Your fund has been deposited in an escrow account 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 as 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 year high stakes one hundred million dollars
International Lottery.To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email:
Mr. Duke Edwards
Email:agentdukeedwardscamelot@yahoo.co.uk
For processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than the 2ND DECEMBER 2005.All funds not claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with this office.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform us as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
Mrs Jane Littlewood
For Camelot lotto;
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result in disqualification and any winner below the age of 18years is automatically disqualified

Sorry in advance if anyone considers this spam

 

My old kain_has_arrivedemail gets hundreds of these kinda things every day (that and countless viagra adverts). Just mark them as junk email and send them to your waste bin straight away.

Its usually best to not even open these kinda things, for one they may have a vairis, and also i've heard that some of them have a code that when opens tells the sender that you still use that email adress, and then will bombard you with junk mail. So i've heard, that seems to have happened to me on my old email.

 

I used to get these all the time. I don't get them anymore beacue I switched E-Mail addresses. But yeah, like Kain said, just move them into the Trash bin. They may have viruses in them, or spyware cookies, stuff like that. And trust me, those are annoying.

 

All those kinds of messages should be taken by a grain of salt.

- Teddz

 

Junk mail? What's that?

Seriously, I'm really careful with my email address, so it gets like, no spam. Stuff from eBay and Paypal is about it, and I can stop those any time I want. But then I get no email.

Send me a message, someone? You know you want to

 

This reminds me of the e-mail I got recently from the "FBI" saying that I "was logged on over 30 different illegal sites". It said I was supposed to answer an attached quenstionnaire. Well I don't trust it because of reasons stated in my journal entry.

Check it out for yourself.

 

I just delete unsolicited e-mail. In general, this is my junk e-mail folder:


blah.................. 4K
bleh.................. 2K
different blah.......4K
...................... 7K

In general, SPAM is bigger than 2K and has attachments. If I don't know the sender, i just delete them.

 

i get those also. they are very annoying. what the hell am i going to use viagra for? i also get those email from people wanting me too watch them on there online webcam aka porn fest.

 

Blah.. I got the same spam messages several times from the same sender (or sliiiightly different e-mail name) in my junk box.
I remember getting erotic junk mail many years ago (still do, but now I care less), and I got rid of it by replying to the mail, saying I was an 8 year old... suprisingly enough, that worked XD
Or I just got lucky..

 

Blah.. I got the same spam messages several times from the same sender (or sliiiightly different e-mail name) in my junk box.
I remember getting erotic junk mail many years ago (still do, but now I care less), and I got rid of it by replying to the mail, saying I was an 8 year old... suprisingly enough, that worked XD
Or I just got lucky..

 

Never reply to these kinds of e-mail and never ask to be 'taken' off their list. They may stop sending you E-mail, but they now know that it works and have no problems selling it to someone else to spam you with. This should go without saying but never open up letters from people you don't know, especially if they have attachements.

If you want to keep your E-Mail account clean do like I did and create a 'junk-mail' address on something free like Yahoo. If a website asks for my e-mail address to do something like register I simply give them that yahoo one, quickly travel over to the account, click on thier e-mail to register and forget about the rest. All the spam goes right to that account, leaving my other two safe and clean. I only give those out to poeople whom I trust.

Sure, every once and a while I empty the box because it get's full, but my main two e-mail accounts are protected from all that spam. I never have to deal with any of the hassle.

~W

 

They have that kind of thing on LiquidGeneration. It's a fake E-Mail you can send to your friends saying that they've been downloading illegal music files. It's pretty retarded. Maybe it was some old guy trying to find out what you look like and where you live.

 

Well, as I said, the To: address is not my e-mail address so I have no idea how it got to me.

 

BCC? I've sent emails with a BCC before. It shows the main addressee, and nobody who gets the mail can see who is on the BCC list. I usually use it to send copies of email I send to myself, for records

(BCC = Blind Carbon Copy)

 

ah, those emails are so annoying... but yeah. you should just open the emails from people you know, and delete the others. i opened one, one day, and it completely wiped my whole hard drive clean... (or however you say it. -___-; the stupid virus...

what purpose are those for, anyway? esspecially all those worms and viruses, etc.

 

It gives skinny, hardcore, looser, teenie boppers wood to go out and ruin someone else's day. They don't even take the time to build the viruses themselves. They simply download it somewhere and send it on thier way. Because it's all online they think they can get away with whatever it is they're doing. They don't actually have to see the people who they are messing with so they have no problems with what they are doing (Sound familiar Sphinxy?).

The guys who build the Virii themselves do it simply because they can. They're looking for a way to defeat Norton because they have nothing better to do. It's not even like it's a political statement.

But it's not all bad news. At my high school a few dumbasses were caught spamming e-mails with such viruses off of the school LAN. Not only did they recieve a seven day in-school suspension, but someone also slashed the tires on thier rice rocket.

Not that I condone slashing tires, but it's funny to see kids who get off on other ppl's misery get a healthy share of it themselves.

~W

 

I get these kinds of letters all the time as well. Mine are usually for cars, stuff from ebay, etc, though I have to say I've never gotten a "enlarge your manhood" email. I just delete them cause these emails tend to want to screw you over and I don't feel like having to buy a new computer.