by Holly Brown
Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:41 pm
No, you haven’t won a lottery. If you received the following email you’ve just been spammed by a scammer. If you had won, would the email have been sent to “undisclosed recipients”? That means that the same email – word for word, including the “winning number” and the outrageously huge winning prize – was sent to a massive mailing list, which was entered in the “BCC” field so it wouldn’t show up on the one you received.
For those of you interested in such things, here’s the header.
Not to belabor the point, but I did a Google search on the “winning number.” This number has won several lotteries, it seems. The last item on the search page is dated June 17, 2008!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=23 ... h&aq=f&oq=
UK MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION®
WINCHESTER 450, TW3 1SJ,
MIDDLESEX-LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Attn: Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU HAVE WON £850,000.00
We are pleased to inform you of the result of UK Multinational
Corporation, which was held recently. Your email address attached
to e-ticket no: 834509819, with Prize Number: 237359446 drew a
prize of £850,000 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds).
This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake.
You will receive the sum of £850,000.00 from our authorized bank.
Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time
limited placed on the payment of your prize of £850,000.00, we
advice that you keep all information about this prize confidential
until your funds have been transferred to you by our nominated bank
which you will contact for the release of your prize. You must
adhere to this simple instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with
the release of your funds to your person.
This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of over 8,000
spectators. Your e-mail address was selected and came out first by an
e-ballot draw from over 450,000 e-mail addresses which is both,
(Personal and Corporate email addresses). This program is sponsored
by CFI Networks to compensate faithful internet surfers around the
globe. Congratulations once again for becoming one of the few lucky
winners. With your permission, your email will also be included in the
next sweepstake of £1,000,000.00 (One Million Great British Pounds)
and a HONDA CIVIC CAR, 2009 MODEL.
You must claim your prize not later than 14-days from the moment you
receive this e-mail. In order to avoid any unnecessary delays with
your claim from the bank. Please contact them immediately, and quote
your personal information as directed below to the bank. Below is the
contact information.
Bank: BARCLAYS BANK PLC.
Name: DR. MORGAN DAVID
Phone: +44 701-113-3550
Email: [email protected]
Furnish them with the following:
1. Full Names / Address
2. Nationality / Date of Birth
3. Sex / Marital Status
4. Occupation/ Company
5. Telephone/Fax Number
Congratulations.
Angela Robinson (Mrs.)
(Coordinator. UK Multinational®)
For those of you interested in such things, here’s the header.
Prize No: 237359446
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:24 PM
From UK Multinational Wed Apr 29 15:24:40 2009
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Authentication-Results: mta116.mail.ac4.yahoo.com from=alcor.concordia.ca; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=alcor.concordia.ca; dkim=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 132.205.7.82 (EHLO capone.concordia.ca) (132.205.7.82) by mta116.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:28:20 -0700
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Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:24:40 -0000 (Universal)
Subject: Prize No: 237359446
From: "UK Multinational" <[email protected]> Add sender to Contacts
Reply-To: [email protected]
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Importance: Normal
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Content-Length: 2220
Not to belabor the point, but I did a Google search on the “winning number.” This number has won several lotteries, it seems. The last item on the search page is dated June 17, 2008!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=23 ... h&aq=f&oq=
[email protected] if you want to ask me more questions.
