Fraudulent Email Messages July 5, 2013

As of July 5,2013, we have compiled a list of fraudulent emails. The email messages below are all fraudulent and you should not respond to them with your personal information. Every day, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money. Once again, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.

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Fraudulent Email Messages July 5, 2013

Fraudulent email messages:

From: Bangkok Bangkok bangkokbkkk@gmx.com
Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 14:11
Subject: Requirements

Dear Fund Beneficiary,

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your message regarding your won prize transfer. This bank has also confirmed from the Western Canada Lottery contact person here about your claim.

Your won prize is ready to be transferred to your designated bank account as soon as you provide us with all the necessary documents required by law for an international fund transfer.

(1) Your complete banking coordinate (Name of bank, account number, name of beneficiary, swift code or sort code and bank address. If you don't have a bank account, the prize shall be deliverred to you in an international bank cheque.

(2) Winner’s prize certificate

(3) Fund release order issued to you from the Thailand financial crime monitoring team.( The fund releaser order is an authority and approval to banks operating in Thailand to transfer fund abroad from the Thailand financial crime monitoring team. Without these documents this bank cannot transfer your prize to you).

(4) Scan copy of your identification (national identity card or international passport)

As soon as we receive the above requirements, your won prize shall be transferred into your designated bank account.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr. Niran Chatchai

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From: (UOB)United Overseas Bank (info-doa@uobonline.com)
Sent: Tue 6/18/13 4:23 PM
Good Day To You,

Permit me to inform you of my desire of going into business relationship with you. I got your contact from a computerize data following my effort

searching for a trustworthy person to assist me.

I am Ms Chiang Lai Yuen JP the Head of Accounting Audit Department of United Overseas Bank(UOB) in Malaysia. I have a business proposal you

In my department, I discovered a sum of $187.5 Million USD In an account that belongs to one of our foreign deceased

customers, a billionaire Business Mogul Late Mr. Moises Saba Masri, a Jew from Mexico who was a victim of a helicopter crash since 2010 year.

resulting to his death and his family members.

You can see more information about Saba Masri Mr.Moises unfortunate end accident on the website-link below.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles /0,7340,L-3832556,00.html

Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that until now. I

personally have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives, Which the Board of Directors are planning to share this funds among themselves.

Which i have good heart to use this funds to help the poor, I seek your consent as my business partner in this transaction to present you as the next of kin/Will Beneficiary to the diseased so that the funds of this account valued at $187.5 Million USD can be paid to your local bank account in your country.

This transaction will be share 50/50 by both of us.

I want to use part of my own share to help orphanage motherless child home, I don't know about you.

Provide me the following information, as we have 7 days to run it through. This is very URGENT PLEASE.

Also you are to Fill the information below.

1, Your Full names:.

2, Your age:.

3, Your private phone number:.

4, Your current country and residential address:.

5, Your Occupation:.

6, Can You Handle This Project:.

Please on your confirmation of this message and indicating your interest,

i will furnish you with more information on this business transaction.

Best regards

Ms Chiang Lai Yuen JP

***Please accept this confidential message ONLY if you can guarantee attendance and respond back***

This partnership is a limited offer. If you received this message by error please delete at any time.

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From: Mrs. Rosen shumejda (mthaib@hotmail.com)

Sent: Tue 6/18/13 1:50 PM

Dear Beloved,

Please accept my sincere apologizes if my email does not meet your business or personal ethics. I am Mrs. Rose Shumejda, I am 52 years old, a widow to late Mr.John Shumejda who was the President of agricultural equipment giant AGCO Corp, who perished on the 4th of January 2002 in a plane crash in Birmingham. Please View the Website below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ uk_news/england/1742404.stm

After going through some files of my late husband, I discovered a Deposit Certificate of ($9Million) (Nine Million Dollars) with a Bank.in Aisa But due to my sickness, I have not been able to claim this fund from the Asia Bank, as I have been in the hospital and my sickness continue getting worst. I am suffering from a protracted cancer of the lungs which has affected my brain. From all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and my doctors have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond the next Six months, this is because the cancer stage has reached a critical stage.

The Prime Minister of Cambodia said that some of the money held in dormant accounts would be used to fund youth and community projects

I am contacting you based on trust to present you to the bank as the Next of Kin and Bonafide Inheritor to my Late Husband's fund, since I cannot claim this fund myself now and I may not live beyond next six months according to my Doctors, but I have the faith in God that I will live more than the months my Doctors said by God grace.

Presently, I'm with my laptop in the hospital where I have been undergoing treatment in . Please! Please!! Your help is needed to avoid this money been diverted to the Asian Government as unclaimed fund/dormant account.Imagine somebody who have no child, I have nobody taking care of me here in the Hospital, and the money I have now is limited. Of which, that $9 Million is my only hope to continue my treatment here in the Hospital, and hopefully by God grace I will survive.

If you will so kind to be of help, I will be very glad and only God will reward you for that. Upon the successful claim/transfer of the fund in your account as the next of Kin, 40% of the total fund will be taking as your own share, 20% goes to the Orphanage homes, while the remaining 40% will be transfer to my account for my treatment.

Please in your response, send me the following information to enable me validate you as the legal beneficiary of this funds :

(1). Full names:

(2). contact address:

(3). Phone:

(4). Cell phone:

(5). Age:

(6). Occupation

{7). Your country

Thanks and God bless.

Mrs. Rosen shumejda

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April 17, 2016 at 9:34 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I want to ask about Western Canada Lottery Corporation, is it true are just joking & fraud. Because I received one prize email from them.

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Fraudulent Email Messages July 5, 2013