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ALL the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent or mystery shopper jobs and business proposals offering huge sums of money are SCAMS. You CAN'T WIN a lottery or prize draw you HAVEN'T ENTERED. Please don't post comments asking if the SCAMS you have received are real. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS IN A COMMENT ASKING SCAMMERS TO CONTACT YOU (yes, people really do this regularly!)

Subject:Shell Petroleum Development Company(spdc}

Would you trust a scammer who can’t even be bothered to change the date before sending out another batch of scam emails?  4th May?  It’s the middle of August!

Shell don’t hold random, email draws.  No-one does.  Ignore this scammer.

Shell Petroleum Development Company(spdc) P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Lottery Date:4th May 2010 WINNING NOTIFICATION: Ref.No:919347/749-0 Batch:3566465021-0TA/06

Att:Lucky Winne,

Congratulations as we [Continue reading Subject:Shell Petroleum Development Company(spdc}]

Subject:RE: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL BANK DRAFT

I know – “let’s make up a totally unbelievable scam email story, and just to make it sound authentic we’ll tell all our potential victims that it comes from Nigeria”.  ”Do you think anyone will believe us?”  Probably not – no.  At least, I hope they won’t.

Just ignore this scammer, who according to his/her email address comes from the Czech Republic.

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. FOREIGN DEBT DISBURSEMENT CENTER. Annex IV, [Continue reading Subject:RE: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL BANK DRAFT]

WEEKLY DRAWS RESULTS

Patricia Gates has emailed me from Midlands Tech College to tell me that she is called Sir Gordon Stewart.  Why would she tell me that?  Because she is a scammer, who is hoping I will be taken in by her story and reply.  Then she will start asking me to send money.

I have forwarded the email to the college in case they can find who sent it.  Probably hopeless, but you never know.

[Continue reading WEEKLY DRAWS RESULTS]

ATM CARD

Right  - the “federal ministry of finance” has apparently decided to send me $8.5m for no good reason.  Do you want to guess which country’s ministry of finance this is supposed to be??  I have no idea.  I could hazard a few guesses.  Clearly this scammer couldn’t even be bothered to decide where he or she lives.

I’m sure you aren’t expecting $8.5m – neither am I.  If you reply to this scammer you [Continue reading ATM CARD]

ASSALAMUALAIKUM!

This scammer isn’t writing to you “in the Name of Allah” or anyone else.  And like the scammers who claim to be Christians (or Born Again Christians) he clearly hasn’t been paying enough attention to the teachings of the religion in whose name he claims to be writing.

I’m quite sure that scamming and lying and contrary to the teachings of most religions.  The only money this scammer is interested in is yours.  He [Continue reading ASSALAMUALAIKUM!]

ATTENTION

What a load of illiterate, meaningless rubbish.  This scammer can’t decide if he’s in Nigeria or Benin – he sounds confused. Which is what you’ll be if you try to make sense of this scam.

Just ignore it.  You know perfectly well you aren’t expecting $10.5m.  If you make the mistake of replying you just find a scammer asking you for money.

ATTENTION: We have sent your payment of ($10.5Million) Ten Million [Continue reading ATTENTION]

No Subject

This scam is short and sweet.  And ……… totally unconvincing.

Apply for a loan today,if you need a loan try and contact this email address below:lindaloanfirms@gmail.com

Urgen Response Needed

Who are these idiotic scammers that seem to think I will believe that the world is ful of “trunk boxes” full of millions of dollars in cash.  Haven’t they heard of banks and credit cards?  They do have them in Africa!   Which is where this scammer claims to be.

This nut case seems to think that telling me s/he has left a “trunk box” with fedex and then travelled out of the county [Continue reading Urgen Response Needed]

S.O.S FROM IRAQ; IT`S IMPORANT I HEAR FROM YOU, REPLY ASAP

I’m quite sure the scammer that wrote this has never been anywhere near Iraq or the US Army.  My guess from the language used is that this scammer is somewhere in Africa.  The only stash of cash this scammer is interested in is yours.  He is hoping you fall for his ridiculous story and then he will start ask you to send money.

Ignore this scammer.

Dear friend,

Compliments and [Continue reading S.O.S FROM IRAQ; IT`S IMPORANT I HEAR FROM YOU, REPLY ASAP]

Financial Officer – Secure IT Business Inc – Vanessa Darrington Scam

Two readers have forwarded me this scam.  To see how these payment processor scams work, read the scam victims page of this site.

My second reader replied to the first email  and received a second email full of links to an impressive looking website – all of which is fake.  The website was registered on 19 July 2010 and is hosted on an Eastern European server that is also used to host other scam [Continue reading Financial Officer – Secure IT Business Inc – Vanessa Darrington Scam]