E-mail scams and Telephone scams.

Let's start off with telephone scams.

You receive a telephone call from someone you have no idea who they are, however they sound like your friend your neighbor next door or someone from your community. You do not know this person or the supposedly charity they are representing. I have received calls from supposedly firefighters, or police, charities. Asking for money. I know that these was scams. Why. When I received a telephone call for firefighters they were trying to represent the forced firefighters at a time there was many forest fires happening in my state. These are federal employees. And have all the finances required for their personal well-being.

You have won a prize, however you must purchase something to receive this prize. A scam. Do not fall for this little trick, if it's a prize it should be free and there should be no strings attached in any way shape or form. Otherwise it falls in to the scam category.

E-mail scams.

The e-mail scams are very similar to telephone scams you have won something for nothing. You do not know this person or how they manage to get your e-mail. There's several ways of getting your e-mail. I will not go into these details. It's just a matter of time that they get it no matter what precautions you take. That is because they are persistent in gathering e-mail addresses for a number of reasons the main one is money. Yours or someone else's by sharing your e-mail address. By selling it to advertisers or others that try scanning you. By offering you something that is financial, or a prize. Every one of the situations require immediate response. And everything is also asked to be kept totally private. What does this sound like, if everything was on the up, nothing should be required from you. It tests out to be a scam.

Now I will show you some scams I received by e-mail below.

 

From: Smith Frederick
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Smith Frederick

Private and Personal Please
 
Good day,
 
I am a senior Auditor and Heading-computing department here in a leading bank in the United Kingdom, in my Bank I discovered an abandoned large sum of money Ј35Million pounds belonging to one of our late Foreign Customer, since 2000.
 
The owner of this account is late Mr. Thomas Stockley, an American National, a businessman, who involved in air crash along with his family.
 
You can confirm from the website below.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
 
No other person knows about this account. The Strategy is to use our influence as a senior Auditor and Heading-computing department to approve the funds to you. If you are interested, please get back to me on my private email address below:
 
Email: smithfrederick_20078@yahoo.com.cn
 
 
Yours faithfully
 
 
 
Smith Frederick

When you purchase something on the web and it usually requires a e-mail for verification of your purchase. Inside these e-mails they automatically return a e-mail very rapidly for verification. However this scam artist has done the same thing in order to verify your e-mail address. For future scams. The other thing that tells me this is a scam. Is the e-mail address, @yahoo.com.cn this is not yahoo. It has an extra extension on the e-mail account as shown, "cu" this tells me a scam as well.

 

From: Free National Lottery Commision
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Kindly Get back to us as soon as you can!!!

Message Resent by The Free National Lottery Commission

The Free National Lottery Commission

101 Wig more Street
London
W1U 1QU
United Kingdom
Email: freelotto_20078@yahoo.com.cn
 
Reference number B206-35-707
Ticket numbers 490-15-54-35
 
Dear Winner,
 
We are glad to inform you that your E-mail address appears as the confirmed
Winner of our last email lottery program held on the 4th of February. 2009.
Your e-mail address attached to Reference number B206-35-707, lucky numbers 490-15-54-35, which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of  Ј3,500.000.00 euros. [Three Million and five hundred thousand British Pounds only]
 
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
This promotional program takes place every year. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 200,000 companies and 50,000, 000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.
 
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and lucky numbers in all correspondence. We ask that you should keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to you.
  To file for your claim or for further details please contact the officer in charge of your winning and forward the required details stated below via a plain text message:
 *************************************************************
Contact Details for claim release process
Name: Ronald Gunter
Email:freelotto_20078@yahoo.com.cn
 *************************************************************
In respect of our commitment towards helping the less privilege, we ask that you voluntarily contribute 1% of your Global winnings to any charity organization you desire at your convenience.
 
Note: All winning must be claimed not later than  first of this fiscal year 2009
 
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
 
 
This email and its attachments are confidential and may contain legally privileged information. You should not disclose the contents to any other person. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system.
 
FREE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
 
Please provide the following fill and forward the form below via a plain text message in order to have your claim process for release.
 
FORM
Internet lottery
The Free Lotto Organization
UK (United Kingdom)
 
LOTTERY PAYMENT APPLICATION FORM
(To be completed by lottery winners only)
 
Ticket Number:
Reference Number: 
Full Name:
Home Address:
Country:
Telephone (Home)/ Mobile:
Fax (Private or Office):
Email Address:
Year of Birth:
Occupation:
Marital Status:
I............................hereby declare that the above information are true and binding on me. If at any time it is discovered that I have given false information, I will forfeit my rights to my winnings.
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
Mr. Peter Rossman
(Lottery Coordinator)
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
 
Please be informed that NON RESIDENTS of Ireland and United Kingdom will be required to procure a Affidavits of Lotto Claim/Court clearance certificate from the Magistrate Court in the United Kingdom prior to award payment policy of Organizers/European Gaming Board as required by the Clearance office.
 
Please be aware that your Paying Authority wills Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this Clearance Office
 

This is a different scam from the same person. How do I know this the e-mail. 20078@yahoo.com.cn. A question why would a lotto use, Yahoo! I don't believe so, a scam.