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[baltos]

Dear Ben Densin
I know this is a favourite topic of yours ............... wanna run with it??


THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UKNL/08/821/582/QE32
Batch: UKNG8/A115-07



Dear Lucky Winner,



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Details Of Beneficiary


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Telephone Number: +447031819599



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(Information and Promotion Manager)

[sunny]

There is a website where you can check out hoaxes.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

[KangalKid]

it amazes me just how many people get excited over getting e-mails like that an yet they never do the lottery but are thrilled to find they have won it

[Ken]

It's the typical advance-fee scam... they send out thousands of these to see who replies. To those who reply they send out a second (all cut and paste letters), to assure you that it's legitimate. They may ask for your bank details and a copy of your passport, but that's really just to make sure they have a good victim. They probably will call you and talk to you as well. Then something will come up... a certain fee has to be paid, and they'll want you to go to Western Union or a MoneyGram office to pay the fee, then there's another fee, and another... So many of these out there!

[Steve]

..also never a good idea to put telephone numbers and addresses on any forum ,another forum i use,someone has been sending pest calls ,and somebody was complaining that one person took kontours from their turcell account ,i know can transfer kontours but i did.nt know people could take them

[Ken]

Good point! Whenever you sign a guest book, put your e-mail address in a forum, or anywhere else where it's displayed, robots which scan the Internet for e-mail addresses will pick it up and add your e-mail to a spam list, and you'll definitely start getting e-mails like in the topic-starter.

[BYHC]

This thread just caught my eye following an email we received this morning.... This is a very plausible looking scam that anyone who owns a domain name should be aware of. I've taken the link our of it for obvious reasons. A tip is when you get links in emails rollover the actual link to see the actual linik, its not always what it appears to be at face vale - in this one when you rolled over it looks something like networksolutions.com.4855ff5. biz. The network solutions domain is just a sub domain name of "4855ff5. biz" in this instance. Only look at the last two parts. If it doesn't look right don't follow it - it will lead to an imitation of the actual site. This type of scam is often employed to capture PayPal and ebay details... Hope this helps someone.

Dear Network Solutions® Customer,

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:10:50 +0300 we received a third party complaint of invalid domain contact information in the Whois database for this domain Whenever we receive a complaint, we are required by ICANN regulations to initiate an investigation as to whether the contact data displaying in the Whois database is valid data or not. If we find that there is invalid or missing data, we contact both the registrant and the account holder and inform them to update the information.

Please note: ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) regulations state that the WHOIS Administrative Contact may initiate and approve domain name registration transfers from your Network Solutions account to other Registrars. If you are not listed as the WHOIS Administrative Contact a transfer can occur without your knowledge if Domain Protect is not enabled for the domain name registrations listed above.

To change the WHOIS Administrative Contact Information for any of your domains, please login to Account Manager:

1. Log in to Account Manager at: http://www.networksolutions.com.
2. Click on the "Profile & Accounts" tab in the left navigation menu to be taken to a page listing your account details.
3. Click on "Accounts" and select the account you wish to edit.
4. Click "View/Edit WHOIS Contacts" to make your updates.


If you believe someone requested this change without your consent, please contact Customer Service.

If you would like to order additional services or to update your account, please visit us online.

Thank you for choosing Network Solutions. We are committed to providing you with the solutions, services, and support to help you succeed online.


Sincerely,
Network Solutions® Customer Support

[Ken]

It would be a good idea to forward that e-mail to Network Solutions. I've received e-mails like that as well, purportedly from credit unions or banks I don't belong to. It will have a domain name like www.navy-federal-cu.com which is not their domain name, but uses their brand name in it. Then it takes you to a fake site that looks very realistic, just like the real one, and asks you to "log in," which basically gives the criminals your login name and password info, right off the bat. I never click on these links, I read the e-mail, then type the real domain address manually to make sure I'm going to the real one. In this case, I didn't belong to Navy Federal Credit Union (they send out thousands of spam e-mails hoping someone will give up their info). I notified the credit union and sent along the e-mail using a "report phishing" page they had.

About the only way we can fight this is through awareness, a lot of people are not familiar with these scams, and they look so real that they're bound to fool lots of people.

I've been able to close some of these websites by getting the name of the hosting company for the website and letting them know that the owners of that site are using their server to commit fraud, and they've close the sites.

Thanks for posting that BHYC, it helps us good guys to educate people.

Join an Internet Counter-Scamming Group

This is a rather fun way to do your part to exhasperate and waste the time of Internet scammers, many of whom operate from Internet cafes in 3rd World countries, mostly Nigeria.

Several groups on the Web specialize in working as counter-scammers, such as www.419eater.com. That group of anonymous volunteers pretends to be gullible victims of the "419 scam" (named after the Nigerian penal code for fraud), where a rich relative allegedly dies and leaves millions of dollars they want to transfer to your bank account (that's the most common). They pretend to be victims and basically drive the scammers crazy, get them to go through hilarious ceremonial rituals, have them go to the airport to pick up someone who is not there, get them believing that they are recruiting stuntmen for Hollywood and have the scammers videotape themselves jumping off the roofs of houses, etc.... it can be a lot of fun and can be done safely. Check out their "trophy room" and their video page. But I warn you, don't be drinking anything before viewing their trophy room page, you'll surely spill it all over your keyboard from laughing uncontrollably!

What the Counter-scammers do to the Scammers

Here are a couple of "trophys" where the "gullible victims" (who were really counter-scammers) convinced the scammers (Nigerians) that they had to join the "victim's" religion before they could do business with them (the greed of these scammers is such that they will often go to great lengths to get money from their victims, all the while making fools of themselves and receiving absolutely nothing from the "victim"). Look and laugh!


This one apparently had to photograph himself going through some sacred rights the "victim" told him he must perform.


This one had to prove that he had joined the "victims" religion by putting a fish on his head and biting loaf of bread, among lots of other things.


A religious ceremony involving a beer and milk baptism.


The typical Nigerian scammer doesn't get the nuances of the English language.


Another Nigerian photographs himself expressing his zeal for the "victim's" religion.


Again, a scammer is counter-scammed for the World to see, and makes an idiot out of himself in the process.

(don't feel sorry for these bastards, they'll target anybody, and have caused some to lose their life savings... they don't feel sorry for the real victims, many of whom are the poor, living other third world countries).

Others have forced the scammers to videotape themselves doing the entire "Dead Parrot" sketch from Monty Python" (it's on their video page), the counter-scammers have great imaginations! Anybody can anonymously join the group if you're interested, they will tell you how to do it safely. But beware, it's addictive! Again, you can help this group drive the scammers crazy and even shut some of them down by joining the 419 Eaters at www.419eater.com. It's worth a visit just to see the trophy room and the videos of scammers making asses out of themselves for money which they will never receive.

[Steve]

..congratulations turkey central has passed 1,000 registered members,,and growing very fast..

[BYHC]

Naturally netwoksolutions was my first stopping point.Not much point reporting it as their contact page had this message.

Customers who have registered domain names through Network Solutions, as well as several other domain name providers are currently a target of a large scale phishing scam. A fraudster is sending e-mails to customers asking them to log in to renew or edit their domain name registration, and providing a link to a fraudulent site designed to look like networksolutions.com and to capture customer username and password information, or other private information.

If you believe you have received an e-mail of this type and have clicked on the link, and provided your login information, we recommend the following for security purposes:

* login to your account
* review your account information for accuracy
* change your password security question and answer
* change your password

Loved the Nigerian scanm photos - makes me want to have a play!

[Ken]

congratulations turkey central has passed 1,000 registered members,,and growing very fast.

That's great to see, even though we cleaned out a few hundred members and fake members who were here only to spam the forums. Still having some problems with that, banning and deleting, one by one. Did three this morning. I hope some of the new members will tell others and bring more.

I have a visceral hatred for these scammers, they take advantage of the many on the Internet who are unaware of what's really going on. I think of the many people I meet who only have a basic idea of how things work and what easy prey they would be, especially those using the Internet for the first time. It's scary.

makes me want to have a play!

419Eaters has done a great job with what they do, the scammers never know if they have a real victim or if THEY are now the victim! The group there is very supportive, they have an advantage because they cooperate with each other, while the scammers compete with each other. They're always happy to have a new counter-scammer on their team.

The post you made was a phishing scam, and I don't think they work those... I believe all the phishers are after is a person's ID and credit card info and there isn't much you can do to play with them. The love scams, rich dead relative scams, the big box full of money nobody knows about but me scam, those are all definitely playable. I'm amazed at the scenarios and fakery they come up with to keep a scammer going, and get them all spun up!

[LawMan]

All: This maybe a terrible thing to say but I must, "I dis-like most if not all Nigireans" because of their highly publicized scams. Yes, I've met very few honest ones but I've crossed many, many, many in the US (New Jersey and New York) area who have been [or try to be] just scandelous. I'm a military veteran who's been "wordly-indoctrinated" and I'm pretty wise but I usually like to listen and counter-scam thier a$$ right to their FACE! They would go on and on about how great an investment or property maybe and I mentaly (Skull-Screw) them by giving them an insane headache and wasting thier time until they become so fustrated that they simply stop talking and walk away--I LOVE DOING IT TO THOSE BASTARDS! Please excuse my French as I take very little sympathy towards crued and deceptive people!

PS: If you must remove this post--do so but I have to call/say it as I mean it!!!!!!