Money Making Opportunities, Winnings or Scams

See our privacy policy. I have been getting emails about money making opportunities and contest/lottery winnings. I cannot be certain that they are all scams but I have not responded to them. I saw on TV how there are many scams coming out of Africa. If you want, you can respond to them. I read that it was illegal for Americans to win lottery money from other countries. Note the misspellings.

Here is a good one first. The FBI misspelled Washington under the picture. Of course this is not the FBI.

October 26, 2007:

New York Field Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
26 Federal Plaza
New York, New York 10278

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
J. EDGAR. HOOVER BUILDING WARSHINGTON D.C

ATTENTION: SIR

This is to inform you that this office has been dully intervened on the release of your fund and we have mapped out to verified and investigate properly of Inheritance funds and Winning fund/ Contractors funds.compensation Fund

There is no need of wasting your time because from the meeting we helded on 29th January 2007 with the Africa European Union Benin Republic, We all agreed that all forign contractors owned by any Bank or from some body should be received there fund through Africa European Union office in London or Benin Republic.

This is to inform you that the office will contact you as soon as possible and to let you know that your file has been sumitted to the above office. Below is the contact of the above office,You can contact the office.

Name:Dr Anthony Pius
Director Paymaster General Office.
World Wide Direct number +44-7024062311
Branch office in Benin Republic +229-93-962608
E-mail:paymaster_2007@myway.com

Please,Be aware of this, Any order contact from any bank should be ignore before you loose your fund.

Warning:

In your own good and best interest you are advised to stop forthwith any communication or dealings that you holding with any Offices or Banks that falls outside the above stated instructions. Federal Bureau Investigation will not hesitate to investigate,prosecute and convict anybody found violating our good efforts to forestall normalcy this current dispensation. ThIs message is for your eyes only, any attempt to dispatch or forward it to a second party amounts to obstruction of Federal investigation.

Treat this matter with a great urgency to enable us serve you better.

Thanks for your kind understanding and be guided properly by this payment advice.

Urgent get back to us.

Faithfully Yours,

FBI Director
Robert S. Mueller, III

August 19, 2007:

You've won £800.000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!

CONGRATULATES YOU!

YOU WON £800,000!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Eight Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£800,000) for the month of August 2007 Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo.messenger.com every month.

Yahoo! collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo! mail, among the millions that subscribe to msn mail, we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £800,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE



These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact the HALIFAX BANK PLC UK Fiduciary Agent at this email address ( mr_smithronney@myway.com) Tel: +447031840217 You are required to forward him with the following details:

1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9. FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12. AMOUNT WON?
13.THE MONTH YOU WON?

As soon as you contact the Attorney, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr WILLIAM GERRI
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

January 25, 2008
Internal Revenue Service
      United States Department of the Treasury

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have
determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $129.72.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 days in order to
process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access your tax refund, please click here

Best Regards,
Tax Refund Deparment (spelled wrong)
Internal Revenue Service

© Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.

A prince wants to send me 12 million dollars.

October 26, 2007:

Hello Dear,

Please as you read kindly open the
website:http://www.onlinenigeria.com/links/adv.asp?blurb=131.

This letter is written to the glory of almighty who thus brought me out
clean after all the allegations leveled against me after the death of my
father(former Nigerian military head of states).Since my father's death
and my detention, my family has been loosing a lot of money due to
vindictive government officials who are bent on dealing with my family.

My family is looking for a trustworthy foreign partner who can assist us
in receiving some amount of money to the tune of US$12M, for investment
purposes.This money is presently in the possession of a Vaulting company
abroad ready to move to who so ever we nominate to them .This money of
course was acquired by my late father and is now kept secretly by the
family and the money is in cash .

The money will be coming in 2 security proof boxes. The boxes are sealed
with synthetic nylon sealand padded with machine. I will instruct the
Vaulting company to send this trunks to you as soon as i hear from you.

The trunks were not lodged in as containing cash rather as Sensitive
Photographic Film Material. As soon as I hear from you, I will give you
all necessary details as to how we intend carrying out the whole
transaction so please, do not entertain any fears.If you are interested in
assisting me please send to me Your telephone/fax numbers,full name and
address, you may also ignore this Letter and respect my trust in you by
not exposing this transaction.

should you not be interested,I look forward to working with you.

Thank you
Prince Mohammed Abacha.

October 29, 2007:

Dear Friend,

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family? I hope this
email meets you in a perfect condition. I am using this
opportunity to thank you for your great effort to our unfinished transfer
of fund into your account due to one reason or the other best
known to you. But I want to inform you that I have successfully
transferred the Funds out of my bank to someone else account who was
capable of assisting me in this great venture.

Due to your effort, sincerity, courage and trustworthiness you showed at
the course of the transaction I want to compensate you and show my
gratitude to you with the sum of $1,000,000.00 United State of America
Dollars. I have authorized MR Williams Cole , where I deposited my money
to issue you international certified bank draft cashable at your bank.
My dear friend I want you to contact MR Williams Cole for the collection
of this international certified bank draft. The name and contact
address of MR Williams Cole is as follows.

Name: MR. Williams Cole
Email: williams_coleoffice1@yahoo.dk

Contact MR Williams Cole with your personal information's below because at
the moment I am very busy here because of the investment projects which I
and my new partners are having at hand In Nepal.

NAME IN FULL: ---------------
PHONE NUMBER------------------
CONTACT ADDRESS: --------------
YOUR BANK INFORMATION-----------

Finally remember that I have forwarded instruction to MR Williams Cole on
your behalf to send the bank draft check of One Million United State of
America Dollars to you. As soon as you contact him without delay. Kindly
accept this token with good faith, as this is from the
bottom of my heart.

Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks.
MR.Bello Ibrahim

October 26, 2007:

My name is Dennis Ridout of Sandhills Textiles.This is a
company that sells fabrics and textiles to companies and private
parties in wholesale.We have offices in both Africa and the Uk.We sell
and distribute our products to customers in the US and all over the
world.The company is facing difficulties in selling our products to
US/Canadian residence as they offer to pay in either checks or money
orders,which is difficult for us to cash in the UK or Africa.And this
is making us lose most of our customers already.

    We are looking for a representative in the US/Canada who will be
working for the company as a partime worker and we will be willing to
pay 10% for every transaction,which would not affect your present
state
of work.someone who would help in recieving payments from our
customers
in the US/Canada.the cost of coming to the states to get payments
is very expensive,this is basically why we need a representative in
the united
states/canada who will be handling the payment aspect.

    These payments are in form of checks/money orders and they
would come to you in your name, so all you need do is cash them,
deduct your percentage and wire the rest back. you should be aware
that the company is not scared of entrusting its money into anyones
hands as it is a duely registered and recognised company and would
not hesitate to report any scam artist to the country's law enforcers
for proper investigations to be carried out on any scam against it.

This job would not cost you any amount,you are to receive payments
which will be sent to you from our customers,then you are
to cash them and send the cash via western union money transfer to
anywhere you might be required to send the funds to (this could
either be the uk office or africa office),all transfer fees should be
deducted from the funds to be sent and not from your share.

   If interested,please send replies to employmentoffer24@gmail.com
with the following details:

*FULL NAME
*HOME ADDRESS
*PHONE NUMBER
*SEX
*AGE
*MARITAL STATUS

These details are needed for our customers to get across to you with
their payments.We need your urgent reply to enhance improved
productivity.

Regards
Dennis Ridout
Director Accounts
Sandhills Textiles
+447024052096

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