 04/03/2008, 12:08 PM
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Rob
Joined on 27/07/2006
Germany
Posts 46
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Beware of an obvious fraud through your Emails!!.
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Hello again Readers,
This time, I write to warn you over a possible fraud which is
circulating in most 'hotmail' Emails and to which I yesterday also
received. The following information here, will give you the necessary
'doubt' should you receive the same, just delete it and report it to
the police, as I did yesterday. Seeing as I am here in Germany, it left
me no alternative than to contact New Scotland Yard and I gave them all
the information needed to help prevent anyone being hoaxed out of any
money. The officer in the Operations Room assured me after checking,
that this was a 'fraud' and to warn others if and when possible, so, if
you receive this, or something similar in your Emails, DELTE it
immediately.
'Dear Winner, Winning Information. This is to notify you that you have won GBP 850.000.00 in our
online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked out randomly
by computerised balloting, powered by the Internet. Your email
address was amongst those chosen for the period.
Ticket No: 56475600545 188, Serial No: 5388/02, Winning number:
08.11.21.32.35.42.(47), Draw (#1187). To claim your prize, please
contact: Fiduciary Agent Mr Brian Adams, Email:
uknlclaimsdept1@hotmail.co.uk with your Name, Full Adress, Country,
Age, Gender, Occupation, Phone. Tel +44 703 195 6376 or +44 703 196
5439, Yours daithfully, Dr. George Manning'.
I was obviously convinced this was a hoax or an attempt to con someone
out of money, so I contacted the police who were grateful for the
information and will follow up my information.
There is no such thing as 'Email Lotterys' as far as I know and
although this information that comes through an Email might lead to
someone getting delusions of 'grandeur' at having won a considerable
ammount of money, at the end of the day, you are just the victim of a
fradulant act in which you might loose a large ammount of money also.
Never give out ANY personal information to ANYONE, unless you can
establsh with 100% credibility that the information required comes from
an authentic scource.
Should you fall victim to this form of Email, report it to the police
as soon as possible and give them all the information they might need
to try and stop Internet Criminality, I know this is hard to do, but
there is a good rate of success that the police authorities have
claimed recently.
Oh well, it was a lovely thought for the first few minutes, but as I am
never lucky in winning anything at all, twas not to be wondered that I
was a 'possible' victim, but, as a former Security Police Inspector, I
was not easily drawn into the act of 'claiming' for what was 'not fact'.
Incidently, I checked out the given Email addy, which I
suspected, was a bogus one. There is no such Email address under the
given name.
I hope this will help you all to be aware!.
Regards,
Rob.
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