Netherlands Gaming Board

Yahoo! Personals Canada

And again, another notification that I have won a million dollars!  This is just wonderful!  The letter (which is a scam) is listed below.

Government Accredited Licensed lottery promoters.
International Promotions/Prize Award Department

Donation for the Lord

This type of phishing is as low as it gets.  This plays on religion in an attempt to get you to write back to them.  Once you write back, they will try to get money out of your for transfer fees.  Example: We’ll send you the million dollars, but we need $800 US transfer fee.  Or!  They will try to make a wire transfer which you will get, but what the bank doesn’t tell you is that the wire is not really valid until after three days and within that time period, they will take back their money, etc.
Watch out for these type of phising scams!
DONATION FOR THE LORD
From: Mrs. Monica Tema
PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD.I am the above name person from Sierra-Leone. I am married to Dr Ebenezer Tema who worked
with Sierra Leonian Embassy in South Africa for nine years before he died
in the year 2001. We were married for eleven years without a child. He died
after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his death we
were both born again Christians and we lived happilly. Since his death,
I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which
the Bible is really against.
When my late husband was alive he secured $15Million (Fifteen Million U.S.
Dollars) with financial institution here in Cote D’Ivoire. Presently, this
money is still with the financial institution. Recently, my Doctor told
me that from all the test conducted on my health, I am not going to last
long, expecially, due to my cancer and stroke. But what disturbs
me most now is stroke.
Having known my condition, I decided to donate this fund to churches or
Christian individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to
instruct. I want a church or individual that will use this money to fund
churches, Orphanages and Widows. Also, the propagation of the work of God,
building and maintaining the house of God through this money, is very important.
The Bible made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I
took this decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this
money and my husband relatives are not Christians. I don?t want my husband’s
hard earned money to be misused by unbelievers, for their own selfish interest and in an ungodly manner. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bossom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace.
I don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health, and because of the presence of my husband’s relatives around me sometimes. I don’t want them to know about this development, but I know that With God all things are possible.
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the Financial institution in Ivory coast. I will also give you all information regarding the deposit of this money. I will also issue you a letter of authority that will empower you as the original- beneficiary of this fund. I want you and your church to always pray for me because God work in misterious ways. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Who ever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life.
Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing for a church or christian individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hear from you soon.
Remain blessed in the name of the Lord.
Yours in Christ,
Mrs Monica Tema
- All a big lie!

Select Award - Lotto

Yet another email informing me that I have Won a Million Dollars. Wow, all this prize money and I have no idea what to do with it? So exciting, isn’t it! Thanks so much to the people at Select Award for changing my life - with more SPAM!

UNITA Email Scam

Here is another email scam I received today. The goal is to mass email (spam) unsuspecting users in the hopes they fall for this lame attempt at extracting your money.

Web Forgery

Below is a web forgery I received today.  It’s a scam and I include it here so that you can see some of the latest phishing attempts. Just reading you can tell it was not composed by someone who is fluent in English :)

Dear Firth Third band business or commercial customer.

Google Lotto

Here is another Phishing Scam, this time is titled International Promotion Program and tries to get you excited by claiming it is a Google Lotto.

It’s a complete scan and designed to extract valuable information from you be having you call them and then release personal information. Notice how this Phishing scam is worded incorrectly?