A new scam

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by BILLMCC66, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    This is a new one i received this morning, not seen this before.

    United Nations Trust Funds
    Switzerland Department of Humanitarian Affairs
    Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10
    Switzerland.

    ::: YEAR 2009 EMAIL PRIZE AWARDS:::

    Dear Winner,

    We at United Nations (UN) global office likes to officially
    Congratulate you for the draw that was just held by our organization
    which featured you as the second place winner.

    Our organization holds promotions each year just to promote our
    Global publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit more corners
    of the world.

    This promotion is just one of various ways we are presently using to
    Achieve this global vision of ours. Your email address with Winning
    ID............ (UNO-154/4456/011) was luckily drawn to be this year's
    Second place winner a cash prize of £550,000 Usd. (Five Hundred And
    Fifty Great British Pounds). This money we believe will enable you makes
    some impact in the society.

    Ensure you contact Mr.Packer Williams who is our claims officer in
    United Kingdon (UK) for more information and can understand only English
    Languages. See details of him below

    Name: Mr. Packer Williams
    Email: mrpackerw.claimsoffice109@yahoo.com.hk
    Tell: +44-7045-7744-25.

    When contacting the claims Officer you should include the following

    *** Your Full Name:.........................
    *** Address:..................................
    *** Phone number:..........................
    *** Age:........................................
    *** Gender:....................................
    *** Occupation:..............................
    *** Winning email and Winning ID:.......
    *** Marital Status:...........................
    *** Country:...................................

    We know you must be excited and very happy about this news you have
    just received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to put
    Smiles into homes and hearts of people worldwide.

    Special greetings from the entire Staffs of United Nations
    Trust Funds Worldwide.

    Signed,

    Mr. Ban Ki-moon
    (UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL.)
    ________________________________________________________
    *NOTE** You must be 18years or older to claim. Late response is not
    accepted. Misconduct and non adherence to instructions leads to prize
    Termination.
     
  2. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member


    One of these days, I'M going to get some spam other than 'buy vicodin here' or 'please your woman better'. :(



    ;)

    Actually I can't believe you open these emails, Bill. Hopefully, one doesn't reach out and bite you one of these days. I always just delete without reading.
     
  3. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    I am not throwing it around believe me.

    This is a dormant hotmail account that has not been used for months, It's just that i open it periodically to see what rubbish is in there.
    I can only say that hotmail is very unsecure.
    My proper e mail account has not had a single spam mail this year (bill touches wood)
     
  4. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member


    What email do you use? I had to switch from my main account (Verizon Yahoo). I would literally get 300 or so emails a day into my spam folder and some would leak through. It was pissing me off to the point where I switched over to gmail. So far no spam has gotten into my inbox. My original AOL account is used for all my online stuff and I have to say, it's excellent. No spam gets in there.
     
  5. rustyjack

    rustyjack MajorGeek

    Hiya Bill, the best part about that email is, did they actually think you where going to fall for it ! :-D
     
  6. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    I am using an account from my ISP and have outlook express, I used windows mail for a long time but now i have switched from Vista to windows 7 i have had to change because 7 does not have windows mail.
     
  7. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member


    You can download Windows Live Mail for Windows 7, Bill. Here it is at Microsoft: Link

    I had a thread going about it in Software. I was going between that Outlook and opted to stay with Outlook since I really like it.



    gmail has been great for me so far.

    and good luck with that spam message, dls. I'm thinking even the spammers can't pull that one off. :-D
     
  8. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member


    Sorry? LOL
     
  9. Stubby

    Stubby R.I.P. (September 3, 1949 - January 26, 2011)

    Darn Bill, what is it with you:confused You seem to have a knack for attracting the 'nicest' peopleroflmao Must be your personality, huh?:-D Oh well, at least you're intelligent enough NOT to fall for that crap;) However, it makes me wonder how many people actually do.
     
  10. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    It was not windows live mail Laura but windows mail that was built into vista.
     
  11. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member


    Yep. I know. But figured if you liked Windows Mail, you might like WLM which is a free download.
     

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