Warning - Phishing emails - MSN PROMO AWARD - part 3 !!

Another email in my inbox.It is an another lottery variant of the 419 style of scam - uses the fake promise of a lottery win to eventually lure victim and trick them into giving away their bank details, or by requesting payments for 'administration costs'.

This time they use the logos of MSN and Yahoo to look as if it is a real notice !!!

The email content is as follows.........

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P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
Date: 8th December, 2006
WINNING NOTIFICATION

Ref: 475061723 Batch: 70564702/188

MSN ANNUAL PROMOTIONAL AWARD

Dear Winner,We happily announce to you the draw (#996) of the MSN ANNUAL PROMOTIONAL AWARD, online Sweepstakes International program held 29th November, 2006.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:47061725 07056490902 with serial number 7741137002 drew the lucky number , Bonus Ball which subsequently won you the Award in the 2nd category i.e match 20 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £ 500,000.00 ( Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) in cash credited to file ILP/HW 47509/02 .

This is from a total cash prize of £ 10,000,000.00 shared amongst the first five (20) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 20 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online, this promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European electronical computer, representative office in UK,in view of this, your £ 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) would be released to you by any of our payment offices.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential your claims will be processed and your money will be remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent with the bellow information:

Overseas Claims Unit
Universal Lottery
FiduciaryDr, Rowland Culverton
Email:claims_award_unit@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone:+447031834901Fax: +447092874237.

When contacting the claims unit for payment, furninsh him with the following details for the issue of your WINNING CERTIFICATE/PAYMENT.

(1)Full Name (2) Nationality (3)Date Of Birth (4) Occupation (5) Home/Moblie Phone (6)International Passport Or Driving Licence (7) Sex (8) Marital Status (9) Batch Number (10) reference numbers.

Our European agent will immediately commence your processing to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish contact via e-mail with your particulars.

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims.Goodluck from me, members of staff, and our sponsorers yahoo UK & Ireland, Microsoft window, MSN.

Yours faithfully,

Brian Hunt
Online coordinator for MSN PROMO AWARD
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days 8am-8pm.

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Warning - Phishing mails in your inbox - part 2!

Today i got another phishing email in my inbox. If you go through the email it may sound that making money is very easy. Dont be carried away by all these. Be aware of getting into trouble...
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Vladimir (illiat.celine@wanadoo.fr) +Add contact
To: min.tay@alumni.nus.edu.sg
Subject: FWD: Grateful job opportunity

My name is Vladimir Koksov. I'm manager of Ukrainian Reasonable Investing.Co.Currently our company is expanding and we have a limited number of job opportunities availablein Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and some more countries. You can earn up to USD $2000 weekly

Your Duties:
1. Open a CitiBank account (or use the existing CitiBank account);We use CitiBank becouse international transfers to CitiBank is clearinginstantly, so no any other bank is acceptable.
2. Upon receiving a notice from our manager about money transfer with your account, promptly apply to your bank and withdraw the sum.
3. Receive your 5% commission from the transferred sum. (8% after twoweeks trial period)
4. Immediately go to one of express money transfer agencies (Western Union or MoneyGram) and transfer this sum in accordance with the details, specified inour notice. (www.westernunion.com)
5. Log on to the Internet and send us the details of the transfer.

There is no start-up cost or any other fee to begin working with us.So you do not need any capital to start
If you are ready to start please fill in the form below and send itback to our email: ReasInvest58@mail.ru
Full name:
Country of residense:
City:
Cel. phone no:
Additional information about yourself :

Thank you.
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A Refreshing Day at Singapore Botanical Gardens

Yes it was indeed a refreshing day (24th Nov'06) for the entire family. Chitra was free from the daily cooking and house keeping activities, Tejas and Neeraj get a chance to explore the nature after a long time (True indeed... where got chance to appreciate nature's beauty in Singapore?) and for me, a good opportunity to have real fun with the family after a very long time....... (norm in singapore !!) We almost spend the entire day in the gardens. It was a cool and pleasant day with some showers in the late afternoon. We didnt feel the tiredness after walking for the whole day. Though cannot name most of the orchids and plants, managed to still have a good conversation with Tejas and Neeraj. They had good time playing in the morning, a sound nap in the afternoon and a pleasant evening........

Wishing to visit Botanical Gardens very soon....

Warning - Phishing mails in your inbox

Of-late do you receive such phishing emails? I am fed up with such.Thought that i shuld from now onwards share these phising emails in my inbox with the community.....

By the way .... can we put a stop to these ?

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EUROPW LOTTO SWEEPSTAKE (NATIONAL/INTERNATIONALINTERNET EXTRA AWARD PROGRAM),

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

KROPAAR STRAAT 34, 1032LA,AMSTERDAM,

THE NETHERLANDS

Ref. Number: BN2005-001-MLI

Batch Number:1505/004NL

ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE: ELP

Dear winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery WinnersInternational programs held on the 4TH NOVEMBER 2006. Your e-mail address attachedto ticket number 1942896-9032 with serial number H001490 drew lucky numbers11-0-17-31-60- 75-9 which consequently won in the 1st category, you havetherefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,500,000.00 Euros (OneMillion Five Hundred Thousand Euros)Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winninginformation confidential until your claims has been processed and your moneyRemitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claimingand unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.You will need to have your identification documents and claims form notarizedby the fiduciary agent (below) before a magistrate or notary public in TheNetherlands.All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn fromover 10,000,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and namesfrom all over the world, names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe,North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia as part of International PromotionsProgram. This promotional program takes place once a year.This lottery is promoted by the software and internet giant corporations tocompensate some few individuals with website and email addresses, we hope withpart of your winning you will take part in our next year EUR10 millioninternational lottery. Please note that your lucky winning numbers falls withinour European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated inyour play coupon to file in for your claims, please contact the companyprocessing officer.

MR.STUART DIENEN,

Claims processing managerEUROPW LOTTO PLUS

europwstuart3@aim.com

TELl: +31 633 703 990

Fax: +31-847 283 767

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and Complications pleaseremember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.Furthermore, should there be any change of address do Inform our agent as soonas possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff for being partof our promotional program.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. MRS. DENSIE DE HOLIDRIJK

Lottery Coordinator

EuroPW Lottery Program.

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Itz a simple advanced fee fraud.
You try to claim your prize and they charge you a "processing fee". You never see the prize nor the fee again.

Avoid.

Hats-off Mr.MP

Two days ago i planned to meet the Memeber of Parliment of my town council. I managed to get the information about the session from one of my friend, living in my block. As adviced by him, i was there quiet early in the evening, yesterday. After few formalities and a session with the grass root supporters, i managed to meet the MP. That was the first time i am meeting such a high profile person, specially from the politics, in my life. But the best part is that, Mr.Yeo Cheow Tong made me feel easy and provided me with a rememberable evening.
In the night, my wife was quiet curious about the formalities and the session. The reason is that we were trying to compare a similar scenario back in my country, INDIA. My friends from India would definitely agree with my following observations. Meeting an MP is an himalayan task ! probably considered that you are lucky if you ever had a meeting with an MP of your own constituency. Also the security level may not allow you to talk with such a high profile man for a long time. But down here in singapore, it is so easy to plan to meet your MP and put up your requests and problems to him. I am not magnifying incidents as well as not interested in criticising others. THERE SEEMS TO BE ALWAYS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE ELSE AND CONDUCT THEMSELVES IN AN EFFICIENT AND PROGRESSIVE MANNER.