David Fernando Visa Card Lottery Winner Scam

We have posted many Lottery scams in the past and prefer not to repeat ourselves again about how these scams works. Just take a look at the Identifying scams page for explanations.

Remember, no there are no lotteries that hand out millions that do not require you to purchase a ticket. Heck! They chose you credit card number but have no idea who you are!

Yet, they had your email address? Scam, Scam, Scam.

Attn:Winner

Winning No:VCard/877/798/2009
Email Ref No:VCard/699/33/2009
Notification Date:11/04/2009

AMOUNT WON:500,000.00GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).

This email address has brought you an unexpected luc! k,Your e-mail address was selected and confirmed by our co-sponsor Msn International, through their latest internet software.You are therefore been approved by Visa Card Int./Msn UK the sum of 500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).
===================================
CONTACT CLAIMS ADMINISTRATOR
===================================
NAME: Mr.David Fernando
Email: vcard.team01@hotmail.co.uk
Visa Card® / Msn® Promotion Department
Do email the above Claims Administrator, at once with all the claims requirements below.To avoid unnecessary delay.They are needed to proceed.
Claims Requirements:

1. Full Name:_____________________
2. Address:_____________________
3. Nationality:___________Sex:________
4. Age:________Date of Birth:___________
5. Occupation:_________Martial Status_________
6. Cell Phone:___________Fax:___________
7. State of Origin:_________Country:_______
8.Winning No:_______Email Ref No:______

PROCEEDURES / RIGHTS AND PRECAUTIONS
Kindly indicate your payment option and Contact the Claims Administrator with all your claims requirements well filled @ vcard.team01@hotmail.co.uk
*Mode of Payment*
(i).Delivery of Prepaid Visa card® Valued 500,000.00GBP by a registered Courier Company.
Cheers,
Secretary,(Mrs.Dora Lazmon)
Visa Card® / Msn® Mega Jackpot
2008 – 2009 Microsoft Corporation.All rights reserved

Brown Hamilton Esq Nigerian Scammer

Sorry to the real Brown Hamilton, if you exist, but some bottom feeder from maybe Nigeria is using your name to try and scam honest people out of their hard earned money. If these A–holes put as much effort into legitimate activities, they would be rich. But No! us bottom feeders like to steal from honest people, must be kind of like a cocaine rush.
Here at Gariell we would love to spam our message out that emails like this one are scams; but hey! That would be unethical and dishonest. We prefer to take the high road and simply disclose one bottom feeder at a time and hope to put them out of “business” one at a time.
Of course, damn one scam and give birth to a new one; kind of like the bovine flue.
Who will be the next victim who didn’t wash his hands on the way out of a public can? The internet is the public can and you must flush and wash your hands. Scam emails, flush and cleanse your emails from the pandemic scam virus.

From: browham@aol.co.uk
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSITION
Date: April 6, 2009 5:38:16 PM EDT (CA)

Hello,
My name is Brown Hamilton Esq. I am the Solicitor to one of my late client,
who died in London UK. I have a business proposition for you.
Before the death of my late client, she lodged huge amount of money in a
security vault/company here amounting to Four million dollars. And she left
behind strict instructions on secrecy and top confidentiality of her funds
in the security company. And the only person aware of the funds is me, being
her Lawyer.
Unfortunately, She had no next of kin as she had no children and she didn’t
appoint any inheritance/beneficiary. It is on this note, that you come in, I
would like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin whom I will
appoint and notify the security company that you are the actual next of kin
appointed by my late client. Please, have nothing to worry about, as I will
commence processing all legal documentations certifying you as the Sole-
Beneficiary to my late client, Be rest assured that all documents will be
processed according to the law.
If you agree to do this with me, we shall both share the total amount of
Four million dollars 40/60 %, which means ( One million Six hundred
thousand dollars)for you, while (Two million Four hundred thousand dollars)
would be mine. If you oblige then kindly send me your full name, Age,
address, telephone and country, in order for me to prepare the necessary
documents for the funds to be released to you.
Kindly note that this transaction requires maximum secrecy. Please respond
to me through ( browham@aol.co.uk ). I await your response.
Regards
Brown Hamilton

Vincent Ramsey a True Scammer in all Senses of the Word

Ghee I thought the old sob story scam was long gone, but I guess I was wrong! This poor soul has 35 million bucks! Poor Bastard has to get a hotmail address, ya know, a free email address. The funny thing about this is that he is probably middle aged with a pot belly and the only authorities he is hiding from are the Nigerian task force against email fraud.

Mr Jonthan Adams Bank of Africa Scam

Here is another fine example of a Nigerian 419 scam.

From: jonthan_adams010@libero.it
Subject: VERY UNGENT
Date: November 19, 2008 10:17:52 AM EST (CA)

Dear Friend
I know that this message will come to you as a surprise. I am the Auditing andAccountingsection manager with Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina faso. I Hopethat you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($10.5)million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank without claim.I want the bank to release the money to you as the nearest person to our
deceased customer lateI don’t want the money to go into government treasury as an abandoned fund.So this is the reason why I am contacting you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are notinterested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will give you full details on how the business will be executed and also note that you will have 45% of the above mentioned sumwhile 50% will be for me, and the other 5% will be for the expencesoccur in this transaction, if you agree to handle this business withme. I amexpecting your urgent
Best Regard.Call Me 00226 78 31 31 72
Mr JONTHAN ADAMS
Bank Of Africa Ouagadougou
Burkina faso.
(B.O.A

Phone Call Lands “Free” Vacation Scam

Lately the bottom feeders have turned back to their good old ways and are again using our land lines to scam us. I have received several phone calls congratulating me for having been chosen as the lucky winner of a “free” vacation. Funny thing though, I don’t recall having entered any draw or lotto offering a free vacation?
Poor Nicole fell for this scam, read her story here. This is a very slimmy type of scam and unfortunately it is quite effective at sucking the unsuspected into their devious web. If they manage to get your credit card number, your identity is now at risk. refuse the vacation; doesn’t matter, as they say they got your number.
Do yourself a favour and slam that receiver down the minute the word “free” is spoken.

UPDATE …OCT. 10, 2008

It seems that a number of readers are associating this post with a similar type of “fuzzy” advertisement masking as a “free” vacation to Las Vegas. The one in question is actually a way of selling timeshares. They will give you those free stays, but there is a catch! You put down a deposit which will be refunded if you agree to attend a presentation. In other words once you go for your “free” vacation you will be hounded into buying a timeshare and these presentations could take up most of your “vacation” time. If you do not attend, you may very well lose your deposit.
This is not an uncommon practise in the timeshare business. What makes this one particularly annoying and rather “unethical” is the fact they are passing it off as a contest when in fact anyone who bothers to call will get the same offer.
As far as we know this is not illegal, but let’s just say rather “scammy”. Remember as they say “Free is Free But..”

Harris Explorations Pump And Dump?

I received this this morning and quite frankly it doesn’t look too convincing. Would a promoter spam out a such a poor quality “bulletin”? It looks more like a very unprofessional trying his hand at the old pump and dump scam.

Richard Ferguson Trying to Scam

Sorry to the real and honest Richard Fergusons out there but this scammer is using your good name. This is probably a good old advanced fees scam.

Ibrahim Tanja Dormant Funds Transfer Scam

One more scam for the list, same scam different names. Surely a good old 419 Nigerian scam

Aishah’s Lonely Heart Scam

Email’s of this type target a specific demography of the population. They’s looking for the loney isolated that may have a few bucks to spend on a romantic fling that eventually turns into a scam.

Peter Wong Scaming From Hang Seng Bank

We hadn’t hear from Peter Wong, but he is at it again and still using the Hang Seng Bank as a front. Let’s see…inheritance funds, unclaimed, only 10.5 million? Only 30%, Oh I see we have to give 40% to charity.