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10-06-2007, 04:39 AM
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I think I've been scammed
I stupidly replied to the following email without looking into it properly:
Mr. Rae Fernandes Northern Rock Finance Group P.O Box 3361 Wrexham LL12 9WG Tel: +44-703-196-8520 009-44-703-190-2184 009-44-703-190-2168 Dearest Lucky Winner, VERIFICATION OF WINNING DETAILS Congratulations on emerging as one of our Weekly Award Winners! Irish International Promo offers awards to Lucky owners of selected EMAILS that came out in our Random Draws. You have therefore been approved to go ahead and claim your funds which amounts to £928,000 (Nine hundred and Twenty-eight thousand great britain pounds sterling) which also equals $1,831,453.48 in American money. This sum is gathered from our various Sponsors consisting of over 100,000 websites and association. This is an ONLINE PROMO by our division to award Lucky Surfers of websites with the view of improving our lottery ticket sales. This promo is currently offered by just the Irish International Lottery to reward internet visitors. The funds in this email are all yours for claims. Submit your claims to begin claims process. How did you win? Very well, it is no longer news that people surf different websites and pages everyday! On these websites and pages, you occassionally leave your email address on their pages and guest books. Either through the sigup of newletters or accounts! Have you recently visited a website? Then you are lucky! Your favourite website might have won you this. We have decided to reward all internet surfers accordingly for their loyalty through continuos patronage. After the random draw, you came out lucky at this week's draw! Congratulations! However, we would need you to verify your identity so funds do not fall to wrong hands! Therefore, we would be requiring you to please, Identify your person by simply completing the personal profile below: Favourite Website: First Name: Last Name: Mother's Maiden Name: Sex: Age: Home Address: City: State: Country: Home Phone: Mobile Phone: Fax: Email Address: Occupation: Name Of Company You Work With: Position Held in Company: This is the Refence Number and Ticket Number attached to your Email: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reference Number: DRP01/820197/25 Ticket Number: 9982162021 Batch Number: 817/52/SP510 Serial Number: 33-61202 Winning Category: Port 82 Please, keep the above Reference Number and Ticket Number in a very safe place. You CANNOT claim funds without them. No one should have access to any of them. Call me if you ever have a problem Best of luck, Rae Fernandes(Mr.) Fiduciary Agent for THE IRISH INTERNATIONAL PROMO Sweepstakes International Program. Copyright 2007. So what should I do, I don't have a lot of money and I have a bad credit rating so should I be concerned and if so who do I contact with regard to this sort of email. Regards Belle 
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10-06-2007, 01:24 PM
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It Is A SCAM
@Belle, This is a scam message and there are no winnings for you!
A bad credit rating should have no effect on any help you may seek! If you have given any money to these scammers then it is gone! If you have given them your bank account details then please cancel the account as soon as possible! IF you have sent any money then you could report it to your local police, but I think the chance of any thing happening is remote! If you have not lost any money, then stop all contact with these scammers! and as soon as they realize that they will not get any money from you they will go away and look for other victims! If you need to talk about this then feel free to send me a private message!
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10-18-2007, 08:18 AM
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Omg
I also got the same message and sent them my info... They didn't ask me for money... I looked for Ticket Number: 9982162021 and found this... I also found Northern Rock Finance Group in the pages and found cnn saying this company is closing...
These were all asked.. Favourite Website: First Name: Last Name: Mother's Maiden Name: Sex: Age: Home Address: City: State: Country: Home Phone: Mobile Phone: Fax: Email Address: Occupation: Name Of Company You Work With: Position Held in Company: What should I do?
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10-18-2007, 09:37 AM
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DO NOT SEND such info to unknown persons and delete the message.
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10-25-2007, 07:03 PM
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Scam reply
I anticipate that scams saying I have money coming to me will be asking for money from me. I like to reply to these sometimes requesting that in order for me to proceed with the transaction I will need funds deposited by wire into an account to be created and that I will need their information and upwards of 20,000.00 dollars in funds to complete the transaction. In the off chance they are willing to spend a little to get a lot as they are trying to do to me. So far no replies. But it may happen one day that arrogance of the criminal mind responds to there own trap.
pnodg
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11-03-2007, 01:55 PM
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Read in the main page of this forum "Dangers of 419Nigerian Advance fee scams" and you will understand why you have to avoid be in touch with such scams.
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11-14-2007, 11:17 PM
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welcome to this forum. Posting here all scam letters anyone receive makes them known all over the world through internet, not only to FTC. If you google sender's name you will find on the top everything has being posted to 419Legal forum but you will never find anything has reported to FTC. Is better do both
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11-14-2007, 11:41 PM
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These lottery scams are usually an advanced fee fraud in which they try to entice you into makeing contact with them after telling you that you have won a large sum of money and need to claim your prize. Usually at that point they will ask for a fee to cover what they call courier service charges or some other fees that they claim need to be paid before they can award the prize. Most times they will claim that these fees must be paid within a specific timeframe usually 24 hours or you will forfeit your prize money. This is intended to pressure you into sending them money without taking the time neccessary to investigate the scam. Often they will use this in an attempt to get your personal and financial information. Sometimes these scams are quite sophisticated including well designed webpages that appear to be official sites for national lottery commissions or banks. If telephone numbers are included in their webpages or emails they are usually numbers to cell phones, most likely throwaway prepaid cell phone accounts, that aren't easily traced back to the scammers.
Do not maintain further contact with them! If they have obtained your banking information close your accounts immediatly or put holds on funds. If they have allready accessed your bank account file a police report immediatly.
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