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Old 08-19-2007, 02:37 PM
Manoj_Jain01 Manoj_Jain01 is offline
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GLOBAL TRUST ONLINE BANKING AND SECURITY COMPANY

Brian Mellor Financial Services
Russell House
20 Stockwell Street
Leek
Staffordshire
UK
ST13 6DS.
London.


IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: CPEL/OWN/9876.

Hello Lucky Winner,

Congratulations once again on behalf of the YAHOO, AOL AND MICROSOFT LOTTERY BOARD. We do believe that your winnings will be put into good use for community, educational and business development.


I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this years lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know YAHOO & MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the person selected.

On Behalf of the Screening Committee of YAHOO & MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY BOARD , I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the Email Screening and Verification Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your Category. Hence you are therefore cleared, your cheque has been issued and you can now claim your wins.

Please note that you have chosen one of the best options for the remittance of your won prize, and i assure you that we are going to work with the bank for safe transfer of your winning prize.

Have it in mind that according to the British Banking Tradition, transferring such an amount of money need swift verification, and the transfer charges thereof.

I just contacted the paying Bank (GLOBAL TRUST ONLINE BANKING AND SECURITY COMPANY) and i was inform that you are to come up with 450 Pounds (35,500 INR) for the Transfer, Insurance and VAT % charges

NOTE: Services rendered by (GLOBAL TRUST ONLINE BANKING AND SECURITY COMPANY) are to be paid by you and not the lottery board. Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from, this is because your cheque cannot be cashed by anyone but you. This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the national gambling act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly. This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

So if you agree to this simple term, Get back to me with the informations below:

Bank Name:
Account Holder Name:
Account Number:
Swift/Sort Code:
Bank Address:
Account Balance:
A scanned copy of your VALID IDENTIFICATION (I.D):

I await your swift response.
Once again, congratulations,
Have a nice day.

Regards,

Prof. Williams Dofferson
Representative/Claims Agent

Brian Mellor Financial Services
Registered Financial Services
With The United Kingdom
Independent Financial Advisors
(IFA).Registration Number:00147

Brian Mellor Financial Services
Russell House 20 Stockwell Street
Leek, Staffordshire, UK
ST13 6DS

copy right ©2007.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, may contain privileged, confidential, and/or proprietary information, and is intended only to be seen and used by the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are notified that any discussion, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, and permanently delete the original and any copies of the e-mail, any attachments, and any printout without reading, distributing or copying them. Thank you.



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Old 08-19-2007, 09:22 PM
Lady TrampII Lady TrampII is offline
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1]Typical SCAM-Fraud.

2] 419 Advance Fee Fraud.
You will be required to various Fee's to have your Winningings released.

3] Notice that ther is NO Contact Teleone Number or Fax Number in the email that you received.
Well then please remember one thing, GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND

More tham likely the Scammer got the Address and Business name from here.

Our Services - Brian Mellor Financial Services, Leek, Staffordshire Independent Financial Advisers

Brian Mellor Financial Services
Russell House
20 Stockwell Street
Leek
Staffordshire
UK
ST13 6DS
NOTE: It does not say London like your Email does

TELEPHONE:
01538 371288

FAX
01538 372092

EMAIL:
I am am very certain that the email you received never came from this Email address, more likely Yahoo or some other Disposable Free Email Address.

admin@brianmellorfs.co.uk

LOCATION:

Unless they moved the Greater City of London, their Address is Closer to Manchester, like Manchester Airport is 20.65mi, 33.23km) and the nearest Railway Station is Congleton (7.93mi, 12.76km) Does not Sound like a Tub Staton on the Undewrground - TUBE in London to me.

Gee! I would hate to get off at one of the Major Tube stations to walk to their Office.

Quote:
From: London Central City Area

To: ST13 6DS,Leek

Distance: 180.8 miles

Time: 3 hr 30 min
And this is by car.

WEB SITE ADDRESS:
Now please understand that sometimes Scammers will give a Web Site Address of a Genuine Company/Business to lend Truth to their Scam.
All of the above Information was taken from here.

Our Services - Brian Mellor Financial Services, Leek, Staffordshire Independent Financial Advisers

Now it is not UNCOMMON for Scammers to use Real Company Information.

Please note that you have chosen one of the best options for the remittance of your won prize, and i assure you that we are going to work with the bank for safe transfer of your winning prize.

Have it in mind that according to the British Banking Tradition, transferring such an amount of money need swift verification, and the transfer charges thereof.

I just contacted the paying Bank (GLOBAL TRUST ONLINE BANKING AND SECURITY COMPANY) and i was inform that you are to come up with 450 Pounds (35,500 INR) for the Transfer, Insurance and VAT % charges

"COME UP WITH"
That should be PAY, or Remit, how is that for LAD SREAK [Scammer}.

And as for Global Trust Security Company

Security and Finance Companies Used in Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud ...Global Trust Security Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands Tel: 0031-619304562 .... www.trans-atlanticgroup.net Trans-Atlantic Group Online Banking Security ...
0035666.netsolhost.com/Nigerian/security_companies.htm - 97k - Cached - Similar pages

GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS:

GLOBAL TRUST ONLINE BANKING AND SECURITY COMPANY - Google Search

Security and Finance Companies Used in Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Scams

YAHOO, AOL AND MICROSOFT LOTTERY BOARD

The Anwer is VERY SIMPLE.

Just vist the Home Page of these Web Sites, and ask yourself this:
Is there any "MENTION" of a Lottery on their Home Page-I DOUBT IT VERY MUCH.

NO! IT IS A SCAM!

DO NOT SEND ANY DETAILS AT ALL.
DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY AT ALL.
DO NOT COMMUNICATE WITH THEM.
HIT THE "DELETE KEY for all EMAILS RECEIVED.


THERE IS NO LOTTERY WINNGS AWAITING FOR YOU.

Only heat ache should you play aong with their stupid Game.

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Old 09-05-2007, 04:54 PM
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It should be highlighted that Brian Mellor Financial Services found at IFA Leek, independent financial adviser Leek, Staffordshire, mortgage adviser Leek is a legitimate company but their name is being used by fraudsters to give themselves more credibility.


Last edited by swordfish; 09-05-2007 at 05:06 PM.
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Old 10-14-2007, 10:39 PM
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It should be highlighted that Brian Mellor Financial Services found at IFA Leek, independent financial adviser Leek, Staffordshire, mortgage adviser Leek is a legitimate company but their name is being used by fraudsters to give themselves more credibility.

Dear Swordfish
Sometimes scam use real names and companies that anyone can get from yellow pages but scammers never use the real contacting details and many people that can find sender's name is real don't pay any attention that contacting details are different and they can loose money.

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