Anybody receive scams like this one? ä�è¹èÒà ª×è� !

[Grooved_Arete]

Trisoft Intl Limited.

Moorpark Avenue 872,

6517 KK Helmund,

The-Netherlands

Ref No: TIL/88-5/0007

Date: 25th May 2007.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Following the official publication of the results of our OnlineInternet

Sweepstakes, the Trisoft Company wishes to inform you that your electronic email

address as attached to a Serial Number: 223155-06 and selected by our

Electronics Games System, has won you our Internet Sweepstakes Program that was

conducted on the 25st day of May 2007 in the general

prize category. You have therefore been approved to apply for a payment claim of

1,000,000:00euro (One Million Euro Only).Be informed here that all email

addresses that were used in this program were extracted from the Internet

without the knowledge of each beneficiary hence you should not be worried about

how we got your email address.

You are advice to contacting the assign claims payment company as approved by

our management, Gimac Financial Services on email address:[email protected],

Tel: +31 626 333806 ,Fax: +31-847-300969 with your Complete

Names,Posta(Resident)Address,Telephone and Fax Numbers,Occupation, Age,the

amount approved (Won) and the payment Reference Numbers. All funds not applied

for after the 8th day of June 2007 will be regarded as unclaimed funds. In other

not to complicate the claim processes,we advices that you keep a copy of this

message safe until your claim has been processed and collected either through

the Bank-to-Bank Transfer

means or in a Certified Bank Draft.This program was conducted as a new

promotional means of introducing our sweepstake services,to encourage the use of

the Internet and promote computer literacy worldwide while at the same time as

a means of providing each beneficiary with capital

funds for positive investment purposes.

Congratulation from our company as we expect you to make good use of the funds.

Sincerely Yours,

Grace Lofblad (Dr).

Award Services Department.

Email: [email protected]

[grezzzy_greer]

I haven't seen this particular one, but others of a similar type are around of course...

You would think that those who set up these scams would realise that spelling mistakes, grammatical errors (some of them "real howlers") and inconsistencies WITHIN the letter itself make them incredibly easy to spot as a scam, but then again, if they were intelligent people, they would probably have a real job instead of resorting to criminal activity to make money.

[bangkoknights]

There is not even a Helmund in the Netherlands, it is Helmond

[Greggo]

Never received one of those emails but it definitely is a scam. There were warnings on TV here last year about people winning "Euro lottery sweepstakes" without even entering the competition.

I'll add some info below:

How to spot scams:

Most of the correspondence email addresses are a yahoo, netscape, hotmail, gmail addresses. If the email was legit then why would people choose to use personal and freely available email addresses like yahoo, hotmail etc...

Like mentioned already, grammatical errors, any legitimate company would ensure that the information sent is free from some very basic spelling mistakes, at least you'd hope so.

The requirement for more of your personal data, like full name, address, occupation, age and surprise surprise your bank account details. They might as well ask for a copy of your driving license and passport because with the information above they can assume your identity. This is known as "phishing", people are getting more creative by sending emails that your bank account was compromised or there is an 'urgent' requirement for you to verify your personal information. The email looks legit, the URL in the email looks legit (the domain is the banks domain) BUT once you click on the URL you'll see a totally different URL. These types of emails and websites are easy to spot: the lack of SSL encryption, no site certificate, you'd at least expect such "sensitive" data to be encrypted - right?

Banks will NEVER ask you to verify personal information on a website.An example below:

Not so "trusted" eh.

More info: http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/lottery_scams.html

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

[Hullboy]

That sounds like a scam.

But i got really lucky the other month, i got an email from a Nigerian, who i have paid 50000 pounds so he can get money of his that is sitting in a Swiss banks vault, he is paying me 500000 when he receives it, i cant wait.

[Grooved_Arete]

Thanks for all those who have contriubuted to this forum and especially with tips to spot the "obvious" scam.

Yet the so-called obvious is clearly not that obvious to some people. Apparently, the "hit rate" for scams such as these are an incredible 1% or so, which if true, this means that hundreds if not thousands of people get trapped every time such a letter is produced.

Can anyone confirm the extent that people fall for this type of scam?

Robert

[dwight]

i cant understand why people fall for these scams, if u get anyhting saying u have won something, just press delete

[Mazzy]

The scam mail I receive is more original. Quite entertaining to read actually:

"Dearest one

Good Day

I know you may be surprise in getting this message from me due to the fact that you don?t know me before. I decided to contact you with the hope to get a favourable assistance. My name is Madame Forota Utanga from Philippines nationality.

I lost my husband few years back in a ghastly motor accident.Before his death, he deals on cocoa and coffee business. I inherited the sum of US$ 16.5 Million from him. Presently, I have a big problem with my husband?s brothers because they wanted to confiscate all the wealth and landed properties he left behind.

The above sum was the only thing I was able to secure among all his properties. Because of their pressure and fear that they might discover the existence of this fund, I quickly put the funds in a box coded and arranged with some diplomatic agents who helped me to send it to Africa, in a security and finance company in Abidjan, Cote D?ivoire where my late husband goes to do his coffee and Cocoa business.

For security reasons, the box was declared as containing family valuables. In this case, the company in Africa does not know the exact content of the box was money. I am sending you this message because I don?t have any trust on my husband?s brothers .

This is giving me sleepless nights. I am therefore soliciting for your assistance to help me secure the consignment to your country so that the funds can be invested promptly. If you agree to help me, we shall negotiate on what will be your compensation for this noble assistance.

After the death of my husband, his brothers started treating me like a prisoner. They forced me to release all his banks information and other important documents. They did not stop there; they are monitoring my movements till today to extent that I can not go out freely nor answer or make telephone calls. They can only give me foods and shelter and nothing else.

I can understand that with such treatment, their plan is to do away with my life so that they can feel comfortable with what they snatched from me. It is because of this problem that I decided to contact you for a help to rescue me from this ugly situation before I die here.

Apart from this money in Africa, I don?t have any other thing in my life and the company charges US$30.00 per a day for safeguarding the consignment till today. My financial situation is completely zero. Upon receipt of your response, I will send you the contact of the company in Africa so that you can open up communications with them as my foreign partner who wants to help me secure the consignment to your country.You will ask them to send the consignment to directly to your country.

When this is successfully done and the funds under your custody, I will secretly arrange my escape from here to join you so that we can work on the funds investment.I am counting on you to save my life because I have a very serious problem now.

(...)"

You can guess the rest...