Another classic scam claiming a corrupt Nigerian official has amassed a fortune and entrusted the scammer with a portion of it.
This one includes links to real people and events to lend legitimacy to the claim.
Another variant, claiming to be the Japan email lottery, although the address provided is in Beijing, China.
Also note that recent scam has a note for keeping the winning confidential. This is used as an escape route for the scammers when someone gets suspicious or contacts the police, they say that you have breeched the confidentiality clause, and hence are not eligible anymore for the award amount.
Yet another variant of the scam, winning a lottery, this time claimed to be from Australia.
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 01:16:14 +0200 (MEST)
From: "australialoto08@terra.es" <australialoto08@terra.es>
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! YOUR E-MAIL WON AUSTRALIA JACK POTVisions of Australia logo
This is yet another variant of the winning a lottery scam.
From: "henry don" <inter_24q@hotmail.com> Add to Address BookAdd to Address Book
Subject: YOU HAVE WON $2,950,000.00
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:10:14 +0200
henry don inter_24q@hotmail.comPLATINUM LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
While Tajikistan universities ban hijab for women, Azerbaijan police burns the beards of men growing them.
Sometimes, the focus on religious freedom issues of Muslims is on Western countries, where there are indeed issues, but let us not forget that despotic regimes in Muslim countries do the same too.
Another scam, about an alleged rich person dying, and wants to give money to charity. He has large sums of money abroad, and wants you to collect the money on his behalf.
In this case, it is a Bahrian citzen, dying from cancer.
From : tscabo <tscabo@netcabo.pt>
Date: Aug 7, 2007 2:38 PM
Subject: Hello,I am khalid mahmoud, A Bahrain national I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer.
It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live.
Another advance fee fraud, this time in French.
From: Hon. Barrister Ahmed Saleh <drhossan1@hotmail.com>
Reply-to: chiibock1@yahoo.fr
Date: Aug 6, 2007 1:27 PM
Subject: RE : message très confidentiel svp
NowPublic, a citizen journalism web site, raised US $10.6 million in venture capital financing. NowPublic is also expanding its partneship with Associated Press.
Time magazine has put NowPublic on the top 50 websites for 2007.
Two recent cases of militants in Saudi Arabia and Egypt renouncing violence and urging others to do the same.
The first is Ahmed Al-Shayea أحمد الشايع who drove a truck bomb in Baghdad in Christmas of 2004. He now shows his amputated fingers and disfgured face on Saudi TV channels, deploring others not to take the path that left him with these scars.
We all know how sectarian violence between Shia and Sunnis was caused by the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003. Old prejudices became magnified, external influences meddled, and the power vacuum made things much worse.
In a strange move, the presence of US presence is causing at least some Shia and some Sunnis to unite against the USA, ignoring all the sectarian violence in other parts of the country.
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