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419 Scam – "Lottobets International Lotteries / EPSILON SECURITY AND FREIGHT LIMITED"
"Lottobets International Lotteries / EPSILON SECURITY AND FREIGHT LIMITED" is the fake identity used by a gang of advance fee fraud ("419") scammers operating in Nigeria and the UK. It's a fraud. (see one example scam email here). Send us replies by "claims agents", especially money demands and payment instructions, we will publish them here. Please forward copies of fraud emails to the abuse department of free webmail address listed as the contact email for the "claims agent". Ask for the addresses to be suspended because they are used in a 419 fraud (see 419 FAQ).
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Sample "winning notification":
From: "tittoabubakar" <'tittoabubakar@fastermail.com> Sent: Wednesday, 18 May, 2005 21:22 Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION. Lottobets International Lotteries 50, SA Rua Conde de Redondo, 79 1167 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL. Ref: LTBT/1117PGH/PTG Draw No.: 2459 Winning No.: 70-10-69-30-33-8 Date:09/05/2005. WINNING NOTICE We happily announce to you the draws of the Lottbets lottery programs held on the 6th of May 2005 here in Portugal in which you and five (5) provisional winners were selected as winners under draw No. 2459. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 08-04-33-38-BL-AU drew the lucky numbers: 70-10-69-30-33-8, which subsequently won you the lottery. All participants were selected randomly through computer ballot draw system and from 5,000 individuals. You have therefore been granted provisional approval to claim a total sum of 549,790 Euros (Five Hundred and Forty Nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Euros) as your winning prize. This is from a total prize pool of 3,298, 742 Euros. In line with this, your 549,790 Euros will be paid to you upon confirmation and clarification by our claims agent who will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your winnings as soon as you contact him. Do please quote your Draw, Reference and Winning numbers in any correspondence with our designated agent. Please include your telephone number(s) when contacting the agent. CONTACT: MR. MANUEL FERNANDEZ, EPSILON SECURITY AND FREIGHT LIMITED, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel: +44 704 011 1060 Fax: +44 870 135 8273 EMAILS: manuelnandez08@sapo.pt manuelnandez@winningteam.com Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program. Sincerely Yours, Maria Pedrosa (Ms.) Results Coordinator. website: www.lottobets.com N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to Disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claim agent. Note also that you are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of age. ___________________________________________________________________________ http://www.fuck-usa.de
Attention: Firstname Lastname Dear Sir, This is to inform you that we have verified your claims with Lottobets International Lotteries to ascertain the authenticity and the genuineness of your winnings. I therefore wish to congratulate you on the successful confirmation of your winnings. Our main objective is to provide guidance until you receive your prize winnings. In this regard your unalloyed co-operation will be appreciated. Following the confirmation and approval of your winnings your prize winning certificate has been issued. It is a very important document in this transaction, as you must be paid your winning prize by Lottobets International Lotteries once it is issued. It is also a legal instrument as it can be tendered in a court of competent jurisdiction as an important exhibit if you are not paid by the Lottery Firm. Lottobets International Lotteries also risks sanction by the European Gaming Board of Control if after the issuance of the certificate you are not paid. Also issued is the draft for your winning. We should collect it on your behalf by the close of work today. The following options have been outline for the payment of your prize winnings. You are expected to choose the one that is affordable by you. I have given a breakdown of all the options and you will be expected to choose one that is most suitable to you. Before then I want you to know that C.O.D is not available for hand delivered packages. We do not use the regular courier services. We have a retainership agreement with a delivery firm that hand delivers all our packages. There are four categories available please choose the one that is affordable by you and transfer information will be sent to you. Category A: First Class Delivery === Within 24 hours=== 1,350 Euros Category B: Economy delivery === Within 24 hours=== 1,050 Euros Category C: Third Class Delivery === Within 3 days==== 850 Euros Category D: Manual Delivery ===== Within 5 days==== 295 Euros The second option is payment through a designated online bank. Bank transfer through wire or telegraphic transfer (TT) wire transfer attracts charges of 0.003% of the total sum, which is US$1649.37. You also be expected to pay these charges prior to making the online transfer of your prize winnings. The quoted amount is what it would cost you to have the draft (check) discounted and you will be expected to pay this sum before the draft is discounted and sent to you via online wire transfer. The last option is personal appearance at our head office to collect your prize winnings. In this option also you will pay administrative charges of about US$5000 to collect your winnings. The total amount that you have won is 549,790.00 (Five Hundred and Forty Nine Thousand Euros). This is the amount that you will receive as no deductions are allowed. If it is by direct deposit, that is, wire transfer it will take about 48 hours to reflect in your account. Deductions are not to be made from your winnings. You have to bear the entire cost involved prior to receiving your prize winnings. Please in your next email choose the category affordable by you and I would send you transfer information. I have attached here your prize-winning certificate. The original copy will be sent to you after the payment of your winnings. Thanks for your quick response and co-operation. Manuel Fernandez. CLIENT SERVICE MANAGER, EPSILON SECURITY AND FREIGHT *************************************************************************** *************************************** The contents of this e-mail are strictly confidential. This e-mail is meant for the addressee only. Should this e-mail have been received erroneously please discard it. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******** DISCLAIMER AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this message and any accompanying pages are considered Strictly Confidential and therefore Legally Protected. This information is intended solely for the use of the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is expressly unauthorized. If you are not the intended and named recipient of this transmission, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted or action to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited, unadvised and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank you SMS GRÁTIS do seu PC para qualquer rede nacional (TMN, Vodafone, Optimus e PTC). Basta instalar o SAPO Messenger e adicionar amigos! Vá agora a : http://messenger.sapo.pt/sms/ Message headers: Received: from 81.199.108.5 (81.199.108.5 [81.199.108.5]) by w5.mail.sapo.pt (Horde) with HTTP for <manuelnandez08@sapo.pt>; Sat, 21 May 2005 10:14:18 +0100 Message-ID: <1116666858.1rpqlbxifkkg@w5.mail.sapo.pt> Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:14:18 +0100 Disposition-Notification-To: manuelnandez08@sapo.pt X-Confirm-Reading-To: manuelnandez08@sapo.pt X-PMRQC: 1 From: manuelnandez08@sapo.pt To: emailaddress Subject: Re: Form attached
WHOIS details for sending network (IP 81.199.108.5): inetnum: 81.199.108.0 - 81.199.111.255 netname: CIDR-INTERCELLULAR-1 descr: Intercellular Nigeria Ltd country: NG admin-c: YA95-RIPE tech-c: YA95-RIPE status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: AS12491-MNT source: RIPE # Filtered person: Yakubu Adamu address: 5th Floor, UBA House 57 address: Marina, Lagos address: Nigeria phone: +234 14704387 fax-no: +234 12643014 e-mail: akintolad@intercellular-ng.com e-mail: adamuy@untercellular-ng.com nic-hdl: YA95-RIPE source: RIPE # Filtered
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