Email Fraud Alert received from: Lindy
I recently received an email with this subject line: Call MR james Adams +27 735 805 762 To Claim Your GBP £820,000,00 and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
The email had this in the body: Call MR james Adams +27 735 805 762 To Claim Your GBP £820,000,00 – and an attached Word Document that said:
YAHOO MAIL AWARD www.lottery.co.uk
124 Stockport Road, Long sight, Manchester M60 2 DB-United Kingdom.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand British Pounds (£820,000.00) for 2014 Prize promotion which is organized by British Micro-Soft Award. MICRO SOFT collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected every two years to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM.
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than 28 days, from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Stated below are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER: YPB/08/APA-43658, REFERENCE NUMBER: 28234522, WINNING NUMBER: 02241 30 35 48.These numbers fall within the Johannesburg Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:
CLAIMS MANAGER CONTACT INFORMATION:
NAME: Mr. JAMES ADAMS
E-Mail: mrjamesadams35@gmail.com
E-Mail: mrjamesadams32@gmail.com
TEL: +27 735 805 762
FAX: +27 866 206 220
You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agent to facilitate the release of your fund to you.
1. Full name…………………………….
2. Contact Address……………………
3. Country of origin…………………..
4. Country of Residence…………….
5. Telephone Number………………..
6. Fax Number………………………….
7. E-mail………………………………….
8. Age…………………………………….
9. Sex…………………………………
10. Occupation…………………………..
11. Batch Number………………………
12. Reference Number…………………
13. Winning Number……………………….
Congratulations!! Once again.
Yours in service,
(Mrs.) Mercy Martins
The above email was sent by “YAHOO AWARD” from this email address: mrjamesadams1@gmail.com
I, Lindy, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “YAHOO AWARD”:
The SUPPOSED image of Mrs Mercy Martins I have uploaded for you.
A very amatuerish word document with a spinning globe ………….