Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Scam email

I have just received the following email from stegroup@streamyx.com. Looks like I have won 516,778 UK Pounds. No doubt that this is another scam, but the fact that it was sent using streamyx.com email account meant it is just a spoofed email.

And the thing is, the scam letter was so badly written that it looks more like a primary school pupil's letter. It was stated that the email was written by Mr.CLARKE DAVIS of webdraws_101@hotmail.com, but at the bottom, it was signed by another Mrs. Lucy Baines
Co-ordinator. Who should we contact then? It looked like this Mrs. Lucy Baines just copied the Davis' poorly written scam email, and then just added in her name and some fields. Great, even scam mails can be plagarised now.


Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:48:28 -0800
From: stegroup@streamyx.com

Subject: Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Your email account has been picked as one of the ten winning email address in 2008. You are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 516,778.00 (Five hundred and Sixteen thousand,seven hundred and seventy eight pounds sterling only)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68 ,
Batch: 074/05/ZY369,
Lucky No:- 07-13-31.54-640

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa?and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
Mr.CLARKE DAVIS
Email:webdraws_101@hotmail.com
1. Full Names: 2. Address: 3. Age: 4. Sex: 5. Marital Status: 6. Occupation: 7. Phone numbers: 8. Fax number: 9. Country:

Best Regards.
Mrs.Lucy Baines
Co-ordinator

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