MasterCard/Microsoft Mega Jackpot Promo Scam
PLEASE NOTE: The persons, companies or organisations mentioned in the example(s) below are not responsible for these e-mail scams. Organisations and individuals, pretending to act on behalf of these institutions/persons, initiate these scams and abuse the reputable names of these well-known institutions/persons, to add a false sense of security to these fraudulent e-mails. Also note that some scammers act on behalf of certain organisations that do not even exist.
Date: 23 October 2007From: MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL BANK PROMO <info_mastercard@mastercard.org>
Subject: MasterCard® / Microsoft® INTERNATIONAL MEGA JACKPOT
MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL BANK PROMO
BAR CLAYS BANK PLATINUM VISA CARD
BAR CLAYS PREMIERSHIP
DIRECTOR; MR. [DELETED]
PHONE: +44-[DELETED]
Master card No: [DELETED]
Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178
Ballot winning No: 6782
MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL PROMO. UNITED KINGDOM, AWARD PRESENTATION CENTRE.
Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to the Master card No: [DELETED], won in the sixth (6) PROMO categories 006. Your email address has brought you an unexpected luck, please read through this message. See names of winners below, you are at the sixth position of ten, you are so lucky to be one.
You are therefore been approved for lump sums pay out of £6,600,000.00, SIX MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Equivalent to, ($11,064,000 USD), Eleven Million, sixty four thousand US Dollars. In cash Credited to Master card No. [DELETED], and With Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178, you are the sixth lucky winner of the total winners of 10. You all won £6.6, million Pounds each. Be informed that your winning Price (Master card No: [DELETED]) has been insured and ready for disbursement by the well known "BAR CLAYS BANK UK". There is nothing more to do all you will have to do is contact your claims administrator for further information’s first by email, to claim your Price. See contacts below.
Claims Administrator
Name: Mr [DELETED]
E-mail: [DELETED]@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44[DELETED]
All the 10 participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system (MC BS) drawn from each continent, as part of our International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, to promote the use of Master and Visa cards all over the World, and to promote the use of on line payments, for the settlement of debts (taxes) and payment of bills. Your funds £6.6, million pounds, has been lodge in this master card ([DELETED]), insured and ready for payment by the Bar clays Bank. Be advised to keep your personal information’s to your self. For example; Credit cards, security numbers (code) etc. Please, for security reasons you are advised to keep this whole winnings to yourself, keep out of the reach of friends and from the entire public. All you have to do is provide the necessary information’s to process your newly won master card (Price).
Do email the above Claims Administrator, at once with all the claims requirements below. To avoid unnecessary delay
Claims Requirements:
Full Name:
Contact Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Occupation:
Reg. No. Master/Visa:
Winning Email address:
Master card No:
Ballot winning No
Amount Won: GB 6.6 Million Pounds
The above requirements are much more needed to proceed. Be free and fast to send the above details to your claims Administrator.
PROCEDURES:
1. Contact the Claims Administrator with all your claims requirements.
2. Choose one of the payment Options.
3. Activate your Master card.
4. Make sure you confirm payments.
5. Keep your claims Administrator fully updated.
6. All charges would be taken care of by you if any at all.
7. No one is allowed to touch neither deduct from your Credit card.
8. Payments are made in Great British Pounds. (£6.6, million pounds)
9. Read carefully and contact the necessary office. (Claims Administrator)
10. Price would be paid in full, deductions are not allowed.
RIGHTS:
1. You have the right to a scanned copy of your winning certificate and a copy of your Master Card.
2. In case of any doubt, you have the right to a letter of Guarantee from the company's Attorney.
3. The right to your personal information’s. Do not give out your personal Credit card information’s to anyone.
4. Any mail received of such should be reported to the claims Administrator. This will help fight scam.
5. You alone can claim your Price; you alone have the right to the Price, no one else.
PRECAUTIONS:
1. The charges are very low; we made it your charges because of some reasons.
2. Mind the kind of words you use when communicating with your claims administrator, as he has the due right to disqualify you for misconduct.
CHARGES IF NECESSARY:
1. Master Card account activation, if you prefer to have your funds transferred to your account then you must have to activate this master card account.
2. Master Card / Winning document, if you prefer to have your card and documents courier to you, then you will only take care of the delivery charge.
Sincerely,
Secretary
Mrs. [DELETED].
Master Card International Promotion Winner.
BAR CLAYS BANK PLATINUM VISA CARD
BAR CLAYS PREMIERSHIP
DIRECTOR; MR. [DELETED]
PHONE: +44-[DELETED]
Master card No: [DELETED]
Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178
Ballot winning No: 6782
MASTER CARD INTERNATIONAL PROMO. UNITED KINGDOM, AWARD PRESENTATION CENTRE.
Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to the Master card No: [DELETED], won in the sixth (6) PROMO categories 006. Your email address has brought you an unexpected luck, please read through this message. See names of winners below, you are at the sixth position of ten, you are so lucky to be one.
You are therefore been approved for lump sums pay out of £6,600,000.00, SIX MILLION, SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Equivalent to, ($11,064,000 USD), Eleven Million, sixty four thousand US Dollars. In cash Credited to Master card No. [DELETED], and With Reg. No. Master/Visa: 5148/4178, you are the sixth lucky winner of the total winners of 10. You all won £6.6, million Pounds each. Be informed that your winning Price (Master card No: [DELETED]) has been insured and ready for disbursement by the well known "BAR CLAYS BANK UK". There is nothing more to do all you will have to do is contact your claims administrator for further information’s first by email, to claim your Price. See contacts below.
Claims Administrator
Name: Mr [DELETED]
E-mail: [DELETED]@yahoo.co.uk
Phone: +44[DELETED]
All the 10 participants were selected through our Microsoft computer ballot system (MC BS) drawn from each continent, as part of our International "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, to promote the use of Master and Visa cards all over the World, and to promote the use of on line payments, for the settlement of debts (taxes) and payment of bills. Your funds £6.6, million pounds, has been lodge in this master card ([DELETED]), insured and ready for payment by the Bar clays Bank. Be advised to keep your personal information’s to your self. For example; Credit cards, security numbers (code) etc. Please, for security reasons you are advised to keep this whole winnings to yourself, keep out of the reach of friends and from the entire public. All you have to do is provide the necessary information’s to process your newly won master card (Price).
Do email the above Claims Administrator, at once with all the claims requirements below. To avoid unnecessary delay
Claims Requirements:
Full Name:
Contact Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Occupation:
Reg. No. Master/Visa:
Winning Email address:
Master card No:
Ballot winning No
Amount Won: GB 6.6 Million Pounds
The above requirements are much more needed to proceed. Be free and fast to send the above details to your claims Administrator.
PROCEDURES:
1. Contact the Claims Administrator with all your claims requirements.
2. Choose one of the payment Options.
3. Activate your Master card.
4. Make sure you confirm payments.
5. Keep your claims Administrator fully updated.
6. All charges would be taken care of by you if any at all.
7. No one is allowed to touch neither deduct from your Credit card.
8. Payments are made in Great British Pounds. (£6.6, million pounds)
9. Read carefully and contact the necessary office. (Claims Administrator)
10. Price would be paid in full, deductions are not allowed.
RIGHTS:
1. You have the right to a scanned copy of your winning certificate and a copy of your Master Card.
2. In case of any doubt, you have the right to a letter of Guarantee from the company's Attorney.
3. The right to your personal information’s. Do not give out your personal Credit card information’s to anyone.
4. Any mail received of such should be reported to the claims Administrator. This will help fight scam.
5. You alone can claim your Price; you alone have the right to the Price, no one else.
PRECAUTIONS:
1. The charges are very low; we made it your charges because of some reasons.
2. Mind the kind of words you use when communicating with your claims administrator, as he has the due right to disqualify you for misconduct.
CHARGES IF NECESSARY:
1. Master Card account activation, if you prefer to have your funds transferred to your account then you must have to activate this master card account.
2. Master Card / Winning document, if you prefer to have your card and documents courier to you, then you will only take care of the delivery charge.
Sincerely,
Secretary
Mrs. [DELETED].
Master Card International Promotion Winner.
These idiots used an actual credit card number in this e-mail, probably fake, but it can easily be a credit card number stolen from a poor victim. It can even belong to the scammer's mother for all we know.
"...won in the sixth (6) PROMO categories 006..."
It is without a doubt the sixth draw, scam, or whatever you would like to call it.
"...BAR CLAYS BANK UK..."
Never heard of them. Do they run a bar or perhaps own a clay quarry?
"7. No one is allowed to touch neither deduct from your Credit card."
So if no one is allowed to touch the card, how do you plan on sending it to the winner? Everyone should probably wear a HAZMAT suit before touching the card.
