UEFA League Promotions 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: 14 Sep 2007From: "UEFA LEAGUE PROMOTIONS" <info@uefa.com>
Subject: UEFA LEAGUE AWARD!!!
ATTENTION: Winner
The Local Organising Committee of the Heineken European Champions League is glad to announce to the world the giving away of the sum of TWO HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS to 100 lucky email addresses all over the world.
This promotion is in Appreciation of our International Support for the past Soccer Events and the correspondent earnings at the stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings.
Be informed that all winners in this program have been selected randomlythrough a computer ballot system drawn from over 1,500,000 companies and individual e-mail addresses database. Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winner of TWO MILLION POUNDS among the One Hundred email addressess chosen. In order to claim your prize, you will have to fill the form below and send it to our fudiciary agent for verification and then you will be informed on how to make claims of your Cashier's Check for the sum which has already been deposited along with your email contact.
We use this opportunity to thank all our Sponsors/ Contributors of this program: HEINEKEN, AIR EMIRATES,ADDIDAS,NIKE,MCDONALDS,COCACOLA, UNITED AIRLINES, BMW, PEPSI, VIRGIN ATLANTIC, UMBRO-SPORTLINE, FUJIFILM, AIR-ASIA, BARCLAYS,VODAFONE, NOKIA N-SERIES, LUCOZADE SPORT, AND A HOST OF EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR ALLOWING THE USE OF THEIR DATABASE FOR THE DRAWS AND ALSO FOR THE PROVISION OF SECURE (SSL)EMAIL DELIVERY SYSTEMS.
NAME:............................................
AGE:.............................................
SEX:.............................................
ADDRESS:.........................................
EMAIL:...........................................
TEL.:............................................
OCCUPATION:.....................................
COUNTRY:.........................................
Please you are advised to complete the form and send back to us for prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below 16 years of age.This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged, proprietary, confidential and exempted from disclosure.If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited.
Congratulation once again and you are advised to send reply to your
claims agent for you to be accredited for payment:
CLAIMS AGENT: [DELETED]
EMAIL: [DELETED]@gmail.com
Sincerely,
[DELETED].
Online co-ordinator,
Heineken UEFA Champions League.
The same old story. Your e-mail address was drawn from a database containing millions of e-mail addresses and suddenly you are the winner of a huge sum of money, without even filling out an entry form to take part in the "draw". A database that only contains e-mail addresses are often solely used for spamming purposes, why else would you want to collect so many e-mail addresses? No ethical and honest organisation will use an e-mail database like this. The bad spelling, grammar and writing style, the use of free e-mail services, an unbelievable cash prize and a spoofed "From:" e-mail address, are the fingerprints of a typical lottery/competition scam. Most importantly, UEFA does not run any promotion of this kind and will not send e-mails like this.
