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Residents on alert over Spanish lottery con letters
9:00am Saturday 8th December 2007
Comments (10)HAMPSHIRE trading standards bosses have warned people not to be fooled after another wave of scam lottery letters began arriving on doormats across the county.
The latest scam again purports to be from a Spanish-based company called Euro Millions Lottery International, but experts are warning the firm is simply a front for fraudsters.
The letters tell people their name has been picked by a computer as the winner of a 1m euros top prize, and that to claim the cash all they need do is send in some details about themselves to a "claim agent" in Spain.
Hampshire trading standards and police warned that anyone replying would be pestered for handling fees before the company mysteriously vanished along with their cash.
One of those on the receiving end of the letters this week, which are addressed from a Don Juan Carlos from Madrid, is former technical clerk Brian Moon, 72, from Bitterne, Southampton, who got one addressed to his wife Jennifer, 67.
Brian said: "I became suspicious because it asked for all this personal information, such as my passport number, date of birth and banking details.
"I thought, if I've won all this money, then why are they asking for this stuff? And, when they asked me to get in touch with an agent, and said he would take ten per cent of the winnings, it was clearly just rubbish."
When the Daily Echo contacted Euro Millions Lottery International on Mr Moon's behalf, the man who answered the phone insisted it was a real win.
But when we put it to him that he was a fraudster out to scam Hampshire residents, and we were going to pass his details on to the police, he simply replied: "See if I care. This company is not illegal." He then hung up and we could not get back through.
A spokesman for trading standards said: "Unless you have actively applied to a lottery draw, if you receive one of these letters our advice would be don't even consider it, just chuck it straight in the bin."
Last month the Daily Echo reported how a pensioner had been conned out of £16,000 after receiving a letter saying she had won more than £1m in the El Mundo Online Sweepstake Lottery.
The 82-year-old from Totton parted with the cash after being told repeatedly to send large sums of money to cover "insurance" and other expenses.
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Costa Baz, says...
3:15pm Sat 8 Dec 07
kim, Southampton says...
2:30am Sun 9 Dec 07
Rommel, Philippines says...
2:48pm Thu 10 Jan 08
Name: EROMOSELE CORNELIUS
Address: Benin City, Edo State Nigeria.
Can you catch him before he fools more?
Ela Fulcher, UK says...
12:05am Thu 27 Mar 08
E-mail: fdxdeliveryservice01
@gmail.com
OR fdxdeliveryservice@l
ive.com
Telephone: +234- 70 -3046-4986 to pay a keeping fee of £50 only and the E-mail is signed with Mr.James Wellington. I really hope they gonna put these poeple behind bars!!!!!
jonathan smythe, uk says...
5:06pm Sat 26 Apr 08
Colin McCormick, Plymouth, UK says...
10:18am Sun 1 Jun 08
Greetings!
I am Mr.Kelvin Bode.I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank Draft of 500.000.00 GBP, but I did not hear from you since
that time.
Then I went and deposited the Draft with FedEx Delivery,
West Africa, I traveled out of the country for a 3 Months Course and I
will not come back till end of june.
What you have to do now is to contact the FedEx Delivery as soon as possible
to know when they will deliver your package to you because of the
expiring date.For your information, I have paid for the delivery charges,the money you will
send to the FedEx Delivery courier to deliver your Draft direct to your postal
Address in your country is (150pounds) only being Security Keeping Fee of the
Delivery Company so far.
Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay money except 150pounds.I am on a
course in which they will not be able to contact me for the payment.
You have to contact the FedEx Delivery service now for the delivery of your
Draft with this information below;
Contact Person: Mr. Daniel J.cole
E-mail: fdxdeliveryservice10
0@gmail.com
Telephone: +234- 70 -3043-1737
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Kelvin Bode
kitty, morrocco says...
10:44pm Tue 3 Jun 08
Stephen Caunter, PLYMOUTH says...
8:40pm Mon 16 Jun 08
Greetings!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me
for your Confirmable
Bank Draft of $500.000.00 United States
Dollars, but I did not hear
from you since that time. Then I went and
deposited the Draft with
FEDEX COURIER SERVICE, West Africa, I
travelled out of the country for
a 3 Months Course and I will not come back till
end of August.
What you have to do now is to contact the
FEDEX COURIER SERVICE as
soon as possible to know when they will deliver
your package to
you because of the expiring date. For your
information, I have paid
for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium
and Clearance Certificate
Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not a Drug
Money or meant to
sponsor Terrorist attack in your Country.
The only money you will send to the FEDEX
COURIER SERVICE to deliver
your Draft direct to your postal Address in your
country is $100.00 USD only being Security Keeping Fee of
the Courier Company
so far. Again, don't be deceived by anybody to
pay any other money
except $100.00 USD.
I would have paid that but they said no because
they don't know when
you will contact them and in case of
demurrage.You have to contact the
FEDEX COURIER SERVICE now for the delivery of
your Draft with this
information bellow;
Contact Person: Mr. Daniel J. Blunt
Email Address: fedexdispatchunit.se
rvices5@googlemail.c
om
Telephone:+(234) 8060-389-122
Finally, make sure that you reco
nfirm your Postal address() and Direct
telephone number to them again to avoid any
mistake on the Delivery and
ask them to give you the tracking number to
enable you track your
package over there and know when it will get to
your address.
Let me repeat again, try to contact them as
soon as you receive this
mail to avoid any further delay and remember
to pay them their
Security Keeping fee of $100.00 USD for
their immediate
action. You should also let me know through
email as soon as
you receive your Draft.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Bill J. MOOR.
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elijah williams, georgis says...
8:22pm Sun 20 Jul 08
.resin"<sumathi@iphc
r.in>contact mr.danil j. blunt fedex02@live.com send by mr. jonna ben. this is a scam
Brian Moon with the letter.
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Harry Remmington, New Forest says...
11:31am Sat 8 Dec 07
Greetings!
I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your
Confirmable Bank Draft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars,
but I did not hear from you since that time. Then I went and
deposited the Draft with FedEx COURIER SERVICE, West Africa,
I travelled out of the country for a 2 Months Course and I
will not come back till Second week Of January. What you have to do
now is to contact the FedEx COURIER SERVICE as soon as
possible to know when they will deliver your package to you
because of the expiring date. For your information, I have
paid for the delivering Charge, Insurance premium and
Clearance Certificate Fee of the Cheque showing that it is not
a Drug Money or meant to sponsor Terrorist attack in your
Country.
The only money you will send to the FedEx COURIER SERVICE to
deliver your Draft direct to your postal Address in your country
is ($251.00 USD) only being Security Keeping Fee of the Courier
Company so far.
Again, don't be deceived by anybody to pay any other money except
$251.00US Dollars. I would have paid that but they said no because
they don't know when you will contact them and in case of
demurrage.You have to contact the FedEx COURIER SERVICE now for the
delivery of your Draft with this information bellow;
Contact Person: Mr. Daniel J. Blunt
Email Address: fedexdeliverycompany
nigeria63@yahoo.no
Telephone:+(234) 805-883-7532
Finally, make sure that you reconfirm your Postal address() and
Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the
Delivery and ask them to give you the tracking number to enable
you track your package over there and know when it will get to
your address. Let me repeat again, try to contact them as soon as
you receive this mail to avoid any further delay and remember to
pay them their Security Keeping fee of $251.00 US Dollars for their
immediate action. You should also let me know through email as soon
as you receive your Draft.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Elizabeth Benz