Nothing particularly novel in this one, but it caught my eye, and, what the heck, it's Friday in New Zealand ...
> Received: from coaatleon.es (212.183.204.45.static.user.ono.com [212.183.204.45]) Somebody in Spain apparently wants to scam me. > From: "THE BC-49 MILLION LOTTO"<[somebody on a spam [email protected]> > Subject: THE BC-49 This caught my eye, because I do live in BC, even though I've never played the BC49. (It does exist.) > THE BC-49 MILLION LOTTO > LOTTO PROMOTION > HEAD OFFICE > 10 Friendly Street United Kingdom OK, I don't care how friendly the street is (and is there only one "Friendly" street in the UK? famous enough that we don't need a town?), and, yes, Her Majesty *is* the head of state (not government) for Canada, but we do run our own lotteries. (Yeah, I know, upstart colonials ...) > On behalf of CANADA BC-49 Millions Lottery/Lotto Promotion United Kingdom; I BC-49 is a provincial lottery. 649 is (one of) the *Canadian* national lottery. > wish to announce you as one of the 7 lucky winners in the Lotto draw held on > 3rd January 2010 and was announced March 23rd 2010. Both BC-49 and 649 draws are held twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. I note that neither of these dates were a Wednesday or Saturday. Draws are announced immediately, at 9 pm on the date, not ten weeks later. > All 5 winning addresses > were randomly selected from a batch of 20,000 international emails. Both BC-49 and 649 are standard lotteries: you pay ($1 for BC-49) when you purchase a ticket. Email is not involved. (Although you can, now, buy tickets online.) > Your > email address emerged along side 6 others as a 2nd category winner. > Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of > GBP.680, 000.00 (Six Hundred and Eight thousand British Pounds only). Interesting. The top prize in BC-49 is $2M, or about UKP1.25M, second level is C$75K, or about UKP50K. > (II) Winning 1 2 11 32 36 39 Bonus 12 This does look like the format for winning numbers for BC-49, but has nothing to do with email :-) > MR JUBRIL AMEEL > BC49 Claims Office London United Kingdom. > EMAIL:[email protected] > Contact Tel: + 447924517831 Yeah, right ... > Forward the below listed details for immediate commencement of your payment > process:- And maybe we're doing some phishing, too ... > Ms Lorraine Cinderella Yeah, right ... > The Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the African/European Union Lotto > Corporation/Microsoft Companies, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers > Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies in order > to promote the FIFA 2010 World Cup to be hosted in SOUTH AFRICA. The lotto > internet draw is organized to encourage the use of the internet and > computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200 Million Dollars are > won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide. The government lotteries are often noted as sponsoring local amateur sport, but, as far as I know, have nothing to do with the World Cup (which also has little to do with sport ...) > http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=6 Actually, I thought this was a smart move, sort of confirming that BC-49 did really exist. However, the parameter is wrong (should be id=4), and, in any case, there are no current results for either search. > CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is > intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain > information that is privileged, confidential and prohibited from > unauthorized disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended > recipient of this message, any dissemination, distribution or copying of > this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, > please notify the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the > original message. Argh. Even spammers are putting stupid disclaimers on messages ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. - Judith Martin victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
