Scam Money Transfers -
Fake Grants
Example - The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation
-
www.queenelzabeth.co.uk
Mr. James Moore, in London (Zimbabwe or Hong Kong?)
Here's a variation on the basic scam money transfer email.
You received a a check in the mail from "The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation", possibly using a name "Mr. James Moore"
or website www.queenelzabeth.co.uk, of which
you are supposed to return 10% to them (at this point you should be asking
yourself, why they didn't just keep the 10%!)
Did the email say:
The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation, would like to notify you that you
have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final
recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal,
educational, and business development.
While the phone number is a UK number, the message headers show
us that the email was sent from Zimbabwe. The reply-to address is actually
a free Yahoo account in Hong Kong. We'll bet that the phone is a disposable cell
phone account (purchased on a trip to the UK or by phone) that actually forwards
the call back to another number in Zimbabwe.
Their supposed website, www.queenelzabeth.co.uk,
redirects to Tesco! ( http://www.tesco.com/)
In the specific case below (The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) there are quite a number of inconsistencies that add up to
"scam" to us. See the email below.
And if you were crazy enough to write back to them,
click here to a typical response the
scammers send.
Sample actual scam letter from "The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation":
From The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation Fri
May 2 19:52:38 2008
Attn: Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CASH AID.
This is to notify you that you have been
chosen By the Board of trustees of the above international charity
organization based in the England, UK as one of the final recipients
of a Cash Grant/Donation.
The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation,
established 1968 by the Multi-Million groups and now supported by
the United Kingdom (UK), the Economic Community for West African
States (ECOWAS), United Nations Organization
(UNO) and the European Union (EU) was
conceived with the objective of giving assistance to the next
priviledge, human growth,educational, and community development. To
celebrate the 40th anniversary program on the 1st May, 2008. We are
giving out a yearly donation of £350,000.00GBP (Three Hundred and
fifty Thousand Pounds
Sterling) to each 20 lucky recipients. And
your batch no.is (QEF/222/018/08).
To file for your claim contact our agent
with the following details:
FULL NAMES :..........................
ADDRESS:..............................
CITY:.................................
STATE:................................
COUNTRY:.............................
SEX:..................................
AGE:..................................
MARITAL STATUS:.......................
OCCUPATION: ..........................
E-MAIL ADDRESS........................
TELEPHONE NUMBER:.....................
Await your reply.
Best regards,
Mr. James Moore
Phone No: +447045779405
Woodlands Road
Leatherhead Court
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 0BN.
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Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled
People is a registered charity No 251051. Registered as a company
limited by guarantee in London No892013. Registered at Leatherhead
Court, Woodlands Road, Leatherhead,Surrey KT22 0BN.
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Message Headers
Return-Path: <foundation@queenelizabeth.co.uk>
Authentication-Results:
mta332.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=queenelizabeth.co.uk; domainkeys=neutral
(no sig)
Received: from 209.88.88.253 (EHLO
webmail.zimpost.co.zw) (209.88.88.253)
by mta332.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP;
Fri, 02 May 2008 19:57:39 -0700
Received: from webmail.zimpost.co.zw (localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1])
by webmail.zimpost.co.zw
(8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m432qd4I030094;
Sat, 3 May 2008 04:52:41 +0200
Received: (from apache@localhost)
by webmail.zimpost.co.zw
(8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id m432qdTB030092;
Sat, 3 May 2008 10:52:39 +0800
Received: from 41.204.224.15 (proxying for
192.168.0.14)
(SquirrelMail authenticated user
lkasamba)
by webmail.zimpost.co.zw with HTTP;
Sat, 3 May 2008 10:52:38 +0800 (HKT)
Message-ID: <11868.41.204.224.15.1209783158.squirrel@webmail.zimpost.co.zw>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 10:52:38 +0800 (HKT)
Subject:
From: "The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation"
<Foundation@queenelizabeth.co.uk>
Reply-To: donation11@yahoo.com.hk
Bcc:
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4
MIME-Version: 1.0Queen Elizabeth's
Foundation Woodlands Road, Leatherhead Court, Surrey KT22 0BN.
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