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I recieved an email about Bill Gates giving out 1 million pounds to people who would fill out a survey. Something told me to fill out the survey, and I did. Now I've recieved this:


Dear :Ian Scott Sutherland,

Congratulations once again !!!

Please send your personal details to the Transfer agency so they can send your £1,000,000.00 pounds (One million pounds) to you.
And do note that the bank will transfer your won funds into your bank account in your country.

SO ALL YOU HAVE TO DO RIGHT NOW IS TO CONTACT THE BANK THAT WILL TRANSFER YOUR FUNDS TO YOUR PERSONAL BANK ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY SO THAT YOU CAN GET YOUR WON FUND.
ONCE YOU HAVE CONTACT WITH THEM , ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET BACK TO US WITH EVERY DETAILS WITH YOU AND THE BANK AND MIND YOU THAT WE HAVE FORWARD YOUR WON FUND TO THE BANK FOR TRANSFER SO YOU ARE TO CONTACT THEM FOR YOUR FINNAL CLAIM PROCESS.

BELOW IS THE BANK CONTACT DETAILS:


BANK NAME: YORKSHIRE BANK
BANK ADDRESS: 54, Cross Street, Abergavenny,Monmouth shire,G1 2HL, United kingdom
Email: [email protected]
:[email protected]
CONTACT PERSON: Mr Kenneth Morris
Phone No: +447031995551
Landline No: +844484284-01
Fax No: +448704956

Dr.Andray Norman
BILLGATES/GULF GAMING BOARD
United Kingdom

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Now something feels fishy... What do you think? Should I proceed, or have I fallen prey to a scam?

Jeez, I don't think Bill Gates would rip you off. I mean, he's rich already, and he's a great humanitarian and everything...

Although, now that he's not getting those four dollar haircuts anymore, maybe he's a little short on cash.

SCAM! He only gives cash to charities, not randomly to people. Plus the letter doesn't have the "official feel" to it. Look for the banks records. If the bank is legit, then call them up. If it isn't, then dur it's a scam. Ask to personally get the cash, in bills. If they won't, it's almost assuredly a scam.

Or, just ignore it. That's what I would've done. Call him (Gates) up, and ask him whats going on.

Well, what are you waiting for?

You better send off your account details, get that finnal process started and claim your won fund right away!

Sandurz wrote: Call him (Gates) up, and ask him whats going on.

How awesome would that be if he answered?

Bet he has a six-pack. You could ask him!
I heard he's ripped.

419 scam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

Thanks for the fast replies. Yep, looks like a 419 scam. Thanks for enlightening me Jeff.

What a coincidence, I just got emailed a scam via another forum.

Dear Friend,
In my department I discovered an abandoned huge sum that belongs to one of our late foreign customers, I now decided to make this Business proposal to you and for our office authorities to release the money to you, for more detail send me an email in my private email address ( [email protected] or [email protected] )
Best regards,
Miss. Elizabeth.


I replied:

Orly? To a 15yo kid? I'll dig!

BANK NAME: YORKSHIRE BANK
BANK ADDRESS: 54, Cross Street, Abergavenny,Monmouth shire,G1 2HL, United kingdom
Email: [email protected]
:[email protected]

This should have given it away. Why would Bill Gates put money in a British bank? Even more so, why would a bank's primary email account be a live.com address, let alone an AMERICAN live.com address, where as the bank is British, and not something like [email protected]?

EDIT: Found the actual bank site... http://www.ybonline.co.uk/

That's what made me really start to think it over.

Lotus Wolf wrote:That's what made me really start to think it over.

lol yeah, the rest of it looks pretty up-front....

Yeah, it's just ordinary scam.
Even bad quality scam... I mean, it's quite obvious that they didn't make much efforts to make it realistic.

- Black
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

try setting up a dummy account with something like £10 in it, then proceed, giving them the details of that account, if it's true £1,000,010, and if it's false, more fool them for getting 10 whole amazing pounds out of you! and you will have scammed the scammers!

but, of course that's just what i think, and im only 15 so...

Scamming scammers is much safer when you're face to face with the scammer. I'm just ignoring it.

On a somewhat unrelated note, did anyone else used to get those spam emails about watches?
I got an amazing one, in which the subject line advertised: "This watch is fictitious!"

I never opened the email, but I thought it was worth keeping, rather than leaving it in the "spam" folder to be deleted.