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"CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS / MARY HILDER" are labels used by a gang in South Africa for a fake lottery fraud ("419" scam).
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Example of "CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS" scam email:
CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS 161 CNR HIL & RIVONIA ROADS, MORNINGSIDE - GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA. CONGRATULATIONS!.... FROM: PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: ZAR/878-192/2005 BATCH: 9171/46510/ZA ATTENTION: DEAR WINNER, RE/ AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE We wish to inform you of the lottery draws held recently to declare the winners of the CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS. Your email address, attached to ticket number 900-4675-04854-197, with serial number 412-01 drew the lucky numbers 2 9 32 65 72 19 10, and consequently won the lottery. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ZAR16,000,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO: ZAR/878-192/2005. This is from total prize money of ZAR120,000,000.00 shared among the Seventeen International Winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 17,000 email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe and Middle East and Asia as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted monthly. CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now available for claim. Due to the mix up of some numbers and email address, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this promotion. We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes ZAR100,000,000 Million International Lottery. To begin your claim, please contact our claim manager; CLAIMS MANAGER, MR. THOMAS WILLIAMS CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA EMAIL: claimsmanager@lightwines.org For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than One Week after notice. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with our manager. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims manager as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely, MRS. MARY HILDER THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, EMAIL: lotterychampion@lightwines.org CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS Website: www.lotterychampion.com
Message haders in reply from "THOMAS WILLIAMS":
From: claimsmanager@lightwines.org To: Firstname Lastname <emailaddress> References: <referenceid> In-Reply-To: <referenceid> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 198.54.202.114 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: claimsmanager@lightwines.org
WHOIS details of sending network (IP 198.54.202.114):
Request: 198.54.202.114 connected to whois.arin.net [69.25.34.144:43] ... connected to whois.afrinic.net. [196.216.2.1:43] ... % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. inetnum: 198.54.202.0 - 198.54.202.255 netname: SAIX-CACHE descr: Telkom SA Ltd. descr: Soekor Building descr: 151 Frans Conradie Ave descr: Parow descr: Western Cape descr: 7500 country: ZA admin-c: PB455-AFRINIC tech-c: PB455-AFRINIC status: ASSIGNED PA mnt-by: TF-198-54-MNT mnt-lower: TF-198-54-MNT changed: hostmaster@arin.net 20020329 changed: hostmaster@arin.net 20020329 changed: hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221 source: AFRINIC person: Pieter Bezuidenhout address: Telkom SA Ltd SAIX address: 151 Frans Conradie Ave address: Parow address: Western Cape address: 7500 address: ZA phone: +1 111 1111111 fax-no: +2721 9302789 e-mail: bezuidp@telkom.co.za e-mail: pieter@saix.net nic-hdl: PB455-AFRINIC remarks: Abuse complaints can be directed to abuse@saix.net changed: hostmaster@arin.net 20000622 changed: hostmaster@arin.net 20021024 changed: hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050221 source: AFRINIC
From: claimsdepartment@lightwines.org To: emailaddress Sent: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:48:41 -0700 Subject: LOTTO VERIFICATION FORM CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION MR. THOMAS WILLIAMS EMAIL: claimsdepartment@lightwines.org ATTENTION: WINNER, WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF YOUR CLAIM FILE. AND WE ARE GLAD TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE ONE OF THE WINNERS OF OUR LOTTO DRAW. YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WAS SELECTED FROM A COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAW FROM 17,000 EMAIL ADDRESSES ALL OVER THE WORLD,WHICH YOU WERE ENTITLE TO THE SAID PRIZE. TO BEGIN YOUR CLAIM, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FILL THE ATTACHED VERIFICATION FORM WITH YOUR INFORMATION AS REQUESTED BY OUR ORGANISATION. THIS WILL ENABLE US VERIFY THE STATUS OF YOUR CLAIM WITH CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANISATION. YOUR INFORMATION IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US AND WILL ALSO QUALIFY YOU FOR YOUR CLAIM WITH; REF: ZAR/878-192/2005 BATCH: 9171/46510/ZA BE INFORMED THAT WE HAVE IN OUR POSSESSION INSTRUMENTS OF PAYMENT FOR THE SUM OF ZAR16,000,000.00 = EQUIVALENT OF US$2,751,800.00 TO YOU. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FILL EVERYTHING IN BLOCK LETTER (CAPITAL LETTERS) CONCERNING THE BRIEF DESCRIPTION ABOUT YOUR SELF, WE REQUIRE YOU TO WRITE LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY. WE DO HOPE THAT ALL INSTRUCTION WILL BE ADHERE TO, TO AVOID DISQUALIFICATION. DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME BY EMAIL TO GIVE YOU FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS IN OTHER TO AVOID MISTAKES OR COMPLICATIONS IN YOUR FORM. ENDEAVOUR TO SEND BACK THE FILLED VERIFICATION FORM TO +27-11-507-6021 OR SEND IT VIA EMAIL ATTACHMENT. THANKS. MR. THOMAS WILLIAMS CLAIMS MANAGER CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION
A letter from the fake bank:
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OUR REF: FNB-FXDEP/97/05 YOUR REF: REF: 900111/2005. 3rd March 2005 FROM: SOL. T. ZUMA (Remittance Department) E-mail: info@fnbankza.com Dear Sir/Madam, REMITTANCE ADVICE ON SIXTEEN MILLION RANDS (ZAR16,000,000.00) VIDE PRICE CLAIM NO: SBSA-FXDEP/97/05/REF: 900111/2005 & BATCH NO: 08/11810/ZIE. This is to inform you that we have today being 3rd March 2005 received from the Ministry of Finance a Foreign Exchange Allocation Number in your favour, we also received A Telex Instruction from CHAMPION CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION, to Credit the sum of ZAR16,000,000.00 (US$2,751,800.00) only to you. Having carefully studied, and duly verified the relevant documents of claims as submitted in this Department, by our client CHAMPION vide the total sum of ZAR16,000,000.00 as referenced above, we are happy and obliged to inform you that the said sum has been cleared for onward transfer to your Accounts. Beneficiary: Firstname Lastname Address: Streetaddress TEL: phonenumber FAX: faxnumber Bank Name: NIL Account No: NIL SWIFT CODE: NIL Country: country You will therefore be contacted for final credit of your funds into your designated Bank Account A.S.A.P upon fulfillment of the payment directives. Prior to this you have to contact the below listed Accredited Attorney to come forward for the Signing/Endorsement of your fund Release Order, he will assist you to procure the following certificates; Empowerment Certificate, Transfer of Rights and Privileged and Affidavit of Claims in the High Court of South Africa with Notarized copy of your Identification which will declared you as the bonafied Winner of the funds with CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION. Endeavor to contact the Accredited Attorney below; BRIAN EVANS & ASSOCIATES TEL: +27-73-691-4400 FAX: +27-11-507-6580 E-mail: brianevans@legalrightsattorney.com Your inability to claim these funds within the next One Week, will result to recall the funds back to the SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION as unclaimed funds. Be informed that we have know right to deduct any cent from your entitlement as your prize won is already in BONDED with this Bank. On behalf of this Bank use this medium to congratulate you in Advance!!!! Sincerely Yours, Mr. Sol T. Zuma (Deputy Director: International Remittance) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If this message has reached you in error please disregard it and its contents, and we apologies for any inconvenience arising from such. Note that as much as we try to make all our customers satisfied with our services, we are indemnified from any erroneous information supplies in your file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message headers:
From: info@fnbankza.com To: emailaddress Subject: REMITTANCE ADVICE ON SIXTEEN MILLION RANDS (ZAR16,000,000.00) MIME-Version: 1.0 ... X-Originating-IP: 202.57.8.115 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: info@fnbankza.com
WHOIS details for sending network (IP 202.57.8.115):
inetnum: 202.57.0.0 - 202.57.15.255
netname: PRIMA-NET
descr: PT. Khasanah Timur Indonesia
descr: ISP
country: ID
admin-c: BC120-AP
tech-c: BC120-AP
status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE
remarks: Send spam and abuse report to: abuse@prima.net.id
mnt-by: MNT-APJII-ID
mnt-lower: MAINT-ID-PRIMANET
changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20040329
source: APNIC
route: 202.57.8.0/24
descr: PRIMANET - ISP
country: ID
origin: AS17658
remarks: -----------------------
remarks: report spam & abuse to:
remarks: noc@prima.net.id
remarks: -----------------------
notify: noc@prima.net.id
mnt-by: MAINT-ID-PRIMANET
changed: brianchrist@prima.net.id 20040419
source: APNIC
person: Brian Christian
nic-hdl: BC120-AP
e-mail: brianchrist@prima.net.id
address: Chase Plaza 3rd Floor (Primanet)
address: Jl. Sudirman Kav. 21
address: Jakarta 12920
address: Indonesia
phone: 21-5205151
fax-no: 21-5272368
country: ID
changed: brianchrist@prima.net.id 20031022
mnt-by: MAINT-ID-PRIMANET
source: APNIC
Here is another letter from the bank, same content, same reference code, but different dates and a different victim. This email was sent from the same IP address again as the email from "MRS. MARY HILDER":
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OUR REF: FNB-FXDEP/97/05 YOUR REF: REF: 900111/2005. 14th March 2005 FROM: SOL. T. ZUMA (Remittance Department) E-mail: remittance@fnbankza.com Dear Sir/Madam, REMITTANCE ADVICE ON SIXTEEN MILLION RANDS (ZAR16,000,000.00) VIDE PRICE CLAIM NO: SBSA-FXDEP/97/05/REF: 900111/2005 & BATCH NO: 08/11810/ZIE. This is to inform you that we have today being 14th March 2005 received from the Ministry of Finance a Foreign Exchange Allocation Number in your favour, we also received A Telex Instruction from CHAMPION CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION, to Credit the sum of ZAR16,000,000.00 (US$2,751,800.00) only to you. Having carefully studied, and duly verified the relevant documents of claims as submitted in this Department, by our client CHAMPION vide the total sum of ZAR16,000,000.00 as referenced above, we are happy and obliged to inform you that the said sum has been cleared for onward transfer to your Accounts. Beneficiary: Firstname Lastname Address: Streetaddress TEL: phonenumber FAX: NIL Bank Name: NIL Account No: NIL SWIFT CODE: NIL Country: country You will therefore be contacted for final credit of your funds into your designated Bank Account A.S.A.P upon fulfillment of the payment directives. Prior to this you have to contact the below listed Accredited Attorney to come forward for the Signing/Endorsement of your fund Release Order, he will assist you to procure the following certificates; Empowerment Certificate, Transfer of Rights and Privileged and Affidavit of Claims in the High Court of South Africa with Notarized copy of your Identification which will declared you as the bonafied Winner of the funds with CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION. Endeavor to contact the Accredited Attorney below; BRIAN EVANS & ASSOCIATES TEL: +27-86-650-8054 FAX: +27-11-507-6356 E-mail: brianbevans@legalrightsattorney.com Your inability to claim these funds within the next One Week, will result to recall the funds back to the SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTIONS ORGANIZATION as unclaimed funds. Be informed that we have know right to deduct any cent from your entitlement as your prize won is already in BONDED with this Bank. On behalf of this Bank use this medium to congratulate you in Advance!!!! Sincerely Yours, Mr. Sol T. Zuma (Deputy Director: International Remittance) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If this message has reached you in error please disregard it and its contents, and we apologies for any inconvenience arising from such. Note that as much as we try to make all our customers satisfied with our services, we are indemnified from any erroneous information supplies in your file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message headers:
Received: from rba-cache3-vif1.saix.net (rba-cache3-vif1.saix.net [198.54.202.114]) by webmail.registerapi.com (IMP) with HTTP for <remittance@fnbankza.com@10.0.0.52>; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:40:37 -0800 Message-ID: <1110800437.4235783515b71@webmail.registerapi.com> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 03:40:37 -0800 From: remittance@fnbankza.com To: emailaddress MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 198.54.202.114 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: remittance@fnbankza.com Subject: REMITTANCE ADVICE ON SIXTEEN MILLION RANDS (ZAR16,000,000.00)
WHOIS details for fraud domain "fnbankza.com"
Request: fnbankza.com
connected to whois.namesdirect.com [64.85.73.17:43] ...
Registrant:
Anthony R Kara Price
21 Domain Road 3228 Vic Australia
Jan Juc, Jan Juc
AU
Registrar: NAMESDIRECT
Domain Name: FNBANKZA.COM
Created on: 12-DEC-04
Expires on: 12-DEC-06
Last Updated on: 12-DEC-04
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Price, Anthony R Kara nicolegaus@yahoo.com
21 Domain Road 3228 Vic Australia
Jan Juc, Jan Juc
AU
03 52614704
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS2.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS3.NAMERESOLVE.COM
NS4.NAMERESOLVE.COM
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