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"UNIVERSAL TRUST LOTTERY / UK NATIONAL INC / AMADRIN EDWARD / HARIET BOOKER" is the fake identity used by a gang of advance fee fraud ("419") scammers operating in Nigeria and the UK. It's a fraud. (see one example scam email here). This is one of the scams run by the Aruloye brothers from the Vic Biz Cyber Cafe in Benin City, Nigeria.
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Example of spam:
Contacting "MR AMADRIN EDWARD" revealed which country the criminals operate from:
Sending IP address 216.139.164.27 is in Nigeria (country code +234):
FROM:THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTION
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
UNIVERSAL TRUST LOTTERY HEADQUATERS
Macclesfield,United Kingdom.
Customer's Service Center
REF: U.T./941OYI/02
BATCH: 12/25/DC34
Dispatch date :04/02/2005.
Dear Sir/Madam,
We happily announce to you the draw of the UNIVERSAL TRUST LOTTERY,
International programs held on the 1/02/2005 in London. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 288 with
Serial number 31-6-26-13-35-7 drew the lucky numbers: 5388/02, which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category.
therefor been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$2.500,000.00
(TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND United States dollars)in cash
credited
to file
KPC/9080118308/02/TCA. This is from a total cash prize of
US$25 Million dollars,
the first fifty (50) lucky winners in this grand category "A".
This year Lottery Program Jackpot
is the largest ever for British Lottery. The estimated $75 Million
jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in U.K. history. The biggest was the
$363
Million jackpot that went to two winners in January 2004 drawing of The
Big Game Mega Millions' predecessor.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play
coupon.
In view of this, your US$25 Million dollars (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND United States dollars) would be released to you physically by
our
affiliate Bank. Our approved agent will immediately commence on the
processing of your claims, to facilitate the release of your funds to
you
as soon as you make contact with them.
All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web' site
through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.
This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims
is
processed and your money remitted to you as required in this grand
category "B". This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid
double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous
elements.
Please be warned. To file for your claim, Kindly contact our
fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims.
******************************************************************
MR AMADRIN EDWARD.
FIDUCIAL AGENT.
U.T.-LOTTO INC.
Macclesfield,United Kingdom
Email: amadrin@echina.com
******************************************************************
Note that all claims process and clearance procedures must be duly
completed early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of double
claiming.
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our
designated
agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Yours faithfully,
MRS.HARIET BOOKER
U.T.-LOTTO Co-ordinator.
Return-Path: <amadrin@echina.com>
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From: "Amadrin Edward" <amadrin@echina.com>
To: emailaddress
Importance: Normal
Sensitivity: Normal
Message-ID: <W1268112527226861107612881@ns.echina.com>
X-Mailer: Mintersoft VisualMail, Build 4.0.111601
X-Originating-IP: [216.139.164.27]
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 14:14:41 +0000
Subject: YOUR CLAIM PROCEDURE FORM
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
UNIVERSAL TRUST LOTTERY
HEADQUARTERS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
REF: U.T./941OYI/02
BATCH: 12/25/DC34
CLAIMS APPLICATION FORM
Your application for the claim of lottery winning prize will be dully
processed and Settlements be made upon certification.
Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the space
provided below to facilitate our immediate commencement of your claim processing.
1. FULL NAME OF BENEFICIARY:..........................................
2. REFERENCE NUMBER:..................................................
3. TICKET NUMBER:....................
4. SERIAL NUMBER:....................
5. NATIONALITY:......................
6. SEX:..........AGE:................
7. TEL...............................
8. FAX:.................(if any).....
9. E-MAIL:...........................
10 COMPANY NAME:.....................................................
FULL ADDRESS:.....................................................
11.DATE..............................
12.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL:.........................
..................................................................
13.A scanned identification of yourself sent via email
14.You are allso to choose the mode which you want
to collect your funds:
i. Travel down to Europe to collect it yours seif.
ii. By electronic transfer.
In the light of the above, you are required to fill this form and send
it back to us by email.
Be aware that your application will be duly processed and verified on the
receipt of this claim form. You are adviced to forward these informations
as soon as possible to enable us attend to your file. Please note that your
funds have been deposited safely in our affiliate finance and Securities
firm in Europe, even before the draws and your information will be forwarded
to them before they can process and release your winnings.
After you have sent down these information, We will immediately process
your winning and forward your data to the affiliated finance and Securities
firm who already have your winning particulars. On confirmation,the
affiliated finance and Securities firm will transfer your prize money
from your online transit account to your nominated address.
Note: that the Certificate and Pin-codeis your proof of winning which you
must tender to the finance and Securities firm at the point of payment.
Your certificate is ready and i will send you a copy as
soon as you send down the required informations.
All these measures have been put in place to secure our winners' funds by
preventing double
claims and falsification.
Once again, congratulations.
Yours sincerely,
AMADRIN EDWARD.
CLAIMS/FIDUCIARY AGENT.
U.T.-LOTTO INC.
Macclesfield,United Kingdom.
_______________________________________________________
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Please visit us at www.echina.com.
OrgName: Qkon
OrgID: QKON
Address: No 8 Pieter Street Highveld Technopark
City: Pretoria
StateProv:
PostalCode:
Country: ZA
NetRange: 216.139.164.24 - 216.139.164.31
CIDR: 216.139.164.24/29
NetName: QKON35
NetHandle: NET-216-139-164-24-1
Parent: NET-216-139-160-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-08-01
Updated: 2003-08-01
TechHandle: WBO2-ARIN
TechName: Botha, Willem
TechPhone: 234 8033027260
TechEmail: wbotha@qkon.com
OrgTechHandle: SBR7-ARIN
OrgTechName: Brits, Stadler
OrgTechPhone: 234 8033027260
OrgTechEmail: stadlerbrits@hotmail.com
The following scam involving the "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" is related to the "UNIVERSAL TRUST" scam:
- Winning notifications are sent by the same "MRS.HARIET BOOKER" supposedly based in "Macclesfield,United Kingdom."
- One of the contact emails uses a domain registered in the name of "Hariet Booker".
Here we go:
From: "uknationa_lottery" <martin_walker05@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 23:38:04 -0300 Subject: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY FROM:THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT UK NATIONAL LOTTO HEADQUATERS Macclesfield,United Kingdom. Customer's Service Center Ref Number: UK/910/16454 Batch Number:VC/32/ID1141 Dispatch date : 07/02/2005. Dear Sir/Madam We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 1/2/2005 in ENGLAND AND WALES. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5224652456UT with serial number 0098/UK0204,batch number VC/32/ID1141,lottery ref number UK/910/16454 and drew lucky numbers 03-01-15-20-34-33-07 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$2.500,000.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND United States dollars)in cash credited to file KLTT/KTU/2004ETN.This is from a total cash prize of US$25 Million dollars, shared amongst the first TEN (10) lucky winners in this First category. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place every year. This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Association of software producers. To file for your claim,please contact our fiducial agent: ======================================================================== MR MARTIN WALKER UK NATIONAL INC. Macclesfield,United Kingdom Email:martinwalker01@netscape.net Email:agent_05@online-uknalgame.com ======================================================================== Remember, all winning in this first category must be claimed not later than 31st of March,2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promot ional program.Note that you must contact your claims agent within one week of receipt of this notice. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Sincerely, MRS.HARIET BOOKER UK-LOTTO Co-ordinator. trustuniversal2000@yahoo.co.in ___________________________________________________________________________ Este mail ha sido enviado desde donde los Alvarado - http://www.alvarado.cl
WHOIS lookup for domain "online-uknalgame.com":
We see the familar Mrs Booker. Whoever registered this has a sense of humour, because both the area code of the phone number and the number of the street address is 234, which is the Nigerian country code for international phone calls...
Domain name: online-uknalgame.com Registrant Contact: Hariet Booker Hariet Booker (winners@online-uknalgame.com) +1.2345346678 Fax: none 234 SUNSET DRIVE AVENUE HYDE PARK, VT 05655 US Administrative Contact: Hariet Booker Hariet Booker (winners@online-uknalgame.com) +1.2345346678 Fax: none 234 SUNSET DRIVE AVENUE HYDE PARK, VT 05655 US Technical Contact: NOC MSN NOC MSN (MSN-PA-TECH@msn.com) +1.4258828080 Fax: none One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 US Billing Contact: NOC MSN NOC MSN (MSN-PA-BILL@MSN.COM) +1.4258828080 Fax: none One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 US Status: Locked Name Servers: pdomns1.msn.com pdomns2.msn.com
"UK N.L Information Service"
From: "hariet booker" <mike07@uk-agent.com> To: <undisclosed-recipients:> Sent: Friday, 25 February, 2005 6:53 Subject: UK N.L Information Service FROM:THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR OF PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT UK NATIONAL LOTTO HEADQUATERS Macclesfield,United Kingdom. Customer's Service Center Ref Number: UK/910/16454 Batch Number:VC/32/ID1141 Dispatch date : 25/2/2005. Dear Sir/Madam We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 2/1/2005 in ENGLAND AND WALES. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5224652456UT with serial number 0098/UK0204,batch number VC/32/ID1141,lottery ref number UK/910/16454 and drew lucky numbers 03-01-15-20-34-33-07 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$2.500,000.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND United States dollars)in cash credited to file KLTT/KTU/2004ETN.This is from a total cash prize of US$25 Million dollars, shared amongst the first TEN (10) lucky winners in this First category. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place every year. This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Association of software producers.To file for your claim,please contact our fiducial agent: ===================================================================== MR KELVIN GIBSON UK NATIONAL INC. Macclesfield,United Kingdom Email:claims@uk-lotterys.ws ===================================================================== Remember, all winning in this first category must be claimed not later than 31st of March,2005. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.Note that you must contact your claims agent within one week of receipt of this notice. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Sincerely, MRS.HARIET BOOKER UK-LOTTO Co-ordinator.
Message headers:
Message-ID: <BAY1-F40933B974C3E1ED415F1DF2640@phx.gbl> Received: from 216.139.176.62 by by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:53:32 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.139.176.62] X-Originating-Email: [mike07@uk-agent.com]
WHOIS details for sending network (IP 216.139.176.62):
This was sent from Vic Biz internet cafe in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.
OrgName: Vic Biz
OrgID: VICBI-1
Address: 7 Akpakpava str
City: Lagos
StateProv:
PostalCode:
Country: NG
NetRange: 216.139.176.56 - 216.139.176.63
CIDR: 216.139.176.56/29
NetName: QKON30
NetHandle: NET-216-139-176-56-1
Parent: NET-216-139-160-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-07-24
Updated: 2003-07-24
TechHandle: EJI-ARIN
TechName: Jimoh, Ester
TechPhone: 2348033248388
TechEmail: dstaal@qkon.com
OrgTechHandle: EJI-ARIN
OrgTechName: Jimoh, Ester
OrgTechPhone: 2348033248388
OrgTechEmail: dstaal@qkon.com
WHOSIS details for "uk-agent.com":
This fits the current pattern for fake lottery domains: The company is supposed to be UK-based, but the postal address is in the US, the criminals in Nigeria and it's hosted by MSN. There are many others like this.
Request: uk-agent.com connected to whois.enom.com [66.151.151.170:43] ... Registration Service Provided By: Microsoft Contact: personal_address@css.one.microsoft.com Visit: http://support.msn.com/contactus.aspx?pk=PersonalAddress Domain name: uk-agent.com Registrant Contact: garry gate garry gate (notification@uk-agent.com) +1.5643546543 Fax: +1.6663 234 sunset drive avenue HYDE PARK, VT 05655 US Administrative Contact: garrygate garry gate (notification@uk-agent.com) +1.5643546543 Fax: +1.6663 234 sunset drive avenue HYDE PARK, VT 05655 US Technical Contact: NOCMSN NOC MSN (MSN-PA-TECH@msn.com) +1.4258828080 Fax: One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 US Billing Contact: NOCMSN NOC MSN (MSN-PA-BILL@MSN.COM) +1.4258828080 Fax: One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 US Status: Locked Name Servers: pdomns1.msn.com pdomns2.msn.com Creation date: 04 Feb 2005 08:03:26 Expiration date: 04 Feb 2006 08:03:26
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