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419 Scam – "K.B.F Sweepstakes Lottery"

"K.B.F Sweepstakes Lottery" has been using two domains hosted by MSN for advance fee fraud. See a typical spam email below. The domains were registered in July. We noticed them in November, but came across spam emails on the web that were posted in September.

MSN-Domains:

  • k-b-f.org
  • h-u-n-t.net

Sample email:

The K.B.F Sweepstakes Lottery
In Affiliation with the GREEK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Kifisou 62 Av. GR-121 32 Peristeri,
Athens. Greece.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: TCSL/2551256003/77 BATCH: 14/0017/SPM/IPD
RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

Date: 30-10-04

WINNING NOTICE

We happily announce to you the draws of the K.B.F Organization Lottery draw 
and International programs held on the 15th of September 2004 here in 
Athens, Greece in which you and Nineteen (19) others were selected as 
winners under draws 5+B.Your email address attached to ticket number 
681-6662-5532-711, with serial number 00983-42 drew the lucky numbers 
78-29-11-73-01-56, and consequently won the lottery in the 5TH category. 
This promotion takes place every Olympic year.
CONGRATULATIONS!

Please be informed that all participants in this Lottery Program have been 
selected randomly through a computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 
Companies and 30,000,000 individual email address from all search engines 
and web sites. This Lottery is organized by the host country Greece in 
collaboration with International Olympic Committee (IOC). Funds for the 
draws were contributed by the major sponsors of the games, such as Nike, 
Addidas, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Vodafone, Microsoft, Rolex, Greek Telecom, IBM 
Computers, etc.

Your funds are now deposited with a Finance and Security House and insured. 
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, 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 program. 
To begin your claim, please contact the clearing house (through your claims 
agent) the body assigned with the verification of any emergent winner. 
Therefore all protocols laid down by them must be followed to facilitate 
your claims:

CONTACT: MR. ALEX MORGAN,
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
Hunt Finance and Securities Ltd,
London, U. K.
TEL NO.: +44-704-010-4714
FAX NO.: +44-870-137-7176
EMAIL: [email protected]

Also find all other relevant winning lottery Information below:
Ref No: TCSL/2551256003/90
Batch No: 14/0024/IPD
Zonal Draw No: GSLB4-103
Grand Draw No: 13592

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$85,000.00 
(Eighty Five Thousand Dollars only) in cash credited to file REF NO: 
TCSL/2551256003/90. This is from total prize money of US$850,000.00 shared 
among the ten international winners in this category. For due processing and 
remittance of your prize money, remember that you must contact your claim 
agent not later than 15TH December, 2004. After this date, all funds will be 
returned as unclaimed.

NOTE:
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember 
Quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences 
with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do 
inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Congratulations again from all 
our staff and thank you for being part of our Promotions program.

Sincerely,

Ms. Sabina Price
The Promotions Manager

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to 
Disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your claim 
agent. Also you are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of 
age.



Email addresses that have been used:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
Looking up the IP address from which the above posting was made (81.199.108.8) shows that "Ms. Sabina Price" is writing from Nigeria:
     inetnum:        81.199.108.0 - 81.199.111.255
     netname:        CIDR-INTERCELLULAR-1
     descr:          Intercellular Nigeria Ltd
     country:        NG
     admin-c:        YA95-RIPE
     tech-c:         YA95-RIPE
     status:         ASSIGNED PA
     mnt-by:         AS12491-MNT
     source:         RIPE # Filtered
     
     person:         Yakubu Adamu
     address:        5th Floor, UBA House 57
     address:        Marina, Lagos
     address:        Nigeria
     phone:          +234 14704387
     fax-no:         +234 12643014
     e-mail:         [email protected]
     e-mail:         [email protected]
     nic-hdl:        YA95-RIPE
     source:         RIPE # Filtered