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"VINTAGE FOUNDATION PROMOTION / Vintage Foundation Promotions" is a fake lottery scam run by a gang in Nigeria.
Please send us replies by "claims agents", especially money demands and payment instructions, we will publish them here. You can also submit such fraud emails to the Scam-O-Matic.
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Sample initial spam:
This was sent from a cox.net broadband host, probably via some kind of Trojan software.
From: "VINTAGE FOUNDATION PROMOTION" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 17:25
Subject: CASH GRANT/DONATION
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VINTAGE FOUNDATION PROMOTION.
A.K.A ( THE VINTAGE FAMILY OF HOPE )
12/16 St John Street,
Clerkenwell, London , EC1V 4JS
United Kingdom.
Attn: Recipient,
RE: CASH GRANT/DONATION
Your email address successfully won our computer balloting sweeptake
2007 you have been approved the star prize of five hundred thousand
Great British Pounds .Contact our appointed Claims Manager Via details below:
Name: Sir Marculey Robb,
Tel: +44 70457 09718
Email: [email protected]
31st Anniversary Secretary
Vintage Foundation Promotions
From: [email protected]
Subject: CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT IN YOUR EMAIL NOTIFICATION.
Vintage Foundation Promotions
12/16 St John Street,
Clerkenwell, London , EC1V 4JS
United Kingdom.
Attn: Recipient,
RE: CASH GRANT/DONATION
I have been directed to inform you by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business development. The Vintage Foundation Promotions established 1975 by the Multi-Million groups and companies in Europe having their corporate head office in Italy was conceived with the objective of human growth, educational, and community development.
Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of 500,000pounds (Five hundred thousand British Pounds) as charity donations/aid from the Vintage Foundation Promotions, in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. (Note that all beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 600,000 internet websites or a shop's cash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from).
You are to contact the 31st Anniversary Secretary with the information below:
Name: Sir Marculey Robb,
Tel: +44 70457 09718
Email: [email protected]
31st Anniversary Secretary
Vintage Foundation Promotions
All information is strictly confidential and will only be used for the purpose to which it is been requested.
Faithfully Yours,
Lord John Perry
Image maker
Vintage Foundation Promotions
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