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22 Nov 2005
Security experts are warning of a phishing scam claiming to be a lottery run by Liverpool Football Club.
The emails were spammed out over the weekend informing recipients that they have won £500,000 in a special lottery organised by the club to celebrate having £20m left over at the end of the season.
"This email scam campaign is using the name of one of the world's greatest football clubs in an attempt to steal people's money and identities," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
"Everyone should be suspicious if they are unexpectedly told that they have won a fortune. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
In order to claim their prize users have to give their name, address and bank details and are told to expect a cheque forthwith. It is not known how many people have fallen for the scam.
This is the second football related scam in two months; the previous one also used the lottery disguise and claimed to come from FIFA.
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how can this still be going oln, even in Holland?
The National Lottery THUNDER BALL ONLINE PROMO P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Dear Redouane El Haddad, CONGRATULATIONS! This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the online International program. I am happy to inform you, your Original Certificate and your Certified bank cheque has been fowarded to the courier company. Find below the details of the courier company. TNT COURIER SERVICES ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE:Link House, 1C CHURCH STREET, WHITCHURCH, HANTS,RG28 7AD ENGLAND. NAME: MR GEORGE ARTHUR FORMBY(dispatch officer) EMAIL:tntcourier2008@yahoo.co.uk PHONE:+44-701-112-7551 You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost.When contacting them,you are to include this order number as your subject.Please you are adviced to write down the order number and save it. ORDER NUMBER:TN5353 Note: you are to Quote your complete names, and your direct phone number along with your personal informations so that they can honour your letter.Once again i say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier company. REGARDS, Magaret CLAIMS AGENT THUNDERBALL ONLINE PROMO P.O. BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL,L70 INL
Posted by: Redouane 31 Jan 2008
Taking on the Aussies
This mob is now having a go at the Antipodes ? without success. I forwarded my stuff to the Metropolitan Police. With luck, in time the Old Bill will nail the swine. Des Carroll, Suton Grange, Victoria, Australia.
Posted by: Des Carroll 26 Mar 2007
me too!!!
this is the mail of "ruth jones" Wed, 22 Mar 2006 The Liverpool Football Club P O Box 1010, Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM 22ND MARCH, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The management of liverpool football club is glad to announce to the world the giving away of the sum of TWENTY MILLION UNITED KINGDOM POUNDS million to 40 lucky email addresses all over the world. This promotion is in appreciation of our International Support in the European Champions League Finals In Turkey and the correspondent capital profit in the stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings. It is also to Mark the Club's over 100 years of co-operate existence. Please be informed that all winners in this program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000 companies and individual e-mail addresses database. Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winner of five hundred thousand pounds among the Forty email addressess ch osen. For all our international winners the value of the amount comes to ($917,956.00 USD) Nine Hundred and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred and fifty-six United States Dollars. In other to claim your £500,000.00 prize, you will have to fill the form below and send it back to us for verification and then you will be inform on how your Cashier's Cheque for £500,000.00 has already been deposited with your email contact. NAME:.................................................................. AGE:................................................................... SEX:.................................................................. ADDRESS:............................................................... EMAIL:................................................................ PHONE No.:................................................................. OCCUPATION:......................................................... . COMPANY:............................................................... COUNTRY:.............................................................. Please you are adviced to complete the form and send back to us for prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of age. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged, proprietary,confidential and exempted from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination,distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Sincerely, Ruth Jones To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent MRS:Lisa Mark EMAIL:agentlisamark@yahoo.co.uk
Posted by: malou agnas 04 Apr 2006
swindlers thru internet
i, too, received several emails of this matter; one from British Lottery Program and two from The Liverpool Football Club Lottery. An award notification was sent by email ad info@lotteryonlinenotification.org sent by a certain Sir John Barkley, zonal coordinator, advising me to contact agent Mrs. Sophie Bradley email ad: fiduciary_sophie@excite.com. I replied by sending their required information, but they had not responded to date. However, a certain email ad: mrdavidjose001@jmail.co.za using The Liverpool Football Club Lottery sent me an award notification, and advised me to contact a certain Mrs Eva Pedro email ad: agentevapedro@hotmail.com. This mrs eva pedro replied to my email and adviosed me to contact the TNT COURIER SERVICE c/o MR. KELVIN BODE, dispatch officer, email ad: dtntcourierservice00@yahoo.com.uk. The courier service sent me an email advising me to select any one method from 3 options thru which, if i send them the courier charges of Opt 1 (overnyt) $978.35, opt 2 ( 2 days) $796.87, opt 3 (4 days) $650.96... At this point, I searched for the Liverpool Football Club Lottery and found out the issued warnings on this scam since the last quarter of 2005... Thanks a lot! I was about to comply to their instruction.. thank Gpod it is Saturday March 25 here today... your published warning saved me from these swindlers. I hope my comments can save a lot of other would-be willing victims, too. Art Cabando Ygoña
Posted by: Arturo Cabando Ygoña 25 Mar 2006
Didnt Fall for it Thanks to you
I received an email just like everyone elses and I came to this site. Thank you guys so much. These people should be seriously prosecuted.
Posted by: Erica 24 Mar 2006
Not Fooled
Hello, today I received this London Football with a simple hello posted. I have received this form in different names and country's. Beware of these scams. I was robbed of 500.00 on the 4th of January of these crooks. Any of these are likely to be scams I haven't come across that is truthful. Thank you!
Posted by: Cynthia West 20 Mar 2006
Yet another scam email
I have received several emails of this description recently and i forward them on to Fraud Watch who deal with them by tracing the originators path.
Posted by: Paul 20 Mar 2006
Like to see what the R.C.M.P. have to say to them
I am taking all this Information to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to see what they are going to do about this so called group of people. I would love to see people like this behind bars.
Posted by: Nelson 19 Mar 2006
Really, I won!!
Wow!500,000 pounds!! I know that it can't be true, after received the mail , i had search arround the Internet to comfirm before i do anyfuther ...Lucky i found this article.Thank you so much. You have save me... Posted by: Homayoun 13 March 2006
Posted by: Homayoun Kanouni 13 Mar 2006
KELVIN BODE, TNT SERVICE, LOTTERY PARCEL
I also was fooled by them, one Ms. Soniya Franscisco mailed me to contact Mr. Kelvin Bode of TNT courier to pay the cost of the check for speedy transfer of the parcel. Thanx for your site that I realized that it is fraud. Please do something to nab them so that no body else in the future would be fooled by them. It had been a waste of money and time following up with them.
Posted by: AALEIT VIJAYA 10 Mar 2006
Liverpool Lottery
I live in the USA and I received the email also and decided to check into it.Thank you for keeping people up to date on these scams.
Posted by: Vickie 01 Mar 2006
BLOODY MONGRELS !
I TOO HAVE RECEIVED EMAILS FROM A SONIA AT LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB LOTTERY AND FROM KELVIN BODE AT TNT. THEY DID NOT ASK FOR BANK DETAILS RATHER WESTERN UNION MONEY PAYMENT FOR COURIER COSTS.I ALSO QUIRIED THEM, AND RECEIVED A WRITTEN GUARANTEE. WAS THINKING ABOUT SENDING MONEY, BUT THANKS TO THIS SITE, I AM VERY GRATEFUL. I ENTER COMPETITIONS AND SUCH ON LINE ALL THE TIME. THINGS WILL BE CHANGING FROM NOW ON. NO MORE. THEY CAN ALL GO GET STUFFED.THIS IS NOT FAIR. LESSON LEARNT, BUT ITS GETTING THAT YOU CAN'T TRUST ANYBODY ANYMORE. VERY SAD PEOPLE OUT THERE. KARMA MATE! KARMA!
Posted by: ANOTHER SUCKER, IN QLD, AUSTRALIA 27 Feb 2006
Liverpool Football Club Lottery
I received notification also today 2/26/06 and I am grateful to this site for exposing these low lifes before other innocent people are taken advantage of. The first phase notifies you of your winnings that is where I became alarmed. God only knows what would have happened next. These scams should be stopped.
Posted by: Anthony Williams 26 Feb 2006
lottery scam
I live here in Toronto, Canada. I received this email yesterday but I ignored it, today I received another email that's exactly the same..but I was suspicious, so I decided to search the net about the authenticity of such thing, and thank God I did because I found this site, cautioning people who received this scam.
Posted by: Alona Benido 25 Feb 2006
phishing
I also received the mail. I am always suspicious of something I didn't enter! No one is going to give away something for nothing. Beware!
Posted by: A.D. 20 Feb 2006
Thank you
I also got this e-mail this morning. I'm from Wisconsin and I did give the information that they first wanted but nothing about my bank or any other personal things.This is just sick and should be stopped! Is there a way that they can take my identity just by giving my name and phone etc?
Posted by: Monica 19 Feb 2006
Lottery Scam
I live in the United States and have received this same email. I sent them my information and when I saw that they wanted money I began to investigate. I emailed TNT courier service back and told them that I am not comfortable sending money without any guarantee. They responded with a letter of guarantee. I started to look into this and saw this information on this website. I am glad that people still get together to protect others. I just wonder how many people fell for this...I feel sorry for them!
Posted by: Alisha 19 Feb 2006
2 good 2 be true
I am so glad I researched this. My husband received this in the mail and we were real close to sending in the money they requested. We sent in the basic information but no personal such as bank or SS#'s. Then we decided to research before we sent in anything. So glad we did. Thanks for the information. It is ashame that they can get away with it. They had us almost believing it but when it sounds to good to be true you know what they say!
Posted by: S. C. 19 Feb 2006
Liverpool phishing scam
G'day, i received the email too, i realised it was a scam straight away but feel sorry for anyone who thinks it's real. Isn't phishing illegal? And why can't the phishers be prosecuted? Or at least drawn and quartered!! Mark Adelaide
Posted by: Mark Wilton 07 Feb 2006
to good to be true
I am living in Namibia, Windhoek, and also received this e-mail. I was so happy, winning so much money, but now I know, reading all this comments, that was to good to be true- When I reply of the courier cost, my emails come back 'undelivered' - please look out people.
Posted by: Valerie 01 Feb 2006
Liverpool Football Scam
I received an email this morning, guess its going around in New Zealand too now. What creeps, I am recently unemployed and that kind of money would really help out! Luckily I decided to search for details of the lottery. I got different names than those already posted, the email was from David Jose and I was to send my details to annagerald001@yahoo.co.uk. I am sure the laws of karma will make sure they suffer!!!
Posted by: Jen 31 Jan 2006
Liverpool Football Lottery
This needs to be put out of business. Fraud , Scams , lotterys prey on greed & cheat people.
Posted by: Zoli 17 Jan 2006
Thank God For This Website
I was about to send money in order for them to send me my grand prize - But i decided to dig a little about this cause i had my doubts about this rapid fortune. Im so glad a found all this information. Now my question is they did got my personal info but not my bank acct. How bad can they damage my name or personality?
Posted by: Josue Flores - Brownsville Texas 15 Jan 2006
Special lottery !
Yes, it has reached us too, but this is really too good to be true, and this people are dangerous.
Posted by: Jack 13 Jan 2006
Liverpool Lottery Scam
Not only in Liverpool did these people try to scam they sent my husband and i the same information ,we were happy but doubtful and if i had not seen this on the internet tonight we would have fallen for this scam. These people should be ashamed of themselves we are two disabled individuals who live on a monthly check and we don't have money to throw away as many know .We live in the United States in Massachusetts so i guess they are targeting the whole country so be ware people if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Tonight i will kneel and thank God for people like you looking out for people like me.
Posted by: Frances A. Tetreault USA 06 Jan 2006
Got you too, huh!
This scam is devious. This people need to be locked under the cell. I hope the true fans of the Liverpool football Club find out who they are and give them what they deserve. Thats OK, I sent the agent an email of the scam warning from the fraud center!
Posted by: Ri 05 Jan 2006
Real Conmanship
I received it before going on holidays. Back to work on 4/1/06 to an email to arrange delivery with TNT. Well a quick browse on the net confirmed my doubts. My reply: "I'm not that desperate nor naive." Thanks to this site.
Posted by: Nat (Fiji) 05 Jan 2006
almost heaven
I was totally overwhelmed reading the said mail. I've given all my particulars including identification no.but didn't ask for my bank account. I was trying to reply to the same email but my mail had always bounced back and so i decided to check on the website by the LFC and finally got the answer to my queiries. This mail made me sleepless at night on how to contact the said LFC. by the name of mariageorge09@cooperation.net
Posted by: mirechel 04 Jan 2006
Unbelievable
At a time when i thought my luck had just changed, and being the sceptic that this would has made me, i decided to check this out. Like many others, i too have sent my details but at this point in time have not been asked for further verification, a mobile number or any bank details, which i would not put on the internet at any time. What a bunch of sleezebags to do this to people, getting the hopes up of many financially crippled people like myself finally thinking this year was to be a good one. I should have twigged to it when the letter was gramatically incorrect but i guess i just wanted to believe my luck had changed for the better. What mongrels!
Posted by: Tracey Adams, Austrlia 03 Jan 2006
liverpool lottery
I am very careful on giving out information on the net but I did give my name and address. I was a bit sceptical so I give a wrong phone number, but when i saw to send money via Western Union I wrote them back and told them where to get off.
Posted by: Alana Marcelle 02 Jan 2006
Slimey creeps!
I sent my details too but got suspicious when they hinted at TNT courier charges. A quick google search and I found this site. Maybe they may try to steal my identity for fraudulent credit or similar? Well, I'm already bankrupt so They'll have no chance. Ha ha ha!
Posted by: Steven Glaser 02 Jan 2006
GOOD SCAM
wow, i have seen alot of scams in my time but this is a good one. I have sent my personal details to these mongrals also but when i seen a payment was required i became suspicious. dont be dishartened if you have not sent them any money or banking details, the pricks will eventually get what they deserve- a jail sentence
Posted by: Lorrena 28 Dec 2005
Just today...
Watch out!!!These crooks are very proffesional. It looks like this.. TheLiverpool Football Club Lottery, P O Box 1010, Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) DEAR WINNER, CONGRATULATIONS!This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the Liverpool Football Club Lotter online Sweepstakes International program. I am happy to inform you, your Original Certificate and your Certified bank cheque has been fowarded to the courier company. Find below the details of the courier company. TNT COURIER SERVICE ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE:Link House, 1C CHURCH STREET, WHITCHURCH, HANTS,RG28 7AD ENGLAND. NAME:MR.KELVIN BODE(dispatch officer) EMAIL:infotntcourierservice@yahoo.co.uk TEL: +44702 305 5862 TEL: +44703 194 3822 Fax: +44870 478 0906 You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost.When contacting them,you are to include this order number as your subject.Please you are adviced to write down the order number and save it. ORDER NUMBER:D562725 Note: you are to Quote your complete names, and your direct phone number so that they can honour your letter.Once again i say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier company. Thanks, MRS EVA PEDRO. Claims Agent The Liverpool Football Club Lottery, ....of course just mobile phones given...
Posted by: nobleone 27 Dec 2005
Another Scam
The Liverpool Football Club Lottery, P O Box 1010, Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) The management of liverpool football club is glad to announce to the world the giving away of the sum of TWENTY MILLION UNITED KINGDOM POUNDS million to 40 lucky email addresses all over the world. This promotion is in appreciation of our International Support and as part of our end of year promo to all our fans around the globe and the correspondent capital profit in the stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings. It is also to Mark the Club's over 100 years of co-operate existence. Please be informed that all winners in this program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000 companies and individual e-mail addresses database. Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winner of five hundred thousand pounds among the Forty email addressess chosen. For all our international winners the value of the amount comes to ($917,956.00 USD) Nine Hundred and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred and fifty-six United States Dollars. In other to claim your £500,000.00 prize, you will have to fill the form below and send it back to us for verification and then you will be inform on how your Cashier's Check for £500,000.00 has already been deposited with your email contact. 1. NAME:.............................................................. 2. AGE:................................................................ 3. SEX:................................................................ 4. ADDRESS:........................................................ 5. EMAIL:............................................................. 6. PHONE No:........................................................ 7. OCCUPATION:..................................................... 8. COMPANY:.......................................................... 9. COUNTRY:........................................................... Please you are adviced to complete the form and send back to us for prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of age. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Information thatisprivileged,proprietary,confidential and exempted from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination,distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Sincerely, Maria Daniels To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent MRS.SONIA SPENCE EMAIL: agent_soniaspence4@yahoo.co.uk PHONE NO:+(44)7031909703
Posted by: Donjuan Lane 24 Dec 2005
Whether it is Genuine or a Fraud!
I am Shivaram Gopinath from India. I had recieved the Winner notice from Mr. Brian Martins from Brianmartins003@hotmail.com on behalf of the Liverpool Football Club Lottery of Rs 500,000.00 pounds.He has asked to contact the claims agent - Mrs Maria Duvano of the Liverpool football club.I get another notice from the TNT Courier Company stating the three mode of courier charges. It will cost me at least close Rs 30,000/-. If the price is won and if the same is genuine why they are not able to send by Bank Transfer as permitted by RBI our central bank in India.Also I feel to add more geniness to the transacation they asked for the passport copy which would enable them to process the calims. The passport copy scanned was sent to them. Is it an act of defrauding the poor citizens and dupping. Kindly clarify. Please let us have the legal authority to vouch that the same is genuine.
Posted by: Shivaram Gopinath 20 Dec 2005
Respon Soon TNT Courier, Mr Gary Smith
The problem is, i already send my personal details such as my scanner copy of driving license and identification card but i didn't send my account number yet. It?s they can used my personal detail for they are organization like terrorist or anything else. I?m lucky because of I found this website before my problem with the stupid people is begin.
Posted by: adhamm 19 Dec 2005
liverpool football scam
I recieved there letter saying I won there lottery They ask for info, no banking but personsl things. then they ask me to pay shipping and insurance of 900 to 1200 dollars to recieve my winning of $917,658
Posted by: Joe Gardner 19 Dec 2005
How to stop this movement
I just received the same congratulation letter from Mrs. Sonia Francisco advising me to contact Mr. Kelvin Bode of TNT Courier Service in order to receive a certified bank check of 500,000.00 pound sterling. I never felt so good in my life. The life would be wonderful if we can win lotteries without even buying a ticket. They have provided me with an email, phone number and fax number of Mr. Bode. I have also received a confidential order number for reference and contacts. I would be glad if anybody would step forward and contact police. So many people are wasting time and probably cash. Many thanks for your alerts. It helped me clarifying doubts and probably future troubles.
Posted by: Subhas 19 Dec 2005
Too good to be true
I'm so glad that you have this web page informing everyone of "the you have won £500,000 scam." I also checked out websites and found your information. many thanks
Posted by: Debbie 17 Dec 2005
Lucky know early..
i know that it can't be true, after received the mail , i had search arround the Internet to comfirm before i do anyfuther ...Lucky i found this article.Thank you ! u have save me..
Posted by: Christeen 16 Dec 2005
Yet another today !
Email is headed: The Liverpool Football Club Lottery, PO Box 1010, Liverpool L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM then.... MERRY CHRISTMAS END OF YEAR PROMOTION To file claim contact MRS ANNA GERALD EMAIL:annagerald@uboot.com ...bank info.not asked for...yet !
Posted by: Myra Thompson (Mrs.) 15 Dec 2005
I was scamed
I was scamed too. They didn't ask for specific banking or personal information. Can they still mess up my banking, computer or personal information?
Posted by: Don 15 Dec 2005
Definitely too good to be true
I was very sceptical about the email so I wrote to the TNT Courier Service and enquire about the name of the person given to me. TNT representative wrote back and confirmed my suspicion. Thank god for email services and your website. On a sour note: How could they do that to people!
Posted by: Lea 13 Dec 2005
Your information saved me
Recently i received an email saying i won liverpool lottery.I gave my details and they asked me money to sent my check and before doing so i went through your sight.Your site has saved me.Thank you.
Posted by: chethura nataraj 10 Dec 2005
oh well
they cant really take anything from you without an account number right? I know that I was nieve and I fell for it and I only gave them my name and partial address, no city state or zip, a number and Country i was in. I hope that they cant do anything..... I am young and never have seen anything like this before, I should have known... I am glad I found this information before it went any further..... I started to check out the people I was emailing and talking to TNT couriers is not even in the UK nor anything else..... stupid people
Posted by: brandon 06 Dec 2005
JERKS!!!
I should have known that this was too good to be true!@ Thanks for the article!
Posted by: john guerriero 05 Dec 2005
Me too
They have sent me an email saying that I won 500 000 Pounds but it does not ask for my bank information it only asks for my info. Here is a copy of what they ask of me: PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM 1.FULL NAMES: 2.ADDRESS: 3.SEX: 4.AGE: 5.MARITAL STATUS: 6.OCCUPATION: 7.E-MAIL ADDRESS: 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER: 9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL: 10.AMOUNT WON: 12.COUNTRY: They also gave me an e-mail to respond to: MRS. EVA PEDRO agentevapedro@cooperation.net and agentevapedro@hotmail.com
Posted by: Albert 05 Dec 2005
Thank you note
I am truly greatful for your responsible article about this email scam. I have just got an email with a note to respond to a TNT Courier Service, 1C Church Street, Whitchurch, Hants, RG28, 7AD England, if its of any help to stop this abuse.
Posted by: Jaime L Barrientos 04 Dec 2005
throw the law book at them
GROUPS LIKE THESE ARE OUT TO SCREW EVERYBODY I HOPE THEY WILL BE APPREHENDED.GIVE THEM HELL!
Posted by: glen preiz 04 Dec 2005
what do you expect from scousers!
hmmm.
Posted by: mark 22 Nov 2005