Oct 25
Scammers working out of bryn mawr college
I have received two email scams today claiming I have won a fortune on the UK lottery. Both are almost identical, except they ask me to contact two different people to claim my prize.
Here’s the latest one:
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that your email ID has qualified for the UK
National Lottery Year Ending online internet promotion which your email
ID and 1000 others was pick at random by our online internet machine
selector (Email Extractor ) which select your email address and other
mail from all over the world as a participant of the British
Lottery.Your
ID have been approved to claim the sum of One Million Pounds from the
National Lottery. Contact our Agent with verification form below as
required:
Name: Linda hills
Email: lindahills001@gmail.com
Tell: +447031992535
Name:
Age:
Address:
Phone:
Occupation:
Country:
Payment Mode: Bank or Courier
Manager
Sonia Gibson
You can read the first one here.
Notice the two seperate contact infos:
Name: Linda hills
Email: lindahills001@gmail.com
Tell: +447031992535
Name: Alex Daniel
Email: bayleys_service@live.com
Tell: +447031992535
Different emails, same phone number.
Yet, both were sent from this email address: smillerc@brynmawr.edu
brynmawr.edu is the website for Bryn Mawr college in Pennsylvania. I’ve just sent an email to the college to get their thoughts on this.
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October 25th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I just received one today as well! Except for mine was a little bit more PERSONAL. Had information of a credit card that I had lost last year.
from SENATE HOUSE
reply-to Senator David Mark
to undisclosed-recipients
date Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM
subject READ CARFULLY !
mailed-by brynmawr.edu
hide details 9:58 PM (18 hours ago)
Reply
Good day
This is to officially inform you that ATM CARD(54373639574387474) with
pin
number 822 worth $6.8 Million Dollars has been
accredited in your favor,Please Contact:Miss Linda Hills at
(atm822@live.com)With the following,
Full Name:
Delivery Address:
Age:
Occupation:
Sex:
Country:
Direct Phone Number:
Regards,
Senate President
David Mark
Email if you want to track this guy down or not. I will help. Keep me updated on what the college says. – Adam
October 25th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Hi Adam, thanks for aharing that. I have received a reply from the college but it seems they’ve sent me the wrong email as it’s adressed to somebody with a different name to mine.
Here it is:
Dear Stella,
Thank you for alerting us to this problem. We are currently addressing it, and
it will be dealt with as soon as possible.
Call, F0032614, has been updated with this information.
If any of the above description is inaccurate or you can provide any more
information that would help us to resolve this request, please contact the Help
Desk at 610-526-7440 or via e-mail: help@brynmawr.edu.
Thank You,
Lucinda Newbill
Computing Services Help Desk
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610.526.7440
help@brynmawr.edu
The fact that they’ve addressed this to a Stella (which isn’t my name) makes me think they’ve perhaps received a lot of complaints. I’ve emailed back with a link to your comment. Hopefully I’ll get more clarification as to how they are tackling this. I’ll post here as soon as I know more.
Incidently, did you check the address of who sent it? Was it from smillerc@brynmawr.edu?
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