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Services › Anti-Spam › Postal Scams


The following postal scams were reported to the Anti-Spam Compliance Unit. Links to scam web pages have been removed and spaces have been added to email addresses to ensure they do not become hyperlinks.


Latest Postal Scams - May 2012


View the El Gordo lottery scam .pdf (583k)*
View the Alex David Crystal Management Limited inheritance scam letter .pdf (152k)*

Archived Postal Scams

2012

2011

2010


Latest Postal Scams - April 2012

View Business Initiative Directions (BID) scam letter (PDF, 383K)*
View Japan Jumbo lottery letter scam (PDF, 212K)*
View Alex David Crystal Management Limited inheritance scam letter (PDF, 200K)*
View scam invoices from Register of International Patents and Trademarks (PDF, 304K)*
View El Gordo / Japan Jumbo letter lottery scam (PDF, 304K)*
View El Gordo / Japan Jumbo letter lottery scam (PDF, 384K)*


March 2012

View inheritance scam letter from Bayon Antoni of Victory Chambers (PDF, 872K)*
View Patent Trademark Register letter invoice scam from Slovakia (PDF, 204K)*
View Consumer's and Merchandise Reward Program Inc lottery letter and cheque (PDF, 88K)*
View letter from Anthony Burton of Investment Services Limited (PDF, 48K)*
View letter from George Ruben of Financial and Investment Solutions Limited (PDF, 72K)*
View letter from Mrs. Jaqueline Laurent Gbagbo (PDF, 120K)*
View letter from Alex David of Crystal Management Limited (PDF, 68K)*


February 2012

View Alex Davidson Crystal Management Limited scam letter (PDF, 360K)*
View Gang Xu scam letter (PDF, 336K)*
View Anthony Burton, Investment Services Limited scam letter (PDF, 332K)*
View Trescant Y Borrie Asociados scam letter (PDF,440K)*


January 2012

View Alan Salomon inheritance scam letter (PDF, 64K)*


December 2011

View Anthony Barton inheritance scam letter (PDF, 52K)*
View George Ruben inheritance scam letter (PDF, 332K)*
View Edward Clifford inheritance scam letter (PDF, 388K)*


November 2011

View Japanese lottery scam letter (PDF, 624K)*
View sweepstakes scam letter (PDF, 80K)*
View FAD lottery scam letter (PDF, 280K)*
View inheritance scam letter (PDF, 76K)*

October 2011

None at this time.



September 2011

View Japan Jumbo Draw scam letter (PDF, 488K)*
View 'Prize Award' scam letter (PDF, 88K)*


August 2011

View inheritance scam letter (PDF, 34K)*


July 2011

View Expo Guide scam letter (PDF, 79K)*
View inheritance scam letter (PDF, 34K)*


June 2011

View Shamim Hussein scam letter (PDF, 53K)*
A scam letter from the ‘International Entry Fund’ advises recipients that they have won $10,000.


May 2011

None at this time.



April 2011

None at this time.



March 2011

View Daniel Ngezi (requesting a confidential business relationship) scam letter (PDF, 35K)*
View European Lottery Guild scam letter PDF, 908K)*


February 2011

The following attachments are scam letters received advising the recipient they have won a substantial amount of money in lotteries they never entered!
View Money Motion VI scam letter (PDF, 1.9M)*
View International Award Payment Center scam letter (PDF, 732K)*


January 2011

None at this time.



December 2010

None at this time.



November 2010

None at this time.



October 2010

None at this time.



September 2010

Anti-Spam Compliance received information regarding a postal scam involving Expo-Guide in Mexico. Scammers are contacting organisations who attended Hamilton Fieldays to say that they have requested insertion in Expo-Guide and request payment of an invoice for USD $1,571.00. The organisers of Fieldays have placed a warning on their website and in the Exhibitor Handbook regarding this and other scams. There are also a number of postings on the Internet regarding this Expo-Guide scam.


August 2010

None at this time.



July 2010

None at this time.



June 2010

None at this time.



May 2010

None at this time.



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