Dave Dawes Million Pound Giveaway

[Mtnmul]

I received this e-mail and it seemed too good to be true. I just wanted to verify my instincts and expose it if need be. What do you all think?
Thanks

Here it is:

Grant Donation!!!

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FROM:
Dave & Angela Dawes

TO:
Recipients

Message flagged Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:00 AMMessage body
My wife and I won one of Britain's biggest lottery of £101 Million British Pounds and we have decided to donate to the less privileged and charity projects all over the world, and make at least 20 people millionaires.

To verify,please see our interview by visiting the web page below.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...nd-family.html

Your email address was among the emails which was submitted to us by the google inc. as a web user, to be one of our beneficiaries,kindly send us the below details so that we can issue a valid cheque for £1,500,000.00 pounds in your name or direct our bank to effect the transfer of the funds.
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*Full Name:
*Telephone Number:
*Age:
*Country:
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Send your response to DaveAngelaDawes@gmx.com

Best Regards,
Dave & Angela Dawes

[mysteryquest]

Well its a scam of course. Any email you receive from someone you don't know telling you you have money coming to you is a scam! Especially when they immediately start asking for your personal information. I mean, you'd think, if you were supposedly getting money, they'd at least know your name???? Oh no wait, they are just going to give it to a random person!

[George Dixon]

I wish that all scams were as easy to identify as this one!

[bawelna]

Originally Posted by Mtnmul

I received this e-mail and it seemed too good to be true. I just wanted to verify my instincts and expose it if need be. What do you all think?

I think that you did not read the text from the link that was provided http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...nd-family.html , where it clearly states:

(...)they have decided to share their luck with up to 20 close friends and family, giving each a million pounds.

"It's an excessive amount of money, but we intend to look after our family and friends and do the best we can," said Angela, who has a son from a previous marriage.

“We have drawn up a list of 15 to 20 people that we are going to make millionaires,” added Dave who has been married twice before and has two sons.

Are you their close friend or family? If yes, wouldn't they know your name to contact you directly?

Send your response to DaveAngelaDawes@gmx.com <= SCAMMERS

No, forward your email directly to the author of the newspapers post, Richard Alleyne, to warn others about this SCAM from NIGERIAN SCUMBAGS!

Also, kindly copy and paste here the email address that originated this SCAM!

[bawelna]

Originally Posted by George Dixon

I wish that all scams were as easy to identify as this one!

received this recently was apparently sent from lotto winner david dawes
can you help me find out if its real

Dear Friend,

This is a life time opportunity and 100% legitimate. My fiance and I have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see. You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members and friends, we decided to donate £1 million pound each to other unknown 5 individuals around the world in need, the local fire department, the Red Cross, and some other organizations in Asia, Europe and Africa. The bulk of the funds deposited with Halifax, the payout bank of this donation scheme. We have kept some of the entire lottery sum to ourselves for the raining day.

To speed up the disbursement process of the funds £1 Million Pound [$1.56 million] which have been donated solely to you, please send us your contact address and a valid identification of your self so that we can forward your details over to the payout bank immediately. We are hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your country. You are advise to change your password to your email for security reasons, to avoid double claims.

Thank you for accepting our offer, we are indeed grateful.
We anticipate your earliest response.

Best of luck,
Dave Dawes.
Tel: +44-702-408-6681

[Dodobird]

Unregistered,

ANY offer of money coming by email from someone you don't personally know is a SCAM. ALL of them without a single exception.

[AKSurvivor]

This is coming from several sources- mine was identified as Carolyn Johnson@Fortis Institute.com and reply was update10@live.com. No initial info was requested but I suspect a followup for the requested information. The names change but the game is the same.

I just recieved the same email only worded slightly differently. It is obviously a scam. These people claim to be from Britain, yet the email is written in broken english.

[SweetBriar]

Just to add to the discussion, I received the following email, purporting to come from Dave and Angela Dawes:

This is a personal email directed to you. I am Dave Dawes,I and my <prefiance won a Jackpot Lottery of 101 million pounds ($156 million) in October,My fiance and I have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see. You see after taken care of the needs of our immediate family members and friends,and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of 1 million pounds ($1.56 million) to you as part of our own charity project to improve the lot of 5 unknown lucky individuals all over the world plus 15 close friends and family. If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get back to us with your NAME,ADDRESS and CONTACT NUMBER so that we can send your details to the payout courier. You can verify this by visiting the web pages below. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...nd-family.html We anticipate your earliest response. Best of luck,Dave Dawes.Email: davedawes122@live.com

The email address, for other's information, is: ventas_omi@fiorellarepre.com.pe

Only just joined Fraudwatchers - is there anything else I should do with this scam to help protect others/stop these buggers?

Cheers

Briar

[Dodobird]

Originally Posted by SweetBriar

Only just joined Fraudwatchers - is there anything else I should do with this scam to help protect others/stop these buggers?

Cheers

Briar

Hello SweetBriar,

You just have by posting the information so that it may be found when searched on Google.

Thanks, Dodobird - newbie, thought I'd just check!

Cheers

Briar

[Dodobird]

Newbie is good SweetBriar, it means you're here and learning about the scams, which should allow you to avoid them. Even better is if you talk about them with those around you, as this will only mean more people who will be aware. It's the only effective way to avoid being scammed.

[deanovw]

I just got this one:

This is a personal email directed to you. I am Dave Dawes, my fiancee and I won a Jackpot Lottery of 101 million pounds ($156 million) in October, and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of 1 million pounds ($1.56 million) to you as part of our own charity project to improve the lot of 5 unknown lucky individuals all over the world plus 15 close friends and family. If you have received this email then you are one of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get back to us so that we can send your details to the delivery courier company.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...nd-family.html

Best of luck,

Dave Dawes.
Email: davedawes@yahoo.cn

From: dave@netins.net
Subject:
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 19:18:55 +0200



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I and my Fiancee, Angie want to discuss an important issue with you .We write to know if this is your valid email?


The reply email address for this scum is davenangiedawes2@sify.com

dave.angela.2@gmx.com is the email address I got my email from

Here is another email address....daveangeladawes001@rogers.com......

Thanks.

[Batty]

I received the following email today from if72800@zhot.net supposedly from Dave Dawes. I figured it was a scam so I used Google to search the name and found that I was right from this site (Fraudwatchers). I usually just delete and block these types of emails and will do so with this one right after posting this. I never believe emails I receive claiming I have won something, and this time is no exception, but decided to check it out.



This is a personal email directed to you.
I am Dave Dawes, I and my fiance won a Jackpot Lottery of 101 million
Pounds ($156 million), and have voluntarily decided to donate the sum of 1
Million pounds ($1.56 million)to you as part of our own charity project to
Improve the lot of 15 unknown lucky individuals all over the world plus 15
Close friends and family. If you have received this email then you are one
Of the lucky recipients and all you have to do is get back with us so that
We can send your details to the payout bank. You can verify this by
Visiting the web pages below.

http://news.sky.com/story/890584

Best of luck,
Dave Dawes.
Email:dawes101@yahoo.cn

Source e-dress is "<cso@vcom.net.vn>". Also show reply address as "(ddcharityfoundation@live.com)". As I am not a family member, either this is the same scam or I've been adopted and don't know it! Will assume the prior. Funny thing of note, if this is a current mailing, Dave is all wrong on the US$ to UK pound exchange rate. Shame on him.

[cppgenius]

Originally Posted by George Dixon

I wish that all scams were as easy to identify as this one!

I wholeheartedly agree.

It is sometimes hard to believe that people still fall for obvious scams like this one. It has taken up various forms over time, but the scammers keep discrediting themselves by quoting these news articles.

Last month we also published a similar example on our site. It is really amazing to see how long these 419 scammers have been using this scam 'template'.