A scam email making the rounds has slammed into my inbox with a resounding thud. Polite Canadian that I am, I always respond to emails - especially ones from Her Royal Highness - but I’m in a hurry today, so I’ll just fill in my responses in bold.
QUEEN ELIZABETH FOUNDATION
QEII FOUNDATION,
UNITED KINGDOM,
LONDON.
Concern.
Yes, you bet I’m concerned.
The QEII Foundation, would like to formal notify you that you have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business development. What if I just feel like going out and getting smashed a little more often?
The QEII Foundation established 1977 by the Multi-Million groups and with the objective of human growth, educational, and community development. Grammar lessons will one day be offered too, I hope?
To celebrate the 28th anniversary program which, if you’re paying attention, was nearly three years ago, The QEII Foundation is giving out a yearly donation of £488,210.00 (Four Hundred And Eighty Eight Thousand, Two Hundred and Ten Pound Sterling) to 100 lucky recipients. These specific Donations/Grants will be awarded to 100 lucky international recipients worldwide; in different categories for their personal business development and enhancement of their educational plans.
At least 15% of the awarded funds should be used by you to develop a part of your environment. Development proposals include turning forest into housing, landfill, amusement parks or server farms to ensure shit like this has a safe place to be stored and distributed.
This is a yearly program, which is a measure of universal development strategy, whatever the hell that means. The objective is to make a notable change in the standard of living of people all around the Universe (From America to Europe, Asia to Africa and all around). The Klingons will be miffed you forgot to mention them.
The QEII Foundation has been assured of highest organization standard courtesy of the British Government. It is our belief that we can achieve a great positive change in the general welfare of the universe through this program. OK, now I’m suspicious. The Brits spell it programme.
That is why the foundation is doing everything possible to get all recipients notified of their donation.
Note that your country is not the only country that is benefiting from this donation. Finally being nice to the Germans, are we? Oh right, your family’s German. Sorry.
Beneficiaries have been chosen from countries from all continents. The idea of this donation is that within ten years from now, there will be notable richness among many unusual people around the world. Gee, thanks! I guess…
This will give many people the opportunity to get their lives to a stage where they had always wanted. Kindly note that you will only be chosen to receive the donation once, which means that subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again.
Take time and thought in spending the donation wisely on something that will last you a long time. Guess that rules out iPods? Recipients are only eligible to be awarded this donation once.
You were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of £488,210.00 (Four Hundred And Eighty
Eight Thousand, Two Hundred And Ten Pound Sterling) as charity donations/aid from the QEII Foundation. Is there an echo around here?
Note that all beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 100,000 internet websites or a shop’s cash invoice around your area in which you might have purchased something from). Punctuation trouble is temporary. Please do not adjust your viewer.
You are required to fill the form below and email it to our Executive Secretary below for qualification documentation and processing of your claims. After contacting our office with the requested data, you will be given your donation
pin number, which you will use in collecting the funds. I’ve always wanted to tell you how much I love the way you grasp your sceptre at the opening of Parliament, my Sovereign.
All information is strictly confidential and will only be used for the purpose to which it is been requested. Vacuuming my bank account, perhaps?
Please note that these donations/Grants are strictly administered under delegated powers from the British Government. This means that your qualification number will be reffled to know the organization that will handle your payment. That’s a relief. Adequate reffling is the first thing I check for when verifying an offer’s legitimacy.
You are to keep this whole information confidential until you have been able to collect your donation, as there have been many cases of double and unqualified claim, due to beneficiaries informing third parties about his/her donation. Lips are sealed, Queenie babe.
On behalf of the Board kindly, accept our warmest congratulations.
Regards.
Queen Elizabeth II, By the grace of Google, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith in Spam.
(Foundation officer).
© 2007 QEII Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
If they’re raising money for her electrolysis, for the love of God just give it to them!
Electrolysis? God Shave the Queen!
I hate stuff like this exspecially when you are a struggling college student!!!!!
I know!!! so do I.
So sorry, i’m from Germany and got this strange spam email. At first i thought wow, her majesty has choosed me for what? And then i realised that they wanted money… it’s really disgusting. After all these people think they can fool their fellow citizens with this kind of crap….
no way…
I reported them to the german Staatsanwaltschaft so they will have an nice time after the german judicative is after them. Better luck next time suxxors
Oh, before i forget: “God shave the Queen.” *g*
Today FEB. 29 08 I HAVE AN EMAIL ON MY COMPUTOR THAT WANT TO IF KNOW I GOT MY PARCEL. i REPLYED SAYING NO. I AHVE BEEN SCAMMED ONCE THIS WEEK ALREADY.
Dude, you’ll only be scammed if you pay attention to these idiots. Do yourself a favour and discover the delete key!
hello.
i am so intersting of you i love you and want to meet you hi i no so much aboiut prince philip and you and your family and prince philip and alot about your childrens please reply back and add me on msn and i am going to meet you when i am 12.bye
please answere from the queen and can i visit
from adeel fron birmingham.
adeel: please to make of your knowingness and acquaintance in matters of meeting in queen style this my reply back is so sorry no time birmingham far away call back sometime maybe
stop sending this crap thanx
Mr. Anon - you need to read the article, mkay? It’s a joke. Like, it makes funny of spam already? Thanks for your kind attention.
Unfortunately I received it too… I am a person developing a disability and paying off a significant college bill. How wonderful it would have been if it were true. They offered me 500,000 US dollars.
Leah,
I really hope you didn’t get in contact with them at all. I might be making fun out of this, but these people are at root nothing but criminals, and deserve to be treated as such.
I wish you the best of luck and courage in the face of your disability and overcoming the financial burden of student debt. It’s a long-term investment though, and nobody can take it away or sell it on.
Got that piece of crap too! They (Africa and Nigeria) should get their internet access cut off!
Can’t WE …the rest of planet earth get together to shut these as*hol*s down forever????
We should get a coalition going to pulverize the crap out of them! I win about 2 to 5 million british sterling pounds a week!! They just keep sending and sending and sending their crap into my mail!
I got caught at first and now they have allot of my personal information which really gets me burning for revenge! I’d like to personally go over there and collect the millions they’ve all promised me! I have another plan but disclosing it could incriminate me sooo……!
Anyway, I think we should get a bunch of good hackers together and screw the crap out of the Nigerian and African ISP servers and all their online systems to wreck them forever. I would also suggest that our countries put up a filter to their IP addresses. We should have a button to press to activate recieving any kind of transmission from those countries.
Yahoo and hotmail as well as msn should also setup special filters to end this crap!
Rick
i got hte same e-mail today..out of work and tryin to raise a 13 yr old sure does sound nice and so sad that those creeps have to tarnish the queens name like that….
I can not tell you of how many scams I have received, by what i suspect is the same group, the latest is the fact that as an unknown single mother who is struggling to raise 4 year old twins, I have won a huge amount of money in the form of US dollars, amusing as I live in Britain that the Queen would support the dollar rather than the currency bearing her own face. And i must have inspired somebody to be awarded such a gift…however thay don’t even know my name and age, or address and telephone number. Just like the student who posted his comment I feel for second an answer to my prayers but then reality hits, it is a shame these scammers have no conscience.
i know a wonderful hacker here in the US maby he can come up with something as that is a real good ideal
I have received and ignored such crap before. Three years ago, I saved a friend who was about to lose $2,500. The hackers wanted him to send it to them by Western Union, in consideration of getting 40% of the $16 million some guy had left in African Development Bank, following “a plane crash”. The $2,500 was supposed to be “handling fees”. Dear reader, there is nothing for nothing; charity cannot be on the e-mail. If you have e-mail, you are likely able to put food on your table, while those who need the charity have no e-mail address!! If you have a donation, send it to known charities not these thieves. These spammers just want to know your bank account, and may use it for unlawful purposes, including stealing whatever is on it. I ADMIT - FIND THE DELETE KEY ON YOUR COMPUTER NOW, AND PRESS IT.
They must be getting cheap. The one I received today was for a mere 400,000 Pounds.
Received this on work email, a not for profit youth organisation. Thought it sounded too good to be true. Usual sign of a scam.
Glad I decided to check it out first. Even with bad English and grammar.
Thanks for the heads up.
Cheers from Brisbane, Australia.
HELLO.
I’M GOING TO SEND THIS MAIL A HAVE AND,MAYBE YOU CAN DOIT SOMETHING BETTER THAN ME, I DON’T LIKE THIS GAME. TRY TO GET THE RESPONSIBLE TO THIS FRAUD.
(commenter follows with a copy of the spam email which I had a little fun here playing around with.)
Sorry OliverMax, I can’t do much about this. Thanks for dropping by anyway.
This is the email I received this morning:
Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation
Woodlands RoadLeatherhead
Court Leatherhead
Surrey KT22 0BN.
Attn: Beneficary
Congratulations The Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation And has chosen you
by the board of trusteesas one of the final recipients of a Cash
Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business development.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary 2008 program, We are giving out a
yearly donation of 500,000.00 Pounds to 40lucky recipients,as
charitydonations/aid from the Vittorio Foundation, ECOWAS, EU and the Africa UNO
in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. which is part of
our promotion To file for your claim you are to fillout below
information and send it to the Payment Remitance Office Via their email contact
address:BATCH NO: (N-222-6747,E-900-56)
Full Name:…………………………..
Residential Address:……………..
Occupation:………………………….
Country:………………………………
Telephone:…………………………..
Fax:…………………………………..
Number:……………………………..
Sex:……………………………………
Age:…………………………………..
Next of Kin:…………………………
Winning Batch No:……………….
You are to contact your pay offce in west african Nigeria
(Payment Remitance Contact)
Mr .Scott Phill
Tell:+234-705-718-581-5
E-Mail: queenelizabeth_donation@live.com
What made me smile was the last last line, You are to contact you pay office in west african Nigeria.
Why would an English Charity use Nigeria for any payouts coming from the UK if this was for real?
Anything like this which comes to your email box, delete it cos it’s a scam, and besides they have a lot of information about you by the time you realise it’s a scam. DON’T GIVE YOUR DETAILS TO THESE SCAMMERS!
Am fed upof thieves .I pray God helps this world .Why do all that to Gods people.OH SORRY///////////////////////
I received the same email…First,I thought I am dreaming , coz this email came at the same time when I was looking for an affordable school to continue my study! I thought God heared my prayers and gave me a super gift!
so stupied those people!!! I am so disappointed
Today I received this same piece of crap from these scamsters. The moot point after reading all the above comments is that, is there no way to bring these crooks to book. So many gullible people have and will fall prey to these criminals. Can cyber police any where in the world not do something about this, so that it proves a deterrent to current and future fraudsters.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is…
I had to read all these comments to realize that I am not alone… feeling stupid when I read this incredible offer. True or not I was not so sure any more. But lately this is not the same mail I receive with such a big amount of money, I also won to the UK Lottery, see the mail below :
You have won UK National Lottery 2008 Promo of 4,000.000.00 (Four MillionPounds Sterling). For claims contact Mrs. Lizzy James.E-mail: mrslizzyjames@jmail.co.za
Which I never answer …
ANd also this one :
You have won UK National Lottery 2008 Promo of 4,000.000.00 (Four MillionPounds Sterling). For claims contact Mrs. Lizzy James.E-mail: mrslizzyjames@jmail.co.za
Allow yourself to dream a minute when you get these mails,but better, go back to work and make yourself rich and happy with the gift you get from God.
All this is pity as I live in a 3rd world country and I have some ideas to help these people (indonesia)
sad thing is if you look up the “queen elizabeth foundation”…it’s a charity for disabled people. these folks are truly running out of bs scam ideas! if you are gonna come up with an idea make sure you can’t google it to an actual link that states something different from your ridiculous email.
lmao! I hope they all get what’s coming to them in the end!!
to all scammers: GO GET A DAMN JOB LIKE THE REST OF US!!!!
Looks like they figure they already have a job. It’s now our job to make sure they have a salary of zero.
Got 4 emails this morning all saying the same thing. I was going to delete all of them and decided to read one of them to see what it was. I read the message and thought to myself why would a foundation be giving away money, especially if they have no prior information about me. So i deleted the email immediately. After that I was thinking what if it was true and decided to look up the foundation myself and this is when i found this page. People are ignorant and need to get a life if they have time to send this many emails.
HIGHLY RESPECTABLE THE QUEEN,
THIS IS VERYGOOD.I APPRICIATE UR FOUNDATION.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT HOW CAN GET THE
ADVANTAGE REALLY NEEDY PERSON.`FOR EDUCATION,
FOR HANDICAPED,FOR HUMANITY,FOR MANKIND,FOR ORPHANS,`
IF A STUDENT LIVES IN A SMALL VILLAGE OF INDIA SEEK
THE HELP THEN IS IT POSSIBLE HE GET ADVANTAGE IF YES
THEN WHAT IS THE PROCESS OF QUERRY IF NO THEN THIS
FOUNDATION ONLY BELONG TO THE ENGLAND`S PEOPLE.
NOW I INVITE ALL OF U ALWAYS COMMETED YOURSELF FOR
SERVICE OF HUMANITY BY ETHICALLY,MORALLY AND FINANCIAL.
TRUTH IS ALWAYS TRANSPARENT.
PLEASE…..ANSWER ME.
S.T.HASAN,INDIA
I think we’ll have to file that one under “people unclear on the concept.”
i need a help to continue my educaton ta the university of London, a distance education programme.
i would be much pleased if you can forward this mail to the queen for financial help
my Rwf NO. at the school is 060339920 .
Am a Ghanaian
thanks.
And another. It’s a scam! I’ve done my best to make a joke of it. Read it again.
so it’s not genuine then! lol well for someone that has had to work for every penny I knew it was spam when i got it i didn’t even dream it would be real although the foundation at least exists. I have at least 3 emails a month all trying to get me details as if I can afford to lose money, nooooo not my hard earned cash! and if it’s my passport they are after. I need it. xxxx.
one more note i enjoyed reading all the above i had a good laugh now i am late for the GYM lol
Hey, glad you liked it Linda. Thanks for leaving a note.
that image is offencive and treason. please have it removed
I will submit your request to the proper authority and get back to you.
I’m Mexican,I recived it, I thought: Her Royal Higness choose me to help people.¡Great!For many years I helped poor people and disabled people. My family in law in Spain help people too in Africa,Kenia, Zaire,etc. I thank: may be it´s true. It’s disgusting. It is a FRAUD and these people CRIMINALS. I’ll report to the Queen’s Elizabeth Foundation and Mexican Legal Autorities, like INTERPOL in Cybernetics Crimes. I like invite all the victims in the world to do the same in your Countries and in the REAL Queen’s Elizabeth Foundation.