Inside Dark Networks

So within the last two days, I have received three new spam/phishing atttempts. What is so bizarre about these? They all pretend to have links either with Ireland or at least use an Irish persons name, here’s two of the most interesting:

Return-Path: <elsa_dalton1@portugalmail.pt>
Received: from galadriel.portugalmail.pt (galadriel.portugalmail.pt [195.245.179.73])
     by XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with ESMTP id k7AETcrP030275
     for XXXX@.xxx.com Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:29:38 +0100
Received: by galadriel.portugalmail.pt (Postfix, from userid 30)
     id 48DE0D4F6B; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:24:42 +0100 (WEST)
Received: from 83.229.62.123 ([83.229.62.123])
     by gold.portugalmail.pt (IMP) with HTTP
     for <elsa_dalton1@portugalmail.pt@localhost>; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:24:42 +0100
Message-ID: <1155216282.44db339a48357@gold3.portugalmail.pt>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:24:42 +0100
From: elsa_dalton1@portugalmail.pt
To: elsa_dalton1@portugalmail.pt
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
X-Originating-IP: 80.89.176.36

 IRISH WEB LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS.
THE OAKROOM LOUNGE.          
21 PICCADILLY IRISH. W1B 0BH.
                                            
                                               IRISH WEB LOTTERY  
IRISH GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED
IRISH WEB LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF
(Registration Z720633X).
The Irish Lottery
47 Meadow Vale,
Sligo , Ireland .
Ref: LSUK/2031/8162/05
Batch: R4/A312-53
                                                        
                                                         WINNING NOTIFICATION
CONGRATULATIONS!
We the Board and Management of the Irish Lottery London, UK
wishes to inform you theresults of the E-mail address ballot
lottery international program held on 1st day of August, 2006.
Your email accounts have been picked as a winner of  £500,000 (
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING). This
result is today released to you and your email address attached
in the A Category. All email addresses were selected through a
computer ballot system in which your email address was selected
as one of the lucky winners.This results is today released to you
and your email address attached  in the A Category. All email
addresses were selected through a computer ballot system in
which your email address was selected as one of the lucky winners.
Your lucky numbers are:   and bonus ball number:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you
keep your winning information confidential until your claims
have been processed and your money remitted to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
                           
 
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide
Web site through computer draw system and extracted
from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place
biannually.
To file for your claim/winning, please contact our Legal
Department through finance director (DR LEONARD WALTER)
via email as leonard_walter_00@yahoo.co.uk for
processing and payment of your claims/winning. Quote your
reference/batch numbers in your correspondence with us and
you are advised not to expose your numbers to avoid
double claiming or voiding of your winning.                 
 Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications quote your reference number and batch numbers
in all correspondence. Should there be any change of addresses
do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Furthermore your winning numbers fall within our IRISH
(London) region and you are required to contact our representative
office in LONDON via Leonard Walter through this email address
cc: leonard.walter00@yahoo.co.uk as soon as you receive this mail
to enable them file your papers for claim/payment of your prize.
ANYONE BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN MAKE HIS/ HER
CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE PARENTS. Once again
congratulations from our members and staff of the IRISH LOTTERY.
Thank you for being one of the winners of our promotional
program.Sincerely Yours
Elsa Dalton
International Relation Officer.
email: leonard.walter00@yahoo.co.uk
cc: leonard_walter_00@yahoo.co.uk
Phone:+44-703-192-8619(office hours monday-fridays 8am-6pm)
Phone::+44-702-407-6741
Fax: +44-8704783062
http://www.irishlotto.net/
BELOW ARE THE SPONSORS OF THIS PROGRAM
                                                                                        
 
Executives:
Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign
Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic
Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International
Credit Department), Mrs. Lonni K Anderson (Legal Representative), Mrs.
Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen Boer
(Chairman), Mr. Chris Moritz(International Relation Officer).  

 Now, that’s a lot of names and information….IT MUST BE TRUE. But, of course, it is not. The IP address emanates from LEBANON, not Ireland.  Why would they use free yahoo email addresses? The Irish Lotto does not give away free money to random email addresses, and if they did, they would give it away in  EUROS. Ireland stopped being ruled by the British in 1922,And here’s another;

 Return-Path: <shirleypatrick3@virgilio.it>
Received: from vsmtp4.tin.it (vsmtp4.tin.it [212.216.176.224])
     by xxx.xxx.xx) with ESMTP id k78Kv7EV004308
     for XXX@XXX.com; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:57:08 +0100
Received: from pswm2.cp.tin.it (192.168.70.14) by vsmtp4.tin.it (7.2.072.1)
     id 44D349AF0041BECD; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:06:28 +0200
Message-ID: <10cef6351c6.shirleypatrick3@virgilio.it>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:04:58 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
From: Elias Maclawrence <shirleypatrick3@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: elias_lawrence1999@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Greetings,
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=”UTF-8″
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Originating-IP: 80.89.176.36

Greetings,

I am Mrs shirley patrick,Public relations officer for THE
EXPORT COMPANY (UK) LIMITED a company based in United Kingdom
corperated on 05/02/2001 and a Private Limited Company. We are
searching for individuals/companies that can actually handle the
affairs of our company in the Canada/America and Europe as we intend to
extend our frontiers to the rest of the world at large.

We want to
employ your services as our agent in your country you could assist us
to seek for companies that are ready to go into exportations of goods
from United Kingdom as we would be willing to compensate your effort in
this regards moreso you would be tagged as our agent in your region for
any payments/supplies to come directly to our company you would have to
handle the affairs of the supplies and the payment modalities.

Furthermore note that you would have to be fully registered with our
firm to ascertain the new position beckoned on you and also our terms
and conditions would be availed to you based on our modalities of
operation so that you would know the importance and significance of
your duty to THE EXPORT COMPANY (UK) LIMITED.

Please if you are
interested in transacting business with us, we will be very glad but
modalities of acceptance would be availed to you in subsequent
correspondences to you . Please contact us for more information. if you
are interested you are advised to contact my superior officer with the
details below: 

THE EXPORT COMPANY (UK) LIMITED
DELTA HOUSE
175-177
BOROUGH HIGH STREET
LONDON
SE1 1XP
contact person:
Mr Elias Maclawrence
Managing Director,
Fax: +448704796066
direct: +447040113994
email:
elias_lawrence1999@yahoo.co.uk

Contact should be made via fax or email
and this should be done within 14 working days otherwise your
application would be delected from our data base.
We hope you enjoy
doing business with us and from all staff of THE EXPORT COMPANY UK)
LIMITED we wish you a happy day.

Kind regards,
Mrs shirley patrick
Public relations officer
for: THE EXPORT COMPANY (UK) LIMITED
Tel:
+447024021608

NOTE
Do not reply to this email if interested reply to
my Mr Elias Maclawrence for immediate attention