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CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
6th January 2005

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk

Report Summary
Date Reported
6th January 2005
Apparent Sender
The National Lottery
Return Address
NATIONAL LOTTERY <nationallottery@caths.co.uk>
Subject
CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Format
TEXT
Method

Email promises (fake) lottery winnings. Once you reply you are asked for a series of small administration fees to cover various costs.

Bogus Web Content?
No
URL of web content

N/A

RISK LEVEL
MEDIUM
WARNINGS

1. A lottery variant of the 419 style of scam. Correspondance will simply result in requests for 'administration fees' to cover various costs, but you'll never actually get any money back!

2. ' The National Lottery' very likely do not even exist and are just a fake company name used by the scammers. In fact the scammers are riding on the back of the real UK National Lottery, but ARE NOT RELATED!

3. Notice that the sender uses a free, web based email address. A real company would almost certainly use their own.

 

"  We happily announce to you the draw (#47) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY(Euro million), online Sweepstakes International program held on Friday DECEMBE 31st, 2004."...

If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

 

The Spoof Email ...

SUBJECT: FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION/ PROCESSING ADVICE:

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

FINAL WINNING NOTIFICATION/ PROCESSING ADVICE:

We happily announce to you the draw (#47) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY(Euro million), online Sweepstakes International program held on
Friday DECEMBE 31st, 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:
07-08-24-25-47 (08-09), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category i.e. Match 2 and 1 star plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim
a total sum of  £210,224.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND,TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR
POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of  £635,233.70 shared amongst the Nine
(9) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 2 and 1 star plus bonus. All participants
for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion
takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within
our European booklet representative office in Europe (Spain) as indicated in your
play coupon.

In view of this, you have therefore been approved to claim a total sum
of  £210,224.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND, TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR POUNDS STERLING) which would be released to you by any of our foreign payment

offices in Europe. Your money is now insured on your name under insurance bond policy. Our European (Spain) agent will immediately commence the process

to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in
whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your claim,
please contact our foreign fiduciary agent: Who is also your personal agent that submitted and played this game for you.You are therefore, advised to contact
him immediately.

MR DAVID WILLIAMS
Email: intertrustfinance@marketweighton.com
Phone:+34 628 458 093
Fax  :+34 628 533 618

Good luck and Congratulations once more from me and members of staff of the
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Darren Harvey.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is AUTOMATICALY DISQUALIFIED and Any
BREACH of CONFIDENTIALITY on the part of the WINNERS will result to
disqualification.

 







 
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