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Lottery Award
2nd October 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
2nd October
Apparent Sender
Mike Anderson
Return Address
mike anderson <mikeanderson@ommail.com>
Subject
Lottery Award
Format
Text
Method

A another lottery variant of the 419 style of scam - uses the fake promise of a lottery win to eventually lure victim and trick them into giving away their bank details, or by requesting payments for 'administration 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. 'Mike Anderson' gives us little real information, under the cover that this was given 'in his first email to you'. This is a subtle pyschological trick to make the victim think they have almost missed out on a huge prize, thus panicing them into acting quickly and not thinking.

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

 

" As reflected in our first mail to you, this lottery program has been on-line for so many years till date. A lot of people have also benefited from it, with winnings ranging from $5,000, $100,000 and more."...

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 ...


Dear Sir/Madam,

As reflected in our first mail to you, this lottery program
has been on-line for so many years till date. A lot of
people have also benefited from it, with winnings ranging
from $5,000, $100,000 and more.

This year's program has been designed to give out lump
sums to fewer individuals and corporate winners. Emails
listed on the Internet were picked at random from different
websites, discussion groups and search engines for the final
selection and winning.

Your email address was picked by our automated computer
ballot system, which has been programmed for this random
selection. This has eventually qualified you for the lump
sum jackpot of ?2,000,000.00 Euros.

You are to provide the below details to us, to enable the
speedy evaluation and processing of your winnings. We advice
that you adhere strictly to these procedures to avoid any
disqualifications and subsequent cancellation.

1. Your full names
2. Your full home / Office address
3. Direct telephone/fax numbers and email

The above detailed information will be absolutely necessary
for the processing of your payment cheques, drafts or wire
transfers through our Clearing House in Europe. Note that
this winning is valid for one month and failure to issue
claims before the expiration of this period will
automatically void your payment.

Remember to quote your ticket number in your future
correspondence. Congratulations and we look forward to
hearing from you soon.

Yours faithfully,

Mr. Mike Anderson.

 
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