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YOU HAVE WON

9th November 2004

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

Report Summary
Date Reported
9th November
Apparent Sender
Smartball Lottery, UK
Return Address
coo_rdinator < coo_rdinator@smartball-lottery.zzn.com >
Subject
YOU HAVE WON
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. Smartball Lottery, UK almost certainly do not exist, and did you actually enter this lottery? An almost universal rule is that if you haven't entered a competition, you haven't won it! And even if you have the prize is likely is likely to be a fraction of that promised.

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

4. Smartball Lottery, UK are responsible for a massive ammount of these scams at the moment. If you se one beware!

 

"Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the HIGH STAKES DRAWS of SMARTBALL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS SECOND CATEGORY,
which is part of our promotional draws."
...

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 ...


FROM: THE MANAGER,

LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

SMARTBALL LOTTERY, UK.



DEAR WINNER,



        WINNER OF HIGH STAKES DRAWS



Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the

results of the HIGH STAKES DRAWS of SMARTBALL LOTTERY

UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you

have

emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS SECOND

CATEGORY,

which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were

held on

15th SEPTEMBER 2004 and results are being officially

announced today. Participants were selected through a

computer

ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses

of

individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,

Australia,

Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our

International

Promotions Program.



You/Your company, attached to ticket number

55-9-478, with serial number 52-67 drew the winning

numbers 05 10 17 19 29 42 (21) and consequently won in

the second Category.



You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of

4,500,000.00 (four million, five hundred thousand

pounds), which is the winning payout for Category

B winners. This is from the total prize money of

13.5 million POUNDS shared among the 3 winners in this

category.



CONGRATULATIONS!



Your fund is now deposited with our International

Funds Transfer agents HERIITAGE FINANCE SECURITY and

has been insured in your name. In your best interest

and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any

kind, we request that you keep the entire details of

your award strictly from public notice until the

process of transferring your claims has been

completed, and your funds remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double

claiming or unscrupulous acts by

participants/nonparticipants of this program.



We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year

premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of

winning up to US$500 million that will be shared

amongst 10 winners worldwide; we hope that with a part

of your prize you will participate.



Please contact your claims agent immediately for due

processing and remittance of your prize money to a

bank account of your choice:



MR Paul Graham

FINANCE MANAGER,

HERITAGE FINANCE SECURITY

Plains Heritage Center HOUSE

642 HIGH ROAD

LEYTONSTONE

LONDON , GREATER LONDON E113AA,

LONDON UK.

TELL/FAX: +44-20-8181-6122

MOBILE: +8821646655614

EMAIL:paul_graham@heritagefinancesecurity.net



You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or

fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to

do so may warrant immediate disqualification.



NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find

below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to

quote these numbers in every one of your

correspondence with your claims agent.



REFERENCE NUMBER:  REF: SMBUK/7899/8604/04HFS

BATCH NUMBER: G5/B212-8



Congratulations once again from all our staff and

thank you for being part of our promotions program.



Sincerely,



THE COORDINATOR,

SMARTBALL LOTTERY UK

133 Crosbie Rd

PO Box 9600

St John's NF A1A 3C1. uk.

tel / fax : + 44 {0} 7092841762.



N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the

winners will result to disqualification. Please do not

reply to this mail. Contact your transfer agent

immediately.








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