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WINNING NOTIFICATION

10th November 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
10th November
Apparent Sender
The National Lottery
Return Address
NATIONALUK LOTTO < nationaluk_lotto1@walla.com >
Subject
WINNING NOTIFICATION
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. The National Lottery are actually a real UK organisation, but this is not them! The scammers in this case are using the name of a real group!

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

 

" WINNING NOTIFICATION: We happily announce to you the draw (#890) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBER,2004. Your e-mail address attached to ti9cket number: "...

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 ...

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
                WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#890) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBER,2004. Your e-mail
address attached to ti9cket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 06-08-21-25-43-47(bonus no.16), which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £67,292  (sixty seven thousand, two hundred and ninty two pounds
sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of £1,816,884   shared amongst the twenty seven(27) lucky winnersin this category i.e Match 5 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 as indicated in your play coupon. In view of
this, your £67,292  (sixty seven thousand, two hundred and ninty two pounds sterling)  would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
   Our European 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 unwarran ted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary
agent:
MRS JULIAN FREETOWN
Email: julian_freetown@yahoo.com

Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd.
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program
NATIONAL LOTTERY.








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