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AWARD NOTIFICAION
14th December 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
14th December 2004
Apparent Sender
LOTERIA NACIONAL
Return Address
loteria nacional <loterianacional@mail.nu>
Subject
AWARD NOTIFICAION
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. ' LOTERIA NACIONAL' very likely do not even exist and are just a fake company name used by the scammers.

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

4. Notice the badly spelt subject - a dead giveaway this is an unprofessional scam.

 

"WE are pleased to inform you of the release of the results of LOTERIA NACIONAL/ INTERNACIONAL PROGRAM held on the 29TH OCTOBER, 2004. SPAIN "...

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 ...

LOTERIA NACIONAL
AVDA DON JOSE N°:35
EDIFICIO 15 CP/23079
MADRID SPAIN.
TEL:+34 677 361 678

FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT
REF FILE N°:GTD/227/0033/22/RLG
SECURITY PIN CODE N°:PKA/243 DATE: 23/11/04

AWARD NOTIFICAION

ATTENTION: BENEFICIARY

WE are pleased to inform you of the release of the results of LOTERIA NACIONAL/ INTERNACIONAL PROGRAM held on the 29TH OCTOBER, 2004. SPAIN

Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number 900-52109543-094 with serial number 3112-66 which drew to the lucky number 2-22-16-70-33-10, which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of € 315,810.00(THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TEN EURO ONLY) in cash credited to file REF Nº: GTD/227/0033/22/RLG. This is from a total cash prize of €5,368,770.00 (FIVE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND,SEVEN HUNDERD AND SEVENTY EURO ONLY) shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund is now deposited with a security company insured with your name. Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, you were lucky to be among the winners that belong to 3rd category of the lottery. We ask that you should keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed or until your money has been remitted into your nominated account. As part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 40,000 companies and 20,000, individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This lottery program takes place once every year and its promoted and sponsored by the FEDRAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE SPAIN.

To begin your lottery claim fund, a photocopy of your identity is required. Please contact your claims agent, MARTIN LOPEZ foreign operations manager of METROPOLIS SEGUROS S.A. TEL: +34 628 240 774. FAX: +34 628 240 775.Email metropoliseguros_sa@zwallet.com
for processing and remittance of your winning fun to designated account of your choice, Remember the dead line for this final notice is 15TH DECEMBER. 2004, After this date, All funds shall be returned to the (MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA) as unclaimed.

Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays, If there will be any change of address or any thing e.t.c. do inform your claims agent. Please remember to quote your reference numbers and security pin code in every correspondence with your agent. Congratulation once again from all members of our staff.


RAMOS PEREZ
Managing Director

 







 
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