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BRITISH LOTTERY APPLICATION FORM
21st December 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
21st December 2004
Apparent Sender
British  Lottery
Return Address
lucy <lucy_calibre@telkom.net>
Subject
BRITISH LOTTERY APPLICATION FORM
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. ' British  Lottery' 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. Uses several references to the REAL UK National Lottery. In fact the National Lottery have nothing to do with these people. They are fraudsters, nothing more.

5. Email includes form attatchment for you to print and fill in

 

"  DEAR  x,     CONGRATULATION YOU ARE THE BRITISH LOTTERY WINNER,YOUR TICKET NUMBER HAS BEEN VERIFIED ALL YOU NEED TO DO NOW IS "...

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  x,

     CONGRATULATION YOU ARE THE BRITISH LOTTERY
WINNER,YOUR
TICKET NUMBER HAS BEEN VERIFIED ALL YOU NEED TO DO NOW IS
FILL OUT
THEATTACHED FORM AND FAX IT TO OUR OFFSHORE PAYMENT CENTER
IN
LONDON AND ALSO CALL THEM AND ASK THEM HOW YOU CAN COLLECT
YOUR
PRIZE. YOU CAN CALL THE SECURITY COMPANY TODAY.

     THE NAME OF THE SECURITY COMPANY IS {TRINITY FINANCE
SECURITIES & FINANCE.T.F } CROYDON, LONDON.

     N.B . PLS. RETURN A COPY OF THE E-MAIL AND FILLED
FORM THAT IS
ATTACHED AFTER YOU HAVE CONTACTED MR MICHEAL COKER FOR
DOCUMENTATION

     TEL:+44-7731-95-8480

     FAX:+44-870-8310-972

     EMAIL:micheal12005@yahoo.co.uk



     SPEAK WITH MR micheal coker.

     REGARDS

 







 
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