A completely normal lottery scam e-mail

No, there is nothing unusual about this one.

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Subject: TELSTRA NOTIFICATION!!! (16-Sep-2005 9:36)
From: TELSTRANOTIFICAT@YAHOO.COM
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

TELSTRA LOTTO NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOGRAMS
RHINHAVEN 465B, 4005DG
EINDOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS.
REF.NUMBER: TLIN/634789/53677
BATCH NO: 45556/BGUA

LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Telstra Lotto Netherlands International Lottery programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Internet. No tickets were sold. Your email address was attached to ticket number 787-8766532210, drew the lucky numbers 5-33-12-06-78-04,batch number 3321/MN and consequently won the lottery in category A.

You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 750,000.00 Euro (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro) in credited to file lottery Ref number TLIN/634789/53677. This is from total prize money of 35,000,000.00 Euro shared among the international winners in categories C with serial number: KD/PBG/33-A5567/LP.All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn form 15,000 company email addresses and 65,000,000 individual email addresses from Australia, Africa, New Zealand, Europe, SOUTH & North America and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your winning prize is now in the custody of a financial company insured in your File Reference number. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this lottery winning strictly from public notice until your Claims has been processed and your winning is remitted to you. This is part of our security policy to avoid double claims or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. Our group of philanthropist headed by the Netherlands government and the Telstra International Australia promoted this lottery program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our next stakes 10,000,000.00 Euro International Lottery.

To file for your claim, please contact our financial agent:

MR JASON PETERSON.
ERASMUS FINANCE BV
RHINHAVEN 37J, 7825MN
EINDOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS.
Tel: 0031-633-786-412
Email: contacclaimagent@netscape.net
Fax: 0031-84-756-8285

Remember that all winning prize must be claimed not later than 16TH OCTOBER 2005. After this date, all lottery-winning prize that are not claimed will be returned as unclaimed.

Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to always quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your financial/claims agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, do inform your financial/claim agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotion.

Candidates under the age of 18 where automatically disqualified.

Yours sincerely,
MRS.VERONICA HOLF.
(GAMES/LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
Telstra Lotto Netherlands International

NB.
Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.