Postcode Lottery scam e-mail - HTML or not HTML?

It looks as though the person who sent this one does not have any experience with HTML. He has obviously just copied an HTML e-mail and posted it as a text e-mail. Not very professional at all.

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Subject: POSTCODE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL (02-Apr-2006 1:45)
From: infol2006hlancpo@walla.com
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

Postcode Lottery INT'L
Patenlaan 23, 2288ee Rijwijk
Den Haag, the Netherlands.
(Lotto affiliate with Subscriber Agents).
From: Joan Van Henk(Lottery Co-ordinator)
www.postcodeloterij.nl

<FONT face=Courier></FONT>ATTN:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Postcode Lottery.NL Winners International programs held on the 25th March, 2006. Your e-mail add<STRIKE>r</STRIKE>ess attached to ticket #: 0175655522 with prize #: 31765549 NL drew €1,000,000.00 which was first in the first class of the draws. You are to receive €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros). Because of mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask that you keep you<STRIKE>r</STRIKE> winning information confidential until your money (€1,000,0<FONT face="MS Sans Serif">0</FONT>0.00) has been fully remitted to you by our accredited pay-point bank. This measure must be adhere to,in order to avoid loss of your cash prize - winners of our cash prizes are advised to adhere to these instructions to forestall the abuse of this program by other participants. It is important to note that this draws were conducted formally, and winners are selected through an<EM> in</EM>ternet ballot system from 50,000 indi<SPAN>vidual and companies e-mail addresses - the draws are con</SPAN>ducted around the world through our internet based ballot system. The promotion is sponsored and promoted Postcode Lottery.NL . We congratulate you once again. We hope you will use part of it in our next draws; the jac<I>k</I>pot winning is €85million. Remember,all winnings must be claimed not later than 20days from today.After this date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited and included in the next sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote personal and winning numbers in all corres<FONT face=Tahoma>p</FONT>ondence with us. Congratulations once again from all members of Postcode Lottery-NL.Thank you for being part of our promot<SPAN>ional program.

For immediate release of your cash prize to you, please kindly contact our </SPAN>Paying Bank
address written below.

Send them the following informations:

(i) Your name,
(ii) Contact telephone and fax nu<STRONG>mb</STRONG>ers
(iii) Contact Address
(iv) Your winning numbers
(v) Quote amount won.
(vi) Notification date.

Contact person: Mr Patrick Rowley
E-mail: <S> </S>leedb1@netscape.net
Tel: 00 31 633 701 450

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
Joan Van Henk(Lottery Co-ordinator)

Tags: Postcode Lottery, Lottery scam, 419 scam, Internet fraud

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