The Lottery Scam in three parts

With this e-mail there are two further follow up e-mails which show you one of the ways these people explain why you have to make a payment to them.

BRITISH LOTTERY
The Lottery Company
P.O Box 789
Harrogate HG1 2YR
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Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
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Our Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#909) of the UK BRITISH NATIONAL PROGRAMME, online Sweepstakes international program held on the 17th Jan 2007.Your e-mail addressattached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number5368/02 drew the lucky (lotto)numbers:04-12-14-20-46-49-{24}.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 bodie that are listed online.You have just won the sum of £500,000 (FIVE HUNDRED HOUSAND,POUNDS STERLING ) from BRITISH LOTTERY on our 2007 new year charity bonanza.

We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a onthly lottery. Failure to claim your win will result into the reversion of the fund to our following month.

You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims Department below .

Contact Person: Barr.Michael Lambert
Alpha Consultants Lawfirm & Schmidtz Associates
(Solicitors Advocates & Arbitrators)

email:alphaconsultants_uklottery@yahoo.co.uk

VERIFICATION FORM

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________
3.SEX:__________
4.AGE:__________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:_______________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________________________
9.LOTTO NUMBER:____________________ B.DRAW
NUMBER:______________
10.TICKET NUMBER:___________________
11.SERIAL NUMBER:__________________
12.AMOUNT WON:______________________
13.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL____________
14. COUNTRY________________________________

NOTE: CHOOSE AN OPTION OF REMITTING YOUR WINNINGS TO YOU.

BANK TO BANK TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER.[]
HAND TO HAND DELIVERY.[]
SWIFT DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY OF CASHIER CHEQUE.[]

CLAIMANT SIGNATORY DECLARATION
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I ...HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE NEVER RECEIVED ANY FORM OF SETTLEMENT FROM THE BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY NOR ANY MEMBER OF MY FAMILY. I, THEREFORE, DECLARE THAT THE UK. NATIONAL PROMO ACTS ON MY BEHALF IN THE PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF MY PRIZE AS INSTRUCTED BY ME.

Congratulations once again.

Regards,
Mrs Rose Wood,
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Part Two - The first reply

Note how they already tell you that a deduction of the fees from the prize money is not possible. The payment has to be sent through Western Union. That way there is no way you can get your money back once it has been picked up at the other end.

Hello ,

Compliments of the day to you.

I WILL LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT PAYMENT OF YOUR C.O.T CODE FEE SHOULD BE MADE VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER AS IT IS OUR PREFARED MEANS OF RECEIVING PAYMENT, AS IT IS LESS CUBERSOME AND FASTER TO OUR CASH OFFICER.

DETAILS OF HOW TO PAY C.O.T CODE FEE.

NAME: MR. NATHAN OBY
ADDRESS: VICTORIA SW1V 4DP
LONDON,ENGLAND.

HERE ARE THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO SEND TO US AFTER YOU HAVE MAKE THE PAYMENT FROM WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.

NAME OF SENDER
ADDRESS OF SENDER
AMOUNT SENT
MONEY TRANSFER CONTROL NUMBER (M.T.C.N)

OUR REGULATION DO NOT MAKE ROOM FOR DEDUCTION.YOUR PRIZE HAVE BEEN INSURED TO THE REAL VALUE AND NO DEDUCTION CAN BE DONE.

ALL PAYMENTS ARE DULY GUARANTEED AND WE ARE POISED TO ENSURE CUSTOMERS SATISFACTION.

FOR YOUR OWN INTEREST PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS ACCORDINGLY AND MAKE SURE THERE IS NO MISTAKE OR OMISSION IN THE DETAILS WHEN MAKING THE PAYMENT.

COPIES OF TRANSFER RECEIPT SHOULD BE SENT TO ME VIA EMAIL/FAX AS ATTACHMENT FOR RECORDS AND REFERNCE PURPOSE.

NOTE THAT THE FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFERED AFTER CONFIRMATION OF YOUR C.O.T CODE FEE.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Kindest Regards,
MR. LOUIS MIKE
TEL : +44 704 011 5514
FAX : +44 709 288 5905

Part Three - the second reply

At this point they tell you what you have to pay. What a nice touch. They offer you three payment options.

Hello ,

Compliments of the day to you.
You have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Dept. at the headquarters of the National Lottery.

All your winning documents which includes your certificate and a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the european commission,stating that the money was obtained legally through the National Lotto and will be sent to you as soon as you meet with any of the option selected.

You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are Two options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the two.

The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1:
Courier your winner cheque to you via any of this channels listed below:

First class delivery:48 hours
(cost of delivery)
postage: 30.00 pounds
Insurance 300.00 pounds
Tax: 60.00 pounds
Total 410.00 pounds

Premuim class delivery:72 hours
( cost of delivery)
postage: 25.00 pounds
Insurance 300.00 pounds
Tax: 60.00 pounds
Total 385.00 pounds

Normal class delivery: in 116 hours
(cost of delivery)
Postage: 20.00 pounds
Insurance 290.00 pounds
Tax: 60.00 pounds
Total 370.00 pounds

Option 2:
The said amount won will be wired to your bank account via (Standard Alliance Bank Plc).

Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transferring bank, will be (i.e £1,000) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you.

Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you. Moreover, you are reqiured to send payment charges via western union money transfer, of what ever option you have chosen to our dispatch agent, who is in charge of sending you your cheque and winning documents.
Also,you are required to send to us as soon as possible,these few information below:
(1.)The delivery option which you've choosen.
(2.)Your bank details(if you have chosen option 2, bank transfer.)
(3.)Attach a scanned copy of either your driver's licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document and send to us for identification purposes.
Having done this, you would be given proper guidelines on how to go about sending the payment.

Congratulations.
Kindest Regards,
MR LOUIS MIKE
TEL : +44 704 011 5514
FAX : +44 709 288 5905
FAX : +44 203 070 0538