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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

British Lottery back again

The British or UK lottery is one of the most popular fronts that african crooks use these days. The message itself is not unusual, so no comments to make on this one.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: agent_office@woh.rr.com <agent_office@woh.rr.com>
Date: Oct 17, 2007 6:05 AM
Subject: CONFIRM YOUR WINNING
To: undisclosed-recipients


BRITISH LOTTERY 6/49
15 milton way.London
UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD
16th Of October,2007

Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#8346) of the BRITISH LOTTERY 6/49, online Sweepstakes International program held on the 16th Of October,2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,000,000.00(One Million Pounds Sterling in cash credited to file XYL 26510460037/05.

 This is from a total cash prize of 17,000,000.00 (Seventeen Million Pounds Pounds Sterling) shared amongst the (17) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 nions,associations,and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place monthly.Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.

 In view of this, your 1,000,000.00 (One Million Pounds Sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and nwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent: Overseas Claims Unit United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary:

MR FRED KENEDY,
Tel: +44 701-113-6204
Email:clearanceoffice15@yahoo.dk

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to establish contact via e-mail

 with the particulars presented above citing Information below:

CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM.
FULLNAME: ...............
SEX:...........................
ADDRESS:....................
COUNTRY:....................
FAX NUMBER:..............................
PHONE NUMBER:..............
OCCUPATION:.....................
COMPANY'S NAME:...............
AGE:.....................
E-MAIL ADDRESS:...............
REF NUMBER:...................
BATCH NUMBER:................

Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Jerald Ford
Online coordinator for
 BRITISH LOTTERY 6/49

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4 Comments:

At 28/10/07 07:04, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was contacted by the same email and it didn't feel OK so I just googled it and found your posting,I am familliar with this type of emails because a TV show I saw on the BBC and Oprah show so I was very carfull and deleted the message.

 
At 3/11/07 12:43, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Damn i sent em a email back too late i found this site. still i will wait an see what happens they can't take anything from me by just having my name can they?

 
At 24/11/07 18:34, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I also give them my references (but not bank account).
Could you please tell what's going on now ?

 
At 25/11/07 09:20, Blogger Michael Holdcroft said...

They will likely keep on trying to get you to "claim" your prize. They are only interested in cashing in various "fees" from you.

 

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