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CONGRATULATIONS
6th October 2004

please forward any scams you've received to spoof@millersmiles.co.uk

Report Summary
Date Reported
6th October
Apparent Sender
sky cooperative lotterty international
Return Address
skycoperative< skycooperati@3xl.net >
Subject
CONGRATULATIONS
Format
Text
Method

A another lottery variant of the 419 style of scam - uses the fake promise of a lottery win to eventually lure victim and trick them into giving away their bank details, or by requesting payments for 'administration 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. skycoperative almost certainly do not exist, and did you actually enter this lottery? An almost universal rule is that if you haven't entered a competition, you haven't won it! And even if you have the prize is likely is likely to be a fraction of that promised. You'd think a financial company would actually be able to spell the word 'financial' as well!

3. Notice that the sender uses a free, web based email address. A real company would almost certainly use their own.

 

" WINNING NOTIFICATION. We are please to inform you that the result of ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC,SWEEP-STAKE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM held on the 20th of SEPTEMBER 2004 in conjunction with GERMANY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (D.F.B.)http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/o/. http://www.eifl.org.uk/wc2006/. "...

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 ...


FROM: THE PROMOTIONS DIRIECTOR
          sky cooperative lotterty international DEPT.
          RET: IPL/084433765/WP1
          BATCH: NA/543296-PCQ34

DEAR SIR/MADAM,
                RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
First Category draws of SKY COOPERATIVE  LOTTERY held on 15th August,2004.

We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the
First
Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held
prior
to your notification .

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from
Africa,
America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of
our
International Promotions Program.

You/Your company email id, attached to ticket number:6725 which is with
reference number IPL/084433765/WPI, and batch number
NA/543296-PCQ34,drew a lucky winning number which consequently won the
sweep take in the
second category in the four parts.

you have been approved for a payment of 1,600,000(ONE MILLION SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS)in cash credited to file reference number
IPL/084433765/WPI. this is from a total cash prize of 95,062.940(NINETY
FIVE
MILLON AND SIXTY TWO THOUSAND,NINE HUNDRED AND FOURTY)shared among the
international winners in all categories .

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our finaincial security agents and
insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of
numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire
details
of your award strictly from public notice until the process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to
your
account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year premium stakes
draw where you stand a chance of winning up to £50 million; we hope
that
with a part of your prize you will participate in it.

Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
(Mr raymond smith)chief payment officer,
Tel;003126298645
e-mail- skycooperative@netscape.net
you are advised to contact our agents by email and/or phone within a
week of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find above your reference
and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.

your security file number is W-2664-521-H27/B5(KEEP PERSONAL)
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,
paul harry
PROMOTION MANAGER

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box.
Contact
your claims agent immediately.



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