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EGOLI LOTTERY FINAL NOTIFICATION

9th October 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
9th October
Apparent Sender
COMET FINANCE & INSURANCE LTD
Return Address
lotto_Coordinator <egoli_notification@yahoo.com>
Subject
EGOLI LOTTERY FINAL NOTIFICATION
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. Comet Finance and Insurance 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.

 

" After a successful completion of the third category draws of EGOLI LOTTERY, held on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2004, we are pleased to inform you of the official announcement today, 28TH SEPTEMBER  2004, that you have emerged one of the winners of the EGOLI LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS"...

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 ...


DEAR SIR/MADAM
                    THIRD CATEGORY WINNER

  After a successful completion of the third category draws of EGOLI LOTTERY, held on 25TH SEPTEMBER 2004, we are pleased to inform you of the official announcement today, 28TH SEPTEMBER  2004, that you have emerged one of the winners of the EGOLI LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, which is part of our promotional draws. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number 459-5-6382, with serial number 14-83 drew the lucky numbers 27, 03, 13, 42, 25, 60, (20), and consequently won in the Third Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of US$1,900,000.00 in cash, which is the winning payout for third category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$5,700,000.00 shared among the Three international winners in the Third category.


CONGRATULATIONS!


Your fund is now deposited with COMET FINANCE & INSURANCE LTD, insured in your name. To avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep this award strictly from public notice until the entire process of transfering 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 of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year (2004) high stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to US$1.3 billion, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate.

  Please contact your claims agent immediately,to begin your claims process;

MR. TREVOR Mc CARTHY,
CLAIMS  DEPT. MANAGER,
COMET FINANCE & INSURANCE LTD.
FAX: +27 115076316
EMAIL: trevor@cfiltd.net

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice.

Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later than 5TH OCTORBER  2004. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of your correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: CF-L765-10
BATCH NUMBER: 779-PF

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.


Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
EGOLI LOTTERY SA.
#7 LE-ROUX AVE,
ALBERTON, JHB.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Tel: +27 826401382 

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



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