YOU HAVE WON
9th November 2004
please forward any scams you've received to
spoof@millersmiles.co.uk
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Report Summary
Date Reported |
9th November |
Apparent Sender |
Smartball Lottery, UK
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Return Address |
coo_rdinator < coo_rdinator@smartball-lottery.zzn.com >
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Subject |
YOU HAVE WON
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Format |
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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'.
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Bogus Web Content? |
No |
URL of web content |
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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. Smartball Lottery, UK 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.
3. Notice that the sender uses a free, web based email address. A real company would almost certainly use their own.
4. Smartball Lottery, UK are responsible for a massive ammount of these scams at the moment. If you se one beware!
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"Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the HIGH STAKES DRAWS of SMARTBALL LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you
have
emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS SECOND
CATEGORY,
which is part of our promotional draws."...
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 MANAGER,
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
SMARTBALL LOTTERY, UK.
DEAR WINNER,
WINNER OF HIGH STAKES DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the HIGH STAKES DRAWS of SMARTBALL LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you
have
emerged a winner under the HIGH STAKES DRAWS SECOND
CATEGORY,
which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were
held on
15th SEPTEMBER 2004 and results are being officially
announced today. Participants were selected through a
computer
ballot system drawn from 30,000 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, attached to ticket number
55-9-478, with serial number 52-67 drew the winning
numbers 05 10 17 19 29 42 (21) and consequently won in
the second Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
4,500,000.00 (four million, five hundred thousand
pounds), which is the winning payout for Category
B winners. This is from the total prize money of
13.5 million POUNDS shared among the 3 winners in this
category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our International
Funds Transfer agents HERIITAGE FINANCE SECURITY and
has been 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 US$500 million that will be shared
amongst 10 winners worldwide; we hope that with a part
of your prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
bank account of your choice:
MR Paul Graham
FINANCE MANAGER,
HERITAGE FINANCE SECURITY
Plains Heritage Center HOUSE
642 HIGH ROAD
LEYTONSTONE
LONDON , GREATER LONDON E113AA,
LONDON UK.
TELL/FAX: +44-20-8181-6122
MOBILE: +8821646655614
EMAIL:paul_graham@heritagefinancesecurity.net
You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or
fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to
do so may warrant immediate disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: REF: SMBUK/7899/8604/04HFS
BATCH NUMBER: G5/B212-8
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
THE COORDINATOR,
SMARTBALL LOTTERY UK
133 Crosbie Rd
PO Box 9600
St John's NF A1A 3C1. uk.
tel / fax : + 44 {0} 7092841762.
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 transfer agent
immediately.
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