WINNER OF HIGH STAKES DRAWS!
10th November 2004
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Report Summary
Date Reported |
10th November |
Apparent Sender |
Smartball Lottery, UK
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Return Address |
Coordinator smartball lottery uk < smartballuk@email.com >
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Subject |
WINNER OF HIGH STAKES DRAWS!
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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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" 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."...
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 ...
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 haveemerged 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_Graham1@heritagefinancesecurity.zzn.com
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.
INFO@SMARTBALL-LOTTERY.CO.UK
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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