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WINNING NOTIFICATION
14th December 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
14th December 2004
Apparent Sender
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Return Address
s.jansen2@simplesnet.pt < s.jansen2@simplesnet.pt >
Subject
WINNING NOTIFICATION
Format
TEXT
Method

Email promises (fake) lottery winnings. Once you reply you are asked for a series of small administration fees to cover various 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. ' UK-LOTTO Sweepstake Lottery International ' very likely do not even exist and are just a fake company name used by the scammers. This name has been used a lot in these sort of scams, so is an easy one to spot.

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

4. Uses several references to the REAL UK National Lottery. In fact the National Lottery have nothing to do with these people. They are fraudsters, nothing more.

 

"We happily announce to you the draw (#928) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on sat 13th of Nov, 2004."...

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 ...

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw (#928) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on sat 13th of Nov,
2004.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:04-10-12-13-14-22(bonus
no.21), 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 £105,504(one
hundred and five thousand five hundred and four pounds sterling) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of
£1,609,616,shared amongst the (29) 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 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place weekly. 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 105,504(one hundred and five thousand five hundred
and four 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 claims 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
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your
claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: Mr. Charles Peters

Email:c-peters@spymac.com

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the UK

NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Shirley Jansen

Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

 







 
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