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New Hope Lottery
28th December 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
28th December 2004
Apparent Sender
New Hope Lottery
Return Address
j6_charles@yahoo.com
Subject
New Hope Lottery
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. ' New Hope Lottery ' very likely do not even exist and are just a fake company name used by the scammers. This name is used a lot in these sorts of scams.

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

 

"  We are pleased to inform you, THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR
RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS HELD on the 15th of November,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 ...


NEW HOPE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
NIEUWE ZIJDS VOORBURGWAL, NL- 1009 CEH
AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS
REF NUMBER: NHL/653/029/03/SA
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06.

DEAR SIR/MADAM,

We are pleased to inform you, THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR
RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS HELD on the 15th of November,2004.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 27511465896-6410 with serial number 4204-777 drew lucky numbers 5-21-23-34-61-72 which consequently
won in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2,500,000 (EUROS) (Two MILLION, Five hundred thousand EUROS)
Note that All participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 200,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites. This promotional
program takes place every year, and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc and other corporate
organizations. This is to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.
For security purposes and clarity, we advise that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted to
you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. We look forward to your active participation in our next year USD50 million slot. You are requested to contact your claims clearance officer as named below, to assist you with the processing of your winnings and subsequent payments. All winnings must be claimed not later than one month after the date of this notice.
Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
remember to quote your reference number and batch number in all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.


NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE
BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE.


Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Janet Freiburg,
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)

CLAIMS AGENT:
Mr. Charles Jones
Standard Securities and Vault Services.
j6_charles@yahoo.com

 







 
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