by David Jansen
Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:50 am
You can't win a lottery unless you bought a lottery ticket. If this scam email was true, and they did pick email addresses randomly, then it still wouldn't be a lottery, but randomly giving away money to people. Never heard of a company or organisation that does this. Don't fall for this scam!
From: Williams brown [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 2:15 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Congratulations!! Congratulations!!
The National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom
(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK
Attention: Email Account Holder,
Congratulations!! Congratulations!!, We happily announce to you the draw (#1404) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes promotion held in London onSaturday 1st August 2010.
Your active e-mail address attached to the World Wide Web computer generated ticket number: B55607545 4152 with reference number UK/JA2C110P5 and Serial number ZA5365/3 ,Batch number XA87-2PY,drew the lucky numbers: 06 14 32 35 41 Bonus 43
This subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.
You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of ?520,731.00 (Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty One British Pounds) in cash is credited to file UKPC/9080144308/07. This is from a total cash prize of ?17,403,993
Shared amongst the545,587 with (3) lucky winners in "2nd" category.
PRIZE BREAKDOWN
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Draw 1404 Sat 31st /07/ 2010 14 32 35 41 42 Bonus 43 Jackpot for this draw ?7,542,072
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No. of matches No. of winners ?s per winner ?s Prize fund
Match 6 4 ?1,885,518 ?7,542,072
Match 5 plus Bonus 3 ?520,731 ?1,562,193
Match 5 387 ?2,522 ?976,014
Match 4 25,997 ?82 ?2,131,754
Match 3 519,196 ?10 ?5,191,960
Totals 545,587 ?17,403,993
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Additional information Jackpot winner(s) Lucky Dip winners Machine used for draw Ball set used
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This promotion was drawn based on email address as the key identification for setting up online accounts. All valid email addresses in the World Wide Web Draw used/participants for the online email promotion version were selected randomly via computer ballotingfrom a global website collaboration with internet companies like eBay, pay pal, liberty reserve, and Google whom also built their systems and based their membership registration identity on email addresses supporting this computer draw system done by extracted email addresses from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies and affiliated members to the National Lottery website and their advertisers listed online.
This Online promotion takes place via virtual ticket balloting and it is done Bi-annually.
Please note that youre lucky winning ticket file and number falls within our European booklet representative office in Watford (UK) as indicated in your ballotplayed coupon. In view of this, your ?520,731.00 would be released to you by our payment department.
Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by providing details below.
Name: Mr. Williams Brown
Email: [email protected]
PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH THE FOLLOWING DETAILS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR CLAIM
VERIFICATIONFORM
1,FULL NAME :
2,FULL ADDRESS:
3, NATIONALITY:
4,SEX:
5, AGE:
6, PHONE/MOBILE:
7, FAX:
8, OCCUPATION:
9, COMPANY:
10, AMOUNT WON:
11, WINNING NUMBER:
12, BATCH NUMBER:
13, EMAIL ADDRESS:
14, REFERENCE NUMBER:
UK LOTTERY PROMOTION FORM
Congratulations!! Once again.
Yours faithfully
Mrs. Julia Smith.
Online co-coordinator.
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