Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY, Michael Grade CBE (2005)
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Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:28:57 +0000
From: “NATIONAL” nationalloto@excite.com
Reply-To: infoelot@netscape.com
Subject: NOTICE
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree Liverpool, L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
Our Ref: NWY/UK-NL/0101/05. Your Ref: NWY/UK-NL/03CTG/0101/05.
Machine Used For the Draw: MOONSTONE
Ball Set Used: 2
Jackpot Winners: 2
Winners by Lucky Dip: 277994
Winning Numbers: 08 - 14 - 24 - 40 - 43 - 48 - 33
Grand Prize Awards: GBP £ 987,470.00,
Dear our treasured lucky winner,
RE: PROMOTION EMAIL LOTTERY BONUS RESULTS.
On behalf of the National Lottery Organisation, I congratulate you for
being one of the selected lucky Jackpot Winners for this Promotion
Email Lottery Bonus via the Internet which took place on 26th day of
February 2005.
The result of our computer Draw 958 of this day selected your email
address through our internet central database on the lucky jackpot
winning number 08 - 14 - 25 - 40 - 43 - 48 - 33 which consequently
won the lottery jackpot grand prize awards in the 3rd category.
As a result, you have been approved a lottery jackpot lump sum grand
prize awards winning of GBP £ 987,470.00 (Nine Hundred and Eighty
Seven Thousand, Four Hundred and Seventy Great British Pounds Sterling
Only) which is currently bonded and insured under a comprehensive
insurance policy in your names as the legitimate owner of this email
address being the true and lawful beneficiary of this Prize Awards
winning. This prize award winning is from the total amount of
GBP£20,628,037 shared among the 878,132 lucky winners in this category
as part of our New Year 2005 Promotional programme to encourage
overseas participants in subsequent email lottery. This is your Golden
opportunity that your fate has brought to you and we are well pleased
to have you in our master database.
You have the options of being paid by Cash, Certified Bank Draft or
Swift Telegraphic Transfer as you desire. NO PRIZES WILL BE RE-ISSUED
AFTER THE 29TH DAY OF MARCH 2005!
ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is offered only electronically via the
Internet and is open to all natural persons age at least 16 years and
older with a valid email address recorded in our central database.
This promotion is void where prohibited. Principals and employees of
the National Lottery and its respective parents, subsidiaries and
immediate family members of each are not eligible to claim their prize
awards. We have always strived to keep the games easy to play and win,
keep the games fresh and interesting, respond to emails from
players/advertisers and lucky winners as quickly as possible and pay
our winners as fast as possible after all statutory obligations have
been duly completed on the part of Overseas winners. We feel we have
accomplished this and this is probably one of the main reasons that we
have been able to stay in business and rated the best National Lottery
organisation among others.
CLAIM PROCEDURES: All overseas lucky winners must be able to identify
themselves in association with the selected lucky email address to
claim their prizes as allocated and also it is our standard practices
to allocate accredited claim agents for the processing of claim
application on behalf of overseas lucky winners and payment of prize
awards to the benefit of lucky winners after all modalities have been
completed satisfactorily. To begin your claims therefore, you are
advised on final notice and as a matter of urgency, to contact our
licensed and accredited claim agent for Overseas Lucky Winners for the
processing of your prize awards winning file and payment of your prize
to your designated bank account. Contact the under-listed institution
by phone, fax or email for your application to be submitted and
processed for payment thus:
Contact Officer: Mr. Alex Eduardo .
Customer Support Unit - CSU,
CTlot Financial Reconciliation Inc.,
T/f No: +44 - 7040 119 120.
Fax No: +44- 8717 336 671.
Email: info-helpdesk@myway.com
Be advised to officially introduce yourself to your claim agent as
allocated with a copy of this award notification letter and present
your full contact information, Your Telephone and Fax Number and valid
means of personal identification as true beneficiary/lucky winner of
this lottery jackpot grand prize to enhance your payment processes.
IMPORTANCE NOTICE: (a) Being an Overseas lucky winner, you constitute
entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance to comply
with the terms and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in
the cause of payment of your grand prize awards winning.
(b) Due to mixed up in some numbers and names and for the purpose of
confidentiality, be advised to keep this award notification as secret
from public notice until your claim has been processed and your prize
money remitted to your designated bank account as this is part of our
precautionary measures to avoid double claim or misuse of this
programme by some social miscreants. Hence, your prize award winning
is confidential as our winners are at liberty to remain completely
anonymous until payment is effected to the benefit of the beneficiary.
Our staffs are sworn to secrecy, so you will be the only one to know
what you have won hence, this notification via this medium (EMAIL) to
avoid interception of official letters by post.
c) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you acknowledge your
understanding and acceptance to be added to our lottery master player
database.
(d) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you agree to receive our
periodic mailings which will include, but are not limited to:
Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements for other Lottery
Games and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master player.
(e) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you understand that you
have the right to be removed from any such mailing list which
automatically disqualifies you from subsequent lottery entries.
Removal instructions are on every mailing.
(f) Finally, we hereby do solemnly guarantee to maintain the privacy
of our master players/lucky winners database and shall not make
available for sale, rent, lease or misuse any information about our
players/lucky winners. Hence, our staffs are sworn to secrecy thereby
guaranteeing adequate security of personal information provided by our
players/lucky winners.
In conclusion therefore, you are to take cognizance of the limited
time frame for claim processing and payment of your grand prize award
winning hence, this is promotional programme prize awards for a
stipulated period of time and therefore, be advise on final notice to
begin your claim immediately as all prize award winnings must be
claimed and disbursed within the stipulated period tagged “End of
Claim” date as elapse of this date will authorized funds withholding
for redirection to Charity Account as abandoned/unclaimed without
notice. On this note once again, we congratulate you for this lucky
grand prize award and wish you the best of luck everyday in all your
life endeavours.
As always, we remain at your complete disposal.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Grade CBE,
Promotion Director.
International Promotions Unit,
UK National Lottery Organisation,
Liverpool L70 1NL, United Kingdom
