Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
Cyber Lotto Online (2005)
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From: europeinc1@virgilio.it
Date: Dec 1, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: GRAND PRIZE WINNER.
FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
MICROSOFT INCORPORATED NL, Laan van Hoornwijck 55, 2289
DG Rijswijk, The
Netherlands.
Nederland.
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY “A” WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual
draw 30-11-2005, of our International Lottery Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category “A” with the following numbers attached Ref
Number: MP1/2031/8161/04; Batch Number: R3/A312-59 and Ticket Number:
025/ 078742, with serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers
25-35-09-74-82. You are therefore to receive a cash prize of
$1,500,000.00. (One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) from the total payout, This is from the total prize money of
18,900,000.00 US Dollars (Eighteen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand US
Dollars) shared among the international winners in our 1st - 4th
categories. CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured with
your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our
requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and
satisfactory report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised
to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category “A”
winners with the information below:
**********************************************
Mr. Martin Goodman
Email: microsoftincnl@netscape.net
TEL: +31-61-932-0610
FAX: +31-84-719-0398.
**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax
number:
Nationality:
Age:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote
your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all
lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket
numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be
entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not
allowed to participate in this program. Furthermore, should there be
any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Ann van Bosch
Promotion Manager.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
