Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
Antlantic Promotions (2006)
This is one of a collection of fraudulent lottery announcements. We are not the source of these messages and we don’t send them! We just collect the ones we receive as junk mail and document them here for the benefit of others. We are not able to respond to inquiries about them. Information about legitimate online lottery services is available elsewhere on the Internet.
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From: atlanticpromo@lottohat.com
Date: May 4, 2006 10:54 AM
Subject: Award
MR. KEVIN JONES
ANTLANTIC PROMOTIONS
REF NUMBER: LTH/9129/7769/006
BATCH NUMBER: ALI-FR983-06
Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent lottery draw held on the 24th of April 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 00742086-84 with serial number 7759-1882 drew lucky numbers 09-10-23-24-26-29-38, which consequently won in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of €2,000,000.00 (Two Million Euros only)
Note that all participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and websites. This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei and other corporate organizations to encourage the use of the Internet and computers worldwide.
For security purpose 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.
You are requested to contact our Lottery coordinator strictly by the email below: atlanticlott@netscape.net. This is to assist you with your winnings and subsequent payments immediately. 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 numbers 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 OR SEEN TO DOUBLE CLAIM THROUGH ANY OTHER COORDINATOR.
Sincerely yours
MR. KEVIN JONES
(LOTTERY COORDINATOR)
atlanticlott@netscape.net
