Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
Elvon Dickson Award (2006)
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From: Elvon Dickson AWARD dick_son211@yahoo.com.ph
Date: Jun 13, 2006 10:44 AM
Subject: UK INTERNATIONAL
FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR,UK INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY “Z” WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw of our Lottery International Programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail 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 “Z” with the following numbers attached Ref Number:SS 9590 ES 9414,Batch Number: 573881545-UK/2006 and Ticket Number: PP 3502/8707-01 You are therefore to receive a cash prize of 3,500,000.00 Pounds. (Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds) from the total payout
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 “Z” winners with the information below:
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Mr. JARETTE McDOUGLAS,
DIAMOND ATLANTIC LC,
UNITED KINGDOM,
Email: master_agent_2006@india.com
Phone: +447024066050
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You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
occupation:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 21 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,
Elvon Dickson.
Lottery Coordinator.
