Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
Irish Lottery Winning Notification (2006)
This is one of a collection of fraudulent lottery announcements. We don’t send these messages! We collect the ones we receive and document them for the benefit of others.
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From: Irish Lottery awardsnotification_irlot@yahoo.co.uk
Reply-To: fiduciaryagent_processing@yahoo.com
Date: Mar 25, 2006 8:17 AM
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION.
The Irish Lottery P O Box 1010 11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland (Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the IRISH LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program held on Sat 07 January 2006 - 7.57pm. It is now available for claims and this is your final NOTIFICATION as regards this.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 02, 03, 10, 12, 14, 19, — Bonus 20, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of € 2,350,000.00 (Two Million, Three Hundrend and Fifty Thousand Euros), has been credited to file KTU/9023118308/03, your winning ticket in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your €2,350,000.00 (Two Million, Three Hundrend and Fifty Thousand Euros) in will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential untill your claim is processed and your money credited into your bank account, or your payment draft is mailed to you.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!! To file for your claim, contact our fiduciary agent:
MR BEN RICHARDSON
Tel: +44 709 287 5689
Fax: +44 709 287 5690
Email: fiduciaryagent_processing@yahoo.com
Endeavour to email/fax him your full names,winning numbers, email address, telephone and fax numbers immediately. You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown:- http://www.irishlotto.net/news.htm Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE IRISH LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Vivian Kelly(Mrs)
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
Confidentiality Notice:
Please note that this email, and any files that may be attached to it,is/are confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity (ies) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use,distribution,copying or disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable law(s). If you received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message (making sure it is also deleted from the Deleted Items folder of your mail client). Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to official business of IRISH LOTTERY and insurance shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by IRISH LOTTERY finance and insurance when addressed to comet finance and insurance clients; and any information contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions of the governing client’s contract(s).
