Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
Microsoft Lottery Prize Award (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.
If you’ve been a victim of a lottery scam like the one shown below you may wish to contact an attorney or law enforcement officer in your state or country.
From: finalnotice finalnotice@eyou.com
Reply-To: netherlandslott@netscape.net
Date: Mar 16, 2006 11:00 AM
Subject: ANNUAL WINNING NOTIFICATION!!
FROM: MICROSOFT LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPT
NL, Netherlands.
Vendelstraat 207 1012 AX Amsterdam
Ref Number: QNL/4451/8860/04
Batch Number: XA3/312-59
Attn Lucky Winner,
ANNUAL WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY “A” WINNER ONLY
We hereby wish to inform you of the result of the resent annual draw 15-03-2006, of our International Lottery Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 29,400,000 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 ticket Number: 334/ 660078, with serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers 9-43-97. You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $18,500,000.00. (Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout, This is from the total prize money of 47,900,000.00 US Dollars (Forty-Seven 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:
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Mr. Martin Goodman
Email:netherlandslott@netscape.net
Tel. No: +31-61-932-0610
Fax. No: +31-84-719-0398
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You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Winning reference and Batch numbers:
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,
Jonathan Jones.
Promotion Manager.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
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