Internet Lottery Frauds and Email Scams
Overseas Stakes Lottery (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: Christina Jorgen christinajorgen@swissmail.net
Date: Jan 29, 2006 9:00 PM
Subject: At Last
OVERSEAS STAKES LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL GENEVA,
SWITZERLAND.
REF NUMBER: OSL/789/123/05 BATCH NUMBER: AT-060-SB07-05
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you, THAT AS A RESULT OF OUR RECENT LOTTERY DRAWS HELD on the 25th of OCTOBER 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27522465896-630 with serial number 851-049 drew lucky numbers 6-17-20-29-33-40, which consequently won in the 4th category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$4,000,000. (FOUR MILLION DOLLARS). 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 web sites.
This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities and other corporate organisations. This is 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.
We look forward to your active participation in our next year USD50 million slot. You are requested to contact our clearance officer below to assist you with your winnings and subsequent payments. 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.
Sincerely yours,
CHRISTINA JORGEN
(Lottery Co-Ordinator)
