Internet Lottery Scams
Thunder Ball Winning (2007)
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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 9:26:50 -0500
From: ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR
Subject: CONFIRMATION FROM THE LOTTERY OFFICE(YOU ARE A WINNER)
British National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Wartford, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
We happily announce to you the draw (#629) of the THUNDER BALL WINNING under the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online thunder ball International program held on Wednesday 20th February 2007. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 02, 06, 12, 21 ,23, 10 which subsequently won you the lottery of the Jackpot Prize.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 250,000.00gbp (Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.
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. In view of this, your 250,000.00 would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
Mr steve williams (FIDUCIARY AGENT)
Provide him with the information below:
1.Name:
2.Address
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Email Address:
12.Draw Number above:
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize breakdown
Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Online Coordinator.
