Take a few seconds and try to imagine that one of these lottery notifications where actually legitimate. Imagine winning 2.5 million dollars from a e-mail collecting service that had harvested your e-mail address from the web, and then just wanted to hand out all that cash to you.
Yeah. Pretty hard to believe, isn’t it? Especially if they didn’t even know your email address, as is the case with the below notification from the Loterie Nationale, ”Mrs. Wendy Johnson” and ”Peter van Dijk”.
I can’t help but wonder how many of these e-mails these lottery scammers send out in order to get enough gullable winners to start paying them registration fees? In one of these scams they where after 120 dollars, in another they wanted 20,000 just for registration and courier services.
From: nationalloterie@mynet.com
Subject: YOUR DETAILS MUST REMAIN PRIVATE.
Date: Tuesday, 14 Feb, 2006 20.22.00 GMT+01:00
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;YOUR DETAILS MUST REMAIN PRIVATE.
Date: 14/02/2006
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is to formally notify you of the result of the just concluded final draws of the LOTERIE NATIONALE promotional programme.
The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 150,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of five winners in the category ”A” with the followings:
Ref Number: LNI VL63042-J15
Batch Number: LNI BX-DD55
Ticket Number: 03007-YV86
Serial Number: FV 994
Lucky number: 41 07 480You, as well as other winners are to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (TWO MILLIONS, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) each from the total payout.
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 begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category ”A” winners with the information’s below:
Mr. Peter van Dijk
GLOBAL CONSULT
TEL: 0031 627 077 312
Email: consultingglob@netscape.netNOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all winning information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Wendy Johnson (MRS)
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