Date Reported 5th January 2005
Apparent Sender LOTERIA DE NACIONALE
Return Address nationaleloterie@excite.it
Subject Loteria de nacionale : Scientific Game Promo
Format TEXT
Method Email promises (fake) lottery winnings. Once you reply you are asked for a series of small administration fees to cover various costs.
Bogus Web Content? No
URL of web content N/A
RISK LEVEL MEDIUM
WARNINGS 1. A lottery variant of the 419 style of scam. Correspondance will simply result in requests for 'administration fees' to cover various costs, but you'll never actually get any money back!
2. ' LOTERIA DE NACIONALE' very likely do not even exist and are just a fake company name used by the scammers.
3. Notice that the sender uses a free, web based email address. A real company would almost certainly use their own.
" RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE: LNDS We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 4th January, 2005 of winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; PROGRAMS held on 29TH December, 2004. "...
If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.
The Spoof Email ...
LOTERIA DE NACIONALE
PROMO/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF: LNDS/BN4438-68/AD
BATCH: 0562B/5052424/ND
ATTENTION:
RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION / PROCESSING ADVICE: LNDS
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 4th January, 2005
of winners of the SCIENTIFIC GAME PROMO LOTTERY; PROGRAMS held on 29TH
December, 2004. Your email address attached to ticket number 552/00891;
with serial number LO/DS85 drew the lucky numbers 99-15-48, and consequently
won the lottery in the 1st category.
You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 1,500,000,000Euros
(ONE MILLION fIVE HUNDRED Thousand Euros). This is from the total prize
money of 15,900,000.00 Euros shared among the international winners in our
1st - 4th categories. All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from 30,000 company email addresses and 50,000,000
individual
email addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America
and Asia as part of our International Promotions Program, which is conducted
annually.
CONGRATULATIONS! Your fund is now in custody of a Financial Firm awaiting
transfer into your designated accounts. Due to the mix up of some numbers
and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until
your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims or unscrupulous
acts by some participants of this program.
This lottery program was organized by prominent group of philanthropists
like Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft Inc, eminent personalities like the sultan
of Brunei, Multi Choice and other corporate Organisations.This lottery
program
was organized to encourage the use of computer softwares and for the benefit
of every Microsoft user.
To begin your claim, please contact your Payment Coordinator.
MR JEREMY WALLACE
globalconsult.
Email:consuglobe@netscape.com
Please be aware of the fact that your Payment would be effected immediately
upon a thorough verification to be conducted by our processing agent to
safeguard both your interest and ours.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than Two weeks of
receipt
of this notice. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences
with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, do
inform your claims agent immediately. Congratulations once again from our
staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is authomatically disqualified.
Yours sincerely,
GERALD WALTER
This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) to whom it is
addressed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise
protected from disclosure.If you are not the intended recipient you are
hereby notified that any use, review, disclosure or copying of this message
and the information it contains is prohibited. If you receive the message in
error , please notify the sender by reply e-mail and discard all its
contents. Thank You.
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