BS: Lottery Scam

Subject: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Justa Picker
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 06:43 PM

My parents received this today.

I especially liked the part near
the bottom I've highlighted in red
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FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

DEAR SIR/MADAM,
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the First Category draws of LUCKY STRIKE
LOTTERY UK. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category, which is
part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on
14th May 2004 and results are being officially
announced today. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 names/email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our
International Promotions Program.
You/Your company, attached to ticket number
6422-5-486, with serial number 59-18 drew the lucky
numbers 33-92-78-05 (18) and consequently won in the
First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of
£6,500,000 (Six million, five hundred thousand
Great Britain Pounds), which is the winning payout for
Category A winners. This is from the total prize money
of £13,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this
category.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents
CASH CHANGE UK LTD and insured in your name. In your
best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and
names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire
details of your award strictly from public notice
until the process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants/nonparticipants of this program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year
premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of
winning up to £50 million; we hope that with a part
of your prize you will participate.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice:
MR. ANDREW YOUNG,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
CASH CHANGE UK LTD
Foreign Service Number:+ 88216 4665 5376
FAX: ++44 2079002649
EMAIL:[e-mail]

You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or
fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to
do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: R3/A312-59
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY UK
12 BRIDGE STREET,
STAINES MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP UK

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will result to disqualification. Please do not
reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent
immediately.

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Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 06:51 PM

Oh dear! Now you've done it - gone public and disqualified Mum.

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: artbrooks
Date: 29 Jul 04 - 07:26 PM

Oh, goody...let's all use the same numbers!

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 09:50 AM

I appeared to win a lottery recently, but as I never opened it, I dunno what I missed out on. Shame on Mozilla's Junk-status icon thingy, it has deprived me of a fortune.

sandra (poor me)

one advantage of Mozilla is I can now see the google ads - Gail HOward's winners (read letters from dozens of Gail's first prize lotto jackpot winners) & You can win more (it is possible - the Lottery Manual will change the way you play). What a lot I miss by being a cynic.

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Rasener
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 12:18 PM

This a is a more serious issue, than you give credit to.

If anybody gets similar e-mails, then this is what you should do.

Go to the following website :-

http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/frauds_and_scams/list.htm

You should then be able to see if it is a scam or not.

You should also e-mail [e-mail] and attach the e-mail. They will check it for you and more importantly :-

They will be able to try and trap these people, before they move on to another scam.

With this type of scam, they either try to get you to give deatils and indeed a lump sum amount, or you can go to a particular town to pick up the winnings. When you get there, you give them some money and they give you your winnings. Problem is it is counterfeit. It all seems so plausible.

So I urge all mudcatters to use this website to check these sort of scams out. There is always somebody who is gullible, and it might be you next time.

Les Worrall

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Peace
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 03:17 PM

So, I shouldn't have bought that Mercedes, huh? Damn.

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 03:26 PM

And here I wait holding my breath for my 15% of a Nigerian prince's billion dollar+ estate which I know will be deposited as promised into my bank account. Wonder why my checks are bouncing?????

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Rasener
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:32 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 08:52 AM

Forgive my pedantry but isn't the Lottery called Lukcy Strike

If they mispell it it would be an immediate giveaway.

Subject: RE: BS: Lottery Scam
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 11:36 AM

What? It's a scam? And all of us over on The Mother of All BS Threads have been anxiously waiting for Rapaire's winnings to be transferred into his account so he can send us the checks he's been promising. Oh! Cruel Fate! Say it ain't so!