An Email with the Subject "Good News !!!!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:39:27 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as <tonysmith1@virgilio.it>.
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Good News !!!! The National Lottery P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/04 Batch: R3/A312-59 1st Febuary, 2006 WINNING NOTIFICATION: We happily announce to you the draw (05/1022) of the UK-LOTTO Sweepstake Lottery International programs held on the 17th November, 2005.in LEEDS UNITED- KINGDOM. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 1 14 20 22 25 26 9, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of â 500,000.00{Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain pounds sterling} in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/03. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your â 500,000.00{Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain pounds sterling} would be released to you by our payment office in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and you money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: MR Michael Hayes Email: mikhayes@tangana.com Telephone :+ 44-77-8393- 5481 fax number :+ 44-87- 1251-4253 to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers and winning numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent. Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Yours Faithfully, SIR. Anthony Smith Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International Program Confidentiality Notice: Please note that this email, and any files that may be attached to it, is/are confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable law(s). If you received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email and delete the original message (making sure it is also deleted from the Deleted Items folder of your mail client). Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to official business of NATIONAL LOTTERY and insurance shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by NATIONAL LOTTERY finance and insurance when addressed to comet finance and insurance clients; and any information contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions of the governing client's contract(s).