A Scam Email with the Subject
"**WINNING NOTIFICATION**"
was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:55:22 -0700 and has been classified as a
Generic Scam.
The sender was
NOTIFICATION LOTTERY OFFICE <lotterynotificationdepatment01@yahoo.ca>,
although it may have been spoofed.
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Scam Email Headers
This a (redacted) view of the raw email headers of this scam email. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) has been suppressed, but can be
supplied as received to appropriate agencies.
Domain Names used for collecting scam email ("Honeypot email accounts") have been obscured and replaced with the token 'HUN1P0T'
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YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC Barley House Harold Road Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.
MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD
Dear Winner,
YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 22ND March, 2008 from the YAHOO!International Lottery Program. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses, your e-mail was attached to ticket number47061725 07056490902,serial
number7741137002.This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 3-63-38-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the First category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum ofUS$200,000.00(TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)in cash credit file refILP/HW 47509/02from the total cash prize ofUS$50,000,000.00(DOLLARS)shared amongst 50(Fifty) lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by Dr Philip Emegwali from 50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses from the web because you have once visited
one of Yahoo! sponsored sites. This is part of our international promotions program which is conducted monthly to promote the use of the internet with the world as a global village. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by YAHOO! We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to yahoomail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only Fifty people will be merge for winnings. we only select fifty people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..
you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed
within this period will be forfeited and retrieved .
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet representative office in UK as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your won prize will be released to you by any of our payment Banks in Africa or it's correspndence Bank in UK .Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him through the email address or telephone numbers as directed below.
Oversea Payment and Release Order Department,
ABDUL CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT
Contact Person:Rev.John Smith
Email:rev_johnsmith05@yahoo.com
+234-803-746-4290
With the following are your Particulars.
Security Code: AL/FEB/XX01
Ref:4758961725 Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPR You are also required to foward the following information to the claim agent
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from
t he public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed otherwise the funds will be returned as unclaimed.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of YAHOO!Thank you for being part of this promotional email lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr Mr.George Morgan Emeh
Yahoo! 2008 Lottery program
Barley House Harold Road Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.
Tel: +447024072512
SECURITY ALERT
Security Advice :At The Australian International Lottery we understand the importance of security. That's why we've created highly secure facilities to give you confidence during our promotions programs or when you play our games online, on TV via Sky Active or using your mobile phone to play by text.
Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be using Australian International Lottery addresses, but are not from us. If you receive similar email that is not from us, kindly
disregard/discard it immediately. Do NOT reply any such email but genuine email from us via this email address. Our security pages that will give you more information about current scams and what measures you can take to protect yourself.
NOTICE: You have received this message from Australian International Lotto Lottery prize dept. because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors. If you wish to be taken out of this list do not
reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.
