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An Email with the Subject "claim" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:57:03 -0500 and has been classified as a Lotto/Lottery Scam Email. The sender shows as "Award co-ordinator"<garylevine@optusnet.com.au>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Dear Internet User. We are happy to inform you that your email address have emerged winner of (DOLLARS $500,000) in GLOBAL AWARD PROMOTION. The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 500,000.00 email addresses of individuals,corporate bodies,Students and staff email addresses picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. Your email address is attached to REF NO: GW/5838610584/09 & BATCH NO: GW/48670515/9 with Serial No: 57306-09: Ticket number:715-693542-09:lucky numbers:90-44-88-22-09 Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially file in for their claim within the given time frame below, Note: All Won Prize must Be claimed/ Cleared not later than one month.After this date, all other winnings will considered as UNCLAIMED and returned to Global award department. To begin your claim, you are to forward this message to our accredited claim agent including your 1. Name 2. Address 3. Nationality 4. Age 5. Occupation 6. Phone/Fax Make sure you send him email to Two of his email addresses and call him once you send him email: Contact Person: Rev Dr.George Benz Tel: +234-705-5554-276 IF YOU ARE CALLING FROM USA THIS IS HOW YOU WILL DAIL 011-234-705-5554-276 BUT IF YOU ARE CALLING FROM ANY OTHER COUNTRY THIS IS HOW YOU DIAL +234-705-5554-276 THIS IS YOUR CLAIM AGENT E-MAIL ADDRESSES BELOW, E MAIL:drg.benz@live.com Your prize award has been insured with your email address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirement of the gaming board authority which includes your statutory obligations. NOTE: You may receive this E-mail more than once as the Global Award Promotion send it to its winners in most cases until every winner has claimed his or her prize to ensure that all the winners receive it. Best Regards, MR.Martin Thompson (Award co-ordinator).