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An Email with the Subject "Congratulations.....Lucky Recipient" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:34:18 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as INGKA FOUNDATION NETHERLANDS <online_notice@bigpond.com>.
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Dear Sir/Madam, This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of Trustees of the above International charity organization based in the Netherlands as one of the final recipients of a Cash Grant/Donation for your own personal,education and business development The Dutch-registered Stichting INGKA Foundation is named after Kamprad, and owns INGKA Holding, the parent company for all IKEA stores. The charitable foundation was reported by the business newspaper, the Economist in May 2006 to be technically the world's wealthiest charity - with an estimated value of at least US$36 billion in 2006 (larger than the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation) - but its primary purpose is, by some, believed to be corporate tax-avoidance and anti-takeover protection for IKEA. Kamprad is chairman of the foundation.Having been rated as the biggest charity foundation in Europe for the year 2007,the foundation has decided to randomly select email addresses that would benefit from this year's donation/ award. Based on the random selection exercise of internet service providers(ISP) and millions of Super market cash invoices worldwide, you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$2,000,000.00(Two Million United States Dollars) as charity donations/aid from the Stichting INGKA Foundation and the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament.On contact with our overseas payment officer, You 'll be given your donation pin number which you will use in collecting the funds.Please endeavor to quote your Qualification numbers (N-222-6747, E-900-56) in all discussions. *********************************** Executive Secretary, Mr. Philip Coaster Tel: :+44-701-112-9842 Email: ingkafoundationnl@yahoo.de ********************************* Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Susan Wallace (Foundation officer)