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Sticks
23-10-2003, 10:24 PM
I got this e-mail today :shocked:


NETHERLOTTO CORPORATION,
41132, NL-1007 DB AMSTERDAM,
THE NETHERLANDS.

FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: EGIBRS255125600909

AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of
the,15TH SEPTEMBER,
2003, of winners of the NETHERLOTTO CORP./
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
held on 19TH JULY 2003.
You / your company, attached to ticket number
013-2316-2002-477, with
serial number A025-09 drew the lucky numbers
37-13-34-85-56-42, and
consequently won in category C.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay
out of
US$1,500,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO.
REF:EGIBRS255125600909
This is from total prize money of US$28,500,000.00
shared among the
nineteen international winners in the category C. All
participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
30,000 names from
Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe,USA and
North America as
part our International Promotions Program, which is
conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with a Finance and Security
House and
insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some
numbers and names, we
ask that you keep this award strictly from public
notice until your
claim has been processed and your money remitted to
your account. This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate
in our end of
year high stakes US$1.3 billion International lotto.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims
officer immediately:

THOMAS JANKA
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
EUROSHORE FINANCIAL,
TEL: +44 774 223 3824
D/L:+882 165 207 0942
Fax: +44 207 681 2478
:+882 165 207 0949
EMAIL: thomas_jonka@yahoo.com

For due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated
account of your choice. Remember, you must contact
your claims officer
not later than OCTOBER 30TH, 2003. After this date,
all funds will be
returned as unclaimed. All correspondences to
Mr.Thomas Janka,either by
fax or email, should have this email sent along with
it and your ref
erence number clearly stated in every correspondence.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please
remember to quote your reference number in every one
of your
correspondences with your claims officer. Furthermore,
should there be
any change of your address, do inform your claims
officer as soon as
possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you
for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
NETHERLOTTO CORPORATION.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the
winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply this
mail



For the record I was born in 1966 which is a bit further back intime than yesterday :mad:

I wonder how many people they have suckered in with this. I hear that BBC's John Simpson was sent one of these things and he did a piece about it for the Today programme on Radio 4

James
23-10-2003, 11:35 PM
did a piece about it for the Today programme


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today3_lottery_20031004.ram

Pretty good that you can listen to reports from that programme going back to June.

Kaz
24-10-2003, 02:51 PM
Thanks for that, James. :thumbs:

Coincidentally, there was a piece on the BBC2 news this morning warning people of a similar scam - this one involving them being notified of winning a major prize in the Canadian Lottery.

The catch was that they were being asked to pay tax and insurance on the "winnings" before receiving them, and apparently some poor souls had paid up to £35,000! :shocked:!:shocked:! Not surprisingly, their major win never arrived.

Some people never learn!