Have you noticed a standard format to these scam lottery wins. The email is always sent in the name of one person and includes another name as your claim agent. I wonder why?
And where, I wonder, is the "United A Kingdom"??? Who cares, just delete the email - you haven't won anything.
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United A Kingdom.
Batch: 12/25/0340
Dear Winner
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of five
hundred thousand pounds(£500,000) from New Year Edition 2009
Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC &
WINDOWS LIVE & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the
email addresses of people that are active online,
among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we
only select five people every Month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we
congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
You are to contact your Claims Agent with immediate effect to
faciliate the protocol of your winning prized before the date
of Claim,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her
Settlement Centre. Prize must be claimed not later than 15
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.
These are your dentification numbers:
Batch number...................12/25/0340
Reff number........................Ref:MSN-L/200-26937
Winning number....................YM09788
To begin your claim please contact our licensed and
accredited agent assigned to you
Mr. Terry Martins
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email:mswclaimsdept19782009@live.com
Tel: +44-702-404-2554
You are therefore advised to send the following information
to the claims agent to facilitate them and in order for them
to have access in proceeding with the tranafer of your
funds to your nominated bank account.
1. Full name............
2. Country..............
3. Contact Address........
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Occupation.............
7. Company..............
8. Age....................
Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 15 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.
Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,
Mrs. Pamela James
(Operation Manager)
i recieved such email in my spam last night and still laughing 2 that ...
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