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Lottery Fraud a cyber crime - bilal azhar - 12-21-2004
Few days ago i received the following email.
Reply-To [email protected]
Sent Sunday, May 9, 2004 651 PM
To [email protected]
Subject BONANZA NOTIFICATION!!!
Treasure Chest Sweepstakes Lottery,
Avenida de Sevilla 93,
Madrid 29001,
SPAIN.
FROM MRS. LUISA GOMEZ
THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
RE / AWARD NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of your selection as one
of the five winners of the promotional Treasure Chest Sweepstakes Lottery Spain
held recently as part of our EXPERIMENTAL BONANZA. You have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay out of 705,366.87 Euros ( Seven Hundred and Five
Thousand Three Hundred and Sixty Six Euros Eighty Seven Cent only) in cash
credited to file REF NO. TCL/2551/256003/52.
We in the Treasure Chest Sweepstakes Lottery Spain is by this program,
Launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to
satisfy the cravings of the ever-growing number of participants in our various
lottery programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to
all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record time.
After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database of 300,000
emails all participants were selected through a computer ballot system from the
Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and South America as part of our
International Promotions Program, which was conducted in view of launching
ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry Worldwide and zoning all participants by
their respective continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list
from which you or your company have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand
Draw prize.
To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, Contact our agents by email or
telephone within a week of receiving this notice. Please find full contact
details below
MR. ALFONSO RODRIGUEZ,
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
MEDITTERENEAN S.L. SPAIN
TEL+34 625 251 814
EMAIL [email protected]
Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below
Ref No TCL/2551/256003/52
Batch No06/0309/IB
Zonal Draw No GLES-7-105
Grand Draw No 12099
Also send your Name,Email Address,Contact Address and Country of Residence when
replying your Claims Agent. Remember, you must contact your claim agent not
later than a week of receiving this notification. After this date, all funds
will be returned as unclaimed. All correspondences to MR. ALFONSO RODRIGUEZ, by
email or telephone, should have this EMAIL sent along with it, should be clearly
and BOLDLY WRITTEN IN YOUR RESPONSE with your claims agent.
NOTE
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to Quote
your reference and batch numbers in every one of your correspondences with your
agent.
Furthermore you are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information
and numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous
individuals.
Primary Sponsors
⢠A-1 Appliance
⢠Coca-Cola
⢠Coors Light Beer
⢠Miller Beer
⢠WRNO
FOR a moment i thougt i have become a millionaire and now there is no need to do CA.But after i regain my senses i wrote the word TREASURE CHEST SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY SPAIN on the yahoo search engine and found that i was a fraud but i replied to above address and after two or three mails from both sides they finally asked my bank account number and other details. NOW tomorrow i have received an email from them in which they have said that first of all i will have to pay 2250 euros as postage charges and after that immediately they will trasfer the money to my bank account.
have any one of u received this kind of mail?
is this a fraud?
bilal
Edited by - bilal azhar on Dec 23 2004 123059 AM
Edited by - bilal azhar on Dec 23 2004 014744 AM
- Goodman - 12-22-2004
Check your bank there might be millions already sitting there.
no, the best thing is forward the email to your service provider replacing the prefix with the word abuse
Say if it was generated from hotmail server, forward it to [email protected] and the service provider will take care of it.