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An Email with the Subject "YOU ARE A WINNER!! CONGRATULATION!!!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:27:03 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as UK POWERBALL LOTTERY PROMOTION <cccc_renee10@yahoo.co.jp>.
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Dear winner,
UK POWERBALL LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, as a lucky
Winners of the POWERBALL LOTTERY, UNITED KINGDOM / INTERNATIONAL,
PROGRAMS for this year 2007.Your e-mail address is attached to ticket
number: 023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5073-11 drew the lucky
numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, which subsequently won you the lottery in the
2nd category.
As Category 'B' winner, you have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of five million Five hundred thousand Dollars {US$5,500,000} in cash
credited to file REF NO.OYL/25041238013/07. This is from total prize Money
Of US$800,400,000.00 shared among the forty International winners in this
category. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our
European booklet representative office in Europe as contained in your
file.
To file for your claim, please contact our Category 'B' fiduciary agent
Rev.
Mark Steve to pick up your claim certificate by providing the necessary
information below:
CLAIM FIDUCIARY AGENT
Rev. Mark Steve
EMAIL: revmarksteve@o2.pl
Full Name: ----------------------------------------------
Contact address:---------------------------------------
Country of origin: ------------------------------------
Sex: -------------------------------------------------------
Age: ------------------------------------------------------
Occupation: --------------------------------------------
Telephone and fax number: ------------------------
Email serial number: --------------------------------
Ticket number: ----------------------------------------
As a category 'B' winner, all participants for the free online lotto
version
were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through the computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 names / companies from
Africa, Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America and Asia as
Part of International Promotions Program, which is Conducted Bi-Annually.
After the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only
first
seventeen- (17) lucky winners emerged in this category. This lottery
program was organized and sponsored by MSN,BILL GATE Microsoft Inc,
Toshiba, Multi Choice and other corporate Organizations to improve the use
of computer software's and for the benefit of every Microsoft user
worldwide. Please be informed that due to mix up in cash pay-outs, we
advise you to keep your winning information confidential until your fund
has
been fully paid to you by our accredited settlement bank. This measure
must be adhered in order to avoid loss of your cash prizes and to
forestall
the abuse of this program by other participants who lost out in the
lottery.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of
our
promotions program.
Sincerely,
Mr. Chris Renee
The Promotions Manager.
Tel: +447031903111