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It goes to show that any big named company is prone to be used by these crooks as a front.

This one starts of as a BT lottery and ends as, you guessed it ……. British National Lottery.

What a joke!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Micheal Roning <british_uklottery90@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Feb 24, 2007 3:09 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS..YOU JUST WON
To:

  BTLONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
BTLONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).
British Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.

ON.LONDONRef: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304

WINNING NOTIFICATION
Compliments of the season, we announce to you the draw of the British Lottery International programs held on the 18th  of November  2006 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545-188 with serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7,which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have been approved to claim a total sum of US $500, 000.00 (five hundred thousand, United States Dollars) in cash credited to file RPC/9080118308/04 made available from a total cash prize of US $25 Million dollars.

You were randomly selected for the online version  from world wide web sites through a computer drawn system extracted from over 100,000 companies. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon. In view of this, your US $500, 000.00 (five hundred thousand, United States Dollars) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London as soon as you establish contact.

  To file for your claims, contact us as soon as possible:

1. Name in full………….
2. Address……………..
3. Nationality………….
4. Age……………………
5. Occupation…………
6. Phone/Fax…………..

fiduciary agent via the below details;

Claim Agent: Mr Micheal Roning

Email: michealroning4uklottery@yahoo.co.uk

     Avoid unnecessary delays and complications, quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

CONGRATULATIONS  FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Michael Roning, Esq.
Tel: +44-702 405-3028

Zone Co-ordinator for BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

                                                                                                         Michael Ronin, Esq.

                                                                                                                    Zone Co-ordinator
                                                                                                                     Zone Co-ordinator

ON.LONDONRef: BTL/491OXI

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Billy Bangura <dickdada@postino.it>
Date: Jan 30, 2007 1:54 PM
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL!!
To:

Dear sir,
CONFIDENTIAL
Compliment of the day!
With the good reference made of your esteemed personal/office by the chamber of commerce here in Accra Ghana, I hereby wish to commence talks with you on a high confidential level. I am Billy Bangura presently a political refugee in Accra Ghana the son of the former MINISTER OF FINANCE of SIERRA LEONE, MR THAIMU BANGURA a gold dealer. During the recent crisis in my country, my late father was captured and killed by the rebels who accused him of mis-appropriation of funds and embezzlement. Shortly after his death, I and the rest of the family escaped to Ghana-West Africa region for safety. He [my late father] left some document with me  indicating consignment deposit made with a security company here in Ghana before his death, which the content US $50M {Fifty Million  United States Dollars}. I and my family are soliciting for your personal assistance with top arrange and to receive this money on behalf of  my family and ensure that the money is utilized wisely in a country of stable Economy like your country. The purpose of the money will  be for a viable investment after we have collected the money from the security Vault Company. The box was deposited for safe-keeping and your assistance is required because our status as political refugee does not permit us to handle large sum of money here, and you will also be excepted to provide us with information on investment opportunities in your country. We do not wish to contact any of my late father's business comrades/partner because we do not know who exactly caused his death. I and my family reason of contacting you is for your co-operation for you to assist the family in the removing of the fund out of the security company in your favour and ours as well. Moreover, to help us use the fund carefully for investment. All the necessary document are at my reach. With confidence in you as a trust-worthy person to act in good faith! I will introduce you to an attorney as my father's foreign partner who will assist you with legal proceedings.
Since your particulars will appear on every vital document as the owner of the fund this transaction will attract 30% for the assist you are rendering.
I look forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Billy Bangura.
[For: The Family]

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: scot william <scot_15@hotmail.fr>
Date: Feb 7, 2007 7:25 PM
Subject: FROM SCOT WILLIAM URGENT REPLY FOR MORE DETAILS AND CALL ME.
To:

From The Desk Of Mr Scot William.
Senior Staff In File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa.
Private Number……00226 70 40 32 85.
Private Email/ william_scot@hotmail.fr
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html

( "REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")

Compliment Of The Season,

Greeting, and how are you doing? I hope fine. Please let this my message do not be a surprise to you because I got your information and  lay trust in you before I contacted you. I am (SCOT WILLIAM) a senior staff in file department in African development bank (ADB).

When I was searching for a foreign partner i assured of Your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity when I prayed to God about you. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15 million U.S.A dollars (fifteen million U.S.A dollars). In an  account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in (Friday December 26, 2003) in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death,

We have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it  as next of kin or relation to the deceased as Indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of  kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and  one official in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into  the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would  be for ;me and my woman colleague. There after I and my colleague will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages  indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me on my number 00226 70 40 32 85. Immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
Immediately.

Yours faithfully,
SCOT WILLIAM.
POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will  prove to the bank. As you finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very well over this business. Please call me and inform me that you received my mail, because i don't go to net always.

With this e-mail there are two further follow up e-mails which show you one of the ways these people explain why you have to make a payment to them.

BRITISH LOTTERY
The Lottery Company
P.O Box 789
Harrogate HG1 2YR
*********************
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
*********************
Our Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#909) of the UK BRITISH NATIONAL PROGRAMME, online Sweepstakes international program held on the 17th Jan 2007.Your e-mail addressattached to e-ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number5368/02 drew the lucky (lotto)numbers:04-12-14-20-46-49-{24}.All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodie that are listed online.You have just won the sum of £500,000 (FIVE HUNDRED HOUSAND,POUNDS STERLING ) from BRITISH LOTTERY on our 2007 new year charity bonanza.

We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a onthly lottery. Failure to claim your win will result into the reversion of the fund to our following month.

You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims Department below .

Contact Person: Barr.Michael Lambert
Alpha Consultants Lawfirm & Schmidtz Associates
(Solicitors Advocates & Arbitrators)

email:alphaconsultants_uklottery@yahoo.co.uk

VERIFICATION FORM

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________
2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________
3.SEX:__________
4.AGE:__________
5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________
6.OCCUPATION:_______________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:__________________________
9.LOTTO NUMBER:____________________ B.DRAW
NUMBER:______________
10.TICKET NUMBER:___________________
11.SERIAL NUMBER:__________________
12.AMOUNT WON:______________________
13.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL____________
14. COUNTRY________________________________

NOTE: CHOOSE AN OPTION OF REMITTING YOUR WINNINGS TO YOU.

BANK TO BANK TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER.[]
HAND TO HAND DELIVERY.[]
SWIFT DIPLOMATIC DELIVERY OF CASHIER CHEQUE.[]

CLAIMANT SIGNATORY DECLARATION
=============================

I …HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE NEVER RECEIVED ANY FORM OF SETTLEMENT FROM THE BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY NOR ANY MEMBER OF MY FAMILY. I, THEREFORE, DECLARE THAT THE UK. NATIONAL PROMO ACTS ON MY BEHALF IN THE PROCESSING AND TRANSFER OF MY PRIZE AS INSTRUCTED BY ME.

Congratulations once again.

Regards,
Mrs Rose Wood,
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

Part Two - The first reply

Note how they already tell you that a deduction of the fees from the prize money is not possible. The payment has to be sent through Western Union. That way there is no way you can get your money back once it has been picked up at the other end.

Hello ,

Compliments of the day to you.

I WILL LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT PAYMENT OF YOUR C.O.T CODE FEE SHOULD BE MADE VIA WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER AS IT IS OUR PREFARED MEANS OF RECEIVING PAYMENT, AS IT IS LESS CUBERSOME AND FASTER TO OUR CASH OFFICER.

DETAILS OF HOW TO PAY C.O.T CODE FEE.

NAME: MR. NATHAN OBY
ADDRESS: VICTORIA SW1V 4DP
LONDON,ENGLAND.

HERE ARE THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO SEND TO US AFTER YOU HAVE MAKE THE PAYMENT FROM WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER.

NAME OF SENDER
ADDRESS OF SENDER
AMOUNT SENT
MONEY TRANSFER CONTROL NUMBER (M.T.C.N)

OUR REGULATION DO NOT MAKE ROOM FOR DEDUCTION.YOUR PRIZE HAVE BEEN INSURED TO THE REAL VALUE AND NO DEDUCTION CAN BE DONE.

ALL PAYMENTS ARE DULY GUARANTEED AND WE ARE POISED TO ENSURE CUSTOMERS SATISFACTION.

FOR YOUR OWN INTEREST PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS ACCORDINGLY AND MAKE SURE THERE IS NO MISTAKE OR OMISSION IN THE DETAILS WHEN MAKING THE PAYMENT.

COPIES OF TRANSFER RECEIPT SHOULD BE SENT TO ME VIA EMAIL/FAX AS ATTACHMENT FOR RECORDS AND REFERNCE PURPOSE.

NOTE THAT THE FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFERED AFTER CONFIRMATION OF YOUR C.O.T CODE FEE.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Kindest Regards,
MR. LOUIS MIKE
TEL : +44 704 011 5514
FAX : +44 709 288 5905

Part Three - the second reply

At this point they tell you what you have to pay. What a nice touch. They offer you three payment options.

Hello ,

Compliments of the day to you.
You have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Dept. at the headquarters of the National Lottery.

All your winning documents which includes your certificate and a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the european commission,stating that the money was obtained legally through the National Lotto and will be sent to you as soon as you meet with any of the option selected.

You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are Two options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the two.

The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1:
Courier your winner cheque to you via any of this channels listed below:

First class delivery:48 hours
(cost of delivery)
postage: 30.00 pounds
Insurance 300.00 pounds
Tax: 60.00 pounds
Total 410.00 pounds

Premuim class delivery:72 hours
( cost of delivery)
postage: 25.00 pounds
Insurance 300.00 pounds
Tax: 60.00 pounds
Total 385.00 pounds

Normal class delivery: in 116 hours
(cost of delivery)
Postage: 20.00 pounds
Insurance 290.00 pounds
Tax: 60.00 pounds
Total 370.00 pounds

Option 2:
The said amount won will be wired to your bank account via (Standard Alliance Bank Plc).

Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transferring bank, will be (i.e £1,000) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you.

Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you. Moreover, you are reqiured to send payment charges via western union money transfer, of what ever option you have chosen to our dispatch agent, who is in charge of sending you your cheque and winning documents.
Also,you are required to send to us as soon as possible,these few information below:
(1.)The delivery option which you’ve choosen.
(2.)Your bank details(if you have chosen option 2, bank transfer.)
(3.)Attach a scanned copy of either your driver’s licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document and send to us for identification purposes.
Having done this, you would be given proper guidelines on how to go about sending the payment.

Congratulations.
Kindest Regards,
MR LOUIS MIKE
TEL : +44 704 011 5514
FAX : +44 709 288 5905
FAX : +44 203 070 0538

Here’s a real 419 scam e-mail, as the americans call it.

Have you noticed the name? I am not sure, but I have the feeling that it is tradition in west African countries to put the surname before the first name. Although in this case it could go be written both ways.

Otherwise, this e-mail has all the hallmarks of a traditional scam e-mail:

• A West African Bank
• “Abandoned” Account
• Millions of Dollars
• No next of kin
• You should act as inheritor
• You get part of the proceeds

Oh, not forgetting ….

This is all Top Secret!

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: scot william
Date: Jan 12, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: FROM SCOT WILLIAM URGENT REPLY FOR MORE DETAILS AND CALL ME..
To:

From The Desk of SCOT WILLIAM.
Senior Staff in File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa.
Private Number……00226 70 40 32 85
Private….. E MAIL ADDRESS william_scot@hotmail.fr
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE

This is my bank website in Burkina Faso.
www.bkofafrica.net)

(REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS CONFIDENTIAL IS THE
CASE)
Compliment of the Season

Greeting, and how are you doing? I hope fine. Please let this my message do not be a surprise to you because I got your information and lay trust in you before I contacted you. I am (SCOT WILLIAM) a senior staff in file department in African development bank (ADB).

When I was searching for a foreign partner i assured of Your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity when I prayed to God about you. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15 million U.S.A dollars (fifteen million U.S.A dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in (Friday December 26, 2003) in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death,

We have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
Indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one official in my department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner, and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for ;me and my woman colleague. There after I and my colleague will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I
will send to you by fax or email the text of the application I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me on my number 00226 70 40 32 85. Immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you Immediately.

Your’s faithfully,

SCOT WILLIAM.
POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank. As you finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss very well over this business. Please call me and inform me that you received my mail, because i don’t go to net always.

I have said this often enough. Bill Gates doesn’t even know he is part of this scam.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: zomerinfor@virgilio.it
Date: Jan 11, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: CONTACT MIKEL VAN BEEKER.
To: undisclosed-recipients

CONTACT MIKEL VAN BEEKER.

FROM: PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF MICROSOFT /
STAATLOTERIJ,
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY “A” WINNER.
Ref. No:
LSLUK/2031/8161/06.
BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD.
Email:
mikelvanbeeker@netscape.net

Attention: Dear Winner,

Compliments of the season, Microsoft / Staatloterij International has just concluded there year draws of it’s periodical promotional program. An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from the internet with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently won in the First Category.

No tickets were sold. Your email address emerged as one of two winners in the gold stakes category “A” as email addresses were soughted, from a total number of 1,000,000 addresses drawn from all over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only two winners emerged in this category and therefore each are to receive payouts of $1,000,000.00only from the total of $2,000,000.00.

However, every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket number, after the cyber lotto selection, the below ticket and reference numbers emerged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.

Reference number for your prize is: LSLUK/2031/8161/06. BATCH NUMBER: 14/011/IPD.
ticket number: 50941465206-529.

For your prize claim processing, we have employed the service of an international Trust firm. They are to handle the transfer of your cash prize of $1,000,000.00 in line with our procedures and upon your directions. Your prize has been insured to its full value with your email address and will be transferred to you under their professional service.

To immediately initiate the processing of your prize claim, please contact the under mentioned at our claims department;

Mikel Van Beeker , Mrs Cheryl Klein Huis
NETPOINT CLAIM MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
TEL/ 0031-643-886-038.
Email:mikelvanbeeker@netscape.net

In your best interest(s), you must initiate contact within three weeks of receipt of this Correspondence. Attorney / Fiduciary Agents are to handle all matters with regards to legalization of your winning documents. You are also advised to send a copy of this email, to the Director of operations at the claims department, Mikel Van Beeker.

You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process of collecting your prize. We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.

Thank you and Congratulations!!!.

Sincerely,
Mrs.Hillary Van Der Hoofd.
Promotions Manager,
============================
This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
the system manager.

*Microsoft Copy right 2006*