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This time the crooks have an address in London, Great Britain. The funny thing is if you take a look at the Connecticut Lottery site they make no mention of a London office.

The CT Lottery does have a page informing readers about typical scam messages using Connecticut Lottery as a front.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Missy Ashton© <admindept@ctlotto.com>
Date: 2008/10/19
Subject: CATEGORY “A” WINNING NOTIFICATION.
To: undisclosed-recipients

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CONNETICUT LOTTERY CORPORATION
64 MANCHESTER RD, LONDON E14 3BE

Ref Number: CT/17AD/LG9009
Batch Number: 839081500-CT/2008
Ticket Number: CT/11452/8707-905
Serial Number: 879CT-80-80
Amount Won: £2,750,000.00.

Attn Lucky Winner,

CATEGORY “A” WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We happily announce to you the result of the last final annual draw of our International Lottery Programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category “A” with the following numbers attached Ref Number: CT/17AD/LG9009, Serial Number: 879CT-80-80, Batch Number: 839081500-CT/2008 and Ticket Number: CT/11452/8707-905.

You are therefore to receive a cash prize of £2,750,000.00. (Two Million Sevn Hundred and Fifty Thousand GBP) from the total payout.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and Ref Number: CT/17AD/LG9009 and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category “A” winners with the information below:
*************************************
Name: Mr. Allan Baas
E-Mail: infoallanbaas_awardclaim@yahoo.com.hk
Phone: +44 703 1966612, +44 703 184 3533,
Fax: +44 870 495 8318, +44 871 5033515
*************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 21 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.

You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained). Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours Faithfully,
Missy Ashton
Lottery Coordinator.

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Who would ever write that as a subject line on an e-mail? African crooks, that’s who.

It’s just another fraud lottery using a major Internet companies name to give it some weight.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Mary Johnson <mary.johnson@fefc.org>
Date: 15 Oct 2008 14:43
Subject: Dear Esteemed Winner,
To:
Dear Esteemed Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the YAHOO! International Promotions Program held on the 13th  of  October 2008. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial number  7263- 267, batch number  8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £1,000,000.00 (i.e One Million  United Kingdom Pounds) in cash credited to file REF:YAHOO6/315116127/27.

To file for your claims you are to contact our REMMITANCE DIRECTOR for furtherinfomation and details as regarding your winning.You are hereby advised to rovide our claims department with the following information:
(1)REF Number
(2)Batch number
(3)Winning Email Address
(4)Full Names
(5)Address
(6)Next Of Kin
(7)Contact
(8)Phone Number
(9)Present Occupation
(10)Mode of claim of price (1)Bank Transfer
SIR.HENRY TURNEL (REMMITANCE DIRECTOR)
EMAIL: promofinancial_dept190@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: +44 70457 44763
Mrs. Mary  Johnson (Zonal Coordinator)
Note:
- All claims are nullified after 14 working days from today.
- Do inform the claims officer of any change of Names, Address and Email.
- All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.

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This is the first time somebody has used the Spanish subsidiary of the UK National Lottery

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From: Thomas Gasol
Date: 2008/8/31
Subject: !!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.
To: undisclosed-recipients

LOTERIA NACIONAL
Madrid-Spain
https://www.lotojuegos.com
Ref No: LN/88-5/XXX08.
Batch No: 009/12345SP.

!!!CONGRATULATION YOU ARE A WINNER!!!.

The Board of Directors, members of staff and the International Promotion Department of the LOTERIA NACIONAL Satellite lottery, Spain, wishes to congratulate you on your success as the STAR PRIZE WINNER in this year NACIONAL LOTTO Satellite lottery Spain International Promotion (SLP) .The late notice was due to mix up email addresses, no tickets were sold, and you were randomly selected as a winner.
This comes with a prize of One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euro (Ђ1,500,000) Euros in the LOTERIA-NACIONAL Satellite Software email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by Software powered by the Internet through the worldwide website.

Your email address was amongst those chosen this year for the LOTERIA-NACIONAL Satellite lottery. And this promotion is proudly sponsored by the EUROMILLONES LOTTO SPAIN organization. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our Computerized Email Selection System (C.E.S.S.) from a database of over a million email addresses from the World Wide Web. Each email address was attached to a ticket number and your email address with ticket number: KY/098/HG/7BN was randomly selected as the star prize winner amongst other consolation prize winners.

Your email address, attached to Ref number: LN/88-5/XXX08 with Serial number: 009/12345SP drew the lucky Numbers 25, and consequently won the lottery in the “A” Category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of Ђ 1,500,000 Euros.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In View of this, your Ђ 1,500,000 Euros will be released to you by our accredited remittance bank located in Europe.

To file for your claim, kindly fill the verification form below and send it to the Claims Manager, Mr. Thomas Gasol of the claims department through email, stating your receipt of this notification. He has been mandated to offer you assistance and facilitate the urgent delivery of your prizes.

Claims Manager,
M. Thomas Gasol
Tel: + 34-667-302-512
Email: loteriaclaim@aim.com

VERIFICATION FORM:
1.) FULL NAME:
2.) AGE:
3.) SEX:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) OCCUPATION:
6.) Ref. Number:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
9.) FAX NUMBER:
10) Monthly Income:

Thanks for been part of this promotional award programme.We wish you the best of lucky as you spend your good fortune.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Melissa De Grout
Promotion Manager
Tel: + 34-667-302-512
Email: loteriaclaim@aim.com
https://www.lotojuegos.com

N.B: Keep all lotto information from public to avoid double claims, as any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification.

Thomas Gasol, Loterei Nacional

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The Euromilliones Loteria is another favorite lottery company which often misused for scam e-mails.

The contact numbers quoted don’t look right (011 34 664 701 582) and are not reachable, at least not from Germany.

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From: Euro Millions
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:51 AM
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION NOTICE
To:

AVDA. CARLOS GONZALEZ Nº 16, 5°C; 28005 MADRID, SPAIN.

27th of August 2008
FROM: THE DESK OF MANAGING DIRECTOR
REF NUMBER: LP/2561000/08
TICKET NUMBER: 695-75QPZ4
BATCH NUMBER: 19762008/SP

ATTN:WINNER

AWARD NOTIFICATION NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of release of the EUROMILLONES LOTERIA PROGRAM held on 04/07 2008. Among the 126 participating international finalists playing 6000 full tickets in the fifth series, from a pool of $36,200,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Two Hundred Thousand Euros) in cash, your number 036-22564992-730 with Ticket number 695-75QPZ4 drew the lucky numbers 16-23-36-39-41 which consequently won a prize in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of € 5.712,877.84C (Five Million.Seventy Hundred Twelve Thousand,Eight Hundred and Seven Euros. Eighty Four Cents Only) in cash credited to a file REF Nº LP/2561000/04,TICKET 695-75QPZ4,BATCH Nº 19762004/SP Congratulations!!!!!.
Due to the impossibility to reach you, your fund and award certificate has been deposited with PLATINUM SECURITIES,S.L. and registered to your file claim number and insured in your name. Please forward all your claims to them as a bond has been placed on your award and they will be responsible for handling and remittance of won prices and funds until they are accurately disbursed. The deadline for this notice is the 10th of September 2008. Non-compliance within this period may result in disqualification and insured prizes will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed. Due to mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted to your nominated bank account or by a certified cheque, as this is a part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted advantage of this program by participants. All participants were selected through 25.000 names from USA, New Zealand, Europe, South America, Australia, Middle East, Africa and Asia as part of our international Promotions Program. We hope your lucky name will draw a bigger cash prize in subsequent programs. To begin your claim, please contact Mr Donald Clark, Foreign operation manager of PLATINUM SECURITIES S. L. at Tel:011 34 664 701 582 : FAX:011 34 911 817 817 655. Email: Platinum01@mail2world.com for handling and payment procedures. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your Reference, Batch and Ticket numbers in every of your correspondence with us or your agent Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Also note that you are to pay in return ten percent (10%) of the money you received to the PLATINUM SECURITIES .S. L. after which you have received the money in your designated account in your country.

We are hereby advice you to contact your claims agent immediately Mr. Donald Clark. Congratulations!!!! once again from all staff and thank you for choosing The Spanish int´l Lotto Commission.

Sincerely:
MRS CASSANDRA JOSE
DIRECTOR

Euromilliones, Cassandra Jose

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Whoever came up with that name?

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From: Jerry Freeman <gerryfreeman@eircom.net>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!CONTACT CLAIMS OFFICE.
To:

National Postcode Lottery

Attn: Winner

We bring to your notice the winning letter from Nationale Postcode Lottery {United Kingdom Promotion Company} held on the 8th of August, 2008 through Internet ballot System among 10,000 Microsoft users.

Subsequently, your email address attached to ticket number 24.2.6.37.15.45 won contract sum of 800,000.00 Pounds ,winning number 100364,ref number 00786.We request you to pay serious attention to this notification by contacting the claims department with claim information and procedures of claim.

Mr. Williams Brown
Tel: +44-871-794-2686
Fax: +44-7006-090-400
Email:unityfinance@sify.com

Congratulations once again from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours Sincerely,
Jerry Freeman
National Postcode Lottery

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