Crime Online

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:
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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
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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.

There has been a decrease in the numbers of lottery e-mails during the last weeks. I doubt that it means that there is a shift away from that type of scam e-mail. I am sure we will be seeing it in circulation for some time to come.