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419 Scam Example: "LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL (ANDREW GORDON, Walker Smith)"
"LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL (ANDREW GORDON, Walker Smith)" is a scam operated by a gang at the Vic Viz Internet cafe in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria and in the UK. While there is a real "Lucky Day" lottery portal site in the Netherlands, which is part of the legitimate Dutch lottery company "De Lotto", neither Lucky Day nor De Lotto send out any winning notifications by email to people who never bought a lottery ticket from them. So if you received an email claiming you won in Lucky Day or De Lotto and you'd never heard of them before, you have received an example of the 419 scam, which is a type of fraud. "Lucky Day" and "De Lotto" do not have a payment office in either London or Manchester and like all legitimate lotteries it does not charge winners any fees before they can get their prize. In real lotteries you can not win unless you bought a ticket. Please forward us replies of claims agents, especial money demands and payment instructions! Below are some examples of such fake lottery winning notifications.
Congratulations!!!! FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT BATCH NO: PTP/31211214257/190888/2202 REF. NO: PTP/21449267220/255100//2202 WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!! This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 10th of March 2005. Your name attached to ticket number 219028657434 with serial number 918735625 drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99, which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 1,000,000.00euros only in cash, which is deposited with Finance & Security Company in your favor as beneficiary and covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our agent below that have been appointed for the processing of your claim with your contact telephone and fax number to begin the processing of your payment. CONTACT NAME: ANDREW GORDON CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND. TELEPHONE: +4470 4011 6937 FAX: 1-440-337-8573 EMAIL: claimofficial_2005@financesource.com Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 21st of April 2005. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and Complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. 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. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Yours Sincerely, Mr. Walker Smith _________________________________________________________________________ Hosted By: Http://www.Aniverse.Com - Your Anime Web Portal Message headers: Firstname Lastname <emailaddress>Received: from 216.139.176.62 (Aniverse WebMail authenticated user luckydaylottery@aniverse.net) by webmail.aniverse.com with HTTP; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:29:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <2231.216.139.176.62.1111325353.aniverse@webmail.aniverse.com> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 07:29:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: Congratulations!!!! From: <luckydaylottery@aniverse.net> To: <luckydaylottery@aniverse.net>
WHOIS details for sending network (IP 216.139.176.62): netname: VICBI-1 OrgName: Vic Biz OrgID: VICBI-1 Address: 7 Akpakpava str City: Lagos StateProv: PostalCode: Country: NG NetRange: 216.139.176.56 - 216.139.176.63 CIDR: 216.139.176.56/29 NetName: QKON30 NetHandle: NET-216-139-176-56-1 Parent: NET-216-139-160-0-1 NetType: Reassigned Comment: RegDate: 2003-07-24 Updated: 2003-07-24 TechHandle: EJI-ARIN TechName: Jimoh, Ester TechPhone: 2348033248388 TechEmail: dstaal@qkon.com OrgTechHandle: EJI-ARIN OrgTechName: Jimoh, Ester OrgTechPhone: 2348033248388 OrgTechEmail: dstaal@qkon.com
"LUCKY-YEAR AND GLOBAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL" From: "Congratulations you have won a Lottery" <luckyyearpromoinc@tsamail.co.za> Sent: Tuesday, 05 April, 2005 13:22 Subject: Congratulations you have won a Lottery FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT LUCKY-YEAR AND GLOBAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT. WINNING NOTIFICATION /FINAL NOTICE.......CONGRATULATIONS!!!! This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD held on the 23RD of December, 2004. Due to the mix up of numbers,the results were released on the 30th of January, 2005. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 4156189324 under agent ID: 110 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of 1,000,000.00EUR (One Million EUR) in cheque drawn in your favour as beneficiary and covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. To begin your lottery claim, you should contact this office on through this email address: (luckyyearin@web-mail.com.ar) EMAIL: luckyyearin@web-mail.com.ar Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 21days of receiving these notification. After this date all unclaimed, funds will be included in the next stake. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications please remember to quote your WINNING NUMBER numbers all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform us as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Yours faithfully, Mrs. Ann Douf ___________________________________________________________________________ Mail sent from WebMail service at PHP-Nuke Powered Site - http://yoursite.com --
"SHIPPMENT/COURIER OF YOUR CHEQUE" (EUR 995.00) From: LUCKY-YEAR AND GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY [mailto:luckyyearin@web-mail.com.ar] Sent: 21 April 2005 11:46 To: Firstname Lastname Subject: GET BACK IMMEDIATELY FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT LUCKY-YEAR AND GLOBAL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT. www.luckyday.nl SIR/MADAM, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! THIS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RECEIPT OF YOUR INFORMATIONS.AND TO FORMERLY INFORM YOU THAT AFTER THE VERIFICATION PROCESS CONDUCTED ON YOUR PRIZE AWARD VERIFICATION & PAYMENT FORM THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT HAVE GIVEN US THE GO AHEAD TO MAKE FULL PAYMENT TO YOU TO THE TUNE OF EUROS 1,000,000.00. THE SAID SUM IS NOW DEPOSITED IN OUR SUSPENSE ACCOUNT IN YOUR FAVOR WAITING FOR THE IMMEDIATE REMITTANCE INTO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT. BE INFORMED THAT YOUR WINNING PRIZE HAS A HARDCOVER INSURANCE POLICY THAT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ANY DEDUCTION OF ANY KIND, UNTIL THE SUM IS FINALLY CREDITED INTO YOUR DESIGNATED ACCOUNT. FOLLOWING THE ABOVE, YOU ARE TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE SUM OF €995.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE EUROS), BEING PAYMENT FOR THE SHIPPMENT/COURIER OF YOUR CHEQUE AND YOUR WINNING CERTIFICATE. YOU ARE ADVISED TO MAKE THIS PAYMENT THROUGH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER TO THE NAME OF OUR ACCOUNTS CLERK AS STATED BELOW: NAME OF RECEIVER: NICK PATRICK ADDRESS: KLEIGBURG 184 ZIP CODE: 1104 EA CITY: ZUIDOOST STATE/PROVINCE: AMSTERDAM COUNTRY: NETHERLANDS. YOU ARE TO SCAN AND SEND THE EVIDENCE OF PAYMENT THROUGH EMAIL TO THIS OFFICE. THIS PROCESS IS VITAL AND URGENT FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTION FROM OUR CLIENTS THAT ALL PRIZE MONEY SHOULD BE CLAIMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON. WE WAIT FOR SCAN COPY OF YOUR EVIDENCE OF PAYMENT THAT WILL ENABLE US TO PROCEED WITH YOUR CLAIM. LASTLY AS SOON AS YOU MAKE THIS PAYMENT YOU ARE ALSO TO SEND TO US THE CONTROL NUMBERS AND THE TEXT QUESTION IF THERE IS ANY. MR, ROBERT COLLINS HAS BEEN APPPOINTED AS YOUR AGENT. HE WILL NOW BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAY TO DAY HANDLING OF YOUR CLAIM AND ALL YOUR FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESS TO HIM. YOU CAN CALL MR. ROBERT COLLINS ON : 00447031848715 YOU ARE ADVISED TO ADHERE STRICTLY TO THIS INSTRUCTION. YOURS FAITHFULLY, MRS. ANN DOUF
Money demand:
From: paymentofficemanchester@surefish.co.uk
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