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From: "irish_sweepstake" <irish_sweepstake@terra.com.mx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:02:01 -0600
Subject: IRISH SWEEPSTAKE WINNING NOTIFICATION
The Irish Lottery
P O Box 1010
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1004) of the IRISH LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program held on saturday 1th of July, 2006. It is now available for claims and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards this.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:08, 20, 21, 24, 28, 40, (bonus no.39), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1.35 Million(One million, three hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £4,419,864 shared amongst the(2)lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus.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 bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.
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 £1.35 Million(One million, three hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling) will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
MRS. JENET WALTER
Email: jenet_irishfiduciaryagent@earthlink.net
Endeavour to email her the informations below:
Full names........
Address..............
sex..................
Age....................
Winning numbers.........
Email address..............
Telephone....................Fax.................
Occupation.......................
Country.............. immediately.
Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE IRISH LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Sir. Cooker Johnson
Phone: +44-703-185-1913
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
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