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From: "bmw lottery" <bmwinterlotto43@rediffmail.com>
Date: 24 Oct 2006 15:47:44 -0000
Subject: FROM BMW AUTOMOBILES..............CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER..................
BMW AUTOMOBILES / ASIAN EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM.
(B) Batch No: WNTO/7416/VA/ES(BB) Ticket No: TWMT/1800/806 (BBB) Lucky No: 07-13-31.54-64(Bv) Ref No: EMLES/2006/M (v) Serial No: CNMMM/67000/MMC
CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE!!!
BMW AUTOMOBILES and Co-sponsors, ASIAN EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM, officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of July-2006 BMW AUTOMOBILES EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM wheel E-game which was conducted \\at our international corporate office complex in Tokyo - Japan.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give outprizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literature projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 10 lucky consolation prize winners.
Your email ID identified with Coupon No. EEPP/001324625 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 5,000,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 5,000,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.
You have won a BMW X3 and a consolation car maintainance cash prize of US$787,000:00 (Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand United States Dollars Only). The BMW AUTOMOBILES / ASIAN EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM Group have approved a payout of your consolation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board.
To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed claims agent below as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
DR. JUN MOTO, E-mail: info_reg_desk@myway.com
The appointed agent will be required to Notarize all your award winning documents in the respective Municipal Court and also obtain Approval Legal Clearance Certificate from the Court here in JAPAN which is in accordance with the Asian Union Lottery Act 2004 on payment of International Lottery Winners. Be informed that the PAYING BANK will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this fiduciary agent.
Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our next coming BMW AUTOMOBILES Email Award Game.
Best Regards, Anita Raynes Smith (Mrs.). (Bmw Automobile Lottery Coordinator)
NB: In accordance with the ASIAN EMAIL PROMOTION PROGRAM E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 10 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary,privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky numbers along with the winning informations you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.
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