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From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <cyberanalyst310@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: info@national-lotto.1to1.org
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:36:47 -0700
Subject: EMAIL SELECTED. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX
England
(Customer Services)Dear Winner,
The draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes Internationalprogram held on 27th, April, 2006, won you the lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus.The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed and you are getting the FINALnotification as regards this Email.
Your company or your personal e-mail address, is attached to the winningnumbers: 4, 10, 23, 36, 37, 49. By our computer draw system, whichsubsequently won you the lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus Category. And youhave therefore been approved to claim: a total sum of £1,666,667 (ONE MILLION,SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN PoundsSterlings) in CASH credited to file number ; KTU/9023118308/03. and Draw Number:1080.01.The total cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this categoryi.e JACKPOT bonus. All participants for the online version were selectedrandomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through computer drawsystem and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporatebodies that are listed online. This is part of the Country's Programmeto fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 The £1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle.Other sums to be raised from the National Lottery would be from ticketsales, marketing, sponsorship and the sale of television rights.
Note that your £1,666,667, will be released to you by any of our paymentoffices in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence theprocess to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning informationconfidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to youin your country.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming andunwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with theinformation below:Complete the below form and summit it to: info@national-lotto.1to1.orgYOUR FULL NAMES:YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS:TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:YOUR AGE:YOUR SEX:YOUR COUNTRY:LANGUAGE:YOUR OCCUPATION:HAVE YOU EVER WON A LOTTERY BEFORE:HOW DO YOU FEEL TO BE A WINNER:Past winners round the world with full of excitmentPlease endeavor to contact Mr. Pedro Santarino with the required informationas soon as possible.Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY®.Yours faithfully,
Darryn Clarke(Mrs)
The cyber analyst
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
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