Thursday, March 27, 2008

...congRATulatIONs...

I was just puzzled when I received this message a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't believe about it. Mixed emotions were felt that time upon reading it. Imagine that? Well, the message goes this way...


Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC


CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Dear Winner,


We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was released on the 14th of March 2008,from the Australian International Lottery programme,which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/09 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia,United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotion program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in Amsterdam, Holland as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$1,000,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope that with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.To file for your claim, please contact our claims department through the claims agent:

Name: Mr.Howard Greg
Tell: +234 803-2467781
E-mail:howardgreg.claimsagent111@yahoo.co.uk or
howard_greg@hotmail.com

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participants or unofficial personnel.Note: all winnings MUST be claimed by the 30th April, 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations.


YOURS SINCERELY,

Mr.James Ross
Australian Lottery International (co-ordinator).



I am hoping somebody could tell me something about it. Does this exist? Is it true? Did someone got the same message before? What happened? What did you do? Please your thoughts about it. Thanks in advance...

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