Nothing to do with education, but I just received this and thought I would make everyone aware of it. Cheers, George FROM: THE MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT. SMARTBALL LOTTERY, UK. DEAR WINNER, SECOND CATEGORY HIGH STAKES DRAW Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the Results of the Stakes Draws of SMARTBALL LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM. We are happy to inform you that you have Emerged a winner under the Second Category High Stakes Draw, Which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held on 15TH JANUARY, 2005 and results are being officially Announced today. Participants were selected through a computer Ballot system drawn from 30,000 names/email addresses of Individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program. You/Your Company, attached to ticket number 55-9-478, with serial number 52-27 drew the winning Numbers 04 10 17 19 29 42 (21) and consequently won in The Second Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum payout of £3,500,000:00M GBP (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds), which is the winning payout for Second Category Winners. This is from the total prize money of £10,500,000:00 shared between Three (3) winners in the B Category. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Your fund has been long deposited with our International Funds Transfer agents HERITAGE FINANCE SECURITY and has been insured in your name. In your best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double Claiming or unscrupulous acts by Participants/non-participants of this program. We also wish to bring to your notice our mid-year 2005 Premium Stakes Draw where you stand a chance of Winning up to £50 M that will be shared Amongst 10 winners worldwide, we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate. Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated Bank account of your choice; MR. PAUL GRAHAM FINANCE MANAGER, HERITAGE FINANCE SECURITY PLAINS HERITAGE CENTRE HOUSE 642 HIGH ROAD, LEYTONSTONE GREATER LONDON E113AA, UK. FAX: +44 2081816482 TEL: +44 7040117541 MOBILE: +8821646655614 EMAIL: [email protected] You are advised to contact your claims agent by Email and/or Fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to do so may warrant immediate disqualification. NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find Below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to Quote these numbers in every one of your Correspondence with your claims agent. REFERENCE NUMBER: SMBUK/05/7800/84589/CW321 BATCH NUMBER: G5/B002-1 Congratulations once again from all our staff and Thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely, JEFFREY WALKINS THE COORDINATOR, SMARTBALL LOTTERY UK. 133 Crosby Rd. PO Box 9600 St. John's NF A1A 3C1. UK. TEL. / Fax: +447005802154 N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your transfer agent immediately.
I assume that these are a take off of the original Nigeria prince scam. This scam has now apparently grown into many forms with rich old Christians on their death bed wanting to donate their millions to a "good cause". I consider them all similar because the goal seems to be the same, to get the victim to hand over their bank account number so that the funds can be transferred in but, they will really transfer the funds out.
Snopes references here One has to wonder how many of millions of Nigerian princes, generals and ministers have been dieing over the past few years and how many thousands of billions of dollars are waiting in bank accounts. They must be one of the richest countries on the planet!
