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Fraud email example:
From: "Mrs. Tina Forrester" <notification@camelotuniversalpromotions.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:41:29 +0000
Subject: PRIZE APPROVAL NOTIFICATION!
Camelot Lottery Promos,
406 Bury New Rd.,
Whitefield,
Manchester M45 7SX
U.K.
Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the selected winners of the
Camelot Lottery Promos held on 30th of June 2005. Your email address
attached to ticket number 9901-0148-790-691, with serial number 6109-17 drew
the lucky numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83; the lottery was categorized into four
zonal (Africa, America, Europe and Asia) stages. Consequently you have won
the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out of $300,000.00[Three Hundred Thousand] Credited to file REF NO:
MELI-T/17-F044262312 Batch No. 13/FFP/LDL/037.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA and
North America. All participants in this Lottery Program have been selected
randomly through a computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 Companies
and 30,000,000 individual emails address from all search engines and web
sites. This promotional program will take place every year until the games
begin in Beijing China in 2008. However, winners are only eligible for
claims once.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your
money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is open
to all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email address and
who live in any of the aforementioned countries. This promotion is void in
all other countries and is also void where prohibited. Principals and
employees of the Camelot Lottery Promos and its respective Parents,
subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.
CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for the processing
of claims application. It is even more imperative for overseas winners. To
begin your claims therefore, you are advised as a matter of urgency, to
contact the under listed licensed and accredited claims agent for the
processing of your prize awards winning.
Please contact the clearing house (through your claims agent only) the body
assigned with the verification of all emergent winner. Therefore all
protocols laid down by them must be followed to facilitate your claims;
CONTACT AGENCY:
MR. LARRY BISHOP AND ASSOCIATE LTD U.K,
20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K
CONTACT PERSON:
MR. LARRY BISHOP
Email: camelotagency@uk2.net
Fax: 44-870-133-4067
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process,
failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings Forfeiture.
Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.
(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions of
claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your prize awards
winning.
(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning details
very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this
confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered solely by such
winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment.
(d) By this lottery prize awards winning, you acknowledge your acceptance to
be added to our lottery master player database.
(e) By this prize winning, you agree to receive periodic mailings which will
include, but are not limited to; Newsletters, Invitations to Play,
Announcements, Adverts and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master
players, from all the sponsoring entities.
(f) By this winning, you understand that you reserve the discretion to be
removed from any such mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from
this and subsequent lottery entries. Removal instructions are on every mail.
(f) We hereby do solemnly pledge to maintain the privacy of our master
players/lucky
Winners database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or the
illegal use of information about our layers/winners.
(g) In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and batch numbers in every one of your
correspondences with your agent.
(i) Should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent
as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of
our Promotions program.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Tina Forrester.
Co-coordinator.
NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
CORRESPONDENCE TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.
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The Camelot Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, Mackintosh and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies. The Camelot LOTTERY
internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the
use of the internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that up to
One Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 Countries worldwide.
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