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• from 6 DICE LOTTERY UK <6dice@centrum.cz>
• subject CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A WINNER

6 DICE LOTTERY UK
30 Leicester Square City,
London WC2H 7LA
UNITED KINGDOM

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 3 lucky winners in the 6 DICE LOTTERY UK draw held on 21st of March 2008. All 3 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 5,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 2 others as a 3rd category winner in this month’s draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of ?2,000,000 Pounds (Two million pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 6,21,10,41,27,19 (ii) Serial number:3-21-5 (iii) Lotto batch number: SDL-371 (iv) Reference number: OFS-358-2

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:

John Edwards
Claims Department Manager
Olivet Financial Services
Email: olivetfinancialservicesuk@hotmail.com
Tel:+44 70457 12473
Tel:+44 70457 51687
Fax:+44 70060 70846
Fax:+44 70059 47103

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your Winning information confidential until your claim have been processed. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participant.

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Peter Dickson
Promotions Manager

N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today.
2.Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4.All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
5.Please contact your claims agent by fax or email (John Edwards).

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Why this is a scam email:

1. 6 Dice Lottery UK doesn’t exist (it’s the UK National Lottery).
2. The UK National Lottery’s address is not in London.
3. Emails always come from the National Lottery’s own domain (i.e national-lottery.co.uk), not from, as in this case, a mail server in the Czech Republic.
4. You are never asked to reply to genuine emails by email, especially not back to a personal hotmail addresses.
5. Only if you buy your lottery tickets online, do you then receive notification of winning. You must also be a resident of the United Kingdom to enter.
6. When they do notify you of a win, they always address you by your firstname.
7. They never disclose the amount you have won in an email. Nor do they tell you the winning numbers.
8. They do not give out staff names in emails.
9. You aren’t told you have only 10 days to claim (you have 6 months to claim prizes with the National Lottery).
10. They certainly wouldn’t say there has been a “mix up of some numbers and names”!

If you recieve an email like this, ask yourself some of the following questions:

1. Did you buy a lottery ticket from the website or from a store?
2. Did you actually buy a ticket recently (or ever)?
3. If the scam email has “winning numbers” stated, are they a winning combination anyway? (Past numbers can be checked on the National Lottery website).

Think over some of the previous points before being tempted by these “too good
to be true” emails. All these scammers want from you are “fees” so they can
send you the money. Remember there is NO money & the National Lottery DO
NOT request fees to let you claim on a genuine winning ticket.