May 2, 2008
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BIG LOTTERY FUND LUCKY WINNER – Lottery Email Scam
The scammers seem to be back in full swing after a few weeks of quiet!
Please note the Big Lottery Fund does NOT run a lottery. They make payments to causes from money raised by the UK National Lottery. This is what they say in regard to email scams:
Have you received an email telling you that you have won a prize from Big Lottery Fund? If you have, it has not come from us. We do not run a lottery or give away prizes. We only make grants to people and organisations that have applied to us. Any lottery that asks for payment to claim a prize is not run by either the Big Lottery Fund or the UK National Lottery.
We advise you not to give your money or your details to unknown organisations or individuals.
Also, there wasn’t a draw made by the UK National Lottery on the 1st April (perhaps this is a late April Fools trick?). The closest draw was made on the 2nd April & the numbers were: 2 – 6 – 21 – 23 – 43 – 47 – 29 with a bonus number of 5. The prize was £2,503,562, split between 2 winners.
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from “BIG LOTTERY FUND.” claims_roeder@yahoo.com.hk
to Admin@wr-il.net
subject BIG LOTTERY FUND LUCKY WINNERBIG LOTTERY FUND
BIRMINGHAM CENTRE,
APEX HOUSE 3 EMBASSY DRIVE EDGBASTON,
BRIMINGHAM B15 1TR,
UNITED KINGDOM.We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent BIG LOTTERY FUND PROGRAMME DRAWS (#1001) held on the 1ST of April, 2008 through computer ballot system Your email,is attached to ticket number 023-1856-790-279, with serial number 5073-10 drew the lucky numbers 43-58-42-37-69-72 Bonus No. 7, and consequently won the lottery in the first category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ?2,500,000.00 POUNDS STERLING.{Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds sterling} in cash credited to file REF: BLF/26510460037/02.
This is from total prize money of ?25,000,000.00 shared among Ten Lucky international winners in this category.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa as part of International Promotions Program.
You have to send following details in order to facilitate the processing and release of your winning.
From James Kohan – 419 Email Scam
A well used & abused sob story, this 419 scam email is attempting to make you feel sorry for the criminal. There was no such event, there is no money, so do not be tempted by the lies.
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reply-to james_kohan08@universia.pt
subject From James Kohan
HelloMy name is James Kohan from Cote d’Ivoire. I am 19 years old and a student before now.
Please I would like you to assist me as urgent as you can, My father George Kohan was a wealthy cocoa merchant. Trouble began early last year when my father’s associates began suspecting that my father is not giving proper accounts of all the tonnes of cocoa being cultivated by local farmers in some villages. As a result of this, he was poisioned by his associates.
At his hospital bed ,he revealed to me the reasons of his sickness and a deposit he made in a prime Bank here,the money is 5.5 million American Dollars .which he made me the next of kin, being the only son. He advised me that in case he dies, that I should not stay in this country Cote d’ Ivoire because his associates may equally kill me hence my mother had died when i was two years of age of breast cancer.
He also instructed that , I should look for a foreign partner who will help me to transfer the money out of this place Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire,
Based on this, I had to contact you bearing in mind that you will be humane enough to protect my life.
My father finally died on the 5th of january,2008 and since then, I am out of school and went into hiding because of my father’s associates and only Uncle. All the relevant documents of the deposited in a Prime Bank here by my late father, are with me now.
I am ready to give you 15% of the total money, if you can help me transfer this money into your account as my guidian, for onward investment in your country as advised by my late father before he died.
Please contact me immediately so that I stop further contacts and please,remember the urgency and confidentiality my mail require.
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.Yours Truly
James Kohan
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