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To: David Lawrence who wrote (46)	8/15/2003 11:02:24 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 131

Got this Lottery Scam e-mail a few days ago. Not that I needed any proof it was a con job, but they at least could have tried to put my name in the message somewhere. - Jeff From: MR Burk J. Fellow [mailto:lottouk@uk2.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 3:37 PM To: gtarr@hotmail.com CATEGORY B WINNER WINNING NOTICE! KP6821873DL It is our pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as a Category "B" winner of the UK International Lotto. CONGRATULATIONS! You are entitled to a prize sum of US$2,500,000.00. Reference number for your prize is KP6821873DL; ticket number A/03-4912. As a category B winner, you have been selected from a total number of 25,000 names drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East and America. After the computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only six winners emerged in the category and therefore both are to receive payouts of US$2,500,000.00 from the total US$15,000,000.00 for second category winners. To immediately collect your prize, please contact our Category "B" financial handlers with information below: Mr. Carl Gareth Financial Director International Contracting Company Ltd 76 New Fetter Lane London, EC4A 1AG TELEPHONE: +44 7092009646, 008821621221440 FAX: + 44 7092009646 Email: cgareth2@inter-ccltd.com Provide prize reference number-KP6821873DL and winning ticket number-A/03-4912 for confirmation. In your best interests, you must initiate contact within one week of receipt of this correspondence. International Contracting Company Ltd will handle all matters with regards to claiming your prize. You are also advised to send a copy of this email, either by fax or email, to your financial handler Mr. Carl Gareth, when contacting him. You are to keep all lottery information from the public as we will not entertain cases of multiple claims processing or compromise the privacy and security for all winners. Other necessary International Lotto UK information are: Draw 1 number: 01-11417 Draw 2 number: 02-7962 International Lottery code no: IL55008 You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process of collecting your prize. We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future. Thank you. Sincerely, Burk J. Fellow Promotions Manager International Lotto UK ===== Lottery Scam Warnings There seems to be a rash of scam emails doing the rounds which tell you that you have won a jackpot prize in a fake lottery. You'll find links to examples of these emails (below) published without the writers' permission, in the hope that awareness will, somewhere along the line, save somebody from being parted with their savings. Users who responded to their emails have been asked to send €5,625 as a "service fee" to receive their 'winnings'. If you pay that money you then receive another letter, claiming to be from the Gaming Board of Great Britain, and with a forged signature of a board member, asking for €20,000. So far, at least 20 people who have lost their €5,000 - please don't let the next one be you!! On a serious side, many people are asking us what can be done about this. The sad fact is that there are so many scams that the authorities can not chase them all. The Metropolitan Police have established a resource to assist in combating specific types of high value fraud, which include a contact email address. If you receive any of the emails or direct mailings mentioned below, we recommend that you delete them and make your friends and colleagues aware of their existence. Do NOT reply to them and DO NOT complete their online claim forms. Note that the so-called 'winning numbers' and the prize values vary by email and some variations ask you to complete an emailed or online claim form at a url like "internationalcontractingcompany.com" which forwards to anonymous pages on MSN. DO NOT complete the form as you will be giving away personal information to the scamsters. As a somewhat humorous aside, we received one of these emails addressed to "Dear Sales" (email address: sales@lottery) informing us that we were one of six lucky winners of £2.5 million. The scammer had, however, used CC in their email instead of BCC and you could see that the same email had been sent to several hundred people all with email addresses beginning with the letter "s"! Samples of the scam emails "UK Lotto" - Financial Securities Co. Scam: Read Email "Euro - Afro American Sweepstake" Lottery Scam: Read Email "Category B winner" - UK International Lottery Scam: Read Email "Lucky winner" - International Lotto Co Scam: Read Email lottery.co.uk