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Sunday, January 28, 2007

You have to look twice

Gorse Fox wonders how many poor souls are taken in by emails such as the one he has just received:

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#1019) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International program held on the 27th January,2007,
Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number:56475600545 188 with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers :21-32-41-42-43-46, and
a bonus number of (17) which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £251,420
(two hundred and fifty-one thousand,four hundred and twenty pounds) in cash
credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of
£1,005,680 shared amongst the (4) lucky winners in this category that is
Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World
Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions,associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

This promotion takes place weekly.Please note that your lucky number
falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated
in your playcoupon. In view of this, your £251,420 (two hundred and
fifty-one thousand, four hundred and twenty pounds ) would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

fiduciary Agent: MR: MICHAEL MARTINS
Email address: claimsagent0607@sify.com

(Form HLP)
REFERENCE NUMBER: UK/9420X2/68
FULL NAME...............................................
FULL ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:.................................
AGE...................................
OCCUPATION.............................
TEL.......................FAX................. (If any)
COUNTRY................................
E-MAIL..................................
WINNING NUMBER......................


Yours Truly,
Richard K Lloyd.

Co-ordinator (Online Promo Programme).

Hey ho. GF thought he was rich (for about a nanosecond). But it's always hard to win a lottery in which you have not participated.

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