Grand Prize Award Winning Notification
Wow, I won the lottery once again! Oh, I’m going to call right away and give them all my information!
This is another GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION scam that is designed to trick you into giving away your money!
The email they sent me is included below - it’s all a phishing scam!
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Grand Prize Awards: GBP £ 854,960.00
Jackpot Winners:3
Ball Set Used: 1
Dear lucky winner,
RE: GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION .
Congratulations! You have been chosen among two (2) other lucky jackpot winners to receive a total sum of GBP £854,960.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Four Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty Great British Pounds Sterling Only) representing your total grand prize award winnings on 1st Category of our computer draw 953 for Promotion E-mail Promotion jackpot Bonus via the internet drawn on the 14th February 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 6542972646685 53 with Serial number 654/4 drew the lucky numbers: 11 - 04 - 13 - 14- 12 - 22 -34 , which subsequently won the promotion in the 1st category. That is, match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP £854,960.00 (Eight Hundred and Fifty Four Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty Great British Pounds Sterling Only) credited to file UK-4/tt/64h/32.
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 and you have the options of being paid by Cash, Certified Bank Draft or Telegraphic Swift Transfer payable to your bank account as you so desire.
ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is open to all natural persons age of at least 16 years and older with a valid email address recorded in our central database. This promotion is void where prohibited. Principals and employees of the Extra Promotion and its respective parents, subsidiaries and immediate family members of each are not eligible to claim their prize awards. We have always strived to keep the games easy to play and win, keep the games fresh and interesting, respond to emails from players/advertisers and lucky winners as quickly as possible and pay our winners as fast as possible after all statutory obligations have been duly completed on the part of Overseas winners.
We feel we have accomplished this and this is probably one of the main reasons that we have been able to stay in business and rated the best Extra organization among others.
CLAIM PROCEDURES: All overseas lucky winners must be able to identify themselves in association with the selected lucky email address to claim their prizes as allocated and also it is our standard practices to allocate accredited claim agents for the processing of claim application on behalf of overseas lucky winners and payment of prize awards to the benefit of lucky winners after all modalities have been completed satisfactorily. To file for your claim, please contact our licensed and accredited claim agent company at your earliest convenient by phone, fax or email for your application to be submitted and processed for payment by using the following contact information as stated below:
Contact Officer:Mark Johnson (Mr.)
markteddy@myway.com
Position: tabak Verification Department,
Institution: tabak Group (UK) Inc.,
IMPORTANCE NOTICE:
(a) Being an Overseas lucky winner, you constitute entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance to comply with the terms and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your grand prize awards winning.
(b) Due to mixed up in some numbers and emails/names and for the purpose of confidentiality, be advised to keep this award notification as secret from public notice until your claim has been processed and your prize money remitted to your designated bank account as this is part of our precautionary measures to avoid double claim or misuse of this program by some social miscreants. Hence, your prize award winning is confidential as our winners are at liberty to remain completely anonymous until payment is effected to the benefit of the beneficiary. Our staffs are sworn to secrecy, so you will be the only one to know what you have won hence, this notification via this medium (EMAIL) to avoid interception of official letters by post.
(c) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you acknowledge your understanding and acceptance to be added to our lottery master player database.
(d) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you agree to receive our periodic mailings which will include, but are not limited to: Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements for other Extra Games and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master player.
(e) By this bonus grand prize awards winning, you understand that you have the right to be removed from any such mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from subsequent lottery entries. Removal instructions are on every mailing.
(f) Finally, we hereby do solemnly guarantee to maintain the privacy of our master players/lucky winners’ database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or misuse any information about our players/lucky winners. Hence, our staffs are sworn to secrecy thereby guaranteeing adequate security of personal information provided by our players/lucky winners.
Congratulations!!
Yours faithfully,
MR.Vincent James
Online Coordinator,
Extra Promotion,
London, United Kingdom.
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Again, this is just another GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION phishing scam!
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December 8th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
The upped the anty with mine - US$4,464,000.00. Do they think we’re nuts!