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SCAM OR NOT : UK LOTTERY

Received the following message in my email today...Should I pursue it or is there a way to see if it is legitimate?? All you UK people online, what do you think???
Thank you for your response,

Sal

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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 02:14:43 -0700
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Subject: Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION
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GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
BRITISH WEB LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X)

The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England
(Customer Services)
Ref: WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online
Sweepstakes International program held on 15th November 2006. It is yet
to be unclaimed and you are getting the final NOTIFICATION as regards
this. Your e-mail address attached to the lucky numbers: 2, 3, 17,
22,
40, 42, And (Bonus ball(18), which subsequently won you the lottery in
the 2nd category i.e JACKPOT. You have therefore been approved to claim
a total sum of £2,543,170(Two Million Five Hundred And Forty Three
Thousand One Hundred And seventy Pounds Sterlings) in cash credited to
file number KTU/902311832012/06 and Draw Number: 1137.

This is from a total cash prize shared amongst the(7)lucky winners in
this category i.e JACKPOT 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 is part of the Country's
Programme to fund for the Olympic Games in 2012 The £1.5bn Olympic
lottery puzzle (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4719851.stm)

The Olympic fund-raising games will include a TV draw The National
Lottery may have seemed a relatively simple way of helping pay for the
Olympics. The Lottery must raise £1.5bn over the next seven years to
pay
its share of the public money going into the Olympics. A further £650m
will be raised from council tax in London and another £250m from the
London Development Agency, while similar sums will be raised from
ticket
sales, marketing, sponsorship and the sale of television rights.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your £2,543,170 will be released to you our
payment office in UK. Our European agent will immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact
him.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim is processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your
claim, please contact our Administration Assistant:

NAME: GRAHAM BETTS
Official Email: adminassistant@OfficeEmail.net

Endeavour to email him your full names, File and draw numbers, email
address, telephone and fax numbers immediately. You can go to our
online
result site to confirm the value of your winnings and also get a prize
breakdown:-
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/unclaimedPrizes.do

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY®.

Yours faithfully,
Jordan Bradwell
Online Coordinator
For UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program © Copyright 2006 ®.
_____________________________________________________
®Do not reply this E-mail, contact our Administration Assistant with
the
above email®.

Messages In This Thread

SCAM OR NOT : UK LOTTERY
MAJOR COMMON SCAM! DO NOT REPLY!!!!
Real easy way to see it's a scam.
Link to the genuine UK lottery
will not reply...thanks all.....

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