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February 21, 2004

I Won the Lottery!

The key to this old joke is that it can be really hard to win the lottery without buying a ticket. Given that, would anyone like to explain the following email to me (ignoring the bad maths):

A.A.S Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
580 N. Tenth Street
Sacramento, CA 85914
Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery
an Affiliate of Foundmoney International
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque
I.P.P Award Dept.
johannesburg, south africa.

Ref: EAASL/941OYI/03
Batch: 03/06/MA34


WINNING NOTIFICATION:

We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake Lottery International programs
held on the 1st of NOVEMENBER 2003 in Dakar Senegal. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of US $ 25 Million dollars, shared amongst the first Fifty (10) lucky winners in this category.

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 US$2,500,000.00 (Two million,Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our security firm in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as
soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims 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 by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our
promotional lottery program. You are to contact our Fiduciary agent as quickly as possible.

We await your response urgently so that we can furnish you with the relevant details of our agent.

Sincerely,
SIR H.J.PONFA
AFRO-ASIAN Zonal Coordinator.

Posted by Ozguru at February 21, 2004 09:02 AM

Comments

"would anyone like to explain the following email": Just another 419-like scam. If you contact them, you'll be told that in order to collect your six gazillion dollars, you first have to pay them a "processing fee" of like 25 or 50 dollars or something. If you do that, I don't know if they then simply disappear, or if they tell you that there's been a complication, and you now have to pay them another 1000 dollars to get the money released. But in any case, you get the idea...

Posted by: David M. Chess at February 21, 2004 09:02 AM