Have you received an email from "Barry T. Standford" at "AUSTRALIA LOTTERY INC." telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Barrister Duke Nelson" to collect your winnings? It is a
scam. No legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners via email (see footnote) The scammers may
change the names and details, but it is still a scam!
Below is another example of a fake lottery; this email claims to
be from the "AUSTRALIA LOTTERY INC.". Also see this page for the
reply from the scammers,
"MR.RICHARD OKORO"
"AUSTRALIA LOTTERY INC" <
onlinelotto@australianlotto.com >
AUSTRALIA LOTTERY INC.
5th Floor East
Commonwealth Centre
55 Currie Street
Adelaide SA 5000,
South Australia.
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are delighted to inform you of the result of the
E-mail address ballot lottery draw of the Australian cash-out lotto bv international programme, which took place on the 9th March 2007.This is a computer generated lottery of Internet users using email addresses for draws.
This lotto draw is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from different World Wide Web (www) sites. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 275-189-657-23-05 with Serial
number 8756-05 drew the lucky numbers and bonus ball number which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$250,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02.
This is from the total cash prize of US$2,000,000 Million Dollars, shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this
category. All participant were selected randomly through a computer balloting system
drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of
our international promotions programme which is conducted annually.
This Lottery is being promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of
Multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the
communities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in African Nigeria, as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of US$250,000.00 will be released to you from our regional branch office in WEST AFRICA.We hope with part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
Simply contact your claims agent, Barrister Duke Nelson at email: (
b_dukenelson@yahoo.com ) by filling this form below and send it to him to file for
your claim .
LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM OF PAYMENT.
FULLNAME.................................................
DATE OF BIRTH..................................
ADDRESS..................................................
SEX......................... AGE..................................
MARITAL STATUS...................................
NATIONALITY...........................................
OCCUPATION...........................................
TELEPHONE..........................................
FAX......................................................
EMAIL.................................................
DATE......................................................
WINNER REF/BATCH NO...........................APPROVED
FOR PAYMENT.
Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name,
address and telephone number to help locate your file easily.
For security reasons, we advice all winners to
keep this information confidential (VERY SECRET) from the public until your claim is processed and your prize money remitted/released to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this programme by some unscrupulous elements, equally to guard against non participant or unofficial personnel taking undue advantage of this programme. Note that, all winnings MUST be claimed by a STIPULATED
TIME (ON OR BEFORE 28th march 2007); otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually be reabsorbed into our next lucky dip
sweepstakes.
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Yours in service,
Sincerely,
Barry T. Standford
Online coordinator for AUSTRALIAN LOTTO INC.
