Look who is doing the Lottery Scam

by mikehcg | March 5, 2007 at 03:11 am
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This one says that Franz Beckenbauer is the President of the local organising committee. Didn't anyone tell these people that he only does ads for o2?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: VODAFONE/MEGA JACKPOT ON-LINE PROMO />Date: Mar 5, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To:

VODAFONE/MEGA JACKPOT ON-LINE PROMO.
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs, PE9 2YP, London
UNITED KINGDOM.

Customer Service and Logistic Department
Reference No:FL/668530092 Batch No: 452006/14/JKPT06/FL.

We gladly wish to inform you of the draws of the VODAFONE ON-LINE PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL
in conjunction with the National Organising Committee of the MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS
PROGRAMS held on Thursday,February 22nd 2007.

You along with 57 others were selected winners under draws 6+J promo program.
However, your e-mail address assigned to E-Tag number 193.45.24.02 in the Random Computer Selection System (RCSS) of email addresses, flagged out the lucky numbers 21-7-14-04-19 and consequently won you the lottery in the 1st category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Please be informed that all participants in this Vodafone promotion program were selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500,000 companies and 50,000,000 individual e-mail addresses.This Vodafone promotion is Organised by the host country in collaboration with MMJLWP . Funds for the draws have been contributed by the major sponsors of the games which include Adidas, Hyundai, Fuji-Film, MasterCard, Gillette, Coca-cola, Continental, Toshiba, Lycos, McDonald's and a host of others. Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.

With respect to the above, you have therefore been approved for payment of Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollar (US$650.000.00 )with the File No:LP/26510460037/02.
This is from a total cash Price of 9 million United States Dollars(US$9,000,000.00) shared among the ten international winners in the 1st category.

To begin the claim processing of your Price you are to contact the fiduciary agent stated below:
Mr.FREEMAN RICHARD.
Email: warmheritage@yahoo.co.uk

NOTE: He is your agent, and responsible for the processing and payment/transfer of your winnings to you.
YOUR SECURITY CODE NUMBER IS V-3965-OP?57/C1 (keep personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed not later than 30th March 2007.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to Quote your referenceand batch numbers in every one of your correspondence.Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your fiduciary agent as soon as possible.
Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Sincerely,

Franz Beckenbauer
President local organising committee

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at 06:49 on March 5th, 2007

As one of the NowPublic editors, I’ve flagged your item as Incomplete.

 There's not enough here for me to understand what's happening. Who is Franz? what is  the scam?

I suspect there is an interesting story here but without the basic info I am at a loss. 

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