Oct 11, 2008
Received this email - did a scan of phone number on internet and wanted to share - possible scam.
Stella Beamer
show details 1:40 AM (9 hours ago) Reply
CANADA LOTTERY CORPORATION
Ontario Lottery Corporation
Consumer Affairs
70 Foster Drive, Suite 800, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, P6A 6V2
Attention: The Email Account Holder!
Congratulations!
The Canada Lottery Corporation Promotion team is proud to inform you that you have won USD$800,000.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLAR), why you have won? Your email address was among those chosen this quarter from our new Java-based software that randomly selects email addresses from the web from which winners are selected.
Your E-mail address is one of 200 lucky Addresses that have won in this Promotion, I wish to congratulate you on your victory, you are a lucky person to have won this lottery. Your winning price is to the tune of 800 Thousand United States Dollars. This correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of Instructions relating to the payment of your lottery winnings.
See below how to claim your prize. Details on the Winnings,
Your Winning Reference Number is: IMP/73253CA/2008 and Batch Number: 642376/CA/2008.
You are required to forward the following details to our official claim agent to help facilitate the processing of your claim,
FULL NAME:
COUNTRY:
COUNTRY OF RESIDENT:
AGE:
GENDER:
TELEPHONE NO.:
OCCUPATION:
REMEMBER TO INCLUDE YOUR WINNING REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS:
Furthermore, you must contact your claim agent Mr. Mike Powel, to claim your prize, send your reference and batch number and all the above information’s to his email address giving below and call him to let him know that you have contact him through email.
(N.B. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND HIM EMAIL AS INSTRUCTED ABOVE BEFORE CALLING HIM FOR FASTER RESPONSE)
THE CLAIM AGENT CONTACTS ARE BELOW,
Processing Manager: Mr. Mike Powel
Email: mikepowel@canada.com
Phone: +1-801-542-9344
Note; your winning fund has officially insured on your name for safety and security reason to avoid any party/parties or organization have any access to tamper or touch your winning fund till it arrives into your nominated bank account of your choice in any part of the world. Therefore to file your claim, kindly contact our Claim Agent immediately you read this message for quick and urgent guidance for the procedures you have to follow to effect the release of your fund without any delay.
Congratulations once again from all our staff’s and thank you for being part of our promotion program.
Yours sincerely,
MRS. STELLA BEAMER
(ADMIN SEC)