I won the Australian lottery!!

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**Kid_Kyoto**

Date 6th of Dec,2007
Ref: 475061727
Batch:7056490934/2006
Winning no: GB8701/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Winner,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 6th of Dec ,2007 from the Australian International Lottery programme. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their email addresses from some site.Your email address was attached to ticket number; 17214, serial number 7741137009 .This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 8382-42bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$400,000.00 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref:ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

All participant were selected 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 program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some 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 Amsterdam,Holland, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$400,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Million international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Simply contact our fiducial agent, MR DAVID MORE AT davidmore.lotteryagent@yahoo.com.au

To file for your claim . 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 from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note all winnings must be claimed before 20th of Dec. 2007 otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organisations.

Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!

Best Regards

MR JUDE EDWARD.
(coordinator)

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT
davidmore.lotteryagent@yahoo.com.au

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

Now as it happens I really don't need their $400k cause the Nigerian Oil Minister is wiring me twelve million dollars. But if anyone wants to collect my prize feel free!

**Vero**

Sorry, I am heir to some English Barron's estate worth 16 million.

Don't need no extra $400,000.

**akira5665**

I would like to claim it. Do I give him all of my Banking details and such to make it easier to transfer?

My Credit Card number definately.....

**Aristotle**

I could do with that since I got caught with a internet scam a while back LOL

**akira5665**

Hmmmmm.... internet scam.

Sounds dodgy to me. Do you work for GW?

**Asmodai**

Nice. I love how Australians give their money away to random strangers on the internet.

It's also interesting how 'Corporate Social Responsibility' can be met by giving away money to random strangers rather than building a park, cleaning up a river, etc.

Apparently China falls into their 'Europe' office which is based out of Nigeria. That makes sense. Australia is such a dive, I can understand why their officials would want to work in a safe clean country like Nigeria instead.

**juddski**

Now as it happens I really don't need their $400k cause the Nigerian Oil Minister is wiring me twelve million dollars. But if anyone wants to collect my prize feel free!

lol

bin it,i've won an internet lottery ,the portugese lottery and about five other's that i hadn't entered & shares in about three gold mines and have been offered stocks and bonds ect.they want your bank details so's they can fleece you Kid_Kyoto,

......but i suspect you already know this

**BAWTRM**

I'm already helping a bank employee in Burkina Faso to sluice away 14 million US dollars ATM, so count me out!

It's a sad tale really, this very wealthy fellow died without any remaining family or will and if I don't help the money will go the money grabbing bank owners.

As opposed to the money grabbing ME of course.

**Orlanth**

How does this particular scam work?

It doesnt appear to be a 419 scam, just a request for bank details, presumably so they can strip you. After all there is no advance fee in claiming a lottery win.
It must be to create a database of accounts to use for fraudulent purposes.

On a slightly related matter:

I heard of a case where someone was told by his bank manager that an unusual very very large sum had been deposited into his bank account. He couldnt touch the capital, but he could withdraw his own money and then withdraw the interest daily, IIRc he was getting something like £200 or £2000 interest daily, so it was an obscene sum of money. If there is any interest in the account when the money is withdrawn that will be taken too, but if it is skimmed daily there is nothing they can do legally. and it doenst count as a debt by banking law (brought in so that they money they hold for a week or so clearing'; pays interest to them not you). The gentleman concerned took the advice promptly, stripped the account of his funds and the interest daily. Two weeks later the capital disappeared again and the 'victim' had a tidy cash sum, restocked his account float and legally spent the rest..

**akira5665**

Orlanth,
Can I have his E-mail address..........

Pretty please?

**BAWTRM**

@Orlanth: These scams usually work with a 'bank fee' being requested. Unless the fee is paid the money you won can't be withdrawn. They're very sorry but it's the law in Nigeria (as in this case this is where the bank is supposedly located, prime clue to where the scam actually originates from) for the next contest they'll use a bank in another country as the organizers were sadly unaware of this rule.
If someone is actually stupid enough to pay the fee another fee will probably pop up. Like a money change % charge that needs to be paid so the money can be converted to the right currency. Peculairly enough this percentage needs to be paid in advance and the money you won cannot be used to actually pay this fee. Unless your country actually has the Naira as its main currency of course (then they'll probably tell you they've got the prize money in Kobos, being the Naira-cent).

Basically it's a money milking scheme just like all those other schemes that involve you getting large amounts of money that are located in some third world country.

**Jeebus07**

Ok so you have got to love the fact that an official lottery email uses @yahoo.com.au because a billion dollar business can't afford it's own email ending.

All I can say is that it is ashame that people fall for these scams. I'd figure just send back an email+attachment that contains an e-bomb for him. "Sure here's my bank details oh no wait thats not my bank details it 1,000 pop ups offering you viagra, my bad".

**Grot 6**

I'm the proud inheritor at least five times a week.

all told I'm worth over a couple of mil.

My all time favorite was the guy who told the banker he was Robert E. Howard, and went on by stringing them along with stories of Arkahm and the Cthullu. My search foo is weak on it, but the info is out there, and the tale is a heck of a read.

**Aristotle**

Hmmmmm.... internet scam.

Sounds dodgy to me. Do you work for GW

Actually No they fired me a while back for stealing pens

**Orlanth**

BAWTRM wrote:@Orlanth: These scams usually work with a 'bank fee' being requested. Unless the fee is paid the money you won can't be withdrawn. They're very sorry but it's the law in Nigeria (as in this case this is where the bank is supposedly located, prime clue to where the scam actually originates from) for the next contest they'll use a bank in another country as the organizers were sadly unaware of this rule.
If someone is actually stupid enough to pay the fee another fee will probably pop up. Like a money change % charge that needs to be paid so the money can be converted to the right currency. Peculairly enough this percentage needs to be paid in advance and the money you won cannot be used to actually pay this fee. Unless your country actually has the Naira as its main currency of course (then they'll probably tell you they've got the prize money in Kobos, being the Naira-cent).

Basically it's a money milking scheme just like all those other schemes that involve you getting large amounts of money that are located in some third world country.

I know how a 419 scam works (what you were describing), but while I can see people falling for the inheritence scams, sometrhing as above board as a lottery win cannot accumulate fees - so I am puzzled as to why they use this type of storyline for a 419 scam. Its too damn implausible a cover story.

**Ahtman**

It works along the same lines. It is hoping the person is stupid enough to not know anything about international banking or lottery laws per country. I recall something about it being illegal in many instances. The post office had a poster up about it once.