I received an email from someone I don’t know, telling me that I won from a Lottery Draw, US$787,000:00 (Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand United States Dollars Only). If I am not familiar with this kind of scam, may be I am already fooled by this.

Your Email Addres Has Won Award
Award Prize Dept
Madrid ?Spain
Dear Beneficiary

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the Euro Millones Lottery International Email Address draw on the 30th of December 2006, due to the mixture of names and address the result was released on the  15th Januari 2007.

All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of   50,000,000 international email addresses. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in the Euro Millones Lottery Draw.Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of US$787,000:00 (Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven Thousand United States Dollars Only). The following particulars are attached to your lotto   payment order:

(¡) Batch No: WNTO/7416/VA/ES
(¡¡) Ticket No: TWMT/1800/806
(¡¡¡) Lucky No: 07-13-31.54-64
(¡v) Ref No: EMLES/2006/M
(v) Serial No: CNMMM/67000/MMC

The Euro Millones Lottery Program internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and computers worldwide.

We are proud to say that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent as soon as possible forthe immediate release of your winnings:

BARRISTER MARTIN CANNIS
TEL. +34 697 333 267
E-mail:martincannis@aim.com

N.B:Steps to claiming your prize;

1.Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.
2. You must contact the appointed agent with your Full Names, Contact Telephone Numbers (Home, Office and Mobile Number and also Fax Number) via email to process the immediate payment of your prize.

3. Be informed that the appointed agent will be required to swear an Affidavits of Lotto Claim and also obtain Approval Legal Clearance Certificate from the Court here in Spain which is in accordance with theEuropean Union Financial Act 2004 on payment of International Lottery Winners.

Please be aware that the PAYING BANK will Effect Payment Swiftly upon satisfactory Report, Verifications and validation provided by this fiduciary agent.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you.

Once again congratulations!!!

Best regards,
Mrs.Suzan Zeeman

If you’ll just read the content of that email, you’ll never think that it was just fraudulent business scheme. However, you should wonder why did you win this draw when in fact you didn’t send any entry for this.

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