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Yahoo! Lottery Winning Notification
2007-10-21
LOTTERY RESULTS 2007
YAHOO
INTERNET LOTTERY
arabtrans@arabtrans.com
CONGRATULATIONS!
Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization
Bangkok Branch Office
Address: 3 Rajdamnern Avenue
Bangkok 10200 Thailand
Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12
Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year Held on 7th the April 2007.
All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United
States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international promotions program which is conducted annually,
consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE
MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.000 USD)
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate 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 Bangkok
representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of ( $1, 000.000.00USD) will be released to you from
this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.
Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok
Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and
names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim
has been processed, and your winning Cheque have being sent to you or
remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program
by participants, as has happened in the past.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Ticket number.....................085-12876077-09
Serial number.......................51390-0
Lucky number...................03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number...................N.EGS/3662367114/13
To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo! Lottery
Co-ordinator as follows,
Email: yah_lotteryclaimsagent_01@yahoo.com.hk
Name: Kane Iva
Tel: +(66)876892584
You are to send the completed verification form below to the co-ordinator
whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to
do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!
1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
6. FAX NUMBER
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 30th of October
2007. Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTYS
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery
winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company
that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.
Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your
winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences
with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do
inform our Co-ordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free
service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.
An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate
will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Operation Manager of
Siam City Bank Bangkok Thailand.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you
for being a part of our International Promotions program.
We wish you continued good fortunes.
Yours Sincerely,
DR. Raymond Hisashi
Vice President
Yahoo! Lotto Org.
Ms Tina Akira ,
President
Yahoo! Lotto Org.
gene noury commented, on May 14, 2008:
after 12 years areagents havefinally found this group and we areabout to take them down. If any money remains when we arrest these peole it will be returned via class action suit filed with the US Court of Claim for fraudulant activities. One way or another thesepeople are going down. Agent Genen Noury