I have received a mail from UK National Lottery Online Promo informing me that I have won a prize of Five Hundred thousands BSP. When I contacted them, they instructed me to contact the courier company. On contacting the courier company, they are demanding thousands of dollars in advance for successful delivery of my winning amount cheque / draft. I am afraid, whether it is fraud or else. The details of correspondence is as under:
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.
(Customer Services)
REFERENCE NUMBER:BTL/311OXI/02
BATCH NUMBER:14/211/0374
TICKET NUMBER:694 75600545 721
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 30th of June,2007 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,held on the 15th of June, 2007. Your ticket number 69475600545721 attached to your email address, with serial number 886/04
drew the lucky numbers 01-6-2-13-35-17(bonus no.42),this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £500,000,00 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file RPC/9080115322/44. This is from a total cash prize of GBP 125 million pounds sterlings.
Shared amongst the first four (25) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 25 plus bonus.
All participants of this online promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies listed online. This promotion takes place Quarterly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in the United kingdom as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £500,000,00 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our payment office in the United Kingdom.
To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent;
Official: Adam Stockwin (MR)
Email:
[email protected]
Provide her with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Ticket Number(above):
12.Reference Number(above):
13.Batch Number(above):
For due processing and remittance of your prize money.
Yours Truly,
SIR RICHARD K. LIOYD.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).
Atten:MR. SRIVASTAVA,
Congratulations once again on behalf of the UK LOTTERY BOARD. We do believe that your winnings will be put into good use for community, educational and business development.
On Behalf of the Screening Committee of UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD, I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the Email Screening and Verification Form Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your Category. Hence you are therefore cleared.
Your parcel with identification number: RPC/9080115322/44 has been sent to our affiliate courier company (HERITAGE COURIER). You are required to contact the courier officer of Heritage Couirer Service customer desk with the following details:
Mr. Reed Calvin.
Email address:
[email protected]
NOTE: Services rendered by HERITAGE COURIER SERVICE are to be paid by you and not the lottery board. Have it in mind that your won prize before it can be transfered to you and cannot be deducted from, this is because your cheque cannot be cashed by anyone. This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the national gambling act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly. This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.
Its is imperative that you add your identification number {RPC/9080115322/44} as the subject of any correspondence with the courier company to ensure they respond in a timely manner.
I will require a concise update on proceedings with the firm as soon as you are in contact with them. If you need any assistance whatsoever, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Best Regards,
Mr.Adam Stockwin,
Uk National Lottery.
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HERITAGE COURIER SERVICES INT.
2nd, July 2007
ATTENTION: Mr. Srivastava,
Compliments of the day to you.
your cheque will be couried to the bank for final payment.
You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are two options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the two.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:
Option 1:
Courier of your winning draft to you via any of this channel listed below:
Mailing..............................................£310.00
Insurance.........................................£230.00
Vat (5%)..........................................£180.75
TOTAL.............................................£720.75
The said amount in usd is..............$1,392.83
TIME OF DELIVERY.............................48 HOURS
Mailing &n bsp;...................................£220.00
Insurance..........................................£170.00
Vat (5%)..........................................£110.95
TOTAL.............................................£500.95
The said amount in usd is..............$968.127
TIME OF DELIVERY..................................72HOURS
Mailing ;............................................£170.00
Insurance..........................................£140.00
Vat (5%)..........................................£120.00
TOTAL.............................................£430.00
The said amount in usd is..............$831.020
TIME OF DELIVERY...................................7 DAYS
The insurance company declined reverse payment for the courier, stating that it is against their professional policy towards ensuring the safe delivery of the draft to you. That if a reverse payment is made, and something goes wrong, that we/you cannot sue the courier
company or insurance company to recover the full value of the fund as stipulated in the draft since payment for insurance cover was not made at point of mailing.
With the above reason, reverse payment is ruled out.Forward the cost of mailing your draft with any of the courier channel cost you choose above to us.
Option 2:
The said amount claim £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterlings) the amount in usd is $965,975.82 would be wired to your bank account via swift bank transfer.
Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transferring bank, which is (i.e £3,500) ($6,761.37) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you. Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you. Please respond to this email by making a selection from the two options above. Also attach a scanned copy of either your driver's license, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document.
Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is exactly one week after the receipt of this email. After this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be re-used in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.
Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to this same email address.
Mr. Reed Calvin
Management
Heritage Courier Service Int.
+44 (0) 704 570 4070
Open 7days-8AM-11PM-365days a year
HERITAGE COURIER INT.
Unit N 103 Westminister Business Square
Durham St
London
SE11 5JN
Thanks and regards!
