The National Lottery - Post Bank - Steve Williams - Charles Lambert Internet Scam Artist Internet

I was contacted by the following person via email... see sample below.

Dear Recipient,

Your Email/Your Name consequently won in the second Category. You have been awarded a lump sum pay out of 5,000,000 (Five million GBP only) which is the winning payout for Category" B" winners.REFERENCE NUMBER: JJOK/8965/PP,BATCH NUMBER: 488866/JNUK,For claim,Contact Ms. Kelly Woods(File/Claims Officer) Email: file_claims@hotmail.co.uk

Warm Regards,

Mrs. Deedee Weeks.

I reponded to the email address provided to see satisify my curiosity. Received a response back as follows:


The National Lottery
P.O.Box 1010
Liverpool
L70 1NL.

Customer Service/Claims Department

REFERENCE NUMBER: JJOK/8965/PP
BATCH NUMBER: 488866/JNUK

ATTN:Winner,


Congratulations on behalf of the "E.U Overseas Gambling Board. We do believe that your winnings will be put into good use for community development.

HOW YOU WON:

NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS $s PER WINNER TOTAL

Match 6 3 15,100,000 15,100,000

Match 5 plus bonus 10 5,000,000 50,000,000

Match 5 300 10,791 937,300

Match 4 18108 6,791 1,177,020

Match 3 347097 3,967 3,470,970


Totals 365512

The draws were held to mark our first international Promotional program, For Microsoft users.which is part of our promotional draws. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 50,000,000 unions, associations,and corporate bodies that are listed online. Ten names came as the lucky winners You/Your company email id,attached to ticket number 0001-7-666, with serial number 73-56 drew the lucky numbers 23-07-19-11 (13) consequently won in the second Category. You have been awarded a lump sum pay out of 5,000,000 (Five million GBP only) which is the winning payout for "Match 5 plus bonus" winners.

SOURCE OF FUND:
The National 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 Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide; The winning payout are gotten from Willing Donor's/Well Known Big Computer /Software Producing Firm all over the world to Encourage users of the internet and computers Worldwide.

On Behalf of the Screening Committee of " E.U Overseas Gambling Board I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the Email Screening and Verification Form Matching Test conducted for all on-line winners of your Category at the headquarters of the " E.U Overseas Gambling Board.

Hence you are therefore CLEARED and can now claim your winnings. Your funds have been deposited,approved for release and the process of remittance of your prize money to you will begin immediately you contact the Paying Bank with your complete details as listed;

CLAIMS VERIFICATION / FUND RELEASE FORM


1. Full Name:

2. Address:

3. Age:

4. Sex:

5. Country of Residence:

6. Occupation:

7: Position Held:

8. Telephone Number/Fax:

9. Email Address:

10. Amount Won:


They have been instructed to effect transfer of your winnings to you upon receipt of your mail with your completed "CLAIMS VERIFICATION / FUND RELEASE FORM" to them below are their details for you to contact them:

POST BANK
Mr. Steve Williams (QC)
CFO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Direct Tel: (+44) 779-905-8603
Direct Fax: (+44) 707-520-9944
Email: mail2cfo@post.com
Official Webpage: http://www.postbank.nl/

If you wish to come down to U.K in person to claim your Winnings you are advice to inform the Paying Bank immediately you contact them.

I contacted Steve Williams and he sent me paperwork to complete and asked to submit administrative fee in order to process the winnings. The instructions was to wire the fee.

Concerned consumer
Kirkland, Washington
U.S.A.