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« Another Fake Australian Lottery | Main | First Lottery Scam of the week » September 16, 2006
New Kind of Scam
This new scam recently appreared in my email... W.H.O FINANCIAL GRANTS PROMOTIONS INTERNATIONAL GRANTS ALLOCATION UNIT(IGAU) WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION 12 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: WHOFGP/2551256003/03 BATCH: 14/0017/IPD ATTENTION: FINANCIAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION Dear Sir/Madam, We happily announce to you the draw (#1 ) of the W.H.O FINANCIAL GRANTS PROMOTION programmes held on 20th of August 2006. Your email address, attached to ticket number 025-1146-1992-750, with serial number 2113-05 drew the lucky numbers 13-15-22-37-39-43, and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a charity bonus of Five Hundred thousand Pounds i.e. (£500,000.00) in cash credited to file REF NO. WHOFGP2551256/06. This is from total prize money of US$20,400,000.00 shared among the seventeen international winners in this category. CONGRATULATIONS! Please note that the W.H.O FINANCIAL GRANTS PROMOTIONS WAS DUELY SPONSORED BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION as a result of the FINANCIAL GRANTS DECREE WHICH WAS PASSED TO AID VICTIMS OF THE 2005-2006 OUTBREAKS OF THE AVIAN INFLUENZA. This promotion to takes place yearly for a period of five years. In view of this, your Five hundred thousand pounds sterling (£500,000.00) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe . Our claims director will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him or her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. To file for your claims, please contact our claims director: SIR FREEMAN WALLACE CLAIMS DIRECTOR WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION 12 Whitehall , London SW1A 2DY Email: freemanwallace01@yahoo.it TEL:+447031918398 +447031925337 Posted by David A at September 16, 2006 06:20 PM
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I also recently recieved an identical email with the same serial numbers used, etc. I'm glad you posted this. I'm young, and fairly naive, so I thought I'd look it up to see if it was a scam. Posted by: Laurel at December 21, 2006 02:45 PM Post a comment
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