Complaint Review: LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY - UK CASH CHANGE UK LTD - STAINES Other

After reading the wonderfull announcement from the Lucky Strike Lottery, that I had won 6,500,000 I decided to check the internet in case this was another scam. (I had previously been sent many emails from Nigeria, but not stung!!)

Unfortunately I discovered that several other people had received the identical ticket, serial and lucky numbers! Three identical letters, besides A.Young's email address, was sufficient to confirm my suspicion.

We all had to contact Mr Andrew Young by email or by fax (& not call him on his satellite phone like I tried, but to no avail.)

His email address changed for various "winners". The digit 5, before the @ varies from letter to letter:[email protected]

Too bad it's a scam as I could most certainly have put my 6,500,000 to good use!!

Here is my copy of the letter:

From: lottcoordinator

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Subject: RESULT FOR CATEGORY \"A\" DRAWS

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:15:21 +0100 (BST)

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THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT

DEAR WINNER,

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulation(s) to you as we bring to your notice,

the results of the First Category draws of LUCKY

STRIKE LOTTERY UK. We are happy to inform you that you

have emerged a winner under the First Category, which

is part of our promotional draws. The draws were held

and results are being officially announced today

Participants were selected through a computer

ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 names/email

addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,

America,Asia,Australia,Europe, Middle East, and

Oceania as part of ourInternational Promotions

Program.

You/Your company, attached to ticket number

6422-5-486, with serial number 59-18 drew the lucky

numbers 33-92-78-05 (18) and consequently won in the

First Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of

6,500,000 (Six million, five hundred thousand

Great Britain Pounds), which is the winning payout for

Category A winners. This is from the total prize money

of 13,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this

category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with our transfer agents

CASH CHANGE UK LTD and insured in your name. In your

best interest and also to avoid mix up of numbers and

names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire

details of your award strictly from public notice

until the process of transferring your claims has been

completed, and your funds remitted to your account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double

claiming or unscrupulous acts by

participants/nonparticipants of this program.

We also wish to bring to your notice our end of year

premium stakes draw where you stand a chance of

winning up to 50 million; we hope that with a part

of your prize you will participate.

Please contact your claims agent with contact

information provided immediately below for due

processing and remittance of your prize money to a

designated account as to be provided by you.

Importantly always do indicate, yours and his email

address in all your corespondences with him and ensure

to

forward this winning notification along as you contact

him for claims process.

MR. ANDREW YOUNG,

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,

CASH CHANGE UK LTD

Foreign Service Number:+ 88216 4665 5376

FAX: ++44 2079002649

EMAIL: [email protected]

You are advised to contact our agents by email and/or

fax within a week of receiving this notice. Failure to

do so may warrant disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find

below your reference and Batch numbers. Remember to

quote these numbers in every one of your

correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/04

BATCH NUMBER: R3/A312-59

Congratulations once again from all our staff and

thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,

THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,

LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY UK

12 BRIDGE STREET,

STAINES MIDDLESEX TW18 4TP UK

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the

winners will result to disqualification. Please do not

reply to this mail. Contact your claims agent

immediately.

Al

Amersfoort
Netherlands