Hello, I am Miss Young. I received the following email. It is about a fraud lottery. The lottery claims that I won, but the reality is that they want MY money.

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From: BRITISH EXCHANGE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
[mailto:uk-exchange-e-ballots5@hotmail.co.uk]
Sent: 17 March 2007 08:44 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL ACCOUNT HAS WON £550,000.00...

THE AWARDS WINNERS EXCHANGE ONLINE LOTTERY NOTIFICATION

FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD

DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS: 11 ROSS-ON-WYE, HEREFORDSHIRE, HR9 9WB UNITED
KINGDOM.

REFERENCE Nº: EGS/2251256003/0

BATCH Nº: 14/0017/1PD


AWARD NOTIFICATION

The Awards Winners Exchange Lottery International wishes to inform you the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery program held today, 17th March
2007. Your email account was selected as a winner of Five Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Pounds Only. (£550,000.00).

This result is now made available to you and your email address attached to
Ticket # 044595 in the Category A bonus ball 02, 03, 21, 24, 38, 44, and
bonus ball 47. Participants in the draws were randomly selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 e-mail addresses of
Individuals/Companies from Europe, Africa, Americas, Asia, Australia,
Canada, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our electronic business
Promotions Program.

We advice that you keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money released to you. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this

program. For the release of your winnings; kindly contact your claims agent
with the following details to expedite the processing of your prize winning.

1. Full name and address.
2. Country of Residence.
3. Tel and fax number.
4. Occupation.

To begin your Claim, please contact our Regional Payments/Claims office
immediately with the following email address;
claimsonlinehelpdesk@yahoo.co.uk or on telephone numbers; +44 703 192 0669.
All winning must be claimed not later than 14 days from the date of receipt
of this email.  After this date all prize winning will treated as Unclaimed.

Note in order to avoid unnecessary delays; remember to quote your Reference
and Batch numbers in all correspondence.

Congratulations once again from all our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our special quarterly promotional Lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,

Mr. Josh Cole
(Information's and Promotion Manager)