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FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Dear Recipient,
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations 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 prior to your
notification . 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 our International Promotions
Program.
You/Your company email id, 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 in it.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
MR. ANDREW YOUNG,
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT MANAGER,
CASH CHANGE SP LTD
TEL/FAX: (censored)
EMAIL:(censored)
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: LSLSP/2031/8161/04
BATCH NUMBER: R3/A312-59
Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotional program.
Sincerely,
LUCIO ABAGA,(MRS)
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
LUCKY STRIKE LOTTERY SP,
6D GR ALACALA DE HENERES
MADRID, SPAIN.
N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result
to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail box. Contact your
claims agent immediately.
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