20 2 Spam and its economic significance
TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427
LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Koningen Julianaplein 21, 2391 BD
Denhaag, The Netherlands
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Dear Sir/Madam,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws
of THE LOTT NL.PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged as a winner under
the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The results of the draws hve been
officially announced . Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 46939,with serial number 472- 9768 and
lucky number W-91237-H?67/B4 consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been
awarded a lump sumpay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for
Category A winners. This is from a total cash prize of ?10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Euros)
shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
In your best interest 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.
Please contact our paying bank (leed capital Bank) immediately for due processing and remittance of
your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers.
Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank.Also give them the
following informations
Name
Age
Address
Occupation
REF Number:
NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund
is now deposited with the paying Bank. To begin your claims, kindly
contact the paying bank with the below information:
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Contact person:Mr
Patrick Rowley
E-mail: Leedcaptlb@netscape.net
Tel: 00 31 633 701 450.
Fax: 00 31 847 570 900.
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NOTE: All claims are nultified after 10 working days from today if unclaimed
Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Evlyn Bakker
(Lotter
Coordinator).
Fig. 2.10: Fraudulent e-mail
them into flooding John Smith’s mailbox with complaints, or to tarnish the
reputation of the XYZ company.
The name “joe job” was first used to describe such a scheme directed at
Joe Doll, who offered space for free web pages. One user had his account
removed for advertising through spam; in retaliation, he sent another spam
to several million innocent victims, but with the “reply-to” headers forged
to make it appear to be from Joe Doll. He describes the victims’ answers as