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ONLINE NOTIFICATION UNIT.
UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY(HOME OFFICE).
165 FULHAM PALACE ROAD W6 8JB
UNITED KINGDOM.
REFERENCE NUMBER: xxxxxxxxxx
BATCH NUMBER: xxxxxxxxxxx
OUR REF: xxxxxxxxx
TICKET NUMBER: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

WINNING NOTIFICATION: FINAL ANNONCEMENT
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today 27th of
November, 2008 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMOTION PROGRAMME held on Saturday the 11th of November, 2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: xxxxxxxxx with Serial number xxxxx drew the lucky numbers:xxxxxxxx, and a bonus number of xx which subsequently won you the lottery in the second category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total of£ 480,152.00(Four hundred and eighty thousand one hundred and fifty-two Great Britain Pounds) in cash credited to file xxxxxx. This is from a total cash prize of £3,361,064.00 shared equally amongst the first seven (7) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants of this online promotion programme were selected
randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies listed online. This promotion takes place Quarterly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in the United Kingdom as indicated in
your play coupon. In view of this, your £480,152.00(Four hundred
and eighty thousand one hundred and fifty-two Great Britain Pounds)
would be released to you by any of our payment office in the
United Kingdom.

Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him/her via electronic mail(email) or other options made available to you.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in any 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 claim, please contact your assigned agent;

Official: Mr. Smith Brown
Representative office.
10 Camelot close Thamesmead.
London E280 ES United Kingdom.
Tel: +447 786 853 517
Email: mrsmithbrowbagent09@yahoo.co.uk

You are required to provide him with the information below for
verification purposes;

1.Full Name(s):
2.Full Address:
3.Occupation:
4.Age:
5.Sex:
6.Nationality:
7.Country of Residence:
8.Telephone Number:
9.Fax Number:
10.Ticket Number(as given above):
11.Reference Number(as given above):

For due processing and remittance of your prize money.

Note: You must contact your claims officer not later than 2(two) weeks
after this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. In order to
avoid unnecessary delays and complications.
Please remember to quote your reference number as the subject of your correspondences with your claims officer. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.

Yours Truly,
Sir. Stephen Paul.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme).

and this one: ----------------------------------------…

Confirmation Email lucky No xxxxxxxxxxxx
This email is to notify you that your Email Address attached to a Ticket Number:(809/115/511) has won an Award Sum of €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros Only) In an Email Sweepstake program held on the 13th of November, 2008.
Please contact the claim officer through the below given contact information for the Claim.
CLAIM AGENT:
Mr. Simms Sanchez
Contact Email:winnersclaim55@aol.com
Contact Telephone:0034-693-455-188

Please forward the below stated winning information to your Claim Agent.
WINNING INFORMATION'S
Batch/Ref Number xxxxxxxxxxxx
Award/Email Ticket Number xxxxxxxxxxxx
Congratulations!!!
Mrs. Isabel Moreno

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I've been trying to ignore these mails,but that's not an easy thing to do. I guess I love money too much :-p

Mark it as junk and report it as a phishing scam.
(These options should be available in your email toolbar.)
Over time you should see less and less of these pesky emails.