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Check out this scam: YOU WON THE UK LOTTERY AND HEAPS OF CASH!

Yeah, sure. Gimme a break; complete with UCLA email address, Great British Pounds, Undisclosed-Recipient; my eight year old Grandson could create a more realistic scam email, if he was a crook.

Another example of “Why the jails are full”.

This is an exceptionally crude email hook pitch scam letter, not quite as unbelievable as Nigerian Letters, but apparently still effective as more gullible suckers try email.

From: “KENT COOPER”
To: Undisclosed-Recipient
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:46:16 -0700
Subject: Dear Esteemed Winner

Ref No: UK/nnnnXn/nn
Batch Number: mmm/mm/abmmm

Dear Esteemed Winner,

We are happy to announce to you that your email address has luckily won you the star-prize of 8,000000.00GBP (Eight Million Great British Pounds) in the recent UK National Lottery Online Free Draw.

Your email address was randomly selected from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extract from over 100,000 unions, associations, individuals and corporate bodies that are listed online.
To begin your prize claims process, it is important that you acknowledge your receipt of this correspondence.

Congratulations to you from all members of this program.

Yours Truly,
Mrs. Grace Wright,
UK National Lottery Board
Email:claimsprocess-uknl3@live.com

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