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FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARDS DEPARTMENT AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY CORPORATION.

Winning Numbers: 11 13 26 34 44 48

AWARD NOTIFICATION: FINAL NOTICE.
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 21st of MAY 2007 from the Australian International Lottery Program with the following information:
Date:21/05/2007
Ref: 575061725
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC.
Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number; 575061725 8056490902 serial number 6741137002 This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows: 11-13-26-34-44-48 bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.
You hereby have been approved a prize of US$200,000.00 U.S.D (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from One hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies in Australia as part of their social responsibility to the citizens.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in Amsterdam,Holland, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$200,000.00 U.S.D will be released to you from our Australian payment centre in NIGERIA.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our Middle year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our CLAIMS Agent MR VLADIMIR BEN at;
(agent.vben1@webmail.co.za).
To file for your claim . Please quote your Date of draw, Reference Number, Batch Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the top-left corner of this message. Also, you should give in your telephone number to help locate your file easily. For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize has been released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed on/before 10/06/2007.

Otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity.
Congratulations once again on your winning!

ALSO ENSURE YOU TYPE THE EMAIL ADDRESS CORRECTLY TO ENSURE SAFE & QUICK MAIL DELIVERY/RESPONSE. ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.
Best Regards.
Mr. Rajjen Kepney.
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.
CONTACT OUR CLAIMS AGENT AT THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW:

(agent.vben1@webmail.co.za)
FOR AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
THANKS: MANAGEMENT,
AUSTRALIA LOTTERY INC.

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This is a scam.How many austrailians do you know with a russian name like vladimir.

The za e-mail address indicates South Africa where Nigerian fraudsters have begun operating. If you play along with their scam, they will soon be asking you for several thousand dollars in order to process the "transfer" of your "winnings" to your bank. The South African Treasury Department are aware of these scams and suggest you ignore such e-mails

I have received plenty of these and unfortunately, all are scams. As the above has said, it is Nigerians who are trying to get people to reply, thus they are confirming their email address which they can then sell by the thousands if enough people reply. Also, you might think that it would be tedious to send emails one by one but they use special scripts to hide the number of address they send the email to which could possibly be millions.

it's a scam. I personally have "won" hundreds of foreign lotteries i never knew i entered, not to mention all my untimely dead relatives with big bank accounts and I am the only living relative that could be found, or a banking officer who wants me to help him scam his bank. I should have billions of dollars, but i know that these are scams