Australian lottery
If you had an Email tells you that you won $1.000.000 Please watch out it is a scam

A week ago I had an Email that tells me I had won a Prize of $1.000.000 in the Australian Lottery Program it was as the following:

"

Ref: 435062725

Batch: 7050470902/189

Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was

released on the 25th March from the Australian

International Lottery programme, which is fully based

on an electronic selection of winners using their

e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address

was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102

and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the

lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus

number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the

second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of

US$1, 000, 000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash

credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/09 from the total cash

prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this

category. All participants were selected through a

computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred

00thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,

Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,

Africa and Oceania as part of our international

promotion program which is conducted annually. This

Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate

of some multinational companies as part of their

social responsibility to the citizens in the

communities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, 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$1, 000, 000.00 will be released to you from

this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope that

with part of your prize, you will participate in our

end of year high stakes for US$1.3Billion

international draw. To file for your claim, please

contact our claims department through the claims

agent:

Name: Ms. Vera Bradford

Tell: 234 803 9180207

E-mail: vera.bradford@hotmail.com

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number

which can be found on the top left corner of this

notification as well as your full name, address and

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 released to you. This

is part of our security protocol to avoid double

claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this

programme by non-participants or unofficial

personnel. Note: all winnings MUST be claimed by the

30th April; otherwise all funds will be returned

as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity

organizations.

ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

YOURS SINCERELY,

Dr. Martins Grant

Australian Lottery International (co-ordinator). "

So I sent them my full data including my name, address, phone number, and my bank account number

as they asked exactly me to do. and so that they can call me to agree with date, but I didn't receive any calls, all I had received is another mail that tells me to send my identity card, or my passport pr even my driver license. so i decided to call them to see how can i meet them to take the money, however when i did that i found that the phone number they sent me is invalid number. that made me to have a doubt about them.

After that i sent them Email requesting for someone to talk to me. but they didn't answer. they sent me another Email telling me that I've to send them a copy of my ID. that's why I think the whole matter is a scam. especially that I live in Egypt and I have never been to Australia before. I don't know what to do, please tell me.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to publish this complaint.

Company: Australian lottery
Country: India

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