In the last week I have been inundated by obviously fraudulent emails explaining how I just won a lottery I never signed up for and never heard of. It's amazing to me that anyone would fall for this stuff, but they do. Of course, people are stupid and greedy and can be easily duped into giving up their life savings for the promise of winning something like the Canadian Lottery.

AWARD WINNING
ZEEMAN PROMOTIONAL CO-ORDINATOR,
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
BATCH NUMBER:638901765-ANL/05
OUR REF:05/AMSTEL0020205/EU
YOURREF:EMAIL505/EU05

ATTN:LOTTERY WINNER,

NOTIFICATION:FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Zeeman Lottery programs held on May 2,2005 Your e-mail address was attached to one of the ten winning ticket numbers with game Number 28802519.. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of ?150,000.00 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand euro)

CONGRATULATIONS!!

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system from our sponsors databases, including over 50,000 companies and 150,000 individual E-mail addresses and names submitted by our agents drawn from Asia, Africa,Europe,North And South America, Oceania and around the world.To file for your urgent claim, please contact our approved agent for your region.

Morgan Marco.
Zeeman Lottery Agency
Nieuwe Steen 5
1625 HV HOORN
Amsterdam The Netherland
Tel:+31-619-056-199
Fax:+31-84-
E-Mail:

It is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and to minimize identification difficulties to advise you to keep this information confidential until your claim is processed successfully and to avoid unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants to please note that you will be required to pay for the issuance of your winning certificate and all winnings must be claimed not later than 9th May,2005.After this date all unclaimed winnings will be null and void. In Order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence.
Furthermore, should there be anychange of address do inform our agents
as soon as possible.Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Note:Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.

Yours faithfully,
Mellor Dale.