CONGRATULATIONS YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON $2,500,000

A reader forwarded this scam to me.  I hope you know that no organisation anywhere ever holds random email draws.  They are all scams – and this one is no exception.  This is a scammer, who is hoping you will fall for their lie and start sending them money.  Delete the email and don’t reply.

Dear Internet User,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of our Internet Promotional Draws.
This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services and all email
addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly selected from an
internet resource database of of registered software and domain users.

Your email address was selected in the Category “A with Reference Number
RGM/1313-101, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand prize
award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The
payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and
satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email
address.

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish
contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the
particulars below:

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CLAIMS AGENT
Name: Mr.Damien Lewis
Tel:+31 626 006 051
Email:
claimrep.lewis@live.nl
Foreign Claims Agent Netherlands Office.
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You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the
following information for processing the payment of your cash award.

DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:

Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this notice
will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims
process immediately, by contacting the claims agent who would be guiding you
through the Claims process.

Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your
payout soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Monica Floyd
Lottery Co-ordinator