24th November, 2005
ATTENTION: *******,
I am in receipt of your mail and i must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this years lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 125,600 websites on the internet. Each email address was attached to a ticket number. Your email address was selected along with six others as winners.
A certificate of prize claims and some vital documents will be sent along side your winnings cheque.The documents to be sent are;
1.WINNING CERTIFICATE FROM UK LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKE PROMOTIONS.
2.WINNERS CHEQUE FOR THE VALUE WON.
3.CLEAR SOURCE OF FUNDS CERTIFICATES(C.S.F.C.);
4.ANTI-TERRORISM CERTIFICATES(A.T.C);
5.CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN OF FUNDS(C.O.F.).
Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from , this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value . This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the national gambling act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.
To begin the final step of the claims process, which is the shipment of your winning cheque prize to you. With regards to this, there are Three options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the Three.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:You are required to pay the neccesary courier charges to enable us send you your cheque and other claim documents.
Shipping your winning cross cheque to you via any of this channel listed below:
Mailing ;.............................£150.00
Insurance.............................£130.00
Vat (5%)..............................£90.00
TOTAL.................................£370
Mailing:.............................. £140.00
Insurance:.......................... £120.00
Vat:..................................... £60.00
TOTAL:.............................. £320.00
FEDEX

Mailing...............................£180.00
Insurance.............................£140.00
Vat (5%)..............................£30.00
TOTAL.................................£350.00
This company declined reverse payment for these charges, stating that it is against their professional policy towards ensuring the safe delivery of the cheque to you. That if a reverse payment is made, and something goes wrong, that we/you cannot sue the courier company or insurance company to recover the full value of the fund as stipulated in the cheque since payment for insurance cover was not made at point of mailing.With the above reason, reverse payment is ruled out.
Note: that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you.
Send your response to indicate your option within the next 24hrs,because you only have 6 days to claim this cheque and after this period,your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.