PSA: A NEW NIGERIA SCAM LETTER
I haven’t seen this one before- I won $750,000 in a lottery but have to travel to Europe to claim the money.
W.S. Lottery Headquarters
:Customer Service
580 N. Tenth Street, CA 85914
Watergate Sweepstake Lotteryan
Affiliate of WATERGATE INC.
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de RufisqueI
.P.P Award Dept.Ref: WSL/941OYI/03
Batch: 033/06/MA346/03WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw of the Watergate Sweepstake Lottery International programs covering Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South America, as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually held on the 26th of July, 2003.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 914876000654 188 with Serial number 7501/03 drew the lucky numbers: 06-94-97-20-001, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 3rd category.
you have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) credited to file WSL/SA/9799-0021/03.This is from a total cash prize of US$ 9,000,000.00 (Nine Million United States Dollars), shared among the first Twelve (12) lucky winners in this category.
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your US$750,000.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) would be released to you by our payment office in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process of your winning to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent: Dr. Spenser Wilford
WATERGATE INC. Email: dr.spenser1@juno.com To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your Ticket, Reference and Batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery
program.Sincerely,
Ben Venuto
W.S.L. Co-ordinator.
11 Responses to “PSA: A NEW NIGERIA SCAM LETTER”
![]() Comment by Chris August 28th, 2003 at 8:27 am |
The name of the company is just classic. I wonder if they get the irony? |
![]() Comment by Tony Rosen August 28th, 2003 at 12:22 pm |
You have to love the fact that this guy is supposedly trying to give you official winnings, but has a JUNO email address. |
![]() Comment by Diane August 28th, 2003 at 4:02 pm |
Signed Ben Venuto? Hahahahahahaha. |
![]() Comment by Daryl Cobranchi August 28th, 2003 at 5:31 pm |
I missed that one. “Welcome” in Italian, right? |
![]() Comment by peter September 1st, 2003 at 4:48 pm |
I received exactly the same at 01.09.03 (Gemany) also this one: Dear friend, |
![]() Comment by perttu October 9th, 2003 at 8:59 am |
i got this e-mail too, and answered them twice saying, that i don’t believe in winning anything in atheir lottery, which probably doesn’t even exist. i gave them my telephone number thinking that it wouldn’t do me any harm. they actually called me saying that i have to contact my “european agent” in netherlands. this is getting very interesting, i think i’m gonna call him just for laughs. but what are they up to? how do they think they are going to benefit of me? |
![]() Comment by Anonymous October 14th, 2003 at 4:34 pm |
wow, a few months ago, i got the nigerian scam letter to transfer some oil million dollars from nigeria to the usa, now i am lucky again, i won $25000000 in lthe lottery without even playing, Am i super lucky or what, |
![]() Comment by rookie November 19th, 2003 at 10:29 am |
I replied to this mail… They asked forr my personal details, a copy of an indentification certificate and than i could collect the money… from Nigeria. If i didn’t want to i could also leave my bank account number. sure. in combination with my passport copy and my personal details… |
![]() Comment by sherlock April 29th, 2004 at 4:36 pm |
I got an email familiar to the one you got claiming i had won 250,000.00 is usa dollars and i need to send $4200.00 to claim my winnings. I told that fool i didn’t have money to send to claim money i was suppose to have won. i keep messing with them then last week i received a check for $20,000.00 in a cashier check by fedx drawn on the bank of america. it looked real and everything, however the bank put a hold on it for 4 days and today the bank called me to let me know that the check was counterfit. i am getting ready to turn these fools over to the fbi they don’t know that i found out it was counterfit. i will then email thes s.o.b.s to let them know the fbi is on to them. ALSO I WAS SUPPOSE TO SEND MONEY TO CANADA TO SOMEONE ELSE OUT OF THE $20,000.00 THESE GUYS ARE A FRAUD FRAUD. DON’T LET THEM GET YOU. LET ME HEAR FROM SOMEONE ONE THIS. |
![]() Comment by Uncorn19 May 4th, 2004 at 4:54 pm |
I also got one and for kicks gave them various phone numbers and addresses, of which are real but not me. It is amusing to watch them try to trick people. |
![]() Comment by Goran August 9th, 2004 at 7:32 pm |
FROM THE DESK OF:DR MARTINS WILLAMS,DIRECTOR, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION |