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Number of lottery scam e-mails have increased for quite some time. Every time I receive such email, I just laugh. There would be emails that say that you’ve won millions of dollars for a lottery you never entered. These jokers at times use the name of a legitimate lottery as part of the scam. If you respond to them, they will ask you to pay some fee or fees to claim your prize. A legitimate lottery does not ask this. Once you have paid the money they will simply disappear with your money and your chance of any type of recovery is essentially zero. One recent example of such Mail from “Coca Cola”:
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOMTHE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual
final draws held on (17th March, 2007) by Coca-Cola in conjunction
with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was
among the 5 Lucky winners who won £1000,000.00{One million Great
Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.However the results were released today 19th March, 2007 and your
email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number
(BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of
email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses
of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated
random computer search from the internet.
However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned
to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also
licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators
(IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the
public.To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact the
fiduciary agent via email as stated below:Mr David Morgan
Email:enquireoffice3@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +447011128981
TEL: +447031946023
TEL: +447011137631
FAX: +44871253060022 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs,PE9 2YP,London
United KingdomDue to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask
that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim
has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some
participants of this program.*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not
to partake in this PROMOTION.Accept our hearty congratulations once again!
Yours Faithfully,
Management.
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location outside Baghdad’s Green Zone for crimes against humanity.
Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were present. US-backed Iraqi television Al Hurra and Arabic satellite channel Arabiya confirmed that the execution had taken place in Baghdad in the early hours of Saturday.
“He has been executed. It has been officially announced that he has been executed,” Abbawi said, speaking by telephone to BBC News 24.
“Saddam’s body is in front me … It’s over,” another official from the prime minister’s office told CNN.
The execution was videotaped and photographed, state television reported, and those images will be distributed to the media.
Seven explosions rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing in the worst attack on London since World War II. At least 37 people were killed, U.S. officials said, and more than 700 were wounded.
Police put the death toll from the morning rush hour attack at 37. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy later quoted Britain’s government as saying 50 people had been killed.
Three explosions caused carnage on underground trains as Londoners made their way to work. The top was also ripped off a double-decker bus near Russell Square in the heart of the city.
The news-stands reflected both in London today — a surreal sight as posters celebrating London’s successful Olympic bid were fast replaced by blunt headlines like “terrorist attack — commuters dead.” For two consecutive days, the eyes of the world have been focused on London — for utterly different reasons.
The previous lunchtime, thousands of Londoners had celebrated the Olympic committee’s decision to award the 30th Olympiad to the English capital. 24 hours on, those same citizens were trudging home in the rain, stunned and terrified.
The telephone networks were in a state of near melt-down. The entire underground train system was closed. Buses were off the roads. There were few cars, and normally busy thoroughfares like Regent Street and Piccadilly resembled postcards from a ghost town.
Oblivious to the downpour, large crowds gathered at shop windows to gaze in stunned amazement at the television news. The sound-track was provided by the sirens of the emergency services. Police cars, paramedics and fire trucks tore through the city streets in an apparent state of disarray. I lost count of how many.
This was three hours after the bombings, and it was hard not to think London was still under attack. The military helicopters which buzzed over Buckingham Palace and patrolled the river by the House of Commons did nothing to ease concern.
“The scene afterwards was horrible: pieces of body on the ground,” said Ayobami Bello, a 42-year-old security guard who was near the bus.
Police said seven people were killed on an underground train near Liverpool Street, 21 were confirmed dead in another near King’s Cross and seven died at Edgware Road. At least two passengers on the bus were killed.
Passengers stumbled through smoke-filled carriages deep underground to escape the trains after the blasts.
“It was horrific. There was smoke everywhere. I couldn’t breathe,” said Joe Witalls at Edgware Road station.
A previously unknown group, “Secret Group of al Qaeda’s Jihad in Europe,” claimed responsibility but police said it was too early to say whether suicide bombers were involved.
Brian Paddick, assistant deputy commissioner of London police, told reporters no warning had been received.
The scenes of shocked, bloodied and wounded commuters were in stark contrast to the jubilant crowds who flocked the streets on Wednesday after London was awarded the 2012
London had not seen such an attack since a car bomb in 2001 blamed on a Irish republican splinter group, but it had been on high alert since Sept. 11, 2001. Police had said it was just a matter of time before the British capital was hit.
President Bush, speaking at the G8 summit, told reporters: “We will not yield to these terrorists, we will find them, we will bring them to justice.”
Britain is the closest ally of the United States in Iraq, where al Qaeda is waging a bloody insurgency. Spain withdrew its troops from Iraq after the Madrid bombings which killed 191 when 10 simultaneous bombs tore through four commuter trains.
“It has the hallmarks of an al Qaeda-related attack. The assessment is currently being made,” Straw said in a round of television interviews from the G8 summit in Scotland.
The Islamic Human Rights Commission warned London Muslims to stay at home. The Muslim Council of Britain, which represents 1.6 million Muslims, called for prayers for the victims at the country’s 800 mosques and urged full cooperation with police.
“Not good,” was the response of one police officer when asked how he felt to be working in the capital today. Another was more upbeat. He’d been due to take the tube from Edgware Road to work today, but had decided to walk instead. In the circumstances, he didn’t mind being told that he and his colleagues would have to work through the night on a 24-hour shift.