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Fake Chevron-Texaco Lottery Email

Short and sweet?! Punctuations are all over the place; a badly constructed email. This unedited mail has FAKE written all over it! Beware.

Subject: ACCEPT OUR WARMEST CONGRATULATION.....
From email address: info@lottery.net

- email content -

ATTENTION: Winner,
We wish to inform you that the April 2008 DRAWS OF THE CHEVRON-TEXACO LOTTERY HELD IN NIGERIA .Your email address attached to PIN NUMBER:CHTX5512286,SERIAL NUMBER:CHTX5073-11 which drew the lucky numbers that won you the Lottery Funds in the first winning category.

You have therefore been approve for a lump sum of $1,000,000 U.S Dollars.For your claim do send your:file us your name:age:occupation phone number.
E-MAIL: claims_dept41@hotmail.com

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From Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company Fri May 2 02:49:47 2008
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Authentication-Results: mta373.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=lottery.net; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 66.231.220.66 (EHLO pop1.oxfordnetworks.net) (66.231.220.66)
by mta373.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 02 May 2008 02:49:47 -0700
Received: from webmail.megalink.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by pop1.oxfordnetworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67001C6A6FC;
Fri, 2 May 2008 05:49:46 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from 216.139.176.50
(SquirrelMail authenticated user vjwaustin)
by webmail.megalink.net with HTTP;
Fri, 2 May 2008 05:49:47 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <56704.216.139.176.50.1209721787.squirrel@webmail.megalink.net>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 05:49:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: ACCEPT OUR WARMEST CONGRATULATION.....
From: "Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company"
Reply-To: claims_dept41@hotmail.com
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Importance: Normal
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Content-Length: 469
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