text: Sorry to say but this is an increasingly common scam.  Please do yourself a favor and do a web search on "australian international lottery"\n\nHere's what the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection of the Government of Western Australia has to say about the "Australian International Lottery"  \n\nfrom: http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/ConsumerProtection/ScamNet/Scams/Australian_Internati.html\n\nAustralian International Lottery\nAdvance fee fraud\n\nWouldn’t it be nice to be told you have won $200,000? Not if the email is from the Australian International Lottery Program.\n\nThe only money you’ll see is the money you waste sending it to these scammers.\n\nWestern Australia’s government lottery commission, Lotterywest, is receiving numerous emails from overseas consumers asking whether Australian International Lottery Program is legitimate. It’s not.\n\nLotterywest have posted a warning on its website http://www.lotterywest.wa.go.au about these types of lotteries.\n\nAustralian International Lottery claims your email was selected from a computer balloting system drawn from 900,000 email addresses from around the world.\n\nIt claims the lottery is promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multi-national companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have an operational base.\n\nYour email details falls within the European representative office in Amsterdam, Holland, and your money will be released from the regional branch in Nigeria.\n\nConsumers take note: Nigeria is the home of the advance fee fraud.\n\nBut be warned that the scammers often change slight details in these emails including the amounts, their office locations and where to send money.\n\nIf you respond to this email, you will be asked to send $500 through Western Union to release your prize. The $500 is supposedly needed to swear an affidavit on your behalf at the Federal High Court of Justice so the money can be transferred out of the country.\n\nThe scammers (under the guise of a bank) request your bank account details, address, birth date, driver’s licence or passport, and your signature. Ask yourself: do you really want these people to have your details?