"National Lottery" e-mail ...

Loobeylou

Received this e-mail this morning - the National Lottery logo was all over the background of this, but I am suspicious of the whole thing.

Anyone know if it is another scam, or is it kosher? I also find it strange that the National Lottery would ask people to contact a Tiscali e-mail address.

Here it is ...


From: "UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" <nationallotterymails@msn.com> Add to Address Book
Subject: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 04:30:09 +0000

UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY

38 OLYMPIC WAY, SEXTON BUSINESS PARK

AINTREE, LIVERPOOL, L30 1RD

TEL: +44-702 305 3408 FAX +44-870 490 1305





FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

NEW YEAR BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
*************************************************************************************
Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A" with the following winning information:
REF No: Removed
BATCH No: Removed
TICKET No: Removed
SERIAL No: Removed
LUCKY No: Removed

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of £500,000.00. Pounds (Five hundred thousand pounds only) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent:

Mr Daniel Langley.

TEL: +44 (0) 702 305 8974

Email: [email]agent_ (Removed@tiscali.co.uk[/email]


NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Please note;

You are hereby advice to send the following informations to our agent emaill address stated above to facilitate the procession of your claims.

1. Your full name and address
2. Your personal phone and fax number, and
3. Your winning numbers.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Caroline Anderson
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

NOTE: You are to contact your claims officer immediately

innovate

This is a typical 'nigerian scam' - you can read more of these on www.419eater.com.

You can post this email (complete with email address) in the surplus 410 scam letters board of the forum over on that site.

mr_fishbulb

1 - The email was sent from a MSN account - not very professional is it was the real thing.

2 - The phone number of the contact is a mobile number.

kenshaz

Take it to the police

innovate

kenshaz wrote:

Take it to the police

Good idea - and also send it to the National Lottery, just in case they aren't aware.

Loobeylou

Went to the National Lottery website and have forwarded it to: scams@fraudwatchinternational.com

Hopefully they will deal with the so-and-sos who are trying to con people.

Many thanks to those who have taken the time to respond.

Darksun

Yep, probably an advanced fee fraud. If you contact them you'll find there's a slight problem, or you need to pay tax of a few thousand... but that's OK, because you're going to get millions... yeah right :rolleyes:

Heinz

mr_fishbulb wrote:

2 - The phone number of the contact is a mobile number.

No, 070 numbers are what are known as 'personal' numnbers.

The idea is, if you phone to query, they'll make money from you - typically 49p per minute.

mr_fishbulb

Heinz wrote:

No, 070 numbers are what are known as 'personal' numnbers.

The idea is, if you phone to query, they'll make money from you - typically 49p per minute.

What's the difference between one of them and a premium rate number?

ditzymuppet

Don't trust anything that is emailing you and asking you for money....or for you to contact them

You were right to query it.

But if in doubt, count it out Don't go there!

Good luck against the phishing

~ditzy x

ManAtHome

Loobeylou wrote:

picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet

ROFL - for each address_on_file do send_spam end for...

Sadly, a lot of people do reply to this stuff which is why they keep sending it.