Lottery Scam?

hamaradam

I have not been able to sign in to my msn mail for a few days (a regular occurence,) ie it wont let you it goes back to the signing in page and then flicks from one to the other to and fro, many attempts later it lets you in...very tiresome.. - luckily it is used as only a secondary email facility anyway.. for example people to whom you don't need/want to communicate, ie banks, credit cards, etc, sales people....(there could be a clue here, as these do sell your details to others...):mad:

Anyway today I checked the emails after an hour it let me in...and this is what I found: An email telling me I'd won something....I am very sceptical....what do other MSE'rs think though? ie a PO box, saying 'no tickets were sold' then a reference below it to a 'ticket number' ?? and 'lucky winner' not ones name.... here it is as follows:-


The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM

Dear Lucky Winner


The National Lottery Day wishes to inform you that you have won the sum of £ 900.000.00(Nine Hundred Thousand pound Only).

The National Lottery Day. draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 13 lucky emails of individual and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search. No tickets were sold

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Ticket Nr: TNL 07482148372 97427.
Batch Nr: TNL 97635197437-ZQG/2010.
Security File Nr: 850197731.
Ref Nr: TNL 770270289/ES 957.

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You are required to claim your winnings before February 5th, 2010 otherwise it rolls over to the next draw.

Prize claiming procedures.
Full Name, Sex . Age, phone number, Address, Profession,
Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims officer.

Failure to provide the information above to the claims officer will result to immediate disqualification !!


Claims Officer
Mr Greg Peterson
Email:national.claims@games.com

Furthermore, should there be any change of address do Inform the CLAIM AGENT as soon as possible.

AGREEMENT:

The National Lottery day and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 2009 National Lottery day celebration hereby Agrees, That the winning information written above are the orignal winning information as it was selected by the computer on 27th day of January 2010, And that the winner who these winning information has been sent to,will be paid the winning sum of £ 900.000.00 without fail.


Congratulations once more from our members of staff.
Once again on behalf of all our staff CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified..

Congratulations.

Mrs.Marie Young.
Winnings Coordinator


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privileged. The information is intendedsolely for the use of the
individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipiet
be awarethat any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents is
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davetrousers

Delete it.

Note how it is already out of date. Also in the real National Lottery you have about 6 months (or more) to claim winnings.

shellsuit

Scam : http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/201001/27-ways-to-spot-a-scam-lottery-win/

hamaradam

Ah 'shellsuit' - I blummin knew it...:D.....this clearly confirms it!! many thanks for that!....must be my address sold on from banks and the likes...as i suspected...Hmm.

[Deleted User]

No, the email's genuine.

A month ago I received a National Lottery email saying I won £4,500,000.
The only thing was, for some odd reason, I had to fly down to Lagos in Nigeria to pick up the cash.
So I did. The bank there only had £5 notes so I had to pay almost £1,000 in excess baggage fees.:mad:

Hermia

If you win anything from the National Lottery they just send you an email saying that there is good news about your ticket. They don't put any details of what you have won in the email.

mippy

This is a well-known scam. I've never bought a lottery ticket in my life and I still get several of these a week.

fluffnutter

hamaradam, take another look at it. Come on! It's badly worded, the punctuation's appalling, it tries to pressure you timewise, and it asks for more personal details than I know about my own husband.

It couldn't look more like a scam if it had 'This is a scam' in 78 point font at the top...

lincroft1710

Just Google "PO Box 1010" - SCAM, SCAM, SCAM!!!!!

Enfieldian

hamaradam wrote: »

Ah 'shellsuit' - I blummin knew it...:D.....this clearly confirms it!! many thanks for that!....must be my address sold on from banks and the likes...as i suspected...Hmm.

Nope.

Note how the email is addressed to "Lucky Winner"?

These emails are just sent en masse to millions of random addresses. It just so happened that one of them matched yours.

dealer_wins

A sad story on the BBC site today regarding a lottery scam.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds_bucks_and_herts/10525512.stm