Got this email just now. Is it a scam?

HelloMoney_2

Got an email from "The Email Lottery" <emaillottery.fiduciaryagent@yahoo.co.uk>. Couldn't get rid of those ??s however I tried:

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The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE6 1HX England
(Customer Services)

Dear email address owner,

The draw of the EMAIL LOTTERY??. online Sweepstakes
International Program held on 16th December 2006, won you the Lottery
in the JACKPOT Bonus. The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed
and you are getting the FINAL notification as regards this Email.

Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers: 5,
7, 17, 30, 31,55, By our computer draw system, which subsequently won
you the lottery in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery??).Because your email
was attached to our winning numbers, you are QUALIFIED as one of the draw
winners. You have therefore been approved to claim:a total sum of
??1,666,667 (ONE MILLION, SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX THOUSAND,SIX HUNDRED
AND SIXTY SEVEN Pounds Sterlings) in CASH credited to file number ;
KTU/9023118308/03. and Draw Number:1080.01.The UK NATIONAL LOTTERY?? and the
EURO MILLIONS??, are the richest Lottery Agencies in the whole
world.The total cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky
winners in this category i.e Email Lottery (e-Lottery??) All
participants for the Email Lottery (e-Lottery??) were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through our Email Lottery Draw System
(E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate
bodies that are listed online.

This Lottery programme is part of the Country's Programme to fund for
the Olympic Games in 2012 (The ??1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle).Other
sums to be raised from the National Lottery would be from Ticket sales,
Marketing, Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.

Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this winning, your email
was selected by our E.L.D.S.(e-Lottery??) randomly.Your ??1,666,667,
will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. Claiming your
money is Easy and Safe.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and till your money is
transferred to you in your country.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.To file for your
claim, kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the information below:
FIDUCIARY AGENT

Name: Mr. James Peterson
Email: info@the-email-lottery.1to1.org

Complete the below form and summit it to :
info@the-email-lottery.1to1.org

( 1 ) YOUR FULL NAMES: .................
( 2 ) YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:..............
( 3 ) YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS: .............
( 4 ) TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:.........
( 5 ) YOUR AGE:..................
( 6 ) YOUR COUNTRY: ................
( 7 ) LANGUAGE: .......................
( 8 ) YOUR OCCUPATION: ....................
( 9 ) HAVE YOU EVER WON A LOTTERY BEFORE:..........
( 10 ) HOW DO YOU FEEL TO BE A WINNER:..........

MODE OF COLLECTION

(1) BANK TO BANK TRANSFER.
(2) COURIER SYSTEM.

Please make sure you indicate your choice of collection to enable easy
and fast delivery.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL
LOTTERY??.

Yours faithfully,
Darryn Clarke(Mrs)
Online coordinator EMAIL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program ?? Copyright 2006
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I checked the office and this seems to be their website http://www.visualnetcentre.com/ But it did look suspicious as I never remembered entering draws like this. Has anyone else received it too?

Lorian

If someone offers to give you a million quid in a lottery you didn't buy a ticket for then it's a scam. It's not even a very good attempt.

Strepsy

Sounds very dodgy to me.

Jarvissa

100% Scam.

I had the exact same email except for they were calling it the Japanese Email Lottery (um yeah, cause I'd have entered that!!). My friend however, had the very same email that you've received.

They're either gonna ask you to pay some authorisation/activation/etc fee m(for a prize that doesn't exist) or steal your identity with all the personal info you'd have given them if you answered all their questions!

Delete! Delete!

neilwoods

Of course its a scam, this one is about indentity theft.

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian_lottery.htm

djl

scam a load of junk delete it

AnnieH

Hi HelloMoney, and welcome to MSE. I think you already know it's a scam, and I'm glad your alarms bells started ringing. There are a lot of these type of email doing the rounds, and I hope no-one ever falls for them, but I suppose they must do:(

fluffynit

Welcome to MSE, I agree with all the above, avoid!

fluffynit

HelloMoney_2

Thanks all for the reply! Deleted already! =p