UK LOTTERY SCAM EMAIL - Beware

tonydav43

I received an email yesterday which is a scam, please beware & DO NOT send them any information. I've copy & pasted the scam below along with my response!!!



From: Rev Eddie James (remittance231@hotmail.com)
Sent: 07 November 2007 12:09:45

HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD. W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM .
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/70
Batch: 074/05/ZY345
e-ticket number: 56475612545 187
Attention Winner

Congratulations once again from all the staff here. I am in receipt of your mail and I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 125,000 website on the internet of which your email address (tonydav43@******.******) was attached to a ticket number, and it was selected along with others as winners.

Your ticket number: 56475612545 187 attached to your email address, with Serial number 5368/03 drew the lucky
numbers: 4 5 16 19 21 49 20(bonus no.42),this luckynumber subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £691,252 (Six hundred and ninety one thousand, two hundred and fifty two pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/07. This is from a total cash prize of £2,073,756 (Two million, seventy three thousand, seven hundred and fifty six pounds sterling) shared amongst the first ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.
I have finally verified your winnings and it's exactly with what is present on our Database. Your particulars have been documented for record purposes.
You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you.Please fill in the verification form provided below

VERIFICATION FORM
1.Full Name___________________________
2.Full Address_________________________
3.Marital Status_____________________
4.Occupation____________________
5.Age____________________________
6.Sex____________________________
7.Nationality___________________
8.Country Of Residence______________
9.Telephone Number_______________
10.Fax Number______________________
11.Ticket Number___________________
12.Reference Number_______________
13.Batch Number____________________
With regards to this,please contact the courier department with the informations provided below:.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning informations?confidential till your claim is processed and your money transferred to yourdesignated bank account of your choice. This is a part of our precautionarymeasure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by someunscrupulous elements. Please be warned.
Fax +447075700285
Phone:+447024038565
:+44 7031916489

Thank you for your understanding
Regards,
Rev Eddie James
Claims Agent

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My response was like so:
Many thanks for responding so quickly to my email, i am so excited that I have won so much money on the lottery. Please can you tell me where and when I can send you my bank details so that you can bleed my account dry. Do you think that we are all stupid, you might be able to con some people but then some of us do have some common sense about us. Why dont you just stop trying to con people and go out and get a real job like most people in the world do, the one thing I hate is people that con people just to make a living, blood suckers is what I call people like you. So in response to your email you can take it and shove it where the sun dont shine, oh by the way I have passed all your details onto an organisation that my brother works for, you might have heard of them you might not have they are called WFIS which stands for world faud investigation squad, dont you just hate it when you send a scam out to the wrong person, oh by the way I would keep a look over my shoulder because this organisation knows who people like you are and it is only a matter of time before you are caught and it is a federal offence to do what you are doing and carries a very long prison sentence. He has told me of a new electronic tracking device that they have obtained, which can track an email sent months ago to a certain computer, fingerprint the keyboard etc and catch people like you.

Have a nice day

Regards


Just wanted to make people aware of this as it apparently happens once every 3 months so please don't be caught out by it. And let everyone know about it!
:beer:

Cheeky_Chicken

Thanks for posting, but this happens a lot - so often in fact that there is a special competition scams thread stickied at the top of this board - probably better to post there in future.

If you get any more, you'd be better not replying, as that just lets the scammers know they have a valid email address, and will probably increase your spam tenfold!

wbk666

a reverend called eddie? LOL