What happens if you reply to emails like this (fake lottery win)?

morganb

I've started to receive spam emails like the one below.

What actually happens to your details if you reply as the request?

There are no banking details requested so do they simply steal your identity for passports, credit cards, etc?

THE FREE LOTTO COMPANY
The Free Lotto Sweepstakes,
PO Box 42
Peterborough
PE3 8XH
UNITED KINGDOM

Ref No: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312
Batch No:901/00319/HLP
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-003
Grand
Draw No: 12099



Dear Sir / Madam,

This mail is to bring to your notice that your email emerged as one of our winning email address in our last lotto sweepstakes programme that made you automatically a winner of the sum of 500.000.00(G.B.P). In order to claim your won prize from the lottery board you are required to fill out the claims processing form and send it to our claims officer here in the UK with the details below:

Name Of Claims Officer:Mr.DAVID MORRET
Email address: dmorret79@gmail.com

Below is the claims form you are required to fill:
PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM
1.FULL NAMES:
2.ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.MARITAL STATUS:
6.OCCUPATION
7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
8. COUNTRY

Sincerely,
Maria Philips
On line Coordinator

uktim29

You'll get millions more as the computer/program that generates random email address's get a confirmation yours is active.

i-luv-free-stuff

awwwwwww and there was me building my hopes up!

The National Online Lottery
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you that you are a winner ofthe draw (#1088) of
the UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International
program held on 15th of January, 2008. Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number:56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew
the lucky numbers:2-3-21-24-38-44 (bonus no.47), which subsequently won
you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £3,000,000(Three
Million pounds sterling) in cash All participants for the online
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through
computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly. Please note that your lucky winning
number falls within our European booklet representative office in
England as indicated in your play coupon. For security reasons, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your
claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner
you
deem fit to claim your prize. 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, please contact our claims agent: Mr Williams
Spencer, with your full names and draw number(i.e 1088)
1.First Name:
2.Last Name:
3.Your Ref:
4.Address:
5.Country:
6.Telephone:
7.Occupation:
8.Age:
9.Preferred payment Mode:
(a) Cheque (b) Bank Transfer

Name;Mr Williams Spencer
E-mail Address:- fidu903@live.com
Telephone:+44-703 1947253
Fax:+44 -+448704792368, +448704794060
Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK
NATIONAL ONLINE
LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Richard K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for
UK NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.




___________________________________________________________
Fidelity Communications Webmail - http://webmail.fidnet.com

i-luv-free-stuff

if anyone could mess his/her email up somehow by flooding it or some over nasty thing it would be amusing

juno

I won the Euromilllions today!

i-luv-free-stuff

today if everyones lucky day!!!!

morganb

uktim29 wrote: »

You'll get millions more as the computer/program that generates random email address's get a confirmation yours is active.

Can someone explain the point of this? Surely people simply set up a spam filter or simply delete emails of this kind. I assumed that they were really after you personal details for some reason...

Congratulations to everyone else that won!

Markyt

morganb wrote: »

Can someone explain the point of this? Surely people simply set up a spam filter or simply delete emails of this kind. I assumed that they were really after you personal details for some reason...

Even if you don't fall for the scam, you might well respond to the email. That makes it a valid, live email that they can sell to other spammers - all in the best traditions of marketing!

robbirroy

morganb wrote: »

What actually happens to your details if you reply as the request?

Telephone numbers are always useful to scammers. They can then call you and pressurise you constantly to get more cash from you. A lot of the info there is useful to them, (maiden name for example) as these are often used as bank password checks. More info will be gotten from you when you give them your bank details (as obviously they'll need these to deposit your 'winnings'), etc etc.
The more info they have, the more thay can use against you, and the more its worth to other scammers.

nicky1312

whats the point in all these stupid emaqils do they really think we jsut came up the river in a banana boat

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Your email address has won $4.6M from the UK Lottery online draws held on the 1st January 2008 Lucky Number:MX014926583.Contact Mr. Jonathan Hou with your official names,country,address,sex/age,tel,occupation,date of draw on(jonathan_hou8@yahoo.com.hk) for delivery of your cheque.Tel +447035902949



- Uk National Lottery Organization

superscaper

nicky1312 wrote: »

whats the point in all these stupid emaqils do they really think we jsut came up the river in a banana boat

They'll probably ask for an admin or processing fee. And yes spam does work, you only need a tiny percentage of people falling for them to make a huge profit. If spam didn't work do you think the spammers would really bother with either using the server power to send the spam themselves or setting up the complex botnets to use other people's infected pcs to send out the spam? Spammers earn hundreds of thousand to millions.