yesterday i receive this e-mail on my hotmail account..

yeah guys, i did, it says

*Your E-Address was selected online in this week's UK NATIONAL Lottery. Your draw has a total value of £1,000,000.00.Please acknowledge the receipt of this mail with the details below to:Mr.Edward Fring. Contact: un_alert2008@yahoo.co.uk Claims Requirements:1.Full name:2.Home Address:3.Age:4.Sex: *

but apparently it's quite obvious that is not true, it's a scam...i know it happens everywhere.. i'm not so gullible to believe this crap..so i sent them a reply saying i'm not stupid to believe this, but today i receive another email saying..

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY6/49
P O Box 1010, 3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool,
L30 1RD.


Dear winner ,

This is to inform you that we have reviewed and accepted your completed claims application form, based on this your prize money shall be remitted to you accordingly. Your winning cheque shall be couriered to you by our affiliate courier agency who is solely responsible for the delivery of your winning cheque.

Be confident in our remittance method as the courier agency will effectively deliver your package with a comprehensive insurance cover that has been undertaken to guarantee the safe delivery of your winning cheque to your address within a record time.

Find below the contact information of the courier agency:

===================================
Handling agent: Mr Lewis Crow
Globex Courier Service
658 Ajax Avenue,Slough
Berkshire,SL1 4BG.
London, England
Email: globexworldwidecourier@live.com
Tel: +44-703-591-5179
Fax:+44-870-471-2754
===================================

For immediate delivery of your winning cheque to you by the courier agency,you are to contact them with the following information within the next 24hours;

1. Full name

2. Address where you would want the parcel delivered to.

3. Telephone Number/Fax Number.

Regards,
Mr.Edward Fring
(PROMOTION MANAGER)

(GLOBEX COURIER COMPANY AFFILIATED TO UK NATIONAL LOTTERY)

i was just wonderin if anybody here also received an e-mail like this.. it frustrating how greedy people uses the internet access to deceive others..

avaricious indeed ^____^




who the hell will give away that money??



ahahah

crappy heheh

oh! i got a similar email!

Dear Winner,

This is to notify you that you have won £850,000.00 in
our online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are
picked randomly by computerised balloting, powered
by the Internet. Your email address was amongst
those chosen for this period.
Ticket no: 56475600545 188
Serial no: 5368/02
Winning number: 08.11.21.32.35.42. {47}
Draw (#1187)
To claim your prize, please contact:
Fiduciary Agent Mr.Robert Hache

Email:claims.uknlpromotion1@gmail.com
Tell:+447031905420
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Lorraine M. Dodds

***

And yes. it is a scam

^^haha! i got higher claim.. mine's a million..

lol,,

stupid email from stupid deceitful people.. hopefully nobody gets fooled with this piece of crap..

oh pleaz! don't believe that bull shit, yesterday we get this random phone call saying "don't hang up! you just won a trip to the carribbean...."*my mom hangs up* we didn't even enter any contest! lol. they try to trick you, these marketers. IMO, nobody would send just anyone $1,000,000 out of the blue lol.

I think it is a form of phishing. If you are stupid or greedy enough (or both!) to reply, then you might end up giving them enough information to steal your identity and a few other things. Best to just shred those letters and hang up the phone, as you all did.

D-C.org ain't got no dummies on here!!

is there anyone you can contact to make them aware of this group? Get them arrested?

I get those sorts of e-mails all the time even though our company supposedly has a spam filter (except the amounts are in USD instead of GBP)!! I just drag them to the 'blocked senders' list to try to prevent them from getting through the next time. I wouldn't e-mail them back though because then they know it's a valid e-mail account, and you might get even more e-mails like this in the future.

I too received such emails myself.

Thankfully all these scam emails are headed one way - towards my junk folder.

A million dollars? Isn't it like, say, too good to be true?

I copied the following from ftc.gov; it's definately a scam. Working in a bank, we come across similar happenings....whether it be by snail mail or e-mail, it's all fraud.



Federal Trade Commission  Bureau of Consumer Protection  Office of Consumer and Business Education
FTC Consumer Alert
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY SCAMS
“Congratulations! You may receive a certified check for up to $400,000,000 U.S. CASH!
One Lump sum! Tax free! Your odds to WIN are 1-6.” “Hundreds of U.S. citizens win
every week using our secret system! You can win as much as you want!”
Sound great? It’s a fraud.
Scam operators — often based in Canada — are using the telephone and direct mail to entice U.S.
consumers to buy chances in high-stakes foreign lotteries from as far away as Australia and Europe. These
lottery solicitations violate U.S. law, which prohibits the cross-border sale or purchase of lottery tickets by
phone or mail.
Still, federal law enforcement authorities are intercepting and destroying millions of foreign lottery
mailings sent or delivered by the truckload into the U.S. And consumers, lured by prospects of instant wealth,
are responding to the solicitations that do get through — to the tune of $120 million a year, according to the
U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, says most promotions
for foreign lotteries are likely to be phony. Many scam operators don’t even buy the promised lottery tickets.
Others buy some tickets, but keep the “winnings” for themselves. In addition, lottery hustlers use victims’
bank account numbers to make unauthorized withdrawals or their credit card numbers to run up additional
charges.
The FTC has these words of caution for consumers who are thinking about responding to a foreign lottery:
 If you play a foreign lottery — through the mail or over the telephone — you’re violating federal law.
 There are no secret systems for winning foreign lotteries. Your chances of winning more than the cost
of your tickets are slim to none.
 If you purchase one foreign lottery ticket, expect many more bogus offers for lottery or investment
“opportunities.” Your name will be placed on “sucker lists” that fraudulent telemarketers buy and sell.
 Keep your credit card and bank account numbers to yourself. Scam artists often ask for them during an
unsolicited sales pitch.
The bottom line, according to the FTC: Ignore all mail and phone solicitations for foreign lottery
promotions. If you receive what looks like lottery material from a foreign country, give it to your local
postmaster.
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the
marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop and avoid them. To file a complaint or
to get free information on consumer issues, visit www.ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-
4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft and other fraud-related
complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law
enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
FOR THE CONSUMER
TOLL-FREE 1-877-FTC-HELP
WWW.FTC.GOV
Produced in cooperation with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service
January 2006

i hope there is..but it would be hard to track down the people behind this scam.. it happens everywhere




yeah, it happens all the time, i don't know how to clear my acct. from spam emails like this. just send them in the junk..

I'm afraid my mama has been fooled by this kind of scams one too many times. it's a good thing she holelrs for me everytime she wants to reply.

she'd be like, "*my name*!!!!! I need to reply to this email because I won xxx amount!!!!"

this is me "mama, did you join a contest?"

she'd be all, "no."

then i'd go, "then how could you win?"

she'd be "ooohhhhhhhhkay."

*sigh*

but then we have to repeat the conversation everytime she gets an email like that. or even a pop up window thats ays she won an I Pod or an Xbox or anything. LOL

You can probably foward the email to your local police station.

I get those emails all the time. It's definitely a scam.

I get those stupid e-mails all the time..totally fake!Found out this info on them:

Lottery Scam Warnings

There seems to be lots of scam emails doing the rounds which tell you that you have won a jackpot prize in a fake lottery. Did you enter it (non pc version of this page)?

You'll find links to examples of these emails (below) published without the writers' permission, in the hope that awareness will, somewhere along the line, save somebody from being parted with their savings. Users who responded to their emails have been asked to send sums such as £7,000 or €5,625 as a "service fee" to receive their 'winnings'. If you pay that money you then receive another letter, claiming to be from the Gaming Board of Great Britain, and with a forged signature of a board member, asking for €20,000.

So far, at least 10,000 people have lost their money - please don't let the next one be you!!

On a serious side, many people are asking us what can be done about this. The sad fact is that there are so many scams that the authorities can not chase them all. The Metropolitan Police have established a resource to assist in combating specific types of high value fraud, which include a contact email address. The OFT uncovered 15 call centres in Canada solely targeting the UK, one of which is known to have conned British victims out of £600,000.

If you receive any of the emails or direct mailings mentioned below, we recommend that you delete them and make your friends and colleagues aware of their existence. Do NOT reply to them and DO NOT complete their online claim forms.

NOTE: the actual text of emails varies, as do the so-called 'winning numbers', the prize values and name of companies involved. Some variations ask you to complete an emailed or online claim form at a url like "linkfinanceandtrustltd.com" which forwards to anonymous pages on MSN. Others ask you to fill the form in and fax it to them. DO NOT complete the form as you will be giving away personal information to the scamsters.

As a somewhat humorous aside, we received one of these emails addressed to "Dear Sales" (email address: sales@lottery) informing us that we were one of six lucky winners of £2.5 million. The scammer had, however, used CC in their email instead of BCC and you could see that the same email had been sent to several hundred people all with email addresses beginning with the letter "s"!

dude the other day i apparently won a house. haha it was nice and all. too bad there is no such thing as Manchester, California. hahaha i so knew it was a scam.

Oh, I get those all the time, at least twice a week. There are ones from UK, and others from Nigeria ( I know, right?)...definitely spam. I don't know anyone who actually got that money.

what i wanna know is how many people actually fell for thos scams.

I get these ALL the time. I just delete them!