I receive a mail from yahoo/msn lottery. I want to know if this is a fake lottery? please help me?
Question:
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WINNING NOTIFICATION!
REF No: OBS/231-ILGI0431/05
BATCH No: EAPA/15/096/OBS
TICKET No: 205165463-7644
SERIAL No: 712-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-21-97-44-65-66
CONGRATULATION !!
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 28TH MAY 2007. Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 205165463-7644 with Serial number 712-9768-98 drew the lucky numbers 8-21-97-44-65-66, which consequently won in the 1st category; you have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of US$ 650,000.00 (Six Hundred and Fify Thousand United States Dollars). This is from a total cash prize of USD$10,000,000.00 Million shared amongst Twelve International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).
CONGRATULATIONS: This lottery is a promotional program by LOTTO, NL (Biggest lottery Organization in Europe Continent) to advertise to the world its existence. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world, as part of our international promotions program, which we intend to conduct several times a year.
BE A WINNER!
Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your document in readiness of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated bank account within 24 hours of completion of the authentication.
Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double claim, we suggest that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has been processed and notarized and your certificate of award obtained. This is in conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our Organization & High Court of Justice.
This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants/non participants. All winnings must be claimed within this period of receipt of this information ,And according to the assigned REGION OF THE WORLD. After this period all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our AFRICA Regional booklet representative office in Nigeria as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your (Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) will be released to you by any of our payment Regional offices in AFRICA PAYMENT CENTER Precisely.
To file for your claim, please contact our regional claiming agent in AFRICA who is obliged to guild you on the steps to making claims on your winning. He is your claims agent.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT HERE
Mr.HENRY GREENE
FIDUCIARY AGENT.
Official Email: agenthenrygreene@yahoo.co.uk
Tele: +234-8067723076 .
NOTE: You must forward your REF No,BATCH No,TICKET No,SERIAL No and your LUCKY No to the regional agent for filing. All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be obtained from the Gaming Board to complete the claims process, this certificate can only be obtained through legal representation . Winners are to cover the Legal charges for the notarization of the claim form and the acquisition of the certificate of award not LOTTO.NL
In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, forward this information to your claim agent MR. HENRY GREENE:
1.NAME.........
2.Address:........
3.Phone........
4.Occupation......
5.Country......
6.Age.......
Delays will compel us to disperse your funds, in other words, we shall divert your funds as stated above. Kindly remember to quote your reference number in all correspondence.
Finally, you make sure that you save a copy of this mail and note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held responsible should there be any complications in this transaction due to laxity on your part.
Enjoy Online Lottery
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours faithfully
STELLA E. (Mrs)
Online Coor! dinator ! for
THE EURO-MILLIONS ONLINE LOTTERY
EUROPE LOTTERIE APPROVA
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Answer:
It is a big scam, I get these all the time, usually from Africa. Just trash it, whatever you do DON'T give them any details.
this has been asked on hear loads of
times SCAM dont reply bin it...!
big scam, you'll lose all your money in the bank if you respond to it.
Yes it is a scam. Phishing for information.
well they are getting more convincing with their scams but no way is that real!
scam! scam! scam! scam! they ask you to send a processing fee then when you do send it by the untraceable money transfer system they tell you to use for whatever reason they promptly disappear and along with them is your money. To stop getting these send them a very abusive email, littered with copious use of the N word that rhymes with bigger that will get you taken off their sucker list
Fake, i get them all the time.
Just check it out dude, maybe its a fake. Before making troublesome decesion make sure, just consult it to anyone who are working in that company... Or just leave it...
yea i got that too i trashed it
Any saying they are from Microosoft forward to abuse@hotmail.com.
Any saying they are from yahoo forward to Abuse@yahoo.com
Never give any personal details no matter how convincing they look.
If you didn't enter it, you can't win it. A legitimate win, of any sort, will give you the money direct without you having to fill in forms for it. If I got a pound for every time I saw this scam question on Yahoo, I'd be rich!
You have received a scam. Do NOT reply. This is the worst kind of spam.
Contact Data Wales, they will explain all of this and more to you.
When I won some money on the UK lotto a while back, okay all £25 of it, the money was simply sent to my bank account by electronic means.
They're trying to rip you off. Stay cool. You ain't won nothing.
SCAM
DELETE
MOVE ON
I can't believe people still fall for these scams! Common sense should tell you if you didn't physically enter a lottery or competition, you CANNOT possibly win! As a regular "comper", I can say that real lotteries or competitions cost the price of a ticket or a stamp and they NEVER require bank details of any kind. If you win money, a cheque is sent to your home with a congratulations letter. That's all!
It's a scam mate i have one the same from British National Lottrey. A Mr Richard Carpenter saying i am a winner of
1 million 2 hunderd thousand pound sterling
seek the police help
SCAM... i got that too
Absolutely it is a scam. Ask yourself, "Did I buy a ticket for a lottery?" If they answer is "No" then how could you have won?
This kind of "foreign lottery" scam is very common. It exists mainly to collect personal information so your identity can be compromised / stolen. Often, once you've made contact, you'll find there are some "transfer fees, processing fees, taxes, etc" that need to be paid. The scammer will often be very helpful in collecting the information to process your "payment". In the process, they'll collect such things as your social security number, bank account and routing numbers, etc. The more info they get, the better their identity theft will work, and if you're gullible enough to actually give them money to cover the fees and taxes, you'll find there's always just one more thing you need to pay for before you can get your money.
Probably the best way to check out this kind of thing is to simply do a search on some of the names and organizations used. Doing so with STELLA E and eruo-millions brings up a whole list of scam alerts.
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