I for some reason recently received an email saying I won the UK lottery for the sum of 1,000,000 GBP. It is obviously a scam or I'm rich. Here is the email for your inspection:
*FINAL NOTIFICATION * *We are pleased to inform you today 13th April 2008 of the result* *of the winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,* *held on April 2008 .You won the sum of £1 000,000.00 GBP*
*file XYL/26510460037/06. *
*To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent; * *Agents Name:Mr.West James*
Email:info@claimsagentuk.com
*Provide him with the information below: * *1.Full Name:* *2.Full Address: * *3.Marital Status: * *4.Occupation: * *5.Age: * *6.Sex: * *7.Nationality: * *8.Country Of Residence:* *9.Telephone Number:* *Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
I told you it was a scam the moment you IM it me on MSN about it. Heck I won about 30+ UK lotteries and I don't even live there so that tells you something, but I am bit surprised that they didn't ask for your bank account info. Although, I doubt it would take much these days to get basic info and then commit ID crimes under your name.
This is scam, If it were true, I'd be richer than Bill Gates I've gotten thousands of mails like this, just stay away from this crap Don't give them any details.
Why would someone in Singapore be managing the prize winners for a lottery draw half way around the world?
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To:info@claimsagent.uk
That email address is impossible. There are very few .UK addresses, and they are pretty much all run by government agencies and the like. Now, they all have to be .CO.UK or .ORG.UK or whatever else you pick.
Those pieces of information don't exist in the UK Lotto, so it makes very little sense to put them there. These are scammers who have conducted poor research.
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*FINAL NOTIFICATION * *We are pleased to inform you today 13th April 2008 of the result* *of the winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME,* *held on April 2008 .You won the sum of £1 000,000.00 GBP*
UK Lotto draws are on Wednesday and Saturday. The 13th was a Sunday. Go figure. Also, it is no longer really called the National Lottery, but the Lotto Draw.
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*file XYL/26510460037/06. *
*To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent; * *Agents Name:Mr.West James*
Email:info@claimsagentuk.com
The "Agent's" name makes very little sense and appears to be backwards. James is more often a forename, and West makes more sense as a surname. Also, their web address appears to have changed since the top of the email.
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*Provide him with the information below: * *1.Full Name:* *2.Full Address: * *3.Marital Status: * *4.Occupation: * *5.Age: * *6.Sex: * *7.Nationality: * *8.Country Of Residence:* *9.Telephone Number:* *Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Name, address, age and phone number are fair enough. However, the rest of the information would be useless for a Lotto claim, or makes little sense to be asked for it anyway.
Dude your rich. I'm sorry I was ever mean to you lol. Share the wealth will yall? I'm a poor univeristy student living off a student income /crys... I wont make fun of you and call you catman again I promise.
Dude your rich. I'm sorry I was ever mean to you lol. Share the wealth will yall? I'm a poor univeristy student living off a student income /crys... I wont make fun of you and call you catman again I promise.
This is a scam and he will kill you if you tell him to do this and he does Well, R.I.P.
If I were you I'd set up a fake email address and reply giving false details and see what happens for the fun. They'll either end up telling you to fly to London to collect your winnings in person or they'll ask you for bank details to transfer the money to them. Whatever they decide, all hell will unfold...
I also got the same message. I knew it was a SPAM Message, so I deleted it. Yeah I'm also sure that it is from a Singaporean Site & .com.sg, never heard or seen any such endings for a web site. Those domains must be pretty new or the sender is using some PHP Anonymous Script Mailer so that he can enter all those bull *BLEEP* datas.
BUT THE BIG QUESTION IS?
I'm have got 3 mails of these kinds after I have signed up for hosting account at Trap17. I have got my account but along with that I'm also getting all these kinds of wierd messages. No offense Guys but I think some one in the Trap17 Admin section is misusing our data. Hey I'm not sure but I'm just suggesting. It may be the case. I am not saying that They are the one doing it but all those mails started coming to my mailbox after I started using Trap17. I think the Admins should be informed. More over the original poster of the message also is a member of Trap17 Forums. Both the mails are exactly the same. Letter to letter. I don't have the copy of the mail cause I deleted it considering it to be a sure SPAM but I remember the details( Come on who can forget that he had received a letter stating that he won UK Lottery of £1000,000.00 GBP ). I hope you get my point.
Notice from electriic_ink:
Trap17 does not send spam emails to its members.
Your basis for this accusation is that 2 members who happen to be members of trap17 got the same SPAM email. I often get the same SPAM as some of my friends - that doesn't mean there's an infiltrator in our group forwarding our addresses to some Singaporean criminal.
Please - stop scaremongering and think of something constructive to write.
I see the match you have made between the two, but I very much doubt it is correct. Since you have kept your email address private on the forums (wise move) it is unlikely you will have been picked up because of joining trap17. Also you're saying someone is misusing the data here because you're email spam was the same. COME ON! You should know everyone gets exactly the same mails, that's how spam works.
And on you're second point NONE of the administrators or moderators would be so low to pass on the information. End of. That's not the way here, and I highly doubt it will ever be. All the admins and moderators are chosen carefully by person.
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I've gotten thousands of mails like this, just stay away from this crap 
Well, R.I.P. 
They'll either end up telling you to fly to London to collect your winnings in person or they'll ask you for bank details to transfer the money to them. Whatever they decide, all hell will unfold...
