The following email response is from our reply to our article – Lottery Scam Via Spam Email Solicitation. We pretended to be unaware of the potential for a scam and asked for more information regarding our potential winnings which they so nicely entered us in to.
Like the original spam email which crossed our desktop, this one too asks us to believe that a national lottery based in London is going to be using yahoo email addresses as its main method of communication. There is the ominous lack of a phone number which any large lottery corporation would readily supply to a winning consumer. Same can be said for a central website. In this day and age even the smallest companies now have Internet websites, but we are to believe that a million dollar lottery company does not? It”s these little and easily identified traits which announce this as a scam.
We have dispatched an email to the ”courier company” and will publish here any response. It’s becoming more clear that the scam may be having us to pay for a very large courier fee on the premise of getting our million dollar plus cheque. And finally, all information collected including email addresses, their routing methods, IP addresses, and everything else associated with this scam is being compiled and will be handed over to the proper authorities.
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
MORTIMER HOUSE ,MORTIMER STREET,
LONDON, W1T3JH UNITED KINGDOM.
Ref No: UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
Lucky Numbers: 31-17-8-28-55[08] Bonus Ball
27th/02/2007
ATTN: Kyle,
CONGRATULATIONS! This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program. I am happy to inform you,your Original Certificate and your Certified bank cheque has been foward to the courier company.
Find below the details of the courier company.
TNT COURIER SERVICE
ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE: Link House,
1C CHURCH STREET, WHITCHURCH, HANTS, RG28 7AD
NAME: MR MARK BROWN. (Dispatch officer)
EMAIL: tntcourier_service007@yahoo.co.uk
You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost.When contacting them,you are to include this order number as your subject.Please you are adviced to write down the order number and save it.
ORDER NUMBER: TM562-72C5
Note: you are to Quote your complete names,Ref/Batch Numbers, Age, and your direct phone number so that they can honour your letter.Once again i say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier company.
Thanks,
Mr TONY SMITH
Claims Unit Department,
UK NOTIONAL Lottery