We have seen this one before, and here it is again. This one must be catching people for the scammers or else they would try something new. Everyone wants to win the lottery so this one could be enticing to the unsuspecting.
As with all these email borne scams there are the same clues people should follow to keep from falling victim. Remember people don’t just give away money online to people they don’t know – for any reason. Here we are lead to believe we won the lottery – so who wouldn’t want that money? Think about it, did you EVEN ENTER the draw? There are no free, non-enter, million dollar lotteries anywhere in the world. They don’t exist so how could you have won a lottery you didn’t enter, and in our case – we live in Canada, not the UK!
Next is the email and contact information. Legitimate businesses always use company email addresses, not freely obtained ones from Yahoo or Google etc. Speaking of Google, try googling portions of the email you get in your inbox and like this one, you will quickly see listing after listing detailing these as fakes, scams and frauds. Two seconds of work can save you thousands of dollars and lots of embarrassment.
If you get the email below it is a fake, scam, fraud, or whatever else you may want to call it. Do not respond to it in any way. If you have responded and given away your personal details you best contact your financial institutions and local government to have your passwords and other security checks looked over and changed.
THE U.K. NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE LOTTERY PROMO DEPT.
Customer Service.
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL
United Kingdom.
Ref N0: KPL/09-002/JA.
Attn: Winner.
We happily bring to your notice the results of the U.K.National Lottery annual draw held on the 15th of August 2007 in London. The online lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 50,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
Congratulations!
Your e-mail address attached to the Batch N0:P2/0056 with Serial number: 06/1055 drew, 18-01-07 [5] [11][13] [17] [14] [48] [25], which subsequently won you a prize in the category B You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) in cash credited to file Ref N0: KPL/09-002/JA.
This prize is from a total cash prize of 4,500,000.00(Four Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) shared amongst the first Three (3) lucky winners in this grand category ”B”. This year Lottery program Jackpot is the largest ever for the UK National Lottery. The estimated 35,000,000.00 (Thirty Five Million Great British Pounds) jackpot would be the sixth-biggest in the U.K. history next year(2008).
The Lowest was the 4,000,000.00 (Four Million Great British Pounds) jackpot that was shared between Four (4) lucky winners in January 2006 draw of the Big Game Mega Millions” predecessor.
For security reasons, be advised to keep your winning information from public notice until your claims is processed and your prize money remitted to you as required in this grand category B terms and conditions of claims. This is a part of ourprecautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by non winners.
Please note that, your lucky winning number: [5] [11][13] [17] [14] [48] [25] falls within our European Booklet representative office in London as indicated in our play Coupon. In view of this, your 1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) would be released to you by our affiliate bank.
Our approved agent, Mr. Donald Enshaw will immediately commence on the processing of your claims, to facilitate the release of your Winnings to you as soon as you make contact with him.
Please be advised as follows: To file for your claim, kindly contact our certified and accredited claims agent with the information below:
Name: Donald Enshaw
E-mail:enshaw01@gmail.com
Tel: 44 – 770-7855931
Fax: 44 – 870-1380133
Claims Processing Agent
For: The U.K National Lottery.
You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Note that, all claims processes and clearance procedures must be duly completed early to avoid impersonation or double claiming.
To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your Reference and Batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staff of the UK National Lottery Promo.
Yours Faithfully,
Shivad Carlos
Online Co-ordinator
UK National Lottery Promo
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