Has Any One Fallen For This Scam?

Question

Warning Warning.
I dont know if any of you guys out there have an an email like the one i will show you in a mo but if not and you do get one Beware this is one big scam to get money out of you i watched a program about this on monday night it was called tonight with Trever Mcdonald and low and behold look what i got in my mail this morning if your never sure about something always get the name put in a search on google and it will tell you if its a scam or not.

FROM:NETLOTTERY CORPORATION
REF NUMBER: EAASL/9410Y1/02
BATCH NUMBER: 561701-PCD03
1 QUEENS PARK ROAD
K2M 4RT
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.

WINNING NOTIFICATION


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the NetLottery Corporation programs held on the 13th of June,2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5388/02 with serial number 5388/02 drew lucky numbers 37-13-34-85-56-42 which consequently won in the 3RD category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a

Answer 1

that scam has been around for a long time!!!--mark it as spam--it will come in many forms!!--they will want to know all of your personal information and bank acct. # so they can transfer the money into your acct.---other like it--will offer you a job--or say that you are the long lost relative of some millionaire who just died-----mark them all as spam!!!-----and oh yeah---be careful out there!!!!!

Answer 2

Thanks for sharing.

Points to note:
* The postcode K2M 4RT is not a valid UK postcode (nor does it even look convincing!).
* There is no Queens Park Road in the London Postal District, the nearest is in Romford (postcode RM3 0HJ)
* The address is quoted in an improper format - the postcode should follow 'LONDON'

Anyone who has email also has access to the Internet and free tools to check such things:
http://uk8.multimap.com/
http://www.royalmail.com/

* Just typing 'Netlottery Corporation' in Google brought up this as the top entry:
FROM:NETLOTTERY CORPORATION
REF NUMBER: EAASL/9410Y1/02
BATCH NUMBER: 561701-PCD03
Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the NetLottery Corporation programs held on the 5th of Febuary,2006. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 5388/02 with serial number 5388/02 drew lucky numbers 37-13-34-85-56-42 which consequently won in the 3RD category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2,500,000.00 Dollars (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS).

Laughable, isn't it? (Did you also notice the discrepancy in the amount of the supposed winnings?)

And very sad that so many people's excitement, greed ... whatever will probably lead them to respond to the mail. I don't know what the statistics are but supposing just one in a hundred responded, if that mail were sent out to 10,000 people, that would be 100 people's personal details they would have.

I am constantly trying to educate people in the art of emailing, particularly when forwarding all those humour emails (which people will do, regardless of how pointless they are). The important thing is that, if someone forwards you one, they also send it to ten or twelve friends and your email address appears in it, it then gets forwarded, unedited, to another hundred or so people and so on.

If one were in the 'business' of mass-marketing, one would only have to get oneself in one or more of these chains and one would have a constant stream of potentially valid addresses to send your spam mail to. The last time I counted the number of addresses someone had so kindly supplied me with there were over 100. I had one mail not long ago which had a nest of 7 attached emails before I even got to the joke! I didn't count the addresses on that one, but not a single person had put their contact list into the Bcc: box - all had filled the To: field or the Cc: field!

Answer 3

I have heard about this before, the advice I also heard for anyone is still unsure is that you can NEVER win a competition you never entered.

I think its something to do with the lotteries and gaming act that have strict regulations on comeptitions etc.

Answer 4

I've received that one in the mail. But never acted on it. IF you truly win something, an aboveboard company will come to or mail the winnings to your home. Never give information online, or over the phone. In fact, don't contact them at all.....Just delete!!!

Answer 5

Maybe you putting that scam up here is just as bad as running the scam! It's people like you that give the scam life! Maybe you should get one.

Answer 6

i get that type of email sometimes. I just ignore it coz how could i win when i don't even buy lottery tickets? Thaks for the warning though

Answer 7

The best thing to do with this sort of mail is to delete and ignore

Answer 8

I receive numerous scam spams in my emails but I haven't had this one yet. Thanks for spending your 5 points to tell us about it. That's very responsible of you.

Answer 9

I get them all the time. My advise is to line the cat litter tray with it. Its not genuine.

Answer 10

will keep an eye out...thanks