An Email I've received about lottery winning, can you find if it is true?

Question

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom .

ATTENTION: Samuel Y. Lee,

We have received your duely filled verification and fund release form and we wish to congratulate you once again on this note,for being part of the 5 winners selected on this month of APRIL.The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows.


A winning cheque has been issued in your name by the Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation board and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winnings cheque.

You are therefore expected to contact our affiliated delivery company(EXCELLENT SERVICES INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS )department in which your winnings cheque has been sent to for delivery to your residence.
Do contact the EXCELLENCE.COURIER.SERVICE with the contact information below for further instructions on how to send

Answer 1

just delete it scam

Answer 2

It is scam. Yahoo (insert any company name here, this answer works for all!) do not run an email lottery, if they did you could guarantee it would be advertised all over their home page. Check out these links and search answers to see how many people 'win' the exact same lottery every day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery-scams.html

Do not click on any links, the page you will be taken to will look authentic but is not
Do not send them a 'courier fee' or any other money
Do not hand over any bank details or passwords

Do report spam
Do delete

Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot win a lottery if you haven ot bought a ticket. Anyone can set up an email account with Yahoo, they can use any combination of letters they choose. I could be '[e-mail]' or '[e-mail]' That doesn't mean that I am either of these and is fine as long as I don't try to use the address to mislead people. Don't be fooled by legitimate looking email addresses which end the same way as any other free account, don't be fooled by fictitious titles such as 'Dr' or 'Executive Director of Winner Claims'.


(I've answered this question so many times that I now keep this answer on my desktop and just copy and paste....that should give you a clue!)

Answer 3

I'd like to think that people in the UK are actually better at writing than that.

This email is the worst scam email I've ever seen. It's littered with spelling mistakes and punctuation errors. If Microsoft and Yahoo! got together in the UK to run a lottery, I'd think they could find someone there that can write.

This is a tired old scam, you send us a courier fee, we send you your winnings. BLAH BLAH BLAH. You send them money, and you'll never see it again.

Yahoo! and Microsoft do not run any kind of lottery in the UK, period. No one ever gives you money for nothing.

As an aside, that address is bogus too. If you look up that postcode you get this address:

U C B Homeloans Corporation Ltd
36 Sutton Court Road
SUTTON
SM1 4TE

Answer 4

BE CAREFUL. BE VERY CAREFUL. If you get a letter claiming you won a large amount of money in a lottery you never entered, then you are being scammed. Sometimes it's a plane crash and there is no one to inherit the money, sometimes it's a prince or baron who wants to give away millions to a stranger.

These people are criminals, usually from Nigeria or some African country. They send out millions of emails, part of something called Nigerian 419 scam" hoping that a couple of suckers will get greedy and fall for this scam. They will then claim they need processing fees, or taxes so you start paying. They will keep asking for fees until your account is empty. You will never see a dime.

One sure way of knowing this is a fraud is by checking their email address. THESE CROOKS ALWAYS USE A FREE EMAIL ACCOUNT such as yahoo, AOL, hotmail etc.

There's a saying. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Answer 5

This has been doing the rounds for a long time and my son was one of the lucky ones who realised this just in time before he parted with £2.0000.
It will guide you along with promises and then ask you to send a coverage fee of whatever amount to cover the transfer of the money,
Take all the advice given so far and just delete it asap.

Answer 6

There is a small delivery charge to be paid prior to receiving your cheque, to be made out for £500 to Ali Baba Promos,
Mahtooto village post office, Rhipuoff province,Nigeria.

Answer 7

It is one of the many "nigerian scams" around. They all say things like "you won the lottery"... "we came into a large amount of money, and need a U.S. account to blah, blah, blah...." Whatever you do............. DON'T SEND THEM ANY MONEY!!!!!! You can actually report the e-mail to your local Secret Service office, as they are the agency with jurisdiciton over these scams.

Answer 8

Yes, phone the Courier Co and they will keep you on the phone and charge you about £8 for the privelage(per minute)

Answer 9

great !. the very important point is in your asking this question in this forum, That shows you are in doubt about it. What the hell they are sending you the email, nothing but to usurb your hard earned money, it is lottey for them not for you, Soon they will ask your bank details, password for money transfer etc. Once you do it, your money is all gone.

Answer 10

it`s a scam, delete it. if you decide to proceed with this email it will cost you, more then you think, at some point you`ll need to give payment details which are normally a small amount but you will have just given them your details so they could charge what they wish, when they wish

Answer 11

Just go ahead and send me a check for 100 USD and I will verify the source of your email.