This thing says We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws (#1068) of the United Kingdom National Lottery International Online Sweepstakes program held on Saturday 19th May, 2007 which is now available for claims. Your participation for this online lottery was selected from your Email Domain and your Email address luckily won the raffle ticket that entered you for the raffle draw whose results has just been released. This online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
The UK National lottery is sponsored by the British Government and is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).
We choose this method of winning notification to our winners to promote the use of the Internet and e-mail. The Principals and employees of the UK National Lottery and its respective Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not
eligible.
NOTE: NO TICKETS WERE SOLD FOR THIS ONLINE PROMOTION, WHICH IS WHY YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED WITH YOUR REF NUMBER AND BATCH NUMBER TO IDENTIFY YOU.
After the automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the Match 5 plus bonus category with the following winning information:
2007-05-23 12:10:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Unless you specifically supplied your email address for this kind of drawing, it's spam. Don't respond to it, as you will only get more spam and probably risk spyware/malware at the least and identity theft at the worst.
2007-05-23 12:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by pooky254 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is simple. No foreign lottery is open to U.S. residents. You did not win. It is a scam.
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If you receive a winning lottery notification letter from a lottery name that is not known to you, and from a lottery company that does not send you junk mail on a regular basis, then it is a scam.
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You can only enter lotteries that are run by your own country or the country in which you reside. If you received an email or a letter by surface mail telling you that have have won a lottery in a foreign country or in a country where you do not reside, it is a scam.
2007-05-23 19:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by rlh242424 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The usual scam from Nigeria. It is quite obvious that you have opened the email. Would suggest that you run your antivirus and your antispyware just to make sure you are not infected.
Practice safe surfing and don't open emails that are not from a known friend, or even ones that have attachments from a friend as they are usually infected, because your friend's pc is infected.
Always best to delete. You know the saying, "curiosity killed the cat".
Minddoctor, France
Pls., excuse my english
2007-05-23 19:19:10 · answer #3 · answered by MINDDOCTOR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scam.
Delete.
2007-05-23 19:17:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam. Delete it.
2007-05-23 19:16:37 · answer #5 · answered by rbanzai 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a scam....i wouldn't fall for it.
2007-05-23 19:16:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh
2007-05-23 23:08:48 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Beautiful Latina♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont trust it, just delete it
2007-05-23 19:18:19 · answer #8 · answered by lufei2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
chain letter, ignore it.
2007-05-23 19:17:48 · answer #9 · answered by kyle m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋