I received this e-mail and I was wondering if it was a real deal?

Question

The British Lottery Board happily announce to you the draw of the
British Lottery International programs held today in London.Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number:564 75600545-188 with serial number
5388/02 drew the lucky numbers:31-6-26-13-35-7,which subsequently won you
the lottery in the 2nd category with Ref: BTL/491OXI/07 Batch: 2/25/0307

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,362,874.48
in cash credited to file RPC/9080118308/04 made available from a total
cash prize of £68,145,848.96 , shared amongst the first Fifty (50)
lucky winners in this category.

To file for your claims, please contact our claims agent with the
following informations:Full Names, Contact Address, Telephone and fax
Numbers, Age and sex.

AGENT NAME:SIMON WALLACE
EMAIL:[e-mail]
TEL:[phone]

Regards,

Alan Wright.
Notification Dept.

Answer 1

Definitely Fraud

You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )

However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/

There is also a Yahoo page dedicated to the 419 Fraud
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-110240.html

Answer 2

Use your brain! Did you buy any tickets? And no self-respecting agency on the web is going to have an excite.com email address. There is no such thing as the British Lottery Board. And if they have your details for the email, why don't they have an other details? Don't let greed run your life. Send exactly what you have posted here to [e-mail], stop this crook dead.

Answer 3

First of all, don't believe it if your not from Britain. I've seen countless people fall for things such as "You've won the Canadian lottery, just send us a small amount (maybe 150 dollars) so we can process your winnings with the government!" I wouldn't do it. Did you even enter this lottery? Don't ever fall for things that say you can get rich fast, everyone knows it's impossible. Just disregard the email, you dont want to send your personal information to someone in Britain.

Answer 4

Scam:

British Web Lottery
Customer Service
28 Tanfield road,
Croydon. London
UK.
Ref: BWLW/67451/01
Batch: 01/14/31711-3

WINNING NOTIFICATION!!

We happily announce to you the draw of the British Lottery International programs held on the 7th April, 2004 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand, United States Dollars) in cash credited to file KPC/9080118308/02.This is from a total cash prize of US $125 Million dollars, shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky winners in this category.

This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever for British Lottery. The estimated $125 million jackpot would be the sixth biggest in U.K. history. The biggest was the $363 million jackpot that went to two winners in a May 2000 drawing of The Big Game, Mega Millions' predecessor.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in our play coupon.

In view of this, your US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand, United States Dollars) would be released to you by our affiliate bank in London.

Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with her .All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent with the below details for processing of your claims.

FIDUCIARY AGENT: MR FREDRICK WALTER

E-mail: [e-mail]

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Yours Sincerely,

British Web Lottery.

NOTE: you are advised to contact our Fiduciary agent for official verification and processing of your winning.

AGENT: MR FREDRICK WALTER
E-mail: [e-mail]

Answer 5

I just posted a similar question to yours of which I am hoping to get an answer to. I received two different e-mails about winning in a Yahoo/MSN Lottery in the United Kingdom but a different agent name. It isn't the quite the same as the people who you received from but similar. If you have gotten any REAL answer to your problem let me know or vice versa I'll let you know if mine was legit. Good Luck!! [e-mail]

Answer 6

SCAM! Come on. Did you enter this lottery? NO. Have you even ever heard of it? NO. If there were a British Lottery Board, would it use an excite.com email? NO.

Answer 7

Contact the Lottery Board directly, or speak to your local authorities. Don't take it at face value, and definately DO NOT give out any personal information, until it is confirmed legitimate.

Answer 8

Doubt it very much.. did you ever give your email addres to brisith lottery? do you live in britian? It shouldhave addressed to you personally.

This looks like a phising exercise to collect your personal details.

Full Names, Contact Address, Telephone and fax
Numbers, Age and sex. is probably enough to steal your identity. or call British Lottery (phone number listed in the phone book, not the one in the email) and ask them.. they will be able to clear it up for you right away.


Nate

Answer 9

Check just about any curious email such as this on
www.snopes.com
they tell all spoof emails, stories, etc. from real ones.
Never give out info like this over the email. You do not know who they are or what their motive is.
Who conducts business this way?! think about it... would you? I mean if you wanted people to take your business seriously?!
Oh yeah, don't forget the wise advice: If is sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

Answer 10

It could be a scam...my mom tells me that any type of junk mail that anyone receives (if it is junk mail) is a scam- theyre just asking for money. You could email the person and ask if this is true, but would you really trust them? This is the internet, sir, and bad things happen here. But I think that its all a scam!