This letter I'm showing you, do you think it is a scam it says i won a million pounds..?

Question

FIRST THEY SENT THIS;

LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England Dear Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our first quarter winners of the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY,international Lottery programs held on the 2th of agust 2007.The selection was made from the list of over 21,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in the category "A" with the following winning informations:
REF No: L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2007MJL-01

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling).

To file for your claim, Contact the processing Consultant:
Dr.Brown Smith

Email: [e-mail]
TELL:[phone]

and then i replied back to them asking if it was for real just to see what they would say and then replied


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

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TICKET NO: 8603775966738
REF NO: UK 200-26937
BATCH NO: 2007MJL-01
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ATTEN:(my name),

This is to inform you that we have reviewed and accepted your completed fund release form, based on this your prize money shall be remitted to you accordingly. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 125,600 websites on the internet. Each email address was attached to a ticket number. Your email address ([e-mail]) was selected.

A certificate of prize claims and some vital documents will be sent along side your winnings cheque.The documents to be sent are;

1.WINNING CERTIFICATE FROM UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKE PROMOTIONS;
2.WINNERS

and so on..

but anyway. i heard from these other websites that this "ONLINE NATIONAL UK LOTTERY" was a scam and i'm certain it is, i just want to hear your opinions on this. I have never gotten an email like this before

Answer 1

This is very much a scam. You can't win a lottery without buying a ticket. No one just announces winners from a list of email addresses. Please do not give these people any information.

Answer 2

As each and every person says - it is definitley a scam. possibilities are high it is going to rumble on for an prolonged time. you will in no way hint the organisation as they are going to shop shifting. If it sounds too good to be actual then it is. no one could have to hand economic enterprise info out, and you are able to constantly have enetered a lottery to win it. there became an incident like this in united kingdom no longer so earlier with a Spanish co named El Gordo Primitiva (to no longer be puzzled with the very actual El Gordo). To win a lottery, you are able to enter it. to circulate into it, you would be a resident of the country the place it is drawn. This has have been given scam written throughout it.

Answer 3

First, did you entry this lottery?

Second, how did they get your email address to notify you?

Stop opening unsolicited email. You will NEVER find anything of value in that spam. It's all scams and you might just end up with a virus on your computer. You should just delete all spam, unopened.

When you responded, you let them know they had a real email address. Be prepared to get lots and lots and lots of similar scams.

Answer 4

It is a scam. I've been getting one email a day, similar to that, always a different address, but typed in the same style.

We all are getting those emails.

Answer 5

SCAM! They will soon ask for a bank account number to "wire" the funds to. Then clean out that account. Have some fun with them, play along, give a made up number and bank, play dumb. See how long you can keep them going.

Answer 6

It's a total scam. The documents which will accompany the cheque will instruct you to send money to "process your claim". Of course, if you send the money and deposit their cheque, their cheque will be returned as invalid, and you won't get any thing back, nor will you ever hear from them again.

Answer 7

this is absolutely a scam i receive several of these daily and if i were to actually have won any of them i would be set for life and then some lol. If you contact them you will find that they want your checking account number

Answer 8

Yes. I receive so many of them regularly and every month. I know that since i did not invest in any lottery, it is impossible for me get money from any lottery. hence I did not respond. Recently I responded and the fellows asked me for money for solicitor etc. I ignored it.

Answer 9

I've won this lottery several times and I don't even live in the UK!

Scam.

Answer 10

Here are several hundred other folks who they also tried to scam allegedly from that address


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADBF_enUS234&q=St+Peters+Yacht+Basin%2c+Newcastle+upon+Tyne%2c+NE6+1HX+England

ALWAYS REMEMBER: If it sounds too good to be true, that's only because it isn't!