I received this email and I'm in a quandery whether or not to believe it?

Question

47 Meadow Vale,
Sligo, Ireland.
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05
The Irish Lottery
Batch: R3/A312-59

UNITED KINGDOM DEPT.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to announce to you the draw of the IRISH LOTTERY
PROGRAMME
online Sweepstakes International Program

held on 22nd May, 2007.

Your e-mail address attached to the winning ticket number: 56475600545
188
with Serial number 5368/05 drew the

lucky numbers: 10,13,24,24,25,36,41,08 which subsequently won the
JACKPOT.
You have therefore been approved to

claim a total sum of £ 100,000 in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/05
of Irish Lottery.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw

system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and
corporate
bodies that are listed online.This

promotion takes place weekly.

Fill in the form and send to this mail
{[e-mail]}

Overseas Claim Agent

William Green
Tel [phone]

Answer 1

Here in Ireland we usually get con letters like this from places like Nigeria or South Africa. It would be fantastic if it was true wouldn't it? They want to use your personal details for fraud, especially if they get anything like bank details so DON'T REPLY. Hundreds, maybe thousands of others have received identical letters and if you reply they know that it is an active email account.

Here's a few markers in the letter to show it's rubbish:

(1) The address is given in a housing estate in Sligo, a large town in the West of Ireland. The Irish National Lottery is distributed form Dublin.
(2) Although the address is given in the West of Ireland, the contact phone number uses the International Dialling Code for the UK. There is no way the UK code can be used for an address in the Irish Republic.
(3) When did you ever hear of winning in a lottery that you didn't enter?

You should send a copy of this letter to:

The Fraud Squad,
An Garda Síochána,
Store Street,
Dublin 1
Ireland

They'll sort it out.

Answer 2

Yeah, it's crap.

First off, the only way to win the Irish lottery is to pay to play. And since you didn't purchase a ticket in Ireland recently, you didn't win.

Secondly, look at the crappy English and mistakes. For example they spell program, two different ways. All people from the UK spell it 'programme' unless it pertains to a computer program.

I'd like to think that if you had won a real lottery, they would take the time to write you with someone that could actually write properly, in English.

Finally, consider this. There are no international lotteries, and there would be no point in some real lottery simply taking random email addresses and sending them money.

How would you feel if you heard that Mega Millions or Powerball was taking money from the prize pool and just handing it over to random foreign people? Well people of Ireland would feel equally annoyed if they paid for a ticket, only to be told that some random person had been given a prize from the prize pool.

With any lottery, you have to pay to play. Even if you do that, they don't email you if you win. When was the last time you went into a gas station, purchased a lottery ticket, and the attendant asked you for your email address in case you won?

It's just an online scam, trash it.

Answer 3

I've received 5 best Answer emails, 4 messages from other users & a violation so it's probably something to do with your settings.

Answer 4

Were you in Ireland? Did you sign up for an Irish lottery? If it sounds to good to be true, it's a scam.

Don't fill out the form.

Answer 5

I have read about other people saying they got letters in the mail. In these cases it was a scam. There is a Irish lottery, but unless you entered its a scam.

Answer 6

I got this mail,too. I think everyone has gotten it. You can google that to find out what's really going on here. Don't fall for this at all cost.

Answer 7

you cant win something you did not enter. and the chinese or british guy that wants you to cash a huge cheque and give you some of it is a load of crap too

Answer 8

Oh please don't do anything it says I think a lot of people hear from those kind of rip-off artists!

Answer 9

cool $hit!

Answer 10

Don't believe it.