Looks like I have come into a huge amount of money. I think I will throw a Survivor On-line Party with my half a million.

What do you think?

FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
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REF NO: UKN-L/200-26937
BATCH: 2005MJL-01
Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY draw held on March 18 2006. All 10 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual UK NATIONAL LOTTERY Draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of 500,000 pounds (five hundred thousand pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 07-10-22-24-34-44
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL09622UK
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/736207152/UK

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
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Promotions Manager
The Lotto Company
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http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.htm

love the bit in the link about scamming the scammers - the church of the holy painted breast indeed!!! :laugh:

Hello Bella,

I'd avoid these like the plague. These scams are done to get information so that others involved in identity fraud can steal your details.

You have a choice to report the scam or to ignore it completely and delete it from your e-mail.

What ever you do, do not return an e-mail.
Whatever you do not return an e-mail, as you will then be confirming some of your details via that route. It then becomes a question of time how long it takes an IT crook to work out your full name, address, status, whether you are a home owner, your D.O. B, even your bank account if you have ever paid for anything online.

I personally report them, these people are scum - as are the ones who try to get you to claim funds from presumably deceased people.

Maureen
Northern angel.

Hello Bella,

I'd avoid these like the plague. These scams are done to get information so that others involved in identity fraud can steal your details.

You have a choice to report the scam or to ignore it completely and delete it from your e-mail.

What ever you do, do not return an e-mail.
Whatever you do not return an e-mail, as you will then be confirming some of your details via that route. It then becomes a question of time how long it takes an IT crook to work out your full name, address, status, whether you are a home owner, your D.O. B, even your bank account if you have ever paid for anything online.

I personally report them, these people are scum - as are the ones who try to get you to claim funds from presumably deceased people.

Maureen
Northern angel.

Don't worry Maureen, I know a scam when I see one! I have lost count to the amount of emails I have received from Barclays, Halifax etc asking me to confirm my bank details.

E-bay is another to watch out for as I have received a few from them telling me that my account is going to be suspended!

Hopefully most people are wise to these and will just press the delete button! :ranting:

Well Bella maybe I can donate some of my numerous winnings of £10-£50,000 - well at least that's what they keep telling me I've won when they send me around 3 letters a week from various over seas locations and some even have the same return address for companies of different names...all they want is anything betwen £9-£20 processing fee and they will send me the cheque...:yahoo:

I simply mix up the junk and send it back to them in unstamped envelopes!:glare:

I simply mix up the junk and send it back to them in unstamped envelopes!:glare:

LOL - that's what we do! :kid:

my dad was regularly in contact with Tom Champagne of Reader's Digest for his half million, one year he even filled in the menu for what he would eat at his prize giving dinner. i think he is a man that needs a hobby ... my dad, not Tom Champagne ... although it wouldn't hurt him either!

my dad was regularly in contact with Tom Champagne of Reader's Digest

I also have had correspondence with Mr Champagne - and I have come to the conclusion that - shock - horror - he may not be a real person!!

I also have had correspondence with Mr Champagne - and I have come to the conclusion that - shock - horror - he may not be a real person!!

lmao! I shant be sharing that with my dad he would be destroyed!

I also have had correspondence with Mr Champagne - and I have come to the conclusion that - shock - horror - he may not be a real person!!

Hang on Rob - I have tracked him down, there's even a picture of him here http://www.nasig.org/newsletters/newsletters.2004/04sept/04sept_profiles.html

Looks like he's got a new job!

Maybe Reader's Digest didn't approve of his lifestyle choice!