I "won The Sum Of £500,000,00"

[LaoPo]

Sorry Mods if this isn't Thai related but I want to warn other fellow TV-members.

1. I am not British or live in Britain

2. I do not play in any British lottery

Nevertheless I got this morning this email

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BRITISH LOTTERY

The Lottery Company

P.O Box 789

Harrogate HG1 2YR

********************

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

********************

Our Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#966) of the BRITISH LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program held on 26th January 2007, you have won the sum of £500,000,00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND,POUNDS STERLING ) on our 2007 NEW YEAR Sweepstakes Program.

The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet Email Users,from which your Address came out as the winning coupon. We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a Yearly Lottery.Failure to claim your win will result into the reversion of the fund to the next Year's Sweepstakes Program.

You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims Department/Affiliate Company below quoting winning number: WINNING NUMER:23-24-28-33-34-41-{18}.

Barrister Fred Lambert

Alpha Consultants Law firm & Schmitz Associates

Solicitors, Advocates & Arbitrators,

(Fiduciary Agent)

Office Address:

1 QUEEN STREET, SHEPSHED,

LEICS, LE12 9RZ,

Tel: +44-704-570-xxxx

Fax: +44-707-500-xxxx

E-mai: [email protected]

Congratulations once again.

please quote your winning number.

Regards,

Mrs.Jessica Mooroe.

Online Co-ordinator.

BRITISH LOTTERY

The Lottery Company

England

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ps:

1. I have removed the name of the @yahoo.co.uk emailaddress as well as the last 4 digits of the phonenumbers.

2. To the BRITS amongst us: Anyone else who has heard of this so called BRITISH LOTTERY or received an email like this ?

3. What do you Gents advise: inform Yahoo on this possible scam ?

4. GBP 500,000 would be nice though...

EDIT!

I just checked the 'lawfirm' and it's confirmed "Internet fraud'

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=A...G=Google+Search

LaoPo

Edited January 27, 2007 by LaoPo

[lopburi3]

Yes it is a scam that many people receive every day in there emails. You can report name and it will eventually be blocked but usually takes longer than they use it anyhow.

[Jaonghais]

Sorry Mods if this isn't Thai related but I want to warn other fellow TV-members.

1. I am not British or live in Britain

2. I do not play in any British lottery

Nevertheless I got this morning this email

""""""""""""""""""""""""""

BRITISH LOTTERY

The Lottery Company

P.O Box 789

Harrogate HG1 2YR

********************

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

Batch: 074/05/ZY369

********************

Our Dear Winner,

We happily announce to you the draw (#966) of the BRITISH LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program held on 26th January 2007, you have won the sum of £500,000,00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND,POUNDS STERLING ) on our 2007 NEW YEAR Sweepstakes Program.

The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of Internet Email Users,from which your Address came out as the winning coupon. We hereby urge you to claim the winning amount quickly as this is a Yearly Lottery.Failure to claim your win will result into the reversion of the fund to the next Year's Sweepstakes Program.

You are therefore requested to contact immediately our Claims Department/Affiliate Company below quoting winning number: WINNING NUMER:23-24-28-33-34-41-{18}.

Barrister Fred Lambert

Alpha Consultants Law firm & Schmitz Associates

Solicitors, Advocates & Arbitrators,

(Fiduciary Agent)

Office Address:

1 QUEEN STREET, SHEPSHED,

LEICS, LE12 9RZ,

Tel: +44-704-570-xxxx

Fax: +44-707-500-xxxx

E-mai: [email protected]

Congratulations once again.

please quote your winning number.

Regards,

Mrs.Jessica Mooroe.

Online Co-ordinator.

BRITISH LOTTERY

The Lottery Company

England

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ps:

1. I have removed the name of the @yahoo.co.uk emailaddress as well as the last 4 digits of the phonenumbers.

2. To the BRITS amongst us: Anyone else who has heard of this so called BRITISH LOTTERY or received an email like this ?

3. What do you Gents advise: inform Yahoo on this possible scam ?

4. GBP 500,000 would be nice though...

LaoPo

I get this type of email on average about 6 times a week. I,m an Aussie and and get them. Can I ask you if you are on myspace.com? If they are real they will never disclose thru email the amount you have won. If you reply to them they will ask you to deposit normally around $10,000USD into a bank account based in Germany to offset courier charges. If you say you can not afford this then they will tell you that they have dropped the charge to around $2500USD. Watch out for Freelotto and the African lawyers who want you to help them transfer money as well.

[LaoPo]

I get this type of email on average about 6 times a week. I,m an Aussie and and get them. Can I ask you if you are on myspace.com? If they are real they will never disclose thru email the amount you have won. If you reply to them they will ask you to deposit normally around $10,000USD into a bank account based in Germany to offset courier charges. If you say you can not afford this then they will tell you that they have dropped the charge to around $2500USD. Watch out for Freelotto and the African lawyers who want you to help them transfer money as well.

myspace.com ? No.

I have no idea how they came up with my emailaddress; but don't worry, I will never make a transfer of 10K $ into someones account..... especially if I don't know them.

Sidestory:

In the summer of 2005 I was having an afternoon nap on Koh Samui when I received a phonecall from my homecountry.........

This guy told me I won a (quite nice) prize* in the so called 'PostalCode' lottery in which I play with a monthly 3 tickets.

I recognized his voice since he's on television every week.

I couldn't believe it but.............................it was true !

I had a very nice holiday

* a sum in money as well as a (smallest possible ) BMW, which I sold.

Nevertheless on the same day this guy in the north of my country won Euro 9.8 MILLION !!! or US$ 12.75 MILLION..............

LaoPo

Edited January 27, 2007 by LaoPo

[farangsay]

So , you don't think you've really won then?

So , you won't be ringing the bell in the bar ?

Sigh

On a lighter note.

I heard a for real for true story in the UK once.

The Missus tapes the lottery results one Saturday.

She buys a ticket with those same numbers for

the following week.

Next Saturday the Mister comes home just before

the lottery show starts.

The Missus slots the cassette in the VCR , gives

the Mister her ticket and asks him to check the

result for her 'cos she has to go see a neighbour

about something.

She comes back in an hour and waits until after

11 before calling the Mister on his mobile.

He's just bought the gazillionth round of drinks

for all his pals at the pub. She explained the joke.

Funny thing the story ended with the Missus still

alive and still married to the Mister.

Understanding guy with a sense of humour.

I might have killed her and then sued for divorce.