Is this a scam?this would be my second email from this.?

• The National Lottery P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1N UNITED KINGDOM 27th March 2009 VERIFICATION OF LOTTERY CLAIM All protocols observed. Please accept my apologies for my late response. My Name is William Gustav Donald. I work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). I am a contract staff currently attached to Verification department of the Camelot Group of the Online National Lottery. This is in lieu of checking false winning claims and Lottery Scams. Every claimant shall be verified by the FBI and winners must be duly paid. False claimants shall also be duly punished. I received an application letter sent by your Fiduciary agent, Mr. James Hollis for the Claim of your Lottery Winnings. The application is to be verified by the National Lottery. Note that all taxes have been paid by the National Lottery. Please read the extract of our terms and conditions below. •In the event that the Company, in its absolute discretion, believes that the Claimant is not lawfully entitled to payment of a Prize or that a Prize has been paid to a Player (including, without limitation, by payment into a Players Account in circumstances where the Company decides, in accordance with Rule 5(D)(3) that the Claimed Play is invalid or defective, it shall be entitled to withhold payment of the Prize or recover or seek to recover a Prize already paid (including, without limitation, where such payment has been made into a Players Account) pending the outcome of all appropriate inquiries. Once the appropriate verifications and inquiries have satisfied the Company, in its absolute discretion, that the Claimant is lawfully entitled to payment of the relevant Prize, it shall credit the amount of such Prize to the Players Account. •The Player is responsible, where applicable, for claiming a Prize and the protection of the Identification Information that enables the payment of a Prize. •The Company shall not be responsible or liable to any person claiming a Prize which has been paid to a person who assumed the identity of the holder of the relevant Account and who obtained sufficient information about them to impersonate the rightful holder of that Account. According to the application submitted by James Hollis on your behalf, your claim states your winning details as follows Ref: UK/9420X2/68 Batch: 074/06/ZY369 Draw Number: 1374 Draw Date: Saturday, 21st February 2009 Ticket Number: 56475600545 188 Serial Number: 5627635368/09 Lucky Number: 09 22 26 42 45 46 (Bonus No 44) Amount Won: £5,130,824(Five million, One hundred and thirty thousand, eight hundred and twenty-four Pounds Sterling). Please note that this is an online bonus promotion. Your email address was extracted by our computer from one of our advertising websites. We have over 3,000 advertising websites. You did not purchase a ticket. The Ticket was purchased for you by the online department of the National Lottery using your email address. Your email address was attached to ticket number 56475600545 188. On Saturday, 21st February 2009, six ball sets were used with the SAPPHIRE machine and after the bonus draws, your email address attached to the above ticket number matched the numbers 09 22 26 42 45 46(Bonus No 44) which subsequently won you the amount of £5,130,824(Five million, One hundred and thirty thousand, eight hundred and twenty-four Pounds Sterling). According to the current conversion rate, this amount in the Unites States Dollars is USD$7,246,263 (Seven Million, two hundred and forty-six thousand, two hundred and sixty-three United States Dollars). You were contacted via email as no other contact of yours was in our system as at the time of the draw. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Germany as indicated in your play coupon. You are required to: 1. Acknowledge the receipt of this email and confirmation of your claim stated above. 2. Reconfirm your full names and address as this would be used for your payment. Please allow 24-72 working hours to verify your claim. WILLIAM GUSTAV DONALD THE NATIONAL LOTTERY, CAMELOT GROUP, VERIFICATION AND PROCESSING DEPARTMENT, UNITED KINGDOM. [email protected] UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD COPYRIGHT © 2009 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 24 minutes ago - 4 days left to answer

• Answer:

  This is a SCAM. If you click on the below link this site confirms various email scams and provides an online form for the reporting of all scams and frauds - (with links for your own country.) http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/identify.php http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yoo2.phpahoo/... Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of messages. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete it and send it into cyberspace where it belongs. Check out these sites for further information : http://www.scambusters.com http://www.hoax-slayer.com/