Is Secret Cash Blueprint 2.0 a scam?

Is this a scam email?

• i get these all the time... have you guys been getting it too? can someone tell me if this is a scam or not? thanks :D From: Uk Verification Unit <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:56:41 PM Subject: Batch: 074/05/ZY369 Ref: UK/9420X2/68 The National Lottery, P O Box 1010, L70 1NL Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM (Customer Services) Batch: 074/05/ZY369 Ref: UK/9420X2/68 WINNING NOTIFICATION We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer balloting held on the 20th January 2009. This is a Scientific Computer Game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; Meaning, you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:56475600545 188, with Serial number 5368/02, drew the lucky numbers:02-05-13-30-39-49-03 (bonus no.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 2,000,000 (Two million pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03This is from a total cash prize of 8,000,000 shared amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus. All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Eight hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies to promote the use of internet around the world. This promotion takes place periodically. Please note that your Original Certificate and your Certified bank cheque has been forwarded to the courier company. Find below the details of the courier company. TNT COURIER SERVICE ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE:20-22 Eastbury Road, London,E6 6LP England. NAME:MR MICHAEL RICHESON (dispatch officer) EMAIL: [email protected] Tel: +44-703-593-7256 Tel: +44-702-301-4877 Fax: +44-870-068-5766 You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost.When contacting them,you are to include your order number as your subject. ORDER NUMBER:TNT-M562785 Note: you are to furnished the courier company with the following details so that they can honour your letter. 1.Full Names: 2.Contact Address: 3.Sex: 4.Age: 5.Marital Status: 6.Occupation: 7.Email Address: 8.Telephone Number: 9. Ref Number: 10.Batch Number: 11.Country: 12.Order Number: We advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize delivered to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Once again congratulations... Warm regards, Timothy Peters Claims Agent, Sweepstakes International Program.

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  This is a SCAM. If you click on the below link this site confirms various email scams hitting the internet and provides an online form for the reporting of all scams and frauds - (with links for your own country.) http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/ 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 emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace where it belongs. Check out these sites for further information : http://www.scambusters.com http://www.hoax-slayer.com/