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  • This e-mail was sent to me. This looks like a scam. What agency can I send it to for possible prosecution? Note: forwarded message attached. --------------------------------------… Subj: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Date: 04/28/2007 10:12:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: Mrs. Mary Adams. [[email protected]] Reply To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Government Accredited Licensed Promoters! Venderloop 1902 AB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. REF: EL3/9318/04 BATCH: 8/163/EL Attn:Sir/Madam, We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 26th of April 2007, Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 653164251591-6011 with serial number 7321410,batch number 151085135,lottery ref number 6376527711 and drew lucky numbers 4-9-17-36-44-78 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1.500,000.00 Euros (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Euros) CONGRATULATIONS!!! Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money Remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place every year. This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Association of software producers. we hope with part of your winning,you will take part in our next year 20 million Euros international lottery. ======================================… To file for your claim, please fill the enclosed form and send it by email to out lottery paying officer for the processing for your claim with the informatin below: Dr. Anthony Goldsmith, Remittance Director, TEL NO +31-61 671-9561 FAX NO +31-84-723-8267 EMAIL: [email protected] ======================================… FULL NAME:...................................… RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:................................… OCCUPATION:...........................… DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH:..................................… COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:..............................… TEL NO:.....................................… EMAIL:................................… TICKET NUMBER:.................................… BATCH NUMBER:.................................… AMOUNT WON:....................................… OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS:................................… I.....................................… DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE AND IN CASE OF ANY UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES MY NEXT OF KIN HAS RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNING. GAL PROMOTIONS SHALL ACT AS MY AGENT IN FACILITATING THE TRANSFER OF MY FUNDS TO ME DATE: Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Mary Adams, For Management. Games/Lottery Coordinator. Lotto International Netherlands. DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... Previous | Next | Back to Messages Save Message Text | Full Headers Check MailCompose Search Mail: Search MailSearch the Web Move Options [New Folder] CompuServe_Mail Forward Options As Inline Text As Attachment Reply Options Reply To Sender Reply To Everyone Mail Shortcuts Check Mail Ctrl++C Compose Ctrl++P Folders Ctrl++F Advanced Search Ctrl++S Options Help Ctrl++H Address Book Shortcuts Add Contact Add Category View Contacts View Lists QuickBuilder Import Contacts Synchronize Addresses Options Addresses Help Calendar Shortcuts Add Event Add Task Add Birthday Day Week Month Year Event List Reminders Tasks Sharing Synchronize Calendar Options Calendar Help Notepad Shortcuts Add Note Add Folder View Notes Notepad Options Notepad Help Advanced Search Advanced Search Copyright 2007 © Yahoo! Inc. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Send Feedback | Help

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    Of course it's a scam. I have seen these by the hundreds. You probably can't prosecute them, because it most likely came from Africa, where certain areas are notorious for such scams. The best thing you probably should do is just hit the "mark as spam" button and move on.

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I can answer this question for you fine. You can be 100% sure that you haven't won anything right now and here's an explanation of exactly what the notice you've recieved is intended to do. If you are already a victim contact the U.S. Secret Service via email. This address will be provided toward the end of this answer! I would laugh at the proposed scam and surely not respond to the punks responsible. There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully: I can guarantee you that if you listen to these punks you will lose every bit of money you have and never receive any prize money as such a prize does not exist. Another new popular scam is the lottery scam: There is no British National Lottery Award, Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, UK/FRANCO/GERMANY Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever. The Euro Asian whatever you talk about is a perfect example of how you can hand your lifesavings over to some fat-sweaty nigerian con-man (and your i.d. too). There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades. The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy. By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods. This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question. If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com! If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!

Guerrilla M

C'mon...you can't be serious...if it looks like a scam, smells like a scam, it's a scam.

murrayc

It is a SCAM, forward it to the: [email protected] they will handle it from there.

spiritwalker

yes,it's a scam.forward it to the FBI..

I Bleed Black & Gold

Your question could have been asked without revealing all the specific numbers, online addresses, phone numbers, etc. Makes a person suspicious of motives for posting question the way you did here . . . That maybe you yourself are trying to scam others. Maybe...maybe not . . . Don't see why all the details with specific contact numbers was necessary to share in your question. After posting my reply . . . I was curious so I looked at your other postings. Why would you have another posting that mentions the full name M*****r that is an auto mechanic in a specifically mentioned state ? Again. . . makes a person wonder of motives of your postings . . . Bye.

onelight

Yes, it's a scam. Report it to your e-mail provider as such.

Shira I'nusyl

Send the obvious spam mail to [email protected]

The Mr. Pine

Sure. Forward the entire email, unedited with full headers, to [email protected]. You can also send that off to [email protected] and [email protected] Then turn around and have the message spammed and deleted right away. I have to admit you were very smart to smell a rat in this phishing message and didn't fall for it.

brian 2010

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