Is IPOP(international presentation of performers) a scam?

IS THAT REAL OR SCAM?

• IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: BBCONE/UK/Olympic/2012. Dear Winner, I am in receipt of your mail and you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year’s lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 1,256,000 websites on the internet. Each email address was attached to a File (Ticket) number KTU/902853602012/11. Your email address was selected along with seven others as winners. BBC ONE NATIONAL LOTTERY wish to officially inform you about the completion of your winning verification process and on the other hand to intimate you that your approved winning cheque of £1,524,177.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Twenty four Thousand, One Hundred and Seventy Seven Pound Starlings)($2,518,711.16 USD) is ready for remittance to you. How do I claim my winnings? Your prize will be remitted in either of the Following ways: 1. DELIVERY VIA CHECK 2. WIRE/SWIFT TRANSFER You can claim your prize from any BBC One National Lottery On-Line Payout center upon presentation of your ticket number above. The Center will validate your ticket and Check it against the amount paid out and return it to Gaming Board. BBC ONE National Lottery On-Line can pay prizes between £75 and £200 at their discretion upon presentation of your ticket Number. If they are not able to do so - and your ticket has not been validated - you can return to the same center when funds are available. You can claim your prize from any designated BBC Once National Lottery On-Line Payment / Remittance Center upon presentation of your ticket Number above. Any amount above £50,000 must be claimed in VIA Check Payout or Wire Transfer from the BBC ONE National Lottery Regional Center. No cash payment is made personally. You will be required to complete a prize claim form below and provide proof of your identity. The Text of the prize claims Form is provided below: Name: ....................... Address: ............................ Sex: .............................. Age: ............................ Occupation: ......................... Phone and Fax Number: ............... Ticket and ID Number: ................ The above Text of the Form should be sent to the Redemption Center (Either to the Bank or Courier Department) so as to authenticate your lottery winnings. Claiming your prize by Post/Courier Prizes above £50,000 can be claimed by Post/Courier. Send your winning ticket number and completed prize claim form above (only required for prizes over £500 and available from your BBC One National Lottery Agent) to: COURIER DELIVERY DEPARTMENT: E-MAIL: [email protected] Tel: +448719969847 08719969TIP However if you prefer the second option of wire transfer, you will have to contact the Corresponding Payment Center for the remittance of funds. Details are provided below: BANK NAME: BANK OF CYPRUS-UK BANK EMAIL: [email protected] Tel: +448719965078 Fax: +448445881380 Kindly note that as a result to your correspondence, you are binding to the Laws of the Lottery Company in the course of making your claims. It is imperative that you add your IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS {BBCONE/UK/Olympic/2012} as the subject of any correspondence with the courier company to ensure they respond in a timely manner. I will require a concise update on proceedings with the firm as soon as you are in contact with them. If you need any assistance whatsoever, please do not hesitate to let me know. Please Note: For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Regards Foreign Department Manager Administration Assistant B.B.C LOTTERY National Lottery Results. PO Box 200, Harrogate England,UK Dr. Tommy Walter Tel: +448719741755 Fax: +447014214162

• Answer:

  100% scam. There is no lottery. There is no Yahoo, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.