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mercinary
June 8th, 2007, 09:11 AM
Your E-mail address has won you US$4.6M
UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION
TICKET FREE/ONLINE E-MAIL ADDRESS WINNINGS DEPARTMENT.
Telephone: +44-703-189-3393

If you are the correct owner of this email address,then be glad this day as the result of the UK lotto online e-mail winning draws and sweepstakes held in
Bangkok Thailand on the 29th of May 2007 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your e-mail address has won you the lottery in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6M. Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number: APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583.

Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket
Number:APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: MX014926583.You are to contact Mr. Steve G. Mills on the below email address for quick delivery of your won cheque of US$4.6M. All winners cheque are certified cashiers and are cashable in any bank of any country.

To enable the Courier Company ascertain you as the rightful receiver of the
cheque, include the below listed information in your contact mail.Your country, complete official names, amount won, ticket and lucky numbers, date/venue of draw, address where your wish to receive your winnings,contact telephone, mobile and fax numbers, sex, age, occupation and job title.

Top Speed Express Courier Thailand Company Ltd.
Office Address: 3/3 Soi 24 Sukhumvit Bangkok, Thailand.
Email-Address: topspeedexprescourier@yahoo.co.th
Contact Agent: Mr. Steve G. Mills

Yours Truly,
Mr. Ambrose Micheal Co-ordinator.
UK LOTTERY ORGANIZATION



I received this one in my email. I'm posting it here as a service to anyone else who might get the same message. Don't bother replying to it. It is a scam. One of two things will happen if you reply to these lottery scam emails:

1. You will be prompted to provide any number of the following (under the guise that they need to verify your identity):

Banking details
Driver's license details
Passport
Other personal information

Once you have provided said information, identity theft occurs.

OR

2. You will be prompted to send some amount of money (maybe a couple of hundred dollars) via western union for auxiliary fees associated with winning the prize. Once you pay, the scammer is never heard from again.

-Merc

concerned
June 8th, 2007, 12:12 PM
HMMMMM. Why does the UK Lottery have to be run out of Bangkok, Thailand? Did my Geography teacher teach me wrong in grade school? She told me those two locations were on different continents, but now that the UK Lottery is run in Thailand, I am starting to question my Geography teacher, cause obviously, this email can't be wrong.