"You Won!" Scam Email

[mercinary]

ANNOUNCEMENT BONUS NOTIFICATION
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
CONTACT MR.STEVEN VAN PUTTE
FROM:EUROMILLIONS LOTTORY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

Dear Winner,

Following official publication results of the Email electronic on line Sweepstakes organized by the Eurolottory corporation, the Slide circular award and in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products, (F.P.S.), held on the 25th of May 2007, in Bruselles Belgium, wherein your electrononic email address emerged as one of the online winning emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of USD$1,000.000.00(One million Dollars only),We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

It is important to note you that your award information was released today with the following particulars attached to it.

(I) Reference Number: 25/26/29/49/50/7/8
(ii) Ticket Number: BT4-63-21-27
(iii)Batch Number: 51-1-22-56-25INB
(iv)Lucky Number: 12-28-44-41-19
(v)Serial: Number: FM-52-2-15-40-91

Please contact the claim agents within 5 working days to facilitate the release of your prize, You are required to mention the above particulars of your award in every correspondence addressed to the processing agents.

CONTACT: MR.STEVEN VAN PUTTE.
CITY/ COUNTRY: Bruxelles Belgium.
TEL:+32-486-365-171.
EMAIL: infoeuromillionagent@yahoo.de

The Euromillions lotto Awards is sponsored by a consortium of software promotion companies.The Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell Computers, Microsoft and other international companies. The Euromillions lotto internet draw is held periodically and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and promote computer literacy worldwide. We are proud to say that over 20 Million Dollars are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.Rememer, all winning must be claimed not later than 25th of June, 2007.

Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch number in all correspondence. Once again on behalf of all our staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Sincerely,
Mrs.Kathleen Rudolph
Promotions Coordinator
CONTACT: MR.STEVEN VAN PUTTE
CITY/ COUNTRY: Bruxelles Belgium.
TEL:+32-486-365-171.
EMAIL: infoeuromillionagent@yahoo.de

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

[Ferret]

hey Merc

You already have 4 of these "You Won!" emails
as separate threads in this forum

Is this really necessary?

If I did this I would be accused of spamming

Wouldn't they be better in ONE thread?

[mercinary]

A good point. I've been trying to decide what to do with them. The point of posting them are so they show up on google searches people might do when they get these emails. If I put them in one thread, then the detail about why it is a scam will either be contained in only one of the posts (and thus as the thread gets longer, people will only see the scam email itself, not the explanation...or I can merge them as is, so they are all in one thread, and each post has a description of why they are a scam.

The latter seems like a better option. Thoughts?

-Merc

[Webwatch]

I'm all for seperate threads but with the thread Title giving a key point about each scam, and something likely to be searched on.
This one for example=Euromillions Scam e-mail.