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[Vickie_M]

I know it's a scam, but I can't figure out what the scam is about, what they're trying/hoping to do. I get a lot of spam, and this is the first one of these I've seen. Any thoughts?

The weird formatting is exactly how I received it. I use Eudora and did a "blah blah blah" to get as many headers as possible.

Btw, I don't play any lottery and have not entered any contests out of the US.

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FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
WORLDWIDE PREMIER LOTTO, UK


Congratulations Category A prize winner! You have


been
selected as one of two winners of the Worldwide


Premier Lotto UK
computer ballot draws and thus will be a privileged


recipient of
the grand draw prize of £ 7,500,000 (Seven million


five hundred
thousand Great Britain Pounds only). Winning File


Reference
number for your prize is WWPL/UK/ 61-812084; ticket


number 003-214-34/A.


We in the Worldwide Premier Lotto UK is by this


program,
launching our model computer balloting lottery


draws,
developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of


the ever growing
number of participants in our various lottery


programs. With funds
accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to


all
winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in


record time.


After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an
initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all


participants by
their respective continents from across the globe,


we produced an
extensive list from which you have emerged as one of


the
winners of the Grand Draw prize.


To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the
transfer of your prize is to be handled by our Prize


Transfer agents.
You are to contact our agents by email and/or fax


within a week
of receiving this notice. Please find full contact


details
below:


Mr. Simon Perchard
Finance Director
Link Finance and Trust Ltd.
20 - 24 St. Leonard's Road
Windsor SL4 3BB, United Kingdom
Great Britain
Fax: +44 7092812692
FOREIGN SERVICE NUMBER: +8821646655614
Email: [email protected]


Also find all other relevant winning lottery


information
below:
(deleted in case, hey, it's really real, not that I'm gullible or anything)


You are seriously advised to keep all winning


lottery
information and numbers from the public in line with


our
company security protocol to avoid double claiming


and unwarranted
abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals.


Please direct all further correspondences and


queries to
your respective category Prize Transfer handlers.
Congratulations once again from the Worldwide


Premier Lotto family.



Sincerely,


Jansen Arent
International Promotions Manager
WORLDWIDE PREMIER LOTTO, UK.
FAX: +44 7092813189.



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[Vickie_M]

I know it's a scam, but I can't figure out what the scam is about, what they're trying/hoping to do. I get a lot of spam, and this is the first one of these I've seen. Any thoughts?

The weird formatting is exactly how I received it. I use Eudora and did a "blah blah blah" to get as many headers as possible.

Btw, I don't play any lottery and have not entered any contests out of the US.

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FROM: THE PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
WORLDWIDE PREMIER LOTTO, UK


Congratulations Category A prize winner! You have


been
selected as one of two winners of the Worldwide


Premier Lotto UK
computer ballot draws and thus will be a privileged


recipient of
the grand draw prize of £ 7,500,000 (Seven million


five hundred
thousand Great Britain Pounds only). Winning File


Reference
number for your prize is WWPL/UK/ 61-812084; ticket


number 003-214-34/A.


We in the Worldwide Premier Lotto UK is by this


program,
launching our model computer balloting lottery


draws,
developed and designed to satisfy the cravings of


the ever growing
number of participants in our various lottery


programs. With funds
accrued exclusively from previous draws, payouts to


all
winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in


record time.


After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an
initial database of 300,000 emails and zoning all


participants by
their respective continents from across the globe,


we produced an
extensive list from which you have emerged as one of


the
winners of the Grand Draw prize.


To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the
transfer of your prize is to be handled by our Prize


Transfer agents.
You are to contact our agents by email and/or fax


within a week
of receiving this notice. Please find full contact


details
below:


Mr. Simon Perchard
Finance Director
Link Finance and Trust Ltd.
20 - 24 St. Leonard's Road
Windsor SL4 3BB, United Kingdom
Great Britain
Fax: +44 7092812692
FOREIGN SERVICE NUMBER: +8821646655614
Email: [email protected]


Also find all other relevant winning lottery


information
below:
(deleted in case, hey, it's really real, not that I'm gullible or anything)


You are seriously advised to keep all winning


lottery
information and numbers from the public in line with


our
company security protocol to avoid double claiming


and unwarranted
abuse of this program by unscrupulous individuals.


Please direct all further correspondences and


queries to
your respective category Prize Transfer handlers.
Congratulations once again from the Worldwide


Premier Lotto family.



Sincerely,


Jansen Arent
International Promotions Manager
WORLDWIDE PREMIER LOTTO, UK.
FAX: +44 7092813189.



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[Vickie_M]

I just plugged "Worldwide Premier Lotto" into Yahoo search and came up with this:

http://www.g6csy.net/spam/lotto.html

It's definitely a scam. A bizarre one though. They don't ask for anything.

 

[Vickie_M]

I just plugged "Worldwide Premier Lotto" into Yahoo search and came up with this:

http://www.g6csy.net/spam/lotto.html

It's definitely a scam. A bizarre one though. They don't ask for anything.

 

[Justin Lane]

I would guess that if you contact them and they lead you on, they will eventually ask for a bank account to transfer the money or an address and social security number for verification/tax purposes. At that point they will either drain your account or steal your identity.

J

 

[Justin Lane]

I would guess that if you contact them and they lead you on, they will eventually ask for a bank account to transfer the money or an address and social security number for verification/tax purposes. At that point they will either drain your account or steal your identity.

J

 

[Glenn Overholt]

Good! 3rd option - you won't get a cent until you pay the taxes up front.

Glenn

 

[Glenn Overholt]

Good! 3rd option - you won't get a cent until you pay the taxes up front.

Glenn

 

[Keith Mickunas]

I've gotten a couple of similar ones from the Netherlands I believe. Both stated that foreigners would have to pay a special processing fee of $750 or thereabouts to claim the money. My guess is that's what'll happen with this, or as Glenn suggested they'll ask for the taxes up front.

 

[Keith Mickunas]

I've gotten a couple of similar ones from the Netherlands I believe. Both stated that foreigners would have to pay a special processing fee of $750 or thereabouts to claim the money. My guess is that's what'll happen with this, or as Glenn suggested they'll ask for the taxes up front.

 

[andrew markworthy]

For the record - there's no tax on the Brit Lotto, and in recent months there's been no unclaimed big prize.

The scam is the 'processing fee' that will be charged.

There is of course no processing fee and in fact if you really do win the Lotto in the UK I believe you get a group of financial advisors for free (I'd have thought you could have afforded these for yourself) to advise you on how to invest your winnings.

Again for the record - the most I've ever won is £20. I sometimes think the only way I could get rich from the lottery would be to set up a scam like this.

 

[andrew markworthy]

For the record - there's no tax on the Brit Lotto, and in recent months there's been no unclaimed big prize.

The scam is the 'processing fee' that will be charged.

There is of course no processing fee and in fact if you really do win the Lotto in the UK I believe you get a group of financial advisors for free (I'd have thought you could have afforded these for yourself) to advise you on how to invest your winnings.

Again for the record - the most I've ever won is £20. I sometimes think the only way I could get rich from the lottery would be to set up a scam like this.

 

[Cees Alons]

That name "Jansen Arent" looks like a Dutch name, but it is just a tiny bit wrong.

This scam could be heading to a request for "processing" money or taxes (no need to tell you that you don't have to pay taxes on these kind of winnings in the Netherlands - it's already paid - nor any processing fee), or even more cash, or else a rather complicated way to retrieve another live e-mail address (like those "fill in this IQ-test" pop-ups).


Cees

 

[Cees Alons]

That name "Jansen Arent" looks like a Dutch name, but it is just a tiny bit wrong.

This scam could be heading to a request for "processing" money or taxes (no need to tell you that you don't have to pay taxes on these kind of winnings in the Netherlands - it's already paid - nor any processing fee), or even more cash, or else a rather complicated way to retrieve another live e-mail address (like those "fill in this IQ-test" pop-ups).


Cees

 

[WadeB]

A translation of the above:
"To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings"=
TO ensure that you allow yourself to be scammed

"the transfer of your prize" =
the transfer of all of your money into our Nigerian bank account

"is to be handled by our Prize Transfer agents."=
will be perpetrated by Guido the killer extortionist.

"You are to contact our agents by email and/or fax"=
Send Guido your bank account number right away

Justin is right: they want to drain you. In this, it is like the Nigerian scams.

Who ever won anything from an unsolicited email anyway?

 

[WadeB]

A translation of the above:
"To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings"=
TO ensure that you allow yourself to be scammed

"the transfer of your prize" =
the transfer of all of your money into our Nigerian bank account

"is to be handled by our Prize Transfer agents."=
will be perpetrated by Guido the killer extortionist.

"You are to contact our agents by email and/or fax"=
Send Guido your bank account number right away

Justin is right: they want to drain you. In this, it is like the Nigerian scams.

Who ever won anything from an unsolicited email anyway?

 

[Johnny_M]

i get these everyday. just delete them and move on with your life.


Johnny

 

[Johnny_M]

i get these everyday. just delete them and move on with your life.


Johnny