email scam

[johnlambert]

anyone get one of these yet?
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
Ref.No:919347/749-0
Batch: 3566465021-0TA/07

Dear Lucky Winner,

Congratulations as we happily announce to you today that the draw of the Microsoft UK Online Lottery, online Sweepstakes International program held on the 24nd January, 2007 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: G276017-487 with Serial number 493-678 drew the lucky numbers:
[ 7-28-87-65-69-73 ]
The Bonus Ball [02], which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e, matches 3 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 100,000.00 POUNDS (One Hundred Thousand Pounds Only) credited to file No. KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of 1,000,000.00 Pounds (Five Million Great Britain Pounds) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 4 plus bonus.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 email addresses of unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place yearly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our U booklet representative office in London as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, Your 100.000 (One Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) would be released to you by any of our payment offices here in London. Our London agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed and your money

[redcrx]

nope, I never win anything :(

[naz_nomad]

hope admarlow sees this ... maybe he can get a piccy of them ...

[johnlambert]

do people fall for this gimmick?

[naz_nomad]

it's also becoming increasingly difficult to win a competition that you haven't actually entered ... do these scammers really catch people out?

[naz_nomad]

snap !

[redcrx]

if people didnt fall for it then we wouldnt be bombarded with such scam emails.

[Pippa68]

Haven't had one of those yet. The last one I had was notification of winning a cruise (all expenses paid of course).

If only I had �500 to spare for the admin charges, I would be sunning myself on deck right now.

[johnlambert]

I.ve stopped getting those ones from Nigeria asking for help moving millions of US Dollars, now im bombarded by this tripe

[redcrx]

i get phonecalls (got one today) saying ive won a holiday and all i have to do is confirm im aged between 18 and 60 and that household income is above �20k. It annoys them when i say Im 93 and on benefits but can they send me the tickets as i cant manage to get to the conference because of my dogy hip