[Resolved]  ESPN — mail received claiming 2 receive award

Address:

New Delhi, Delhi

i received an email from ESPN as follows.. is it a fraud organisation???????????

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Swift Couriers <[protected]@swiftc.co.uk> wrote:
SWIFT COURIERS
151 Bethune Road
Stoke Newington
London
N16 5DY
United Kingdom
Tel: (+44) [protected]
(24HOURS/7DAYS ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVICES)

REG. NUMBER: 2012TI005/UK

Respected Customer,

Welcome to Swift Couriers, United Kingdom. We wish to officially inform you that we are in possession of your parcel from ESPN Star Cricket Head office and your parcel is accompanied with a court affidavit of claims showing that you the recipient is a beneficiary of the sum of One Million Great British Pounds Sterling from their promotion where a draw was organized to reach out back to the society with the motive of reducing/alleviating poverty in the World. We have verified and screened your parcel which was handed over to us some hours ago and below is the parcel description.
PARCEL DESCRIPTION:

ORDER NUMBER: STP 55617
PACKAGE WEIGHT: 3.72 kg

PACKAGE COLOR: Brown
REG. NUMBER: 2012TI005/UK
PACKAGE BATCH NUMBER: 7944-8
PARCEL CONTENT: Certified cheque, original copy of your winning certificate, Branded T-shirt, Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop, ESPN Star Cricket branded baseball cap and other security document
Your parcel was registered with us for delivery to your residence. Please confirm your delivery information (please note that if you want to make any changes to your address, it must be done before we embark on delivery as no changes will be allowed once parcel leaves England)

In accordance with our company policy, you will be required to pay for the courier delivery charges below first to enable us dispatch your parcel to you with immediate effect as it was in our contract terms with the ESPN Start Cricket Head Office that we only operate on pay before delivery for their winners thus failure on your part to comply by this would mean that your parcel would be sent back to their office.

Courier Charges
£95.00
00

Administrative
£50.00
00

Insurance
£72.00
00

Value Added Tax (VAT)


TOTAL

£25.05


£242.00

00


00

TOTAL CHARGES PAYABLE: £242.00 GBP
EQUIVALENT IN INDIA RUPEES: Rs.18,663 INR

Please find below the account details of our Liaison officer that is stationed in India. On this note, you are required to deposit the cash sum of Rs.18,663 INR and not cheque deposit into the account of our Liaison officer below.
*********************************************
BANK NAME : STATE BANK OF INDIA
ACCOUNT NAME : HOTOLI JIMO
ACCOUNT NUMBER : [protected]
*********************************************
DEPOSIT: Rs. 18,663 INR

Initiate the payment and send us the scanned copy of the PAYMENT DEPOSIT SLIP for confirmation and documentation so that your parcel can be immediately dispatched for immediate delivery to your residence in India after the confirmation of your payment receipt.

Delivery is normally within 24 hours after payment confirmation. That is, once payment is received, parcel will arrive in the delivery address within 24 hours.

Awaiting your payment deposit slip to commence delivery.

Regards,
John Hopkins
Dispatch/Handling Officer.


NOTE: Your Parcel is protected by a hardcover insurance policy. We cannot deliver your prize to you if you have not paid the delivery charges it is our company policy. This means that you must pay the freight charges to us before we commence shipping of your Parcel to you in your country. Therefore make payment as instructed above and inform us for immediate dispatch. The insurance Policy on your parcel makes it impossible for funds to be deducted in whatsoever way from your cheque.

ESPN Head Office
Registered office:
3 Queen Caroline Street,
London, W6 9PE.
Company No: 4620511.
Tel: +[protected]
APPROVAL OF AWARD WINNING PRIZE OF 1,000,000.00 GBP FOR
DELIVERY/TRANSFER.
We want to inform you that your verification details has been received and have been
processed. I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as
one of our lucky winners in the ESPN Star Cricket draw, Online Sweepstakes
International Program. As you already know, all participants for the online version were
selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and
extracted from over 10,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online
and each email address was attached to a ticket number. Your email address attached to
ticket number: [protected] with Serial number 3652-662 were selected which
automatically makes you one of our lucky winners this year 2012.
Your funds have been approved for release and we will begin the process of remittance of
your prize money to you immediately. I have contacted the ESPN Star Cricket draw
Advisory Board and the Internal Revenue Board on this matter and we have decided to
send your winning parcel which contains your certified bank cheque, original copies of
your winning certificate, consolation prizes which includes a Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop, a
Promo Branded T-shirt, an ESPN Star Cricket Branded Baseball Cap and Security
Documents via a secured and efficient courier service.
We have also contacted our affiliate Courier Company Swift Courier and have directed
them to pick up your winning parcel from The ESPN Star Cricket raw Headquarters.
Please forward your Name, Current Delivery Address and Telephone Number to the
Dispatch Officer of Swift Courier.
MR. JOHN HOPKINS
DISPATCH OFFICER.
Tel: [protected]
Email: [protected]@swiftc.co.uk
Do contact them with this phone number after you have sent them an email. Here is
your Parcel Registration Code; 2012TI005/UK. Do add it to your mail when sending your
email to them for the delivery of your parcel
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