Yahoo/msn Lottery Inc & Windows Live Online — fake lottery

Respected sir,
I have received a mail from YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE ONLINE that i have been selected as one of the luck lottery winners and to claim for same... i have to send them the some details...i have given them the required details...but they r asking for some security and delivery charges for elite courier express before sending my winning prize cheque in a parcel...
all i want to know is whether this is genuine or fake...
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Dear Sir

i received a mail from yahoo where he says i am the winner of the lottery which is orgnasied by the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY but i don't know that was a genuine/fake mail i send all the details of the mail and kindly help me of the scam

This is the first mail

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM



This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of(£1.500, 000.00 pounds)for
the month of JANUARY 2009 Lottery promotion which is organized by UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY by collection of email addresses of the people that are active online,
among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and other email addresses we
only select five people every year as our winners through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying, we Congratulate you for being one of the people
selected.Your winning details are as follow ref number:uk267856, winning
number:8875643.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
You are to contact your Claims Agent before your date of Claim, Winners Shall
be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.These numbers fall within your
Location file, you are requested to contact EVENTS AGENT MANAGER, send your winning
identification numbers to them at this contact address below.

(CONTACT EVENTS AGENT MANAGER BY MAIL)

NAME: REV JOHN HENRY
MAIL: [protected]@yahoo.com.hk


You are therefore advised to send the following information to the EVENTS AGENT to
facilitate them and process the DELIVER of your money.

1. Full name...
2. Country...
3. Contact Address...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Occupation...
6. Age...

Congratulations!! once again..
Yours in service,
Braint Hunt
(Online Cor-ordinator)
---- Msg sent via KSU Webmail - http://atmail.com/

and the secent mail is

UKONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!
UKONLINE?INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).



UK National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X/05
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

ATTENTION:Mr. Indrojit Mondal

CONGRATULATIONS!This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program which was carried out through a ramdon selection of emails address in which your email came among the 5 emails selected . I am happy to inform you that i have forwarded your Original Certificate and your mode of prize collection to the courier company.Find below the details of the courier
company.

CONTACT AIR FREIGHT COURIER SERVICE
HEAD OFFICE :AIR FRIEGHT COURIER SERVICE
BR30-36 NEW PORT, CARDIFF
BRCF24 ODE,
BRUNITED KINGDOM
NAME: MR MARK GREY (dispatch officer)
EMAIL:[protected]@yahoo.co.uk

PHONE: [protected]

You are adviced to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost.When contacting them, you are to include this order number as your subject.Please you are advised to write down the order number and save it.

ORDER NUMBER:657252
DRAW NO:#978
FULL NAMES
FULL CONTACT ADDRESS
ZIPCODE
SEX
DATE OF BIRTH
POSTAL CODE
COMPANY NAME
TEL
FAX
COUNTRY
INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION:
(A) CHEQUE
(B) DRAFT

(Details of the account where you want your funds
transferred):
Note: you are Quote your complete names, Ref/Batch Numbers and your direct phone number so that they can honour your letter.Once again i say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier
company.

Thanks

3rd mail is


AIR FRIEGHT COURIER AGENT
(REG NO: 194562)


REG ORDER NO:657252


ATTENTION: INDROJIT MONDAL,



This is to inform you that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Dept. at the headquarters of the Uk Lottery International.The original copy of this certificate, together with a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit forClaims) from the British government stating that the money was obtained legally through their National Lotto will be sent to you and the bank as soon as you meet with any of the option selected and your winnings will be couriered or transferred to you immediately.You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are two options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the two.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Option 1: COURIER DELIVERY

Courier of your winning details to you via any of this channel listed below:


(2working days)
Mailing
£275.00
00.00
Insurance
£240.00
00.00
Vat (5%)
£276.75
00.00
TOTAL
£791.75
00.00


(3 working days)
Mailing &n bsp
£290.00
00.00
Insurance
£100.00
00.00
Vat (5%)
£199.95
00.00
TOTAL
£600.95
00.00

(7working days)
Mailing
£278.00
00.00
Insurance
£180.00
00.00
Vat (5%)
£135.45
00.00
TOTAL
£583.45
00.00

Forward the cost of mailing your draft/cheque with
any of the courier channel cost you choose above to us.

Option 2: BANK TRANSFER CHARGES

The said amount claim 1, 500, 000.00 pounds (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand pounds) will be wired to your bank account via swift bank transfer.Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transferring bank is(i.e £1, 500GBP) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you.Note: That your prize is protected by a insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you first before your prize is transferred to you.

Please respond to this email by making a selection from the two options above. Also attach a scanned copy of either your driver's licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document.Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is exactly One weeks after the receipt of this email. After this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.

Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to this same email address.


BEST REGARDS
MR MARK GREY
(DISPATCH OFFICER)


And I replied the all email by my details and acount no. atlast they will say to pay the delivery charge (RS. 55, 000) to via the agent account.

i want to know is whether this is genuine or fake

Pls help me that what can i do?

Yours sincerely
Indrojit Mondal from( Bagula, Nadia, west Bengal)
This is a totally fake mail and pls pls pls any body do not faith on it. Thak you this is my suggestion to every body.
lotry informetion not given on my telephone no [protected] and mobile no [protected]
my full adderss:- karishan kumar jain prem nagar hanumangarh town rajsthan (india)mobile no. [protected] &landline [protected] my age 42 year
lotery amount paid to my place
i just received an email telling me that i am a winner of 850, 000gbp. i will not respond as i know that this is absolutely false.
Yes I agree to the complains made by all the recievers like because I had also recieved the similar email.

Through this email, I would like to request the concerned officials to please check the recieving of such mails.

THanks

sunil
I also got a similar sms on my telephone. Later i replied to them via email.In reply they asked me to pay 35000 INR(around 729 $) fore some kind of clearence. Now the question is " HOW CAN SOMEONE WIN WHEN YOU DID NOT SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LOTTERY?"
According to me its fake...
FAKE FAKE FAKE!!! PLEASE DO NOT FALL YOURSELF IN SUCH A KIND OF FAKE WINNINGS..

THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU ANY MONEY... DEFINITELY THEY WILL CHEAT YOU... FOR MORE DOUBTS

P.H [protected]
Sir i have got a message that my mobile has won one million pounds from yahooMSN lottery team.To claim your prize contact Edward Smith.But I am not able to contact him.so how can i get my lottery prize.please reply.
Respected sir,
I have received a mail from YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE ONLINE that i have been selected as one of the luck lottery winners and to claim for same... i have to send them the some details...i have given them the required details...but they r asking for some security and delivery charges for elite courier express before sending my winning prize cheque in a parcel...
all i want to know is whether this is genuine or fake...

following are the contents of the email

YOU HAVE WON £500, 000.00
Tue, 20 October, 2009 12:47:21 PMFrom: "[protected]@windowslive.com" <[protected]@windowslive.com>View Card
To:


[protected][protected][protected][protected]

Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money of £500, 000.00 for the Annual 2009 Lottery promotion which is organized by Msn/Yahoo Lottery. You are to contact our claims officer

Name: Mr. Billy Chambers.
E-mail: [protected]@windowslive.com
Tell: +[protected]
+[protected]

You have to fill in the below information
for your claims
1.FULL NAMES:______ 2.ADDRESS:______
3.SEX:______ 4.AGE:______
5.OCCUPATION:______ 6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:______
8.STATE:______ 9.COUNTRY:______

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Monica Adams.
Online Cordinator.

i want to know is whether this is genuine or fake... please reply...
Respected sir,
I have received a mail from YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE ONLINE that i have been selected as one of the luck lottery winners and to claim for same... i have to send them the some details...i have given them the required details...but they r asking for some security and delivery charges for elite courier express before sending my winning prize cheque in a parcel...
all i want to know is whether this is genuine or fake...
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YOU HAVE WON £500, 000.00
Tue, 20 October, 2009 12:47:21 PMFrom: "[protected]@windowslive.com" <[protected]@windowslive.com>View Card
To:


[protected][protected][protected][protected]

Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money of £500, 000.00 for the Annual 2009 Lottery promotion which is organized by Msn/Yahoo Lottery. You are to contact our claims officer

Name: Mr. Billy Chambers.
E-mail: [protected]@windowslive.com
Tell: +[protected]
+[protected]


You have to fill in the below information
for your claims
1.FULL NAMES:______ 2.ADDRESS:______
3.SEX:______ 4.AGE:______
5.OCCUPATION:______ 6.TELEPHONE NUMBER:______
8.STATE:______ 9.COUNTRY:______

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Monica Adams.
Online Cordinator.

i want to know is whether this is genuine or fake...
i received the below message.is this scam or true?
Dear Lucky Winner
We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money of (750, 000.00GBP) by Msn/Yahoo Lottery inconjunction with the MICROSOFT WINDOWS. we collects allthe email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and various Microsoft window users, we only select five people every year as our winners, through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.

Batch number...YW/08872/PY
Ref number...WL/7662/5AQ
Winning number...WZ554/30

How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager


1. Full Name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Marital Status...
6. Sex...
7. Occupation...
8. State:...
9. Country...
10.Nationality...
11.How Do You Feel Has A Winner...
12.Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name: Mrs Monica Williams
E-mail: [protected]@live.com
(Msn/Yahoo Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).
acabo de ganar de ganar 450.000 libras
Espero me llegue el premio.
Ojo! Enviar un pecado absolutamente libras a cuenta ninguna!
Si así fue lo comentaré!
Dear Winner,

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money
of(750, 000.00GBP) from Msn/Yahoo Lottery inconjunction with the MICROSOFT
WINDOWS. We collect all the email addresses of the people that are
active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and
various Microsoft windows users, we only select five people every year as
our winners, through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.



How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager

1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Marital Status...
6. Sex...
7. Occupation...
8.State:...
9.Country...
10.Nationality...

Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Sarah Donalds.
E-mail:[protected]@live.com

Congratulations From The Office of the Yahoo/Msn National Lottery.

Sincerely,

Mrs.Elizabeth Martin
Yahoo/Msn National Lottery.



tell me whether this is fake or what..?
Dear sir
Ihave recieved a masage from yahoomsn [protected]@live.com, in my mobile no.[protected]. sir i win one million pound&email me, sir i callDR. MARK JUDE in uk NO.[protected]. sir he ask me my persnel infornation & details. i have send my detail.so please sir send me wining check in parsel or coriur .i shall be very thankful to you for this. from . anirudh jagannath singh.
i also received similar mail from msn/yahoo... i submitted my details to them...if this is a fake mail or spam strict action must be taken against such person generating fake mails .
Dear Winner,

We are Pleased to inform you that you have won a prize money
of(750, 000.00GBP) from Msn/Yahoo Lottery inconjunction with the MICROSOFT
WINDOWS. We collect all the email addresses of the people that are
active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and
various Microsoft windows users, we only select five people every year as
our winners, through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.

Batch number...YW/08872/PY
Ref number...WL/7662/5AQ
Winning number...WZ554/30

How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager

1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Marital Status...
6. Sex...
7. Occupation...
8.State:...
9.Country...
10.Nationality...

Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Sarah Donalds.
E-mail: [protected]@live.com

Congratulations From The Office of the Yahoo/Msn National Lottery.

Sincerely,

Mrs.Elizabeth Martin
Yahoo/Msn National Lottery.
respected sir
I too also got email like above, jest i want to know wheather is it true... can government take certain action on this''''''''''''...
thanking you
Respected sir,

I have received a mail from YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE ONLINE that i have been selected as one of the luck lottery winners and to claim for same... i have to send them the some details...i have given them the required details...but they r asking for some security and delivery charges for elite courier express before sending my winning prize cheque in a parcel...

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