CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE

We hereby seek to your receipt that we all in the National UK Lottery congratulate you as you have been verified as a winner and you have been found worthy to collect the lump sum of £1,134,695 (One million, one hundred and thirty-four thousand, six hundred and ninety-five Pounds Sterling).

Your Fiduciary Agent, Stephen Storey, was here and he presented the documents along with your clearance form which shows that you are the rightful winner with ticket number 56475600545188 which he also brought here.

We are happy to inform you that after our verifications/investigations, the payment has been finally approved to be made in your name as the real winner.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Spain as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your funds would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Madrid, Spain. To claim your prize, You are advised to go to our payment office in Madrid, Spain to sign the {fund release order documents} to enable us wire the money into any bank account of your choice or write you a check on or before Tuesday, 18th November 2008.

You are to go to our payment office in Spain with these items.

1) Your international passport for identification or a valid form of identification.
2) Two copies of your passport photograph.

Please indicate your Expected date of arrival to Spain so that I would furnish you with further instructions and directions.

Once again, congratulations on behalf of the National UK Lottery Board. I look forward to hear from you as soon as possible.

CHRISTOPHER HARP
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY,
CAMELOT GROUP,
VERIFICATION AND PROCESSING DEPARTMENT,
UNITED KINGDOM.
christophernharp@thefbi.co.uk

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD
COPYRIGHT © 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

When I recieved the first email that was sent to me about being a winner of 850, 000 Great British Pounds. But I was very suspicious about it. I wouldn’t release any of my personal information to them until I felt like it could actually be true.

A Mr. Brian Adams (like the singer….??? C’MON!) was the man that was supposedly “in charge” of my file. I email Mr. Adams back asking for more information and details on this Lottery, and he sent me all the information I asked for, and some. I then thought, “Well, this could actually be true.” and unfortunately got my hopes up, just like for everything else. Mr. Adams told me that I would need to contact their “recommended” courier service to ship my winnings to my location. As I was reading the couriers information, I noticed that the Senior Delivery Officer was a Mr. Richard Adams. Now, either Richard and Brian are family and this is a scam, or there are lots of British people with the last name Adams.

I decided that if I wanted to know what I was getting into, I might want to do some research. As soon as I entered “United Kingdom National Lottery” in google, I was bombarded with webpages about this being a scam. Lets just say that 1 out of every 8 addresses in googles search were not about the Lottery being a scam.
I read in a lot of these websites that if you DO NOT purchase a National Lottery Ticket (from Britain) you CANNOT be a winner. But I was supposedly chosen through a Computerized Email Selection System. Well, I still thought that there might be a chance that this could be true, so I continued to research.

I found out from a blog site about these kind of scam, that if you are asked for a passport or tell you the amount that you have won, IT IS A SCAM! The National Lottery of UK states on their site that they NEVER indicate the winning amount in an email.

So there you have it. That was enough for me to know that this is in fact a scam and, I, being a gullable person, should ALWAYS do my research before jumping into anything so unexpected.

Lottery scams are right up there along with 419s and phishers.

G.