"British Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcasting House,
Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lottery
Dear Winner,
It is another successful year as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in
conjunction with the National Lottery wish to congratulate you as your
email address emerged one of the lucky winners of our online Lottery which
subsequently won you the sum of £1,000,000 (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS) as
part of our new year promo. NOTE: no ticket was sold as winners were
selected from a Data Base of 50,000,000 valid email addresses of active
Internet Users from which your Address came out as one of the lucky Five
(5) winning coupon.
Quoting your winning Particulars as follows: xx xx xx xx xx xx BONUS xx,
You are required to contact immediately our Claims Agent for your
winnings. CONTACT PERSON: ********, Email: bbc@2g.cc Telephone: +xx
xxx xxxx xxx.
Endeavour to Provide Him the following information to enable Him process
your winning claim.
1.Your Name:
2.Address:
3.Occupation:
4.Age:
5.Telephone Number:
6.MODE OF PAYMENT
Kindly indicate your preferred mode of payment from the options below
(1)BANK TO BANK TRANSFER (2) CERTIFIED BANK CHEQUE (3) ATM CARD
Ensure to claim your winnings as quickly as possible as failure to claim
your winnings before Ten(10) working days from the day of this
notification will lead to cancellation of your prize from this Year's
Edition of the BBC Lottery Promo.
Best Regards
Miss. Adriana C. Prado
(Presenter/Coordinator)
BBC/National Lottery, UK
CC: Geraldine Dowd(Director)
CC: Andy Atkinson (Producer)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/lottery "
If it helps, the e-mail address was bbcl@bbc.co.uk
I called the guy and he kept telling me to just e-mail him the information, rather than per telephone.
Please tell me if it's real or not and why.
10 points for a thorough answer
Thanks.
Answer by Be strong go Army
Scam, they are trying to get personal info so they can empty your bank account.
Answer by Felicia
clearly a scam...
Answer by Drexl
Rule of Thumb: Nobody will ever contact you through email to let you know you won something. Never.
Answer by NoOrdinaryLuv
hun....be very leary about giving out info online!!! NOT ALWAYS but most emails like this are just ways of phishing your account info and they will then wipe out your money !!! It happens 10000000 times a day to people just as intelligent and savvy as yourself , who think it LOOKS like a great deal...then find out "it really IS just too good to be true...."
Answer by Amanda
SCAM!!!!!!!!
Always remember: In order to WIN something, you have to have SIGNED UP for it. Never accept offers. Once an elderly lady claimed on of these types of scams and was out ALL of her money. She had no job, no family to help her out, and now no money to continue her life. Don't fall for it. Even though it'd be nice if people were just giving out money.
Answer by Kevin C
Total scam. These are 419rs using the net to get your info to open accounts and do ID fraud.
Answer by Katie Robinson
scam
Answer by REENN
total scam
Answer by Seven
Complete scam.
Answer by Buffy Staffordshire
100% scam.
There is no lottery.
There is no BBC, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text.
There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lottery Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims or near victims of this type of scam.
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