I believe the details in 2 below are fraud I checked Scarlet Courier address and of course it is valid?
Dear Esteemed Winner
Thanks for your email response. This is to inform you that we have sucessfully confirmed the informations you sent to this office to enable us process and remmit your winning amount to you.
Firstly,I want to use this medium to once again congratulate you for being a winner of our email lottery programmes organized by a British Global Lottery Corporation.
The reason we tagged this lottery programmes is as a result of the fact that the lottery was sponsored and organized by the British Global Lottery in view of the Financial benefits.
It is also important that i inform you that there was no sales of tickets as the draws was conducted by assigning various Individual email addresses to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
In line with this, your e-mail address which was attached to ticket number: 27522465896-6483 with serial number 3772-554, batch number: 468911521-bc87, lottery ref number: 87k4/336/t0714/003 and drew lucky numbers 942-20-23-28-45 luckily and consequently won the sum of £1,000,000.00 (i.e. One million United Kingdom Pounds).
However, we clearly spelt out in our lottery terms and conditions various modalities which those who emerged lucky winners are to use in collecting their prize money.One of those options was for those who were residents in countries that were close to the United Kingdom i.e Scotland, Wales, Cyprus, Nothern Ireland e.t.c were to come over to our lottery office to claim their winnings.
In line with the information above, we have forwarded your winning cheque of One million United Kingdom Pounds to the courier firm that will handle the delivery. It will be delivered to you within 24hours after you have taken care of the required cost. As soon as the cheque is delivered to you, you are to proceed to your bank with the check to cash it once you receive it. Below are their contact details of the Courier Firm.
Scarlet Courier LTD.
Head Office & Accounts
658 Ajax Avenue Slough Berkshire
SL1 4BG, London.
Telephone: + 44 704 012 2699
Fax:+44 707 502 3687
Email: steveadams1010_paymentdepartme... or scarlet_courier_delivery007@ya...
You are to contact the courier at once with your full name, phone numbers and address on the requirements to sending your check to you. You are to keep me fully informed on all developments.
Note that:
(a) Being a lucky winner, you are obliged to abide by the unconditional terms and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the course of payment of your Prize Award Winnings.
(b) Due to mix up in some numbers and names and for the purpose of confidentiality, be advised to keep your award notification as discreet from public notice until your claim has been processed and your Prize money remitted to you as this is part of our precautionary measures to avoid double claim or misuse of this programme by unsrupulous persons. Hence, your Prize Award Winnings is confidential as our winners are at liberty to remain completely anonymous until payment is effected to the benefit of the beneficiary.
(c) By this Prize Awards Winnings, you acknowledge your understanding and acceptance to be added to our master player database.
(d) By this Prize Award Winning, you agree to receive our periodic mailings which will include, but are not limited to: Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements for other Games, Offers and our products which we feel would be of interest to you.
(e) By this Prize Award Winning, you understand that you have the right to be removed from any such mailing list which automatically disqualifies you from subsequent entries.
(f) Finally, we hereby do solemnly guarantee to maintain the privacy of our master Lucky Winners database and shall not make available for sale, rent, lease or misuse any information about Lucky winners. Hence, our staff are sworn to secrecy thereby guaranteeing adequate security of personal information provided by Lucky winners.
Once again we wish to formally congratulate you for emerging a lucky winner, my regards to your family.
Your Sincerely,
MR. Agent Luis
Tel: (+44) 704 012 2699
REMMITANCE DIRECTOR
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This is a scam known as Phishing.
I responded once, and rather than answering my questions regarding sponsorship, entrance regulations (How do they know You are of legal age to MAKE financial decisions for yourself? LOTS of kids have email accounts now...), etc... (which is usually required by LAW to be supplied on request) they were much more concerend with ME telling them private information. When I made it clear I would NOT answer thier questions until they answered mine, they quit responding to me.
"You are to contact the courier at once with your full name, phone numbers and address on the requirements to sending your check to you." -- Most likely they will also ask for ID numbers (like Social Security or drivers license) and/or Credit Card numbers for "verification purposes". They may even suggest that a direct deposit would be faster & ask for your Bank Account info.
Hard to believe the "Head Accounting Office" of an INTERNALTIONAL COURIER SERVICE uses a FREE Yahoo e-mail account. Wouldn't they have thier own mail server?!?
If You want proof it's a scam, and the "Scarlet Courier LTD" IS legitimate as you say, then get thier number form a public source (NOT the contact in the e-mail) and call them direct. Ask if "Steve Adams" even works there, and if the "British Global Lottery" is one of thier clients.
Remember - "If It sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't."
a scammer with bad spelling and grammar.
If you remember entering this contest then congrats! You are a winner. My opinion is it is a fraud. Don't fall for it. In fact if I was you I would take the letter to my local post office and have it
checked out. Sounds like a scam to me.
This is a fraud. Block this address from sending you any further mail, and report it promptly to the US Secret Service and/or FBI. They investigate cases of wire fraud.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you send them any money. There are NO legitimate lotteries where you are expected to pay taxes, costs, fees, etc up front.
There is no "Yahoo" or "Internet" Lottery
It's a scam, there's more information at the URL below including information on what happens when you fall for the scam:
http://blog.matthewmiller.net/2007/07/th...
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