I got this email saying i won 500k im sure its fake but would like some opinions?

[Hawk]

So this is the email i got.

A file has been sent to you
from wewdasd456@hotmail.co.uk via YouSendIt.

CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON £500,000.00 Great British Pounds

Congratulations your Email account has won you £500,000.00 Great British Pounds in the
Ongoing Victory Lottery Uk promo. Contact cash officer for more details on claim-:

Email-: johngray642@yahoo.com

Yours Sincerely,

Barrister John Gray and Mrs Linda Major
United Kingdom Regional Directors
Victory Lotto Promo
Tell:++44-703591-7231

Copyright © 2012 Victory International Lottery winnings Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines.


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Winning Notification.txt

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[Menard K]

spam email = FRAUD
WHY even give these criminals any of your precious time at all?

Delete & move on ....

Also be advised that the idiots who post "answers" to this forum
"open the third and fifth green link
there on left side for more info" & mention anything about "bit.ly"
these people are CRIMINALS! Flag their crap off this forum!

[Mr. Perfectionist]

It's fake and a complete waste of time to even ponder on it. You can't expect to win something you didn't participate in.........................!!

[Kuku Kajoob ♫]

44-70 is the phone prefix Nigerian Scammers use
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam#Lottery_scam
Its not even a UK number..its a roving mobile number.

There are no lotteries that contact people by email
No big money will ever come your way via email
These are old scams..
They have you pay fees to get your prize..sometimes up to a couple thousand..
how ever much they can sucker you for... then they steal your money.
There is no prize.
You didnt enter a Victory Lottery-- so you cant win
Also, Never wire money to a stranger. This is one of the first
red flags of a scam.

[Intellectualchin525]

100% scam.

There is no lottery.

There is no Yahoo, Facebook, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, 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 "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "lottery/tax offical" while you "keep" a small portion. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

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.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

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 partial 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", "lotto Western Union fraud", "fake check lotteyr scam" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

[bcnu]

Attempted fraud. Report it to Yahoo as criminal use of their email address. Report it to hotmail as a criminal use of their email. Report it to the UK legal authorities as a criminal claim of legal credentials.

Or simply delete it and get on with your life.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you ever reply to such a thing, even to tell them off; they will log your email address as a "live account" and sell your email address to thousands of other scammers.

[Ooops]

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information. the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful