A reader forwarded me this scam, with this comment “Another college kid trying to steal tuition money from good ol’ Missouri U.” Looks like she could be right – take a look at the email address it came from (and compare it with the email address you are asked to reply to!)
NONE of the lottery or draw emails you get telling you won money are real. There is no lottery anywhere in the world that will send you money unless you entered.
Delete the email and don’t reply – if you reply this scammer will start asking you for money.
From: Dollar, Susan C <SusanDollar@MissouriState.edu>
Subject: ATTENTION TO THE OWNER OF THIS EMAIL ADDRESS
To:
Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 6:14 AM
Dear Internet User,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of our Internet Promotional Draws. This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services and all email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly selected from an internet resource database of of registered software and domain users.
Your email address was selected in the Category “A” with Reference Number RGM/1313-101, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand prize award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email address.
In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the particulars below:
***********************************************
CLAIMS AGENT
Name: Mr.Damien Lewis
Tel:+31 626 006 051
Email: claimrep.lewis@live.nl
Foreign Claims Agent Netherlands Office.
***********************************************You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the following information for processing the payment of your cash award.
DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:
Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this notice will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims process immediately, by contacting the claims agent who would be guiding you through the Claims process.
Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your payout soon.
Yours Faithfully,
Dollar susan C
Lottery Co-ordinator
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Agnes R. Pe Benito
November 14, 2009 @ 7:12 am
I have received an e-mail from a certain Monica Floyd, telling me my e-mail won this recently concluded E-PROMO. She asking me to contact Damien Lewis exactly the same as this one posted here. Mr. Lewis is asking me fill up a claim form he just sent in my e-mail account and a copy my identification to process the claim. I’m very thankful that my friend who own an internet cafe, told me she doesn’t like me to sent important document, she’s afraid I’m dealing with hookers. So, I decided to search this certain e-mail on yahoo.com: claimrep.lewis@live.nl, and I’ve seen your blog/post. Hope that you can have us protect our e-mail address from any scammers/hookers. Thanks a lot