Yahoo / MSN / Windows Live Promotional Lottery review: Lottery scam! 43

Hi people,
i too have recieved an email like this, below is the same email. can some one report this to microsoft and yahoo about this abuse.

The Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
PO Box 1010, Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom .
Ref: XYL /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

Dear Lucky winner "MR MUINUDDIN KAZI"

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note,for being part of the 5 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions.The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize ,you will continue to be active and patronage to the Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows.I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on line winners.

A winning cheque has been issued in your name by the Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation board and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winnings cheque.

You are therefore expected to contact our affiliated delivery company(INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE)department in which your winnings cheque of Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings{750,000.00GBP}has been sent to for delivery to your residence.

Do contact the INTER.C.C.S company with the contact information below for further instructions on how to send the consignment to your location and the amount to be charged for the delivery.

Please you should also send a copy of your winning verification form containing your winning details down to the courier company for reference and verification purpose.

CONTACT INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER COMPANY
DESPATCH OFFICER:Mr Cuthbert Daniel
COMPANY EMAIL:customercare@intercargodeliveries.com
TEL:+[protected]
TEL:+[protected]

The Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, this friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

This office will not be responsible for any outstanding fees. Services rendered by INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE are to be paid by you and not the lottery board,for the fact that the lottery organisers didn't make any provision for any upcoming expenses,regarding delivery of parcel or any such.

Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from , this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value .This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

Its is Expected that you add your IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS{PARCEL/NUM/1090}as the subject of any correspondence with the courier company to ensure they respond in a timely manner.

I will require a concise update on proceedings with the firm as soon as you are in contact with them.If you need any assistance whatsoever, please do not hesitate to let me know.Do have a nice day.

Best Regards,
Mr.Baldric Beavis
(Events Manager)
Payment and Release Order Dept.

Hello everybody,

I'm also receiving similar mails regularly. This is new kind of scam. Please do not entertain in any way to such mails as they are fraud.

I have through my friends working overseas and found that the details given in the mail like office address, phone numbers and all are fake.

So whenever you recive any such mail simply neglect it.

Regards

Vaibhav Kulkarni

Dear Friends,

This is a mail I received a few days back!I urge you all to be careful if such mails are received.The further correspondence on replying to any of these mails is so convincing but its better to check out online ;about any organization through which any such mails are received!I am posting all three mails I have received FYI.

first mail:

The Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
PO Box 1010, Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom .
Ref: XYL /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven hundred
And Fifty Thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£750, 000.00 ) for
the Annual year 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN
LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

YAHOO/MSN WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that
are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and
Hotmail, we only select five people every Month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner applying.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 10 days from the
date of this Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.
Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Ref: XYL /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

Our Event Manager will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program, Please be warned.

Attached here is the claim verification and funds release form. You are
expected to fill and submit to the event manager.
VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULL NAMES:_________________________________
2.ADDRESS:___________________________
3.SEX: ______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:__________________
6.OCCUPATION:___________________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:___________________________
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:___________________
9.AMOUNT WON:__________________________________
10. STATE:__________________________________
11. COUNTRY:_____________________________
12. NEXT OF KIN:____________________________
13. ZIP CODE:_______________
14:NATIONALITY:___________________________
15:Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

To file for your claim, please fill and submit your verification form
to our events manager immediately via email.

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER )
Name:Mr.BAlDRIC BEAVIS
E-mail:eventsmanagerbaldricbeavis@yahoo.co.uk

Once again congratulations...
Cordially,
Mrs.Caroline Martino
Online Co-ordinator
(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

2 nd mail:

The Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
PO Box 1010, Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom .
Ref: XYL /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD

Dear Lucky winner "Ms Pearl Vernita Zinus"

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note,for being part of the 5 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions.The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize ,you will continue to be active and patronage to the Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows.I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on line winners.

A winning cheque has been issued in your name by the Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation board and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winnings cheque.

You are therefore expected to contact our affiliated delivery company(INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE)department in which your winnings cheque of Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings{750,000.00GBP}has been sent to for delivery to your residence.

Do contact the INTER.C.C.S company with the contact information below for further instructions on how to send the consignment to your location and the amount to be charged for the delivery.

Please you should also send a copy of your winning verification form containing your winning details down to the courier company for reference and verification purpose.

CONTACT INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER COMPANY
DESPATCH OFFICER:Mr Cuthbert Daniel
COMPANY EMAIL:customercare@intercargodeliveries.comTEL:+[protected]
TEL:+[protected]

The Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, this friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

This office will not be responsible for any outstanding fees. Services rendered by INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE are to be paid by you and not the lottery board,for the fact that the lottery organisers didn't make any provision for any upcoming expenses,regarding delivery of parcel or any such.

Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from , this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value .This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

Its is Expected that you add your IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS{PARCEL/NUM/1090}as the subject of any correspondence with the courier company to ensure they respond in a timely manner.

I will require a concise update on proceedings with the firm as soon as you are in contact with them.If you need any assistance whatsoever, please do not hesitate to let me know.Do have a nice day.

Best Regards,
Mr.Baldric Beavis
(Events Manager)
Payment and Release Order Dept.

third mail:

INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER LIMITED ©

International Cargo Courier Service
Unit 11, Lewisher Road,
Leicester, LE4 9LR,
London,United Kingdom.
Tel: +[protected]
Tel: +[protected]

Company Email:customercare@intercargodeliveries.com

Dear Esteem Customer,Ms Pearl Vernita Zinus.

Greetings to you,from International Cargo Courier Service,
We are proud to inform you that,we are in possession of a certified parcel,with identification number {PARCEL/NUM/1090},which is to be delivered to you,as instructed by our affiliate(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Board).You are to please confirm the below data's,if they are correct about the receiver of the parcel,to enable us input it into our computer delivery system.

Who will sign to collect the parcel upon delivery? include a phone number of this person to enable us call him/her when we gets close to your area.With this information, we would be able to dispatch your parcel immediately.

We will only deliver the parcel to the address you have given us and we will only hand over the parcel to the person you will assign to sign for its collection. This individual must have a valid identification of him/herself as proof.

Description of parcel to be delivered :
Weight of parcel ...0.13kg
Color of parcel... Brown
Lenght of Days...Pending on your choice of delivery.
Parcel Status... Metallic Sealed

By standardizing the International Cargo Service of rates, hence Inter-cargo Courier Service has put the world in your fingertips.
We are not abroker, we are licensed by the Federal Maritime Commission as a non-vesseloperating common carrier ( N.V.O.C.C.) to produce original shipping documents, and we are licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration under the TSA as an indirect air carrier ( I.A.C.) to engage in air cargo worldwide,therefore we can leverage our technology with our experience tosave your money and serve you on a global basis.

The International Cargo delivery Service items are priced according to the tariff zone of the destination country, weight or volumetric weight (1m³ =250kg) of the item and additional services selected. The price includesexport and import forwarding.

For your designation,below are the mandatory charges that you are required to pay to enable us courier your certified parcel to you. You are allowed to choose one of our three specified shipment options for your location {India}

Please find below our charges:
______________________________
Normal class delivery:120 hours
______________________________
(cost of delivery)
Courier Charges: £65.00 pounds
Insurance: £400.00 pounds
Administrative: £100.00 pounds
______________________________
Total: £565.00 pounds
______________________________
_______________________________
Premium class delivery:72 hours
_______________________________
(cost of delivery)
Courier Charges: £120.00 pounds
Insurance: £400.00 pounds
Administrative: £200.00 pounds
______________________________
Total: £720.00 pounds
______________________________
______________________________
First class delivery:48 hours
______________________________
(cost of delivery)
Courier Charges: £200.00 pounds
Insurance: £400.00 pounds
Administrative: £270.00 pounds
______________________________
Total: £870.00 pounds
______________________________

Note:The charges are a little high because of the insurance cover we have undertaken incase of loss,damage or theft of your highly sensitive consignment content. We assume all responsibilities incase of any eventualities.Inter-Cargo Company do not allow Cash on delivery(C.O.D) as all payment must be made in this office before shipment can commence.
Do confirm the delivery address and indicate your specified shipment option and send it to this office via, email. All orders not delivered within three (3) working days from this communication, will lead to the return of the parcel.

Your satisfaction is our priority and we look forward to providing you the best of our quality service.Do have a wonderful day in anticipation to hearing from you ASAP.

Yours Sincerely,
Mr.Cuthbert Daniel
Dispatch Officer{I.C.C.S}.

All I can say is just delete all such mails and please post a complaint for such mails.

Regards
Pearl Vernita Zinus