Beware of this email scam! You might just be one of THEM.

At 0838hrs this morning, I received the following from sender ‘LOTTERY BOARD’ with subject line ‘Official Prize Notification……………………’

NUK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:

P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual

final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery

programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive

list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies

picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the

internet, no tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail

address emerged as one of two winners in the category \"D\" with the

following winning information:

REF No: UKNL-L/XXX-XXXXX

BATCH No: 2005MJL-01

TICKET No: XXXXXXXXXXX-XXXX

SERIAL No: S/N-XXXXX

LUCKY No: XXX-XX-XXX-XX-XX-XX

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize

of £1,000,000 (One Million Pounds Sterling) each from the total

payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be

transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory

obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.To

begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to

contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category \"D\"

winners with the information below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;

Agents Name: Mr.James Keegan

Email:claim_ukpaymentagent1@yahoo.co.uk

Please note; You are hereby advice to send the asign Fiduciary Agent,

details below for Processing of your Claims;

(1.)FULL NAME :

(2.)FULL ADDRESS :

(3)NATIONALITY :

(4)AGE :

(5)OCCUPATION :

(6)TELEPHONE NUMBER :

(7 )DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION :

(9) TOTAL AMOUNT WON :

(10)MARITAL STATUS :

(11)PRESENT COUNTRY :

Congratulations once more from our members and staff and thank you for

being part of our promotional program.

This is a SCAM. Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Remember, DO NOT divulge any such information under any circumstances.

It makes zero sense that I am awarded one million pounds over nothing. I mean, I didn’t even buy a lottery ticket! Plus I’ve never heard of a ticket/ticketless lottery before without a small investment. I admit I was initially convinced that I had in fact won the lottery! Hahaha…but you gotta agree, the situation seemed impossible. Ask yourself: Would anyone give you one million pounds for FREE?

You might be surprised by the numbers of innocent victims duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and spread the message, hopefully exposing the thieving scumbags who send them.

Check out these sites for further information :
http://www.scambusters.com
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/internet-scam…
http://www.police.west-tisbury.ma.us/int…
http://www.nk.ca/blog/index.php?/archives/442…