Thread: Fake?????

I received the following letter in my e-mail today. It was not a piece of junk mail, but addressed to me personally. Normally, I would just delete it but it was from an .edu e-mail address. Does anyone know anything about this? Here's the e-mail:

Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/099, YOUR EMAIL HAS WON ( Reply to; [email protected] )‏
From: Gruber, Rebekah Elizabeth ([email protected])

CONGRATULATIONS !!!
You have won £850,000.00 British Pounds and consolation prize of a Dell Pentium 4 Laptop, a company T-shirt and Face cap in the National Online Sweeps email raffle Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/099 and Ticket Number:56475600545299 in our weekly online sweepstakes award program.
For further inquiry please contact our Claim Departmentbelow with your Ticket/reference numbers,
Contact: Richard A. Matlock
E-mail:
Reply to; [email protected]
Tel:+44 704 570 7553
Claims Processing Dept.

Also we are very skeptical due to unsolicited/Spam mails on the netthis days,that is why the claim process is being handle by the agent named above.
*Note: Do not reply to this email address,as you are to send your response to Mr Richard Matlock of the claims department, whose email address is ; [email protected] as stated above.
Congratulations Once Again!!! :
from all our staff,
Mrs. Gruber, Rebekah Elizabeth
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR

I googled "National Online Sweeps email raffle", and there were a couple sites that said it was fake, and the people were really after your money.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_NatOnline.php

"josdin00" wrote:

I googled "National Online Sweeps email raffle", and there were a couple sites that said it was fake, and the people were really after your money.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_NatOnline.php

Thanks, did some more checking and it's a fake!

Mails like this often come from England and Africa, because of the big population of African immigrants living in England

Never....EVER think anything that comes in an email is real.

I got an email from "ebay" saying that I won an auction for some Carribbean Island and the seller is waiting on my $18,000,000 payment.
Gee, I will Paypal that right away.

Cojo, all you have to do is Google some key words in there and you will find out if it is fake (or just know that everything is fake)

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

Never....EVER think anything that comes in an email is real.

I got an email from "ebay" saying that I won an auction for some Carribbean Island and the seller is waiting on my $18,000,000 payment.
Gee, I will Paypal that right away.

Cojo, all you have to do is Google some key words in there and you will find out if it is fake (or just know that everything is fake)

My man boobs are real.

"Prophet" wrote:

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

Never....EVER think anything that comes in an email is real.

I got an email from "ebay" saying that I won an auction for some Carribbean Island and the seller is waiting on my $18,000,000 payment.
Gee, I will Paypal that right away.

Cojo, all you have to do is Google some key words in there and you will find out if it is fake (or just know that everything is fake)

My man boobs are real.

I'll take your word for it. I'm not googling that.

"Prophet" wrote:

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

Never....EVER think anything that comes in an email is real.

I got an email from "ebay" saying that I won an auction for some Carribbean Island and the seller is waiting on my $18,000,000 payment.
Gee, I will Paypal that right away.

Cojo, all you have to do is Google some key words in there and you will find out if it is fake (or just know that everything is fake)

My man boobs are real.

yeah but can you send your man boobs in an Email?
NO? well you could if they were fake.

"jmcdon00" wrote:

"Prophet" wrote:

"ultravikingfan" wrote:

Never....EVER think anything that comes in an email is real.

I got an email from "ebay" saying that I won an auction for some Carribbean Island and the seller is waiting on my $18,000,000 payment.
Gee, I will Paypal that right away.

Cojo, all you have to do is Google some key words in there and you will find out if it is fake (or just know that everything is fake)

My man boobs are real.

yeah but can you send your man boobs in an Email?
NO? well you could if they were fake.

I just checked Snopes.com, and they're real!

yeah its fake... way to good to be true