An Email with the Subject "Confirm Your Winning Amount" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:31:02 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "info@irishlootery.net" <walter@purdue.edu>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
Ref: UK/9420X2/68 Batch: 074/05/ZY369 Dear Winner This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £750,000.00(GBP) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. held on the Wednesday 13th of Febuary 2008.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system(ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.The Irish National Lottery is approved by the Uk Gaming Board. In other to claim your won Amount £750,000.00(GBP) prize from the lottery board you are required to contact our Claims Agent here in the UK with the details below: ***************************************************** 1.Full Legal names 2.Occupation 3.Tel. number 4.Country ***************************************************** Name Of Claims Agent:Mr Derek White Email address:customersupportunit@live.com *********************************************** Goodluck from me and members of staff of the IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY. Yours faithfully, Sir Phillip Johnson.