lottery winning

I have received email from Greyhound Courier ltd saying that I have won a lotttery to the sum of 1.000.000 pounds. They say their head office address is 422 Streatham High Rd London, sw16 3sn, their direct line is +44 703 596 7892, fax +44 700 607 3244, e-mail address is [email protected]. They say I must first deposit 370.00 pounds, they will then ship my cheque. Please advice.

Abram

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[AlanJones]

This is a standard advanced fee lottery scam. Did you enter a lottery? If not how could you have won it.

The phone and fax numbers that start with a +44 7 are redirect numbers, which although they ate UK codes can be forwarded anywhere in the world.

Also, a search on the name "Greyhound Courier ltd" on the register of limited companies shows no company with that name.

If you want to post the full email here, including the headers (remove your personal details), then we can probably show you that the email did not originate from the UK.

Lottery scam
http://scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2499 looks famailar
I am afraid you will not see either your £370 if you did send or a cheque

They say I must first deposit 370.00 pounds, they will then ship my cheque

The idea is simple.

They send out 100,000 mails saying that the receiver has won £ 1,000,00 on the lottery but he needs to send £370 first.

Say - 1,000 people reply and do what they ask.

They get £370,000.

They don't send you £ 1.000,000 but have £ 370,000 clear profit.

If you didn't buy a ticket there can't be a lottery as they have no money.

The people sending out the mails have no money. That's why they want you to send them money but they have no intention to pay you any money.

Lotteries don't work like this.

If I ask you in the street for money, and say that when you pay me I'll pay you back a lot more money, would you fall for it ?

You can't win a lottery unless you have separately purchased a ticket. It's that simple.

One other thing. As B8er said, those numbers are redirct numbers, but you can tell because they start with +44 70. +44 7 numbers are usually UK mobile phones, it needs to be 070 to redirect you.