Is this for real or is it a scam?

I enter sweepstakes all the time, but I don't remember entering one for spain, so I feel this one is a scam but not sure.


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Subject: Re: Toyota
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This message is to inform you that your email address has won the
Toyota promo (600,000 pounds and a Toyota Car). COMPOSE NEW AND SEND
EMAIL TO :[email protected] or [email protected] with
your details.PROCEDURES TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE 1. your full names 2. your
full home / office address 3. direct telephone/fax numbers 4.You must
obtain an approved notarization release order document in your names
here in Spain,which will be used to process/issue and transfer of your
winnings.Call the assigned agent for guidelines

Total scam.

As a general rule, if you are told you won a lottery or sweepstakes in another country, and you did not physically visit that country and buy a ticket or enter in that country, it is a scam.

You can see that toyota actually warns about the lottery scam using their name here (scroll about halfway down the page to number 8.) http://www.toyota.com/help/privacy.html

Scam.

You are given 2 Email addresses in case one of them gets shut down.

Toyota would have their own Email addresses they wouldn't use Yahoo or any other free web based mail sites to send mail.

They say they are in Spain but the IP address for this Email points to Nigeria. I would imagine Nigeria isn't a huge administrative outpost for Toyota.

Although they haven't asked for fees yet they will and as far as I know, but I could be wrong, it is against the law to charge fees to release lottery winnings.

Email addresses don't win lotteries, and you're addressed as undisclosed recipients (which means the To header was missing). A real lottery would address you by name if the winning announcement were sent directly to you, else it would announce the winning number by some broadcast medium.

The next thing I saw is the IP address. All IP addresses beginning 41 are in Africa. This one is Globacom in Nigeria.

It's a scam.