Email from Ron Elliott big lotto winner

Hello I got this email today and I have searched all over the internet for information on the email I got but there is nothing about it.. So I sure hope you can help. the first email I got is this one:Charity Project‏‎:Carlson,Brian [email protected]
You have been selected among "Mr Ron Elliott" charity foundation. Do not send your Winning code number to anyone for security reasons. Contact the donator with this Code number via his personal email ([email protected]) for more details.
Mail-Coordinator
Brian Carlson
So I responed with just the code and then got this email:
Hello Friend,
I hope this information meet you well as I know you will be curious to know why/how I selected you to receive a cash sum of £500,000.00 GBP . I am very happy to hear from you because I believe this is a life time opportunity for you and your family, and i have decided to make sure this is put on the internet for the world to see and to ease your skepticism.

After taken care of the needs of my far relations, make some of my friends millionaires because i believe in making others comfortable and happy like me. I have decided to assist the local fire department, the Red Cross, Haiti, some hospitals majorly involved in cancer treatment, and some other charity organizations in Africa, Asia and Europe that fight cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. However, since i won the jackpot Lottery, I have been investing ahead of the future, also traveled to Indonesia for visit.

To facilitate the payment process of the funds [ £500,000.00 GBP ] which have been donated solemnly to you, you are to send me your full names, your contact address, Country, Age, Occupation, Sex and your personal telephone number, so that i can forward you the payout bank of this charity donation. I am hoping that you will be able to use the money wisely and judiciously over there in your state. Please you have to do your part to also alleviate the level of poverty in your region, help as many you can help once you have this money in your personal account because that is the only objective of donating this money to you in the first place.

I like to re-assure you of the legitimacy of this donation as i will not be involved in any fraudulent act and will never be, i only want to feel good by helping people, i will advise you as the prospective lucky winners to be calm not to lose this great opportunity which millions of people are trying to entangled but the chances just couldn't come for them because a lot of people are out there to discourage them as they don't know how it works and have never seen such before.

You can verify this by visiting the web pages below once again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... y-job.html

Thank You, Linda

It's a scam. The writing tells me the author is African, no surprise since this format tends to be favored by African scammers.

This particular scam format started when Allen and Violet Large, a Canadian couple, won the lottery and announced they were sharing the winnings with friends, family, and local charities (they did share their winnings, but they weren't giving them away to strangers) African scammers picked up on this announcement, and started posing as the couple and mass-mailing strangers on the internet, offering them large amounts of money, then convincing the victims to send money for fees, taxes, whatever lies they could think of.

Unfortunately, this scam has been quite successful. After seeing how much money the scam brought them, the scammers started finding news stories about other lottery winners, and sending out similar scams in their names. My nonprofit just received one today in the name of David and Angela Dawes, another couple who won a major lottery jackpot.

The scammers have no connection to the lottery winner. They simply searched for some lottery-related news stories online, and copied the name and information of a random winner to use in their scams.

The best thing you can do is cut off all contact with the scammers.

Just a small addition. The same e-mail text (almost word for word) appeared in another lottery scam format dated April Twenty 13. Whereby the scammer used the name harry black. It's either the same trickster using a different name or another individual using the same text hoping to trick you.