Hi all
I have been aimed yesterday by well prepared scam.
yesterday I've received an e-mail stating that I've been as a winner of the Uk national Thunderball Lotto online International program.

the message looked really official here is the fist e-mail I received:

Email 1.

British National Lottery
P. O. Box 1010
Wartford, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

We happily announce to you the draw (#626) of the THUNDER BALL
WINNING under the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,online thunder ball International
program held on saturday 10 February 2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: XXXXXXXXXXX XX with
Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 3, 11, 15, 16, 23, 7
which subsequently won you the lottery of the Jackpot Prize.You have
therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 250,000.00 (Two
hundredand fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to
fileKTU/XXXXXXXXX/XX.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from
over100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online.
This promotion takes place weekly.

In view of this, your £250,000.00 would be released to you by any of
our payment offices in Europe.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
Mr Steve Williams(FIDUCIARY AGENT)
Email:stevewilliams_agent1@yahoo.co.uk

Provide him with the information below:
1.Name:
2.Address
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Email Address:
12.Draw Number above:
You can go to our online result site to confirm the value of your
winnings and you can also get prize breakdown:
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/pl...lts/results.do

Yours faithfully,
Mrs Ginger Mason.
Online Coordinator

at that point you say "why not?", so I gave them the informations required to be rich... here was their reply:

Email 2.

From: steve williams <stevewilliams_agent1@yahoo.co.uk>

The Thunderball Lotto Program,
P.O.Box 42 Peterborough
PE3 8XH
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

Dear WINNER,

CONGRATULATIONS! This is to inform you that you have been cleared as a winner of the Uk national Thunderball Lotto online International program.
I am happy to inform you, that your Original Certificate and your Certified bank cheque has been fowarded to the courier company.
Find below the details of the courier company.

BEXPRESS COURIER SERVICE
ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE:Link House, 1C CHURCH STREET,
WHITCHURCH, HANTS,RG28 7AD ENGLAND.
NAME:MR George Formby(dispatch officer)
EMAIL:bexpresscourierservicecompany111@yahoo.co.uk
PHONE NUMBER:+44-701-112-7551

You are advised to send the courier company a mail for their courier costs.When contacting them,you are to include this order number as your subject.Please you are adviced to write down the order number and save it.

ORDER NUMBER:XXXXXX

Note: you are to Quote your complete names, and your direct phone number along with your personal informations,so that they can honour your letter.Once again I say congratulations, and I hope you consider me for a bonus when you claim your funds.

Thanks,
STEVE WILLIAMS
Claims Agent
The THUNDERBALL LOTTO PROGRAM,
P.O.Box 42 Peterborough
PE3 8XH
UNITED KINGDOM


so I naturally asked for what I should do to get my funds and give that guy his bonus.
here is the reply:

Email 3.
From: steve williams <stevewilliams_agent1@yahoo.co.uk>

Dear winner,

you are to send an email, to the courier company for further processing of your winnings.

Have a nice day

Best regards
Mr formby

later I received an e-mail From Mr Formby, a good job!!:

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(REG NO:103309)
Email 4.
bexpresscourierservicecompany111@yahoo.co.uk, "Mr Formback"

13th Febuary, 2007


ATTENTION: sadek
Thanks for contacting us customer.
This is to inform you that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Dept. at the headquarters of the UK National Lottery.
The original copy of this certificate and your cheque from the British government stating that the money was obtained legally through their National Lotto will be sent to you and the bank as soon as you meet with any of the option selected and your winnings will be couriered or transferred to you immediately.
You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are two options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the two.
The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:
OPTION 1:
Courier of your winning draft to you via any of this channel listed below:

(official logo of FEDEX)
FEDEX(2working days)
Mailing &n bsp;.......................£200.00
Insurance.............................£250.00
Vat (5%)..............................£044.75
TOTAL.................................£494.75

(official logo of UPS)
UPS(3working days)
Mailing &n bsp;.......................£170.00
Insurance.............................£150.00
Vat (5%)..............................£038.95
TOTAL.................................£358.95

(official logo of DHL)
DHL(1working day)
Mailing ;.............................£280.00
Insurance.............................£250.00
Vat (5%)..............................£150.00
TOTAL.................................£580.00

The insurance company declined reverse payment for the courier, stating that it is against their professional policy towards ensuring the safe delivery of the draft to you. That if a reverse payment is made, and something goes wrong, that we/you cannot sue the courier company or insurance company to recover the full value of the fund as stipulated in the draft since payment for insurance cover was not made at point of mailing.

With the above reason, reverse payment is ruled out.Forward the cost of mailing your draft with any of the courier channel cost you choose above to us.

OPTION 2:
Condition: The cost of COT (commission of transfer) being charged by our transfering bank, which is (£1,500GBP) of the cash being transferred will be paid by you(winner).
Note that your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy by GEOTRUST INSURANCE COMPANY, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money before it has been remitted to you. This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you.

Also attach a scanned copy of either your driver's licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document.

Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is exactly two weeks after the receipt of this email. After this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.
Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to this same email address.

Mr.George Formby(dispatch officer)
Management
Please do call customer line for confirmation.
Phone number:+44701-1112-7551


BEXPRESS COURIER SERVICE@

You are wellcome to BEXPRESS COURIER SERVICE@

If you read all of the e-mails carefully, don't you see there's a problem???????
Of course, in email.3 Mr Williams Signs "Mr formby" and didn't look like any formal, Mr Williams just asked me to contact the courrier company, in his place I would have told how to get my bonus too...
Notice that both Mr williams and Mr Formby had the same e-mail domaine : @yahoo.co.uk, knowing that these are professional adresses.

I felt I have to inform you. so be ware and be awared.