Winning Notification ! ! ! Am I lucky or what??

[johnfowles]

I realise this it is purely a coincidence but I was most surprised to receive this email notification yesterday from a South African "professor" with what initially looked like a very familiar name
From: Haines, Richard (Prof) (Summerstrand Campus South) (Richard.Haines@nmmu.ac.za)

Dear e-MAIL Winner,
Your email address won £850,000.00 GBP in this month NATIONAL LOTTERY E-mail online drew.To file for your claim, contact our agent Mr. Michael Brown with the details below(Full Names, Contact Address, Country, Age, Sex, Occupation & Telephone numbers) to this Email: uknlclaimsunit2010@live.co.uk
Phone Number: +447024059716 +447024041937
Please do reply to this mail Email:uknlclaimsunit2010@live.co.uk
Yours Sincerely,
Haines, Richard
(Web-Email Information Manager)

NOTICE: Please note that this eMail, and the contents thereof, is subject to the standard NMMU eMail disclaimer which may be found at:
http://www.nmmu.ac.za/disclaimer/email.htm
the email has now been safely deleted from my junk mail folder!!

[timetraveler]

I recieved a similar "winning" notification in my E-mail recently, with the same requirements in order to claim my "winnings". I turned it in as a phishing expedition, since they wanted to know things that I felt they had no business knowing. Besides, another thing that gave it away as a scam was the fact that I am morally opposed to lotteries & therefore I knew damn well that I hadn't entered myself in one.

[brink-]

Originally Posted by johnfowles

I realise this it is purely a coincidence but I was most surprised to receive this email notification yesterday from a South African "professor" with what initially looked like a very familiar name
From: Haines, Richard (Prof) (Summerstrand Campus South) (Richard.Haines@nmmu.ac.za)

Dear e-MAIL Winner,
Your email address won £850,000.00 GBP in this month NATIONAL LOTTERY E-mail online drew.To file for your claim, contact our agent Mr. Michael Brown with the details below(Full Names, Contact Address, Country, Age, Sex, Occupation & Telephone numbers) to this Email: uknlclaimsunit2010@live.co.uk
Phone Number: +447024059716 +447024041937
Please do reply to this mail Email:uknlclaimsunit2010@live.co.uk
Yours Sincerely,
Haines, Richard
(Web-Email Information Manager)

NOTICE: Please note that this eMail, and the contents thereof, is subject to the standard NMMU eMail disclaimer which may be found at:
http://www.nmmu.ac.za/disclaimer/email.htm
the email has now been safely deleted from my junk mail folder!!

you are so lucky John. I am assuming, correctly, that after you collect your winnings you will be flying all of us to the next set of Gord concert. I will be packed and waiting.

[fezo]

I am sure your luck is equally matched with your generosity. I'll be checking my mailbox...