Is this a scam? I replied to it.

[bravo1029]

I received an email that I won 350,000.00 Euros from a monthly draw of emails. I respnded with my name, add, number and claim number and now I received 3 emails, one from an attroney, the delivery department, and one from the Irish lottery dept. Should I be worried because I gave my address? Is this a scam???

Thanks.

[bravo1029]

The Irish Lottery
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland.
Ref: LSUK/2031/8161/05
Batch: R3/A312-59

SUCCESS ALERT:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!


We are pleased to announce to you the draw of the IRISH LOTTERY online
Program held on WEDNESDAY the 11th JANUARY 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with
Serial
number 5368/05 drew the lucky number: 05 which

subsequently won the LOTTO PLUS 1 prize. You have therefore been
approved to
claim a total sum of €350,000.00 Euros (Three

hundred and fifty Thousand Euros) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/05
of Irish Lottery.


All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw system and

extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies
that
are listed online.This promotion takes place

weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in

your play coupon. In view of this, your €350,000.00 Euros would be
released
to you by any of our payment offices in

Europe(UK).

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

MR ALLAN EMKIN

Attorney at Law

Email:agentallan100@netscape.net

That way your Winnings Certificate and all other relevant
documents/paperwork can be prepared for you.

You are to fill up the verification form below for proper
identification and
location to send winnings to.

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________

2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________
____________________________________________

3.SEX:_______________

4.AGE:________

5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________

6.OCCUPATION:________________________

7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________

8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________

9. DRAW NUMBER:______________

10.TICKET NUMBER:___________________

11.SERIAL NUMBER:__________________

12.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________

13. STATE:__________________________________

14. COUNTRY________________________________

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, you will be sent the contact
information of the courier office so you can proceed

with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.

Congratulations from us here at Notifications!!

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:


Note that all prize funds must be claimed not later than THE 24th of
January
2006. After this date all funds will be returned

to the LOTTERY TREASURY as unclaimed. In order to avoid unnecessary
delays
and complications, please endeavor to quote your

Reference Number(LSUK/2031/8161/05) and Bach Number(R3/A312-59)in the
form
provided for you as you contact your assigned

Agent.

Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.


For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your

money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your
prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Notifications:

Good luck from me and members of staff of the IRISH LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
STACEY BELLS (MRS).

Online Co-ordinator for IRISH LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKE PROGRAMME.

[bravo1029]

I received an email that I won the Irish lottery and gave my address and phne number..Should I be worried??

[Aeval]

Welcome to Fraudwatchers!

Yes, the email you received is indeed a scam. You can find a description of lottery scams here:

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=255

I see from your other post that you have responded with some of your personal information. Your course of action is pretty simple: stop communicating with those people. Once you stop responding, they will soon move on to more interested targets.

And just FYI, other people received the same scam email as well. See here:

http://timworstall.typepad.com/419_er_watch/2006/01/_the_irish_lott.html

[FW Admin]

Hello bravo1029 and welcome to our website. As Mata has explained above, this is a common format for an attempted fraud.

For the sake of convenience I have merged your other posts into this thread.

[Frazzle]

I received an email that I won the Irish lottery and gave my address and phne number..Should I be worried??
No. The scammers aren't interested in you (unless you give them money). They receive dozens of "applications" each day.

They almost certainly won't bother to come round and visit you.

They may try phoning you. If they do, just hang up. Or tell them that they've got the wrong number. Or that you know they're a scammer and to go away.

Perhaps, in future, you might avoid this concern by being a little more cautious about giving out your identity information.

[bravo1029]

THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOU HELP. I WILL BE MORE CAREFULL NOW.:oops:

[John Fairheart]

No problem bravo1029, our aim to help people that may not be familiar with these nasty internet scams. Anytime you need us to check something out, please feel free to drop back in and ask. We will be very happy to assist. :)