Thailand: Agent Smith (Michael) Lottery

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X-Originating-IP: [212.216.176.143]
Return-Path: <agent_smith3@virgilio.it>

From: "Agent Smith Micheal" <agent_smith3@virgilio.it>
reply-to: favour1234@excite.com

Subject: Lucky Number
X-Originating-IP: 83.229.100.170 (U.K.)

Lucky Number 29th of July 2006 has just been released and we are glad to announce to you that your e-mail address has won you the lottery in the first category and you are entitled to claim the sum of US$4.6 M.
Your email addresses was entered for the online draw on this Ticket Number: APP236566301307 and won on this Lucky Number: 19-67-49-82-33. You are to contact Mr. Timone Ong on the below email address for quick delivery of your won cheque of US$4.6M. All winners cheque are certified cashiers and are cashable in any country of any part of the world. To enable the Courier Company ascertain you as the rightful receiver of the cheque, include the below listed information in your contact mail.

Your country, complete official names, contact telephone, mobile and fax numbers, amount won, sex, age, occupation and job title, address where your wish to receive your winnings cheque, ticket number and lastly the date of draw.

Guarantee Trust
Express Thailand Company Ltd.
500 /110-112 Nanglinchee Road Bangkok
10120, Thailand
ftcltd@excite.com
Yours Trully,
Mr Favour Mike

[Gentle Giant]

Hah, well, Agent Smith is running a scam here. Nice to see you again Mr. Anderson....

The most important thing to remember is that if you don't enter a lottery, you cannot win, no matter what. It promises you easy money but you'll never see it.

This email comes from a free email server, Virgilio.it, but asks you to reply to an email at Excite.com. This is a sure sign of a scam. The horrible English is also a sure sign of a scam. Forget that it's "Thailand". Thais can speak English as well as anyone else.

It asks for an urgent response but also asks you to keep everything secret. If you won a lottery, wouldn't you normally tell everyone you knew? Of course you would.

It also asks you for a lot of personal information, as all scammers do. And a quick double check of the text at http://www.scamomatic.com/ will confirm that this is a scam.