I have received a mail from lottery board and subsequent emails from e-courier company stating that I have won a lottery of 500, 000.00 GBP, The mails are attached.
I have already paid them the delivery charges of 300 GBP.
Can I recover this money from them.

Please help.

CONGRATULATIONS !!!YOU HAVE WON £500, 000 POUNDS!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes ever month. Today, your
account is randomly selected as one of the 12 top winners accounts who
will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have
won a prize money of This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound
Sterlings(£500, 000.00GBP)
for the month of APRIL 25, 2008 Lottery promotion which is organized
by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE

YAHOO, collects all the mail addresses of the people that are online
and off line on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to
yahoo messenger we only select five people every month as our winners
through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are
congratulating you for been one of the people selected to receive top
cash
prize for this month. All participant were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail
addresses
from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa
and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is
conducted annually.

These are your Winning Information and Identification Numbers:

Batch number...YM 09102XN
Reff number...YM35447XN
Winning number...YM805882
To begin your claims, kindly contact the events manager
******************************

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:MR ALVINE JOHNSON
EMAIL: [email protected]

You are required to forward your winning details via the above e-mail
addresses.And note that you must send your information to the above
offices for verification purposes.

1. FULL NAME...
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN...
3. FULL PRESENT ADDRESS...
4. AGE... .
5. OCCUPATION... .
6. SEX...
7. TELEPHONE NUMBER...
8 MARITAL STATUS...
9. BATCH NUMBER...
10.WINNING NUMBER...
11.REFERENCE NUMBER...
Thank you. Yours Sincerely.



P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68,
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Ticket number: 023-1111-790-458

Please contact Mr Arch.Barry White Jnr of PREMIER EXPRESS COURIER SERVICE with this Email:
Email: [email protected]

He would be responsible for sending the original documents and funds to you.This documents and funds will be couriered to you as soon as you adhere to all instructions, from the courier department.This documents will be forwarded to the Lottery headquarters for final payment of your prize money. Please oblige to follow their instructions so the document can get to your present address on time. Do ensure to file your claims to them with the following details below:

1: FULL NAMES
2: ADDRESS
3: YOUR SEX
4: YOUR AGE
5: MARITAL STATUS
6: OCCUPATION
7: MOBLE NUMBER
8: HOME NUMBER
9: OFFICE NUMBER
10. COUNTRY, CITY

a copy of your verification particulars and scaned copies of driver's lisence or any form of national identity.Endeavour to make your winnings confidential during the process of the transfer of your winnings.

Also be inform that the services that will be rendered by the Courier Company will be handled by you the Winner and not the Lottery Board.Which state that you will have to adhere to all instructions from this company on how to finalise the final processing of your claims

You can call Mr. Arch.Barry White Jnr
Email:[email protected]
TEL: Tell:(+44) 703 190 6120
TEL: (+44) 702 407 8801
FAX:(+44) 708 654 7838
Thanks for your understanding.
Mr.Terry Moore





Messenger

YAHOO/MSN MICROSOFT LOTTERY

PRIZE CLAIMS OFFICE


CONGRATULATIONS !!!


25/04/2008



Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation Baley House, Har Road Sutton, Greater London SM1 4te United Kingdom.



Hello:parna ghosh


We acknowledged receipt of your mail and the contents noted. Firstly, I would like to introduce myself to you. I am MR.ALVINE JOHNSON, Claims agent Officer of Yahoo/msn microsoft Lottery. I am in charge of International Lottery players whose email address falls as a lucky winner of the promo, More so, my duty is to process and facilitate the release of winners prize money after winner have met our requirements and finally transfer winners fund to the affiliated courier company for the delivery of their winning parcel.

Meanwhile I would like to give you a brief explanation or information about the Yahoo/msn microsoft Lottery. Due to the fact that you might be confused about how you won or if actually this is true. In fact, many winners have asked such questions and are cleared accordingly.


INFORMATION ABOUT YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY.

The Yahoo Lottery is an independent Internet Lotto organization that has been financially assisting people with it's intention to changing peoples life since 1998, so many people have benefited from it over the years. All Participants were selected randomly through a computer balloting system from over 100, 000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania.

This Lottery was jointly promoted and co-sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our European representative office in London, UK as indicate your won prize will be released to you from this office.

HISTORY OF YAHOO LOTTERY THROUGH THE YEARS

Mission Statement of the Bureau of State Lottery
. To help and limit hardship round the globe through financial assistance.
?To generate revenue for the state of International consistent with the public good.
?To provide quality gaming/lotto entertainment to the International consistent with the Statutory mandate.
?To maintain the integrity of lottery games and activities.

Security Advice:At The Yahoo International Lottery we understand the importance of security. That's why we've created highly secure facilities to give you confidence during our promotions programs.

Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be using Yahoo International Lottery addresses, but are not from us. If you receive similar email that is not from us, kindly disregard/discard it immediately. Do NOT reply any such email but genuine email from us via this email address. Our security pages that will give you more information about current scams and what measures you can take to protect yourself.

NOTICE: You have received this message from Yahoo International Lotto Lottery prize dept. because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors. If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.

Thank you.

The only basis for a valid Lottery claim is compliance with the Lottery Statute and the Lottery Rules. No valid Lottery claim may be premised on human, or other error in the communication, display or transmission of data, however recorded, displayed, or transmitted. A valid Lottery claim can be premised upon any intentional human, electronic, or other form of communication or transmission of data, which has been authorized by the Lottery Commissioner:
Article 44 sub sections 142 of the Yahoo Lottry Commission as amended.

Note now to send your detials to the below delivery company's claims officer for the delivery of your winning parcel and it should be in 72hours for the claim of your winning parcel from the office of the delivery company dispatch officer MR PARIS MORGAM.

YAHOO/MSN MICROSOFT LOTTERY WINNERS APPLICATION FORM FOR PAYMENT:


PLEASE RE-CONFIRM YOUR DATA AND SEND IT TO BELOW DELIVERY OFFICER.

FILL BELOW FORM AND SEND IT TO THE E-COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY !!!


CONTACT E-COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY WITH THIS FORM,
NAME: MR PARIS MORGAN.
EMAIL:[email protected]
PHONE NUMBER: +44 704 579 0135.






E-COURIER DELIVERY OFFICE LTD
Head Office & Accounts
Unit 63, Evens Business Center, Belgrave Street,
Bellshill Ind Est Bellshill, ML4 3NP
Email:[email protected]
Tel:. :+44 704 579 0135

ATTN:Parna Ghosh
Compliment Of The Day To You.

You are welcome to E-Courier LTD Dispatch UNIT an affiliate of the YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS Award Team. We are pleased to be at your service. E-Courier is regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA), the financial institutions that govern all financial activities in the United Kingdom.

This office has been notified by the YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS on the amount five hundredand thousand Great British Pound (£50O, 000, .00 GBP). won by you in the New Year edition of their sweepstakes. This means that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Dept of the YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS .

The original copy of your winning certificate, your winning parcel and the covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the United Kingdom stating that the money was obtained legally through the YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS award organisation. and will be sent to you as soon as you meet with this charges.

You can now begin the final step of the claims process. With regards to you, this of delivery open to you, you are required to reply after ready to make payment for your delivery charges, so that we can give to you the E-courier company account officer details for you to deposit your delivery charges to the officer account convenient and after the courier charges have bee made to the account that can enable us to comment with the delivery 0f your winning parcel to you .

Note that if you are ready for payment you to send this office a mail for account where you are going to deposit your money, for us to give to you the company account details were are to pay for the Ecourier delivery charges before we can send to you a diplomatic officer who will delivered your parcel to you within 48 hours

E-courier Forwarding Services Limited is a flight forwarding company with a commitment to provide you, the customer, with the finest possible service tailored to your individual needs.We are highly experienced customs clearance brokers, enabling us to customs clear your shipments quickly and efficiently through the complicated customs procedure. We also offer an excess baggage service, merchandise in baggage customs clearance and a full domestic roadfreight service.Please One of the Lottery Winner you are. All your winning documents which includes your certificate and a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the British government, stating that the money was obtained legally through the Lottery have been made available(Proccessed) .

DESCRIPTION OF PARCEL TO BE DELIVER:

Order Number: OBC55617

Your Order number is OBC55617
Description of parcel to be delivered:
An original certificate of weight :-------------0.15kg
Bonded draft of weight : -------------0.17kg
Total weight of parcel ------------- 0.32kg
Colour of Parcel : -------------Brown.

"E-courier Forwarding Services Limited" is a registered and copy right trade marks of :- E-courier Trans International Ltd".
==================================================================

You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the delivery of your prize to you.

Choose from option A, B & C below which is more convinience for you

A. Gold Delivery: in 48hours
Mailing GBP £100.00 00.00
Insurance GBP £100.00 00.00
Doc Proccessing fee GBP £200.00 00.00
TOTAL GBP £400.00 00.00




B. Classic Delivery: in 72hours
Mailing GBP £150.00 00.00
Insurance GBP £100.00 00.00
Doc Proccessing fee GBP £100.00 00.00
TOTAL GBP £350.00 00.00




C. Normal Delivery: in 5 Days
Mailing GBP £120.00 00.00
Insurance GBP £100.00 00.00
Doc Proccessing fee GBP £80.00 00.00
TOTAL GBP £300.00 00.00


Please be informed that the charges of delivering must be paid UPFRONT by you as stated by the British Law and Our Courier'S Entity before we can commence with the delivery of your winning Cheque. Please note that deadline for claiming your cheque/check is exactly one week after the receipt of this email. After this period, your cheque/check will be return back to the BRITISH LOTTERY CORPORATION.That is the instruction given to us by the Lottery Corporation Payment Service(L.C.P.S) of the YAHOO MSN LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES.

Good luck and hope to hear from you soon.


Form
7084EZ Office of the Prize Administration
PRIZE PAYMENT DIRECTIVE -(E)- 2007/2008
(Rev. Feb 2008)

A number of pending winners listed here may be qualified to receive their prizes in the amount specified by verifying their Ref#:, on the following F.A.S.T . form, in conjunction with submitting the winning entry in accordance with the rules, terms and conditions. The convenient Frontier fowarding courier service guarantees that a winning cheque in the amount of £500, 000, 00( FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLINGS) will be released to its rightful winner upon said submission in conjunction with the rules.

FIRSTNAME LASTNAME CITY STATE OR
COUNTRY AMOUNT STATUS CHN/2551256007/11

CHN/2551256007/11
Compare your Reference number
if both match,
proceed to next step.





WINNING STAMP APPROVAL
Juan C. Diaz de Leon .Patillas Puerto Rico £500, 000.00 UNDELIVERED
Dennis S. Oak Harbor OH £385, 000.00 DELIVERED
Clifford Ojele Lome Togo $585, 000.00 DELIVERED
Barbara Moore ------ USA £350, 000.00 UNDELIVERED
Bridget Green Las Vegas NV £385, 000.00 DELIVERED
Wenyi Wang Heping District ------ £685, 000.00 DELIVERED
Elaine D. Statesville NC £450, 000.00 PAID
Thomas Hulsmann Parma OH £385, 000.00 DELIVERED
Parna Ghosh Delhi India £500, 000.00 UNDELIVERED
Eric Prevost Calvados France £450, 000.00 DELIVERED
Bill Herriott Glasgow United Kingdom £385, 000.00 DELIVERED
Louis Williams Manchester ------ £330, 000.00 DELIVERED
Balekane Pearl Maleo N/A South Africa £550, 000.00 UNDELIVERED














E-COURIER CHANNEL OF DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE WORLD


NOTE: That the charges cannot be deducted from your winnings. This is in accordance with section 13(1) (n) of the National Gambling Act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3rd July 1996 by the constitutional assembly. This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds and win situations.

Once you make your payment, you are to send a scan copy of your payment slip for confirmation, after this is done we will now comence with the nessecary delivery modalities, by asking our diplomat to deliver your winning parcel to you at your door step.

Your urgent reply will be most welcome



E-Courier ® COURIER SERVICE@
MR.PARIS MORGRN( Dispatch Officer )
CALL:+44 704 579 0135
E-COURIER DELIVERY OFFICE LTD.




E-COURIER DELIVERY OFFICE LTD
Head Office & Accounts
Unit 63, Evens Business Center, Belgrave Street,
Bellshill Ind Est Bellshill, ML4 3NP
Email:[email protected]
Tel:. :+44 704 579 0135



28/04/2008

ORDER NUMBER: OBC55617
ATTN: Parna Ghosh
Compliment of the season.You are to make the respective payment on the option 'C' for your parcel delivery to our diplomats' RAJESH.M.NAMDEV. in india first thing in the morning on 28TH APRIL 2008 and endeavor to send the scanned copy of deposit slip for confirmation to our office immeidiately.enclosed below is the directives for payment. and note that credit card is not accepted in our office you are advice to go to the nearest ICICI BANK first thing tomorrow morning an deposit the money as soon as you make the payment you send to us the scanned copy of your deposit slip for confirmation .immediate act.

Also your delivery commences with effect from the moment your payment is confirmed.which means your parcel will live from our office ealy morning 29TH, APRIL.2008 from the United kingdom Air Port Authority to your country india via our dispatch officer ' MR PETER SCOTT'

You are advise to make the payment of 300.00 GBP = 23, 455, 56 INR(india rupees)in cash for the delivery of your winning prize via ICICI BANK in your Country to our account officer with the details below so as to speed up with the delivery process.:







PAYMENT WITHIN INDIA:
Recepient who find it difficult in making their payment via western union should make their payment into the bank account of one of working staff here in Uk who is from INDIA. I have provided his savings bank account information below to enable you make your payment with ease if making payment via western union is inconvinient.


OUR AGENT BANK INFO BELOW.

MODE OF PAYMENT ICICI BANK PLC.


Account Name:RAJESH.M.NAMDEV
Account Number:001101555478.
Pan No:ABDPY3143N
Bank NAME: ICICI BANK

Amount to deposit 300.00 GBP = 23, 455, 56 INR You are advise to contact(visit) any of the ICICI BANK in your country/state when using this option and make your payment to our India staff bank account above.
Once this (payment)is done you are to send the scan copy of the deposit (payin)slip for prompt confirmation: When sending your payment slip endeavour to send along a scan copy of your passport which can be use to identify you by our dispatch men on the day of delivery.

On the receipt of this, our delivery obligation would be executed after payment must have been confirmed and received with out delay.You have just 2days to make your payment which is the payment deadline. If after 2days our delivery charges for option 'C' is not made then we will have to return your parcel back to the lottery board as unclaimed prize.

NOTE THE OFFICE ONLY ACCEPT CASH PAYMENT, CHEQUE PAYMENT IS NOT ACCEPTED BY THE OFFICE, SO YOU ARE KINDLY IMFORM TO DO ALL TRANSFER BY CASH.

Awaiting the receipt of your payment slip.
Yours in service,
MR.Paris Morgan
(dispatch officer)


E-Courier ® COURIER SERVICE@
MR.PARIS MORGRN
( Dispatch Officer )
CALL:+44 704 579 0135
E-COURIER DELIVERY OFFICE LTD.





HOUSE 16 RICHMOND COURT
NOTTINGHAM SHIRE
NOTTINGHAM NG4 ISQ ESSEX
UNITED KINGDOM




Date:28/04/2008

ORDER NO.: OBC55617

ATTN:Parna Ghosh,

This is notify you that we have received the scan copy of your payment which has been documented in your files in our office.Also our diplomats dispatch officer (Mr.Peter Scott) have already arrived safely at the international Air Port in india .

They we call you soon for the next processing update which you are expected to comply immensely with them.

Awaiting a fresh update and make sure you always keep in touch with me by sending email or rather calling my office line.


Yours in service,
MR.Paris Morgan
(dispatch officer),


TEL +44 704 579 0135
Open 7days-24hrs-365days a year.
E-COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY






INLAND REVENUE
Head Office Hambridg.
4th floor west, New King's Beam House
22 Upper Ground
London SE I 9PJ.

STOP OF CHEQUE DELIVERY WITH REFERENCE .

Parna Ghosh .
150/13 BELIAGHATA MAIN ROAD,
KOLKATA - 700010, INDIA.

DEAR Parna Ghosh,

Inland Revenue and the British tax investigation service are Authorized and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority. The Taxation and Revenue Department assesses certain types taxes. A tax is levied on lotteries, raffles, etc. almost everywhere, normally by the payment authority on behalf of the Government.

In some cases, we receive a share of lottery taxes levied by the Government. However, in most cases, the tax takes the form of a permit fee. It is only classified as a tax in a few Governments/Countries. Non residential tax is the sole responsibility of the beneficiary. Income taxes deducted from source generally include direct federal tax, communal taxes, as well as, most of the time, church tax. As in the case of income tax, cantonal tax rates vary to a fairly large extent depending on the Locality.

Governmental tax scales for withholding tax and the corresponding regulations are available at the Government tax departments. The funds £500, 000:00 GBP (five hundred thousand Pounds Sterling) is now on Hold because we (Tax investigation service) noticed you are not a British citizen, so in this case you will have to pay a non residential fee before this cheque will be allowed to be delivered by E-COURIER DELIVERY SERVICE COMPANY Agent or diplomat to you in your residentail address that you have provided.

E-COURIER DELIVERY COMPANY.

Therefore, the amount for the non residential tax is, 1000 GB Pounds Sterling which is equivalent to 77, 519.26 INR, and it is payable to our co-respondent payment officer and can be send to the delivery company account officer too, which account details will be given to you and which will consequently make the necessary returns to the Tax Office as payment of Tax. Please note that a Tax receipt will be issued to you along with the Tax Payment. This will ensure that your funds are not Taxed again by any Tax Authority {e.g the ATA}.

This cheque can only be sent to you, if only you are cleared for INLAND REVENUE TAX, and the only way you can be cleared is when you pay for Non Residential Tax fee.

A copy of this message has being forwarded to the YAHOO/MSN MICROSOFT LOTTERY BOARD, And two copies sent to the E-COURIER DELIVERY SERVICE COMPANY, which they will send to you a copy of it.

You are to send payment for the taxation through the account officer of the delivery company wish account details will be sent to you as soon as you are ready to make payment for the INLAND REVENUE TAX.

Respond Immediately as you recieve this mail.

Deep Regards,
Mr Paris Morgan
Inland RevenueTax Department.


Attn:Parna Ghosh

Compliment of the day to you and sequel to the mail you sent to our office regarding the payment for the INLAND REVENUE TAX COLLETORS and you also state that we assure you that this is your last payment you will ever make, i want to assure you that you have reach the final step of claiming your winning parcel.and also you are to make payment first thing tomorrow morning so that we can proceed with the delivery of your winning to you as soon as we receive the scanned copy of your payment slip.

And also to inform you that this is the final step of claiming your winnings parcel.


Note that your parcel was sealed up by the YAHOO MSN LOTTERY BOARD .

All you have to do is to go ahead and make the payment of 77, 546.54 rupees tomorrow on 2nd may 2008 to the account details below as soon as you make the payment do send to us the scanned copy of you deposit slip to us for confirmation so that we can get your winning parcel tomorrow on 2nd may 2008 after we have receive the scanned of your deposit slip for confirmation.thanks and congratulations.

AMOUNT TO PAY 77, 546.54 INDIAN RUPEES.

MODE OF PAYMENT BANK OF BARODA.

NAME: SHAINAZ.KHAN
ACCOUNT NO: 26410100004499
PAN NO: AAZPPK4568D
BRANCH: KANDIVOLI.

regards
mr paris morgan
dispatch officer uk