Anyone get one of these?

[Derek79602+]

ELGORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA C/GUZMAN EL BUENO,137 MADRID - ESPAÑA elgordodelaprimitiva6@hotmail.com FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: LP/26510460037/03 BATCH: 24/003126/IPD RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the release today, 21st of november, 2003,of the ELGORDO SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/INTER-NATIONAL PROGRAMS held on the 18th of novermber, 2003. Your name attached to ticket number 025-1976 2731-003 with serial number 2776-06 drew the lucky number 3-18-19-30-32-39, which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You are therefore been approve for the lump sum pay out of €euros 1,547,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Forty Seven Thousand euros.) in cash credit to the file REF: LP/26238794656/03. This is from a total prize of €euros 26,299,000.00 share among the seventeen (17) International winners in this category. CONGRATULATION! Your fund is now deposited with a finance and Security firm ( EURO CREDIT COMMISSION). Due to the mixed up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award a top secret from the public notice until your claim as been processed and your prize money remitted to your account as this is a part of our Security protocol to avoid double claiming award or unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from Australia, USA, Europe, Asia ,New Zealand, Middle-East and South-North America .As part of our international promotions program, which we conducted once in a year. We hope with a part of your prize, you will take part in our end of the year high stake €euros 300 Million International Lottery. To being your claim, please contact the issuing authority, your prize claim agent, MR. RAUL NICHOLAS.E. RUIZ , ( Foreign Service Manager, Tel: +34 666-922-615 and Email: eurocreditcommission1@netzero.com ) for processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later until than the 13th december 2003. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every of your correspondence with your agent. Furthermore, should there be any change in address do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Please remember to ask for your prize claim certificate. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 13th december 2003 any claim not made before this date will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (IBERO PROMOTION COMPANY S, A.) Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery on your name, NOTE this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize because the money is insured in your name already. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your claim agent or us. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform your claim agent as soon as possible. An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by your claim agent, MR. RAUL NICHOLAS.E. RUIZ CONGRATULATION!!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International promotions program. We wish you continued good fortunes. Yours sincerity, Mr Alexandro Flagship, Vice President El-Gordo De La Primitiva International Lottery Programme, Madrid Spain.

My biggest concern is that it came to my non-spam email address. I've had it for 2 years and never had spam delivered to it. (I have a Yahoo address for spam) Have I been hacked? I ran adaware and found nothing suspicious. I am in the process of doing the HousCall from TrendMicro right now. What do you all think?

By the way I use dial up with Opera 7.22 with no firewall or anti-virus, but I'm downloading Zone Alarm right now. Every great once in awhile I do forward an email from my Yahoo addy to my non-spam addy, do you think someone could have picked it up that way?

{edit}

Is the XP firewall useless? Am I wasting my time and being redundant with ZoneAlarm?

[shawshank62]

why i think it is bs:

1. It came from a hotmail address.
2. There is no website to verify what this is.
3. You would probably recieve something in the mail, an official statement.
4.Did you even enter this contest or whatever it is?
5.The second email came from netzero/juno (if it was a real thing, these people would most likley have their own their addresses. Hell, i have my own @XXXX.com ; so if i have one, i'm sure if they were legit they could get one)

[Derek79602+]

There is no question that it's BS. My concern is how they got my non-spam addy and the other questions mentioned in my post. By the way, HouseCall found nothing.

[shawshank62]

did you use your nonspam to sign up for anything latley or is it only for personal email? It's possible that one of your contacts may have put you one a mailing list "Sign up 5 friends!" something like that

XP firewall is indeed useless.

best firewall (free or money costing) is imo
Sygate
http://download.com.com/3000-2092-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1
best part is that is free. i have been using 5.1 just upgraded, good stuff.

i used to use zonealarm, but i found that i lliked this better, more option, felt more secure.

[Derek79602+]

2 years with no spam would be evidence that I'm pretty careful about who gets that particular addy. To answer your question, no I didn't use it to sign up for anything. I even use my Yahoo addy for Newegg, whom I trust. I suppose it is remotely possible (very remote) that a contact may have divulged my addy, or maybe got a trojan that sent off their address book somewhere.

If someone were to hack me, would it be to exclusively obtain email addresses? Dont they have anything better to do with their time?

Again: Is the XP firewall useless? Or am I wasting my time and being redundant with ZoneAlarm?

[Derek79602+]

Cross posted with your edit/ sorry.

Anyojne else have an opinion on Sygate?

[shawshank62]

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...ygate+firewall

[nomaxim]

And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (IBERO PROMOTION COMPANY S, A.) Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery on your name, NOTE this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize because the money is insured in your name already. NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your claim agent or us. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform your claim agent as soon as possible.

I'd guess that this is where your e-mail addy came from.

SCAM

[Derek79602+]

I don't follow, maxim, Addy came from where?

[PresterJohn]

consider yourself pretty lucky if you never received spam to that addy in 2 years. no matter how closely you guard it, word gets out.

one possibility where they might have gotten it from, is if you exchange emails with someone else and their machine gets infected and you were listed in their address book...