I received an email from the European Price Award stating that I won in their promotion. Is this true?

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book writer

Forget it!!!!!! Save your money!!!!!!! that is all they want YOUR MONEY!!!!! Don't trust them!!!!!!!

tham153

FRAUD! Note the several solecisms in the English (Great British Pounds???!). This more likely than not originated in either Nigeria or Russia, two locations well known for originating scams. They will either tell you to forward a payment to cover taxes or "expenses", or will ask for your banking information to make a direct deposit (withdrawal for you, deposit to their account).
If people do not enter, where does the alleged prize money come from? And the old Roman question, cui bono?

RTWING

its from Nigeria or a Nigerian.

f0xymoron

Since this has purportedly come from an English Government department, the fact that it starts with "top of days greetings to you" should give you some clue as to its authenticity!

Nick

No.

Scorpio

It's most likely a scam. I wouldn't pursue it. If they ask for any account info or any personal details.. it's a scam.

certified_political_hustler

Scam.

sarch_uk

Absolutely not...you are being scammed. Please don't give out any personal details or agree to cash any cheques for them or hand over any upfront payments...you will never see your own money again and you will end up having your identity stolen...

If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is...

I just put the name and address you provided into Google search and this is the result...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2003-33,GGLD:en&q=EUROPEAN+PRIZE+AWARD+DEPT+Government+Accredited+Licensed+Promoters%2c+1+Plough+Place%2c+London+EC4A+1DE%2e+UNITED+KINGDOM

Dustygem

Most definitely a scam.
Anything that sounds too good to be true, usually is.
Ignore it.

jayemess

It's a joke and if you fall for it you will be very very sorry.

bugger

burn it

greywolf

I agree with the above , if they ask for money to secure payment or to cover costs or if they ask for bank account details so that they can send money to your account or even for you to phone a particular number , they are all way of getting money from you . If it sounds to good to be true it usually is .

The one and only

don't trust

glen w

1st rule to remember is:
if u have not entered u can not win
2nd rule if the above is correct then bin the letter /delete email.

SLF

i agree with the answer that pointed out this was not written by an English person. "Top of days greetings"!!!! No-one talks like that. "Finally".... how is it finally since you've only just started? "UK National Lotto"... it's not called that, it's called the National Lottery. "Great British Pounds"... no-one says that either, we say Â£ of "pounds sterling".
It's a badly-written scam. Interestingly, though, the address is the address of the National Lottery, which is quite clever of them.

reaperohio

No. Especially if they want money up front for "sweepstakes tax" or whatever term the scammers use.

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