02mobile promotional lottery organised by telefónica o2 uk

[Anonymous]

I received SMS on my mobile tells me that i won 2,000,000 Pounds and ask me to contact Dr. Mat. West email drmatwest@o2.co.uk
he emailed me as follows
Congratulations on being one of our winners in the new 02mobile promotional lottery organised by telefónica o2 uk limited to reward mobile phone users and also promote our brand in countries like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Europe, India and the middle east where we intend to lunch different 02 products soon.
We received your e-mail regarding the winning notification sent to you earlier by our awards department. Please note, the 2010 award of the o2 telecoms is not a joke , rather a momentous achievement in the history of this organization. All participants were selected randomly from world wide web through an internet draw system. Phone numbers were extracted from over 170, 287 companies and 454, 980, 476 web-sites. This promotion is part of financial empowerment program of o2 telecoms in it's struggle to alleviate poverty in the global-world.

After due confirmation of your mobile number: which subsequently won you Two million Great British pounds (GBP£2,000, 000.00 ) in the draws , organized by o2 telecommunications company, your prize claim has been approved and processing of payment will commence by our remitting department upon identification of whom payment is made to. Certain basic information would be required and they are listed below.

1: FULL NAMES
2: ADDRESS WHICH MUST INCLUDE COUNTRY
3: DATE OF BIRTH ( WINNERS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 WILL BE DISQUALIFIED )
4: IDENTIFICATION WHICH MUST BEAR YOUR PICTURE LIKENESS
5: THE WINNING TELEPHONE NUMBER

This information will be used to acquire the Prize Claim Certificate from The British Gaming Commission and then send this to you along with what we call a payment choice form which tells us the type of payment best suitable for you to receive your winnings in your country.

For further enquiries and verbal discussion, please do not hesitate to call me on my direct phone number which is +447700077206. Thank you for your anticipated co-operation and congratulations once again.

Yours truly,

Dr. Matthew West
Co-ordinator
02 Mobile Lottery Promotions
My Question is that is Dr. Mat. an employee in O2, as his name is in O2 email domain, is the above correct or he is trying to do some thing ?!

[adamtemp64]

this is just a fake scam email

[Anonymous]

But how can they receive emails on o2.co.uk, isn't this the domain for O2 ?

[adamtemp64]

anybody can get an @o2.co.uk email address even I have one.
this is just a 419 scam

[Anonymous]

Thank you Adam for your help
are you within UK

[Anonymous]

what do u mean by 419 ?

[adamtemp64]

nigerian advance money scam is know as a 419 scam

[sheepdog]

419 is well, been around since the beginning of time. Best to have a good laugh and be informed here: http://www.419eater.com/index.php

[Anonymous]

Remember, "tha never gets owt for nowt" ( you never get anything for nothing)
Have you noticed that everything they have asked you for is everything you would need to commit identity theft?
There is only one reponse for any communication that claims you have won a competition you never entered.....delete.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Beaufighter
the problem was that i just buy mobile Nokia X3-O2 and i assumed that this there was such promation on that mobile, i still do not know why the model is X3-O2