Irish Spam email?

radiospan

I got this email tonight, claiming to be from "An Post National Lottery".

Subject:
Winning Notification
From:
"An Post National Lottery Company" <anpostlotto@post.cz>
Date:
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:59:44 +0100

Ref: No. 987/453/7857
Batch No. 59-00231-APNL
Lottery date: 07/06/04
Notification Date:24th August, 2004.

Congratulations Category A prize winner !

You have been selected as one of the five winners of the AN Post
National Lottery Company computer ballot draws and thus will be a
privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of Euros 1,350,000 (One
Million Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros).

We in the AN Post National Lottery Company is by this program,
launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and
designed to satisfy the cravings of the ever growing number of
participants in our various lottery programs. With funds accrued
exclusively from previous draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed
and will be transferred in record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database
of 3,000,000 emails and zoning all participants by their respective
continents from across the globe, we produced an extensive list from
which you have emerged as one of the lucky winners of the Grand Draw
prize.

To ensure a smooth collection of your winnings, the transfer of your
prize is to be handled by our Prize transfer agent. You are adviced to
contact our claims agents by email within a week of receiving this
notice.

Please find contact details below:

MR. DUNCAN ROSS
Your claims agent
An Post National Lottery.
Email1: anpostlotto@mail2world.com
Telephone: 00221 5122631.

Also find your winning lottery information below:

Winning file reference number: IR/73-97558
Ticket number: 002-15435345-443
Draw Serial No: 45466
Batch No: 59/00231/tr
Grand Draw No: 2 - 9 - 5 - 44 - 66 - 88

You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information and
numbers from the public in line with our companies security protocol to
avoid double claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by
unscrupulous individuals.

Please direct all further correspondences and queries to your
respective category Prize transfer co-ordinator. Congratulations once
again from the An Post National Lottery Company.

Best Regards,

LISA MARSHALLS
Lottery Director
An Post National Lottery.

I don't remember any spam email specifically targetting Irish users before?

I must admit, I payed more attention to it than other spam emails, it wasn't caught by the Thunderbird spam filter. But then I saw the email addresses used: anpostlotto@post.cz and anpostlotto@mail2world.com don't seem very authorative.

The country code in the phone number, +221, is Senegal.

DrEvil

an whois on post.cz gives

domain: post.cz
descr: Czech On Line a. s.
admin-c: CZ.VOL
tech-c: CZ.VOL
nserver: ns.vol.cz sns.vol.cz


role: Czech On Line a.s.
address: U Nakladoveho nadrazi 8
address: Praha 3
address: 130 00
address: The Czech Republic
admin-c: JR1434-RIPE
tech-c: JR1434-RIPE
tech-c: ZEMANV01-COL
tech-c: VOL-TECH-C
tech-c: RYSLINKD_COL
bill-c: ZEMANV01-COL
bill-c: SVOBODOVAD01-COL
bill-c: RYSLINKD_COL
nic-hdl: CZ.VOL
e-mail: dom-reg@vol.cz


person: Jan Redl
address: U Nákladového nádra¾í 8
address: Praha 3
address: 13000
address: The Czech Republic
phone: +420.246000222
fax-no: +420.246000118
nic-hdl: JR1434-RIPE
e-mail: jan.redl@col.cz


person: Vlastimil Zeman
address: U Nakladoveho nadrazi 8
address: Praha 3
address: 13000
address: The Czech Republic
phone: +420 246000222
fax-no: +420 246000118
nic-hdl: ZEMANV01-COL
e-mail: vlastimil.zeman@jet2web.cz


person: TECH-C VOL
address: The Czech Republic
nic-hdl: VOL-TECH-C
e-mail: dom-reg@vol.cz


person: Daniel Ryslink
address: U Nakladoveho nadrazi 8
address: Praha 3
address: 13000
address: The Czech Republic
phone: +420.246000222
fax-no: +420.246000118
nic-hdl: RYSLINKD_COL
e-mail: daniel.ryslink@col.cz


person: Dana Svobodova
address: U Nakladoveho nadrazi 8
address: Praha 3
address: 13000
address: The Czech Republic
phone: +420 246000222
fax-no: +420 246000118
nic-hdl: SVOBODOVAD01-COL
e-mail: vol-bill-c@vol.cz


Total 7 records
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and mail2world.com

Organization:
Mail2World Inc.
Mail2World Inc.
1100 Glendon Ave Suite 925
Los Angeles, CA 90024
US
Phone: 310-209-0060
Fax..: 310-209-0079
Email: info@mail2world.com

Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com

Domain Name: MAIL2WORLD.COM

Created on..............: Sat, Oct 16, 1999
Expires on..............: Sat, Oct 16, 2004
Record last updated on..: Sun, Apr 25, 2004

Administrative Contact:
Mail2World Inc.
Mail2World Inc.
1100 Glendon Ave Suite 925
Los Angeles, CA 90024
US
Phone: 310-209-0060
Fax..: 310-209-0079
Email: info@mail2world.com

Technical Contact:
Mail2World Inc.
Mail2World Inc.
1100 Glendon Ave Suite 925
Los Angeles, CA 90024
US
Phone: 310-209-0060
Fax..: 310-209-0079
Email: info@mail2world.com

Zone Contact:
Mail2World Inc.
Mail2World Inc.
1100 Glendon Ave Suite 925
Los Angeles, CA 90024
US
Phone: 310-209-0060
Fax..: 310-209-0079
Email: info@mail2world.com

Domain servers in listed order:

UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET 204.69.234.1
NS1.MAIL2WORLD.COM 66.28.189.53

Register your domain name at http://www.register.com

Stephen

anyone foolish enough to fall for any of these lottery scams nearly (not quite ) deserves to lose their money.

BKtje

This was in the paper last week. Apparently the head of AN Post or the national lottery got one of these mails