Hurray! : I won 1 million euro lottery!
Today is my lucky day. I just won the Europe national lottery for one million euros. Here is the mail I got,
Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON 1,000,000.00.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of Europe National Lottery which was held on the 15th, March 2007. Your e-mail address attached
to e-ticket number: 834509819, with Prize Number: 237359446 drew a prize of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros).This lucky draw came first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake. You will receive the sum of 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) from
our authorized bank.Because of some mix-up with sweepstake prizes, including the time limited placed on the payment of your prize: 1,000,000.00,
we advice that you keep all information about this prize confidential until your funds: 1,000,000.00 have been transferred to you by our bank.You must adhere to this instruction, strictly, to avoid any delay with the release of your funds to your person. This program has
been abused severally in past, so we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false claims. This sweepstake was conducted
under the watchful eyes of 8,000 spectators. Your e-mail address was selected and came out first by a e-ballot draw from over
250,000 e-mail addresses (personal and corporate e-mail addresses).This program is sponsored by CFI Networks to compensate faithful internet suffers around the globe. Congratulations for becoming
one of the few lucky winners.With your permission, your e-mail will also be included in the next sweepstake of 5Million.You must claim your prize: 1,000,000.00 not later than 14-days from the moment you receive this e-mail.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from the bank. please contact them immediately,
and quote your winning and personal information to the Bank in all your correspondence with the paying bank.<< contact information deleted >>
Congratulations.
Angelic Van Theiry.(Mrs)
Coordinator.Europe Million Lottery Internation
But I still don’t understand why the mail is addressed to “undisclosed-recipients”. 
Jokes apart, these things are increasingly becoming dangerous. I have got “genuine looking” mails from ICICI, HDFC and Paypal asking for complete details including ATM pin, internet user id et. The “from id” is forged and the URL text looks genuine. The fake site URL also is very similar and they copy the exact branding! What is more problematic is that they even bypass gmail’s spam protection.
