Contact Approved Claims Personnel Immediately

I received this email the other day:

From: "paul reifenstein"
Date: 27 August 2007 4:44:29 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Contact Approved Claims Personnel Immediately.
Reply-To: vccmchart@yahoo.co.uk

Dear Customer,

We announce to you of our Visa Credit Card Prize.Your Email appears to be one of the 7 Lucky Winners, with the following Numbers:

Winning Number: 90038
Play Number: 777V-S-S
Registered Code: AX-0033V-L-3181-C-C
Notification Number 1100VC, KXQ
Amount Won: £1,500,000GBP (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling)

Please Contact your Claims Personnel citing the Numbers above for processing of your Claims:

Contact Person: Mr. Reynold Hunter
Email Address: agent.reyhunter@vccarduk.com

Mrs.Carmen Hart.

A quick Google search revealed one exact match on an obscure mailing list.

I think it's a scam for a number of reasons:

• The sender is not from Visa, like the email claims to be. Their email address is a Canadian address.
• The reply-to address is in the UK, and doesn't match the sender's address.
  
• This address is a yahoo address, something that anyone can setup for free.
  
• It's sent to "undisclosed recipients". That means it's the same email sent to many people. How likely is it that you've won, along with a thousand others?
• The email address in the body of the email differs from the Sender and Reply-To address.
• The general structure of the email matches other known scams. Eg having a bunch of numbers like "Winning Numbers", "Notification Number" etc.

Before you reply to any emails that look suspect, check out these sorts of details. Chances are, it's a scam.