FAKE Letter from OLC - Weird

I received overnight a "letter" from O.L.C-
. The body of the email says,
"Please see the enclosed letter from OLC." There was an attachment
that is named, "Your reference and file number.jpg". Seemed fishy.
Making sure that my virus protection was up to date, I opened the file
and found a picture of a "letter" saying (malformed English and
punctuations intact);

"The Ontario Lottery Corporation (O.L.C) is proud to inform you that
you have won $800,000, why you have won? Your email address was among
those chosen from our java-based software that randomly selects email
addresses from the web from which winners are selected."

"Your e-mail address is one of the lucky email addresses that have won
in this promotion, I wish to congratulate you on your victory, you are
a lucky person to have won this award. Your winning price is to the
tune of Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. This
correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of
instructions relating to the payment of your winning prize."

"Congratulations once again from all our staff's and than you for
being part of our promotion program."

Woo-hoo, I can now buy that glider I always wanted. Maybe an
assortment. I wonder why they aren't paying me in Canadian dollars?
Shouldn't it be O.L.C. with an ending period? This should be OK,
right? Better call right away!

Nothing about this on snopes.com. Interestingly there is a legitimate
OLG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ontario_Lottery_and_Gaming_Corporation) which is how they bait the
hook I suppose. It is just coincidence that I got this hoax and I
know about the On Line Contest, which baited my hook?

- John

At 12:41 31 October 2012, JohnDeRosa wrote:
I received overnight a "letter" from O.L.C-
. The body of the email says,
"Please see the enclosed letter from OLC." There was an attachment
that is named, "Your reference and file number.jpg". Seemed fishy.
Making sure that my virus protection was up to date, I opened the file
and found a picture of a "letter" saying (malformed English and
punctuations intact);

"The Ontario Lottery Corporation (O.L.C) is proud to inform you that
you have won $800,000, why you have won? Your email address was among
those chosen from our java-based software that randomly selects email
addresses from the web from which winners are selected."

"Your e-mail address is one of the lucky email addresses that have won
in this promotion, I wish to congratulate you on your victory, you are
a lucky person to have won this award. Your winning price is to the
tune of Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. This
correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of
instructions relating to the payment of your winning prize."

"Congratulations once again from all our staff's and than you for
being part of our promotion program."

Woo-hoo, I can now buy that glider I always wanted. Maybe an
assortment. I wonder why they aren't paying me in Canadian dollars?
Shouldn't it be O.L.C. with an ending period? This should be OK,
right? Better call right away!

Nothing about this on snopes.com. Interestingly there is a legitimate
OLG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ontario_Lottery_and_Gaming_Corporation) which is how they bait the
hook I suppose. It is just coincidence that I got this hoax and I
know about the On Line Contest, which baited my hook?

- John

Hah, the good old 419 scam lives still :-)

The (real) Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is on the web at
http://olg.ca

Care to share the wealth with a fellow John?

-John

The Ontario Lottery pays out in U.S. dollars? ;D That would have been a good deal from about 1990-2000!

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 5:41:24 PM UTC+5, Six-Seven Romeo wrote:
I received overnight a "letter" from O.L.C-
. The body of the email says,
"Please see the enclosed letter from OLC." There was an attachment
that is named, "Your reference and file number.jpg". Seemed fishy.
Making sure that my virus protection was up to date, I opened the file
and found a picture of a "letter" saying (malformed English and
punctuations intact);

"The Ontario Lottery Corporation (O.L.C) is proud to inform you that
you have won $800,000, why you have won? Your email address was among
those chosen from our java-based software that randomly selects email
addresses from the web from which winners are selected."

"Your e-mail address is one of the lucky email addresses that have won
in this promotion, I wish to congratulate you on your victory, you are
a lucky person to have won this award. Your winning price is to the
tune of Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. This
correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of
instructions relating to the payment of your winning prize."

"Congratulations once again from all our staff's and than you for
being part of our promotion program."

Woo-hoo, I can now buy that glider I always wanted. Maybe an
assortment. I wonder why they aren't paying me in Canadian dollars?
Shouldn't it be O.L.C. with an ending period? This should be OK,
right? Better call right away!

Nothing about this on snopes.com. Interestingly there is a legitimate
OLG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ontario_Lottery_and_Gaming_Corporation) which is how they bait the
hook I suppose. It is just coincidence that I got this hoax and I
know about the On Line Contest, which baited my hook?

- John

i also received this mail... is it fake or they really paid