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Yep, it's a scam.
If you give them your details, it will guarantee you a place on a "suckers list" which can be pretty dangerous as the guys who call or visit you (and not necessarily in relation to your "prize") will not be run-of-the-mill call centre operators, but the ones who are very, very good at psychological manipulation, particularly when they know a few things about you.
I deal with advance fee fraud/419 schemes in my job and there is this one guy in particular based on the GC who can get money from anyone. He has gotten professionals, academics, police, doctors, white collar, blue collar - even a suspected (reasonably) high level OMCG member.
Don't be fooled by the high quality print job or the high-level english either, these things cost nothing compared to the benefit of getting just one or two hits on one of these mail runs.
The background check you did is sufficient - any company big enough to give away 2x130K as "second prize" will certainly be big enough to have a website as well as be listed on a stock exchange.
Even Coke or McDonalds do not hand out prizes like that...
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