Lottery scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

  • you win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
  • you receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
  • they send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
  • they want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.

Friday, June 23, 2006

WINNING NOTIFICATION

From: South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award
<lotterybid2010sa@yahoo.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2006 8:49 PM
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

From : Dr.Fred Botha lotto manager South African
South African 2010 World cup Bid lottery Award
Lottery Headquarters: 31, Brixon
Court Carlton East Gate
Batch: ( 13/26/DC36.)

CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR WINNING:

We happily announce to you the draw of South African 2010 World cup
Bid lottery Award International programs held in Zurich, Switzerland.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: ( B9665 75604546 199 ) with REF NUB( 97560 ) drew the winning:
( 60/84/27/17/36), which subsequently on you the lottery award in the
2nd category. Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of US$( 820,000 .00) ( Eight Hundred & Twenty Thousand United
States Dollars) in cash credited to file ( KPC/9030108308/03 ).This is
from a total cash prize of US $( 200,000,000.00 ) Million dollars,
shared among the first 200 Hundred and lucky winners in this category
world-wide. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within
our lottery booklet representative office
in South Africa as indicate in the play coupon.

In view of this, your US( $820,000.00 ) ( Eight Hundred & Twenty
Thousand United States Dollars ) would be released to you by our bank
manager immediately he commence the process to facilitate the release
of your funds as soon as you contact him. Also your claim included
with free flight ticket and one month hotel reservation in one of the
five star hotel.

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Website
through computer draw system and extracted from over (100,000,00)
companies and individual emails address.The lottery programe took
place to promote south africa(2010 world cup award,) For security
reasons,

You are advised to keep your winning information confidential till
your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever
manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program by some
unscrupulous elements.

( Please be warned. )

To file for your claim, please contact our bank Manager immediately,
you read this message for quick and urgent release of your fund , his
contact information is as.!!!

Name: Prof. Molife Chris
Direct Line : (+27-7-3205-1100)
E-mail : contactsouthafricanlotteryagent@yahoo.co.uk

Please be informed that all winning must be claimed on or before 30TH
JULY. 2006. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
quote your reference batch numbers in any correspondences with us or
our designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program
that has succesfully won this competition.

Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program.

signed:
Ex. President Nelson Mandela ( chairman.)
Molefi OLIPHANT ( President )
Chief Operations Officer
Albert MOKOENA
Chief Executive Officer
Danny JORDAAN.

N.B/Call our agent for your cliam,
Thank you for your co-operatio
MOLIFE CHRIS ( Zonal Co-ordinator.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i got that too and i'm spamming that address as we speak. i love email spammers