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Lottery Scam Email:
NATIONAL LOTTERY.COM
"Mrs.Teresa Allan" and "Mr.Alexander Davis"
Have you received an email from "NATIONAL LOTTERY.COM" telling you that "your email address won in the second category"
or something similar? And your contact to collect your winnings is in... South
Africa. Of, of course, the UK National Lottery is run from South Africa,
isn't it?
It is a scam.
There are only two legal large lotteries in Britain,
the National Lottery
and the Monday Lottery,
anyway, and they do
NOT use email to notify winners. Below is a scam email actually received.
DO NOT reply to any emails you receive that claim you have won a lottery that
you did not enter. They are frauds. You will lose your money.
There is no "free lunch"; don't be foolish and believe a scam! We can not
say it any more plainly: YOU WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL BY ANY
LEGITIMATE LOTTERY THAT YOU WON A PRIZE. If you do receive such an email,
it IS a fraud, do not reply to it! If you DID reply to one,
see this page to find out
what happens next!
Other resources:
Also
In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.
There are many other signs that this is a fraud that we have
highlighted in the email below,
typically including one or more of these:
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Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a
"computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even
Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they
suggest.
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Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers
apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they
dropped out of school before that class. They use almost random
CapItaLiZAtion and often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to
be "22nd". Real lotteries proofread their emails and use people
who can write above the 3rd grade level.
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Using free email account: The scammer is writing to
you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization
would use its own email, its own domain and website?
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Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on
publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity
causes people to buy more tickets. there is NO risk of "double claiming"
because they can validate where the ticket numbers were sold. The scammer
want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or
ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them!
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Email notification: NO REAL LOTTERY SENDS AN EMAIL TO
NOTIFY WINNERS. Period. Full-stop. End of story. There mere fact
ALONE that you received an email saying you won a lottery is proof that it
is a scam.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
From: NATIONAL LOTTERY.COM [ random_draw28@hotmail.co.uk ]
Form Mrs. Teresa Allan
United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator
National Lottery United Kingdom
Spectrum Money Mart United Kingdom
No.1a-Bexon Court Carlton
Nottingham Shire Nottingham NG4 1SQ Essex
PO Box 1010
Essex United Kingdom.
Customer Service: 680 NCA 85914
Ref: EAASL/94-6OYI-04
Batch: 11/6/DC34 BBN
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-005
Grand Draw No: 12099
Dear Sir/Madam:
Euro-Afro-American
Sweepstake Lottery Winning Notification
We happily announce to you the
winner of the Euro-Afro-American Sweepstake
Lottery International programs draws held on the 3
March 2007 in Essex United
Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number: B9564 75604545 100 with serial number
46560 drew the winning
which subsequently won you the
lottery in the second category (cot2).
National Lottery results
You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of £820,000.00 (Eighty Hundred and
Twenty Thousand British pounds sterling) in cash
credited to file KPC/9080118308/02. This is from
a total cash prize of £1100,000,00 Million
British pounds sterling, shared amongst the
first One-Hundred and thirty-four (134) lucky
winners in this category worldwide.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our Afro booklet representative office in
Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view
of this, your £820,000.00 (Eight Hundred and
Twenty Thousand British Pounds) would be
released to you immediately you contact our
agent office located in South Africa.
Our agent will commence the
process to release of your winning prize as soon
as you contact their office.
All participants
were selected randomly from World Wide Web site
through computer draws system and extracted from
over 10,000,00 companies and personal emails.
This promotion takes place annually.
For
security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential till your
claims is processed and your winning prize
remitted to you. 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 claim your winning
prize, please contact:
Mr. William Pedro,
Foreign Service
Manager
Overseas Subscribers Agents
Freedom Park Building Unit 1440
Johannesburg (Gauteng) 2001
South Africa
Tel: +27-83-361-9933
Fax: +27-86-512-2850
When you
contact the agency, please provide them with
your reference/batch numbers.
You are also advised to provide them with the
under listed information as soon as possible:
Details
of Beneficiary
Name /Surname.
First):.......................................................................
Address:.............................................................................................
Country:.............................................................................................
Telephone:.........................................................................................
Gender:...............................................................
Marital
Status:..................................................
Age:.....................................................................
Occupation:........................................................
Email
Address:..................................................
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/ INDIVIDUAL:
......................................................................................................................................
......................................................................................................................................
......................................................................................................................................
Date:--------------------------------- Signature:----------------------------
Please be informed that all
winning prize must be claimed on or before
the end of March. 2007. To avoid unnecessary
delays and complications, please quote your
reference/batch numbers in any correspondences
with our designated agents.
Congratulations once more from
all members and staffs of this program that has
successfully won this competition.
Thank you for being part of our promotional
lottery program.
Sincerely,
Mrs.Teresa Allan
United Kingdom Zonal Co-coordinator.
Mr.Alexander Davis
United Kingdom Zonal Secretary General.
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© 2005/2006 The UK National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms
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