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Lottery Scam Email:
BBC LOTTERY OFFICE
"Join Dale", "MRS WILLIAMS MARY"
Have you received an email from "Join Dale" at "BBC LOTTERY OFFICE" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "MRS WILLIAMS MARY" to collect your winnings? "MRS WILLIAMS MARY"?
We suspect that the real BBC would know the proper order of English names. And
"Join Dale"? "Join" is not even a name! It is obviously a
scam written by someone who is not fluent in English.
Did you know the BBC has a lottery? That's probably news
to them, too. Besides, no legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners via email (see footnote)! The scammers may
change the names and details, but it is still a scam!
Below is the example of the fake lottery scam claiming to
be from the "BBC LOTTERY OFFICE".
Although the most important clue is that no legitimate
lottery will ever email a winner, there are many other signs that this is a fraud.
We have
highlighted some of these in the email below, not the least
of which are:
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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.
-
"No tickets were sold": You care to explain where the
money comes from? Perhaps the lottery money fairy? Why would a lottery
give away money to "email address randomly selected by a computer ballot
draw system"? This is CLEARLY nonsense: you MUST, repeat MUST buy a
ticket to have a chance of winning any lottery!
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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 excessive and random CapItaLiZAtion.
Names are usually in all capital letters for some reason known only to these
illiterate criminals. They often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to
be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level.
Being non-native English speakers, they also often get first names and
surnames (last names reversed), so you will frequently see names like "Mr.
SMITH JAMES.", instead of "Mr. James Smith", along with the peculiar usage
of periods (full stops) and spaces or the lack thereof. Real lotteries also proofread their emails
and look and read more professional.
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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 it's own email, it's 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! It should read: "For our own security, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential until we have
finished scamming you!"
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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!):
BBC LOTTERY OFFICE<terry@ocathalain-enterprises.com>
YOUR WINNING ￡18 Million
BBC LOTTERY OFFICE.
64 Newman Street. City,
London.United Kingdom
Saturday 05th April 2008
Your Draw Number:07:23:30:41:45:49 BONUS(07)
Website:http://www.bbc.co.uk/lottery/
Our Dear Winner,
You have won the sum ￡18 Million (Eighteen
Million Pounds sterling)from BRITISH LOTTERY on our 2008 new year charity
bonanza,from which your Address came out as the winning coupon.
The winning ticket was selected from a Data Base of
Internet Email Users,from which your Address came out as the winning coupon.
Depending on the number of winners overall and per
prize category,prizes may on occasion be less than stated above.See the Game
Procedures for each game for details:
Contact: MRS WILLIAMS MARY
Phone No:+4470457 59066 or +447031926325 Fax No:+44870
974 2091 Email address:bbc.lottery_office@yahoo.co.uk
Provide the following information needed to process your
winning claim.
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality :
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
11.Draw Number above:
Congratulations once again.
NOTE: YOUR WINNING FUNDS WILL BE TRANSFER INTO YOUR BANK
CCOUNT OR DELIVERY YOUR WINNING CHEQUE TO YOU WITH THE NEXT 24 HRS TIME.
please quote your winning number.
Regards, Join Dale
B.B.C Department..
National Lottery Results
England.
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery
scams companies
* Re: emails of winnings. We know of only ONE exception in the world to this rule
- and if you bought a ticket from them, you would know it, and would used their
safegaurds.
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