This email claiming to be from the "Canada Lottery" for their
Soccer World Cup Promotion" ought to be an obvious scam to anyone: they use
hotmail and yahoo free email accounts, they claim to be from Canada, yet ask you
to call a phone number in South Africa, and can't even spell "February"
correctly. It is another variation of
the Canada Lottery scam.
Notice the gibberish writing,
excessive use of CAPITAL letters, poor punctuation and spacing, bad grammar and
spelling, etc. Note the other clues to an obvious fraud that we
have highlighted in the
letter; keep confidential, selected by a random computer lottery of email
addresses, use of free hotmail/yahoo email accounts, etc.
From: Ms.
Claudia Schmidt
Canada
Lottery/Ontario
49 Soccer World
Cup 2010
Promotional Draw
1550 Princess
Street
Kingston, ON,
Canada, K7M 9E3
Attention:
Customer
AFRSA680
Ref:
EAAL/851OYHI/07
Batch No.
Ontario 49
WINNING
NOTIFICATION
KEEP THIS EMAIL
IT CONTAINS
IMPORTANT
INFORMATION
ABOUT YOUR
WINNING
NOTIFICATION.
The
Canadian
Government
sponsors this lottery for the
promotion of the
2010 Soccer World cup
to be hosted in
South Africa. We
happily announce
to you the
Special Global
2010 World Cup
Promotional Draw
held on
the Saturday
10th Febeuary
2007 in Essex
United Kingdom
and Ontario
Canada. Your
e-mail address
attached to
Ticket
Number:B9564
75604545 100,
with Serial
Number 46563760
drew the winning
numbers 03-04-20-36-43-49-Bonus-31
for Ontario 49
Lotto under the
choice of the
lottery in the
2nd category of
bi-weekly six.
You have
therefore been
approved to
claim a total
sum of
US$820,000.00
(Eight Hundred
and Twenty
Thousand United
States Dollars)
in cash credited
to file EAAL/851OYHI/07.This
is from a total
cash prize of US
$11,100, 000.00
Million dollars,
shared amongst
the first One
Hundred
and-thirty (130)
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, because
this particular
draw was
selected to
promote the 2010
World Cup to be hosted
in South Africa
hence your
winning
information must
be kept
to enable you
participate in
our subsequent
draws which will
see 500
participants
traveling on an
all expense paid
trip to South
Africa for the
Soccer World Cup
2010.
In view of this,
your
US$820,000.00
(Eight Hundred
and Twenty
Thousand United States
Dollars) would
be released to
you by an
accredited
commercial Bank in South
Africa. Our
African agent
will immediately
commence the process to
facilitate the
release of your
funds as soon as
you contact our
African Agent's
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
e-mails. For
security
reasons, you are
advised to keep
your winning
information
confidential
till your claims
is processed and
your money remitted to you
in whatever
manner you deem
fit to claim
your prize. This
is part of our
precautionary
measures to
avoid double
claiming and
Unwarranted abuse of this
program by
unscrupulous
elements. Please
be warned!
To file for your
claim, please
contact our
corresponding
Agent in South
Africa
immediately you
read this
message for
quick and urgent
release of
your fund,
contact
information is
as follows:
Email:
ontario49claimsoffice@yahoo.ca. Phone:
+27-730-674-456
To avoid
unnecessary
delays and
complications,
please quote
your reference
numbers in any
correspondences
with our
designated
agents.
Congratulations!
Once more from
all members and
staff of this
program that
has ensured that
you won this
competition.
Thank you for
being part of
our
Promotional
Lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Ms. Claudia
Schmidt.
NOTE To confirm
that you have
the winning
number for the
Wed 07th
February
2007 draw,
visit:
http://www.lottostrategies.com/script/winning_of_past_month/100/ON1/ON/OntarioON-Ontario-49-lottery-results.html
confirm under
Ontario 49
