Lottery Scam Email:
Canada Lottery/Ontario 49 Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw
"Ms. Cynthia Chalker", "Mr Leon Campbell"
Have you received an email from "Ms. Cynthia Chalker" at
"Canada Lottery/Ontario 49 Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Mr Leon Campbell" to collect your winnings?
The headers show us the email originated in Germany, they us a
UK reply-to address, you are to respond to an email address in France and this
is for a Canadian lottery celebrating the World Soccer Cup to be held in South
Africa. If that sounds plausible to you, we politely suggest that you have no
chance of winning the Nobel Prize any time soon. No wait, Al Gore won that
so anything is possible...
Anyway, it is a
scam. 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 "Canada Lottery/Ontario 49 Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw".
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.
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"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!):
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:25:58 +0200
From: Lottery Draws Draws <agentomaradams@yahoo.co.uk>
To:
jvmelch@megavision.com
Subject: Winning Notification
From: Ms. Cynthia Chalker
Canada Lottery/Ontario 49 Soccer World Cup 2010
Promotional Draw 1550 Princess Street Kingston , ON , Canada , K7M 9E3
Att ention: Customer AFRSA680
Ref: EAAL/851OYHI/07
Batch No. Ontario 49
WINNING NOTIFICATION
The Canadian Government sponsors this lottery for the
promotion of the 2010 Soccer World cup to be hosted in South Afr ica .
We happily announce to you the draw of the Special
Global 2010 World Cup Promotional Draw held on the Sat 19th April 2008 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
4 11 12 26 30 35 with a bonus Number 6 for Ontario 49
Lotto under the choice of the lottery in the First 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 particu lar 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) w ould 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 measure to avoid
double claiming and Un warranted abuse of this program by unscrupulous elements.
Please be warned!
To file for your claim, please contact our corresponding
Agent in South Africa Mr Leon Campbell immediately you read this message for
quick and urgent release of your fund, contact information is as follows: email:
ontario_agent2@yahoo.fr Phone +27 83 766 7098 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. Cyn thia Chalker
NOTE To confirm that you have the winning number for the
19April 2008 draw, visit:
http://www.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=8
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