Have you received an email from "Tommy Bob Smith" at "The E-Lottery Company" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "the Fiduciary Agent at remittancebase@live.com" to collect your winnings? 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 "The E-Lottery Company".
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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.
THE E-LOTTERY COMPANY.
7 West End Avenue, Gatley,
Cheadle, Cheshire, SK8 4DR, UK.
Draw Date: 25-03-2008.
We happily announce to you the Draw (06/1099) of the
E-Lottery online email promotion program held on 30th January, 2008.
All 10 winning e-mail addresses were randomly selected
from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails.
Your emails address emerged
alongside 9 others as a category 2 winner in this year's Annual E-Lottery Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
£546,480.00 (Five Hundred And Forty-Six Thousand, Four Hundred & Eighty British
Pounds Sterling only).
The following particulars are attached to your lotto
payment order: (i) Winning Numbers: 05 18 26 34 42 49 BB 08 (ii) Email ticket
number; FL754/22/76 (iii) Lotto Code Number: FL09622UK (iv) Ref Number:
L/07/736207147/UK
Above all, you are required to fill out the Claims
Verification form below and send it to the Fiduciary Agent
1.Name............................
2.Address.........................
3.Age...............................
4.Sex...............................
5.Occupation....................
6.Country Of
Resident.......
7.Nationality......................
8.Tel/Fax...........................
To claim your prize funds, you are required to come
directly to our UK office for direct claim. If you have problems with coming to
our office You can also employ the use of a courier service company to deliver
your winning cheque to your home or office address.
You are required to state your chosen option of claim in
your return e-mail, so we can assist you with the remittance of your winnings
toyour designation.
Kindly contact our help line with the information below
for claim assistance.
Please contact the Fiduciary Agent as soon as possible
for the immediate release of your winnings:
FIDUCIARY AGENT:
TEL:+447031919317
EMAIL: remittancebase@live.com
N.B: Winnings not acknowledged and claimed within one
week of notification will be void.
Regards,
Tommy Bob Smith
Promotion Manager,
The E-Lottery Company.
UK & Europe.
E-LOTTERY RESULT 2008
* 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.
* 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 not be
questioning it.
