Sample Lottery Scam Email:
Electronic
Lottery Programs
Mrs. Becky Owen
Mrs. Becky Owen of "Electronic Lottery Programs" just sent you an email, saying you
won hundreds of thousands of "Great British Pounds"? Don't get too
excited: It is a scam. Notice the similarity
to this scam letter.
They have a great gibberlish line about "This is to encourage our prominent and consistent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and for the Continues use of E-mail".
they managed to combine a nonsense idea and poor grammar in one sentence.
Of course, there's no such thing as a FREE lotto or lottery.
And Microsoft and Yahoo, which are competitors, are neither going to give away
money together to random people, nor for the purpose of the "continues use of
email". There are many
other signs that this is a fraud, not the least
of which is that no legitimate lottery uses email to notify its winners!
And a legitimate lottery certainly would not use free hotmail,
yahoo, elitist, or aim email accounts. Especially a free account from Hong Kong.
.
In addition to the usual clues, notice the gibberish writing,
excessive/incorrect use of CAPITAL letters, lack of decent punctuation..
The sentences don't even make sense. Hardly what a professional (i.e., real)
lottery would do. 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 email accounts, etc.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Also see this page for a sample in the UK.
From: Mrs becky owen [contactclaims@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:28 AM
To: info_internationalawards002@yahoo.de
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION!!
EUROPEAN PRIZE AWARD DEPT
1 Plough Place,
London EC4A 1DE
UNITED KINGDOM
REF: WE67/4360/34
BATCH: 11/4578/GN
Dear Sir/Ma .
Top of days greetings to you. Finally today, we announce that you are one
of the winners of the ELECTRONIC LOTTERY PROGRAMS. held on 1st March,2007.
Your company and your personal e-mail addresses, attached to ticket number:
7-1-8-36-4-22 under agent ID: 18 and lucky ball number 7363789,which
consequently won in the Tenth lottery category. You have therefore been
awarded a lump sum pay out of 860,641.28 Great British Pounds (GBP) which
amounts to $1,500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
DOLLARS). The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email
addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals
and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search
from the internet. No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned
to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
This is to encourage our prominent and consistent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and
for the Continues use of E-mail.
Your fund has been insured with your identification number {CPEL/OWN/9876}.
To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims department by email for Processing and remittance of your
prize to you. Mr.David Nelson TEL:+44-701-113-2446 TEL:+44-702-407-7543
TEL:+44-702-402-3245 FAX:+44-707-570-0301
EMAIL: european_lotterycompany03@yahoo.com.hk
Do email the above email address all at once. In order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and winning numbers in all correspondences with your claims
officer. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your ticket number and ballot number. All your personal
datas are to be sent to
YAHOO/MICROSOFT ACCREDITED AGENT via email for the
processing of your winning.
FILL THE FORM BELOW WITH YOUR DATAS
1.Full Name:____________________
2.Address:______________________
3.Nationality:____________________
4.Age:______________________________
5.Occupation:____________________
6.Phone:________________________
7.State of Origin:_________________
8.Country:______________________
Sincerely,
Mrs. Becky Owen
Online Co-ordinator Secretary
====================================================
OUR Executives:
Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James Williams (Director International Credit Department), Mrs. Lonni K Anderson (Legal Representative), Mrs. Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen Boer (Chairman), Mr. Chris Moritz(International Relation Officer).
And another example:
From: Mrs Becky Owen <
jfm01@bellsouth.net >
Date: 2007/03/06
To: <
claiminfo_prize@yahoo.co.uk >
Subject: CALL TO CONFIRM
UK National/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
Government Accredited Licensed Promoters,
79 BOVILL ROAD LONDON. SE23 1EL.
Ref: EGS-2251256003/-02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD
BONANZA 2007!!!
The board of directors and entire member of staff of the National Lottery
wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address Ballot) online
Sweepstakes international program held at the British Headquarter.
Your email account have been
picked as a winner of £1,500,000.00 (ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED GREAT BRITISH
POUNDS) in cash credited to file KU/9023118308/03.
This results is now released
your email address attached to Draw 1034 27th
january 2007 Jackpot
04-09-10-19-54-37 Bonus ball 28 participants were selected through a
computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users from company and
individual email addresses users.
Be advice to
keep your winning information
confidential until your claims has been processed and your money
remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program, For the release of your
winning.
All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment.
After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union
Treasury as Unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference number in all
correspondence. You are therefore advised to give the following
information's to your claims
agent listed bellow,
Full names........
Address..............
Age....................
Winning numbers.........
Winning sum................
Email address..............
Telephone/Fax number...........
Marital status.................. Occupation.......................
Nationallity......................
Country..............
Contact person: Mr David Nelson
(International Remittance Department)
Tel:447011147240
Fax:447075700234
E-mail:
lotteryagentinfo_contact@yahoo.com.hk
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email
account users program.
Yours Sincerely,
Becky Owen.
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