Have you received an email from "MRS.JEANETTE GOENS" at "Global Lottery Foundation in Association with Readers Digest®" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "MR DESMOND WING" 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 "Global Lottery Foundation in Association with Readers Digest®".
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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.
From: "MRS.JEANETTE GOENS" <
worldwide.educationprogram@gmail.com >
Reply-to:
desmondwing.claimoffice@gmail.com
Subject: GLOBAL LOTTERY FOUNDATION
FROM THE DESK OF MRS.JEANETTE GOENS
49 PINTER HOUSE GRANTHAM ROAD
SW9 9DX UNITED KINGDOM
HEADING :{AWARD RESULT 2008}
From Global Lottery Foundation in Association with
Readers Digest®, We happily announce to you that you have won award of $750,000
at the China Payment Center.
Ticket Number: 90-88-44-32-23-1P
Serial Number: 77-Q11
Batch Number: UK/ITT/030/011C
Reference Number: KW/0071/PI/DQW
Drew Date: 24TH February 2008
Your email address name attached to a ticket number:
90-88-44-32-23-1P with the serial number: 77-Q11 drew the lucky number:
34-55-21-69-09 which consequently won the draw in the 2nd category. Your email
address was among the (10) email addresses chosen to receive grand prize of
US$750,000.00 each in this section.Therefore you must contact your Claim Agent
MR DESMOND WING
Email:
desmondwing.claimoffice@gmail.com
Address:6th Floor Beijing Embassy Tower oppt.
Beijing Immigration Building.
He will need to confirm everything we have on file to
ensure that, there will be no set backs upon the release of these funds to you.
I want you to know that verification and confirmation of
all of your payment documents have been sent to our affiliate company, The
International Lottery Board of Commissions from our processing office. Also, be
rest assured that your winning will be sent to you as{ ATM Card or Bank
Transfer} which can be used in any ATM machines worldwide.This will be issued
from our paying bank in China.
Your won prize cannot be deducted, simply because this
is a promotional award, until prize is released to you due to strict insurance
policy. After you have received your money, we expect you to use some of the
money to spread Internet knowledge within your locality and remember to support
our next promotion. We have five clearance offices zoned continentally
AUSTRALIA,CHINA, USA,LONDON & FRANCE, clearance zones are picked randomly by
computer, each winning number falls within any of the clearance zones,it is the
duty of the approved zonal clearance officer to handle all clearance process to
make sure bank releases won prize in time.
Your prize number falls within Asia region clearance
office in Beijing,China .In view of this, your prize will be released from
China,your money has been deposited in bank with insurance coverage.
Your clearance agent will facilitate payment process
immediately you contact him.
Contact with your information below:
Full Name:
Marital Status:
Age:
Occupation:
Home Phone:
Mobile Phone:
City/Country:
Ref No:
Batch No:
Copyright © All right
reserved
* 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.
