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Lottery Scam Email:
NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ Promotion
"Mrs. Mariam Roosje -Hoo", "Mr.Albert Van Smith"
Have you received an email from "Mrs. Mariam Roosje -Hoo" at "NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ Promotion" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Mr.Albert Van Smith" 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 "NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ Promotion".
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.
Even the use of obscure words ("parastatals" - A company or agency owned or
controlled wholly or partly by the government) doesn't make it less of a scam.
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.
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!):
AWARD NOTICE
POSTCODE LOTERIJ NL.
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY 'B' DRAWS
Ticket Number: NL/BC336791/HY07.
In view of the yearly sweepstake of the
above named organization held recently we are pleased to inform you that
your e-mail address attached to
the above ticket Number:NL/BC336791/HY07,Prized Number: 2941XG and Lucky number
5256JA, came up in the second dip.
This invariably means that you have emerged as the prize winner of the sum of
€850,000.00 Euros{Eight Hundred and fifty Thousand Euros} in the second
category.
Be informed that all participants were
selected from a random computing ballot system.This
charitable sweepstake is
sponsored by postcdeloterij.nl, several Multi-National Corporations and some
government parastatals. It is in
your best interest and to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind that we
request you keep the entire details of your winning strictly from public notice
until the process of transferring your claims has been completed,and your funds
remitted to your account.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claims and unscrupulous acts by participants/ non participants of this program.
To claim your winning,you should send to us the following informations:-
1 Full Names:-
2 Address
3 Nationality{Your country of Origin}-
4 Age:-
5 Occupation:-
6 Telephone numbers
Please send the above information STRICTLY to our Processing Officer on this
E-Mail address as stated here with:-
Mr.Albert Van Smith,
Remittance Department Director,
E-mail: avsmithnatpost@aim.com
Congratulations once again from management and staff of this company,and
thanking you for being a lucky winner of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Mariam Roosje -Hoo
NATIONALE POSTCODE LOTERIJ Promotion
www.postcodeloterij.nl
Holland-Netherlands{Europe}
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