Have you received an email from "Chief Clyde A. Jenne" at "SKY LOTTERY BALLS LTD " telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Mr.Morrision Brandon" 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 "SKY LOTTERY BALLS LTD ".
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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: SKY LOTTERY BALLS 2007 GAME, UNITED KINGDOM.
COMMERCE HOUSE, SECOND FLOOR,
6 LONDON STREET, LONDON, W2 1HR
Registered No. 05718271
We are pleased to announce you as one of the 100 lucky
winners in the SKY LOTTERY BALLS draw held on the 19th
Febuary, 2008 All 100
winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 99 others as a
category 2 winner In this year's annual SKY LOTTERY BALLS draw. Consequently,
you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of $3,000,000,00(Three
Million US Dollars) only. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers
all correspondence
1,Email ticket number: ticket # 88171/29281/57363
2,BATCH: # 742-109-527-UK43
3,the file Ref #: 920/210/4509
4,lucky # 4-9-15-25-30-40-42
5,lotto code #: FL09622/UK
Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon
as possible for the immediate release of your winnings:
Mr.Morrision Brandon
Tel : +447031967189
Chief Clyde A. Jenne
THE SKY LOTTERY BALLS LIMITED
Email:
agentmorrisionbrandon@googlemail.com
For processing and remittance of your cash to a
designated account of your choice. Remember, all winnings must be claim not
later than one month as from today. After this date, all unclaimed funds will
be returned to the International Lotto, you should contact Mr.Morrision Brandon
about the claimant procedures, send your Fax and telephone to Mr.Morrision
Brandon, this will enable his office to send the claims application form (A4)
to you the Beneficiary. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers
all correspondence.
Further more, should there be any change of address do
inform Mr.Morrision Brandon as soon as possible. Mr.Morrision Brandon is
responsible for the processing of your approved file to the bank for
payment. Congratulations once again, from all members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotions program.Once again on behalf of all our staff,
reply to
((agentmorrisionbrandon@googlemail.com
))
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Sincerely, SKY LOTTERY-GROUP COMPANY
Promotions Manager the Lotto Company
************************************************************* ********
Copyright 1994-2007 the United Kingdom SKY LOTTERY Email
Group
Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines
Sincerely,
SKY LOTTERY BALLS LTD
Promotions manager
The lotto company
* 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.
