Lottery Scam Email:
ONLINE SOUTH AFRICA 2010 FIFA WEB PROMOTION
WINNING NOTIFICATION
"MRS MARY NKOSI", "Mr .Ford Nanny"

Have you received an email from "MRS MARY NKOSI" at "ONLINE SOUTH AFRICA 2010 FIFA WEB PROMOTION" telling you that "your email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to contact "Mr .Ford Nanny" to collect your winnings? It is a scam. No legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners vian email (see footnote) The scammers may change the names and details, but it is still a scam! Just look at the pathetic spelling and grammar and illogic: a random promotion giving away money to people who have an email address, in order to "creat awareness for the coming 2010 FIFA world Cup".  What sense does that make?

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. See the email below, not the least of which are:

• 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.

• "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!

• 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.

• 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?

• 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!"

• 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. 

• Master list of sample lottery scam emails

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• How the lottery / sweepstakes scams work

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Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change names, dates and addresses!):

Some are sent from: universal lottery [lotzza8@hotmail.com]

and with this subject line: WINNING NOTIFICATION

From: ONLINE SOUTH AFRICA 2010 FIFA WEB PROMOTION

To: undisclosed-recipients:

Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 6:47 PM

Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

ONE SPIRIT! ONE GAME!!

ONLINE SOUTH AFRICA 2010 FIFA WEB PROMOTION 

 

WINNING NOTIFICATION !

We Congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners of the 2010 Online Email Web promo for the South Africa 2010 Fifa World Cup. 
YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON $500,000.00(Five hundred thousand  Pound strling ) in the first category of our computer ballot free email lottery Star prize of the SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP PROMO. 

 Participants were selected randomly from the Internet Users through a computer draw system extracted from over a million personal and corporate e-mails that were listed online.
 
Your Winning Ticket no is MNX986574 TQ and your Batch no is 4583JL/WIN/IDS. 

 No ticket was sold but it  is to encourage the use of  Internet  world wide and to receive your prize you are requested to contact  the Payment Agent In charge of Your Region in  West Africa and send your full details including.
Full Name

Address     

Nationality.
 
Winning ticket number. 

Batch Number. 

Telephone Number. 

 

Mr .Ford Nanny

Director International Payment Center

(Europe,America,Middle East,Asia and Africa)

Treat with dispatch,GLOBAL SECURITY SERVICE  UK
Tel: +44 702 402 0637

Registered in LONDON No 929027.  45 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 4RY  

PLEASE SEND EMAIL ONLY TO:globalservice13@gmail.com  

All winnings must be claimed not later than 15days;  

NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH, DEDUCT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON. THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY! 
And also winners under the age of 18 years are automatically disqualified and you must inform us on all your communications with the Payment Agent until you receive your money.

 

Sincerely Yours,

Dr. Victor Mark .
(ANNOUNCER)

London Uk

 

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