Online Cyber Lottery Scam
PLEASE NOTE: The persons, companies or organisations mentioned in the example(s) below are not responsible for these e-mail scams. Organisations and individuals, pretending to act on behalf of these institutions/persons, initiate these scams and abuse the reputable names of these well-known institutions/persons, to add a false sense of security to these fraudulent e-mails. Also note that some scammers act on behalf of certain organisations that do not even exist.
Date: 20 August 2007From: "FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT" <[DELETED]@caramail.com>
To: LUCKY WINNER
Subject: [URGENT]: IT HAS HAPPENED!
FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw of
our Lottery International Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked
by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a
winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref
Number: MH 9590 JE 0612, Batch Number: 863881546-NL/2007 and Ticket Number:
PA 8502 /9707-01
You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $2,500,000.00. (Two Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout
CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail
address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements,
statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to
contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for
category "A" winners with the information below:
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Name: [DELETED]
Phone: [DELETED]
[E-MAIL ADDRESS DELETED]
[E-MAIL ADDRESS DELETED]
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You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, thereafter
unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information confidential, especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double
claims will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do inform our agent as
soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours Faithfully,
[DELETED]
Lottery Coordinator.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
This email may contain information which is confidential and/or privileged.
The information is intended solely for the use of the individual or
entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that
any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents is
prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in
error,please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete
the material from your computer
We have received numerous reports from many people involving the Online Cyber Lotto Scam, some of them dating back to February 2007. So this specific scam has been running for quite some time now.
