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Did you receive an email from "Mrs. Clementina Antonio" at "Bono Loteria Nacional" claiming you won "Spainish Loteria Nacional Sweepstakes" and to contact "Mr.Juan Soleman." (why he ends is name with a period, we do not know, this is common with scammers) at an AOL.com email address? There's enough evidence right there to tell you this is plainly a scam. They even misspelled "Spanish"! We real lottery knows how to correctly spell their own name and the name of their country!
Additionally, the Spanish Ministry of the Treasury has advised us that legitimate lottery tickets can only be purchased from authorized ticket sellers in Spain. Let us repeat that: The El Gordo and other legal Spanish lotteries are only open to Spanish residents - you CANNOT win if you are not resident IN Spain.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Also see this page for a sample in the UK.
Below is yet another example of a fake lottery . Again, note the poor format and poor grammar. They also expect a payment in order to receive your winnings. If paying a fee to receive unsolicited winnings from a lottery makes sense to you; then you are likely to be scammed!
WE have highlight some of the obvious clues to the scam:
From: Bono Loteria Nacional [ aclaimoffice1@aol.com ]
Subject: Bono Loteria Nacional ( Call For Confirmation)
Bono Loteria Nacional
Madrid-Spain
Ref No: LN/88-5/0008.
Batch No: 009/9876SP.
Dear. Prize Winner,
Your email address has won EUR 1,000,000.00 (One Million Euro Only) in the Spainish Loteria Nacional Sweepstakes, conducted on the 1st day of April 2008, sponsored by consortium of software promotion companies.For more informations/procedure of your winning claim, you are advice to contact our processing department with the details below
Mr.Juan Soleman.
Loteria Processing Dept.
Tel: 0034-634-045-998
Fax: 0034-911-012-759
Email: aclaimoffice@aol.com
Kindly provide them with the following details for further processing of claims
1. Name in full
2. Address
3. Nationality
4. Age
5. Sex
6. Occupation
7. Telephone, Mobile and Fax
8. Present Country
9. Amount won.
Your Winning Details.
Ref No: LN/88-5/0008.
Batch No: 009/9876SP.
Ticket Number:05894365847659
Serial Number:4882-2
Lucky Number:13-29-12-85-37
Please remember that all winning must be processed not later than 29th of April 2008....
Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Clementina Antonio
Sweepstakes Coordinator.
Copyright ) 2001-2008 Loteria Nacional
See this page for the warning in Spanish and many other languages
"Loterķas y Apuestas de Estado (LAE) would like to inform the general public that a number of groups of criminals of various nationalities are using the prestige and the commercial names of the Spanish Lottery by fraudulent means in several countries. They move easily around the whole world and use mobile telephones, PO boxes, provisional or false addresses (including real addresses of official Spanish organisations), as well as names that bring to mind prestigious institutions ("el Gordo", la Primitiva", "European Lottery Commission", etc.) They also forge the printed sheets and signatures of various banks or insurance firms.
In order to carry out the fraud, the procedure that is generally followed consists of informing the potential victim that they have been the lucky winner of a substantial prize (even if they have not participated in any draw), although they cannot collect this prize until they have paid an amount going towards the taxes, bank costs, delivery costs or insurance processing, etc. Usually, the fraudster warns their potential victim that the deadline to pay these charges is very soon and that their right to collect the prize is about to expire.
Loterķas y Apuestas del Estado, that is, the Spanish Lottery, wants to inform very clearly the following:
To win a prize of the Spanish lottery is essential to have purchased previously lottery or bets of our range of products.
Spanish lottery prizes are always free of taxes and burdens.
When you are offered "prizes" that seem to be linked to the Spanish Lottery, DO NOT PAY ANY AMOUNT. We are, in all probability, before a criminal fact that must be reported to the authorities. The Spanish Police has already arrested and subjected to legal procedures some of the members of groups who were operating from Spain.
If you have any question, please contact:
sugerencias@loteriasyapuestas.es "
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Creation date: 25 Jul 2000 17:30:18
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