Lottery Scam Email:
NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS AGENCY
"Amado Benjamin"
Have you received an email from "Amado Benjamin" at "NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS
AGENCY" telling you that "your email address won in the second category" or
something similar, and to contact them 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! Notice the "WE DONT
TOLERATE PIRACY OR SCAM!" statement. Of course they don't tolerate it;
they create it! And they continually forget to put the apostrophes in.
Real bright scammers.
Below is another example of a fake lottery; this email claims to
be from the "NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS AGENCY".
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.
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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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!):
From : < bonolot@netscape.net >
Sent : Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:15 PM
Subject : TERMS AND CONDITIONS / CLAIM APPLICATION FORM ATTACHED
Attachment : BONOLOTTOAWARDCLAIMAPPLICATIONFORM.doc (0.38 MB)
WINNING INFORMATION / OUR SERVICES
Sir/Madam
Congratulations from our members of staff. We are NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS
AGENCY, You don't have to purchase a ticket to enter this lottery, your
email Address indicating you as a winner in the lottery programs held by the
NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS was received. Your email address was selected through
the computer ballot system drawn from over 30,000 company and 50,000,000
email addresses, your email address attached to a single ticket was found as
one of the lucky email address that emerge from the first category to have
won the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand, United State Dollars,
(1.500,000.00 Dollars each.
The information was passed to you by the Lottery Coordinator to ensure
that they are in contact with the rightful owner of the winning e-mail and
web-site addresses.
We write to explain and clarify the mode and chronologies of the services
we render to our clients of lottery claim related issues. Firstly, our
ultimate concern is that our clients get their winning prizes as quickly as
it is possible.
You are therefore required to fill the pasted or attached Nacional Bono
Loterias Claim Application Form and return back to this office through fax
or e-mail attachment for verification from the lottery coordinators. After
been confirmed as the bonafide winner, a Release Order will be issued after
which a Beneficiary Award Certificate will be presented to your
representative attorney on your behalf, as the head of legal department.
You will also be required to complete the Form B6, where a department of
the paying bank will therefore be eventually remitted, to your designated
account. Due to mix-up of certain numbers and names, you are required to
keep your winning information confidential until your claim has been
processed and winning prize remitted to your nominated bank account. This is
part of our security protocols to avoid abuse of the program by some
participants.
Your winning prize is covered by HIGH INSURANCE POLICY PREMIUM, in
accordance with Article 342 of the World Gaming Board as amended in the 1996
Constitution. This is to protect the prime winner and miss-Appropriation of
funds.
Be assured that, in line with our principles of efficiency, transparency
and customers` satisfaction, we handle all verification exercises with the
highest level of professionalism and discretion to ensure that our clients
receive their prizes within the shortest possible time. For more
information, please contact the under-signed directly on 0034-606-300-147
when calling from Europe, or 0011-34-606-300-147 when calling from United
States.
N.B Please find bellow the
pasted claim application form,
you are advice
to use the pasted claim form bellow and ignore the attached claim
application form if you are having problem down loading the attach form,
filled in the necessary info and send it back via fax, regular e-mail or
attachment and upon receipt we shall forward it
to the verification centre
for further scrutiny and verification purposes.
Best Regards
Mr.Amado Benjamin,
REMITTANCE/PROCESSING DEPARTMENT, DIR.
And the attached form:
NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS AGENCY
Tel:0034-606-300-147
Fax:00 338-2670-1113
CALL FROM THE U.S
TEL:0011-34-606-300-147
FAX:0011-338-2670-1113
FAX0011-338-2183-0289
email add: bonolot@netscape.net
alternative email: infobenjiagency@yahoo.co.uk
Telephone lines are open between the hours of
8:00am-19:30pm.Monday -Saturday ..Ext..001
NACIONAL BONO LOTERIAS HEAD OFFICE: AV.PLACA 84
3401 MADRID â€" SPAIN
TELL: 0034-606-300-147 FAX:00338-2670 1113
REF:091/12
CLAIM AWARD APPRAISAL FORM THE TRUE BENEFICIARY OF THE STATED FUND MUST
COMPLETE THIS FORM ACCORDINGLY. YOU WILL BE CONTACTED IMMEDIATELY AFETR
VERIFICATION OF YOUR WINNING CLAIMS.
BENEFICIARY’S NAME:
MR/MRS/MISS:.....................................LAST
NAME:..................................................
HOME
ADDRESS...................................................................COUNTRY.............................................................
AREA AND
STATE:....................................................................ZIP
CODE:.................................................
PLACE OF BIRTH:.....................................................DATE
OF BIRTH:..........................................................
CONFIDENTIAL (TELEPHONE)
No:..............................................( FAX)
No:......................................................
OCCUPATION:...............................................MARITAL
STATUS:.........................................................
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:…………………………..AMOUNT WON
…………………………………………
REF No:......................................BATCH
No:..................................LUCKY
No:.............................................
NEXT OF KIN:
NAME:MR/MRS/MISS:.................................................LAST
NAME:..........................................................
HOME
ADDRESS:.....................................................................................................................................
DECLARATION:
I MR/MRS/MISS:..................................................................
HEREBY DECLARE THAT, THE ABOVE DATAS ARE TRUE, AND INCASE OF FALSIFICATION,
I SHALL LOSE CLAIMS TO MY TOTAL FUND. INCASE OF UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE, MY
NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM ON MY BEHALF THE TOTAL FUND. AND EXPRESS
FINANCE B.V SHALL ACT AS MY REPRESENTATIVE/AGENT IN FACILITATING MY TOTAL
FUND TO ME.
DATE:...........................................................................SIGNATURE:..............................................................
VERIFIED BY…………. CONFIRMED BY……………
SPECIAL NOTICE: ANNOUNENCMENT WE DONT TOLERATE PIRACY OR SCAM !
WE DONT TOLERATE PIRACY OR SCAM !
Be A Winner !!!
CONGRATULATIONS: This lottery is a promotional program by the NACIONAL
BONO LOTO ONLINE LOTTERY (Biggest lottery Organization in the Spanish
Lottery Commission Baord to advertise to the world its existence. All
participants were selected through a Computer ballot system drawn which is
fully based on an electronic selection from all over world which conquently
won you the huge sum of $1.500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand
United State (US Dollars Only), as part of our international promotions
program, which we intend to conduct several times a year. WE DONT TOLERATE
PIRACY OR SCAM !
WE DONT TOLERATE PIRACY OR SCAM !
SOME OF THE WINNERS OF THE LAST NACIONAL BONO LOTO ONLINE LOTTERY
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